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In 1967 there were again thirteen members but no Section. But in 1969 when membership increased to
twenty-five, the Section was reorganized and approved at the Forty-seventh General IADR Meeting. There were
thirty-one regular members and twenty-four associate members listed in 1970, and the officers at the end of the
year (who were also officers in 1969) were Jesus A. Sarabia Aguilar, President; Eduardo Galindo Benton,
Secretary; Roberto Villegas Malda, Editor; and Manuel Rey Garcia, Councilor.
The first Seminario Anual was held 19-23 October 1969; some of the participants were Barnet Levy, Ira
Shannon, and William From, who all came from Houston.
The second Seminario Anual 10 was held 29 August-2 September 1970 in San José de Purua, Michoacán,
Mexico. This elaborate meeting was presided over by Jesus A. Sarabia, Presidente Sección Mexicana. Martin
Cattoni was awarded "un Diploma de Honor". Arthur R. Frechette, Secretario-Tesorero of the parent IADR,
presented the Declaratoria Inaugural.
THE MINNESOTA SECTION
The Minnesota Section was founded on 2 May 1927. It was approved by the IADR Council in 1928.
Chronologically, it was the tenth Section of the Association and has remained one of the most active
components. Its first meeting was held in the Men's Union on the Minneapolis campus of the University of
Minnesota. The ten charter members as recorded for election to membership in the Sixth General Meeting of the
IADR in March 1928 were as follows: Elmer S. Best, Herman A. Maves, Frederick S. Meyer, William D. Vehe,
Carl W. Waldron, Daniel E. Ziskin, Boyd S. Gardner, Irwin A. Epstein, Carl J. Grove, and George S. Monson.
William Vehe was elected President, and Daniel Ziskin, the primary organizer, was elected Secretary-Treasurer.
The research interests of the Section were quite diverse from its inception. This is readily apparent from
the activities and interests of the charter members. Elmer Best's interest in research had led him to organize,
some years prior to the founding of the IADR, the Academy of Pierre Fouchard as well as its publication.
Herman Maves and Fred Meyer were interested in clinical research in crown and bridge; Bill Vehe, in fused
porcelain techniques; Carl Waldron, in maxillofacial surgery, and Dan Ziskin, in hospital dentistry. It seems
significant that Boyd Gardner, from the Mayo Clinic, espoused a view of dental health as part of the patient's
general health according to Irwin Epstein, one of the few remaining charter members.
During the first years a pattern of meetings became established which has been continued ever since: a
spring meeting being conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and at least one other meeting in Minneapolis
or St. Paul.
For many years the programs were informal affairs, consisting of dinner, a brief business meeting, and
an exchange of the members' research ideas and experiments. There were no formal presentations; rather, there
was a mutual encouragement and constructive criticism of one another's research enterprise. The encouragement
was important because neither the College of Dentistry nor the Mayo Clinic Department of Dentistry had much
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