Contents - IADR/AADR
Contents - IADR/AADR
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: HISTORY OF SECTIONS<br />
A section of anything is obviously a part of the whole. In <strong>IADR</strong> parlance, a Section in the earliest days<br />
meant the local body of members functioning somewhat independently in the several cities such as New York,<br />
Boston, and Chicago. These three Sections were established within the same month of <strong>IADR</strong> organization,<br />
namely December 1920. In the next few years the Section in Toronto and a few others were established. Later,<br />
with the development of Divisions consisting of members residing at first in a nation and then on an entire<br />
continent, the various Sections became parts of the respective Divisions rather than Sections of the Association<br />
as originally defined in the Constitution.<br />
New York City was the site of the first Section; available records, however, do not show just when or<br />
where it was formally organized, but it can be deduced that at the meeting of organization of the <strong>IADR</strong> itself on<br />
10 December since all the members were from New York, they coincidentally constituted a New York Section.<br />
On 17 December the Boston Section was founded, and then on 30 December the Chicago Section.<br />
WHAT CONSTITUTES A SECTION?<br />
On this matter of Sections, the 1920 as well as the revised 1940 Constitution stated, "Members in any<br />
geographical center, with the approval of the corresponding national Division, may organize a Section for the<br />
local advancement of the objects of the Association." But the 1956 proposed Constitution and By-Laws, more<br />
specifically, cites that "Each section shall consist of ten or more members of the Association. New Sections may<br />
be organized only with the approval of the National Division." By 1930 the following cities contained Sections<br />
of the <strong>IADR</strong>: New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Halifax, Minneapolis,<br />
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Vienna, Cleveland, New Haven, and Winnipeg. Records of the founding<br />
dates of all the Sections were located with some effort. Sections in existence at the end of 1970 and their<br />
founding dates follow.<br />
Similarly to the listing on the <strong>IADR</strong> pages in the Journal of Dental Research, these Sections are grouped<br />
respectively by Division: Australia-New Zealand, British, North American, Scandinavian-NOF, and Non-<br />
Divisional. Dates given are usually the date when the Sections were formally recognized by the Association,<br />
rather than preliminary organizational dates. A second date indicates reactivation.<br />
Adelaide 1968 New Orleans 1937; 1967<br />
Brisbane 1969 New York 1920<br />
Melbourne 1969 North Carolina 1963<br />
New Zealand 1963 Philadelphia 1928<br />
Perth 1969 Pittsburgh 1928<br />
Sydney 1969 Portland 1966<br />
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH (<strong>IADR</strong>) – THE FIRST FIFTY YEAR HISTORY PAGE 148