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

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Standards We Maintain GERALD D. TIMMONS Dean TO THE CLASS OF 1950: Nineteen Hundred and Fifty!!! What a flood of thoughts those figures bring forth and how much meaning they can have for you if you will but pause and reflect on their meaning. They mean the end of the first half of the twentieth century and to Dentistry that is a very significant period. At the beginning of the cen-tury Dentistry was struggling for recognition. It was then but a mechanical art. The training re' quired was minimal, at that time it was only necessary to have one year of high school educa-tion before one could embark on a three year training in the profession. Think what that training could include and then compare it with the training you have received. Does it not immediately point out the fact that Dentistry has changed from a mechanical to a bio-mechanical profession? Does not the training you have received make you truly a guardian of the health of the people and should you not accept this as your major responsibility? We still sec around us some of those men who graduated fifty years ago. Ponder on their thoughts as they view the transition which has occurred and then pause to consider how much many of them have contributed to the progress of the profession. Many of you who graduate in 1950 arc old beyond your years because you participated in the gigantic struggle between Nations. You helped to preserve a way of life without which there would be little reason to live. In making the contributions and sacrifices you have made, you have earned your right as citizens in a free country. Guard well those rights, help protect them for those who are to follow you. Let me charge you now to so pattern your professional life that when the next fifty years have passed those who are to come may point with pride to the service you will have rendered not only to your profession but to your fellow men. Sincerely, GERALD D. TIMMONS, dean ll

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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

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DR. RAYMOND BARALT. JR. Associate Professor of Crown and Bridge Prosthesis DR. JAMES R. CAMERON Professor of Oral Surgery DR. JOSEPH EWING Assistant Professor of Crown and Bridge Prosthesis DR. FREDERIC JAMES Professor of Histopathology DR. JOHN A. KOLMER Professor of Medicine Faculty of the School of Dentistry Gerald D. Timmons, Ph.G., D.D.S., D.Sc., F.A.C.D..:.......................Dean EMERITUS PROFESSORS C. Barton Addie, D.D.S., F.A.C.D...........Emeritus Professor of Orthodontics Norman S. Essie, D.D.S., F.A.C.D.....Emeritus Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry F. St. Elmo Rusca, D.D.S., F.A.C.D...Emeritus Professor of Operative Dentistry John C. Scott, Phar.D., M.D...Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology PROFESSORS James R. Cameron, D.D.S., F.A.C.D., F.I.C.A., D.Sc.Professor of Oral Surgery S. Gordon Casticliano, A.B., B.S., M.D., F.A.C.S.......Professor of Oncology Andrew J. Donnelly, M.D........................Professor of General Pathology Herbert M. Cobe, B.A., M.A., Ph.D..................Professor of Bacteriology Louis Herman, D.D.S................................Professor of Oral Anatomy Frederick James, L.M.M.S.S.A., D.D.S., Professor of Histopathology. Director of Isaiah Door Research Laboratory John A. Kolmer, M.D., Dr.P.H., M.S., D.Sc., LL.D., L.H.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Medicine Evert J. Larson, A.B., A.M., Ph.D......................Professor of Physiology George W. Miller, M.D., F.A.C.S........................Professor of Anatomy 12