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

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TECHNIQUE STAFF Mrs. Shaw Helen Root always had a smile and a bit of advice for those who wanted to find something better than craytex or burlew. She also was singularly and deceptively diabolical in building up our confidence with her pleasant personality -she always had something nice to say. This left us totally unprepared for Maudlin Maude's Mauve Manner. 75 ' ' Mrs. Elsie Roseboro We will always hold a warm spot in our hearts for Mrs. Shaw. Friendly, capable, and willing, she has helped all of us throughout our first two years of dental school. A typical day would find her busily packing dentures at 7:30 A.M. She would be taking roll at 8:00, and 8:30 would find her still in the hall crossing numbers off the list. Mrs. Helen Root Elsie Roseborough was the phantom of the third floor. We seldom saw her and never heard her. Her time was taken up with the precise and methodical fabrication of state board casts or stone models. She also made coffee for Murphy and Ho, and stayed out of sight. W , of itt ll

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. I 4. 1' , V' fl-5 i. 1 ! ' yy u L ' gifffx xvjaqigfij .-r. .x.'i. -9!. -3- ta 5 ,, .5 .,:3,. . 9,11 pc 'K r,,4S,,x L 11- . 'I -X1-S Y-1 of ' I '- 4'igl'1' jg il' Tl? NJ iifg 1 ii iii ' T WL. . A l 1 'Q- r j W X X l A Dick Arconti -jecfreas. .2 Harris Done - Presidenth Mel Schwarz Vice-Pres From the start, it was mayhem and confusion. We butted our way into parking places and bumped into each other's shopping bags as we tried to locate our seats on the third floor of the rustic S. 8. T. building. Dr. Harrison patiently named and described each of our instruments and told us where to place each one in our spacious third floor lockers. However, for many of us, it was three months before we knew the difference between an Evan's carver and a wax spatula. Down in the Histo Lab we met a couple of interesting personalities who were dedicated to making our first semes- ter a challenge. Next, we met a year-long companion whose pungent personality we shall not soon forget-our cadaver. Anat- omy was a refreshing experience iin fact, for some of us it was almost regurgitatingl. Thursdays were spent with a far more conversational personality. Ole Murph told some rousting iokes, barked lseldom bitl, set examples of professional dress and decorum, and, taught a little prosthetics lbut who has done more?l. The SCIENCE of dental materials was easily the most interesting of all our freshman classes. we learned to measure things, take plaster thumb prints, make a pocket-size ladder, fill in blanks, and, most important, that silver could neither be accurately cast nor soldered. The second semester we met our first honest-to-goodness god-Gung Ho. He didn't give us much encouragement, when during the first lecture hetold us we were three weeks behind. We showed him, we haven't caught up yet. We also met Dr. William Fowkes. Class personalities began to come forth. Harris I go Pogo Done was our first president. Elmer do gooder Ellsworth'delivered a sparkling oration on How to Cheat . Willie He was old before he started Vitz showed us how to succeed without trying.. Reserved Al Brann proved to be the best marksman in the class-right Hice- Greem? Fred what me worry Leight exhibited his quality as a walking tranquilizer. Ed Don't Panic Gabay ably demonstrated that the shortest distance between inside and outside is through the window. ln summarizing our freshman year, we can say that the most important thing we learned, the obiect that led us out of the dark and into the light in our concept of Dentistry, that thing which so closely allied itself with the re- vered principles of lwe bow our heads when we speak his namel G. V. Black, was the BOLEY GAUGE!!