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

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Damned bunsen burner. Wayne is the kind of guy one can only say good things about, I really mean ... if one doesn ' t say good things about him. one runs the risk of making him angry. Believe me. I KNOW. I probably made him angry at least once a day for the first year that we were together. Then a funny thing happened-we became friends. Once one is Wayne ' s friend, then he ' ll truly walk on hot coals to give help and encouragement. Some of Wayne ' s finest qualities are his complete lack of pretention and his sincerity which is honest and without selfish motive. One thing still puzzles me about Wayne. How does he get those big paws into anybodies ' mouth? I wish you a long and happy life, you lab partner, Craig. I was born in a small log cabin in Burbank, California. Life was gruelingly hard. Trudging through the snow in Gardena while going to high school was one of the brighter moments. After school I couldn ' t play but had to support my family by working from midnight to eight in a dairy. Hard work, perseverance and sweat has brought me to the pinnacle of my life today: forty thousand dollars in debt and no job! ' That ' II be 59c a pound. Why, you want this needle?

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Checkmate Tasic, your turn to treat at Burger King. Ift. { -?sa ; «£- And it doesn ' t stick to dental work either. A.B. Psychobiology U.C.L.A; Psi Chi; Poet; Nitrovs and I.V. Pusher. Pong - Wooosh - ping ping ping - bong - ping ping - bong - Anybody got a cigarette? - ping ping ping - bong - Tasic, you f— head, haven ' t you got a cigarette? - bong - bong - ping. Ding Ding Ding I ' ve got to have a cigarette before I die! bong bong bong TILT. God, what ' ed I have to do that for? Son of a (2; !! . I ' ve got to see a patient in three minutes. Strathdee, you wanta ' play a fast game of chess? Craig Schlie is unique. All can remember his bottomless recital before a lecture in Rutherford Hall. I can remember how he dropped my first carnuba wax carved shovel; or was it a fish, the day before they were due in the second week of preclinical. But out of this tomfoolery has arisen a student who is often consulted by his peers on patient management when we have had a particularly hard white-knuckle case. Craig ' s uniqueness has often opened a new approach to the new concepts and the old dogma we ' ve received over the past four years. Craig has certainly demonstrated his uniqueness where he confronted the past Dean with the absurd waste of expensive analytical grade chemicals in the dispensary while the Dean was delivering a moving school-wide speech on how he ' s trying to keep costs and tuition down. Congratulations Craig on getting through these four years and on growing and sharing and I still resent having to recarve that damn tooth over again. Wayne Shepard H len are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw ' Damn, melted my forceps again! ' Doesn ' t anybody in this place have a cigarette.

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S. California State University Fullerton, Mobile Clinic, Yugoslavian verseas Dental Clinic. Forget those n odels Dr. Desimone, I never look at them. While the cat ' s away Ya, I got an upper lip. want to make something of It! ' } : {.. E lab trained, Greg was one of the fastest operators in our class. That probably accounted for his less frequent appearances on the clinic floor than his plodding classmates. You can bet Greg would rather be flying - literally. Earning his pilot license during his senior year, it is rumored that he sat out one of his senior clinics so he could take his written pilot exam instead! You see, special clinic foils were never a problem for Greg as long as he had a dab of super glue nearby. Seriously, Greg had a knack for turning out high quality dentistry and quickly (perfect ad dentist credentials?!?) An inveterate partygoer, Greg and the rest of the Manhattan Beach guys could always be counted on for hosting the best parties and beer busts in town! We won ' t be surprised to find him in the future practicing by the beach and reading The Fear of Flying . Best of luck Greg! 4uJ