Editor's report, American Association of Orthodontists, 1958

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3. That plans for the Workshop should be submitted to the Ad Interim Committee or the Board of Directors of the Association for approval. 4. That an appropriation of $200.00 be provided to defray the expenses of the Committee. Respectfully submitted, ALLAN G. BRODIE, SR. L. BODINE HI~LEY J. A. SALZMANN, Chairman W. M. KROC~MAN,Consultant

EDITOR’S

REPORT, AMERICAN ORTHODONTISTS,

ASSOCIATION 1958

OF

CCORDING to the provisions of the Constitution and By-Laws of the A.A.O., the editor of your JOURNAL has presented formal annual reports to your Board from year to year with regard to the operation and direction of the JOURNAL. In addition to that, an annual report is made by the chairman of the Publications Board. The chairman this year is Dr. John Richmond of Kansas City, Kansas, and he expects to read his report before this body. Each year the editor has picked out some particular phase, aside from the usual routine procedures, that it is thought may be of interest to your Board. Obviously, this year it may be well to report the plan of the publication of Orthodontic Profiles currently being written and published in the

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JOURNAL.

Various journals devoted to the advancement of the specialties of medicine from time to time do publish profiles of outstanding workers who have contributed much to the creation and progress of their specialties. Each profile consists of a brief digest of the man’s life and an outline of what he created of value to his specialty and the public. Many of these men have passed on; sometimes, however, profiles are published of the living. In this way, every few months there is created an additional link in the chain of the record of the pioneers of the particular specialty. It has been proved that the profile section of a highly specialized journal has great reader interest and is very popular. After some discussion with the members of the Editorial Board of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS,it was thought that a profile section in the JOURNAL would be of great interest to the readers. In the main, those asked to write the profiles would be men who had taken part in the development of orthodontics and knew something of the career of each person presented in this section of the JOURNAL. In 1956 Bernard Weinberger, the well-known authority on the history of both dentistry and orthodontics, agreed to write the profile of Milo Hellman. Dr. Weinberger gave the task much thought and time and the reader interest proved to be outstanding. The Milo Hellman profile was published in 1956,

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Vol. 42, No. 11, p. 858. Ot.her profiles written. by various authors have been published since then. There has appeared, or is in preparation, a series consisting of eighteen accounts of the contributions and lives of our pioneers, as follows : Milo Hellman -----_---__--_------______ Albin Oppenheim ---_---_---_--_--_--____ Edward H. Angle ---_--_----------_--___ Calvin S. Case __--__--_--__-___-________ Martin Dewey _--___- ______ - ___________ Allan H. Suggett ___------_--__--__--___ Norman W. Kingsley ___---_--__-___-___Victor Hugo Jackson --_---_-___--__--__Marguerite Stadelhofer _-_---- _______ ---_ George W. Grieve --_-------_----_-______ Simeon H. Guilford ---------------_---_Robert Dunn ___-__--__--__--_---------Rodriques Ottolingui _______ -___-___-___John Mershon ________-____ - ____________ Edward H. Wuerpel ___________________ Lester Stanton _- _______ -___-___-___----J. Lowe Young ________________________ A. H. Ketcham - _______ --__--__--__--_-William Law -_---_-------_---__________

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Bernard Weinberger Spencer R. Atkinson Fredrick B. Noyes Charles R. Baker Paul G. Spencer James D. McCoy Joseph D. Eby Walter C. Chapin H. C. Pollock, Sr. G. Vernon Fisk Andrew F. Jackson James D. McCoy Bernard Weinberger Leuman Waugh H. C. Pollock, Sr. Ashley Howes Glen Young George Siersma Bernard deVries

The type is being saved on all of the profiles, and The C. V. Mosby Company assures us that subsequent t,o the publication of the current series they will be published in book form and will be provided to all members of the A.A.O. who may desire them at cost to the publishers. Your editor has enjoyed the excellent cooperation of all the members of the editorial staff. Some have served at considerable expense in time and effort and without compensation of any kind. We have been able to do fairly well with our traditional illustration expense this year by virtue of our publisher’s having helped out beyond the contractual obligations. I am sure that Chairman Richmond will cover, or has covered, the business report in his presentation. To sum up, the forty-third year of the life of your JOURNAL is another milestone. Your editor feels that he can say without dispute that your specialty enjoys the richest and most profuse recorded literature of any single department of dentistry, and few departments of medicine are able to match it. Respectfully

submitted,

H. C. POLLOCK, SR., Editor AMERICAN JOURNAL OB ORTHODONTICS