University of Alabama School of Dentistry - Dentala Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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HELEN CARLISLE, Secretary, Biochemistry MNH ELIZABETH PEARCE, Secretary, Anatomy SECRETARIES NANCY BELCHER, Secretary, Endodontia MURLE PUGH, Secretary, Maintenance SHERRY CREEL, Secretary, Maintenance k,,,,t,.,i,,.N,, ,,,, q,,. A h,,,

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MEMOIRS When some forty-four students spend four years together some interesting and amusing incidents are bound to occur. Such is the case with this group of senior students. Some of the incidents were quite funnyg however, . . d others were not so amusing at the time they occurre . It is hop ' ' ' ' f th more humorous events that hap- pened during our course of study. It all began in September of 1955, when fifty-two scared, but anxious students began their four years of study at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry. Although we were a little apprehensive it didn't take us long to find our Way around, especially to Gross lab, Histology lab, and the Coffee Shop. Incidentally it happened in Gross that 4'Little Obbie made the remarkable diagnosis that his subject met his fate via buckshot or by swallowing a firecracker. However this diagnosis was not sustained by Dr. Sensenig. ed that the few lines written here will bring to mind some o e S il hw Charlie Chambers had to check the assignment card closely to make sure the table was really his. Steel seemed to be amused that Charlie didn't know which table he was assigned to. I G -. Q5 4 Vi r rf X X l gm , mes

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Then, too, dentures had to be made and Colonel Milburn in his sporting way reminded us to uget busy or we'll d you home for Christmas fas a present, that isl and you'll be picking cotton next fallf' ,y G9 if X X I' Bill Burton and Charley Spencer hit on a new idea of impression material. They H would use peanut butter so that it could be eaten after the work at hand was X completed. Q tk y ,K . 6 QS' J. Billy Beall, who possesses great artistic ability, carved a ,T ' . . . - . XX eleonzolc monster in techmc lab. Not by choice you under- x nd. ' C7 i . x Norman Carlson and Ken Cochran proved to be heavyweights when they were challenged at one of the downtown cafes. 3 We were startled to learn in Physiology that nothing does it like your favorite ww soft drink. I think most of us would agree with Dr. lNlcFall that we would 5 Hthink twice before doing a hemisection of the mandiblefl W'ynston Pittman gave Dr. Pigman a test tube to observe a Q . . . . O characteristic color change. The test tube was qu1te hot and Dr. Pig- 2 2 man's hand and Mr. Pitmanls face turned a characteristic color. 2 ll 'N' , ' l a f'3 ' .D CY - 1 f t . ' if Q