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The Baylor Dental Journal is published by the Office of Communications & Institutional Advancement; Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry; 3302 Gaston Avenue; Dallas, Texas 75246; 214.828.8214. This issue was printed August 2011. Production of the Baylor Dental Journal is supported by a grant to TAMHSC-BCD from the Baylor Oral Health Foundation. Financial support to defray printing and mailing expenses is provided by the Baylor College of Dentistry Alumni Association. TAMHSC-BCD serves people of all ages regardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, sex, religion, disability or national origin.

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Lathes, sculpting clay and dancing

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on the cover A heart for mission work and a penchant for service lead students to locations across the globe where dental care needs a boost, including the remote Bolivian village that this child calls home.

Photograph by Dr. Jonathan Oudin

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2. Message From the Dean

3. Campus Connection

10. Newsmakers

36. In Touch With Alumni

42. Giving

48. Impressions

Editor Carolyn Cox

Contributors Dr. Charles Arcoria, LaDawn Brock, Lori Dees, Jenny Fuentes, Jeannette S. Keton,

Linda Piper, Bonnie Robinson, Brigitte Sims, Art Upton, Janea Woosley

Photographers Wade Barker, Leeanna Bartlett, LaDawn Brock, Dr. Stephen Dao, Jenny Fuentes, Dave

Gresham, Dr. Bob Hutchins, John Katz, Rick McDaniel, Dr. Jonathan Oudin, Dr. Stephen Sperry

Executive Director, Communications & Institutional Advancement Susan Mitchell Jackson

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTSThe Baylor Dental Journal welcomes your feedback and suggestions. Send comments by e-mail to [email protected] or fax to 214.874.4529. You can mail correspondence to Carolyn Cox, Editor; Baylor College of Dentistry; Office of Communications & Institutional Advancement; 3302 Gaston Ave.; Dallas, Texas 75246.

Mission-Minded Mentality

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EDITOR‘S NOTEThe official acronym for Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry is TAMHSC-BCD. However, for the sake of space and readability, in this publication the name will be shortened to Baylor College of Dentistry and BCD after page 1.

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

My personal and professional journeys – implicitly intertwined – have seemed fairly typical to me, dotted with amazing moments of joy and times of somber reflection. Then I think, How many dental school graduates stay at their alma mater long enough to become its dean? Perhaps my experience is not so typical.

When I reflect on my personal points of pride, I think of my wife, Barbara; daughter, Katy, and son, Andy; their spouses; and, of course, our precious grandchildren. I also think of all the friends we’ve made along the way.

Thoughts of my professional relationship with Baylor College of Dentistry conjure bright images of another type of family. The bond shared by the people who work and study at this school is remarkable. In an era in which personal freedom is prized, the shared commitment of our faculty, staff, students and alumni is a treasure.

One thing is certain: The Baylor College of Dentistry of tomorrow will not look like the school we know today. The resilience of our people is our most significant asset, and a willingness to adapt to changes in technology, economic pressures and ongoing clinical innovations offers the greatest promise for a bright future.

Our mission will not change, but the way we accomplish it will. And so will individuals leading the change.

On that note, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Lawrence Wolinsky as he assumes the dean’s role at Baylor College of Dentistry. He is highly qualified and capable, and I have confidence that he will continue to advance our mission on all fronts.

My personal thanks to my colleagues and friends for making these 39 years such a wonderful career and experience.

I think 39 years is a long time. In the context of

being integrally connected to one institution, it is.

I entered Baylor College of Dentistry’s doors as a

student in August 1972. I will retire as dean of Texas

A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry

in August 2011. So, how is it that a long time can seem to

pass by so quickly?

Dr. James S. Cole

Retirement beckons Jim and Barbara Cole.

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Digital technology provides new palette in maxillofacial reconstruction

Anatomical reconstruction has alwaysrequired the utmost artistry and skill. These days the computer is a new ally in

the quest for perfection.Suzanne Verma, assistant professor and

anaplastologist in the Baylor College of Dentistry Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, now uses technology as the canvas for her scientific artistry.

Anaplastology – the art and science of restoring a malformed or missing part of the human body through artificial means – is being transformed by advances in digital technology. From presurgical planning with medical and dental specialists through the delivery of a finished prosthesis, advanced technology is enhancing outcomes.

“We can use radiographic data to virtually create a 3D model of our patients, allowing us to preoperatively plan where to place

an implant, plan the surgical approach for removing a tumor or use the data to create a physical model of the missing anatomy,” Verma says.

Computer-assisted image-guided surgery is one valuable tool that Verma and the oral and maxillofacial surgery team are applying to craniofacial reconstruction. This navigational surgery – nicknamed by insiders as “GPS in the OR” – provides real-time three-dimensional information during a procedure. Radiographic data previously collected from the patient can be fused together in advance and used to plan a surgical approach such as implant placement. When in surgery, the patient is registered in the virtual world, and surgeons can touch the patient with a navigated instrument or “tracking wand” and see precisely where they are in real time and whether they are on target with the preoperative plan.

This technology also gives them flexibility to resort to a predetermined Plan B when Plan A is deemed less than ideal during surgery. By allowing for repositioning during surgery, image-guided navigation eliminates the need

Wolinsky named dental school dean

CONCLUDING A YEARLONG NATIONWIDE SEARCH, The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on June 22 approved Dr. Lawrence E. Wolinsky as Baylor College of Dentistry’s new dean.

Wolinsky comes to BCD from the UCLA School of Dentistry, where he served as the associate dean for academic programs and personnel. He begins his new duties Sept. 1, 2011.

“I am looking forward to moving to Dallas and continuing the tradition of excellence that the Baylor College of Dentistry and the Texas A&M Health Science Center share,” Wolinsky said following the announcement.

In addition to his administrative role, Wolinsky has been a professor in the Division of Oral Biology & Medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry, having joined the dental school faculty in 1980. A periodontist and researcher, his numerous academic achievements include creating a mentorship program for junior faculty to assist them in mapping their career development and guiding the dental school through a successful re-accreditation.

Wolinsky’s research projects focus on identifying new treatment methods for periodontal disease and management of caries. He was among the first to explore the plaque-inhibiting effects of natural plant compounds and instrumental in developing an antimicrobial gel (Atridox®) for managing periodontal disease. He also aided in creating a remineralizing toothpaste (Enamelon®) to help reverse early tooth decay.

Wolinsky obtained a doctorate in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, a dental degree from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and a certificate in periodontology from UCLA.

His wife, Dr. Amerian D. Sones, is a prosthodontist, and they have three grown children – Julia, Zachary and Andrew.

“We are delighted to welcome Dr. Lawrence Wolinsky to our leadership team,” says Dr. Nancy Dickey, Texas A&M Health Science Center president and A&M System vice chancellor for health affairs.

“Dr. Wolinsky brings years of experience across a variety of roles – roles that ultimately led him to seek the role of dean,” Dickey continues. “He is committed to excellence in research and innovation in education; both goals are consistent with TAMHSC’s overarching goals.

“Having a tested leader like Dr. Jim Cole leave is difficult. But Jim leaves things in great condition, and we look forward to Dr. Wolinsky picking up the reins and continuing the drive to being the best that we can be.”

Dr. Lawrence E. Wolinsky

for a physical surgical guide and can enhance clinical efficiency and improve treatment outcomes.

Take the case of a patient who wants to replace a missing ear. The patient benefits from Verma’s artistry in creating a new prosthetic ear out of silicone to perfectly match the size, shape and color of the other natural ear. To attach this silicone prosthetic ear, bone-anchored implants are needed for retention; they should be positioned beneath the thickest parts of the prosthetic ear in order to be concealed and function ideally. Teamwork between the surgeon and the anaplastologist is essential as always for optimal outcomes.

“Before the digital age, I would have the patient come in for an appointment, spend hours in the lab to sculpt the new ear out of wax, have the patient come back to try it on, then decide implant locations, which I would mark on an acrylic surgical guide I provided to the surgeon,” says Verma. “All of this was just the presurgical aspect of my anaplastology work.

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Health Science Center dedicates new campus

The 10-year-old Texas A&M Health Science Center celebrated a milestone in July 2010

with the dedication of its new campus in Bryan, Texas.

The first building on the new campus, which is located on 200 acres along State Highway 47, was the 132,500-square-foot Health Professions Education Building. A 131,000-square-foot Medical Research and Education Building opened in July 2011, and a 127,500-square-foot clinical building will be occupied in fall 2011.

The campus will allow the health science center to consolidate its Bryan- and College Station-based academic

programs and administration.The four-story health professions building

features a clinical simulation center, College of Medicine and College of Nursing offices, lecture and seminar rooms with video conference capabilities, library, teaching and learning resource center, information technology help center, meeting and dining space, student services and an outdoor courtyard.

The four-story research building contains space for seminar rooms, a scientific display area, College of Medicine offices, laboratories and support spaces.

The campus’ first clinical building will feature student training space and equipment.

The facility also will serve as home for a Mary Crowley Cancer Research Center, the Texas Brain and Spine Institute, Blinn College allied health programs, a St. Joseph Health System imaging center, the College of Medicine and the HSC’s Rural and Community Health Institute.

“The remarkable evolution of this campus demonstrates the vision and leadership of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and the commitment of the Texas A&M University System to the long-term needs of our state,” said A&M System Board of Regents Chairman Morris E. Foster at the dedication ceremony. “The core concepts of the A&M System – research, education and service – are perfectly addressed in the land, the buildings, the equipment and, most of all, the people who will realize the full potential of this wonderful facility.”

Dr. Nancy W. Dickey, health science center president and A&M System vice chancellor for health affairs, is equally enthusiastic about the campus.

“Having presided over unprecedented growth in programs and student numbers, it is particularly enjoyable to dedicate this campus and the state-of-the-art facilities it represents,” said Dickey at the ceremony. “From a philosophy of meeting the state’s needs to a commitment to partnering and sharing to maximize every dollar spent, this campus represents the future – and it is exciting to step into the future.”

Predental students raise funds to help patients

IN AN INSPIRING SHOWING of cross-collegial collaboration, students from the University of Texas at Dallas’ Pre-Dental Association have sponsored an annual fundraiser on the UTD campus to benefit dental patients in need at Baylor College of Dentistry.

The third annual Miles for Smiles runathon in April 2011 raised $4,200 for the Social Services Dental Care Fund at BCD. This fund assists qualified patients who cannot afford to complete their dental care.

Leeanna Bartlett, assistant professor and director of social services at BCD, witnesses such patients’ financial need firsthand. She is grateful for the UTD predental students’ initiative and effort on behalf of these individuals with unmet dental needs.

Bartlett also points out an ancillary benefit: allowing dental students overseeing the patients’ care to complete their clinical requirements.

“This is currently the largest fundraiser that benefits this patient fund, and it is exciting to see it grow larger every year,” Bartlett says.

Texas A&M Health Science Center campus in Bryan, Texas

“Having presided over unprecedented growth in programs and student numbers, it is

particularly enjoyable to dedicate this campus and the state-of-the-art facilities it represents.”

— DR. NANCY W. DICKEY



Amputees from Haiti visit Dallas, dental school

December brought the precious gift of dental care to a group of young men

from Haiti visiting the United States as members of the newly formed Haiti National Amputee Soccer Team. Three of the 15 players on the team lost limbs in the devastating Haitian earthquake of January 2010. Formed in August 2010, the team had less than two months of practice before representing Haiti in the Amputee World Cup held in Argentina in October. FC Dallas professional soccer team invited Haiti team members to the metroplex later that month to train at the FC Dallas facility in Frisco, Texas. Dr. Fred Sorrells, founder and president of the International Institute of Sport based in Arlington, Texas, advocates for the power of sport to elevate the status of people with disabilities, increase awareness of their capabilities and encourage their acceptance within society. He helped assemble Haiti’s amputee soccer team after the earthquake, seeking a therapeutic way to help the disabled in Haiti. “Therapeutic recreation is a valuable way to restore quality of life for amputees,” Sorrells says. Sorrells coordinated the team’s visit to Texas, which included visits to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dallas, the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and the Wounded Warrior program in San Antonio. Members also demonstrated their skill at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, and on the grounds at the state capitol in Austin, among other stops around the nation. “People have been so encouraged by the attitude of these young men,” he says. Medical examinations by the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation and dental evaluations at Baylor College of Dentistry were a welcome unanticipated benefit. The team dentist for FC Dallas is Dr. David Nunez, assistant professor of general dentistry at BCD. Nunez provided

dental screenings for the Haitian players, many of whom had never been to a dentist. He helped connect them with care through the assistance of Leeanna Bartlett, director of social services in the Department of Public Health Sciences. “There were many hurdles to overcome, but suddenly the schedule openings, interpreters and volunteers all came together in a way that allowed us to serve these young men,” Bartlett said. “So many people were willing to volunteer their time to assist. It was obvious by the expressions on the Haitian players’ faces that they were deeply grateful for the care and attention they received.”

Dental student Valerie Vargas receives a hug from a grateful Haitian patient.

BCD athletes prevail in annual competition.

“Therapeutic recreation is a

valuable way to restore

quality of life for

amputees.”

— DR. FRED SORRELLS

Dental Olympic champions

FOR THE NINTH TIME IN 11 YEARS, Baylor College of Dentistry students dominated the Dental Olympics in April 2011. Houston was the location this go-round in the annual competition between students of the three Texas dental schools. The 2010 competition in Dallas also ended victoriously with the championship trophy going to the home team.

Separate events for men and women include 5K races, basketball, billiards, dodgeball, flag football, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. Additional co-ed events include billiards, softball, tennis and volleyball. Washers, golf and Foosball round out the multifaceted competition.


Critical thinking skills star in accreditation initiative

Enhancing student learning capabilities throughout the Texas A&M Health

Science Center is the objective of the Quality Enhancement Plan, a specific accreditation requirement of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Leadership for this effort is provided by two Baylor College of Dentistry faculty members – Dr. Beverly York ’75, ’81, assistant professor in restorative sciences, and Dr. Bob Hutchins, associate professor of biomedical sciences.

Their project, which has been dubbed “CARE”: Critical Appraisal of Relevant Evidence, was selected from 20 QEP proposals submitted by faculty from all the geographically dispersed health science center components. The health science center is preparing for a 2012 SACS accreditation review.

Although much of the accreditation process examines what has already been accomplished, the QEP involves broad-based participation in selecting and focusing on a project to enhance future student learning.

Implementation continues to evolve and is already underway; for example, second-year dental students are participating in evidence-based dentistry presentations as part of this initiative.

“It is an honor and great responsibility to direct the QEP project,” says York. “When I first heard about the QEP proposal, it encouraged me to share a vision to help students evaluate the sometimes ill-defined and often evolving problems encountered in health care.”

Nathan Gonzalez applies evidence-based dentistry principles to a clinical topic as part of a second-year dental course.

Hutchins agrees with York about the significance of the QEP.

“This is very important work for the entire health science center,” he says. “Dr. York and I felt that most programs were already incorporating some elements of critical thinking. We felt that establishing a core set of critical thinking skills that would apply across disciplines would provide a unified approach in enhancing the health science center’s curriculum.”

The best way to teach students the relevance of critical thinking skills, believes York, is to demonstrate how health professionals use acquired knowledge and apply it to problem-solving in their daily work environments.

Dental school reaches out during mayor’s fair

MANY DALLAS-AREA SCHOOL CHILDREN

smiled a little brighter with dental screen-

ings and fluoride varnishes provided by

Baylor College of Dentistry during the 15th

annual Mayor’s Back to School Fair on Aug. 4

at Dallas’ Fair Park.

The fair helps nearly 20,000 economi-

cally disadvantaged children by addressing

many of their school-related needs includ-

ing school supplies, haircuts, immuniza-

tions and health screenings.

In addition to the volunteers from

the dental school, representatives were

present from the City of Dallas, the Dallas

Independent School District, Dallas County

Health and Human Services, various state

agencies, nonprofits and corporations.

“It is an honor and great

responsibility to direct the QEP project.”

— DR. BEVERLY YORK

Sealant Day serves children

THE ASIAN-AMERICAN DENTAL SOCIETY’S biannual Free Sealant and Prophy Day, now in its 13th year, provides children ages 6 to 14 free dental screenings for cavities, free cleanings, sealants and education. All work performed by volunteer dental and dental hygiene students is overseen

by faculty, pediatric dentistry residents and ADS alumni.

ADS students organize the event, recruit patients and volunteers, schedule appointments, set up the clinic and coordinate with dental school staff to prepare. Dr. Loulou Moore ’93, associate professor of restorative sciences, is the ADS faculty adviser/sponsor.

Dr. Dan Jones serves a young patient.

Fourth-year dental student Jamie Wong (right) provides patient education at Sealant Day.



Sports dentistry selective scores big

It may be up to football players to make the winning plays, but team members at Southern

Methodist University have dental students to thank for their winning smiles.

Each summer, Baylor College of Dentistry offers a selective course for third- and fourth-year dental students focusing on athletic mouthguards and their role in sports dentistry.

This selective, which has been offered for 16 years, is taught by Dr. Danette McNew ’88, clinical assistant professor of general dentistry. Students attend the course once a week. Topics range from “Risks of Athletic Injuries” to “Marketing of Dental Practices” by becoming a team dentist for a local athletic team. Students also participate in hands-on practical sessions, fabricating mouthguards one day each week.

At the conclusion of the course, the students accompany McNew to the athletic facility at SMU and take dental impressions of the football players. They return to the dental school to pour up the impressions, trim the casts and prepare for mouthguard fabrication. The final mouthguards are completed and delivered

to the athletes at SMU just in time for pre-season training.

A sports forum in August 2010 for student athletic trainers from throughout the region provided an additional experience in the course.

The dental students presented the sports dentistry topics they had become well-versed in over the summer and then answered questions from the audience. Other speakers at the forum included a trainer from the Dallas Stars, the director of sports prosthetics from Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, the Dallas County Department of Health and Human Services epidemiology program planner, the head athletic trainer for Parish Episcopal School, a registered dietitian and the sports medicine community liaison for Children’s Medical Center.

A sports dentistry course participant takes dental impressions of an SMU athlete.

Be our friend

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY has

joined Facebook.

Facebook is an ideal place to

connect with former classmates and

colleagues. Use the site to share

professional news. Feel free to post

photos from the good ol’ days when you

were a BCD student or employee.

Have you recently married or added

a new little one to your family? Share it

on the BCD Facebook page.

To reach the official site, go to the

BCD website at www.bcd.tamhsc.edu

and click the Facebook logo. Once on

Facebook, simply click the thumbs-up

“Like” icon and start connecting with

your fellow BCD aficionados.

“Now all I need for preoperative planning is a CT scan or MRI of the patient’s head that meets certain precise quality guidelines,” continues Verma. “Using specialized computer software, I can virtually separate the soft tissue from the skull, take the image of the good ear and mirror it onto the side of the skull with the defect; something we can only do with virtual software.

“While this helps determine ideal implant placement from a prosthetic and esthetic perspective, I can also measure bone depth and quantity; essential criteria for implant success,” she adds.

Four to six months following surgery, after the implants are fully integrated with the bone and the soft tissue is healed, the patient returns for a series of appointments with Verma, who uses a combination of art, science and digital technology to create a prototype and mold for the patient’s silicone ear. This allows near-

perfect symmetry and saves both Verma and the patient time.

At this point, the anaplastologist’s hand skills and artistry take center stage. Verma still spends up to a week in the clinic and lab creating the perfect ear by pigmenting silicone to perfectly match the patient’s skin tone, pigmentation and vascularization.

The scope of technological advancements in Verma’s field is far-reaching. She is involved on an international level with a multidisciplinary group called Advanced Digital Technology in Head and Neck Reconstruction, which she serves as a member of its scientific advisory board.

“We meet every three years, and it’s amazing to hear how interdisciplinary craniofacial teams around the world are applying new technology to patient care,” Verma says.

Verma collaborates on navigational surgery with departmental faculty members such as Drs. Gil Triplett, Bob Schow and Marianela Gonzalez; former chief residents Drs. Brian

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Oral surgeons use navigational surgery when placing temporal bone implants to attach a future prosthesis.

Stone and Michael Ding, now in private practice; and medical and dental professionals at Baylor University Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center and Medical City Dallas Hospital.

International foundations such as the LEAP Foundation have paid travel and medical costs to send underprivileged international patients to Verma for care.

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According to Burkhart, oral lichen planus represents a substantial number of patients seen in the Stomatology Center. However, many individuals in the United States and around the world do not have access to a health professional with particular knowledge about it. Consequently, these individuals have questions and concerns regarding the disease as well as their diagnosis and treatment.

“Patients often feel very isolated psycho-logically and want to know more about their disease and what they can do to promote their own health,” continues Burkhart. “As with any chronic disease state that is rare, the patient often does not know anyone else who has oral lichen planus, but emotional support is very important in its control and management.”

The International Oral Lichen Planus Support Group continues to grow in recognition among patients and practitioners, says Burkhart. It has been instrumental in helping patients find someone who is knowledgeable about oral mucosal diseases in their area of the world.

“The group does not diagnose via the Internet; rather, our goal is to assist the patient in answering specific questions and encourage long-term care with their practitioner,” she says.

To advance its goals and support its mission, the 5,000-member support group is accepting donations now through a recently established account with the TAMHSC Foundation. It has been operating on a tight budget since its inception 14 years ago.

“We hope that by accepting donations, we will be able to increase our functions with regard to providing more information and increasing our sessions,” Burkhart says.

For more information about oral lichen planus or the support group, visit the group’s website at www.iolpdallas.org. To make a donation, click on “How to Help.”

“Patients often feel

very isolated psychologically and want

to know more about their disease.”

— DR. NANCY BURKHART

Emeritus faculty recognized

FIFTY-THREE EMERITUS FACULTY MEMBERS are recognized on a new

commemorative plaque installed December

2010 in Baylor College of Dentistry’s sixth

floor lobby.

Designed to be perpetual, the plaque

has plenty of room to add future honorees.

Emeritus status is selectively granted

to retired faculty for outstanding service

after comprehensive consideration of

the individual’s career involvement in

the institutional context. Since 1998, the

designation is granted only after a lengthy

process culminating in approval by the

Texas A&M University System Board

of Regents.

“BCD has benefited from the expertise

and knowledge of an outstanding faculty,”

says Dr. James S. Cole ’75, dean of the

college. “Emeritus faculty recipients are

the best of the best, and we are pleased to

recognize their service and contributions to

the college so that others may continue to

be inspired by them.”

Oral lichen planus group enhances web offerings

Today’s webinar technology is a boon for the International Oral Lichen Planus Support Group sponsored by

Baylor College of Dentistry. Now the group’s live online webinar discussions – scheduled several times per year – are capable of reaching more individuals than ever. Webinars are accessed through a newly

launched website, www.iolpdallas.org, which features news and information about oral lichen planus, the support group and webinar information. Site visitors are able to sign up to participate in upcoming webinar discussions and access recordings of previous ones. “We are able to chat vocally and live with the guests and hosts, and up to 1,000 people can listen via the Web thanks to the Citrix GoToWebinar platform,” says Art Upton, website administrator in communications & institutional advancement.

Guest speakers often are invited to host the webinars; these include national and international educators, practitioners and researchers with oral lichen planus expertise.

“We encourage questions from patients and practitioners as well as comments that may improve our functioning in the treatment and dissemination of information to our patients,” says Dr. Nancy Burkhart, adjunct associate professor of periodontics. “The new format allows easy access by participants to receive more complete answers to their questions during or, if needed, after the sessions.”

Communications via the Web have been an important vehicle for the support group since its founding in 1997. Burkhart and Dr. Terry Rees ’68, director of the college’s Stomatology Center and professor of periodontics, remain stalwart champions of the electronic outreach as accessible experts and frequent presenters.

Oral lichen planus occurs in all parts of the world. Approximately 2 percent of the general population suffers from the disease, which is an uncomfortable and chronic condition characterized by lesions that form in the mouth and skin.


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Public health training expansion builds clinical skills, experiences

A $700,000 grant to Baylor College of Dentistry from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’

Health Resources and Services Administration is funding curriculum expansion in dental public health and additional community-based clinical training rotations for dental students.

Spearheaded by Dr. Dan Jones ’89, professor and chair of public health sciences, the project augments the existing collaboration between BCD and Community Dental Care, the nonprofit operator of 12 Dallas County community-based dental clinics and a mobile dental unit. Nine of these clinics are co-located with Parkland Health & Hospital System’s Community Oriented Primary Care medical clinics.

Dental students and residents began limited rotations with Community Dental Care in 2007. Today all fourth-year dental students spend two weeks at one or more of the community clinics treating patients of all ages, under the supervision of BCD faculty. Dental

hygiene students also rotate through CDC clinics as part of the dental hygiene curriculum.

“Our collaboration with Community Dental Care is a winning combination for the dental school and the CDC patients,” Jones says. “Beyond honing students’ technical skills, these experiences with community dentistry help students understand the need for advocacy. They gain up-close-and-personal experience with the access to care problem.”

Elsewhere in the community, dental students provide valuable care for patients ages 10 to 17 at the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center dental clinic and serve

Dr. Stephen Crane oversees a student at the Vickery Meadow dental clinic. A new grant is facilitating additional community-based clinical experiences.


second-and third-grade students with screenings and dental sealants via BCD’s Seal Mobile.

At the detention center clinic, which is operated by BCD’s Department of Public Health Sciences, more than a third of the patients have never visited a dentist before. “We provide an average of 2,000 patient visits annually, including screenings and a lot of restorative work, all of which would not be occurring if we were not there,” says Jones.

The Seal Mobile continues to transport dental students to local elementary schools to provide screenings and dental sealants, and third-year dental students now are participating in the program along with fourth-year students. This allows the Seal Mobile to serve more children while increasing community experiences for an additional group of dental students.

“Dr. Stephen Crane (associate professor of public health sciences) has managed our sealant program since the beginning, and he is so dedicated to his work,” Jones says. “He even spends many weekends with the Seal Mobile at special events. He also does a fantastic job setting up the schedule for all of our external community dentistry rotations.”

On campus, fourth-year students participate in focus groups to discuss their community-rotation experiences. Their topics include career opportunities in dental public health, potential loan repayment opportunities, access to care, delivery models for dental care and becoming a Medicaid dental provider.

The creation of summer preceptor opportunities for students who have completed the first year of dental school is a final component of the project. Dubbed “clinical fellowships,” these preceptor placements will occur at CDC clinics and other BCD-affiliated clinics in the Dallas area. Students in this voluntary program will receive a stipend to work chairside with fourth-year dental students assigned to rotations in the clinics.

“It is our goal that every dental and dental hygiene student has ample opportunity to serve varied patient populations in different clinical settings,” says Jones.

“It is our goal that every dental and dental hygiene student has ample opportunity to serve varied patient populations in different clinical settings.”

— DR. DAN JONES

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Al-Hashimi honored for professional contributions

Dr. Ibtisam Al-Hashimi received

the Salivary Researcher of the Year Award at the International Association for Dental Research meeting in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2010. The award recognizes her valuable contributions to the field of salivary research.

Additionally, she was honored at the April 2010 annual meeting of the American Academy of Oral Medicine with an award of appreciation for exceptional and meritorious service to the academy.

Al-Hashimi is a 20-year faculty member of Baylor College of Dentistry, where she is professor of periodontics and director of the Salivary Dysfunction Clinic in the Department of Periodontics. She also serves as associate editor and an editorial advisory board member for The Open Dentistry Journal.

She is a member of the working group to develop clinical dental practice guidelines for Sjögren’s syndrome, an initiative led by the Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation.

Campbell braced for future

Baylor College of Dentistry alumnus, friend and supporter Dr. Phillip M. Campbell

’71, ’73 was named chair of the Department of Orthodontics on March 1, 2010. Campbell and his faculty colleagues are working toward an exciting new era for the department. “The Department of Orthodontics will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2011, and our goal is to help make the best orthodontic department in the world even better,” Campbell says. After completing his dental degree at BCD in 1971, Campbell remained at the college

to complete his specialty training, obtaining his master’s degree in orthodontics in 1973.

His passion for the advancement of orthodontics continued to drive his intellectual activities even after completing his formal education. He has lectured extensively for the past 30 years throughout Texas and the Southwest and authored more than 20 scholarly publications.

After operating a successful private practice in Hunstville, Texas, until 2005, Campbell returned to Dallas and joined the BCD faculty as an assistant professor and clinical director in the orthodontics department. In 2006 he was named holder of the Robert E. Gaylord Endowed Chair. In 2009 his exemplary teaching

skills were honored by the orthodontic graduating class when they presented him with the Outstanding Teacher Award.

Other honors awarded to Campbell include the BCD Distinguished Alumnus Award, the BCD Orthodontics Department Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Texas Orthodontic Study Club Trailblazer Award. Campbell was inducted into the BCD Hall of Fame in 2002.

Dr. Ibtisam Al-Hashimi

Dr. Phillip M. Campbell

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Feng named IADR Distinguished Scientist

ON MARCH 16, the International Association for Dental Research recognized Dr. Jian “Jerry” Feng as the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award for Pulp Biology and Regeneration.

A professor of biomedical sciences at Baylor College of Dentistry, Feng received a commemorative plaque and cash prize of $3,500 during the opening ceremony of the IADR’s 89th General Session and Exhibition in San Diego.

Feng’s expertise includes bone and tooth research in the mineralization and pulp biology fields using animal models, tissue engineering and in vitro techniques. The National Institutes of Health has funded his lab since 1996.

Publication of his substantial work on the human dentin matrix protein 1 gene that affects bone and tooth formation has been cited more than 1,200 times. One reviewer commented that Feng is “thinking beyond the dogma.”

“I was very happy to learn that Dr. Feng was selected as this year’s award winner,” says Dr. Rena D’Souza, professor and chair of biomedical sciences. “He is truly at the forefront of research on mineralized tissues, an important area in the study of craniofacial development.

“Dr. Feng works extremely hard, and the result of his dedication is evident: He and his lab have made important discoveries that impact our understanding of bone development,” D’Souza continues. “This award recognizes a person who has already made significant contributions to the field; it is exciting to anticipate the wealth of information to be produced by Dr. Feng and his lab in the future.”

Feng is the co-author of five book chapters and more than 100 articles and reviews appearing in various journals and publications during the last five years. In 2010 alone, his lab published 16 articles. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Dental Research and the Journal of International Biological Sciences. He also serves on review panels for NIH/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and NIH/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

Feng was educated as a physician in China and earned his doctorate from the University of Connecticut. His postdoctoral fellowship training occurred at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio.

Dr. Jian “Jerry” Feng


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Dr. Kim Perry

Perry completes clinical scholars program

DR. KIM PERRY is a dentist on a mission to change lives.

After completing an intensive three-year program as a National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Scholar, she is more committed than ever to use her knowledge and experiences to improve oral health outcomes for children in underserved communities.

The assistant professor in Baylor College of Dentistry’s Department of Restorative Sciences was accepted in 2006 as the first dentist in the clinical scholars program funded through an NIH grant to UT Southwestern Medical Center. In June 2010, Perry received a master’s degree in clinical science from UT Southwestern.

The scholars program provided replacement dollars for 75 percent of her salary to protect time spent learning to conduct high-quality clinical research. In the program’s final 12 months, she designed and conducted a mentored clinical research study in the

community. Her focus is to examine health disparities among underserved children ages 6 to 9.

“I want to build community relationships that will help improve the rate of untreated dental caries among low-income children, aiming for visible improvement among third-graders,” says Perry.

At the outset of her project, she needed to gather data on the community. “In order to have a venue where we could interact with community members, we organized and participated in health fairs,” Perry explains. “We screened a total of 122 people at four health fairs. Of that number, more than 52 percent of children were found to have untreated caries.”

The study that will follow involves children ages 6 to 9 and their caregivers. Research team members will interact with them for a year.

The idea to involve the caregiver came from a nursing medical model, says Perry.

“The caregiver is important, because it is up to the caregiver to effect positive changes based upon what they learn. That is a key in

medical issues such as asthma and diabetes as well as with oral health issues,” she says.

The team’s objective is to see fewer untreated caries, improved knowledge and changes in oral self-care behaviors as gauged by a pre-test, post-test and dental examinations, explains Perry. A baseline measurement will be taken at the outset, and motivational interviewing techniques will be a part of the intervention.

“This is a multidisciplinary integrated effort to impact care on various levels,” Perry says. “In this model of ‘patient-centered’ care, we will coordinate and connect the child’s care to available community resources. In a nutshell, we try to help the clinic identify barriers to care and improve outcomes. We’re finding there is not one intervention that works best.”

ADEA taps Hutchins for Excellence in Teaching Award

Dr. Bob Hutchins, associate professor of biomedical sciences at Baylor College of

Dentistry, is the 2011 recipient of the American Dental Education Association/Colgate-Palmolive Excellence in Teaching Award.

The prestigious honor annually recognizes a dental educator who demonstrates exemplary standards and promotes excellence in dental education through scholarship and innovation.

Hutchins was recognized during the ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition March 12-16 in San Diego. He received a $2,500 award to enhance his teaching efforts. He also will share his expertise with ADEA members during a future meeting of the association’s annual session and exhibition.

“It is an incredible honor to be acknowledged by your peers at a national meeting,” Hutchins says. “After years of having fun with what you love to do and then to be recognized for your efforts gives a special

meaning to being an educator.”Dr. James Cole, BCD dean, and Dr.

Charles Berry, associate dean for academic affairs, submitted a letter of recommendation to the ADEA award committee. They wrote that Hutchins exemplifies the qualities the award was designed to recognize.

“He is a master educator to whom many come for mentoring and advice, an innovator in the methodology and technology of teaching and a leader in teaching-related activities at the college and national level,” Cole and Berry said. “He has a sustained dedication to his students resulting in their utmost admiration and respect.”

In 2007, Hutchins published An Interactive Color Atlas of the Human Skull, a project featuring high-quality digital images, a searchable index and self-testing capabilities. Several years in the making, this teaching tool has been adopted by other schools and the American Dental Association.

According to Cole and Berry, another of Hutchins’ innovations was the introduction of peer teaching into the gross anatomy

dissection laboratory. He also has given numerous presentations and workshops to the faculty on the use of electronic teaching tools, interactive learning opportunities and computer software topics to enhance faculty teaching.

“All of these efforts directed at classroom instruction have taken a tremendous amount of time and effort on Dr. Hutchins’ part, which indicates his deep interest and concern for his teaching, student learning and teacher training,” the nominators said.

The students have responded to these efforts with consistent high ratings on his evaluations and by nominating him for the Teacher of the Year Award seven of the last eight years.


Dr. Bob Hutchins


Pediatric dentistry chair fosters success

AS CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY since September 2009, Dr.Alton McWhorter ’85 champions continuing innova-tion in both classroom and clinical teaching.

He has been involved in all aspects of the department since joining the faculty in 1986. His previous positions include director of the undergraduate pediatric clinic, director of the graduate program and vice chair of the department. As chair he succeeds Dr. N. Sue Seale ’70, who stepped down after 23 years as department head.

McWhorter also serves within the broader dental community, including a term as president of the Texas Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and appointment to the editorial board of Pediatric Dentistry. His involvement with the Objective Structured Clinical Examination has garnered national recognition, and he has published and lectured extensively on this methodology.

McWhorter is board certified in pediatric dentistry and, although his focus is on teaching and administration, he has published 18 refereed papers, including seven as first author. Additionally, he has coauthored two book chapters and 14 abstracts. Within the college, he has served on 16 committees and is a past president of the Faculty Forum.

McWhorter credits his predecessors for his success. First guided by Dr. Paul Taylor ’44 as a graduate student, he later joined Seale as a faculty member for 22 years, where she became his career mentor.

“I am particularly honored to become the chairman of the department that my two role models created,” said McWhorter upon his appointment. “The Baylor pediatric dentistry programs, both predoctoral and postdoctoral, are among the finest in the nation.”

Glickman voted ADEA president-elect

Dr. Gerald N. Glickman, professor and chair of endodontics at Baylor College

of Dentistry, was installed as president-elect of the American Dental Education Association at the March 2011 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition in San Diego.

He will spend a year as ADEA president-elect and become president at the conclusion of the 2012 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition, which will be held in Orlando, Fla.

“In his 25 years of service to ADEA, Dr. Glickman has been an actively engaged volunteer leader,” said outgoing ADEA President Sandra C. Andrieu. “I was proud to serve with him and look forward to seeing the association grow under his leadership.”

Glickman will focus his term as ADEA president on fostering lifelong learning. He aspires to give ADEA members the tools for self-direction and self-reflection.

“With over 19,000 members, I plan to engage each constituency of the membership to continue to enhance all aspects of dental education, to identify where change is most necessary, and to promote policies and procedures to implement such change,” Glickman says. “I am honored and privileged to serve this important organization.”

An educator committed to bettering the future of academic dentistry, Glickman is a founding member of the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education, which promotes innovative curriculum to educate efficient and effective health care team practitioners. He has chaired and served as councilor for the ADEA Section on Endodontics and the ADEA Section on Graduate and Postgraduate Education. He was elected ADEA vice president for sections, a position he held from 2002 to 2005.

Glickman also is director of the graduate endodontic program at BCD. He received his dental degree from Ohio State University and his master’s degree and certificate in endodontics from Northwestern University in Chicago. He holds a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Kentucky, a master’s degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a juris doctor degree from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas.

Matthews leaves legacy

Dr. Thomas Matthews ’50,

Baylor College of Dentistry alumnus and co-founder of the college’s Department of Orthodontics, passed away Dec. 27, 2010, after a lengthy illness. His tenure on the orthodontic clinical faculty had spanned 47 years when he retired in 2008. Matthews was 91.

“Dr. Tom Matthews was a wonderful teacher, mentor and friend to more than 250 orthodontic residents of the Department of Orthodontics,” said Dr. Phil Campbell ’71, ’73, associate professor and chair of orthodontics. “We shall all be forever grateful for the clinical expertise he taught us.”

After earning his dental degree from BCD, Matthews completed a preceptorship in orthodontics with Dr. Robert Gaylord in Dallas. These two along with Dr. Tom Williams would go on to establish the orthodontics department at the college in 1961.

Widely known as a master wire bender, Matthews was a diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics and a past president of the Southwest Society of Orthodontists. Other leadership roles include service as vice president of the American Association of Orthodontists.

Matthews was honored in 2007 with the establishment of an annual Dr. Tom Matthews Lectureship, which was created through the generosity of his former students and associates. The orthodontic department library and an annual alumni award also bear his name.

Dr. Gerald Glickman

Dr. Thomas Matthews

Dr. Alton Mc Whorter

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Dr. Harvey Kessler

Dr. Amp Miller and Leigh Ann Wyatt: 2011 Teachers of the Year

JoAnn Scofield and Dr. David Grogan: 2010 Teachers of the Year

Kessler leads AAOMP

DR. HARVEY KESSLER, professor and director of pathology in diagnostic sciences, served his specialty as 2010-2011 president of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Kessler’s efforts as president included addressing changes to Medicare regulations affecting dental health providers who submit biopsy specimens, championing technological improvements to enhance communication among members, encouraging joint initiatives with other specialty groups and enhancing features of the AAOMP website.

At Baylor College of Dentistry, Kessler and faculty colleagues provide pathology instruction and patient consultations to dental, dental hygiene and advanced education students. They provide a biopsy service to the college and professional community and also administer an advanced education program in oral and maxillofacial pathology accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.

Kessler received the college’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2006, the same year he received a Literary Award from the Texas section of the International College of Dentists. A BCD faculty member for nine years, he is a diplomate and past president of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

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Students recognize outstanding teachers

Annual teaching awards highlight faculty members making a difference at Baylor

College of Dentistry.Students nominate and vote for Teacher-

of-the-Year honorees, whose awards are presented by the BCD Alumni Association.

Dr. Amp Miller ’73, professor in restorative sciences and director of curriculum, and Leigh Ann Wyatt ’96, assistant professor in dental hygiene, received the 2011 Dental Teacher-of-the-Year Award and Dental Hygiene Teacher-of-the-Year Award, respectively.

Dr. David Grogan ’81, associate professor and chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery, and JoAnn Scofield ’01, now-retired associate professor and clinic coordinator in the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene, were the 2010 Teacher-of-the-Year honorees.

Comments taken from nomination forms reveal students’ esteem for these honorees. “Encouraging” and “positive” are descriptors touted universally by students.

“He is very dedicated to the success of his students” and “great teacher; very clear on what he expects and what to expect,” wrote two nominators regarding Miller.

“She is always taking extra time to help us; she goes above and beyond her role as an instructor,” said students about Wyatt.

Students described Grogan as “great instructor and mentor” and “awesome lecturer.” Others praised Scofield’s qualities: “inspirational instructor” and “fair and open-minded.”

The faculty honorees genuinely enjoy their work with students, and that is apparent in their individual approaches to teaching.

Miller takes a personal interest in providing whatever help students need to ensure their continuing progress.

“Over the years, I’ve had a chance to evaluate many dental educational programs, and I continue to be proud of our school, our programs and our graduates, whom I feel leave Baylor with a solid education and a significant amount of clinical experience,” he says.

Wyatt believes when students know they are cared for and believed in as individuals, their potential for learning and growth increases tremendously.

“It is my greatest desire for students to leave BCD knowing they were not alone; that we, as faculty, are alongside them on their journey and that we want them to succeed both personally and professionally,” she says.

2010 award recipient Grogan says he strives toward two goals as an educator: professionalism derived through staying current and instruction presented in an enthusiastic and non-demeaning manner. This includes prompting students to problem solve and become engaged with the subject.

“It is truly an honor to be entrusted with educating our next generation of dental professionals,” he says.

Scofield has focused on teaching students how to enhance their critical thinking skills, emphasizing that students must take ownership of their learning to become lifelong learners.

“I love the challenge of working with students,” she said prior to her retirement. “It is a joy to be a part of their growth from student to professional. My only regret is that I didn’t get into education sooner.”

KESSLER RECEIVED THE

TEACHING EXCELLENCE

AWARD IN 2006.

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Community health centers continue to benefit from nationwide survey

DR. KENNETH ANTHONY BOLIN, associate professor in Baylor College of Dentistry’s Department of Public Health Sciences, completed his dental public health residency project more than seven years ago, but related follow-up activities continue to provide far-reaching benefits for community health centers nationwide.

Bolin’s latest installment in the project was conducted with the assistance of the nonprofit National Network for Oral Health Access. It entailed gathering survey data designed to measure job satisfaction, provide salary benchmarks and yield recruitment strategies to address vacancies in community health centers.

The most surprising recent survey result — based on responses from several hundred dentists and executive directors from 700 U.S. public health clinics — is that salary is not the primary factor determining whether a provider stays employed by or accepts a job offer with a community health center. A person’s pre-existing altruism figures more prominently, Bolin says.

“That is one reason why dental student exposure to community dentistry is so important,” says Bolin. “The more that dental students get sent out into the community during their training, the more positive feeling they have about that type of activity.”

Survey results are providing lasting direction for community health centers in addressing staffing issues.

“Dental directors said they needed updated information,” Bolin says, “and NNOHA came to me because I had done the benchmark survey in 2002.”

The original results, in fact, received broad exposure when they were published in the February 2005 Journal of the American Dental Association. The latest results were issued in October 2010.

D’Souza, Lacy receive presidential awards

Baylor College of Dentistry faculty members received two of six Presidential Awards for

Excellence presented by Dr. Nancy W. Dickey, Texas A&M Health Science Center president, at TAMHSC’s January 2010 academic convocation in College Station, Texas.

Dr. Rena D’Souza, professor and chair of biomedical sciences, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Research.

Dr. Ernestine Lacy ’94, director of student development and associate professor of restorative sciences, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Education and Mentorship.

A dentist and scientist, D’Souza has made significant contributions to the fields of tooth development and genetics, received millions of dollars in research funding from the National Institutes of Health and accepted the highest accolades for scientific achievement and mentorship from her peers.

“Dr. D’Souza is a recognized leader in her discipline of biomedical research throughout the United States and internationally,” said Dr. James S. Cole ’75, BCD dean. “In the brief time she has been at BCD, she has made great strides toward the integration of clinical, educational and scientific collaborations throughout the college. She works tirelessly to better her personal research projects, as well as those of the department, the college and the college’s research partners.”

D’Souza, who is a recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research, is the 2011-2012 president-elect of the American Association for Dental Research and serves as a member of the National Advisory Council for Dental and Craniofacial Research as well as a director on the Friends of the NIDCR board. She was selected as a fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.

Due to Lacy’s work, each year thousands of young people from underserved communities in Texas are introduced to dental medicine as a potential career path. In fact, she’s created a pipeline of future dentists that has positively impacted the diversity of BCD’s enrollment. In this way, Lacy has played an important role in the

success of her alma mater. Today, the college is one of the most ethnically diverse dental schools in the nation.

“Dr. Lacy has worked tirelessly not only to develop and fund pipeline mentoring programs to encourage minority enrollment and academic success at BCD, but she has taught and personally mentored many of the participating students,” Cole said. “While the statistics are certainly a critical indicator of the effectiveness of these programs, they do not tell the more important story, which is that hundreds of bright minority students will now be rewarded for their hard work and diligence with a lifelong career in dentistry. Dr. Lacy’s programs are far reaching.”

To fund these programs, Lacy has received nearly $7 million in grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Resources and Services Administration for the Health Careers Opportunity Program, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Baylor Oral Health Foundation and others.

Dr. Ernestine LacyDr. Rena D’Souza

Dr. Kenneth Bolin

Hall of Fame welcomes two

DR. N. SUE SEALE ’70, ’72 AND ROBERT J. BIGHAM JR. were 2010 inductees to the Baylor College of Dentistry Hall of Fame. Seale is a Regents Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and Bigham serves as president and treasurer of the Baylor Oral Health Foundation.

Dr. James S. Cole ’75, BCD dean, presented the awards — the college’s highest honor — during a luncheon in College Station, Texas, prior to the Health Science Center’s January 2010 convocation. The Hall of Fame award recognizes individuals who have contributed distinguished service to the college and/or the dental profession.

Since March 1981, the college has bestowed the honor on 30 individuals, whose portraits are

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Dr. Kathy Svoboda

Dr. Robert Hinton

displayed in the Hall of Fame Gallery in the Richard E. Bradley Continuing Education Center on the sixth floor of the college.

Seale joined the college’s pediatric dentistry faculty in 1974, two years after completing its pediatric dentistry graduate program. In 1986 she became professor and chair of the pediatric dentistry department, a post she retained until 2009. For 17 years, she also directed the graduate program in pediatric dentistry, which remains one of the most highly regarded in the country.

In addition to her BCD roles, she was director of dental services at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and chair of the Department of Dentistry at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, posts she held for 23 years. She is a past president of the Texas Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.

Seale was named 2001 Pediatric Dentist of the

Year by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation and received the Merle C. Hunter Leadership Award in 2002. In 1997, she received the Baylor College of Dentistry Distinguished Alumni Award and became the college’s first Texas A&M University System Regents Professor.

Bigham has served the dental school in various capacities for more than 26 years. He has held his current position with Baylor Oral Health Foundation since 2000 and previously served as a member of the foundation’s board of directors.

Before the dental school’s merger with the A&M System in 1996 — while Baylor College of Dentistry was an independent dental school — Bigham served on the college’s board of trustees from 1986 to 1995. He was a key player during the deliberations that preceded the decision to affiliate with the A&M System.

Bigham’s vocation as a successful banker and his considerable civic experience prepared him to play a prominent role in the dental school’s progress through the years. Under his devoted stewardship at the foundation, the college has added a new Center for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, a Dental Simulation Laboratory and a new Sciences Building, among many improvements.

Faculty members named Regents Professors

Two faculty members in Baylor College of Dentistry’s Department of Biomedical

Sciences are recipients of the prestigious Texas A&M University System Regents Professor Award bestowed by the A&M System’s Board of Regents.

Dr. Robert Hinton, professor and director of the department’s undergraduate teaching and faculty mentoring, and Dr. Kathy Svoboda, professor and graduate program director, received the award in December 2010 and December 2009, respectively.

Hinton is a recognized leader at the college in teaching innovation and curriculum development. He is a principal investigator for a four-year $630,000 National Institutes of Health R25 Oral Health Research Education Grant, which is the driving force behind the college’s evidence-based-dentistry initiative. He also oversees the Dental Scholars enrichment program for dental students considering academic careers.

“This award is a tremendous honor, and I am flattered to join the company of the distinguished faculty at BCD who are previous recipients,” Hinton said. “I feel fortunate to have spent my career in a department that encourages and rewards both research excellence and teaching innovation.”

Hinton completed a Ph.D. in biological anthropology and postdoctoral work in anatomy and craniofacial biology at the University of Michigan before joining the BCD faculty in 1983.

His research focuses on the temporomandib-ular joint. Known internationally for his work in this area, Hinton’s research has been supported by three NIH grants and three foundation grants.

His national service has included presidency of the International Association for Dental Research’s Craniofacial Biology Group and membership on the American Dental Association’s National Board of Anatomic Sciences Test Construction Committee. Hinton has been nominated six times for Teacher of the Year by BCD students.

Svoboda, who joined BCD in 1998, teaches general histology and developmental and cell biology among other foundational courses for medical and dental students, as well as graduate-level courses in molecular biology, embryology and craniofacial development. She also dedicates a significant amount of time to mentoring new faculty members and graduate students.

“It is an honor to be recognized by the Board of Regents for mentoring students, postdoctoral fellows and young faculty in addition to my research in developmental cell biology,” said Svoboda. “This recognition emphasizes the importance of training new researchers to address the critical need for the systematic study

of cellular mechanisms that contribute to birth defects.”

Svoboda earned her master’s degree in human genetics and a doctorate in anatomy from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship and was an instructor in anatomy and cell biology at Harvard Medical School before joining the Boston University School of Medicine, where she became an associate professor in anatomy and neurobiology and co-director of the school’s confocal microscopy facility. She has been continuously funded by the NIH and other sources since 1983.

An elected officer of the American Association of Anatomists for 12 years, Svoboda served as president from 2005-2007 and was named a fellow in 2009. She was named a Silver Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 2010.

Dr. N. Sue SealeRobert J. Bigham, Jr.

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The marriage between dentistry and art is unmistakable, and many

common artistically, but all are involved in producing art that touches

are effectively sharing their creativity for the greater good.

A time to reap: Dr. Willard Tompson

n an idyllic, tree-shaded residential street, at the end of the driveway beside a lush and well-kept yard, resides a carport. At the back of the carport sits a small, unobtrusive shed.

This shed, however, does not hold yard tools. Behind its padlocked doors rests an artist’s refuge.

The clunky chunks of wood of all types and sizes stacked meticulously near the shed’s doors provide the first clue to the creativity within.

A beast of a machine called a lathe and an assortment of interesting looking chisels, waxes and sandpapers fill every available space. But everything is in its place – neat and tidy. The owner of this shed plainly cares about this equipment. Combined with patience, steady hands and an artist’s eye, these tools turn basic pieces of wood into objects of beauty.

Showcasing natural beautyRetired general dentist Dr. Willard Tompson ’63 of Dallas

discovered woodturning as a hobby in 2006, four years after he retired, and it didn’t take long for the hobby to develop into a passion. Natural talent, an eye for detail and a career spent working with his hands have enabled him to develop the hobby into an art form.

“Natural wood is the most important determinant of the beauty of any turned piece,” says Tompson. “Every woodturner has different techniques, and I’ve settled into a niche. I like making the most of a wood’s grain and natural embellishment.”

He rattles off the desirable attributes of a host of different woods, from the knot holes in cedar to the water damage that introduces unique coloration to a soft white wood like hackberry. Two of his favorite woods, koa and silver oak, are found in Hawaii.

A business connection to Hawaii, in fact, first led to Tompson’s fascination with beautiful wooden objects.

In the 1980s Tompson had the opportunity to invest with two other partners in macadamia nut orchards in Hawaii. Though the business manager lives in Hawaii and takes care of day-to-day operations, Tompson makes trips to the Big Island periodically to handle certain business affairs in person.

At upscale gift shops located throughout the Hawaiian islands, Tompson became intrigued with wooden bowls and hundreds of other items fashioned out of koa and other tropical woods. It was a Dallas Morning News article on woodturning in 2006, however, that initiated Tompson’s personal connection to this art form.

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The Purposeful Hobbyist

A form of woodworking, woodturning differs from other types of woodworking in that the wood is moving on a lathe while the cutting tool remains stationary, the newspaper article explained.

Fascinated, Tompson contacted Larry Genender, a master woodturner, retired surgeon and the subject of the article. Tompson was greatly interested in learning more about woodturning.

“The first meeting with Genender was not exactly a meeting of the minds,” says Tompson. “Larry can be opinionated. He said I was too old to train. Well – those are fightin’ words to a Texan like me.”

At Genender’s urging, Tompson attended a beginner’s woodturning class in Provo, Utah.

“The first time my lathe started in class I tore the wood to pieces,” says Tompson. “But in the end, the class helped me tremendously.” Tompson added with a twinkle in his eye, “The instructor said dentists make the best students.”

Five years, an intermediate course and many pieces of wood later, Tompson’s skills have improved exponentially.

“Although the start with Dr. Genender was rough, we have become great friends, and I never could have made it without his guidance and encouragement,” Tompson says.

This is not his first adventure in art, but it is definitely his most aptly suited.

“I made jewelry for a while when I was still practicing dentistry,” says Tompson. “Jewelry is little, and I like big.”

While progressing with his woodturning technique, he called upon his dental training and grasp of 3D concepts to give the pieces his own personal touch. Tompson is known for highlighting the beauty of the wood with its natural embellishments and colors. He works around and with knots, scars and the grain in the wood to bring out the wood’s natural beauty. He also uses the same polishes on his wood pieces that are used on dental crowns – Tripoli and white diamond. His creations are finished with carnuba wax.

Although the artistry and superior craftsmanship of Tompson’s pieces could easily fetch hundreds of dollars in a gallery, he

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— Dr. Willard TompsonDr. Willard Tompson sits with some of his creations.

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repeatedly refers to himself as an amateur. Instead of profiting financially from his passion, he gains far more pleasure donating his turned vases, bowls and other pieces to support charity auctions.

Beneficiaries of his skills include the Treasure Street fundraiser for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas’ Pastoral Counseling and Education Center, Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Dallas and Roberts Elementary School Library in Houston. Additional recipients are Delta Gamma Vintage and Vision benefiting sight conservation and aid to the blind, Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center League, Plant High School lacrosse team in Tampa, Fla., and Hamilton County Hospital Auxiliary in Hamilton, Texas. He also makes commemorative pieces to mark special occasions for friends.

Finding balanceTompson was a rancher before he was a woodturner, and he still

spends one day a week working the cattle he co-owns on the Hico, Texas, ranch of his physician friend Dr. Wynne Snoots.

“We have cattle, goats and a few horses,” Tompson says. “Of course, there are the ever-present fences that need mending.”

At his home in the University Park area of Dallas, however, spare time is spent exploring his creative side out in his workshed. He would enjoy a larger space, says Tompson, although he manages just fine now.

“To make my workshed larger, I’d have to take over the carport, and my wife definitely prefers parking under the carport to building a bigger shed. I think I’ll leave the carport alone,” he says with a grin.

He enjoys sharing the fruits of his labor with others and is pleased to be able to hone his skills when he is inspired or when he is not keeping up with his nine grandchildren and their variety of activities. It’s the balance that is personally rewarding.

“Knowing that I can do some good for others through my passion to create brings me great joy,” says Tompson.

A time to build up: Dr. Barvo Walker

is work perches 295 feet above ground atop the dome of the Texas State Capitol. It graces the verdant grounds of Lovers Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas. You will find it as far away as China and Egypt and throughout all 50 U.S. states.

Dallas sculptor Dr. Barvo Walker ’60 has found his passion and has pursued it with gusto.

“I feel this is what I was called to do,” says Walker. He has sculpted, drawn and painted all his life without formal training, discovering that he was gifted with the “God-given ability to see and then create in three dimensions;” a critical innate skill for an artist, he explains.

For more than three decades, he also has cultivated his artistry by spending time in Italy at least once every year.

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Dr.Barvo Walker stands among a few of his artistic endeavors.

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Even in dental school, he employed his artistic talent in medical illustration as part of his work on a U.S. Public Health Service Fellowship grant. He also supported himself through sculpting and commercial illustration. During his practice years, he illustrated many covers for the Texas Dental Journal.

“God blessed me with good hands and dexterity,” says Walker. His deftness goes all the way back to his childhood years when

he carved a lot of his grandmother’s Ivory soap, but those creations had a limited shelf life.

“She let me carve it, but then she had to use the soap,” he laughs.In high school art classes he was understandably the teacher’s

pet, diving into projects with gusto and reading books about sculpting on his own time. Later he visited artists’ studios for technical information and put his natural talents to work sculpting with clay, teaching himself medical illustration and working in oil, watercolor, pen and ink and eventually in acrylic.

His attention to detail and grasp of three-dimensional concepts served him well in dentistry. In fact, during his senior year in dental school, his technical skill in the clinical realm was recognized with a national award for his successful management of an unusual, extensive patient case. Walker won first place out of faculty-selected entries from 47 dental schools in the American Dental Association’s first Student Clinic Program, held during the ADA centennial anniversary meeting in New York City.

He devoted himself to 20 years of dental practice in Fort Worth, Texas, and then Dallas after he graduated from BCD. He is grateful for the years he spent in dentistry, and while he disliked the management responsibilities, he enjoyed the clinical aspects of private practice.

The allure of devoting himself completely to artistic endeavors prompted Walker to leave clinical dentistry and turn to his artwork full time in 1980. He says he has not regretted that choice one minute.

“I had reached the point where I decided, ‘I’m either going to do artwork or starve,’ and I haven’t starved,” says Walker. “I’ve had a blessed, blessed life.”

Space to createIn Walker’s studio in southern Dallas, it’s hard to know where to

look first.A catwalk hugging one wall of his 5,000-square-foot studio is

lined with sculpted busts and heads overlooking the space below, with dozens more figures stacked on soldierly rows of tall metal shelving. Ground level features an eclectic assembly of bronze pieces, sculpted clay prototypes, plaster models of people and pets, and oil-painted canvases that vie for space on the uneven, paint- and plaster-splattered floor of the studio.

Outside in the breezeway and courtyard, within the security of a chain-link fence, children made of bronze swing and play on the gravel and grass under the trees. A time-worn storage shed shelters the castaways and remnants of several decades of a sculptor’s work.

“ G o d b l e ss e d m e with good hands and dexterity.”

— Dr. Barvo Walker

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The studio’s silent sentries


“The reinstallation ended up taking two weeks,” says Walker. “For our first attempts I lay on my belly on the floor of a twin-rotor helicopter, looking down through a hole at the statue suspended on a cable below us. A restoration expert from St. Louis and I tried to direct the pilot one foot this way or one foot that way, but we couldn’t get it just right.”

The state eventually had to secure help from the Mississippi National Guard and its special “skycrane” helicopter to complete this task. This helicopter had a boom built out front, so the pilot was able to view the statue’s position directly rather than relying on others to direct him.

The new Goddess of Liberty was finally unveiled on May 29, 1986.Fast-forward more than two decades, and a crane of a different

sort was required at Walker’s warehouse in May 2010 to move a one-ton bronze sculpture titled “He has risen” 10 miles to Lovers Lane United Methodist Church. The 7-foot-long, 6.5-foot-tall sculpture of women inside the empty tomb of Jesus was inspired by chapter 28 in the Bible’s book of Matthew, Walker says, and was commissioned by the church for its columbarium.

Walker says he has done commissioned works for individuals, companies and churches primarily, and his livelihood has been fostered by word of mouth and supplemented by advertising in Architectural Digest and Southern Accent. In the Dallas area, his sculptures adorn Southlake Town Square, Veterans Park in Fort Worth and Dallas Theological Seminary. They also grace an Arkansas racetrack, the top of Texas’ Bosque County Courthouse and several Dallas churches. Walker is pleased by the aggregate of his life experiences.

“Find out what you love to do in life, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life,” Walker says. “You only pass this way once.”

Heavy-metal handiworkWalker’s most “lofty” artistic handiwork occurred as a result of

a phone call he received in 1984 from then-Texas Speaker of the House Gib Lewis of Fort Worth. Lewis told Walker he was afraid the statue was going to fall off the top of the Texas State Capitol building.

The original Goddess of Liberty statue had topped the dome since 1888, and her 16-foot-tall zinc physique was cracked and corroded.

As part of a large-scale renovation of the capitol building in the mid-1980s, she was removed. Then Walker, in collaboration with Washington University Technology Associates in St. Louis, got to work on creating a replacement.

He fabricated molds based on the original goddess statue and used them to cast a new aluminum one. An unexpected challenge came with perching the new goddess atop the capitol’s dome.

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Dr. Barvo Walker was met with an interesting challenge when he was asked to create a new Goddess of Liberty statue for the Texas State Capitol building.

Sculpture reigns supreme at Dr. Barvo Walker’s studio.


A time of peace: Dr. Barbara Miller

otion infuses the life of Dr. Barbara Miller ’83, ’96. Artistic motion. Dynamic motion. Perpetual motion.

By day she is executive director of recruitment and admissions at Baylor College

of Dentistry. During her personal time, she volunteers to bring change-inspiring art to vulnerable yet receptive populations.

From art projects with Dallas school children to dance classes with women inmates of the Dallas County Jail, Miller shares her love of art as a tool to transform lives and enrich communities. In short, Miller’s goal as a volunteer is to promote the power of art as a peacemaker.

Visual art and social changeDallas school children benefit from an outreach effort known

as Today Marks the Beginning, co-founded in 2005 by Miller and two other women who share a passion for the arts and an eagerness to improve the world. The mission of TMtB is to use the arts to increase awareness of social issues and encourage creative change.

In one of the group’s projects, teams of volunteers went into Dallas schools to encourage local children to create art about their vision of peace.

Children were shown examples of art and how to make collages. They were engaged in dialogue about how they could encourage peace in their families and classrooms and when they felt most peaceful. The children’s answers, says Miller, varied from poignant to funny to heartbreaking. The project culminated with the children creating art to illustrate their thoughts and emotions about peace.

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Dr. Barbara Miller promotes Today Marks the Beginning

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art community.

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“I loved to see the children realize that global peace must start in each individual’s heart,” Miller says. The students’ creations were displayed in summer 2007 at the Third International Women’s Peace Conference in Dallas, where the art inspired conference visitors from around the world.

A program called MasterPEACE, an offshoot of TMtB’s Vision of Peace project, has been developed and directed by TMtB co-founder Karen Blessen. Miller has worked alongside Blessen for the past several years to grow MasterPEACE and help secure funding for it.

The program consists of a series of 14 lessons geared toward elementary and middle school children – but especially fifth-graders – to provide specific strategies to help them “increase the peace” and discover creative solutions to conflict. One issue addressed is bullying, a growing problem in U.S. schools.

Students learn about 12 great heroes of human rights and peace and create portraits of the peacemaker who impacts them. They discover how to create a personal place of peace at home and take part in real-life improvisations that show them how to resolve conflict without resorting to violence.


To date, MasterPEACE has reached nearly 1,500 students at 13 Dallas-area schools.

Miller’s most vivid volunteer memories are from working with the children of new-immigrant parents at Hotchkiss Elementary.

“The children speak many different languages,” explains Miller, who serves on the board of TMtB’s aquiring organization, 29 Pieces. The two nonprofits merged in May 2011. “It is amazing to see these children from around the globe start working together on their projects and suddenly they begin to, in essence, speak the same language of art and, most importantly, cooperation and peace.”

Dance and TransformationMiller danced ballet throughout her childhood and found an

outlet for this form of art as an adult when she joined a liturgical dance ensemble named Kesheth more than 12 years ago. This “ministry based in the arts” sparked her interest in studying theology, which she has pursued for the past nine summers at Oxford University in England.

“My study of world religions, the scriptures that inform them and the ideals that inspire them are a driving force in my work and all my creative activities,” says Miller.

Miller’s theology and artistic interests also coalesced in her participation for more than 10 years in ArtSpirit, a ministry of the United Methodist Church to the arts community of Dallas.

ArtSpirit indirectly spawned Resolana, a non-faith-based educational and arts program for incarcerated women. Founded by Bette Buschow, an ArtSpirit friend of Miller’s, Resolana promotes positive changes in the female prisoners’ attitudes and behaviors and enables them to establish healthy, prosocial lifestyles.

Miller has volunteered over the last four years to teach dance and movement exercises to the women in the jail as one aspect of the Resolana programming, which encompasses five categories: mental health, life skills, wellness, 12-step recovery and creativity.

Dance, music, art, writing, storytelling and playback drama provide the creativity components. In a jail environment, these outlets offer the incarcerated women an ultimate form of freedom.

Miller says that many of the women have never learned to express themselves in a positive way before.

“Resolana gives them ‘a voice,’” says Miller. “Even though they are in jail, when they are in the movement workshops they feel free. They learn for the first time that they can dance and have fun without being high or drunk.

“The dancing, along with the other components of Resolana, begins to open their eyes to the beauty inside them,” continues Miller. “They get a sense of hope and serenity. The best part of the program is how the women transform and tap into their own potential.”

Perpetuating the ProfessionAt BCD, Miller has the opportunity to change lives in the

professional arena. A 26-year faculty member, she is charged with overseeing the recruitment and admissions process in the position she has held since June 2005.

“It is important to get to know the applicants as people – individuals, beyond their test scores and data,” she says. “I want the applicants to feel comfortable when I meet with them so I can get an idea of who they are. I want to know what has influenced them and hear about their goals.

“It’s important for the applicant not just to say they want to help people in the future, but to show evidence of having helped people already.”

A good BlendMiller says that dentistry was a good career choice for her

because it blended three of her favorite things: art, science and helping others.

On a recent Friday evening, she rushed out of the dental school to help a group of women who find freedom through dance.

“Tonight I get to dance with the ladies at the jail,” she said with a wave of her hand and a smile on her face.

(“Turn! Turn! Turn!” by The Byrds; words – adapted from the Bible, book of Ecclesiastes; music – Pete Seeger)


Elementary children show off their artwork to Dr. Barbara Miller during a MasterPEACE classroom visit in January 2011.

Art provides a powerful form of expression and learning for children.

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of his top priorities as Baylor College of

Dentistry dean.

The dental school’s increased diversity is just one of

numerous accomplishments that took place during the first decade of the 21st century. Amid a variety of extraordinary national events – from the bombing of the World Trade Center by terrorists to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the financial meltdown in 2008 to the massive Gulf oil spill in 2010 – Baylor College of Dentistry continued making significant progress.

As Cole navigated his 11-year tenure as dean, the dental school settled in as a member of the newly minted Texas A&M Health Science Center, upgraded its technology, celebrated its 100th anniversary in style, enhanced its curriculum and expanded its research program and facilities. Perhaps most importantly, it weathered the Great Recession of 2008-2009 without significant cuts in programs or staff.

“It was extremely challenging to make the required progress, especially in respect to technology and research, and still operate the school in a financially responsible manner during what has been arguably one of the most difficult periods for both public and private organizations in recent history,” he says.

According to the HSC president, Cole’s ability to guide the college through this economic downturn is one of his many significant contributions to the college during these early years of the new millennium.

“His leadership has been invaluable,” says Dickey. “It is not coincidental that the college’s impressive forward motion has been concurrent with Jim’s tenure at the helm.”

Technological transformations

New graduate Dr. Luke Bailey

’11 plans to become an orthodontist and has no problem imagining what his future high-tech office will look like. He expects to use a digital system to create

plastic trays as an option to metal braces for his orthodontic patients. He’s planning on buying at least two powerful magnification scopes for use in treatment procedures and examinations. And he says his office will definitely include a scanner that takes digital impressions that can be used in lieu of plaster ones.

Bailey had multiple opportunities to test the equipment while treating patients in the college’s Advanced Technology Clinic. Located adjacent to the main patient treatment area on the college’s third floor, the five-chair clinic is BCD’s answer to fast-changing dental technology. The five dental manufacturers represented in the clinic upgrade the operatories approximately every 18 months, ensuring that graduating students are familiar with the latest and greatest in technology developments.

“The crown I finished using the digital scanner was the best one I’ve ever done,” Bailey says.

“It’s a win-win,” says Dr. Mohsen Taleghani, professor and chair of the Department of General Dentistry. “Our students get exposure to the most advanced equipment – and the companies get to introduce their equipment to new dentists.”

This clinic complements multimillion dollar technology upgrades implemented throughout the dental school during the 2000s. Upgrades range from digital audio-visual equipment in lecture halls and labs to an Intranet site that houses a wide range of course information including lectures, curriculum and grades. Digital radiography, electronic patient records and new dental chairs throughout the dental school’s 19 clinics have kept the college abreast of the “real world.”

Renovations to Lab 30 provide first-year students the benefits of digital technology in such courses as dental anatomy and histology. The Simulation Laboratory, which opened in 2002, allows students to practice ergonomics, impression-taking, cavity preparation, infection control, root canals and dental bridges on plastic manikins with stretchy cheeks. Similar technology also has transformed BCD’s continuing education lab, and entire graduate courses are now available online, facilitating distance learning for residents with complex clinical schedules.

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The technology upgrades were critical not only to attracting students unfamiliar with life before cell phones and the Internet, but to preparing them for practicing in today’s digital dental offices. The upgrades also benefit BCD patients – especially the new digital patient record-keeping system.

“Our faculty and students can see patterns developing because records are easier to analyze,” says Cole. “And they are much more accessible, facilitating collaboration among faculty.”

Transitioning to the new technology had its challenges, especially for professors, most of whom can recall life before cell phones. Some do so with nostalgia.

Moving from slides to PowerPoint was especially tedious for Dr. Amp Miller ’73, director of curriculum and professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences, who turned to BCD’s audio-visual staff for help digitizing tens of thousands of slides for the 35 or so fixed prosthodontics lectures he gives annually. Miller’s office and basement closet are still filled with shelves of slide carousels that he just can’t bear to toss.

“The folks in our AV department used to run when they saw me coming,” Miller says, “but they were very helpful.”

Today he is a fan of the digital teaching environment. “I’m certainly not a digital expert,” he says. “But once you learn the rudimentary things about our new audiovisual equipment, you can customize your lectures quickly and easily. It’s a neat tool.”

The technology upgrades have been highly beneficial for students transitioning from the Sim Lab to the patient clinic, says Dr. Steve Griffin ’85, associate professor and director of clinics.

“I saw a huge difference in the students coming out of the Sim Lab,” says Griffin. “They are much more comfortable with not only the mechanics of dentistry, but the process of interacting with patients.”

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Construction for instruction

Technology wasn’t the only aspect of the dental school that received a facelift during the first decade of the 21st century. In August 2001, the A&M System Board of Regents

approved a 20-year master plan for BCD that included the construction of four new buildings and a parking garage.

Soon after the plan was approved, the college began Phase I, purchasing and renovating a 15,000-square-foot building on the northwest corner of Gaston Avenue and Hall Street to house biomedical research facilities. Opened in spring 2005, the Sciences Building currently is being considered for expansion so that all basic science research can be housed there.

The decade’s facilities improvements also included the construction of the Center for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, a $1.5 million facility that was completed in 2001 with financial assistance from many private donors as well as the Hillcrest Foundation, Hoblitzelle Foundation and Baylor Oral Health Foundation.

In fact, the generosity of the Baylor Oral Health Foundation was very apparent – and much appreciated – throughout the 2000s. In addition to the CMP funding, BOHF contributed funds for the Advanced Technology Clinic, the Sim Lab, student research, the new research building, the Dental Gallery and Exhibit at Dallas’ Museum of Nature and Science and two community dental care clinics.

“Every time we have a major improvement, we look to the Baylor Oral Health Foundation,” Cole says. “They have been very supportive.”

The foundation also helped sponsor the dental school’s Centennial Celebration in 2005, which coincided with the 50th Anniversary of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene. The 16-month celebration drew dental and dental hygiene alumni from throughout the country -- to a variety of activities including a black-tie gala and dental hygiene luncheon, a reunion picnic and a convocation and luncheon at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Centennial events concluded in spring 2006 when a historical marker honoring the dental school’s 100-year history was placed at the corner of Gaston and Hall streets.

Research takes off

As a graduate student in oral and maxillofacial pathology at BCD, Dr. Lisa Cheng ’02 saw firsthand the pain suffered by lichen planus patients in the dental school’s

Stomatology Center as they underwent multiple biopsies to determine if they had oral cancer. From the outset of her graduate work in 1999, she spent two days a week treating patients in the center, which is world-renowned for its groundbreaking treatment of unusual and debilitating diseases of the mouth.

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Cheng discussed several times with Dr. Terry Rees, professor and director of the Stomatology Center, what a clinician could do for these patients. These experiences prompted Cheng, now an associate professor in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences, to consider researching non-invasive ways of diagnosing oral cancers in lichen planus patients, who are at higher risk for the disease.

In May 2009, Cheng and Rees were awarded a $385,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for a preliminary study aimed at identifying biomarkers in saliva that might indicate oral cancer in its early stages in lichen planus patients.

Cheng’s research reflects another dental school accomplishment: increasing faculty biomedical and clinical research. Between 2002 and 2010, the amount of research funds awarded to BCD nearly doubled.

This remarkable growth is a result of work initiated in 1992 by Dr. Alan Taylor, then associate dean for research and advanced education, and amplified by Dr. David Carlson, who assumed the associate dean’s role in 1999.

Carlson, who is now HSC vice president for research and dean of the School of Graduate Studies, led initiatives that included the formation of a graduate program in biomedical sciences leading to a Ph.D. degree. He also spearheaded the attainment of federal training grants to fund graduate assistants for faculty researchers and facilitated creation of state-of-the-art research facilities to support investigations into molecular biology, genetics and neuroscience.

These initiatives helped position the Department of Biomedical Sciences to receive the first of two multimillion dollar grants from the NIH in 2003 that funded a number of research projects as well as positions for five additional faculty members with research expertise.

The grants prompted a “quantum leap into a new research era for BCD faculty,” says Carlson.

Research momentum in the associate dean’s role was continued by Dr. Larry Bellinger, who became head of research and graduate studies in 2003 after Carlson departed BCD.

BCD established the Office of Technology Development in 2005, which partners with private industry to translate research discoveries into practical applications. The office is an outgrowth of a comprehensive initiative on the part of the A&M System, prompted by the NIH, to encourage the commercialization of intellectual property developed by professors.

Today, BCD’s program led by Dr. Lynne Opperman, professor of biomedical sciences, is one of the most exemplary within the A&M System, Carlson says.

“In principle, the dental school’s goal is to continue to advance the research environment and infrastructure to make BCD a major force in respect to dental education and research,” says Carlson.

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Baylor College of Dentistry excels in clinical education.

Ever-evolving education

BCD students came away

triumphant from the 2010 American Association for Dental Research meeting in Washington, D.C., in March. BCD’s student

team tied with University of Michigan School of Dentistry for having the most student representatives at the meeting. The BCD Student Research Group received two awards – one for the most student abstracts accepted by organizers of the meeting; the other for the most new student members. Finally, a number of BCD undergraduate and graduate students were named finalists or received awards for their work.

“What I’m proud of is that our numbers come from dental students, not Ph.D. students,” says fourth-year dental student Jennifer Lee, former president of BCD’s Student Research Group and immediate past secretary of the national SRG. “This makes it even more special.

“I believe research is an important part of the dental school curriculum. As the next generation of dentists, we can see how research impacts dental practice. Our summer research program is also a huge component to being one of the best dental schools in the country.”

The students’ success reflects the trickledown effect of the dental school’s emphasis on faculty research and mirrors the dental school’s expansion of its evidence-based clinical education program. One initiative titled “CUSPID” – Clinicians Using Science to Produce Inspired Dentists – is funded by another NIH grant. As part of CUSPID, professors are creating curricular initiatives that teach students to assess new clinical research outcomes and incorporate them into their patient treatment activities.

“We’re trying to develop an appreciation for clinically relevant literature as evidence for diagnosis and treatment planning,” says curriculum-director Miller about the evolving program, now in its third year.

“The first year we expose students to the principles of evidence-based dentistry. The second year, they review the quality of science described in various articles. In the third year, they use evidence-based principles in their comp-care group meetings. The fourth-year curriculum is evolving.”

Additional aspects of the undergraduate curriculum have been upgraded during the past decade. Greater understanding of dental issues and treatments has resulted in enhancements in biomedical, biomaterial and clinical sciences, Miller says. Many students also are now graduating with experience in dental implants, one of the fastest-growing segments in dentistry.

Students gain enhanced clinical experience through more options for clinic work in the Dallas community. In 2007, for example, fourth-year students began treating patients at the Vickery Meadow dental clinic. This facility was created from a partnership among Community Dental Care, Baylor College of Dentistry and the Baylor Oral Health Foundation, which collectively proposed the project to the Crystal Charity Ball for funding. A similar community dental clinic opened in Southeast Dallas in June 2011.

“The first year we expose students to the principles of

evidence-based dentistry.”

— Dr. Amp Miller

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Creating a health science center

Cole had been dean of Baylor College of Dentistry for two months in 2000 when he received a call from Howard

D. Graves, then chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.

“Dr. (Jay) Noren is stepping down, and we would like you to serve as interim president of the Health Science Center while we conduct a national search,” Graves said.

Cole didn’t respond at first. The dental school was still adjusting to its 1996 transition from a private college to a member of a state university system. To amplify that issue, the A&M System Health Science Center was barely a year old and still struggling to become established.

“I knew it would be a difficult leadership role,” Cole recalled. But he accepted the responsibility and spent the next 14 months dividing his time between the Health Science Center’s offices in College Station and the dental school in Dallas.

Now, 11 years later, Dickey praises BCD for its leadership contributions and support of inter-college collaborative educational initiatives during the HSC’s formative years. In addition to Cole and Carlson, the HSC tapped Dr. Bill Binnie, then professor and chair of BCD’s Department of Diagnostic Sciences, to become the HSC’s vice president for academic affairs in 2000.

“Baylor’s leaders were among the more enthusiastic participants in the process that created the HSC,” says Dickey. “They understood the value that it could bring. They continue to be valuable participants in numerous ways.”

Enhancing diversity

Dickey reiterates how impressed she is by BCD’s success in diversifying its student body.

“Schools all across the country are struggling with this,” she explains. “Baylor has managed, through a consistent and committed approach, to go from a pretty traditional performance in respect to diversity to an outstanding performance. They have proven that it can be done.”

The numbers tell the story. In 2000, when Cole was named dean, the entering class included 15 percent underrepresented minorities. A few years later, the percentage began increasing. By fall 2010, more than 48 percent of entering class members were underrepresented minorities. During the same time period, faculty URMs increased from 8 percent to 11 percent.

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Cole attributes the increase in URMs to two key factors: a more comprehensive admissions process and an extensive menu of “pipeline” enrichment programs that expose diverse elementary through college-age students to careers in dentistry. Dickey links it to three additional factors.

“BCD’s success sends the message that diversity clearly can be achieved with leadership, commitment and sufficient funding,” she says.

The diversity of the dental school’s student body aligns with the Health Science Center’s goal of providing health care to Texas’ diverse population. The story of sophomore college student Giovanni Mendoza, who hopes to attend BCD, illustrates why.

The 19-year-old plans eventually to set up a dental practice in a Hispanic community. “I want to create a summer program for teenagers to expose them to dentistry – like the one I participated in,” Mendoza says.

Mendoza has been a part of BCD’s Bridge to Dentistry Summer Pre-Dental Enrichment Program since his sophomore year in high school. He attended Dallas’ High School for Health Professions at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, where he met Dr. Ernestine Lacy ’94, director of the Office of Student Development at BCD. Lacy, who founded many of BCD’s pipeline programs, spends two half-days per week at the Dallas high school serving as the dentist for its dental assisting program.

“I love to work with my hands, and science is my favorite subject,” Mendoza says. “The program helped me realize that dentistry is my destiny.”

Lacy knows from personal experience as a child what it is like to be without access to care. This, she says, leads to her genuine personal and professional interest in trying to improve access.

“It is gratifying to see students come into the Bridge to Dentistry pipeline, grow as they go through the phases, and succeed in the face of challenges and oppositions,” says Lacy. “I feel like a proud mama when they cross the stage at commencement and go out to practice dentistry. It’s even more gratifying when they help address the access to care issue by choosing to give back.”

Clearly, says Cole, Lacy’s work is the bridge to the diversification success that Dickey noted at BCD’s commencement ceremonies. This dental faculty member’s passion and commitment have moved diversity at Baylor College of Dentistry from an adequate statistic to a bold reality.

Leadership with impact

Behind the abundant successes of the past 11 years is a dean who is widely respected but does not seek the limelight.

“Jim has this kind of ‘Superman vision’ that lets him clearly see the possibilities but also analyze the details,” Miller says. “He’s not an ‘ivory tower’ kind of guy; Jim stays in touch and solicits opinions from students, department chairs and faculty. He has a great overall feel for what’s critical to make the school operate optimally.

“I see Jim’s touch on a lot of things, and I’m grateful for all he’s done while he’s been here,” Miller says.

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A colleague and I decided to ask several students their answers to such questions. I visited with one group on a weekday evening in March soon after they returned from a 2010 spring break mission trip to Mexico. My colleague interviewed two others who traveled in early June to Bolivia. Their answers made our hearts swell to know the future of dentistry is in such compassionate and dedicated hands.

These Baylor College of Dentistry students – now graduates – share a zeal for serving that is both inspiring and heartwarming. Students who are drawn to mission work have many available destinations including sites in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Romania, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras.

In the words of Dr. Rudy Garza ’11, “When someone says the words, ‘mission trip,’ you automatically think, I’m going to get no sleep ... I’m going to be just exhausted, and school is already that way.

“But it’s so funny because when you’re on the mission trip ... you’re still tired but it’s such a different feeling from the school pressure. It’s a ‘good tired’ I would say.”

A lasting impactDr. Esteban Garza ’10, knew his dental education had equipped him to make a difference on the mission trip to Matamoros, Mexico. A memorable moment for him was caring for a 14-year-old girl who came to him for a cleaning.

“She had never been to the dentist, and her gums felt like they were screaming at me because they were so red, so inflamed,” says Garza. “One of the dentists who was overseeing me said, ‘Hey Esteban, that’s your most important patient of the day.’ That gave me goose bumps.”

Dr. Stephen Sperry ’11 was stationed at an orphanage where mission trip volunteers have treated patients on an annual basis for almost three decades. The children’s dental health reflected the positive results of that ongoing care.

“As I examined one kid after the other I began to notice that we were doing fewer fillings and extractions and more cleanings and fluoride applications,” says Sperry. “The treatments these kids received in years past had literally saved their teeth.”

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Dr. Ben Cozad ’11 was a member of a Texas A&M Health Science Center interdisciplinary health care team who traveled to Quesimpuco, Bolivia, a remote village that is a 12-hour mountainous jeep ride from La Paz, the country’s capital.

“I had never been to such an impoverished country before and didn’t fully know what to expect,” recalls Cozad. “The most surprising part is how much effort people went through to receive dental treatment. We had one group who journeyed 20 hours on foot to arrive at our clinic.”

By the time these determined travelers arrived, the clinic was closed. The group slept outside the clinic in freezing temperatures to be first in line when the clinic opened the following morning.

“Our trip has made me thankful for the little things we have here in the States like paved roads and warm water,” says Cozad. “It also helped me better realize how much of a privilege it is to be a health care provider.”

Suited for serviceWhat motivates dental students to give of themselves in mission work? They share an appreciation of the specific way they can serve.

Missionary work always has been a part of the life of Dr. Jonathan Oudin ’11. His maternal grandparents were missionaries, and his mom was born in Bolivia, living there until she was 7 years old. The opportunity to do mission work in her birthplace was one he could not pass up, he says.

“The trip renewed my passion for mission trips ... seeing other cultures and doing things to help them,” says Oudin. “It was great to see the teamwork and to have people with various health care backgrounds come together for a common goal.” Oudin and his wife, Dr. Kim Self ’09, returned to Bolivia in 2011.

“We’re kind of blessed in a way that we don’t even have to think about how we can help,” says Dr. Stephen Dao ’10, who went on the March trip to Mexico in 2010. “We know already what we can do; 15 minutes for us could save someone years of pain. We’re lucky enough we don’t have the excuse to not do anything because our skills are so specific and so needed.”

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Dental students and faculty join Dr. Nancy Dickey (center) and other health science center personnel on a trip to Bolivia.

Students experience camaraderie through mission work.

Houston dental student John Vann and Dr. Stephen Sperry care for a patient on a mission trip to Mexico.


“It was amazing to see how people living in a 10-by-10 mud hut who didn’t have access to simple things like closed-toe shoes or toilet paper were so happy,” says Cozad of his Bolivian experience.

Oudin concurs: “They lived on $95 per year – literally had nothing – yet were happy. That impacts you and encourages you.”

Sperry and others recognize an additional benefit derived from the mission trip: confidence.

“I would definitely say that this experience changed me,” Sperry says. “One of the many things that I walked away with is that my confidence went up in becoming a dental professional.”

The camaraderie experienced among mission trip participants of all ages and stages makes a lasting impression. Practicing dentists and other health care professionals provide mentoring and encouragement of the students, who later continue that cycle when they are on the other side of the diploma.

Dao has advice for students considering future mission work.“Step out of your comfort zone and really challenge yourself to

see that your skill is bigger than to help you and your pocketbook or you and your grades or you and your schoolwork or you and your graduation,” says Dao. “I think if more people got involved and they just tried it out, they would see.”

Esteban Garza witnessed the significant need for dental care on a four-month mission trip right after college to Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico.

“I had graduated from Texas A&M with a biology degree, and I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up,” he says. “I was there at an orphanage, and I loved it. I would translate for mission groups that came from the States. There was a medical team that came, and there was a longer line to see the dentist than the physician.

“When I got back I told my parents, ‘Hey, I’m coming home; I think I’m going to study for dental school.’ I’m going to go back (to Chiapas), and my goal is to have at least one operatory there and always go back and take care of those kids.”

Sperry is equally convinced that mission work is his calling. “That (mission work) was one of the reasons I chose dentistry as a career. I am grateful that God has given me this gift of dentistry and the opportunity to use this gift to serve others,” he says.

Rewards are two-sidedThe students say they receive as many rewards from the experience as they give.

“We were able to serve them, but it was definitely mutually beneficial,” says Dr. Jeremy Fike ’11, who traveled to Mexico. “It was just inspiring to come back. It made me want to be a better dentist and learn as much as I can.”

The trips also seem to help these future dentists appreciate that people with very little according to American standards can still live happy lives.

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someone years of pain.”

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Llamas dot the landscape in Bolivia. Dr. Kim Self shares a smile with a Bolivian patient.

Susan Mitchell Jackson contributed to this story.


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Alumni Association recognizes Gaylord

A Renaissance man” is just one attribute used by colleagues to describe Dr.

William C. “Bill” Gaylord. Other descriptors include “a man of many

talents and skills” and “a natural leader.” Gaylord received the Baylor College

of Dentistry Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumnus Award during the Alumni Association homecoming reception at the Adolphus Hotel on Jan. 22, 2010.

He inherited his dedication to the dental profession and community from his father, Dr. Robert Gaylord, founder of the graduate department of orthodontics at Baylor College of Dentistry. Gaylord and his father both are recognized for their positive influence and mentoring in leading numerous individuals to the specialty of orthodontics.

Gaylord received his dental degree in 1964 from BCD and a master’s degree in orthodontics in 1966 from the St. Louis University College of Dentistry. He served from 1966 to 1968 as a captain in the U.S. Air Force Dental Corps. Gaylord then moved to Flagstaff, Ariz., where he and his wife, Carole, currently reside, and where he maintains a private orthodontic practice.

Gaylord has been a member of the American Association of Orthodontics since 1965 and completed a successful term in 2008 as president, an office held in

1973 by his father. Gaylord also has been a member and served in the American Dental Association, Arizona State Dental Association, Northern Arizona Dental Society, Rocky Mountain Society of Orthodontists, Arizona Orthodontic Society and St. Louis University Orthodontic Education and Research Foundation.

His community involvement includes the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce as well as

local educational advisory committees and programs. His love of winter sports has involved him in ski associations, official committees and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

Gaylord has received many professional and civic honors. In 1971, he was named an honorary member of the Baylor Orthodontic Alumni Association. In 1984, he received the St. Louis University Orthodontic Alumni Association Outstanding Alumni Award. He is a member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy and a fellow of both the International College of Dentists and the American College of Dentists.

In 1996, Gaylord received the Arizona State Dental Association Service Award and, in 2008, the Orthodontic Education and Research Foundation Merit Award. In 1987, he was named the Arizona Daily Sun Co-Citizen of the Year. He was a co-recipient in 1985 of the Evelyn and Art Masbruch Award for ski race officiating. He received the Halstead Memorial Award in 2005 for volunteer services to the sport of skiing in the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association-Rocky Mountain Division.

In addition to his outstanding leadership and people skills on local, statewide and national levels, one colleague summed up Gaylord’s greatest asset as “his heart.”

“He is a lovable, friendly guy who enjoys playing Santa Claus (service above self) and making everybody smile,” says this fellow orthodontist.

Dr. Bill Gaylord

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Caruth alum wins TDHA award

Caruth School of Dental Hygiene gradu-ate Laurie Morgan Inglis ’02 was named

Outstanding Grassroots Dental Hygienist in Texas for 2010 by the Texas Dental Hygienists’ Association.

The award recognizes the involvement and participation of dental hygienists at the local level. Nominees are judged for their associa-tion participation, volunteerism, legislative activities and letters of recommendation from their peers.

According to one such letter, “Laurie’s work experience and involvement in the dental hygiene community demonstrate her commit-ment to the standards set forth by the dental hygiene profession.”

Inglis volunteers to apply fluoride varnish and provide oral hygiene instruction at

elementary schools. Since a 2008 dental mis-sion trip to Romania, she continues to send oral hygiene supplies to the dental clinic there.

Inglis also coaches her stepdaughter’s volleyball team and teaches Sunday school classes for children and small groups for adults. Inglis and her husband volunteer with Incredible Fridays, providing child care for special needs children so their parents can have a date night. When one of her classmates was diagnosed with cancer, she helped raise money to assist her friend as she underwent cancer treatment.

“I am humbled and thrilled to receive the award,” Inglis says. “Volunteering through my profession and in my community is important to me, and I am fortunate to have a profession that encourages and supports my endeavors.”

Inglis has been an American Dental Hygien-ists’ Association member since 2000 when she

entered dental hygiene school. She served as president of the Beta Chapter of Sigma Phi Alpha, the dental hygiene honor society.

Inglis is president of the Dallas Dental Hygienists’ Society and has held leadership positions in TDHA, the Student American Dental Hygienists’ Association’s Dallas compo-nent and its Greater Collin County compo-nent, which she helped found in 2004.

A resident of McKinney, Texas, she has volunteered her time to mentor dental hygiene students at BCD and Collin College. She also is the dental hygiene representative to the BCD Alumni Association board of directors.

Olympic champion Dr. Jay Arnette was a star at UT Austin.

Dr. Jay Arnette is photographed en route to the induction ceremony.

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FIFTY-ONE YEARS AGO, the U.S. Olympic basketball team brought home the gold medal from the 1960 Olympics in Rome. This remarkable team — all amateurs — posted such unequalled statistics that its members were inducted Aug. 13, 2010, into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Equally intriguing: Two of the 12 team members went on to become orthodontists. One of these is Dr. Jay Arnette, who graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in 1971 and its orthodontic graduate program in 1973. Now retired, he practiced in Austin, Texas, for more than 30 years.

Arnette was a standout 6’2” guard for the University of Texas when the Olympic folks came calling. He later played professional basketball in the 1960s with the Cincinnati Royals.

After completing pharmacy school and working as a pharmacist, he spoke at length with his fiancee’s father, who was a dentist and encouraged him to consider the profession. A visit to Baylor College of Dentistry and a conversation with the dean, who was a huge basketball fan, led to Arnette’s enrollment and future career in dentistry.

The dental school’s Baylor Burrs basketball team created a sensation in Arnette’s era, winning the city championship and advancing to the state playoffs. Little did the league know that a former professional player and Olympic gold medalist was in their midst. Arnette’s classmates knew, though, and many came to every game to cheer on their team.

Arnette says he stayed very busy between dental school, the basketball team and working as a pharmacist to support his family, but the friendships he formed in dental school have lasted to this day.

He was a star in academics as well as basketball, earning selection to Omicron Kappa Upsilon dental scholastic honor society and receiving the American Association of Orthodontists award upon graduation. He served as president of his class all four years and as a yearbook editor.

The Aug. 13 Enshrinement 2010 ceremony also featured the induction of the “Dream Team” of 1992, the team of legendary professional basketball players the likes of Michael Jordan, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley and Scottie Pippen, who brought home the Olympic gold medal from Barcelona, Spain.

The Hall of Fame events took place in Springfield, Mass., at Symphony Hall and were covered live on the NBA Channel.


Oklahoma’s oldest practicing pediatric dentist retires

IT WAS PROBABLY INEVITABLE for someone who has worked in children’s mouths for 63 years: the big bite.

Maybe it’s more surprising that Oklahoma’s oldest practicing dentist, Dr. J. Dean Robertson, was bitten only once, early in his career.

“It wasn’t accidental. It was a child who didn’t want (my fingers) in her mouth,” Robertson, 92, said with a laugh. “She really let me have it.”

Oklahoma’s first license-holder for pediatric dentistry said he learned to move his hands more quickly and successfully dodged who-knows-how-many other finger biters among his thousands of young patients.

Robertson is enjoying one of the most rambunctious, noisy retirements imaginable. He officially hung up the dental drill March 31 (2010) but was back recently at Smiling Faces, 5225 N Portland Ave., filling in for a day for his former business partner, Dr. Don Haskins.

Assistants Lori Poole and Jackie Soraino settled children into pint-sized dental chairs while Robertson walked quietly from one to the next.

“Oh, I like those teeth. They’re beautiful!” he said, after coaxing 2-year-old Kylie Davis to open her mouth.

Moments later, 4-year-old Kimberly Davis giggled as Robertson and crew explained how she should open her mouth like an alligator so they could polish her teeth with a tiny polisher.

“I love this place because it’s so kid-friendly. How many dentists take the time to show kids what the scary instruments do?” asked the girls’ mother, Misty Davis, 28.

In a neighboring chair, Santiago Martinez, 5, sat stiffly as tears tumbled from his big brown eyes, and Soraino assured him in Spanish that the doctor merely wanted a quick peek at his teeth. A child in the next room howled before the doctor made his way to him, too. But somehow, the mothers and the dental crew quickly calmed everyone.

Nancy Nguyen, 11, settled into the chair like a princess in white, while her smiling brother, Thien Nguyen, 7, high-fived and fist-bumped Robertson.

“They’re lovely people,” Robertson said of his patients. “They are all lovely people.”

How it all beganRobertson got into the business of working

with people after 1941, when he graduated with honors from Baylor University College of Dentistry. After serving his residency at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, he signed on as a military dentist.

He took a date to a football game at Frederick Army Airfield in southwestern Oklahoma in the early 1940s and spotted a cute brown-haired girl named Skippy, from Shawnee, in the next row. They chatted and the conversations evolved into dates at the officers’ club and eventually a pair of wedding rings.

After serving in the military, he and Skippy moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, where he practiced a little over a year in children’s dentistry. That’s where the young finger-biter taught him to pick up the pace.

Robertson and his bride moved to Oklahoma City, and he took the pediatric dentistry specialty board with two friends, Sumner Russman and Ben Caudle. Robertson said he somehow got license No. 1, Caudle got No. 2 and Russman got No. 3.

Robertson started his pediatric practice in Oklahoma City in the fall of 1947, and Dr. Don Haskins joined the practice in 1964 after completing graduate training at Baylor.

In 1976, Robertson joined the staff of the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry, where

the J. Dean Robertson Society, the college’s major fundraising organization, was formed. He worked as a full-time faculty member until 1988, when he was 70 years old.

“I’d gotten too old,” Robertson said. “They retired me.”

One afternoon, just after his retirement, Robertson and Haskins were having lunch when Haskins asked Robertson why he didn’t just return to the practice.

“You’ve got to be kidding,” Robertson recalls saying. “I’ve been there since 1988 to March 31, 2010.”

The dentist said he wants to get back into shape by swimming as he used to do every morning at 5 at the local YMCA.

He and Skippy will spend more time with the grandchildren.

And, though he’s the color-blind son of accomplished Dallas artist H.O. Robertson, J. Dean Robertson loves photography and plans to photograph landscapes in places such as the Texas Hill Country to capture photos of wildflowers.

Robertson said he has no regrets and nothing in his practice that he’ll look forward to avoiding.

Not even the little finger-biter.

BY SONYA COLBERGEditor’s Note: This story originally appeared

in the June 9, 2010, edition of The Oklahoman and was reprinted with permission from The Oklahoma Publishing Company, Copyright 2010.


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Blanton assumes national

leadership roles

Baylor College of Dentistry alumna and professor emeritus Dr. Patricia Blanton

’67, ’74, ’76 is making her mark on the profession with her election to leadership roles in two prominent dental organizations.

She was installed as president-elect of the American College of Dentists on Oct. 8, 2010, during the organization’s annual meeting and convocation in Orlando, Fla. A few days later on Oct. 12, Blanton was elected second vice president of the American Dental Association during the association’s 151st Annual Session, also in Orlando.

“One of the highest honors of my professional career will be to serve as president of the American College of Dentists, the oldest national honorary society for dentists,” Blanton said. “One of my goals as president-elect and as I go into the presidency will be to enhance the public’s and the profession’s knowledge of the efforts of the ACD to elevate ethical conduct within

our profession and assure that we dentists never lose the public’s trust.”

She has equally noble goals for her leadership role with the ADA. As second vice president, Blanton will have the responsibility of representing the House of Delegates, the policy making body of the organization, before the ADA Board of Trustees.

“By adhering to our traditional values and insisting on best practices, I am confident that dentistry is positioned to reach new heights,” Blanton said. “However, it will take an informed and concerted effort on the part of all dentists to assure that the future of the profession is bright.”

The Dallas periodontist has ample experience in professional leadership roles. She is a past president of the Texas Dental Association, Southwest Society of Periodontists, Texas Society of Periodontists and the Dallas County Dental Society. She also has served as a delegate and alternate delegate to both the ADA and TDA Houses of Delegates.

Blanton received her doctorate in anatomy from Baylor University and her dental degree and certificate in periodontics from BCD.

Tovar wins HDA national award

WHILE A FOURTH-YEAR DENTAL STUDENT, Dr. Carly Tovar ’11 was one of only three students nationwide to receive the Colgate-Palmolive/Hispanic Dental Association Student Recognition Award for 2010. She was recognized Oct. 30 at the HDA’s gala award dinner during the association’s annual meeting in Chicago.

The award recognizes graduating students who are HDA members and who demonstrate a special interest in community dentistry and dental public health issues related to the promotion and improvement of oral health in the Hispanic community. Tovar received a plaque, a cash award of $500, travel and reg-istration funds of $200 and a complimentary HDA membership for 2011.

Dr. Grace Snuggs, assistant professor of restorative sciences at Baylor College of Den-tistry and faculty adviser to the college’s Hispanic Student Dental Association, nominated Tovar for the award. She cited her dedication and service as a role model, her desire to improve awareness of the oral health needs of Hispanics among Texas communities and her interest in organized dentistry by reinforcing connections between the college’s student HDA chapter and the professional organization.

“Carly understands the need for more Hispanic role models in the health care pro-fession and embraces this as her own respon-sibility,” Snuggs said. “As a member of HSDA, Carly has shown great care and interest for the Hispanic community and their needs.”


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Higginbottom named 2011

Distinguished Alumnus

Dr. Frank L. Higginbottom was bestowed Baylor College of Dentistry’s Distinguished

Alumnus Award on Jan. 14, 2011, during the BCD Alumni Association’s homecoming reception at Dallas’ Adolphus Hotel.

Higginbottom is held in high esteem by colleagues who are quick to list his numerous attributes: a passion for dentistry, proponent of organized dentistry, a continual student, leader, mentor, educator and a caring and respectful individual.

“It has been my privilege to work with Dr. Higginbottom in continuing education courses, where he gives back to the dental profession,” said Dr. Burt Bryan, BCD alumnus and assistant director of continuing education and alumni affairs. “The positive comments that participants include on course evaluations reflect his dedication.”

Classmates of Higginbottom expressed their support of his nomination for the award with comments such as, “Even then, Frank was driven by an inner purpose that demanded perfection in his academic and clinical endeavors. He was always at the top of the class then, and he still is today. He has continued to dedicate himself to the pursuit of dental excellence.”

A 1971 BCD graduate, Higginbottom maintains a private practice in esthetic, restorative and implant dentistry in Dallas. At his alma mater, he is an associate clinical professor in restorative sciences, graduate prosthodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery. He also is a clinical associate professor of periodontics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio dental school.

Higginbottom lectures nationally and internationally on the subjects of dental implants, restorative dentistry, provisional restorations and treatment planning. He has authored numerous articles and contributed to textbooks on these subjects and is active in basic research in the field of dental implant systems. A member of several professional dental organizations, Higginbottom is a past director and vice president of the Texas Dental Association and a fellow of the Academy of

Osseointegration, the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists. He has been awarded honorary membership in the American College of Prosthodontics.

Higginbottom co-chaired BCD’s Centennial Celebration Steering Committee in 2004-2005. Named the 2009 Dallas County Dental Society Dentist of the Year, he has been highly involved with the BCD Alumni Association and also helped establish First Presbyterian Church’s dental clinic for the homeless. He was the featured speaker at BCD’s 2011 commencement exercises.

In Memoriam

Dr. Hubert B. Palmer ’38 Dr. Raymond C. Gambill ’43 Dr. Maurice L. Parrish ’43 Dr. Albert J. Sneed ’43 Dr. Jack W. Alexander ’44 Dr. William P. Burch, Jr. ’44 Dr. James Foster Gaines, Jr. ’44 Dr. Glenn Dibrell Gay ’44 Dr. Hilton Arthur Hooper ’44 Dr. Robert T. Parish ’44 Dr. Everett B. Blanton, Jr. ’45 Dr. Leroy Krause ’45 Dr. William B. Long ’45 Dr. Ashley Harold Sills, Jr. ’46 Dr. Harley H. Goettsche ’47 Dr. Anthony R. Schmitt ’47 Dr. Robert Travis ’47 Dr. Robert V. Walker ’47 Dr. George W. Bowman ’48 Dr. Weldon B. Adair ’49 Dr. Lee Walker Helm, Jr. ’49 Dr. Thomas Matthews ’50 Dr. Frank T. Sunderman ’50 Dr. Walter Loyd Henry ’51 Dr. Thomas H. Lindsey ’51 Dr. Bill G. Wester ’51 Dr. Albert D. Bird ’52 Dr. Joel F. Goodwin, Sr. ’52 Dr. Joe Bob Warren ’52 Dr. Oscar Clyde Bradley, Jr. ’53 Dr. E. Brady Cox, Jr. ’53 Dr. L. W. “Bill” Drechsel ’53 Dr. Clifford Mac Lester ’53 Dr. John A. Barton ’54 Dr. Robert F. Smith ’54 Dr. James W. Booth, Jr. ’55 Dr. J.W. Cobb ’55 Dr. Jack E. Fielden ’55 Dr. Homer Campbell, Jr. ’56 Dr. Edward R. Genecov ’56 Dr. Jack Martin ’57 Dr. Arthur J. Naugher ’57 Mirian D. Cason, RDH ’58 Dr. Donald E. Oxford ’58 Dr. Lewis R. Eidson ’59 Dr. Peter J. Paulus II ’59 Dr. Tom G. Duff ’60 Dr. Charles E. Dietz ’61 Dr. Ruth R. Swords ’61 Dr. John Cleveland Watson ’61 Dr. Ben H. Bell ’62 Dr. Jack A. Ramey ’62 Dr. Earl L. Carter, Jr. ’63 Dr. Gerald E. Martin ’63 Dr. John R. Daggett ’64 Dr. James A. Johnston ’64 Dr. John O. Nix ’64 Dr. Glenn K. Bice ’65 Dr. Robert Aaron Smith ’66 Dr. James R. Batten ’68 Cynthia Preston Carson, RDH ’68 Dr. Edward Kimball Corbett ’68 Dr. Thomas N. Tennery ’68 Dr. Charles F. Crabtree ’70 Dr. John C. Watkins ’70 Dr. Tipton Asher ’73 (Pedo) Dr. Charles J. Watson ’73 Dr. James W. Kennedy III ’74 Dr. Ray A. Smith ’74 Dr. Glenn Randall Clark ’76 Dr. Clay Edward Ellis ’77 Dr. Craig H. Merrell ’78 Dr. Derek Gibbs Ellis ’80 Dr. William H. Craig ’83 Dr. Samuel Haueisen ’86 Dr. Joseph M. Miranda ’86 Dr. Mark S. McLeod ’87 Dr. Michael L. Kavanaugh ’92 Dr. Craig Malorzo ’00

“He was always at

the top of the class then,

and he still is today. He has

continued to dedicate himself to

the pursuitof dental excellence.”

Dr. Frank L. Higginbottom




Oudin awarded first Betty J.

Scott Scholarship

WHEN IT CAME TIME TO CHOOSE THE FIRST BETTY J. SCOTT SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT, the selection committee had an easy choice to make. Dr. Jonathan Oudin, then a fourth-year dental student, embodied Scott’s hopes that the winner would be a well-rounded individual.

“We stuck as close as we could to Ms. Scott’s idea of a student with ‘head skills, hand skills and heart skills,’” said Dr. Jack Long ’76, committee chair and associate dean for student affairs at Baylor College of Dentistry. “Jonathan was the odds-on favorite of the list of D4 students being considered.”

The $4,000 award was presented to Oudin by Dr. Todd Baumann, president of the BCD Alumni Association board of directors, during the association’s homecoming reception Jan. 14 at Dallas’ Adolphus Hotel.

“Ms. Scott was the beloved registrar of the college for well over 30 years,” Baumann said. “She developed the criteria for the scholarship, and our first awardee embodies the qualities she envisioned.”

Funding for the endowed scholarship began in 2001 when Dr. William R. Forrest ’62 made the first gift to the Baylor Oral Health Foundation with the intent to establish the fund. Since then, BOHF and the Alumni Association jointly worked to raise the endowment.

At the time funding began, Scott said she was touched by the sentiment behind the scholarship’s creation. Before her retirement in 1992, she was responsible for admissions and records of thousands of dental and dental hygiene students during her 32-year tenure at the college. Her employment covered the terms of four deans, and as registrar, she never missed a commencement, presenting diplomas to 4,800 graduates. She was inducted into the BCD Hall of Fame in 1992.

Scott considered herself an encourager to students, and they responded to her nurturing.

“Many graduates have asserted that they would not be where they are today had it not been for Betty,” Forrest said in a 2002 article in the Baylor Dental Journal.

In December, Scott met Oudin for lunch along with Long and Dr. James Cole ’75, BCD dean. “She was thrilled with the committee’s selection,” Long said. “As it turns out, Jonathan’s wife was Ms. Scott’s student dentist, so there was a strong connection with her as well.”

The Betty J. Scott Scholarship Committee is an ad hoc committee whose members will change from year to year. In addition to Long, 2010 committee members included: Moira Allen, director of student affairs;

Dr. Christine Beninger, Dr. George Cramer ’75 and Dr. Mark Gannaway ’81, all associate professors of restorative sciences; and Dr. Mike Lillard, assistant professor of general dentistry.

Contributions to the Betty J. Scott Scholarship Fund will help to increase available scholarship funds for future dental students. Checks may be made payable to BOHF and sent to Baylor Oral Health Foundation, 3600 Gaston Avenue, Suite 1151, Dallas, TX 75246. For more information, please call 214.828.8437.

“Ms. Scott was the beloved registrar of the college for well over 30 years. She developed the criteria for the

she envisioned.” — DR. TODD BAUMANN


Dr. Todd Baumann, Betty Scott and Dr. Jonathan Oudin



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BCD loses longtime champion

When Dr. Robert V. Walker ’47 graduated from what was then Baylor University

College of Dentistry, his relationship with the college was far from over. He went on to become one of Baylor College of Dentistry’s most distinguished alumni and generous benefactors, championing the college’s mission for more than 60 years.

When Walker passed away April 28, 2011, at his Dallas home, the loss rippled throughout the community. At his memorial service the next week, the Highland Park Presbyterian Church sanctuary was full. Family, friends and colleagues from near and far gathered to commemorate an extraordinary life.

Walker was actively involved with the college even in the days leading up to his passing, serving as the honorary co-chairman of the Cole Professorship Development Committee. Whenever he was asked to assist the school he always accepted, fully embracing the responsibility. In recent years, Walker was chairman of the Baylor Oral Health Foundation board of directors and co-chairman of the college’s centennial celebration.

Walker came to the college in 1944 after attending Texas A&M University, where he had walked onto the baseball team and lettered. (He even played a season of minor league baseball for the Tulsa Oilers.) After earning his dental degree, he practiced general dentistry in Waco, Texas, for four years and then served in the U.S. Army Dental Corps from 1951 to 1953 during the Korean War.

His military experiences led Walker to study oral surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine and Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. In 1956 he helped create the division of oral surgery at UT Southwestern Medical School as part of the Department of Surgery.

That role led to a nearly 30-year tenure as chairman of oral surgery at UT Southwestern, where he focused on educational programs, assessment and accreditation processes, escalating the school’s residency program to international status.

Numerous accolades, including his role as a founder of the International Association of Oral

and Maxillofacial Surgeons and president of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, dotted his career.

While Walker was recognized worldwide for his strides within oral and maxillofacial surgery, it’s his appreciation for the college and his kind and generous nature that made him so treasured within the BCD family.

In 1997, the 50th anniversary of Walker’s graduation, he and his wife, Emily, created the Robert V. and Emily Walker Endowed Scholarship, and he led his class to establish one as well. A loyal Aggie, he also helped establish the Texas A&M University Medical and Dental Society, an organization that funds scholarships for standout premedical and predental students.

“An internationally renowned pioneer in oral and maxillofacial surgery, Dr. Walker traveled the world, yet always said ‘yes’ when called upon to serve our college,” wrote Dr. James S. Cole ’75, BCD dean, in an April 29 letter to the college. “He will be dearly missed.”

Dr.Robert V. Walker

Chapmans’ bequest to BCD establishes scholarship fund

DR. WILKS CHAPMAN ’40 and his wife had future dental students on their minds when they established the Wilks Chapman and Kathryn Chapman Trust at the Broadway National Bank of Bexar County, Texas, in December 1991.

The Chapmans named Baylor College of Dentistry as a beneficiary.

In December 2010, a portion of the $307,203 bequest established the Wilks and Kathryn Chapman Endowed Scholarship Fund, fulfilling the now-deceased Chapmans’ desire to fund “scholarships for deserving dental students.”

“It is really wonderful that our current students will so richly benefit from Dr. and Mrs. Chapman’s thoughtful act two decades ago,” said Susan Mitchell Jackson, executive director of communications and institutional advancement at BCD.

The gift also created the Chapman Scholarship Matching Fund, which provides prospective donors with opportunities to establish $25,000 named endowed scholarships at the dental school through a dollar-for-dollar match of $12,500.

“We hope the matching fund will serve as a catalyst to encourage others to help us create more financial assistance for our students,” said Jackson. “I think it is an appropriate way to honor the Chapmans for their farsighted benevolence.”

To establish an endowed scholarship or for more information on estate planning, please contact the Office of Communications & Institutional Advancement at 214.828.8214. or [email protected] for more information.

Dr. Wilks Chapman

“An internationally renowned pioneer

in oral and maxillofacial surgery,

Dr. Walker traveled the world,

yet always said ‘yes’ when

called upon to serve our college.”

— DR. JAMES S. COLE, BCD DEAN


Robert Bigham and Ray Covington greet guests at BCD’s giving event.

Donors ‘Get Up and Give’ to benefit BCD

ON SEPT. 8, 2010, Baylor Oral Health Foundation took part in “Get Up and Give! North Texas Giving Day,” raising $5,628 to benefit Baylor College of Dentistry.

The day was designated by the Communities Foundation of Texas as a special occasion for nonprofit organizations to encourage online giving and celebrate philanthropy.

The BOHF administrative team participated by setting up computer laptops as giving stations on the dental school’s 6th floor. They handed out freshly popped popcorn, poured ice-cold lemonade and held drawings for door prizes.

“This was our first time participating,” said Robert J. Bigham Jr., president and treasurer of BOHF. “We had a great time, visited with some really neat people at the school and raised some money. I look forward to doing this again in the fall.”

BOHF promoted the event to its board of directors and the Baylor College of Dentistry faculty, staff, alumni and students, encouraging them to give online at the college from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or remotely at www.donorbridgetx.org anytime between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

While this website was the centerpiece of the special giving day, it is available throughout the year to provide donors a convenient way to support charitable organizations.

College’s first professorship to honor Cole

Dr. James S. Cole ’75, who became dean of Baylor College of Dentistry 25 years after

graduating from the college and beginning his BCD career, will retire Aug. 31, 2011.

In honor of his dedicated leadership, friends and colleagues are raising funds to establish the James S. Cole, D.D.S, Endowed Professorship in Dentistry, which will help fund technology improvements and instructional innovations at the college.

“It has been awesome to witness the warmth and enthusiasm associated with gifts made to establish this professorship in Dr. Cole’s honor,” said Susan Mitchell Jackson, executive director of communications and institutional advancement at the college. “Because the professorship’s purpose aligns with a central element of Dr. Cole’s BCD legacy, it truly is the perfect way to thank him for his servant leadership.”

During Cole’s decade-long tenure as dean and throughout his career at BCD, he has embraced innovation and has made technology

enhancements a top priority. His vision has propelled the college to the upper echelon of dental schools, leading in the use of dental simulation, state-of-the-art clinics, high-tech classrooms and instructional tools, virtual microscopy for histology, electronic patient records, digital radiography, dental implant clinical experiences and more.

The professorship, the college’s first, will be funded at a minimum level of $500,000 and will be endowed to exist in perpetuity.

Proceeds from the endowment will be available to the dean, who will be the holder of the professorship, to help address the technology needs that are critical to the future of dental education and the delivery of contemporary oral health care.

The Cole Professorship Fund resides at the Baylor Oral Health Foundation. To honor Jim Cole with a gift to the fund, please contact Susan Mitchell Jackson at 214.828.8214 or [email protected]. Pledges to the fund are payable over four years.

Crystal Charity Ball-funded dental center opens

COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE’S long-anticipated Southeast Dental Center opened with great fanfare and excitement June 2, 2011. The dental clinic is co-located with the Parkland Community Oriented Primary Care Center in the southeast Dallas community known as Pleasant Grove, an area where dental-care access has been a challenge.

A Baylor College of Dentistry community partner, Community Dental Care is a nonprofit organization providing dental services to low-income families at 12 Dallas-area locations.

The new clinic is the result of the Crystal Charity Ball’s support of an oral-health initiative of BCD, Baylor Oral Health Foundation, Community Dental Care, Parkland Health & Hospital System and the Dallas Independent School District to benefit children in southeast Dallas.

Pictured (l to r) are Dr. James S. Cole, BCD dean; Dr. Daniel Jones, BCD public health sciences chair; Dr. Ron Anderson, Parkland president and CEO; Sharon Phillips, Parkland senior vice president, community medicine; Debbie Oates and Carol Spies, Crystal Charity Ball committee members; Earl Johnson, Community Dental Care board member; Paul Hoffmann, Community Dental Care executive director; Argentry Fisher, Parkland health center administrator; and Dr. Martia Leffall, Community Dental Care dental director.

Dr. James S. Cole

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Endowed scholarship memorializes dental hygiene pioneer

Dr. Ruth Swords ’61 devoted two decades, 1962 to 1982, to educating and nurturing

aspiring dental hygienists as the director of Baylor College of Dentistry’s Caruth School of Dental Hygiene.

After she passed away in June 2009 at age 92, dental hygiene alumnae Lana Crawford ’68 ’72, Mary Ellen Ausmus-Laursen ’68, and Cynthia Carson ’68 led efforts among family and other alumni to establish the Ruth Riley Swords, D.D.S., Endowed Scholarship.

Leadership gifts from Swords’ children – Dr. Sylvia Swords Gleaton ’79 and H. Logan Swords II – provided the funds necessary to endow the scholarship in 2010.

“We watched our mother over the years as a dental student, an instructor in the Department of Periodontics and finally as director of Caruth School of Dental Hygiene,” said Gleaton in a letter accompanying the contribution from herself and her brother.

“She took her job seriously, but she also enjoyed every aspect of her career at Baylor. She always loved a challenge. We know how much she loved the school, the faculty and staff and the students,” Gleaton said.

Swords was 44 years old when she earned her dental degree from BCD in 1961, graduating second in her class and receiving the Merritt-Parks Award in periodontics. She served as clinical instructor in periodontology for several months before accepting the chief post in dental hygiene. As director, Swords encouraged the college’s then dean, Dr. Harry B. McCarthy, to expand the dental hygiene program from a two-year certificate to a bachelor’s degree, the first of its kind in Texas.

From an early age, Swords distinguished herself with profound academic achievements. She graduated from high school in Mineral Wells, Texas, where she was valedictorian. She earned a bachelor’s degree and was, yet again, valedictorian at East Texas State Teacher’s College in 1938. Nearly two decades later, Swords returned to college to earn another bachelor’s degree, this time from Texas Wesleyan College, and went on to BCD.

Swords was a charter member of the Baylor Odontological Honor Society, a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon dental honor society and an honorary member of Sigma Phi Alpha dental hygiene honor society. She was a fellow of the International College of Dentists and the American College of Dentists. On the day of Swords’ retirement in 1982, she was named professor emeritus, and she was inducted into the BCD Hall of Fame in 1989.

“I admire the efforts of Caruth School’s Class of 1968 to remember Dr. Swords in such a special way, and I appreciate her children for helping make the scholarship possible,” said Dr. Janice DeWald, BCD director and chair of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene. “We have a definite need for additional fund sources for our students.”

The Swords scholarship recognizes a full-time junior or senior dental hygiene student for academic achievement, clinical achievement (if applicable), ethics, professionalism and leadership.

For information on how to contribute to the

Communications & Institutional Advancement at 214.828.8214 or [email protected].

“I admire the efforts of Caruth School’s Class of 1968 to remember Dr. Swords in

such a special way, and I appreciate

her children for helping make the

scholarship possible.”

— DR. JANICE DEWALD

nnual undA FDean launches new annual fund drive

DR. JAMES S. COLE ’75, DEAN, revived the college’s yearly fundraising initiative in September 2010 when he launched the Baylor College of Dentistry Annual Fund, labeling it “A New Tradition for a New Decade.” This effort raised $40,760 to assist new or existing BCD programs, scholarships and activities.

After being asked repeatedly about reestablishing an annual giving fund at BCD, Cole heeded the requests for a mechanism that makes giving to BCD simple and convenient. He communicated his rationale in a letter to BCD faculty, staff and students last fall, stating, “BCD’s successes and challenges indicate that now is the right time for the Annual Fund.”

For many years, BCD had invited dental school faculty, staff, students and alumni to contribute annually to an unrestricted pool of funds for various college projects. That annual fund program was called the Century Club, and participation was high, according to Cole.

In the early 1990s, however, annual solicitation shifted primarily to the Baylor College of Dentistry Alumni Association. Although the association makes contributions to the college, the association exists primarily to keep alums connected to each other, to ease access to professional development and to bolster the dental profession while reflecting positively on BCD. The alumni association’s membership dues are separate from the BCD Annual Fund.

“I appreciate how enthusiastic the response was to our call for all members of the dental school family to make yearly contributions to benefit our college and those we serve,” said Cole. “I am confident that when asked again this year, even more will join our efforts.”

To contribute to the 2011 BCD Annual Fund, go to www.bcd.tamhsc.edu/giving.html or contact the Office of Communications & Institutional Advancement at 214.828.8471.


Dr. Ruth Swords (right) instructs a dental hygiene student in the clinic in the 1960s.

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Dr. James D. Jensen, Jr.* Mr. Kevin Keith Dr. Harvey P. Kessler* Dr. Roy D. Kindrick ’67 Dr. Thomas B. King ’51* Dr. Kelly A. Kirtland ’98* Mrs. Janet Kling* Mrs. Sarah Kong ’05* Dr. Robert E. “Buddy” Lee III ’69* Dr. Lisa S. Lin ’95* Dr. Fred A. Loe Dr. Julie M. Longoria ’08* Dr. Yongbo Lu* Dr. H. O’Dell Marshall Dr. John P. McCasland ’57* Dr. Byron M. McKnight ’81* Dr. Danette C. ’88* Dr. Barbara A. Miller ’83* Dr. and Mrs. Frank Miller ’61* Dr. Vernon T. Miller, Jr. ’85* Dr. Mario Miranda ’90* Dr. Regina C. Miranda ’92* Dr. Maryam Mojdehi-Barnes ’97* Ms. Cynthia Montgomery Dr. Dan Moore Ms. Juanna Moore* Dr. Loulou Moore ’93* Dr. Davis W. Morgan ’89* Dr. Soan V. Ngo ’95* Dr. Linda C. Niessen* Dr. Lee P. Oneacre Dr. Charles F. Orth ’86* Ralph Pagano Ms. Gail Parrigin-Clark* Dr. Daniel C. Peavy, Jr. ’62 Dr. Gary W. Penn ’78* Dr. Richard E. Phelan ’78 Dr. Judith A. Ragsdale* Dr. Hedley Rakusin* Ms. Sharada Ramasubramanian* Mrs. Janet M. Reinwald* Mrs. Kay F. Rickets ’58* Dr. Dale C. Rogers ’87* Dr. John B. Ross V ’79* Mrs. Debbie Ruff* Mr. Steve Ruff* Mrs. Jeanne Rumley ’62 and Dr. John L. Rumley ’65* Dr. Ericka A. Sample ’98* Mrs. Janice D. Saunders ’68 Dr. John Schillingburg Dr. Emet D. Schneiderman* Dr. Allen P. Schuster ’72* Mrs. Gloria J. Schwarzentraub ’68 Mr. Brian C. Schweers ’10 Mrs. Betty J. Scott* Dr. Ronald T. Sherwood ’79* Mrs. Gloria Snyder Alan Sutker Dr. Todd J. Svane ’84 Dr. Bob Talcott ’94* Dr. Mohsen Taleghani* Dr. Willard L. Tompson ’63* Dr. Joy L. Trigo ’91* Dr. Patricia Buksa Valdivia ’87* The Honorable Joe S. Vassar Mr. Eddie Victorino* Ms. Pamela Wade ’68* Dr. Harold S. Westerholm II ’84* Dr. Robert Kyne and Mrs. Cathy Ann White* Dr. H. Graham Wilson, Jr. ’66* Dr. John F. Zummo, Jr. ’80*

In-Kind Contributions 3M Unitek American Orthodontics DENTSPLY GAC International The Laser Company Mr. Alexander S. Mendoza PracticeWorks Systems, LLC Straumann, USA Vident

Gifts In Honor Of:Dr. Alan BurkhartDr. Phil Campbell ’71, ’73Suling Rachel ChhayDr. James S. Cole ’75Mr. Ryan DarrFinancial Services StaffDr. William W. HallmonDr. David C. Hildebrand ’69Dr. Timothy M. Huckabee ’87Dr. and Mrs. Terry ReesSteve and Shanna Williams

Gifts In Memory Of:Dr. Tipton Asher ’73Dr. Paul Atkinson ’58Mrs. Waneta A. BennettMrs. Cynthia L. Carson ’68Dr. James E. Curtis ’35Dr. James C. “Jim” Davis ’74Dr. Robert E. GaylordDr. Edward R. Genecov ’56Dr. Frank L. Hansen ’70Dr. William C. HurtDr. James M. Kramer ’69Mr. Milton P. Levy, Jr.Dr. Tom Matthews ’50Mrs. Jacqueline F. MitchellDr. Thomas W. StanfordDr. Ruth Riley Swords ’61Dr. Paul Taylor ’44Mrs. Carol A. TriplettDr. Phillip Earle Williams ’26

BAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTORS

THE MISSION OF THE BAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION is to provide Baylor College of Dentistry with funds and sup-port to sustain its institutional preemi-nence through excellence in students, faculty, research and outreach.

BOHF does this by managing and raising private dollars for world-class faculty, leading-edge research, academic programs and scholarships.

Private support helps the college go beyond the limits of state and federal funding to provide innovative and high quality programs for thousands of stu-dents and patients touched by BCD.

The fiscal-year 2010-2011 foundation directors were Joel Allison, Stan Allred, Mike Baggett, Dr. Patricia Blanton, George Bramblett, Jr., Bill Carter (vice chair), Dr. Frank Eggleston, Gary Elliston, Ruben Esquivel (chair), Dr. Kathy Hamilton, Larry Haynes, Carol Seay, Carl Schieffer, Dr. Keith Thornton, Dr. Robert Walker and Dr. Terry Watson. Advisory directors were Milton Levy, Jr., honorable chairman emeritus; and Clara Hoffman.

The following gifts reflect giving to the foundation in calendar years 2009 and 2010. They were donated to benefit one of these funds held at BOHF: Baylor Orthodontic Support FundBaylor Periodontics Alumni FundBCD Graduate Prosthodontic ProgramBetty J. Scott Scholarship FundGaylord Clinic FundGaylord Endowed Chair Support FundJesse T. Bullard LectureshipKimberly Campbell Orthodontic Research FundOral and Maxillofacial Surgery DepartmentPatricia Clendenin Wessendorff Caruth School FundPediatric Dentistry Support FundPeriodontal Resident Endowment FundRobert S. Staffanou Scholarship FundStraumann FundTom Matthews LectureshipWhiteaker-Hurt Endowed Chair

$250–$499Baylor College of Dentistry Staff Forum Mr. Charles E. Bennett* Dr. Richard E. Bradley via the Bradley Family Trust* Dr. Welleyn L. Bullis ’67* Dr. Robert J. Christian ’69* Dr. Debora Clark ’83 and Dr. Gerald L. Clark ’83* Dr. Leon A. Conkling ’72* Dr. Mark A. Craig ’90* Dr. Paul C. Dechow* Ms. Betty N. Ferraro ’68*Dr. David M. Grogan ’81 Dr. Kenneth M. Hamlett, Jr. ’74* Mr. Mack W. Hampton* Dr. David C. Haydon ’70* Mr. Tommie and Mrs. Sylvia Huckabee* Dr. Joseph D. James, Jr. ’74 Dr. Ramsey Koschak ’79* Ms. Sandi Kramer ’69* Dr. Laura Spencer LaCroix’99* Dr. Thad Langford ’74* Dr. Joy Kathleen Lunan ’80* Dr. Thomas M. Matthews ’50* Dr. Gary McDonald Dr. Amp W. Miller III ’73* Dr. Gabriele J. Mues* Mr. Sam Oladipo Dr. Lynne A. Opperman* Dr. LaVan R. Parker III ’94* Dr. Robert C. Penny ’74* Dr. David W. Price ’81* Dr. Thomas B. “T.J.” Randers, Jr., and Ms. Cassie L. Randers ’03*Dr. Murray R. Ray ’68* Dr. Everett Renger, Jr. ’70* Dr. C. Edward Sauer, Jr. ’87* Dr. Johnny C. Smith ’81 * Dr. Cory Stephens ’01* Dr. Marvin G. Stephens, Jr. ’71* Dr. Charles M. Taylor III ’81* Dr. Tuan A. Tran ’98* Dr. Mark N. Waters ’81* Dr. John C. White ’84* Dr. Ronald L. Winder ’73* Dr. Jeffrey S. Woodson ’67

Up to $249 Mrs. Cullen Aderhold Dr. Roger E. Alexander* Dr. Zoel G. Allen, II ’95* Mr. Ben Alvord Areva Dr. Dean N. Armstrong ’78* Dr. Jeffrey P. Atkinson ’94* Mrs. Mary E. Ausmus-Laursen ’68 Dr. David Beal ’78* Mrs. Lynn Bernstien Dr. James C. Boley ’63* Dr. Ali Bolouri* Dr. Rex E. Brewster ’60* Dr. George I. Bridges ’68* Ms. Beverly L. Brown ’74 Dr. Burt C. Bryan ’79* Dr. James E. Burkholder ’81* Dr. James V. Burnett ’48 Dr. Bruce Butcher ’80 Dr. Siv “Sue” Chhay ’98* Dr. Jon Clemetson ’02* Dr. Gregory T. Cohlmia ’74 Dr. Gary C. Coleman* Dr. Mike Cook ’83* Ms. Carolyn Cox* Col. Edward J. Cramer, Jr. Mrs. Lana C. Crawford ’68 Dr. Carly C. Cunningham ’04/ Cunningham Orthodontics P.C.* Ms. Janice C. Curry ’68 Dr. Michael W. Curry ’73 Dr. Bradley B. Daniels ’80* Dr. Kristi L. Davis ’96* Mrs. Wanda Deaton Ms. Lori L. Dees* Dr. Elsa B. Dembinski and Dr. Thomas B. Dembinski II ’74* Dental Hygiene Class of 1974 Dental Hygiene Class of 2010 Dr. Michael L. Dobbins ’68* Dr. John Dow III ’81 Dr. Arlet R. Dunsworth ’69 Dr. Michael L. Ellis ’85 Dr. Michael P. Fauks ’74* Dr. William J. Garard, Jr. ’77* Dr. Thomas “Hank” Garrett ’75* Dr. Jacob Geller ’56 Dr. Mary B. Ginderske ’67* Dr. Alexander I. Glogau Dr. James B. Goates ’76* Dr. Marshal D. Goldberg ’80* Dr. Craig S. Goodman ’84 Mr. James E. Graves Dr. Kimberly H. Gronberg ’02 Dr. Robert S. Hamilton ’78* Mrs. Frankie L. Hansen ’68* Dr. Donald W. Haskins ’62* Dr. C. Robert Henry, Jr. ’72* Dr. Larry D. Herwig ’84* Ms. Margaret K. Hicks ’67* Mr. Christopher M. Huckabee* Ms. Phyllis Huckabee* Dr. Gene C. Huff ’60* Dr. Bob C. Hunsucker ’89* Dr. Howard D. Iba ’70* Mrs. Kathryn A. Ivie* Ms. Susan Mitchell Jackson*

Gift ReportTEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY is grateful for the financial support it receives from loyal and diverse constituencies. These gifts represent the tangible and lasting means of assuring that the college’s quest for excellence continues.

This gift report includes donations to BCD, Baylor Oral Health Foundation and BCD Alumni Association, reported by calendar year.

Not included in these listings are competitively awarded grants and contracts managed through the Texas A&M Research Foundation.

Every effort has been made to make each list complete and ac-curate, but inevitably some errors or omissions may have occurred. We would appreciate receiving correc-tions, comments or questions.

Please direct any concerns to BCD’s Office of Communications & Institutional Advancement at 214.828.8471. You also may contact this office for information on ways to continue your support of the college and its mission.

We heartily thank our alumni, faculty, staff, students, friends and members of the corporate and founda-tion communities for their generosity and commitment to the college.

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY CONTRIBUTORS

2010

$1,000,000 or moreBaylor Oral Health Foundation

$250,000—$500,000 Dr. Wilks Chapman ’40 via the Wilks and Kathryn Chapman Trust

$10,000—$49,999Dr. Sylvia Swords Gleaton ’79Oral Health America Mr. H. Logan Swords II

$5,000—$9,999Biomet 3i Biomet Microfixation Estate of Mrs. Betty S. Synhorst

$1,000–$4,999 American Association of Anatomists American Association of Endodontists Foundation American Dental Partners Foundation Dr. Gregory G. Farthing* Dr. Frank L. Higginbottom ’71* Dr. Dean A. Hudson* Dr. C. Michael Larsen Dr. Phuong N. Nguyen ’01* Dr. Thanh-Hang Phan ’05 and Dr. Calvin N. Vo ’03* Southwestern Society of Orthodontists Ted Pella, Inc. Texas Association of Orthodontists Dr. Gilbert Triplett* UTD Pre-Dental Association Dr. Robert V. Walker ’47* Dr. Bettye Whiteaker-Hurt ’68* Dr. William Wildey Dr. Andrew A. Williams ’86 and Dr. Jeannie L. Williams ’87*

$500–$999 American Association for Dental Research Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Austin ’85* Dr. James A. Baker ’74 Dr. Larry Bellinger* Dr. Sheila G. Birth ’84* Dr. Lars O. Bouma ’94* Dr. Richard W. Boyd Jr. ’76* Dr. Krista C. Darr ’84* Dr. Demetra Jones Dorsey ’98* Dr. Brian L. Hochstein ’92* Dr. Eduardo R. Lorenzana ’96* Dr. Ed Lutz ’77* Dr. Ed Menton ’66 Dr. James S. Moore ’69* Dr. Anna Brasher Moreau ’04* Dr. and Mrs. Donald H. Roberts, Jr. ’74* Dr. Bob and Mrs. Judy Schow* Dr. Julie H. Stelly ’87* Dr. Chris L. Tye ’88* Dr. Don A. Woodworth* Dr. John M. Wright*


Dr. John H. ReedMr. Kent A. SchafferMatt and Ann SchoolerSchooler, Kellogg & Co.Ms. May L. SebelDr. Jack B. Snowden ’57Staff of Joseph H. Hoot, DDS Mr. David R. Stager Jr. Dan and Joan StansburyDr. Claude R. Stephens, Jr. ’81Dr. Todd J. Svane ’84Ms. Lauren M. Thompson ’09Ms. Kim T. Tran ’09Ms. Irma D.C. Rosado Vila ’09Ms. Pamela Wade ’68*Ms. Kimberly A. Ward ’09 Mrs. Blanche S. WeinbergerMs. Aubree R. Wiede ’09Ms. Chris C. Wilcutt ’09 In-Kind Contributions 3M Unitek ADEC American Orthodontics Dentsply (Ceramco) DENTSPLY GAC International Dr. Daniel L. Jones ’89 Keystone Dental Dr. Roy D. Kindrick ’67 Dr. Hershall B. Leinneweber ’71 OnDemand3D Technology Oral Bio Tech Straumann, USA Techniplast Gifts In Honor Of:Dr. Edward R. Genecov ’56Dr. Timothy M. Huckabee ’87Dr. Claude R. Williams

Gifts In Memory Of: Dr. Edward R. Genecov ’56Dr. Edwin S. Hoot ’56Dr. William C. HurtDr. James W. Kennedy III ’74Dr. Ruth Riley Swords ’61Dr. Phillip Earle Williams ’26

2009

$100,000 or moreBaylor Oral Health Foundation

$10,000—$49,999Baptist Foundation of TexasBaylor College of Dentistry Alumni AssociationOral Health AmericaSouthwestern Society of Orthodontists

$5,000—$9,999American Association of Endodontists FoundationBiomet 3iBiomet MicrofixationDr. David G. Genecov

$1,000—$4,999American Association for Dental ResearchAmerican Dental Partners FoundationAstra TechDr. Jeffrey S. Genecov ’85Mr. and Mrs. Troy HenryKLS - Martin L.P.Dr. Phuong N. Nguyen ’01Procter & Gamble Inc.Stryker CraniomaxillofacialTexas Association of OrthodontistsUTD Pre-Dental AssociationDr. Don A. Woodworth

$500—$999 Alliance of the Dallas County Dental SocietyMrs. Mary E. Ausmus-Laursen ’68Children’s Medical Center of DallasDr. Myron D. Guymon ’88Dr. Joseph D. James, Jr. ’74Dr. Harold J. KoppelDr. Kathleen McWhorter ’90Ted Pella, Inc.Dr. and Mrs. Robert V. Walker ’47

$250—$499Dr. Glenn A. Ashmore ’75Dr. James A. Baker ’74Dr. Arlet R. Dunsworth ’69The Gerlach Group/Dr. William H. Gerlach ’87Dr. Gayle Glenn ’84Dr. David M. Grogan ’81Dr. James H. Hall ’73Tommie and Sylvia HuckabeeDr. Paul E. Menton ’66Dr. Kenneth NelsonDr. Sterling R. SchowThe Bill Stutts Family

Up to $249Ms. Brittney D. Armstrong ’09Ms. Elizabeth A. Ayala ’09Ms. Allison A. Bedard ’09Mr. David R. BiresMrs. Judy A. BraumanMary Lee and Michael BroderMs. Neelie R. Bruce ’09Dr. Phillip M. Campbell ’71Mrs. Cynthia L. Carson ’68Mr. Mike CarsonMs. Tessi L. Castles ’09Mrs. Diane K. Christopher ’68Dr. Gregory T. Cohlmia ’74Colgate Oral PharmaceuticalsMs. Lana C. Crawford ’68Jerry and Betty CrosslandMs. Janice C. Curry ’68Ms. Lori L. DeesMs. Karen J. Delaney ’09Dental Implant & Periodontal PartnersMs. Kacy A. Dillard ’09Ms. Ashley D. Duvall ’09Dr. Jeffrey A. FearonDr. William C. Gaylord ’64*Dr. Jacob Geller ’56Ms. Lauren K. Gillard ’09Larry and LaRue GlazerThe Golman Family Ms. Faye D. Haggard ’09Ms. Fatima Haq ’09Mr. Christopher M. HuckabeeDr. and Mrs. George Hurt, Jr.Ms. Susan Mitchell Jackson*Ms. Hailey M. Ketchersid ’09Ms. Erum Khanani ’09Dr. Roy D. Kindrick ’67Dr. Steven F. Kolb ’83Ms. Ana M. Lara ’09Dr. and Mrs. John E. Leonard ’56Dr. and Mrs. Steven A. Levy ’68Mr. Steven J. LiebermanMr. Bud MandellMs. Juli MannMs. Krystel A. Marich ’09Dr. Tom Matthews ’50Ms. Jessica May ’09Susu and Jerry M. MeyerMs. Mikki Mizuno ’09Ms. Hetalben M. Natha ’09Dr. Karen S. Neat ’83Ms. Stephanie-Linh M. Nghiem ’09Ms. Yen-Thu T. Nguyen ’09Ms. Malorie J. Okuhara ’09Dr. Lee P. OneacreMs. Nipaben N. Patel ’09Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr.Ms. Jenni K. Polivka ’09Dr. Murray R. Ray ’68* * denotes Annual Fund donor

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$100—$249 Dr. C. Moody Alexander Dr. Chad Allen Dr. Douglas M. Anderson Dr. Scott Bates Mr. Robert J. Bigham, Jr. Mr. Sean Byrne Dr. Zhuo Cai Dr. Brad Chvatal Dr. Paul Dechow Dr. Janice DeWald Dr. Jessica Downs Dr. Troy Elms Dr. Yiyu Fang Dr. Michael Fesler Dr. Gayle Glenn Dr. Kimberly Hansen Gronberg Dr. William G. Hendrickson Dr. Robert Hinton Dr. Barry James Dr. Steve Karbowski Mrs. Janet Kling Dr. Michael McQuade Dr. Michael McWatters Dr. Loulou Moore Dr. Michael M. Perry Prostho Works, PC Dr. Raenie Roberts Dr. Kathy Svoboda Dr. John R. Valant Dr. Charles W. Weathers Dr. Robert Williamson Dr. Margaret Yanus

Up to $99 Mrs. Leeanna Bartlett Mrs. Julie Bradshaw Dr. and Mrs. Burt Bryan Dr. Jun Y. Cho Community Dental Care Ms. Carolyn Cox Mrs. Kay Egbert Dr. Gerald Glickman Ms. Linda Gothard Dr. Villa Guillory Ms. Betty Hagins Mr. Richard M. Hart Dr. Lavern Holyfield Ms. Susan Mitchell Jackson Mrs. Elizabeth Lester Mr. Daniel Lewis Dr. Jack Long Dr. Adam F. Lukens Dr. Barbara Miller Ms. Juanna Moore Mr. Leon Oltrogge Mrs. Gail Parrigin-Clark Ms. Linda Piper Dr. Jayne Reuben Dr. Sarah Samuel Ms. Jeanne Santa Cruz Dr. Jordan Schweitzer Mrs. Brigitte Sims Dr. Robert Spears Mr. & Mrs. Tom Sullivan Mr. Edgardo C. Victorino Mr. Shane Whisenant

2009 $50,000 or more Hillcrest Foundation

$25,000–$49,999 Straumann North America Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable and Educational Trust The George and Fay Young Foundation

$1,000–$9,999Astra Tech / Mr. Scott RootDr. Bun BakerBiomet Microfixation / Mr. Adam JohnsonBrasseler USADr. and Mrs. Ronald A. BryantDr. Phillip M. CampbellDr. H. Dalton ConnerDentsplyThe Florence FoundationG. Hartzell & SonDr. Robert W. GallagherMr. and Mrs. William J. GoodwinDr. Kenneth M. HamlettMr. and Mrs. David HoffmanJohnson and JohnsonKLS Martin LPThe James D. & Kay Y. Moran FoundationDr. Carlos NavarroDr. and Mrs. Dewey A. NewboldOsteomed L.P. / Mr. Walt HumannP & G CompanyDr. Michael M. PerryDr. Donald H. RobertsSynthes USADr. Paul RubinDr. Harold L. SmithWhip Mix Corporation

$500–$999Dr. Shinho AhnDr. Jean E. DriscollFoundation of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, c/o Tracey SchilligoDr. Mark S. Gellar

Dr. John P. HastingsHu-Friedy / Ms. Kathleen O’Neill-SmithDr. James Dean JensenDr. GiChang KangDr. Bart MillerDr. Charles F. OrthDr. Michael PickardDr. Robert G. TriplettDr. Edwin WestmorelandDr. Elaine Whitney

$250–$499Dr. Joseph C. AinsworthDr. J. Moody AlexanderDr. Raymond BarbreDr. Richard BradleyDr. Ralph BrockDr. Brad ChvatalDr. Monty CollinsDr. Robert A. CraigDr. Stephanie CriseDr. Carly CunninghamDr. Donald D. DepewDr. Noel P. Dragon, Jr.Dr. Kristin ElvebakDr. Hilton Neil GoldreichDr. Kimberly Hansen GronbergDr. Myron D. GuymonDr. James E. HatcherDr. Jeff JohnsonDr. Seuss KassisiehDr. Harold J. KoppelDr. Mark LaHayeDr. Casey LepleyDr. James F. LunardonDr. Jeremy R. LustigDr. Maryam Mojdehi-BarnesDr. W. Jim Moore, Jr.Dr. Jacqueline MorocoDr. Karen Neat Dr. Laurie R. ParksDr. Dan C. PeavyDr. Richard Tom PhelanDr. Michael D. PlunkDr. Alan V. ReedDr. Bruce K. ReederDr. Sherri J. ReulandDr. Kirk D. SatromDr. Stephen P. ShepardDr. Larry E. SimsDr. Steven W. SmithDr. William B. SnipesDr. Clark A. SpencerDr. Thomas M. StarkDr. Kathia SteelDr. Corbett K. StephensDr. Marvin G. Stephens , Jr.Dr. Franklin M. Wheelock

$100–$249Drs. Mike and Mark AllenDr. Douglas M. AndersonDr. Charles ArcoriaDr. Scott BatesDr. Patricia L. BlantonDr. J.C. BoleyDr. Zhuo CaiDr. Thomas D. CharbeneauDr. Neill P. ClaytonDr. Rufus EarlDr. Michael L. EllisDr. John A. GerlingDr. Marshal GoldbergDr. Kenneth L. HeitmanDr. William G. HendricksonDr. James HerringtonDr. Frank HigginbottomDr. Van HillDr. Barry JamesDr. Jeff JamesDr. Katie C. JulienDr. Joshika KanabarDr. Robert H. LevyDr. D. Brock LynnDr. Frank R. MillerDr. Bert OrckDr. M. Julia PrewittDr. Lee M. RomineDr. Michael SittersDr. Paul SommerDr. Clark A. SpencerDr. Frank J. Stich, IIIMs. Janet StricklandDr. Kimberly TraversDr. John R. ValantDr. Charles W. WeathersDr. Charles A. WhiteDr. David WilbanksDr. Evan G. Wilson

Up to $99Dr. Gary ColemanDr. Jessica DownsDr. Andrew C. HodgesDr. Chia-Ming Lee

Century Club$150—$249Dr. George Acquaye ’96Dr. Terry B. Adams ’78Dr. John E. Adcock ’75Dr. Charles J. Arcoria ’80Dr. Joan L. Armstrong ’79Dr. Stanley W. Ashworth ’71Dr. Cary B. Askins ’72Dr. Pamela J. Asseff ’93Dr. Bryan A. Austin ’93Dr. Steven J. Austin ’85Dr. Robert A. Baker ’75Dr. David Beal ’78Ms. Martha W. Berry ’72Dr. Sheila T. Birth ’84Dr. Patricia L. Blanton ’74Dr. James C. Boley ’63Dr. Jack Bolton ’62Dr. John W. Boutz ’71Dr. Richard W. Boyd, Jr. ’76Dr. Rex E. Brewster ’60Dr. Ralph Brock ’02Dr. Billy G. Brown ’64Dr. David N. Brown ’76Dr. Burt C. Bryan ’79Dr. George R. Buckley ’83Dr. James E. Burkholder ’81Dr. James V. Burnett ’48Dr. Thomas D. Calabria ’84Dr. Henry A. Campbell ’75Dr. Jason Carlyon ’02Dr. James R. Carrell, Jr. ’02Dr. Laura L. Carter ’06Dr. Chris S. Cartwright ’78Dr. Thomas D. Charbeneau ’78Dr. Yong G. Cheong ’61Dr. Neill P. Clayton ’66Dr. Jon Clemetson ’02Dr. Stanton W. Cobb ’83Dr. Gregory T. Cohlmia ’74Dr. Michael N. Cohlmia ’67Dr. Ramiz Cohlmia ’59Dr. Byron A. Cole ’65Dr. James S. Cole ’75Dr. Michael D. Cook ’83Dr. ReAnn Marie Cornell ’09Dr. Stephen J. Cosentino ’86Ms. Margaret A. Countryman ’57Dr. A. Sam Coury ’61Dr. Gerald D. Cox ’78Dr. Melina Elizabeth Cozby ’09Dr. Charles C. Craig ’52Dr. Mark A. Craig ’90Dr. Herbert F. Cross, Jr. ’75Dr. John E. Culp III Dr. Carly Cunningham ’04Dr. Russell Cunningham ’02Dr. Michael W. Curry ’73Dr. Steven T. Cutbirth ’79Dr. Bradley B. Daniels ’80Dr. Rodney J. Davenport ’73Dr. Robert F. Davis III ’85Dr. Stephen E. Davis ’73Dr. Thomas H. Dembinski II ’74Dr. Jack M. Dempsey ’62Dr. O.E. Dickinson ’54Dr. Michael L. Dobbins ’68Dr. Richard L. Dodson ’48Dr. Mark A. Dougherty ’87Dr. John Dow III ’81Dr. Valerie A. Drake-Ernst ’99Dr. Douglas W. Fain ’79Dr. Dale L. Farmer ’83Dr. John S. Findley ’70Dr. Sean E. Fitzgerald ’09Dr. Clarence B. Fitzner, Jr. ’72Dr. George F. Forney, Jr. ’59Dr. Karen Foster ’02Dr. Elbert A. Franklin ’79Dr. Erin E. Gaither ’93Dr. William E. Gandy ’72Dr. Mark E. Gannaway ’81Dr. William J. Garard, Jr. ’77Dr. William C. Gaylord ’64Dr. Mark S. Geller ’73Dr. Neil W. Geske ’84Dr. Mark S. Geyer ’80Dr. Mary B. Ginderske-Criswell ’67Dr. Kerry M. Goad ’78Dr. James B. Goates ’76 Dr. Marshal D. Goldberg ’80Dr. Warren K. Graham ’64Dr. John J. Graves ’74Dr. Billy A. Gray, Jr. ’78Dr. Greg D. Greenberg ’85Dr. Dale W. Greer ’77Dr. Gary A. Greer ’80Dr. Randall L. Griffith ’77Dr. James T. Grogan Jr. ’65Dr. Stephanie L. Grogan-Payne ’96Dr. Kim Gronberg ’02Dr. Clayton M. Hamilton ’86Dr. Kenneth L. Hammond II ’74Dr. Dana K. Harmon ’73Dr. Milvern R. Harrell ’69Dr. Charles R. Henry, Jr. ’72Dr. James B. Herrington ’86Dr. Jay S. Herrington ’78Dr. Larry D. Herwig ’84Dr. Marvin M. Hewlett, Jr. ’73Ms. Margaret K. Hicks ’67Dr. Jed Hildebrand ’03Dr. Andrew Hodges ’04

BCD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTORS

Each member of the association is encouraged to contribute to the BCD Alumni Association Fund, which is managed by the Baylor Oral Health Foundation. The following gifts are reported by calendar year.

2010

Dean’s Club$1,000—$4,999Dr. Richard C. Baker ’62Dr. Franklin R. Boyles ’74Dr. Misty J. Brown ’95Dr. Neil A. Bryson ’75Dr. Stacy V. Cole ’77Dr. Thomas B. Crump ’97Dr. Frank L. Higginbottom ’71Dr. Phuong Nguyen ’01Dr. Robert L. Reames, Jr. ’69Dr. Gil TriplettDr. Robert V. Walker ’47Dr. Bettye Whiteaker-Hurt ’68Dr. Jeannie L. Williams ’87Dr. Don A. Woodworth ’83

Scholar’s Club $500—$999Dr. Monica Boehmer ’89Dr. Hugh R. Burch ’67Dr. Phillip M. Campbell ’71Dr. Tamela L. Gough ’87Dr. Sandi L. Hamm ’88Dr. Tommy Harrison ’79Dr. Arthur H. Kuhlman ’71Dr. Meredith H. Packard ’93Dr. LaVan R. Parker III ’94Dr. Kevin L. Seidler ’78Dr. James M. Watson ’84Dr. Terry D. Watson ’67Dr. Danny D. Watts ’75Dr. Ronald D. Weaks ’71

McCarthy’s Club$250—$499Dr. Rebecca A. Aduddell ’96Dr. Zoel G. Allen, Sr. ’63Dr. Todd Baumann ’02Dr. Robert A. Bettis, Jr. ’64Dr. George I. Bridges ’68Dr. Welleyn L. Bullis ’67Dr. Robert J. Christian ’69Dr. Leon A. Conkling ’72Dr. Paul G. Davis, Jr. ’83Dr. Susan Delk ’01Dr. Donald R. Eckersley ’83Dr. Howard Frysh ’90Dr. Kenneth M. Hamlett, Jr. ’74Dr. W.R. Haught ’67Dr. Cory B. Jaetzold ’06Dr. James R. Kersten ’69Dr. Michael A. Klepacki ’84Dr. Eugene M. Kouri ’61Dr. Lester H. Kuperman ’70Dr. Laura M. Spencer LaCroix ’99Dr. Ernestine S. Lacy ’94Dr. Steve W. Lebo ’80Dr. William T. Lee, Jr. ’67Dr. Dan D. Leonard ’75Dr. Joy K. Lunan ’80Dr. Thomas M. McDougal ’64Dr. Danette C. McNew-Hovenden ’88Dr. Paul E. Menton ’66Dr. Jack O. Mills ’61Dr. Frank H. Moore, Jr. ’69Dr. Daniel C. Peavy, Jr. ’62Dr. David W. Price ’81Dr. Murray R. Ray ’68Dr. Everett Renger, Jr. ’70Dr. Donald H. Roberts, Jr. ’74Dr. J. Dean Robertson ’41Dr. Roger B. Salome ’69Dr. Kirk E. Scott ’96Dr. Sue Seale ’70Dr. Ty Shafer ’03Dr. Carmen P. Smith ’96Ms. Janice L. Snyder ’75Dr. Rodger Y. C. Song ’90Dr. Chester E. Spencer, Jr. ’67Dr. Audrey Lynn Stansbury ’09Dr. Corbett K. Stephens ’01Dr. Marvin G. Stephens, Jr. ’71Dr. Charles D. Stetler ’89Dr. Larry R. Stewart ’78Dr. Casey Stroud ’01Dr. Steven W. Titensor ’86Dr. Willard L. Tompson ’63Dr. Tuan A. Tran ’98Dr. Ronald C. Tr’owbridge ’73Dr. Scott Waugh ’74Dr. Thomas M. Weil ’65Ms. Patricia Whalley ’66Dr. John C. White ’84Dr. Patrick B. Wilcox ’86Dr. Andy Wilson ’95Dr. Ronald L. Winder ’73

2010

$100,000 or more The Crystal Charity Ball

$50,000–$99,999 Straumann North America $25,000–$49,999 Hoblitzelle Foundation

$10,000–$24,999The Dallas Foundation KLS Martin, LP

$1,000–$9,999 Astra Tech / Mr. Scott Root, Pres. Dr. Bun Baker Brasseler USA Dental / Mr. Jack Burlison Dr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Bryant Dr. Phillip M. Campbell DENTSPLY International Dr. Kenneth Hamlett G. Hartzell & Son The James D. and Kay Y. Moran Foundation Johnson & Johnson Dr. F. T. McDonald Dr. Linda Niessen Nobel Biocare Osteohealth P & G Company Dr. Michael M. Perry Southwestern Society of Orthodontists Dr. Kelton T. Stewart Sunstar Americas, Inc. Texas Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Mr. Louis A. Torres Whip Mix Corporation Dr. Don A. Woodworth $500–$999 Dr. Terry B. Adams Dr. Larry Bellinger Communities Foundation of Texas Dr. Stephanie Crise G. Hartzel & Son Dr. Robert W. Gallagher Dr. James E. Hatcher Dr. Dean Hudson Hu-Friedy / Ms. Kathleen O’Neill-Smith Dr. Charles L. Hutto Dr. James Dean Jensen Dr. James F. Lunardon Dr. Jacqueline Moroco Herman Pinckney Orts Estate Dr. Edward ShinedlingDr. Elaine Whitney

$250–$499 Dr. J. Moody Alexander Dr. Raymond Barbre Dr. Ron Barnett Dr. Amy Bender Dr. Ralph Brock Dr. James Cole Colgate Speakers Bureau Dr. Linda Crawford Dr. Carly Cunningham Dr. Lauren E. Davis Dr. D. Douglas Depew Dr. Jean E. Driscoll Dr. Kristin Elvebak Dr. Mai T. Ferrara Dr. Mark S. Geller Dr. John A. Gerling Dr. Hilton Neil Goldreich Dr. Scott D. Hamilton Dr. Richard F. Herrscher Dr. Charles L. Hutto Dr. Alan Jensen Johnson & Johnson / Mr. Scott Peterson Dr. Seuss Kassisieh Dr. Harold J. Koppel Dr. Mark LaHaye Dr. Casey R. Lepley Dr. Adam Martin Dr. Maryam Mojdehi Dr. W. Jim Moore, Jr. Dr. Karen Neat Dr. Lynne A. Opperman Dr. Dan C. Peavy Dr. Michael Pickard Dr. Michael D. Plunk Dr. M. Julia Prewitt Dr. Alan V. Reed Dr. Bruce K. Reeder Dr. Sherri J. Reuland Dr. Lee M. Romine Dr. Paul T. Rubin Dr. Kirk D. Satrom Dr. Stephen P. Shepard Dr. Douglas A. Singleton Dr. Steven W. Smith Dr. William B. Snipes Dr. Clay Spencer Dr. Clark A. Spencer Dr. Thomas N. Stark Dr. Cory Stephens Dr. Marvin Stephens Ms. Lanelle Watkins Dr. Larry W. White Drs. Sara and David White Dr. Andrew Young

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Dr. Dudley M. Hodgkins ’76Dr. Bob C. Hunsucker ’89Dr. David K. Hunter ’89Dr. Howard D. Iba ’70Dr. Mehrnaz Iranmehr ’03Dr. Joseph E. Irving ’81Dr. Barry James ’72Dr. Jeffrey W. James ’99Dr. Thomas S. Jeter ’71Dr. Ben H. Jones ’64Dr. Esther C. Joystone ’67Dr. Yoon C. Kang ’98Dr. Steve Karbowski Dr. Courtney Keel ’06Dr. John M. Kidwell ’76Dr. Thomas B. King ’51Dr. Sarah Kong ’05Dr. Kirk E. Kooker ’86Dr. Seth Ramsey Koschak ’79Dr. Thomas B. Larkin ’63Dr. Wesley A. Lasater ’70Dr. Paul N. Latta ’91Dr. Tanya Pierce Lawhon ’04Dr. John D. LeBlanc ’74Dr. Jarrod Charles Leisch ’07Dr. Scott Lipscomb ’85Dr. Scott A. Logan ’84Dr. Richard P. Loiselle ’78Dr. Julie Marie Longoria ’08Dr. Larry D. Luethke ’77Dr. Kent B. MaCaulay ’74Dr. Andy Mack ’85Dr. Betsy Spitzer Maxwell ’03Dr. John P. McCasland ’57Dr. M Megan McKenry ’05Dr. Byron M. McKnight ’81Dr. Michael R. McWatters ’73Dr. Patrick Migliore ’77Dr. David Mikulencak ’02Dr. Amp W. Miller III ’73Dr. Barbara A. Miller ’83Dr. Charles W. Miller ’80Dr. James C. Miller ’84Dr. Loren M. Miller ’84Dr. Terry Miller, Jr. ’85Ms. Joyce M. Mills ’60Dr. Michael W. Moffitt ’72Dr. Maryam Mojdehi-Barnes ’97Dr. Johnny L. Montgomery ’69Dr. P. Montoya ’90Dr. David C. Moore ’79Dr. Pamela A. Moore ’96Dr. Davis W. Morgan ’89Dr. Willis H. Murphey, Jr. ’66Dr. Joe Mike Murphy ’77Dr. Scott Anthony Myser ’08Dr. Rita F. Ne ’96Dr. David B. Neal ’88Dr. B.C. Nelson ’90Dr. Soan V. Ngo ’95Dr. James S. Nicholson, Jr. ’74Dr. James K. Norwood ’95Dr. Charles Nunnally ’01Dr. Frederick E. Olden ’74Dr. Bert H. Orck ’79Dr. Jon S. Ousley ’66Dr. Shannon Owens ’02Dr. Stephen E. Owens, Jr. ’70Dr. Robert F. Parker, Jr. ’65Dr. William T. Parker ’72Dr. Rupi Patel ’91Dr. Gary W. Penn ’78Dr. Richard M. Peppard ’83Dr. Chris Perkins ’90Dr. Richard E. Phelan ’78Dr. Todd Phelan ’04Dr. Robert C. Pickering ’94Dr. Jacqueline M. Plemons ’86Dr. C. Edwin Polk ’71Dr. Kevin E. Porter ’92Dr. Thomas J. Powers VI ’93Ms. Dianna C. Prachyl ’94Dr. Larry J. Pritchard ’75Dr. Martha E. Proctor ’86Dr. Bao Tran Quach ’08Dr. Hedley Rakusin ’73Dr. Harlan L. Raley ’51Dr. Lee C. Ramage ’79Dr. Jennifer L. Rand ’07Dr. Arthur C. Reed, Jr. ’54Dr. Michael J. Reed ’81Dr. Terry D. Rees ’68Dr. Holly Reineck ’02Dr. Kurt Reineck ’03Dr. James H. Reisman ’76Dr. Steven Z. Richardson ’93Dr. Matthew B. Roberts ’07Dr. Brigitte E. Robinson ’84Dr. Stephen D. Robirds ’80Dr. Thomas Ray Rogers ’79Dr. Jessica Rohlffs ’02Dr. Francisco J. Romero ’74Dr. John W. Rowan ’64Dr. Mike Rowan, Jr. ’74Dr. Carlton L. Sage, Jr. ’67Dr. Brian Salome ’03Dr. Edward H. Sauer ’77Dr. Gregory B. Scheideman ’79Dr. Andrea M. Scoville ’83Dr. Jill Sentlingar ’04Dr. Stephen P. Shepard ’77Dr. Ronald T. Sherwood ’79Dr. Joe J. Simmons, III ’98

Dr. Charles T. Simms, Jr. ’74Dr. John W. Smith ’81Dr. Joseph A. Snyder ’80Dr. Marlene L. Spady ’88Dr. Edward R. Staffel ’59Dr. Claude R. Stephens, Jr. ’81Dr. Barry Stovall ’75Dr. Russell C. Strait ’68Dr. George W. Strunk ’75Dr. Michael L. Stuart ’86Dr. Albert M. Tate, Jr. ’67Dr. Charles M. Taylor III ’81Dr. Dianne M. Thomson-Neal ’86Dr. William E. Thornton ’69Dr. Kimberly H. Travers ’96Dr. Larry W. Treadaway ’79Dr. Joy L. Trigo Tucker ’91Dr. Christopher L. Tye ’88Dr. David H. Utzinger ’63Dr. Patricia L. Valdivia ’87Dr. William C. Vargo ’85Dr. Robert G. Vittetoe ’73Dr. Paul D. Wallace ’83Dr. Mark N. Waters ’81Dr. John M. Weaver ’83Dr. Russell J. Weed ’69Dr. Robert Wells ’77Dr. Randolph Robert West ’08Dr. Steven Widner ’86Dr. James E. Williams ’83Dr. Jon W. Williamson ’88Dr. John B. Wise ’87Dr. Karl F. Woodmansey ’89Dr. Joe H. Yarbro ’77Dr. John F. Zummo, Jr. ’80

MembersUp to $149Dr. Harry W. Barnes ’57Dr. Bill R. Brown ’53Dr. Richard C. Carnes ’51Dr. Natasha Eileen Crespo ’10Dr. Kristi L. Davis ’96Dr. Rufus H. Earl ’57Dr. Travis Lane Epperson ’08Dr. Donald W. Haskins ’62Dr. Sandy Horner ’06Ms. Jennifer S. Housley ’69Dr. R. Don James ’68Dr. Karen A. Knight ’88Dr. Gelynn L. Majure ’91Dr. Danny K. Miller ’75Dr. William L. Purifoy ’84Mrs. Kay F. Rickets ’58Dr. Jerry V. Roach ’71Dr. J. Roark ’43Dr. John W. Scott ’51Dr. John R. Swanson II ’51Ms. Pamela Wade ’68Mrs. Mary A. Wallis ’62Dr. John D. Wilbanks ’53

2009

Ambassador’s Club$10,000 or moreDr. Carlos F. Navarro, Jr. ’84

Dean’s Club$1,000—$4,999Dr. Bun Baker ’71 Dr. Richard C. Baker ’62 Dr. Sheila T. Birth ’84 Dr. Franklin R. Boyles ’74Dr. Misty J. Brown ’95Dr. Neil A. Bryson ’75Dr. Stacy V. Cole ’77Dr. Thomas B. Crump ’97 Dr. Frank L. Higginbottom ’71 Dr. Greg LoPour ’95 Dr. Minh-Khoi Nguyen ’06Dr. Phuong Nguyen ’01Dr. Robert L. Reames, Jr. ’69 Dr. James T. St. Clair ’97 Dr. John M. Tate ’77Dr. Robert V. Walker ’47

Scholar’s Club $500—$999Dr. Mark D. Allen ’90Dr. Mark D. Altgelt ’80 Dr. John N. Conniff, Jr.’73 Dr. Kenneth M. Hamlett, Jr. ’74 Dr. Tommy Harrison ’79 Dr. Arthur H. Kuhlman ’71Dr. LaVan R. Parker III ’94Dr. Nancy L. Rajchel ’87Dr. Kevin L. Seidler ’78Dr. Carmen P. Smith ’96 Dr. Scott M. Staffel ’95 Dr. Julie A. Stelly ’87 Dr. John C. White ’84 Dr. Don A. Woodworth ’83 McCarthy’s Club$250—$499Dr. Robert A. Bettis, Jr. ’64 Dr. Welleyn L. Bullis ’67Dr. Terry Carpenter ’73Dr. Robert J. Christian ’69Dr. Leon A. Conkling ’72Dr. Mark A. Craig ’90Dr. Robert F. Davis III ’85

Dr. Weaver G. DeHay ’76 Dr. Donald R. Eckersley ’83Dr. Kristi Elia ’00Dr. Douglas W. Fain ’79Dr. John Michael Foley ’70Dr. Tammie J. Gibson ’92Dr. Dale W. Greer ’77 Dr. David B. Gregory ’75Dr. David M. Grogan ’81 Dr. John W. Ham ’65 Dr. Jennifer A. Hathaway ’93Dr. W.R. Haught ’67Dr. Larry D. Herwig ’84 Dr. Cory B. Jaetzold ’06 Dr. James R. Kersten ’69 Dr. Eugene M. Kouri ’61Dr. Laura M. Spencer LaCroix ’99 Dr. Ernestine S. Lacy ’94 Dr. Hershall B. Leinneweber ’71Dr. Joy K. Lunan ’80Dr. Brock Lynn ’80Dr. Thomas M. McDougal ’64 Dr. Paul E. Menton ’66 Dr. Frank H. Moore, Jr. ’69Dr. Davis W. Morgan ’89Dr. Meredith H. Packard ’93Dr. Daniel C. Peavy, Jr. ’62Dr. David W. Price ’81Dr. Larry J. Pritchard ’75 Dr. Murray R. Ray ’68 Dr. Holly Reineck ’02 Dr. Kurt Reineck ’03Dr. Everett Renger, Jr. ’70 Dr. Donald H. Roberts, Jr. ’74Dr. J. Dean Robertson ’41Dr. Ricardo Rodriguez ’92Dr. Jessica Rohlffs ’02Dr. Roger B. Salome ’69Dr. Carina L. Schwartz-Dabney ’93Dr. Kirk E. Scott ’96 Dr. Grace E. Smart ’86 Dr. Johnny C. Smith ’81Ms. Janice L. Snyder ’75 Dr. Corbett K. Stephens ’01 Dr. Marvin G. Stephens, Jr. ’71 Dr. Kim C. T. Vo ’97 Dr. Ronald H. Watkins ’68 Dr. James M. Watson ’84 Dr. Danny D. Watts ’75 Dr. Scott Waugh ’74 Dr. Thomas M. Weil ’65 Dr. Edwin E. Westmoreland ’72Dr. Steven Widner ’86Dr. James E. Williams ’83 Dr. Andy Wilson ’95Dr. Ronald L. Winder ’73

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I M P R E S S I O N S


This “Impressions” page is designed to capture a moment in time in the rich history of our Dallas dental school. The people of Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry have called the school by various names: State Dental College from 1905 to 1918, Baylor University College of Dentistry from 1918 to 1971 and Baylor College of Dentistry from 1971 to 1996, when the name became longer to reflect the affiliation with the Texas A&M University System. Through the ebb and flow of history, the dental school has been nurtured by people who reaped its benefits and perpetuated its legacy. Enjoy this glimpse into the mirror of time.

I M P R E S S I O N S

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Nearly five decades and more than 5,000

miles separate this pastoral countryside

scene in Bolivia from the site in Nigeria

served by the first dental student mission

worker in 1963.


Different time, different place,

same purpose

Editor’s Note: As a feature story in this issue explains, many students feel

called to share their time to benefit patients around the globe in desperate

need of dental care. Often driven by personal faith, and without expectation

of tangible reward, students serve tirelessly in places near and far. The

following story from nearly 50 years ago, when the dental school shared Baylor

University’s Baptist roots, reveals the enduring length of this thread of student

service woven throughout Baylor College of Dentistry’s history:

Junior Student to Serve as Summer Student MissionaryBaylor Dental Journal, Spring 1963

James Wilcox, junior dental student, has been selected to serve as a

Baptist Student Union Missionary inthe summer missions work this year.

Wilcox will serve in Nigeria, West Africa, helping other dental

missionaries, Dr. Howard McCamey ’40, Dr. Wayne Logan ’50 and Dr. William

Wyatt ’55.

Although his duties have not been completely defined, he will aid these

dentists in one of the two locations of the Southern Baptist Dental Clinics in

either Ibadan or Enugu.

The summer missions program is sponsored each year by the Texas

Baptist Division of Student Work in cooperation with the Home and Foreign

Mission Boards.

The 31 students, a record number, were selected by a 13-member summer

missions committee after personal interviews with more than 51 nominees

from 26 schools.

Wilcox is the first student from the College of Dentistry to be selected for

summer mission work and is the first student to be appointed in the dental

mission field.

Wilcox has been active in church work in his hometown, Midland, Texas.

He attended Baylor University and received the B.S. degree in 1961. Since

enrolling in the College of Dentistry he has served as social chairman of the

B.S.U. for two years and has sung in the Dental College Chorus. He is a member

of the Baylor Odontological Honor Society.

He is a member of the Gaston Avenue Baptist Church, Dallas, and teaches

a Sunday School class of senior boys. He is a member of the Library Committee

and was assistant pastor during Youth Week.

In preparation for his work this summer Wilcox will attend a missions

conference at Southwestern Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, an orientation

conference in Richmond, Virginia, and a Leadership Training Conference held at

Lueder’s Encampment near Abilene.

The student group will embark from New York June 1, visiting England,

France and Italy and arriving in Nigeria June 7. Wilcox will leave Nigeria on

August 16.

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