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

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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

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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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' My wife likes the ' shaggy ' look. ' still love the way you come up behind me. ' Greg (what committee is he on now?) Cole was by no means a stranger on the U.S.C. Campus. Born and raised in El Segundo, he graduated from the main campus in 1973 with a major in Biology (and a minor in campus politics). After four years, Greg knew where enough bodies were buried to gain admission to the dental school. Greg ' s pre-clinical career was characterized by diligence and perserverence. Not that there was never a discouraging word from B-1, but any set back was only temporary. Long hours and hard work finally paid off and he was turned loose downstairs. Greg achieved instant rapport with patients by reciting the Dental Practice Act while working. He wasn ' t trying to bore them, he just liked all that legal jargon. It seemed like Greg spent more time at committee meetings than in the clinic. That never seemed to affect the quality (or quantity) of his wo rk. As of the writing, Greg is unsure of his future plans. Whether he stays in California or heads for Washington, D.C. (behind closed door politics?) Greg will be a real asset to his profession. U.S.C. B.S., University of Oklahoma, President ' s Advisory Council. Committees on Management, Promotions and Student Rights, Psi Omega Fraternity. No, I wasn ' t born in Plains and no, I don ' t drink beer! 102 Greg doing his lab work.