University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine - Reflector Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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I I THE REF1 .ECTOR 5 32 xp' X city clinic which kept him busy seeing all and doing nothing for anyone. From Albany my. dreamship carried me rapidly through the air and stopped at Cortland, N. Y. I knew no one in Cortland and took a bus to McGraw. I could tell when I reached my destination for the driver called, c'All out-McGraw . I-Iere I saw a large poster Which read, c'Vote for Dr. I-I. G. Ensign, for member of the board of education . I Went to Red's office and he told me his policies if elected would be to abolish 8 o'clock lectures, as they Were much too early for young people to attend. I returned to the ship and soon landed in Syracuse. My first thoughts Were of our class president, 'cDutch,' Schemel. With little inconvenience I found his office and I-Iovview told me, aside from confining his practice to orthodontia, he Was teaching Oral Surgery to the Medics at Syracuse University. I asked about I-Iank Klein and he told me I-Iank had moved to Georgia in the vicinity of Savannah. There he had organized a Citi- zens' Band Ccomposed of himself and another Irishmanb to play All Aboard for Dixien, at the coming charity ball. It Was a town when he vvent there, but with the assistance of his brother I-Iibernian they vvere making a city out of it. A fevv miles from Syracuse I located Fayetteville, and there met Gaugel. I-Ie still had the beautiful glossy hair and enjoyed a good practice. Aside from this he amused the boys at the village store by doing a dance called the Fox Trotn, which he tells them people used to do when he was a boy. I-Ie had become prosperous enough to buy a 98c. model Ford and also send his son to St. john's military School. From here we Went to Auburn, and it Was my signal privilege to meet Francis Qyes, our Francis,j Adams at this place. He was holding dovvn the position of State Dentist to jailbirds. While speaking of the teeth of the inmates he, in his characteristic jesting Way, told me the poor devils had to be pulled in before he could pull them out. From here We made straightway for the thriving City of Clayton. and there I ran into tvvo of the regular guys of our class, No others S4

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l l -H0 500 ll Those days of yore, will come no more, But thru our manly years, The tho't of you, old White and Blue, Will fill our eyes with tears. UST one week had elapsed since my son had left home to enter the ,Dental Department of the University of Buffalo, to learn the honorable profession which his dad had pursued for the past twenty-five years. Being an only son, it naturally struck the lad's mother as well as myself very hard. So while she was clearing the supper table, I betoolc myself to the sitting room and sat down before the fireplace for my customary evening cigar. Having been the rounds myself during my college days at Buffalo, and knowing the boy was a chip from the old block, I wondered if he were at the time sitting in the HG. Af' in back of a high dark or Hofbrau or any of the places so dear to my mem- ory, yet so terrible when giving my hopeful his final instructions before his departure. And, while hoping he would be home study- ing Danny'7 Squire's cavity classification or AbieH Hoffmanis Hingenuityn, still I entertained fears for him. - This led rne to recall once more the good old days from IQI2 to 1915 with the boys, and with the aroma of my strong cigar T fell moodily into wondering just where they were and what they were now doing. The effect of the cigar together with the sweet strains of. To U. of B., to U. of B.g Our Alma Nfater by the inland sea . which my wife played in the music room after finishing her house- hold duties, gradually drifted me along to a state of coma where in fancy a spirit in an airship carried me here and there to the various places where 1915 represented our Alma Mater. So clearly was it all revealed to me that I made note of it with the following results: I was carried through Albany where my attention was called to a shingle which read, f'Dr. L. T. Devine, Specialist in gold fillings in the lower jaw which cannot drop out . Larry, so far as I could ascertain, was doing well by three Devines Qlfaith, Hope, and Charityj who were all in High School. Down the street a few blocks I met Jimmie Flanagan who walked me into his laboratory to tell me that he was running a S3

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I THE REF-1zECToR 32 4 ' V b than Dollinger and Mcfiinley. The suffragists of the town recog- nizing Dolly7s executive ability as well as good looks had thrice elected him mayor, not to speak of his being solo Qso lowj singer in the church choir, due to the training he received while taking lessons in voice culture during his college career. McKinley, true to the name, was president-not of the U. S. or the W. C. T. U.-but of the district dental society. He had become famous in ascertaining the cause of pyorrhea on artificial dentures. He said it was due to an organism known as a Weymis7'. Thence to Watertown, where I was agreeably surprised to find the name of John Lavery on every tongue. John had read a paper on his latest discovery. I asked him about his new invention and he told me it was a removable bridge for edentulous mouths. I always imagined John's foundry employment would stand him in good stead. On to Malone we sped, soon finding the office of Cunningham's. Koke told me he was married to one of the many girls with curls down their backs on whom he specialized during college days. His practice was confined to Prophylaxis, consequently he had cleaned up considerable on it. Koke told me Chaffee was doing a wonderful gold practice in Plattsburg. He became proficient in that particular branch during his Junior year in the infirmary. Tncidentally, he had won several prizes at county fairs in contests of that nature. He used a hand pressure mallet, because Dr. Squire told the class not to. CThis was too much for me to swallow wholej Back we Hew to Rochester at a tremendous speed, crossed Hemlock Lake where they get their water supply Cthey donit let birds fly over that lakebg over the baseball park where John Ganzel used to pilot pennant-winners and hnally landed on the roof of the Powers Hotel. The first one I met was DeGelleke. The names wop , H ratw, etc., had since been dropped from his nomenclature. However, he had several mice running around the house. In conjunction with Abie Cohen Che is a big boy nowj he was running an office, manufacturing a vest pocket folding plate. It is put in the vest pocket upon retiring and in that way alleviates the possibility of forgetting 55