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

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if , I 1 sf P Jxu fy, HE class of '05 presents for con- sideration, at First glance of its personnel, the fact that it is cosmo- politan, consisting as it does of students of American, Scandinavian, Missourian, German, Swiss and Californian birth, and the members have a feeling of sorrow that it is without its accustomed Jap, Numerically it is below the average, Qthe mental standing will be determined by the faeultyj, and the loss of numbers in the case of one student, Quinn, recalls the memory ofa constant subscriber to the Youth's Com- panion in the form of those that you make yourself from Durham and Wlieat Straw. I-le had a supreme contempt for the elementary principles of Prosthetic Den- tistry, all of which he considered play. From personal experience and long asso- ciation with the members of this class, I am empowered to say that it was with joy and happiness that they assembled in the presence ofthe upper classmen last Sep- tember, to be talked to and looked over by the faculty. QThe preceding words may be reversed to describe the present attitude of that bodyj Cn this most auspicious occasion, the faculty took turns in telling the class that it was a serious proposition they were up against, and a corresponclmo element of seriousness was to he expected from this 45

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FRANK SHANASY AP.-1-HUR W. Soam' PAUL A. TRULLINGER WILLIAM T. SHANASY . VVILLIAM W, WALTON JOHN C. SMITH ISAAC P' STEWART JOHN Y. WARREN

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embryo body of Freshmen, all of which upon analysis, shows the presence of a great joke. The remainder of the time the members suc- ceeded in keeping the air full of bouquets which they hurled at each other, and as a befitting finale the students were informed that the clerk tHorrors! lj was waiting in his office for all the moneys they had,-and all they expected to get in the next three years. After having variously tried to find soft spots on the granite steps, which trials extended over a period of several days, the first steps Qnot granitej in dentistry were illustrated by Dr. Maunk, and consisted of a lecture and demonstration on How to Burn Gas and take Impressions. The students on this occasion had various degrees of success, Stevens having secured and offered for sale an impression in ten min- utes after the gate went up, and Kaufmann put a red-hot tray in the mouth of a now wise student, and after the first attempted out- burst on the part of his patient, he tarried not, and while en route for parts unknown, wished himself back in old Berlin where wooden shoes and sound teeth are worn by all the natives. Verily there issued from the Laboratory in that first week, harmony of sweet sounds, not paralleled by the noisome running of the college car nor the din of a blacksmith shop. Montague leads us and, in fact, we need leading, and are fortunate in the possession of one so capable, possessing as he does the combined qualities of a Demosthenes and excellent herding ability. Steinmiller is Treasurer, a good and noble office with much honor and a blank Ledgeitg he has acquitted himself of his arduous duties in a fitting manner. Evans, the Scribe, has a shorthand system of his own and, when stuck, has on more than one occasion shown his ability at extemporizing-the same not complicating matters any, as the minutes of any previous meeting were things long forgotten by the members of the class. VVhat! Remember minutes when the meanings of cohesion, molecules, atoms, elements and unponderable masses were being hurled at them accompanied by diverse and sundry threats by the genial Dr. Hodgen! No, Sir! It did not take joe Mazza, alias Zaza, long to assert himself as a class-leader in certain elementary and primitive forms of fun, such as dropping off roofs, chasing and capturing goats and all such genteel acts as learned in the bright vicinity of Santa Rosa. Zaza's varied love 46