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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: WHO IN IADR WAS WHO
A Biographic Reference to Deceased Members
Those among the living are well documented in the research world by the 1969 IADR Directory and its
1971 supplement. But those men and women who lived in earlier years, and gave full devotion to research in
their time, should be remembered for what they achieved. Thus, a biographic listing of all deceased individuals
in dental research as IADR members of the past must certainly not be overlooked, especially by the younger
generation of researchers who should peruse this history of accomplishments.
Documentary reference to deceased colleagues is a fitting endeavor, as famous writers have pointed out
in the past. Emphasis on biography is rendered by Carlyle, who declared, "Biography is the only true history."
Emmons said, "Death stamps the character and conditions of men for eternity." This may be even more valid if
the attributes of men and women in research are memorialized, as in this biographic compilation.
COMPILATION PROCEDURE
An exhaustive effort was made to gain biographic information for each of the 298 deceased members
herein cited. The entire IADR History Ad Hoc Committee and the Association's living past Presidents
contributed considerable information to this chapter, but the greatest single compilation effort was expended by
the Chairman's able assistants, Miss Tesa Hayashi, Mrs. Harriet Blakley, and Mr. David P. James at the Zoller
Clinic, University of Chicago, who searched out all known and accessible sources of biography, including
IADR records, which were found to be very meager for the early years.
Despite this overall effort, results were not uniform for all those investigated. Very little information
was available about some members of the past, while for others considerable background information indicated
their greater contribution and prominence in the field of dental research in its broader aspects, as well as in
dental education and administration.
It was necessary to use extensive abbreviations for the many activities of IADR past members. Standard
forms are used as in past biographic directories. The most comprehensive appeared in a commemorative
supplement to the Journal of Dental Research, volume 48 (September 1969), followed by an addendum (J Dent
Res, vol. 50 [March 1971]). Earlier, IADR directories appeared in J Dent Res 31: 646-738, 1952, and in J Dent
Res 41: 1111-1245 (suppl.), 1962.
MEMBERSHIP ANALYSIS
Aside from the problems cited, the biographic information gained has proved to be rather voluminous
but revealing. This fifty-year period 1920-70 saw almost three hundred of the most prominent men and women
interested in dental research pass away, but these individuals left behind a heritage of great importance to the
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