University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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AS WE ARE TODAY... IHE School of Dentistry now occupies its new building at the northwest corner of Lombard and Greene Streets, adjoining the University Hospital. The new building provides approximately 45,000 square feet of floor space. A sufficient number of large lecture rooms and classrooms, a library and reading room, science laboratories, technic laboratories, clinic rooms, locker rooms, etc., are provided. The building is furnished with new equipment throughout, with every accommodation necess- ary for a progressive institution. The large clinic wing accommodates one hundred and thirty-nine chairs. The following clinic departments have been provided: Operative, Prostethic (including Crown and Bridge and Ceramics), Anesthesia and Oral Surgery, Pathology, Orthodontia, Pedodontia, Radiodontia, and Photography. The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School, University of Maryland • 5

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- , il- - -ii- eV„ L j -i- L HJiX I r«] o ' LlBuE I ' ' ijV WO vLI} This Tablet is on the Facade of the Building at 7 South Hopkins Place. AS WE WERE ... Tk .HE University of Maryland was or- ganized December 28, 1807, as the College of Medicine of Maryland. On December 29, 1812, the University of Maryland Charter was issued to the College of Medicine of Maryland. The first lectures on dentistry in America were delivered by Dr. Horace H. Hayden in the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, between the years 1821 and 1825. These lectures were interrupted in 1825 by internal dissension in the School of Medicine. It was Dr. Hayden ' s idea that dentistry merited greater attention than was given it by the medical instruction. With the support of Dr. Chapin A. Harris, he appealed to the Faculty of Physics of the University of Maryland to create a dental department. This request having been refused, they decided upon an independent college. A charter was applied for and granted by the Maryland Legislature, February 1, 1840. The first faculty meeting was held February 3, 1840, at which time Dr. H. H. Hayden was elected President and Dr. C. A. Harris, Dean. The introductory lecture was delivered by Dr. Harris on November 3, 1840, to the five students composing the first class. Thus was established the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first dental school in the world. In 1873 the Maryland Dental College, an offspring of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, was organized and continued instruction until 1879, at which time it was consolidated with the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. A department of dentistry was organized at the University of Maryland in the year 1882, graduating a class each year from 1883 to 1923. This school was chartered as a corporation and continued as a privately owned institution until 1920, when it became a state institution. The Dental Department of the Balti- more Medical College was established in 1895 and continued until 1913, when it merged with the Dental Department of the University of Maryland. The final combining of the dental educational interests of Baltimore was effected lune 15, 1923, by the amalgamation of the student bodies of the Balti- more College of Dental Surgery and the University of Maryland, School of Dentistry. . Thus we find in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School, University of Maryland, a merging of the various efforts at dental education in Maryland. 06099

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F( OR what he is and for what he has done; for his personality and for the inspiration which he affords us; for his gentlemanly qualities; for his honesty and sincerity; for his kindly interest in others; we dedicate this book to our friend and teacher. DR. ROBERT L. MITCHELL, Phar. D., M. D.