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Ariel - Volume 8 Number 3, David Gastfriend, Martin Trichtinger, Richard J. Perry, Michael J. Grimes, George Risi, Scott A. Waldman, Gail Orner, Jamie Lockard, Dick Moberg, Robert L. Brent, John A. Timour, Patrick Sokas, Shahab Minassian

Ariel

Executive Editor

James W. Lockard, Jr.

Business Manager

Neeraj K. Kanwal

University News

Richard J . Perry

World News

Doug Hiller

Opinions

Elizabeth A. McGuire

Features

Patrick P. Sokas

Sports Desk

Shahab S. Minassian

Managing Editor

Edward H. Jasper

Managing Associate

Brenda Peterson

Photography Editor

Robert D. Lehman. Jr.

Graphics

Christine M. Kuhnle

Ariel - Volume 8 Number 2, Marianne Ritchie, Nicholas Tepe, George Risi, Richard Perry, Dave Gastfriend, Martin Trichtinger, Gail Greenspan, Scott A. Waldman, William J. Adams, Jr., Robert L. Brent, Jamie Lockard, Ronald D. Springel, Patrick Sokas, Richard P. Margolies, Dick Moberg, Shahab Minassian, Jane Mooney, Neeraj Kanwal

Ariel

Executive Editor

James W. Lockard , Jr.

Issue Editor

Doug Hiller

Business Manager

Neeraj K. Kanwal

University News

Richard J. Perry

World News

Doug Hiller

Opinions

Elizabeth A. McGuire

Features

Patrick P. Sokas

Sports Desk

Shahab S. Minassian

Managing Editor

Edward H. Jasper

Managing Associate

Brenda Peterson

Photography Editor

Robert D. Lehman, Jr.

Graphics

Christine M. Kuhnle

Ariel - Volume 8 Number 1, Steven Gamburg, Richard J. Perry, Gail Greenspan, Martin Trichtinger, Jim Spiegel, William J. Adams, Jr., George Risi, Laird Jackson, Jamie Lockard, Patrick Sokas, Shahab Minassian, Maureen Dietzler

Ariel

Executive Editor

James W. Lockard, Jr.

Issue Editor

Michael J. Grimes

Business Manager

Neeraj K. Kanwal

Managing Editor

Edward H. Jasper

University News

Richard J. Perry

World News

William D.B. Hiller

Opinions

Elizabeth A. McGuire

Features

Patrick P. Sokas

Sports Desk

Shahab S. Minassian

Managing Associate

Brenda Peterson

Photography

Robert D. Lehman, Jr.

Graphics

Christine M. Kuhnle

Ada Code Of Ethics (October 1977), American Dental Association

Code of Ethics

The ADA Code of Ethics has three main components: The Principles of Ethics, the Code of Professional Conduct and the Advisory Opinions. Contents may also include: Amendment to ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct and Insert for the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct. The most current issue is available on the ADA’s website.

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xxviii, Number 1 Fall 1977

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XXVIII, Number 1 Fall 1977

“Let Us Pursue a Venture in Quality,” Page 2

Magee: Testament to Rehabilitation, Page 9

Educating the Allied Health Professional, Page 15

Jefferson Scene, Page 18

Class Notes, Page 21

Obituaries, Page 30

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xxvii, Number 4 Summer 1977

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XXVII, Number 4 Summer 1977

Profile of a President, Page 2

The “Wise Infidelity” of Vesalius and Pare, Page 13

At First, Only John Gibbon Believed in the Heart-Lung Machine, Page 19

Modernizing Eskimo Health Care, Page 22

Family Practice Relates to People’s Needs, Page 24

Jefferson Scene, Page 26

Class Notes, Page 34

Obituaries, Page 43

1977 Commencement For Jefferson Medical College, College Of Graduate Studies, And College Of Allied Health Sciences

Sidney Kimmel Medical College Commencements

No abstract provided.

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xxvii, Number 3 Spring 1977

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XXVII, Number 3 Spring 1977

The Other Health Professionals, Page 2

Jefferson Scene, Page 28

Class Notes, Page 35

Obituaries, Page 42

Professional Writing And Lectures: "Brief History Of The Osteopathic Hospital Of Maine," 1977, Undated, Lowell M. Hardy Do

Personal and Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Ada President 1972-1973: Louis A. Saporito, American Dental Association

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Doctor Saporito, of Newark, New Jersey, became the one­hundred-and-ninth president of the Association at the 1972 meeting in San Francisco. The House of Delegates adopted policies regarding Health Maintenance Organizations and the use of radiographs in dental care programs. Doctor Saporito served the Association for six years as a member of the Board of Trustees and for eight years as a member of the House of Delegates. He was first vice president during 1963-1964. Doctor Saporito was a general practitioner and an educator. He was an instructor in dentistry and oral surgery at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral …

Ada President 1896-1897: James Truman, American Dental Association

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Doctor Truman, of Philadelphia, was elected thirty-fourth president of the Association at the 1896 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. In his acceptance address, he said he would work to "overcome the apathy" which he said had characterized the Association in recent years. Doctor Truman was a professor of dental physiology and operative dentistry at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery from 1865 to 1876. He incurred the antagonism of many dentists by strongly advocating the admission of women to the dental profession. From 1882 to 1896, after practicing in Germany several years, he was with the University of Pennsylvania …

Ada President 1909-1910: Burton Lee Thorpe, American Dental Association

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Doctor Thorpe, of St. Louis, was elected forty-seventh president of the Association at the 1909 meeting at Birmingham, Alabama. He had served as corresponding secretary of the As­sociation from 1906 to 1908. Doctor Thorpe was the first dean of Barnes Dental College of St. Louis, which he and two other dentists organized in 1903. He was assistant secretary of the Federation Dentaire Internationale for five years, and originated the Fourth International Dental Congress, held in St. Louis in 1904. Doctor Thorpe was active in dental society history committees and was the author of Biographies of Pioneer American Dentists and Their …

Ada President 1962-1963: Gerald Desmond Timmons, American Dental Association

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Doctor Timmons, of Philadelphia, became the ninety-ninth president of the Association at the 1962 meeting in Miami Beach. He had been speaker of the House of Delegates in 1955-1961. Doctor Timmons was dean of Temple University School of Dentistry from 1942 until his retirement in 1964. He served as president of the Indianapolis Dental Society, the American College of Dentists, and the American Association of Dental Schools. He served the American Dental Association as executive secretary in 1940-1942, trustee from the Seventh District in 1938-1940, and as a member of the Council on Dental Education in 1950-1956. Doctor Timmons was …

Ada President 1975-1976: Robert B. Shira, American Dental Association

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Doctor Shira, of Boston, became the one-hundred-and-twelfth president of the Association at the 1975 meeting in Chicago. The meeting was held concurrently with the sixty-third World Dental Congress of the Federation Dentaire Internationale. Doctor Shira was dean and professor of oral surgery at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. Previously he was assistant surgeon general and chief of the Army Dental Corps, with the rank of major general. He served as president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons, the American Board of Oral Surgery, and the Canal Zone Dental Association. He served as editor of the Journal Oral Surgery, …

Ada President 1899-1900: B. Holly Smith, American Dental Association

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Doctor Smith, of Baltimore, was elected thirty-seventh president of the Association at the 1899 meeting at Niagara Falls. The Southern Branch of the Association met early that year in New Orleans. Doctor Smith received the D.D.S. degree in 1881 and the M.D. degree in 1883. He practiced dentistry in Baltimore for thirty-seven years. Offices he held included the presidency of the Southern Dental Association, the Maryland State Dental Association, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and the National Association of Dental Faculties. Doctor Smith's special interests included the development of a system of oral hygiene in the Baltimore public schools. …

Ada President 1879-1880: Luther Dimmick Shepard, American Dental Association

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Luther Shepard Doctor Shepard, of Boston, was elected nineteenth president of the Association at the 1879 meeting at Niagara Falls. It was estimated that there were 12,000 practicing dentists in the United States at that time, and the Association voted to compile a complete directory of dentists, with the assistance of state societies. Doctor Shepard, a general practitioner, was on the dental department staff of the Harvard Medical School from 1868 until 1879. He was the first president of the Massachusetts board of dentist registration, established in 1887. Doctor Shepard was president of the World's Columbian Dental Congress held in …

Ada President 1976-1977: Frank F. Shuler, American Dental Association

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Doctor Shuler, of Clinton, Wisconsin, became the one­hundred-and-thirteenth president of the Association at the 1976 meeting in Las Vegas. Major concerns of the House of Delegates included the expansion of duties of dental auxiliary personnel, dental prepayment programs and illegal dentistry. Doctor Shuler, a general practitioner, was a member of the Board of Trustees for four years and a member of the House of Delegates for five years. He served as president of the Rock County (Wisconsin) Dental Society, the Wisconsin Dental Association, and the Wisconsin Dental Service Corporation. He served on numerous committees of the Wisconsin Dental Association and …

Ada President 1918-1919: Clement Victor Vignes, American Dental Association

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Doctor Vignes, of New Orleans, became the fifty-sixth president of the Association at the 1918 meeting in Chicago. The Transactions for that year listed more than 4,000 dental officers on active duty in the armed forces. Doctor Vignes organized the Loyola University School of Dentistry in New Orleans in 1914 and served as dean and professor of clinical dentistry for twenty-three years. Earlier, he had helped to organize the New Orleans College of Dentistry, which became the Dental School of Tulane University. He served in various offices of the New Orleans and Louisiana dental societies. He was born in Louisiana …

Ada President 1891-1892: William Wallace Walker, American Dental Association

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Doctor Walker, of New York City, was elected thirty-18first president of the Association at the 1891 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. The scientific session that year included papers on "Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent in the Treatment of Hyperemia and Congestion of the Pulp and Peridental Membrane," "Senile Atrophy of the Upper Jaw," and ''Phagocytosis. '' Doctor Walker received the D.D.S. degree from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1884. He served as president of The Dental Society of the State of New York, the Odontological Society of New York, the First District Dental Society of New York, …

Ada President 1927-1928: Roscoe Henry Volland, American Dental Association

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Doctor Volland, of Iowa City, Iowa, became the sixty-fifth president of the Association at the 1927 meeting in Detroit. He was the treasurer of the Association from 1928 to 1948. Doctor Volland, dentist and physician, was a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry from 1902 to 1923. From 1925 to 1944 he was a clinical professor of operative dentistry at Northwestern University Dental School. Doctor Volland served as president of the Iowa State Dental Association and the American College of Dentists. He was born in Iowa in 1877 and died in 1962.

Ada President 1938-1939: Marcus Llewellyn Ward, American Dental Association

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Doctor Ward, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, became the seventy­sixth president of the Association at the 193 8 meeting in St. Louis. The House of Delegates adopted a set of principles and recommendations for a national health program. Doctor Ward was dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry from 1916 to 1934, when he was named Jonathan Taft Professor of Dentistry and chairman of the Department of Dental Materials. He was president of the Michigan State Den­tal Association in 1912 and the American Association of Dental Schools in 192 5. Doctor Ward, a prolific writer, was the editor of …

Ada President 1943-1944: Charles Raymond Wells, American Dental Association

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Doctor Wells, of Washington, D.C., became the eighty-first president of the Association at the 1943 meeting in Cincinnati. It was a business meeting only; the scientific session having been suspended for the duration of the war. After serving in the Navy Dental Corps from 1918 to 1925, Doctor Wells entered private practice in Brooklyn, New York. He served as vice president of the Dental Society of the State of New York and president of the International College of Dentists. During World War II, Doctor Wells, again on active duty as a naval officer, was the chief dental officer of the …

Ada President 1933-1934: Arthur Cornelius Wherry, American Dental Association

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Doctor Wherry, of Salt Lake City, became the seventy-first president of the Association at the 1933 meeting in Chicago. The Chicago Centennial Dental Congress was held in conjunction with this meeting. Doctor Wherry served as president of the Salt Lake County Dental Society and the Utah State Dental Association. He was a member of a committee of past presidents that went to Europe to study social insurance systems. Active in civic affairs, he was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Utah in 1929. He was born in 1880 and died in 1944.

Ada President 1973-1974: Carlton H. Williams, American Dental Association

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Doctor Williams, of San Diego, became the one-hundred-and­tenth president of the Association at the 1973 meeting in Houston. The House of Delegates voted to establish the Commission on Accreditation of Dental and Dental Auxiliary Educational Programs, effective January 1, 1975. Doctor Williams was speaker of the House of Delegates from 1967 to 1972, after serving as a member of the House for 12 years. A general practitioner, Doctor Williams was president of the San Diego Dental Society in 1946, the Southern California Dental Association in 1959, and California Dental Service in 1961. He was a guest lecturer at the University …

Vol.44 News Releases 1977, American Dental Association

News Releases

This collection includes standard news releases, information kits and other documents distributed for publicity, information, announcements of events, etc. as issued from the ADA. Items included in this collection are archival and any costs, links, contact information, or other figures may be out of date. Please contact the ADA to verify information.

Ada President 1961-1962: John Reinhart Abel, American Dental Association

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Doctor Abel, of Los Angeles, became the ninety-eighth president of the Association at the 1961 meeting in Philadelphia. He presided over the 1962 meeting, the theme of which was "Better Dental Health in the Americas." Much of the program was simultaneously translated into Spanish and Portuguese for the benefit of the hundreds of Latin American dentists in attendance. Doctor Abel, an orthodontist, was a member of the Board of Trustees for six years. He served many years as a member of the House of Delegates. He was president and treasurer of the Southern California State Dental Association, president of the …

Ada President 1949-1950: Philip Edwin Adams, American Dental Association

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Doctor Adams, of Boston, became the eighty-sixth president of the Association at the 1949 meeting in San Francisco. The House of Delegates, which consisted of 385 members in 1949, considered proposals to reduce its size, but voted against reduction. Doctor Adams, an orthodontist, was secretary of the Massachusetts Dental Society from 1929 to 1949. After serving in the Navy in World War I, in 1919 he began private practice and joined the staff of Tufts College Dental School, where he later became head of the orthodontics department. Doctor Adams served the American Dental Association for many years as a delegate …

Ada President 1860-1862: William Henry Atkinson, American Dental Association

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Doctor Atkinson, of New York City, was elected first president of the American Dental Association at the i860 meeting in Washington, at which the Constitution and Bylaws of the Association were adopted. A "preliminary meeting," with Doctor Walter W. Allport as chairman, had been held at Niagara Falls in 1859. No meeting was held in 1861. Doctor Atkinson presented an essay on "Has Dentistry Attained to the Dignity of a Profession?" at the 1862 meeting. He was an ardent student of microscopy and the natural sciences. Doctor Atkinson was a frequent contributor to the dental literature of essays on subjects …

Ada President 1957-1958: William Robert Alstadt, American Dental Association

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Doctor Alstadt, of Little Rock, became the ninety-fourth president of the Association at the 1957 meeting in Miami Beach. He was one of the most active presidents, speaking to dental societies in more than 40 states. Doctor Alstadt, an orthodontist, was the Twelfth District trustee from 1951 to 1956. He had been a member of the House of Delegates for several years. He was active in the American Association of Orthodontists and was a member of its Board of Directors. Doctor Alstadt served as president of the Arkansas board of dental examiners in 1949-1950. He served as a consultant to …

Ada President 1886-1887: Walter Webb Allport, American Dental Association

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Doctor Allport, of Chicago, was elected twenty-sixth president of the Association at the 1886 meeting at Niagara Falls. He had served as president of the "preliminary convention" of the Association in 1859, also held at Niagara Falls. Doctor Allport opened his dental practice in Chicago in 1854. Over the years he excelled as a practitioner, essayist, teacher and speaker. He firmly believed that dentistry was a specialty of medicine and was the author of a resolution, adopted by the American Medical Association, calling for preliminary and professional education in dentistry equal to that of the best medical colleges. Doctor Allport …