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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
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was the switch of clinics from Thursdays to Fridays and the consequent absence of Rug Head Eyer from these events. It must be also said that he was replaced, un- fortunately, by an almost equally unexplainable person- ality in the person of Joyful John Ankeney, (With my Cadillac I can trim anything on four wheels ). Double clinics proved to be real tough as we all expected. Here we all learned to work for eight hours straight (un- less we were one of the few speed demons), get along without lunches and to control ourselves when that sec- ond patient of the day disappointed. We ' re all hoping private practice isn ' t quite like this!! On the lighter side in the operative department we en- joyed the instruction from and were amazed by the dex- terity of Rapid Ross Huntley, a truly fine operator. New faces on the operative floor included last year ' s grads Porfirio Massey, John Lake, Grandma Fields, Boyce ' s brother Chuck, and Bill Stewart. The end of the amalgam war saw Henry ' s return to the operative, and crown and bridge folds and a conquest of Beverly Hills along with Brother Lake. The Perio Department hit an all time low this year with the departure of Slasher Baer to greener pastures leaving us with Jonnie Grant. This left Thursday as the only day to do Perio. We ' re hoping this situation is remedied soon or Perio will soon take over the prosthetic department ' s now undisputed spot at the bottom of the dental hit parade. Long to be remembered by us all will be Cymanthy who religiously announced our Fr iday afternoon meetings at the 901, as well as the whereabouts of such characters as L. Ewing Scott, etc. Also the girls in the sterilization room whom we all thought were the greatest. If any- one were like these three gals, things would have been a lot more fun at the clinic. This year also saw the raising of weeds instead of the much talked about classrooms and isotope laboratory adjacent to the clinic. But this is about par for the course. Besides, we ' d all really miss those warm, comfortable classrooms where we had those stimulating lectures. May it be said that with all the ups and downs of the clinic it ' s a time in our lives none of us will ever forget; it was rough, but it could have been worse, or could it? In closing we would like to quote a few lines from the writings of one of the lesser known instructors at the clinic. These words helped us all during the clinic years and should be used by the new seniors as a source of in- spiration. If is known simply as the Operative Psalm and reads as follows: He is my instructor. I shall not want; he maketh me to remove all caries, he leadeth me beside the green units. He restoreth my foil, he leadeth me in the direc- tion of ideal extensions for his grades sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the operative department, I fear no margins for he checketh me, his hoe and his hatchet they comfort me. He prepareth a bracket table before me in the presence of mine patients, he annointest my annealer with foil, my cuspidor runneth over. Surely line angles and point angles shall follow me all the days of my life and I will drill in the maxillary and mandibular arches for- ever. Vincent Van Ingraham
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