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

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Senior Class Officers B. RAINES C. SANTANOCLO F. SCIIIESER R. LAURIE A. VILLANE President VIce-Presidrnt Secretary Treasurer Student Council Representative Class History “The Freshman Class will meet in the Auditorium at 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, September 13, 1951.’' On that morning, anxious embryonic dentists gathered for the first time, en masse, ready to undertake a thorough, crowded and rapidly passing four years study of the basic science of dentistry. After several weeks, we were lost deep in the dental forest. To learn anatomy, we had facilities of cadavers, dissections and music lessons; to learn histology, just “Open the book, doesn’t matter where, just open the book and read it.’’ A word to the wise was usually not sufficient. Our projects for I)r. Rowan—plaster, jigs, acrylic and then some alchemy (but we never did make the gold) ; our drawings and carvings for Dr. Herman; and our real taste of dentistry—full dentures —kept our class time, home time, free time, and night time busy, even though we were told that the real work was to come later. (But “Don’t listen to upper classmen!”) With a rush to finish, our introductory year was brought to a close. Our freshman class officers: Kverett Thompson, President; Michael Creamer, Vice-President; Milton Isaacs, Secretary; Robert Hendricks, Treasurer; and Frank Schiesser, Student Council Representative. As we entered our sophomore year, we soon realized that we were approaching the threshold to the famous clinic floor. Den- tistry, we soon discovered, was far more precise than we had imagined with a fifty cent club to verify this. In an interesting operative lab, and in our laboratory approach to crown and bridge, we soon realized the importance of accuracy. With all of the possible variables, it was amazing that we were able to make our dies fit the crown so well. From Dr. Larson and his animal friends, we were impressed with the fact there were other functions of the body besides eating and sleeping. Dr. Donnelly, with the aid of Joe Bush, presented one of our most interesting and increasingly important courses, pathology. Prosthetics became more absolute with additional techniques of centric. Coble tracer and balancing occlusion. Rapidly, two years of preparing, planning and dreaming came to a close and we left school with our minds filled only with glorious thoughts of the exciting clinical year to come. It was also during this sophomore year that our classmate, Rudy Radick. was forced to leave school due to illness. Although his name has not appeared on our roll sheets, he is still thought of as a classmate in our minds. Our sophomore class officers: Richard Manning, President; Timothy Sheehan, Vice-President; Irving Shore, Secretary; Jules Rapone, Treasurer; and Rudolph Radick, Student Council Representative. 26