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Abraham Goldstein
IN MEMORIAM
Abraham Goldstein Abraham Goldstein died suddenly at home of a massive heart attack on May I I , 1991. He was 88 years old. tie was born in Chicago and received his early education there, lie earned his DDS degree at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry and was awarded membership in Omicron Kappa Upsilon. After his graduation, Abe continued in the Graduate College, receiving an MS degree in ttistology, and then practiced general dentistry for several years. Influenced by his classmate, Isaac Schour, he was persuaded to return to the University of Illinois, entering the graduate program in orthodontics, which had just been established by Allan Brodie, a recent graduate of the Angle School, who carried Edward Angle's mantle. After Abe completed his orthodontic training, Brodie invited him to join the department as an instructor. Under Allan Brodie's leadership Abe Goldstein, Bill Downs, and Ernie Myer formed a small coterie of dedicated and inspiring teachers. The program at the University of Illinois, founded by these zealous and devoted men, initiated and sustained a revolution in orthodontic education. The treatment procedures and clinical and basic research emanating from the department influenced the thinking and practice of orthodontics, even to this day. Graduates became heads of university orthodontic departments and leaders in orthodontics in the United States and throughout the world. Abe Goldstein played a major role in these developments. He was a superb clinical teacher, demanding, stimulating, and loved and respected by his students. In 1938 Brodie, Downs, Myer, and Goldstein published a pioneering study, the first cephalometric appraisal of orthodontic results. Of course this achievement was only possible through ttolly Broodbent's development of roentgenographic cephalometry. Following this seminal work, Goldstein and Myer reported the results of mixed dentition treatment of Class II malocclusions. Later work based on serial studies dealt with such topics as surgical correction of Class III malocclusions and long-term studies of treatment results, stressing both the possibilities and limitations of orthodontic treatmerit. Abe even dared to expose his failures, no great risk, for he was known as a skillful and outstanding practitioner. Until this past year graduate stud.ents, a t the University of Illinois benetited from his seminars. His special qualities and leadership were recognized and valued by his colleagues and he was elected to serve 88
Abe Goldstein
as president of tile Chicago Association of Orthodontics and of the Midwest Component of the Edward H. Angle Society. Abe was a loyal friend, thoughtful, generous and warm. lie was devoted to the care of his patients, and he enjoyed a bond of mutual affection with them. We all recognized his unalloyed integrity. Abe was intolerant of injustice and sham, and impatient with incompetence, mediocrity and with fads. He deplored the encroachment of marketplace notions into professional practices. Abe's interests were legion and varied and he sustained them with his many talents. He had a special feeling for form and was a fine photographer; he excelled in sculpture and enjoyed woodcarving. He loved the arts. Abe was such a wonderful, versatile, and vital rhan. We are saddened by his death. He is survived by his wife, Selma, a son Lewis, and a daughter Jane Berlent and two grandchildren.
Milton B. Engel, DDS Professor of Orthodontics and Oral Biology Universio' of Illinois College of Dentist O' attd in the Graduate College
Charles Marcus Taylor II 1928-1991 Charles Taylor died Nov. 8, 1991, at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Complications associated with a courageous 2'/2 year battle with multiple myeloma caused his death. He is survived by
Abraham Goldstein Abraham Goldstein died suddenly at home of a massive heart attack on May I I , 1991. He was 88 years old. tie was born in Chicago and received his early education there, lie earned his DDS degree at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry and was awarded membership in Omicron Kappa Upsilon. After his graduation, Abe continued in the Graduate College, receiving an MS degree in ttistology, and then practiced general dentistry for several years. Influenced by his classmate, Isaac Schour, he was persuaded to return to the University of Illinois, entering the graduate program in orthodontics, which had just been established by Allan Brodie, a recent graduate of the Angle School, who carried Edward Angle's mantle. After Abe completed his orthodontic training, Brodie invited him to join the department as an instructor. Under Allan Brodie's leadership Abe Goldstein, Bill Downs, and Ernie Myer formed a small coterie of dedicated and inspiring teachers. The program at the University of Illinois, founded by these zealous and devoted men, initiated and sustained a revolution in orthodontic education. The treatment procedures and clinical and basic research emanating from the department influenced the thinking and practice of orthodontics, even to this day. Graduates became heads of university orthodontic departments and leaders in orthodontics in the United States and throughout the world. Abe Goldstein played a major role in these developments. He was a superb clinical teacher, demanding, stimulating, and loved and respected by his students. In 1938 Brodie, Downs, Myer, and Goldstein published a pioneering study, the first cephalometric appraisal of orthodontic results. Of course this achievement was only possible through ttolly Broodbent's development of roentgenographic cephalometry. Following this seminal work, Goldstein and Myer reported the results of mixed dentition treatment of Class II malocclusions. Later work based on serial studies dealt with such topics as surgical correction of Class III malocclusions and long-term studies of treatment results, stressing both the possibilities and limitations of orthodontic treatmerit. Abe even dared to expose his failures, no great risk, for he was known as a skillful and outstanding practitioner. Until this past year graduate stud.ents, a t the University of Illinois benetited from his seminars. His special qualities and leadership were recognized and valued by his colleagues and he was elected to serve 88
Abe Goldstein
as president of tile Chicago Association of Orthodontics and of the Midwest Component of the Edward H. Angle Society. Abe was a loyal friend, thoughtful, generous and warm. lie was devoted to the care of his patients, and he enjoyed a bond of mutual affection with them. We all recognized his unalloyed integrity. Abe was intolerant of injustice and sham, and impatient with incompetence, mediocrity and with fads. He deplored the encroachment of marketplace notions into professional practices. Abe's interests were legion and varied and he sustained them with his many talents. He had a special feeling for form and was a fine photographer; he excelled in sculpture and enjoyed woodcarving. He loved the arts. Abe was such a wonderful, versatile, and vital rhan. We are saddened by his death. He is survived by his wife, Selma, a son Lewis, and a daughter Jane Berlent and two grandchildren.
Milton B. Engel, DDS Professor of Orthodontics and Oral Biology Universio' of Illinois College of Dentist O' attd in the Graduate College
Charles Marcus Taylor II 1928-1991 Charles Taylor died Nov. 8, 1991, at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Complications associated with a courageous 2'/2 year battle with multiple myeloma caused his death. He is survived by