UCSF School of Dentistry - Chaff Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Gllark la fllbotte Gobbarb 2? LARK LA MOTTE GODDARD, A. B., D. D. S., A. M., was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, june 26, 1849. He attended the public schools in that city until 1868, and Beloit College from 1868 to 1872, where the degree Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon him. The degree Master of Arts was also received from the same college 'in 1875. Commencing the study of dentistry with E. M. Clarke, M. D., in Beloit, and attending the sessions of 1872-73 and X873-74 of the Phila- -delphia College of Dentistry, he graduated therefrom in March, 1874. In April of that year Dr. Goddard began practise in Chicago, and in March, 1875, he came to San Francisco, where he has been in practise sever since, being associated at Hrst with Dr. I. L. Cogswell, and from 1876 to 1882 with Dr. H. E. Knox. Dr. Goddard has always taken a very active part in promoting the welfare of organizations belonging to the dental profession. He ,joined the San Francisco and California State Dental Association in 1875, the California State Odontological Society in 1884, and the American Dental Association, which met at Excelsior Springs, Mo., in I89O. He was made an honorary member of the Washiiigton, D. C., Dental Association in 1895, and of the Oregon State Dental Association 'in 1897. In 1892 he was made chairman of the Dental Section of the American Medical Association. And in the following year he joined the Midwinter Fair Dental Congress. He filled the oiiice of President of the San Francisco Dental Association in 1891. He was delegate of the Faculty to the meetings of the National Association of Dental Faculties in Washington, D. C., in 1887g in Excelsior Springs, Mo., in 18905 and in Chicago, Ill., in 1893. Dr. Goddard has always been connected with the College of Dentistry of the University of California, since its organization, in 1881. II

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to be offered by this college are designed to place it in the lead of all similar institutions. The lecture room, the operating room, the labora- tories, and in fact every branch in which the various courses of practical and theoretical work are pursued, have been planned to accomplish the best results of the most advanced scientilic knowledge. It may be some time before the landscape gardener can fully beautify the grounds surrounding the four great buildings. But it is safe to predict that before very long there will be added to the grandeur of our home, a picturesqueness of mossy bank and leafy dell that will meet even the romantic hopes of the most enthusiastic of the Class of yQ9. . Q E, oi . PM? IO

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A member of the original Faculty, a member through all its changes, he has held that distinctive oiiice continuously. He filled the onerous position of Dean of the Faculty in 1883, and again in 1886, 1887, and 1888. He conducted the Chair of Mechanical Dentistry from 1881 to 1889. This chair then included Dental Metallurgy and Orthodontia. He resigned the chair of Mechanical Dentistry in 1889 and that of Dental Metallurgy in 1890. He organized a laboratory course in Dental Metal- lurgy in 1889, believed to be the irst one instituted in the United States. And in 1895 he began his lectures on Comparative Odontology in connection with Orthodontia. Some of the fruits of Dr. Goddard's ripe experience and scholarly attainments have been given to the profession in the form of several valuable treatises embodied in the latest text-books adopted by the associated dental colleges of the United States. In the American text- book of Prosthetic Dentistry, edited by Prof. C. J. Essig, M. D., D. D. S., Dr. Goddard is the author of Chapter XIV, on Cast Dentures of Alum- inum, and on the Aluminum and Fusible Alloys, and also of Chapter III, on the Principle of Metal VVork, including Orthodontia Technic. And in the American Text-bool: of Operative Dentistry, edited by E. C. Kirk, D. D. S., Dr. Goddard is author of Chapter XXI, on the Management of the Deciduous Teeth, and also of Chapter XXII, on Orthodontia. I