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the financial picture for the 1970 Fiftieth Anniversary year is presented in considerable detail. 6 The earliest
financial report that appeared in the Journal 7 was for the 1944 calendar year. Similar reports of the intervening
years have been published with varying detail depending on preparations by the incumbent Secretary and/or
Treasurer. While some early reports were published only in part, full reports were always available for
inspection by members even if only in mimeographed form at the annual meetings.
Needless to emphasize, during the recent years, monetary aspects paralleled the great growth in every
phase of Association activity. Whereas dues were very meager in the early days, they are now substantial and
stabilized at $30 per year including a subscription to the Journal of Dental Research. There was no registration
fee for the annual meetings until 1955, when it became necessary to charge $2 (to cover the unexpected cost of
professional slide projectionists who were necessary at that Chicago meeting). But, by contrast, registration at
the annual meeting fifteen years later was $10 for members and $20 for nonmembers.
While the Association income increased considerably, so did the expenditures; 8 nevertheless, with wise
management, monetary assets, including those of the Journal, had grown to the substantial figure of $279,283
by 1970. Funds of the Journal of Dental Research had always been maintained in a separate account and
rightfully so, since the Journal had historically been a separate entity, requiring some independence in the use
of its funds in order to rapidly and adequately publish its many scientific manuscripts. This sound financial
situation is in vivid contrast to the meager Depression days of the 1930s when William Gies was said to have
borrowed on his own life insurance in order to keep the Journal in existence.
CONTRIBUTION OF TIME, EFFORT AND SPACE
It should be noted that, over the decades, the custom evolved that the various Schools have the "honor"
to donate portions of a professor's time to the cause of the IADR. Not uncommonly, and almost expectedly in
academic circles, it is the unofficial concept that since scientific societies are well within the academic realm,
certain activities within these societies may be considered part of the scholarly pursuit of the professor,
especially when he becomes involved as an officer. As such, he should devote considerable academic (school)
time and effort in addition to his personal time during evenings, weekends, and vacations to the activities of the
Association. This has been especially true of the office of General Secretary, the Editorship, and also the
Presidency. It seems opportune to cite this nonmonetary "labor of love" on the part of IADR members and also
to commend the contribution of professorial time and physical space on the part of the respective universities
where it has been so magnanimously provided.
REFERENCES
1. J Dent Res 36: 801, 1957.
2. See "Views and News" in J Dent Res 44: 461, 1965 and "IADR Charg³ d'affaires" on page 626 of the
same issue.
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