University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Dentistry - Bushwacker Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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EMMETT JUNIUS CRAIG A lovable character with a dynamic per- sonality-one who felt that no feat was too hard to accomplish providing it was interest- ing and worth while. A student in all that the name implies and a person who endeav- ored to excel in everything he did. By these traits shall we remember Emmett Craig. Dr. Craig had an interesting and colorful career. He received his academic training at Wentworth Military Academy and William Jewell College, then entered the Kansas City Medical College. After attending for two years, however, he decided that dentistry was his forte, so he withdrew from Medical school and enrolled in the Western Dental College, where he received his degree of Doc- tor of, Dental Surgery in 1898. After graduation he joined the United States Army as the first contract dental sur- geon andlater, with four other dentists, was sent to the Philippine Islands to serve during the Spanish insurrection. After the war ended he returned to this country and was stationed at the Presidio at San Francisco, and later at Fort Leavenworth. When he retired from the Army he entered private practice in Kansas City. Prom this pioneer Contract Dental Service, grew the United States Army Dental Corps, as we know it today. ln his earlier days he was interested in sports and was very accomplished in boxing, wrestling and running, but there was another side to Emmett Craig . . . the artist. He was a trained musician, adept at drawing, and a sculptor of unusual ability. He made busts of many well-known Kansas Citians and his work was shown in many art exhibits here and elsewhere. Sculpture was his particular love and every day of the past twenty years had seen him devote several hours to this creative work. There were none of the mod- ernistic trends in his arty he strove for nat- uralness, exactness and precision, and those who sat for him were the recipients of busts that were excellent likenesses. Doctor Craig was a member of the faculty of the Kansas City-Western Dental College for twenty-two years, the Calvery Baptist Church, the Rotary Club: the ,Shrine and Scottish Rite, the Knife and Fork Club: Sons of the Revolution, the American Dental Association: a charter member of Rho Chap- ter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon, national hon- orary fraternity of dentistry, and Xi Psi Phi, dental fraternity. The Dental College has lost a capable in- structor, the profession has lost a fine work- mang the world has lost a man. R. J. RINEHART. March 3, 1379 - December 30, 1939 Page Twenty-nine

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