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Northwest Section by 1952 and in 1966 split three ways into the Vancouver (now British Columbia) Section,
the Seattle Section, and the Portland Section. The London Section (begun in 1931) grew into the British
Division, and the Johannesburg Section (begun in 1934) grew into the South African Division. The Australia
Section (begun in 1961) became a Division in 1968 and amalgamated with the New Zealand Section in 1969 to
become the Australia-New Zealand Division. The Palestine Section originated in 1940 and later became the
present Israel Section. After 1970 the Rocky Mountain Section became the Frederick S. McKay Section and
Toronto became the Ontario Section.
A few Sections or potential Sections never were activated, even though approved by the IADR. At the
Thirtieth General Meeting in 1952, new Sections were approved for three key locations in South America:
Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Uruguay. 1 At the Thirty-second General Meeting, the newly elected
President in the opening of his Inaugural Address mentioned that an IADR Section in Germany had been
accepted. 2
CONTRIBUTORS AND SOURCES
Contributors of the various Sectional histories were usually the respective 1970 Secretaries, although in
some cases the Presidents responded. In other instances, where no data were forthcoming from a Section, the
Editor and his Assistant, David P. James, gleaned information from other sources, especially the Journal. Then
there was almost always some background material provided by the "old-timers" whose memories bridged at
least a generation, but this required many letters and phone calls. Persons other than current officers sometimes
wrote adequate histories, such as Merrill G. Wheatcroft of Houston, Gerald J. Cox of Pittsburgh, Robert S.
Redman of Minnesota, Basil G. Bibby of Rochester, Joseph L. T. Appleton of Philadelphia, Ellery C. Stowell of
Southern California, Howard M. Myers of San Francisco, George C. Paffenbarger of Washington, D.C., Frances
Krasnow of New York, and Sholom Pearlman of the F. S. McKay Section. Peter Adler of Hungary contributed
much to his histories of the extinct Budapest and Vienna Sections, and R. Gordon Agnew contributed the
history of the extinct Chengtu Section.
An effort was made to document rather extensively the Sections' more important programs and
presented papers when known. Titles and some abstracts of papers read at local Section meetings were
sometimes published in the Journal of Dental Research for the respective years. During the period of F. J.
Orland's Editorship, 1958-69, they were always published and usually in separate supplements of the Journal
along with the Proceedings of the IADR and all the Divisional Meeting programs.
THE AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND DIVISION
THE ADELAIDE SECTION
When the Australian Section was advanced to Divisional status at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the
Australian Section in August 1968, there were sufficient interested members in Adelaide to form a Section
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