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

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U.S.C. B.S. Dentistry of .4ta ATCOrCt :4 UCL J ■We always ventilate our crowns ' Rick, what are you doing in my picture? No, I won ' t move. JB»»-. il Who ' s pushy? Margaret got married immediately before starting dental school, but it wasn ' t detrimental to her dental career, as is often the case. In fact, since her husband, Dennis, was in medical school it was a help. Since the dominant entertainers of A Lab (Cappelletti and Bynes) weren ' t at our end of the lab, I had to find some way of entertaining myself. So I tried to get Margaret to laugh at spicy jokes. I was lucky, however, to get any acknowledgment at all when I exposed her to a bit of levity. Margaret isn ' t real out-spoken on most subjects, but she is really into fish and aquariums. We didn ' t have that in common at first, but then I became hooked. Margaret and Dennis drove me all around L.A. to show me the best fish stores and many a weekend were spent gazing into the tanks. I ' m surprised that Margaret never kept an aquarium at school for all of those carnuba fish she carved. I have to give Margaret a lot of credit for finishing four years of dental school, because if my spouse was a physician I probably would not have put up with the B.S. of dental school.

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I passed my cinics! Stanford University, Alpha Tau Epsilon, O.K.U., Commercial Pilot. „w I, r t ' f ' We 4Via+ ■Ji ever |od o d do .. Actually , p ,b ( , 7 I hope he doesn ' t make us turn this in. Finger rest, check! Wrist lock, check! Okay for take off! ■ You want me to fly what out of Mexico! The moment he finished carving the Right Central, Russell was designated to breeze through school, and I realized I was in for trouble. A gifted individual, Russell would succeed in any chosen profession barring, of course, sex counselor. Besides his excellence in both academic and clinical work, Russell is a talented musician, sometimes I wonder if he developed his dexterity by practicing on his banjo. During the preclinical days, school was so easy for him that he took up his latest hobby— flying; naturally he is a high flying pilot now. Having Russell as a partner actually is a blessing in disguise. Even though it had caused a lot of mental anguish and undue suffering, it pushed me to try harder. One had to, if you ever had Dr. Bryman grade your preclinical prep right after evaluating Russell. (The only solution is to work faster than Russell) I wish Russell the best whether he is flying or practicing dentistry. •s.

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Next time, take them out of the plastic bag first! Dr. -Ri0}gMti !,,pbhr FrBsnS, Calif. California State University, Fresno, B.A. Zoology yar ' gnt Pf.awyrrJii The Secret of my fine light beer. ' C-rJCLK. C i iy e . oaj , . ' Who is that dentist behind that wiry beard and horned rim glasses. The one who makes everyone feel like his life-long friend, capable of laughing out loud at anyone ' s joke, even the L.A. Times funnies. It ' s Rick, the cowboy from Fresno, who can shear a dozen sheep (the quick way) before breakfast, can play your favorite song on his guitar, can show you a museum collection of expensive fish that didn ' t make it in his salt water aquarium, can shittle most anything out of any piece of anything and even knows the latest baby jokes. Rick seems destined to be one of those warm, caring country dentists with a hundred hobbies and a thousand firends. While the rest of us concentrate on dentistry, Rick will be out studying the mating habits of whales (6 ft. by 10 inches . . . really Rick?) Sometimes it seems easier to imagine Rick guiding nature trail walks, or capturing neutobrachs in the act with his camera, than it is to imagine him as a dentist. We can ' t figure out how Rick can get any work done in someone ' s mouth the way he keeps them rolling all over the cubicle in laughter. ' Close encounters of the wasted kind! M m