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

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Our New Dean I-IIS book would not be complete without the picture which adorns the opposite page. We are all justly proud of our new dean, the first graduate of the college to occupy this high position. It is not only a mark of honor for the college, but also for the man, and in this land where any citizen may becorne President, there is cer- tainly inspiration in the fact that conscientious effort may some day win for one of us the prize that is his. I-Iarry'Putnam Carlton was born in San Francisco, October 17, 1862. Here he spent his youth, and attended the public schools until he reached the last half of the last year in high school. At that time he moved to Oakland, California, and was graduated from the Oakland High School. Some years later he was elected president of its Alumni Association. In 1881 he entered the office of Dr. I-I. E. Knox and here passed two profitable years in practical preparation for his college work. In 1883 he matriculated at the College of Dentistry of the Univer- sity of California and received his degree in 1886. Upon his graduation he associated himself with Dr. L. L. Dunbar, then dean of the faculty and continued with him until, in 1888, he was appointed Demonstrator of Operative Dentistry in the Dental Department of the University of California and served in this capacity until 1893, when he was made Instructor in Operative Technic and sent to the Columbian Dental Congress. Here he assisted in the formation of the National School of Dental Technics, later called the Institute of Dental Pedagogics. Of this society he was Vice-President in 1899 and in 1900 was elected to its Presidency. In 1900 he was given the Chair of Operative Dentistry, and inci- dentally was made Secretary of the Faculty. As a culminating mark of honor, in 1902 he was made dean of the college, the greatest possible proof of the appreciation felt for his faithful services. In February of this year Dr. Carlton went East to attend a meet- ing of the Odontographic Society of Chicago. At this meeting there were present nearly three thousand members, and he was one of five to read a paper on higher dental education. As students under his instruction, we are taught more than opera- tive dentistry, we are taught the ethics of the profession, and, as we 57

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go out, it we prolit by his teachings, we cannot but be broader pro Ees- sional men, by Whom commercialism and quaclcery are things to be abhorred. Outside of his professional work, Dr. Carlton is well-known as a singer and as an amateur photographer of no mean repute. He is also a member of the Reliance Athletic Club of Galcland, a Master Mason, and a member of San Francisco's famous Bohemian Club. As a member of the Delta Sigma Delta fraternity, he has held all the im- portant offices of that organization including the highest, that of Supreme Grand Master. Further, he is an honorary member of the Stomatological Society of New York, a member of the Oakland Dental Club, fof which he was president in IQOO-OID and has served a term as president of the Alumni Association of the Dental Department of the University of California. l Dr. Carlton is an enthusiast in his work, and his lectures are of the intensely interesting order, fully up to the demands of that most exact- ing of critics-the student. Chaff, in trying to express the consensus of opinion of the student body, Wishes him long life, good health, and continued successes, FACULTY Room. 58