Contents - IADR/AADR

the Brooke Army Medical Center are the residency programs, and the Southwest Foundation for Research and
Education is the private foundation. It was felt to be highly desirable to have a forum for the presentation and
discussion of all the research being conducted in the San Antonio area.
The original members of the San Antonio Section were Arden G. Christen, Gaylord L. Hall, Andrew G.
Hendricks, Malcolm D. Jendresen, Albert C. Jerman, Roland M. Meffert, Charles D. Miller, Robert M. Morrow,
O. M. Reed, James E. Richardson, Vincent A. Segreto, and Robert K. Wettlaufer.
Since its organization, the San Antonio Section has conducted two program meetings, one at Lackland
Air Force Base and one at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base. Ten papers of
original research were presented at each meeting preceding a dinner meeting where a featured paper was
presented.
Because the majority of the members of the San Antonio Section are in the Armed Forces, there has
been a continual change in the membership due to transferral in and out of San Antonio. By May 1970 the
membership was fourteen. It is hoped that with the presence of a new dental school in San Antonio, now under
construction, the membership will be greatly increased.
Officers at the end of 1970 were Vincent A. Segreto, President; Albert C. Jerman, Secretary; and O. M.
Reed, Councilor.
THE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION
Founded in 1924 as the sixth Section of the Association, the San Francisco Section has had continuing
representation at the annual meetings. Founding members were J. S. Shell (Secretary), H. M. Bean, J. A.
Marshall, E. H. Mauk, G. S. Millberry, F. H. Orton, and F. V. Simonton. Among the more prominent members
over the past fifty years have been R. G. Agnew, L. H. Baume, H. Becks, W. C. Fleming, H. E. Frisbie, H. M.
Leicester, J. H. Nuckolls, W. L. Wylie, H. M. Myers, and G. Ryge.
In the early years, the California Stomatological Research Group was a center for intense activity, which
added to the Section's membership.
In 1953 the Section was deeply involved in a symposium on Diet and Dental Caries which received
widespread national and international attention. The symposium was sponsored by the California Dental
Association and brought outstanding figures to the area for several days of vigorous debate.
In 1960 D. H. Copp presented a paper at a Section meeting prior to its publication which described his
discovery of calcitonin.
As a guest of the San Francisco Section, one of the recipients of the Senior Foreign Scientist Fellowship
of the IADR was Takara Yonaga of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He spent the year 1967 in San
Francisco, where he presented papers on his vital Pb staining technique, which he also discussed at New York
and Boston Section meetings.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) – THE FIRST FIFTY YEAR HISTORY PAGE 174