The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-04-02
DIR. C. E. BENTLEY.
President Alumni Association, Chica-
60 College of Dental Surgery.
Great Honor Conferred Upon the Leading
Afro-American Dentist of the North
west-sketch of the Life ofDr,
Bentley With Cut.

The subject Of this sketch, DR.. Charles
Edwin Bentley, was born in Cincinnati
tt, OHIO, 1859, where he was reared and
educated. His professional career is of
interest in that he has been the recipi-
ent of repeated compliments conferred
upon him by the dental profession, of
which he is an honored member.
He.was the only Afro-American men,
Der Of a class of sixty which graduated
in 1887, from the famous Chicago Col
lege Of Dental Surgery.
He was at that time elected the class
historian,which is second in Importance
only to the valedictor.an.
In 1889 he was rendered and accepted
the position of Clinician in oral sur
gerry at the Rusk Medical College, where
for two years he performed surgical OPP
erations Of varying kinds in and about
the mouth, before hundreds of white
students both from the south and north.
In 1890 he was elected by the faculty
clinician in the Chicago College of
Dental Surgery, a position which he
still holds.
In 1889 he was elected to the presi-
dency of the photographic Society--a
dental society composed essentially of
the younger members of the profession
in which position he acquitted him
self with dignity and honor.
lie is an active member of the Chica-
fo1 in%1
Club and the photographic Society.
He has filled the responsible positions
OF chairman Of eXecu tive committee and
chairman of the publication committee
last year. The latter position is one of
responsibility and Importance in that
all papers read before the society, and
discussion thereon, have to pass through
the doctors hands for final revision
before being published, and law pre-
walls that there is no appeal from
his decision. He was, last spring, in
vited by the State Dental Society to read
a paper before that august body upon
the subject of dental Education" An
invitation that many older members of
the profession would have considered
it an honor to have received. DR.. r.
". Brophy, the dean of the Chicago
college of Dental Surgery, in comment
ing upon the paper before the society
amoeg other things said: 81 am proud
to acknowledge that 1 had something
- n n wi tho n1n Of bo = IL
man who has just read his excellent
paper"
The latest and most far-reaching
honor that has been conferred upon this
gentleman is his election to the presi-
dency Of the Alumni Association of his
Alma Mater-thc Chicago College. of
Dental Surgery. TO be chosen to pre-
side over the deliberations of twelve
hundred {1,20O) men is indeed an honor,
yet on the 22nd day of March, 1892 such
distinguished honor was rendered to
DR.. Bentley. rsonally DR.. Bentley
is a genial, whole-souled gentleman
who has the power to attract and hold
friends. That such an honor should
fall to an Afro Anne rican is not only
gratifying to the Doctor, but to those
of us who in these days are concentrate
ing our efforts for the amelioration of
the Southern Afro-American are graft
fled to see that the professions espe-
cially in the North are willing to recog-
niZe merit whether it be found in a
black or white person.