Contents - IADR/AADR
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A comprehensive growth curve based on such total pages was provided in an earlier History of the<br />
Journal. 1 However, to update and upgrade the total contents of the Journal of Dental Research through 1970,<br />
the preceding table is presented which permits analysis of the several kinds of items published over the last half-<br />
century. Included in these extensive figures are the Supplements to the Journal, which began in 1962 and<br />
continued on through 1970 with a total of twenty-one such separately bound booklets. Among these were the<br />
<strong>IADR</strong> Directories of Membership and a variety of Symposia, including those of the AAAS Nd Section, the<br />
ICOB meetings, and some <strong>IADR</strong> annual meeting proceedings per se. Only the History of the Journal and the<br />
1969 Biographical Directory (Special Commemorative Supplement to vol. 48) had pagination separate from<br />
that of the Journal.<br />
In the early volumes of the Journal under W. J. G.'s Editorship, the nonscientific articles were numbered<br />
in italic roman numerals and hence, in many citations, were not counted in the final pagination of arabic<br />
numerals per volume. In such citations several kinds of published papers were often lumped together. Thus,<br />
certain references to the total JDR page counts, such as those in The Survey of Dentistry, 13 differ from those in<br />
the preceding table.<br />
MONETARY ASPECTS<br />
Almost all journals, and especially those that carry no advertising, have difficulty in making monetary<br />
ends meet. The wise William Gies was well aware of these problems right from the beginning. Hence he<br />
established an endowment fund for the Journal, so that at its very birth it was born with a proverbial silver<br />
spoon in its mouth. With the first issue of JDR in 1919, there had been $2026 subscribed for the Endowment<br />
Fund, although only $676 had actually been paid. Gies stated forthrightly: "the Journal of Dental Research will<br />
be financed as a University is supported, with public spirited special gifts for this purpose and from a<br />
cumulative permanent endowment fund to be created; also from subscriptions for its successive volumes—not<br />
from advertisements of goods for sale." 14<br />
In many of the early issues, the JDR cited the growth of this fund, including the lengthy list of individual<br />
contributors. By March 1921 the fund, including the accrued interest, amounted to $5356.13, 15 and by 31<br />
December 1922 the fund had grown to $6633.39. 16 In subsequent volumes of JDR, in 1927 and even in 1928, a<br />
short paragraph on the Endowment Fund simply stated that the current monetary status would be published in a<br />
later volume. 17 However, after 1928 no further information was ever published on the Endowment Fund of the<br />
Journal of Dental Research, established so early and apparently securely by William J. Gies.<br />
At the time of W. J. G.'s retirement from Columbia in 1937, a William J. Gies Endowment Committee<br />
for the Journal was appointed by ad interim action of the <strong>IADR</strong> Council. The Chairman was A. H. Merritt, and<br />
J. D. Eby, F. C. Kemple, F. S. McKay, and B. B. Palmer were the other members of the Committee, which was<br />
formed to raise funds for placing the Journal on a sound financial basis. 18 The Committee was quite successful<br />
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH (<strong>IADR</strong>) – THE FIRST FIFTY YEAR HISTORY PAGE 217