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Dr. Agnew Returns to China
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B R IG A D IE R G E N E R A L R O B E R T H. M IL L S A P P O IN T E D C H IE F O F A R M Y D E N T A L C O R P S B r i g a d i e r G e n e r a l R o b e r t H. M i l l s was appointed assistant to the Surgeon General, Chief of the Dental Service, March 17, 1942. General Mills, at the time of his appointment, was the second ranking colonel in the Dental Corps and the highest ranking colonel eligible for the appointment. His service includes duty in France with the American E x peditionary Forces, two tours of duty in the Philippine Department, assignment to the faculty of Northwestern Univer sity Dental School on R .O .T.C . duty, and a four-year assignment as director of the Army Dental School, Washington, D. C. With General Mills’ rank and background, his appointment as Chief of the Dental Division, Office of the Sur geon General, was a most popular one. General Mills was born in Decatur County, Georgia, Ju ly 29, 1883. He began his career in dentistry in 1904 at Southern Dental College, Atlanta, and continued his studies at that institution for two years. In 1906, he transferred to the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, to complete his education under Ferdinand J. S. Gorgas, while that pioneer dental educator was dean of the school. General Mills received his degree from the University of Maryland in 1907. He entered the Army as a contract den tal surgeon, M ay 17, 1909, and was com
missioned a dental surgeon, M ay 7, 1 9 1 1 ; a captain, M ay 17, 1917 ; a lieutenant colonel, October 6, 1917, and a colonel, M aY r 7> 1935-
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Brigadier General Robert H. Mills, D.D.S.
As Assistant to the Surgeon General and head of the Army Dental Corps, General Mills succeeds Brigadier Gen eral Leigh C. Fairbank, retired. His most recent assignment was as chief dental surgeon of the ninth corps area, but his dental corps service goes back to 1909.
D R . A G N E W R E T U R N S T O C H IN A U n i t e d China Relief received a cable gram late in April announcing the safe arrival in India of R. Gordon Agnew, Canadian missionary, well known in this country for his work on the bacterial and dietary aspects of dental caries. Dr. Agnew, who was returning to his post at West China Union University at Chengtu, Szechwan Province, near Chungking, took with him from the
United States twenty-three cases of surg ical and dental instruments, a third of which were consigned to the med ical relief corps of the Chinese Red Cross, supported by United China R e lief. The instruments, valued at $12,000, and originally consigned to Rangoon, will reach China from India by a road that can be traveled only by mules.
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B R IG A D IE R G E N E R A L R O B E R T H. M IL L S A P P O IN T E D C H IE F O F A R M Y D E N T A L C O R P S B r i g a d i e r G e n e r a l R o b e r t H. M i l l s was appointed assistant to the Surgeon General, Chief of the Dental Service, March 17, 1942. General Mills, at the time of his appointment, was the second ranking colonel in the Dental Corps and the highest ranking colonel eligible for the appointment. His service includes duty in France with the American E x peditionary Forces, two tours of duty in the Philippine Department, assignment to the faculty of Northwestern Univer sity Dental School on R .O .T.C . duty, and a four-year assignment as director of the Army Dental School, Washington, D. C. With General Mills’ rank and background, his appointment as Chief of the Dental Division, Office of the Sur geon General, was a most popular one. General Mills was born in Decatur County, Georgia, Ju ly 29, 1883. He began his career in dentistry in 1904 at Southern Dental College, Atlanta, and continued his studies at that institution for two years. In 1906, he transferred to the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, to complete his education under Ferdinand J. S. Gorgas, while that pioneer dental educator was dean of the school. General Mills received his degree from the University of Maryland in 1907. He entered the Army as a contract den tal surgeon, M ay 17, 1909, and was com
missioned a dental surgeon, M ay 7, 1 9 1 1 ; a captain, M ay 17, 1917 ; a lieutenant colonel, October 6, 1917, and a colonel, M aY r 7> 1935-
Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps
Brigadier General Robert H. Mills, D.D.S.
As Assistant to the Surgeon General and head of the Army Dental Corps, General Mills succeeds Brigadier Gen eral Leigh C. Fairbank, retired. His most recent assignment was as chief dental surgeon of the ninth corps area, but his dental corps service goes back to 1909.
D R . A G N E W R E T U R N S T O C H IN A U n i t e d China Relief received a cable gram late in April announcing the safe arrival in India of R. Gordon Agnew, Canadian missionary, well known in this country for his work on the bacterial and dietary aspects of dental caries. Dr. Agnew, who was returning to his post at West China Union University at Chengtu, Szechwan Province, near Chungking, took with him from the
United States twenty-three cases of surg ical and dental instruments, a third of which were consigned to the med ical relief corps of the Chinese Red Cross, supported by United China R e lief. The instruments, valued at $12,000, and originally consigned to Rangoon, will reach China from India by a road that can be traveled only by mules.