University of Texas Dental Branch - Fang Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Y i Endodontically, of course! So you are a daily male ? Sq ,fj..Lf R BQ- ii! fi W0 1 9 - .5 4 Another fine lunch at Bexar County. Finalists in the Alabama Analysis Smile contest. if K. V ,T ,WQXQ K Clockwise: Dave Brown, Mike Beard, Tom Cockerell, Scott Berry, Tom Cotton, Rodger Bagby, Jeff Atherton, Joe Allen, Bill Bryant, Roger Arredondo, Bob Burson, Mark Boyne, Jay Chatmas, Bill Beyers, Mike Butcher, Scott Bates, John Chelkowski, Mike Alkek, Bo Carrick, Bill Barrett. ln the Tank: Don Buckner. Unavailable for Photo: Gerald Bevers.

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CLASS 1979 Quite apart from freshman paranoia and the ridiculous amount of material students were required to assimilate during their first year, the sophomore year promised relevancy in the form of dental technique courses and a brief but invaluable exposure to the clinic and real patients. With the rigors of bending wires, carving cadavers, setting teeth, and waxing crowns, and frameworks, there evolved a grin and bear it attitude, although during the biannual blitzkrieg of final exams morale was typically non-existent. Fixed Prosthodontics, Orthodontics and Pedodontics were courses most indicted for bru- tality. All night casting marathons, Hitchcock's multiple shot in the dark quizzes and the precision prepping of Viade Margarine Models did little to endear these departments to the class. The Chi- nese Fire Drill Award went to Endodontics for its lab projects man- agement, an award whose merit to which many a sophomore who ended each lab session with bent files, innumerable x-rays and ZOE in his hair will no doubt testify. For the first large class in this dental school's short history each day was a new adventure. Erratic instruction and communication breakdowns occasionally disrupted the norm, igniting controversy and undermining apathy. Futher- more, while suffering together this past year through such various and sundry horrors as complete practicals, indirect vision, Pathol- ogy lectures and crown and bridge projects, a certain comraderie developed despite the widely variant backgrounds, interests and beliefs that comprise the class. Looking forward, and following a much needed reprieve called summer vacation, the chances for a successful campaign in the iun- ior clinic are optimistic. Judging from the number of missed blocks, flustered sophomores and irate instructors observed this past spring we need at least to be optimistic. CLASS OFFICERS: lL-Rl Mike Butcher, secretory, Mike Durnin, president, Joe Gutier- rez, treasurer, Bo Carrick, vice-president. -1, ss, . ss . g 1-. A . .... ,f.i Itf si- - . A Suu.

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