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Another Record Year for the AFDE
May is AFDE Month KEEP DENTISTRY MOVING UP
A nother Record Year
May is A FD E Month and with it comes the oppor tunity for members o f the dental health team to help the American Fund for Dental Education keep up its vital work. The Fund has now invested nearly $3 million in support o f the nation’s dental schools and related educational activities. Recog nizing the importance o f its many programs, near ly 15,000 organizations and individuals gave to the Fund in 1967. Your 1968 contribution to the A FD E will serve each o f the nation’s dental schools and the thousands o f students studying for careers in dentistry. The Fund has had substantial growth.
for the AFDE P rio r to 1964 1964 1965 1966 1967
D e n tists’ C o n trib u tio n s $ 4,645 1 1,690 45,617 79,874 91,820
A ll C o n trib u tio n s $1,263,306 363,039 352,819 454,031 506,264
T o ta l
$233,646
$2,939,459
Leonard Robinson in stru cts student de n tists at th e U niversity o f Alabama School of Dentistry. The dental schools are developing new teaching m ethods and exploring th e use of teaching aids. To help them do this, th e AFDE awards frequent $1,000 “ across-the-board” g rants to each school and supports education research programs o f th e American Association o f Dental Schools.
Edward Green, a fu ll-tim e m em ber o1 th e p e rio d o n tics te a ching s ta ff at the U niversity o f M ichigan School o f Den tistry, received an AFDE Dental Teach er T ra in in g Fellow ship in 1963 anc 1964. Every year, th e Fund awards 12 fe llo w sh ip s to enable graduate dentists to take add itio na l study to q u a lify foi teaching.
Maynard K. Hine, AFDE board member, discusses p u b lica tio n g rants on an ADA clo se d -circu it te le vision program. Mrs. Edna Johnson, right, fir s t vice-president o f the Am erican Dental Assistants Association, th a nks him fo r a $16,549 g rant to her association to produce a career guidance folder. Mrs. W ilm a Motley, center, is president o f th e Am erican Dental Hygienists’ Association. Her group received $6,200 to p ublish a booklet on adm ission requirem ents to dental hygiene schools.
A graduating senior at U niversity o f Oregon Den tal School walks down th e aisle to receive his de gree. C o n trib u tio n s from the ADA in support of th e AFDE’ s Student Loan Fund have made possible m ore than 2,000 loans to ease the fin a n cia l bur dens o f dental students.
Frank A. Vandever, assistant professor in th e dental hygiene program at Southern Illin o is U niversity’s Vocational-Technical In stitu te , checks th e w ork o f a second-year stu d e n t on a c lin ic patient. Since 1961, nearly 200 scholarships fo r a u xilia rie s have been awarded through the AFDE.
A nother Record Year
May is A FD E Month and with it comes the oppor tunity for members o f the dental health team to help the American Fund for Dental Education keep up its vital work. The Fund has now invested nearly $3 million in support o f the nation’s dental schools and related educational activities. Recog nizing the importance o f its many programs, near ly 15,000 organizations and individuals gave to the Fund in 1967. Your 1968 contribution to the A FD E will serve each o f the nation’s dental schools and the thousands o f students studying for careers in dentistry. The Fund has had substantial growth.
for the AFDE P rio r to 1964 1964 1965 1966 1967
D e n tists’ C o n trib u tio n s $ 4,645 1 1,690 45,617 79,874 91,820
A ll C o n trib u tio n s $1,263,306 363,039 352,819 454,031 506,264
T o ta l
$233,646
$2,939,459
Leonard Robinson in stru cts student de n tists at th e U niversity o f Alabama School of Dentistry. The dental schools are developing new teaching m ethods and exploring th e use of teaching aids. To help them do this, th e AFDE awards frequent $1,000 “ across-the-board” g rants to each school and supports education research programs o f th e American Association o f Dental Schools.
Edward Green, a fu ll-tim e m em ber o1 th e p e rio d o n tics te a ching s ta ff at the U niversity o f M ichigan School o f Den tistry, received an AFDE Dental Teach er T ra in in g Fellow ship in 1963 anc 1964. Every year, th e Fund awards 12 fe llo w sh ip s to enable graduate dentists to take add itio na l study to q u a lify foi teaching.
Maynard K. Hine, AFDE board member, discusses p u b lica tio n g rants on an ADA clo se d -circu it te le vision program. Mrs. Edna Johnson, right, fir s t vice-president o f the Am erican Dental Assistants Association, th a nks him fo r a $16,549 g rant to her association to produce a career guidance folder. Mrs. W ilm a Motley, center, is president o f th e Am erican Dental Hygienists’ Association. Her group received $6,200 to p ublish a booklet on adm ission requirem ents to dental hygiene schools.
A graduating senior at U niversity o f Oregon Den tal School walks down th e aisle to receive his de gree. C o n trib u tio n s from the ADA in support of th e AFDE’ s Student Loan Fund have made possible m ore than 2,000 loans to ease the fin a n cia l bur dens o f dental students.
Frank A. Vandever, assistant professor in th e dental hygiene program at Southern Illin o is U niversity’s Vocational-Technical In stitu te , checks th e w ork o f a second-year stu d e n t on a c lin ic patient. Since 1961, nearly 200 scholarships fo r a u xilia rie s have been awarded through the AFDE.