University of Southern California School of Dentistry - El Molaro (Los Angeles, CA)

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The Last 10 Months 901 Club is session. The end ' s in siglit; let ' s have a party. Refueling, and back to the clinic floor.

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Chorus: it ' s AII Down Hill Seniors at last. Around the clinic many things were the same to us and some different. Stu and Joe were still agreeing on bridgework even to the point oi cantilever- ing molars so that partiais wouldn ' t have to be con- structed. Dr. Blue wos still studying X-rays upside down and prosthetics lectures were just as uninformotive as ever. Among the different things around the clinic was the addition of Charlie Sweet ' s son as the head of the Pedo- dontics department. A graduate of some dental school in the bay area up north, this fellow came to S.C. with revolutionary changes in mind (he leaves in June). In all honesty, however, we must admit that after he simmered down a bit. Dr. Sweet turned out to be a pretty great guy. He taught us a lot of Pedo and a lot of corny jokes — even if he was only getting $37.00 a week as a de- partment head. Here ' s hoping something can be worked out so he stays past June, jokes and all. Another addition to the staff was the savior of the Senior Class as far as prosthetics went. Dr. Dickson by name, better known as Colonel Mumbles, saved us all from being up the proverbial creek without a paddle come graduation day. Thanks again! The entrance of the Colonel onto the prosthetic scene in- itated revolutionary changes in this department. One of them was the switch from the students hunting for J.J. to J.J. hunting for students. The big question in every- body ' s mind again this year being, Is he going to take the Board or not? The Juniors being especially interested in the answer to this question. Also new in the clinic was Captain Turner, a twenty year Navy man. His lectures in Public Health Dentistry will long be remembered by the few that attended them. Speaking of lectures, the first semester we had some ten per week which was quite a comedown from the four- teen in the Junior year. Practice Administration was the Monday morning eye opener where we again memorized the twenty-five duties of a dental assistant for the seventh time. Other important phases of practice administration were also learned here. Probably the two most interesting courses were Principles of Medicine and Oral Tumors. Here every Tuesday and Wednesday we hyprochondriacs all had abscessed kid- neys, cancer of the liver and tongue complicated by ameloblastomas. Amazingly enough we all survived both courses and most of us without even catching a cold. Several supplemental lectures were held at night in fill in a few of the points missed in Practice Administra- tion and Prosthetic lectures. These ended quite abruptly when the credit for same didn ' t go to the department head that thought he had it coming. Other special lectures during the year included one on the rubber dam by Dr. Quint which was very informative and one on Pedodontics by Dr. Anderson. A third by Dr. Vaughn on splinting was given to us for what it was worth, the consensus of opinion of the students being the usual for a prosthetics lecture. Ice skating in the aisles of the operative department was made possible during 1957 by the use of an extra high gloss wax used by the janitorial department (the eighth clinical department) and demonstrations by Dr. Ingraham. Most any Tuesday or Friday, graceful figure eigh ts, etc. could be seen being made by Gray Fox and associates from clinic patient to clinic patient. While on the subject of clinics may it be said for the class that among the happiest turn of events of the year