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

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PROGRESS IN 1959 The latest of teaching aids is now in use at Temple. Shown demonstrating the closed-circuit television is Dr. Robert Hedges. Three of the lecture rooms and one seminar room are equipped for monitors to watch demonstrations from the Post Graduate Clinic. Two cameras. Switching apparatus and auxiliary lights make this corner of the clinic a well equipped television studio. Now in its first year the graduate program in Orthodontics has kept the three students busy. Dr. Milton Landy is seen here during a part of the clinical phase of the program. Although mosf of the program takes place in the Orthodontia clinic all the other clinical departments arc utilized in the course of instruction lasting 18 months. Installation of one of each of the many ultraspeed handpieces brings a new high of teaching usefulness to the Post Graduate Clinic on the third floor. Dr. Carlos Weil demonstrates the u$£ of an air turbine handpiece to a group of senior students before they try the units on extracted teeth and later on patients.

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To the Class of ’59: A few years ago you came to us to be trained in the science and techniques of dental health. You go back now to your communities to perform the services for which you have prepared. Take with you, I beg, not only a practitioner’s skill but deep and selfless concern for the personal well-being of every man, woman, and child who puts himself in your care. 1 promise that such service will reward you with satisfactions as great and durable as those that can come to any man.

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DEAN GERALD TIMMONS As graduate dentists you arc now about to be faced with a great responsibility, that of caring for the dental health of the public. Yours is a profession which has a long and commendable history, and ranks among the greatest services to mankind. This is a heritage which must be furthered. Temple has offered you one of the finest dental educations in the world. However. it is still only a foundation upon which you must build with never ending education, perseverance, and integrity. At times during your education, it may have seemed that requirements were difficult and ovcrcxacting. The purpose has been to cause you to produce your best, and in so doing, give you an appreciation of quality service rendered. In essence, this is the greatest reward of the dentist, for once you have done your best, anything less to an individual of character is failure. I have followed your progress individually and collectively, and I am of the conviction that as a class you have left an .admirable record. I know that you will do all in your power to honor this institution through your actions as dentists, as leaders of the community, and as active alumni. I wish for all of you health, happiness, and the success which you so richly deserve. 8 G. D. Timmons, Dean