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

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D e a n’s Message GERALD D. TIMMONS Ph.G., D.D.S., D.Sc., F.A.C.I), Dean, School of Dentistry To The Class of 1955 In 1951 few if any of you realized how short four years can be. You entered school filled with anticipation, and we hoped determination, to begin to equip yourselves for the life you had chosen. You are now approaching the end of that four years. During this time we have endeavored to give you more than a foundation on which to build a professional life. We have tried to inculcate the ideas of professional conduct with the objective that you will practice your profession in a manner which will reflect credit on all concerned. Soon you will enter a profession, the background of which is the mutual trust which must be developed between you and your patients. Be worthy of the trust and confidence manifested by your patients and your success will follow. Your profession has made great advances down through the years. This advance has been due to the abilities and efforts of those who have preceded you. It now becomes your responsibility to join that group working for advancement so that those who follow you may benefit as you have. Accept that repsonsibility with the vow to do your best. Now, as you go forth to greater things may I wish for each of you a long life filled with health, happiness and attainment. Sincerely, yS. J. G. D. Timmons, Dean 13

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P re s i d e n t’s Message ROBERT LIVINGSTON JOHNSON A.B., L.L.D. President of Temple University Greetings to the Dental School, Class of 1955: We hear it said no man is indispensable. In a sense, that is true. At the same time, every person, for his own well being, should feel he is indispensable and should live as though he were. Practitioners in the profession you are entering should not find that hard to do. The reason lies in some facts I came on not long ago. They were from the most recent proceedings of the American Dental Association. They showed that fewer than one-third of the American people are receiving adequate dental services. The average adult has lost half of his teeth at the age of forty by reason of accumulated dental neglect. Active dentists in civilian life are increasing in number but not fast enough to equal the gains in general population. To my mind, that makes dentists, as a professional group, as indispensable as any I know. Psychiatrists say no emotional hunger is more fundamental than the need to feel needed. Their files are full of case histories of persons, often successful by every material measure, whose lives become unhappy because they reached the stage where they began to doubt the need and importance of the things to which they had given themselves. For you, that should never be true. Evidence of the need for you is too great, and it will confront you in increasing amounts every day of your life. I am happy for you and for the state and nation that you are ready now to meet with competence and skill this backlog of need. I am proud that the means for making you ready was the Temple University Dental School. 12 Robert L. Johnson, President

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ANATOMY GEORGE W. MILLER M.D., F.A.C.8. Professor of Anatomy V. B. BUT' D.D.8. Instructor K. J. HOLLAND M.D. Instructor J. M. LIMQUICO A.B.. PH.O., M.D. Assistant Professor S. H. RONKIN II.S.. D.D.8. Assistant Professor R. M. SNODGRASSE Pli.B., M.A.. PH.D. Associate Professor BACTERIOLOGY H. M. COBE A. K. LEBERKNIGHT j. ; McCUNNEY B.A.. M.A., PH.D B.S.. PH.C. r AmWcm Professor of BaetcrioloffV Assistant Professor BIOCHEMISTRY and DENTAL MATERIALS R. ROWEN H.8.. PH.C. Professor of Biochemistru and Dental Materials J. H. GITHENS B.S., D.D.S. Instructor G. R. SCHACTERI.E D.S.C. Instructor 14