History of Dental Schools in Louisiana

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New Orleans College of Dentistry, 1899-1909

The school was organized on May 27, 1899.  The first class graduated on June 4, 1900.  The commencement exercise was held at Tulane Hall.  Graduates were H.J. Arledge, J.T. Lampkin, and J.N. Mathison. 

On June 22, 1903, the school purchased a building at 831 Carondelet.  After the building burned in 1908, the faculty moved to the Hutchinson Memorial Building at Tulane University. In 1909, the dental school became permanently affiliated with Tulane. Classes were held on the uptown campus and in the Hutchinson Memorial building.  

Deans: Jules J. Sarrazin, 1899-
           William Ernest Walker
           Andrew G. Friedrichs, MD, DDS  1904-1909

New Orleans College of Dentistry, 1903 graduation program. Courtesy of Dr. Darin J. Ward, Calgary, Alberta, Canada	New Orleans College of Dentistry, 1903 graduation progam, inside pages, Courtesy of Dr. Darin J. Ward, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
New Orleans College of Dentistry students, Class of 1903.  A. Louis Ducasse seated front row, second from left. Marie-Blanche Fassey is in the center of the middle row.  From collection of Dr. Francis B. Ducasse.

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New Orleans College of Dentistry 1905 commencement program. Donated by Mr. Matt Easley

 

Polk's Dental Register and Directory, 1904-05, p. 341

New Orleans College of Dentistry students c.1907. Henry A. Jeanmard seated front row, second from right, 1907 graduate.	Koch, C.R. History of Dental Surgery. Chicago, National Art Pub. Co., 1909, v.1, p.616

Tulane University College of Medicine School of Dentistry, 1909-1928

In 1909 the New Orleans College of Dentistry became the Dental Department of Tulane University.  With the 1913-1914 session, the title was changed to the School of Dentistry of the College of Medicine.  The school increased the dental curriculum from three to four years beginning with the 1917-1918 session.  In 1925, requirements for admission were increased by the addition of a pre-dental year. Students spend the first two years on the University campus on St. Charles Avenue and the last two years in Hutchinson Memorial and at Charity Hospital.

The school was discontinued in 1926 and closed its doors in 1928. Tulane kept the dental clinic open as a diagnostic and consultation unit, to work with the medical clinics, until 1933.

Deans:  Andrew G. Friedrich, 1909-1914
            Wallace Wood, Jr., DDS, 1914-1922
            Alfred Archinard Leefe (Acting), 1922-1925
            Alfred A. Leefe, 1925-1928

Tulane dental class of 1924 List of students in photograph	Josephine Hutchinson Memorial, Canal Street

Read about the C. Edmund Kells Memorial Library and Museum, dedicated by Tulane University in 1927
 

Tulane University School of Dentistry Bulletin 
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1914-1915	1915-1916	1921-1922
1923-1924	1924-1925	1925-1926

 

 This page is maintained by Elizabeth Strother.  Last updated October 2015
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