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

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FRESHMEN The Class History If is difficult to reolize fhof we hove, of lost, embarked on fhe final stages of preparation of our life's work. It was difficult also to comprehend the ways and means of T.D.S. the first few weeks we were here. What a shock to be thrown into Maurice's Mysterious Movies while frying to remove the weekend cobwebs from our brains. Then after becoming accustomed to the intricacies of cellular structure we again were lost in the complications of embryological development so lucidly described by Mr. lietch. With fond memories we can look back and remember that ''thing in the anatomy lab which showed us how much more difficult it could be to learn the gross structure of the human body than its minutiae. With our thirst for knowledge we also acquired an aura and 100 shares in Stopcfte. Dr. Herman competently and eloquently described the hills and valleys of the Oral anotomy world. Biochemistry introduced us to an unholy mixture of test tubes, titrations, and testimony on how some of us would walk up three flights to save 50 J. Then, again, there was plaster, wax, acrylic and all fhe materials so new, strange, and difficult to manipulate. The wonderment of water-powder ratios (I wonder what we learned that for?) and Gilmore needle tests (What’s your curve look like?) that were our first 26

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Freshman THE LUDICROUS OPBRA TOR or the IU.ACKS.MFTH TURNED TOOTH DRAWER Photo-engraving from a copperplate etching, by C. S. Ncgge -about 1735. w m

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contact with Dental Materials gave us new insight into the problems that we will encounter later. Again, how many of us can look back on that class the first semester where we learned about such contraptions os an Odontogogon and that wonderful Royal Mineral Succcdan-eum? (You mean you really went to class after those Friday night parties? ) Our first practical contact with Dentistry was in that place of impressions, occlusion rims, and setups; the Prosthetic lab. We began to wonder how we passed that manual dexterity portion of the entrance exams as we tried to put such things os compensating curves and festooning on our dentures. There were heartbreaks too as the secondary impressions stayed on the monikin instead of. in the tray time after time after time and the wrinkles in the compound never seemed to disappear. Second semester we were introduced to microbes and media by Dr. Cobe. There was the hustle and bustle when it was time to get your meeja and that shot in the dark called the Boct-e lab exam. We have now completed ' , of our Dental education and look forward to the future with the hope that it will bo as pleasant and busy but not so bewildering os this past year has been. The Frethmon CIoh Officer! shown n the Denial School Museum ore trom left to righti STEVEN FINK. Student Council; SIDNEY HASSENFElD. Treasurer; ELMER YESKO. President; CARY WISER, Vice President; and WALLACE KULIGOWSKI. Secretory. 27