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The Section was pleased to be host for the annual IADR meeting in both 1959 and 1968.
A member of the San Francisco Section, Gunnar Ryge, was elected Vice-President of the IADR during
1970. This marks the second time a local member was elected to this office; F. V. Simonton was Vice-President
(1928-29) but then resigned from all academic endeavors, while Ryge was later elected IADR President (1972-
73).
Officers at the end of 1970 were Herschel S. Horowitz, President; L. D. Cagnone, Secretary; and Isadore
Zipkin, Councilor. Membership climbed to ninety-three.
THE SEATTLE SECTION
The Seattle Section initially developed within an amalgamation of IADR members known as the Pacific
Northwest Section, which trichotomized in 1966. (See the histories of the British Columbia and Portland
Sections in this chapter.) The first meeting as a separate Section was held late in 1966. Officers elected were
Irving B. Stern, President; Martha H. Fales, Secretary; and Patricia J. Keller, Councilor.
The officers at the end of 1970 were A. Ian Hamilton, President; Benjamin C. Moffett, Secretary; and
Leo M. Sreebny, Councilor, while membership was an even thirty.
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SECTION
The Southern California Section was founded in the latter part of 1949 at a meeting held at the Dental
School of the University of Southern California. Included in the group of founders were Spencer Atkinson,
Lucien Bavetta, Sol Bernick, Jean Brauer, Ben Ershoff, Ben Rabinowitch, Robert Rutherford, Max Shapiro, and
Norman Simmonds. Bavetta was elected Secretary. Rabinowitch became Councilor shortly thereafter, when
Brauer moved to Australia. After two or three years of activity, interest waned and the Section became inactive.
As a new decade approached, fresh impetus to dental research in Southern California was provided from several
areas. The School of Medicine at UCLA was well established and growing rapidly, and plans for a dental school
were taking shape. An increasing number of the faculty at Loma Linda University Dental School were actively
pursuing research interests. W. W. Wainwright was brought to the University of Southern California to launch a
program in basic dental research. In collaboration with J. B. Taylor, Chief of Dental Service at the VA Hospital,
Long Beach, he initiated a study of microleakage of restorations, as part of the program of the Veterans
Administration to contribute materially to dental research throughout the country. With the arrival of Reidar
Sognnaes as Dean of the future School of Dentistry at UCLA, and of Harold Dute as Chief of Dental Service at
the VA Center in Los Angeles, conditions were ripe for a reactivation of this IADR Section. Due largely to the
initiative of Wainwright, the second phase in the history of the Southern California Section was launched with a
meeting in the temporary quarters of the UCLA Dental School on 3 November 1960. A panel including H.
Dute, R. F. Sognnaes, E. C. Stowell, J. B. Taylor, and W. W. Wainwright presented a program on the
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