Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Many Before Us Have Taken This Pledge The Dentists’ Creed To respect my profession, my reputation and myself. To be honest and fair with my patients as I expect my patients to be honest and fair with me; to think of Dentistry with loyalty, speak of it with praise, and act always as a custodian of its good name. To be a man whose word carries weight with my fellow citizens; to be a booster, not a knocker; a pusher, not a kicker; a motor not a cog. To base my expectations of reward on a solid foundation of service rendered; to be willing to pay the price in honest effort. To look upon my work as opportunity to be seized with joy and made the most of, and not as a painful drudgery to be reluctantly endured. To remember that success lies within myself, in my own brain, my own ambition, my own courage and determination. To expect difficulties and force my way through them; to convert hard experience into capital for future struggles. Finally, to play the game like a gentleman; and to endeavor to grow as a dentist and as a man with the passage of every day of time. THIS IS MY CREED!

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They Establish the High To study or work or live in Philadelphia is to be an intimate of history. The Republic was nurtured in these environs, and its shrines are almost as numerous as street corners in the ceo-tral city. Not all the shrines are political. Milestones in the development of education, science, invent' tion, the arts, religion, healing, industry, and social welfare are strewn thick through this old city, and each tells of America's greatness and her growth. Temple University Dental School is one oi those milestones. You graduates in the class that comes mid-point in the twentieth century are joining hands with a line of distinguished practitioners and fellow alumni reaching back into the middle years of the nineteenth century. The Dental School in almost a literal sense represents the child that has been the father to the man. Its establishment antedates that of Temple University by more than a score of years. Only three other dental schools were in existence in the United States at the time of its founding, and the Philadelphia Dental College, then its name, wrote itself indelibly into the annals of the profession. It was first to make oral surgery a part of its curriculum. The first hospital devoted to surgical treatment of diseases of the mouth and teeth was set up under its auspices. Those accomplishments were forerunners of many others. A wise commentator on the human scene has described history as prologue. Your school is exemplification of that wisdom. The leadership given to the profession by the Philadelphia Dental College was the preface to the story of service and achievement that you yourselves have seen unfold at the Temple University Dental School in a way that has thrilled us all. Yet that story has not ended. The chapters yet to come will be written by you as much as by me, the faculty, and the trustees. Working together we can make them brilliant episodes. I am counting on your encouragement and help. ROBERT L. JOHNSON PRESIDENT ROBERT L. JOHNSON President 10