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Vol. II No.

5 IUSD ALUMS ELECT

The twenty-second annual fall conference of the Indiana University School of Dentistry

Alumni

Association

was

held in Bloomington on October

6, 7

and

8.

Officers elected at that time were:

Dr. Joseph C. Muhler ••.. President Dr. Thomas Boyd (Muncie) •. President-

Elect

Dr. David McClure (Anderson) •.•

Vice-President Dr. Robert Bogan .• Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Paul Starkey •• Executive Council

Representative IUSD LIBRARY REPRESENTED

AT CONFERENCE

Mrs. Helen Campbell attended the fall meeting of the Midwest Regional Group of the Medical Librar; Association which was held in French Lick on

October

14

and

15. VISITOR TO MAXILLOFACIAS PROSTHETICS

Dr. Peter Walsh of the Polyatrjc

Association (otolaryngologic surgery), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

was a

visitor in the maxillofacial

prosthetics clinic on September

29.

Dr. Walsh will be returning later in the year for three months' postgraduate training in the specialty of maxillofacial prosthetics.

PERIODONTIC

DEPARTMENT

NEWS The Periodontic Department is now reasonably settled in its new

quarters on the fourth floor. There are still a few items to arrive

October

17, 1966

before the project can be considered completed. We invite other members of the staff to come up and look us over; especially our seminar room and perhaps make arrangements to use it at some future date.

We welcome to the sta:ff of the Periodontic Department, Mrs. Becky Maners, who will be secretary to the department of periodontics; also,

Dr.

Lloyd J. Hagedorn, a graduate student and part-time faculty member.

This semester, Dr. Henry Swenson is again flying "consultation'' to Fort Wayne every Wednesday for the Dental Hygiene program. He lectures there to the second year dental hygiene students.

NOTED FROM THE

DEAN'S

OFFICE Dr.

Maynard

K.

Hine

was

in Tokyo, Japan, October 10 to 16. He presented a lecture before the Japanese Society of Conservative Dentistry and also represented the .Americau Dental Association at the Japanese Dental Society meeting.

Mrs. Benefiel has returned to her desk in the stu~ent office following a recent eye operation and its

accompanying period of recuperation.

We are happy that her recovery was rapid and satisfactory.

I-.1rs. Ruth Lively is confined to her home with hepatitis. It is reported that she is progressing slowly. We all wish her a speedy recovery.

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News from Dean's Office (continued) Miss Manion has returned from a

1uropean vacation and is again deeply involved in the mundane mysteries of room assigning, mail sorting, as well as various and sundry key operations.

The Dean¹s office has been enhanced by the recent addition of several new staff members. Mrs. Gail . .Ltlderf'er and Mrs. Patricia Ellis have been on hand for several months, an item which, regrettably, has not been reported previously. Mrs. Betty Simmons is in the student office on a part--time basis. Mrs. Sandra Hawkins and Mrs.

Carolyn Kirkpatrick have both returned after extended absences. It is a pleasure to welcome all of them.

Oful..L DIAGNOSIS HIGHLIGHTS The oral diagnosis clinic has been particular·ly involved during recent days with tours of the first year hygienists and the new class of

dental assistants from the Harry Wood School. It has been a busy but

interesting time for all concerned.

Mrs. Loretta Travelstead recently left the OD staff in anticipation of an October new-arrival. She was

honored with a lur.cheon and going-away gift by the faculty and staff.

Replacing Loretta as assistant is Miss Gina Hoover. Miss Hoover is a June graduate of the Wood Dental Assistant's School.

New to the oral diagnosis teaching staff is Dr. Paul Badell. A hearty welcome is extended.

New air conditioners which made t1::.e

late summer heat-~wave so much more bearable are greatly appreciated by

the OD clinic faculty and staff.

CLASS OFFICERS FOR DENrrAL HYGIENE In recent elections, the following have been named to office in the dental hygiene division:

First Year Dental Hygiene President •...•• Kathryn Stute Vice-President .••• Diane Rohlfing Secretary-Treasurer •• Carol Garriott Student Council Representative ••••

Jacqueline Kuhn

Second Year Dental Hygiene President ..••.. Rebecca Spille Vice-President .•• D. Diane Trees Secretary-Treasurer .• Arlene Brinson Student Council Representative .•••

Carole Smallwood All Campus Representative ..••.

Ida Tine Hordijk

Junior American Dental Hygienists' Association

President ••...• Joyce Worman

Vice-President .... Barbara Johnson Treasurer-Secreta~y .•• Cheryl

Kallenbach Recorder •••.•.. Karen Faust

PEDODONTIC FOOTNOTES

On October 7th~ forty-seven pre- dental students took the first of three dental aptitude tests to be offered during the 1966-67 school yea.r.

Dr. Paul Starkey was in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 5th, presenting a program on pedodontics to a three-state meeting of the .American Society of Dentistry for Children. While there, he met with the local arrangements committee for the 1967 annual meeting of ASDC to be held in Washington. On Monday after- noon and evening, October lOthj he spoke to the Greater Kansas City

Dental Society in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Pedodontics News (continued) Mrs. Sara Snyder will meet with graduate students at 4:00 P.M., October

17

^and

18

to give helpful hints on the preparation of theses.

Our congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth (Barbara) Warner on the birth of their daughter, Kelly Ann, September

16, 1966.

Barbara, a former dental assistant in the pedodontic department, resigned this past summer to await the arrival of the new addition to the family.

INTERNATIONAL CLUB

Dr. Donald Kramer, President of the International Club of Indianapolis, would like to remind the foreign

students of the costume party, Friday, October 21st at the Y.M.C.A. For

details of this and other social events of the year call Dr. Kramer ( Crmm &

Bridge) telephone

8434.

NEWS FROM ENDODONTICS

On Tuesday and Wednesday, October

18-19,

Dr. Harry J. Healey will be in Chicago, where he will participate in the Council on Dental Education's evaluation of applications for recog- nition of graduate endodontics education programs from twenty-two schools of dentistry offering such advanced educational ccurses of study.

Dr. Samuel S. Patterson will journey to Terre Haute on Thursday, October 20, to uresent material on "Relief of Pain and.Infection by Endodontic Proceduresn at the regular meeting of the Western Indiana District Dental Society.

DR. HOUSE SPEAKS

The complete denture department was represented at the annual fall meeting of the alumni of IUSD by Drs. Malcolm Boone, Robert Derry, Floyd Hale, David Jordan and James House. The group met in Bloomington, October

6,

1 and

8,

and Dr. House delivered a talk on the topic,

11Esthetic Arrangement of Prosthetic Teeth."

Dr. Masahiro Koyama, who was connected with the complete denture department

for eighteen months, has been visiting various dental schools on his return trip to Japan. He has traveled extensively since his departure from Indiana, and is at present in Sweden, having recently visited Germany. He plans to return to Japan in December.

OF INTERES'l¹ IN DENTAL GENETICS This fall has seen several changes and additions in the dental genetics department. Facilities are now located on the fourth floor balcony

(room

425),

with a research laboratory in the new basement wing (B26). Drs.

Jerry Prescott and Robert Duthie have joined the department as candidates for Ph.D. degrees.

Dr. Bixler will be spending two weeks in October in Burlington, North

Carolina as consultant to Procter and Gamble in a new clinical study~ In September, he attended the meeting of the third International Congress of Human Genetics which was held in Chicago. At that time, he presented a paper entitled, ¹¹Parotid Salivary Proteins in Families, Separation and Partial Identification.n

Referrals of patients with genetic problems have come fro~ other

departments more and more frequently, and are certainly appreciated. Now that the new location is known, it is hoped that such referrals will continue.

Of special current interest are

11caries il'nmunen individuals. These are persons who are over

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and who are, and have always been, caries free.

Senior dental student, Larry Warren, is doing a study in this field for his Master of Science degree, and working with him is Charles Poland,

junior dental student. They are investigating individuals a.~d their families in Indiana and several surrounding states to check out the many requirements for the "immune"

status. Ed Truelove, senior, is

assisting them with saliva collections.

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PROFESSOR PHILLIPS ON THE MOVE Prof. Ralph W. Phillips has been appointed a merrber of the Committee on the Institute for Advanced

Education in Dental Research of the American College of Dentists. This committee is charged with the responsibility of organizing and reviewing the progress in the program which is concerned with training

senior scientists in various basic science disciplines as they are related to dental science.

His October schedule includes the following engagements:

October 3 -Essayist, Ohio State Dental Meeting.

October 10, 11 - Essayist, Georgia State Dental Association~ Atlanta.

Also lecturing to dental hygienists and dental assistants.

October 17, 18 - Meeting of the consultants to the National Board of Dental Examiners, American Dental Association, Chicago.

October 19 - Essayist at a combined meeting of the Regional Officers of the Veterans Administration and the Maine Dental Association, Togus, Maine.

October

24 -

Essayist, Miami District Dental Society, Florida.

October 27 - Meeting of the consultants to the Dental Research Information Center, American Dental Association, Chicago.

October

28 -

Meeting of consultants to the Bio-materials Training Program., National Institute for Dental Research, Bethesda, Maryland.

October 29 - Participant in post-

graduate course in operative dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore.

NEW GRADUATES WELCOMED The Indiana University School of Dentistry is pleased to welcome the new graduate students, interns a~d residents. The

1966

additions include the following:

Crown and Bridge

Dr. Alfred J. Setera, Lawrence, Mass.

Dr. Robert McCune, San Rafael, Calif.

Dr. Gilberto Hanke, Brazil, S. A.

Dental Materials

Dr. Humberto Jose Guzman Baez, Bogota, Colombia

Endodontics

Dr. Herman A. Blair, Lexington, Ky.

Dr. Wayne T. Alley, Evansville, Ind.

Operative Dentistry

Dr. Hugh MacConnachie, Halifax, Nova Scotia Dr. Luis Sanchez, Mexico City Dr. Robert K. Wettlaufer, Honolulu Oral Diagnosis-Oral Medicine

Dr. Denis Forest, Montreal, Quebec Dr. Charles E. Tomich~ Albuquerque~N.M.

Oral Surgery

Dr. James E. Dumas, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Dr. Jeffry E. Landrum, Marion, Ind.

Dr. Robert L. Goes, Madison, Ind.

Dr. Richard S. Baum, Evansville, Ind.

Dr. Robert White, Indianapolis, Ind.

Oral Pathology

Dr. Jose C. Borges Teles~ Rio de Janeiro Dr. John H. Jarrett, Charlotte, N. C.

Dr. Nisa Chearapongse, Thailand Orthodontics

Dr. Charles Y. Coghlan, Missouri Dr. Jon D. Ingleman, Indianapolis Dr. Randall L. McClary, Milltown, Ind.

Dr. William Z. Roper, Marion~ Ind.

Dr. Harry E. Scott, Danville, Calif.

Dr. Donald L. Tyler, Evansville, Ind.

Dr. Jerry G. Wilde, Sells, Arizona

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New Graduate Students (continued) Pedodontics

Dr. Joe H. Camp, Shelby, N. C.

Dr. Donald W. Baker, Bloomington,Ind.

Dr. Eugene S. Eggers, Hammond, Ind.

Dr. William E. Alexander, Chico, Calif.

Dr. Lawrence E. Ansbaugh, South Bend, Ind.

Pedodontic Internship Program Dr. James Fleck, Evansville, Ind.

Dr. Wayne Dawes, Wabash, Ind.

Dr. Roger Shurr, Valparaiso, Ind.

Periodontics

Dr. Ramon L. Gonzalez, Morgantown, W. Va.

Dr. Lloyd J. Hagedorn, Tell City, Ind.

Dr. Abraham

J.

Ochstein, Auburn, Ind.

Preventive Dentistry

Dr. Frank E. Bean, Ft. Hood, Texas Dr. Raymond S. Oshiro, Honolulu, Hawaii