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

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odontolog staff JOSEPH L. LOMBARDI Editor -in- Chief ANTHONY LEW AN DOW SKI Business Manager ROBERT MOORE Photography Editor NORMAN GOODMAN Photography Editor FRED LEISER. JR. Assistant Business Manager HERBERT FINK Assistant Editor EUGENE BASS Feature Editor MILTON PALAT Feature Editor THOMAS DAVIS Art Editor 5 JAMES P. ST RAT IS Art Editor

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OREWORD Writers have referred to eyes as the windows of the soul, but in our profession, our hands are both the windows of our soul and the gateways to our mind and character. All the technical skill, all the knowledge we have acquired in these short years, or hope to gain in a lifetime will manifest itself through our hands. They may be confident, steady, and artistic or stumbling, trembling, and crude according to our skill and acumen. They may be strong, firm, and reassuring or weak, soft, and apprehensive according to our character. They may he warm and kind or cold and unmerciful according to our soul. Our minds plot the course of action; our hands arc destined to follow it. These two can never he divorced, they can never he independent of each other in our profession. We must remember that the life we choose will have an accurate and indelible record of itself written by our own hands. We must remember that we shall pass this way hut once; by our own hand we may elevate ourselves with the famous or degrade ourselves with the infamous; we shall not pass this way again.

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to these we ALEX J. McKECHNIE B.S., M.S., D.D.S. Instructor Secretary to the Faculty To Dr. Alex McKechnie who lias understood our problems from the viewpoint of the student and the faculty, and who has done more for us than In will ever realize, the senior class humbly eo-dedicates this annual. Receiving his primary education in Berwick, Pennsylvania where he was born on August 6, 1917, Dr. McKechnie went on to Bloomsburg State Teachers College and then Bucknell University for his Master's Degree. Prior to entering Temple University School of Dentistry in 1946, lie taught science in Shickshinny High School, physics and chemistry at Columbia High School, in Pennsylvania, was assistant basketball and football coach at these schools and then taught chemistry at the Penn State Evening Extension Course. In 1943 Dr. McKechnie was called to duty with tin United States Navy and served as Radar ami Sonar officer on the Staff of Admirals in the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets with the rank of Lieutenant (Sg). After graduating from Temple University School of Dentistry in 1950, he accepted the part of Secretary to the Faculty, instructor in crown ami bridge prosthesis, and member of the Executive Committee, Catalogue and Aptitude Testing Committees. By the time this publication is issued Dr. McKechnie, his wife. Elizabeth, and their three children will have left this city to establish a new home and practice in Camp Hill. Pennsylvania. 6