OBITUARY
GORDON WHITE, D. D. S. Dr. Gordon White, of
Nashville, Tenn., died at his home in Nashville, December
6th, in his sixtieth year. He graduated from the Balti-
more Dental College in 1879, and has been in active prac-
tice in Nashville since, and almost to the day of his death.
Few men have been held in such high esteem by his pro-
fessional confreres, and none have been better served than
his patients. He was a thoughtful and ardent student of
his profession and was well known as a man of the highest
attainments, nationally as well as in his own country. He
was also a man of strong personality, and was a leader in
professional and social affairs. He has been markedly
honored by the profession of his city, his state, in the
South, and in fact in the professional activities of the en-
tire nation. His practice was not local, but he had patients
referred to him from distant cities and states. His skill
and agreeable personality attached his patients by the
strongest ties of confidence and affection. He treated patho-
logic conditions of the mouth most successfully. His career
was a brilliant one, and his death will be a severe loss to
the profession of the South.
DR. NORMAN G. ROECII, born at Phoenix, Rhode
Island, October 20, 1879, and died at Winthrop, Massachu-
setts, May 25, 1916.
Whereas, our beloved Fellow, Dr. Norman G. Roech,
has been removed from us by Divine Providence, it is fit-
ting that we should make a record of his death and ex-
press our sorrow over the untimely close of a successful
career; and
Whereas, by his genial disposition, his skill as a prac-
titioner of his chosen specialty, he has been a credit to
the dental profession; therefore, be it
Resolved, that we, the Fellows of the American Academy
of Dental Science, feeling deeply the loss we have sus-
tained, hereby express our appreciation of his friendship,
and our sorrow at his death, and be it further
Resolved, that these resolutions be spread upon our
minutes and that a copy be sent to the widow and his
family.	John W. Forbes,
Frank T. Taylor,
Lawrence W. Baker.
I)R. CHpEVER, who died in Boston, December 27,
1915, was an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy.
He was a man of sterling character, and a leader in his
profession, very prominent in the medical and surgical
world. He died just entering his eighty-fifth year. He was
a broad and noble minded man. having an abundant love
for his profession. He not only worked faithfully as a
great surgeon and teacher, but also lifted his associates to
high and still higher aims.
He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November
30, 1831. His father and grandfather were physicians.
He served the Harvard Medical School for thirty-three
years as teacher and professor. He was connected with
the Boston City Hospital for fifty-two years. He saw serv-
ice in the Civil War. He was a writer of marked ability,
writing for the Atlantic Monthly and the North American
Review, also a writer for all the leading medical and surgi-
cal journals in this country. He was known and esteemed
for his charities, was a public spirited citizen and an ex-
cellent business man. As an example, advisor and friend,
he was all that could be desired,—faithful, loyal, reliable,
under all circumstances. All honor to the academy for
honoring such a man. His loss to the entire surgical world
is a deep and lasting loss.
His life and death, his beauty of character, remind one
of the closing lines of Bryant's greatest poem.
"So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumberable caravan that moves
To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
Resolved, That the American Academy of Dental
Science has lost one of its most esteemed Honorary Fel-
lows, and his profession, a noble leader. His memory will
be revered by all who love high character, noble service
and the sterling attributes of the finest type of man.
Respectfully submitted,
R. R. Andrews,
Edward C. Briggs,
Forrest G. Eddy.

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