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Senior Class History THE ship is docking. Shipboard friends are bidding adieus; gathering the baggage of five vears passage; looking backward at the sea they have passed over, remembering beautiful davs — forgetting rough spots of the voyage. Five vears of sailing under changing sets of pilots. After touring the sea of knowledge we have arrived at our destination, Graduation. Our crew, the faculty, we thank for the safe conduct of the ship; and to them we extend gratitude for pleasant memories. Late in September of 1930 an assortment of some ninety bewildered and timid but well nourished souls first set foot on Maryland Dental Sail. With crude frankness the Freshman faculty prescribed a program of such delicacies as Dental Anatomy, Inorganic Chemistry, Zoology, etc., which were so shockingly novel that we, poor innocent children, wandered for months like beheaded chickens. Long we toiled over cruel, unyielding celluloid blocks with file, knife, sandpaper, pumice and whiting, only to be told, That ' s coming along fine, now polish it. Many a pre-dent was led to believe that deciduous bicuspids deserved a place in dentistrv and many of our number invaded the hardware store for contact points. This vigorous campaign took its toll and upon embarking in the Sophomore vear many vacancies were noticed. However, our ranks were replenished with foreign stock and we then represented a cross between tots learning to walk and tottering souls willing to learn. With quaking hearts we faced Dr. Wilkerson, fearing every moment his scornful gaze, but soon we learned to laugh and laugh hard at his everv wittv remark — our first lesson in handshaking. In the anatomv laboratorv stiff subjects and the sweet essence of formaldhyde greeted us boldly; and to the tune of Dr. Sussman ' s Clean up structures and Dr. Anderson ' s Special dissections we struggled through. With kind interest we listened intently to Dr. Maldeis who lectured fatherly on how to evade the evil and seek the good — now we wonder, what good was it anyhow. In this year we point with pride to the inauguration of class dances and the organization of the school hockey team. The pre-junior year introduced our first measure of relief from theory. Eagerly and with pleasure we looked forward to our many laboratory periods, but litde we figured on being drafted into 8 o ' clock classes midst yawn and stretch and ho hum. For Crown and Bridge we plunged deeply into our pockets to pay for gold, a constant source of bank- ruptcy. On that account many a fair and worthy maiden spent idle hours at home. In Operative we became acquainted with the man behind the lenses, Dr. Latcham, who micro-scruti- nized our everv effort and who made us realize the value of sharp instruments. Many thanks to this dear friend for he taught us accuracy. Much to our sorrow we recall the verbal lashing we caused upon our good friend Dr. Deems and now we seek his pardon. Our Junior vear capped a climax to our plodding endeavors; for then we became Men in white. With swollen pride we strutted about the clinic floor, but too soon we displayed ignorance. We blew in mouths, we drilled images of teeth on mouth mirrors with cross-cut fissure burs, we blundered miserablv a dozen wavs; but in the long run we realized that even error proved an experience less to repeat. A constant menace and source of grey hairs was the stigma of requirements and hard we toiled to escape becoming a ten-per center. Then finally the Senior year, a time when we looked back and pointed with pride to our achievements, scoffed scornfully over former petty worriments, smiled significantly at humiliating experiences and breathed easier for passing over rough spots. Again requirements tugged mercilessly at our hearts. A mid-year tremor almost unbalanced us — we feared and fretted the prosthetic exam — and when it was finally over we smiled wisely, a snap. Had Doctors Pearson and Heatwole attended the Dixie on that memorable morning rather than the classroom, they might not have been disappointed. The voyage ends with our Senior year. More serious thought is given to the landing which has been forgotten in the earlier good times. June. Land ho! All ashore. Historiak 26
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