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Memorial Awards:
H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award—since 1964
Isaac Schour Memorial Award—since 1967
Five Commercially Funded Awards established—from 1963 through 1967.
Student Travel Awards established—since 1968.
1. Sponsor, International Conferences on Oral Biology triennial meetings initiated in 1959 at New York;
after that, abroad, as follows: 1962, Bonn; 1965, London; 1968, Copenhagen.
2. Central IADR office established in the ADA headquarters building in Chicago, August 1965, with a fulltime
Secretary-Treasurer and Staff.
3. Craniofacial Biology Group established 1965.
4. Periodontal Research Group established 1969.
5. Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Program in New York City, 16 March 1970.
6. First Fifty-Year History being written.
As some milestones need further elucidation, additions termed landmarks have been included in this chapter
to make the chronological epic of the Association more meaningful. The extensive documentation that is
furnished throughout the book can be termed the hallmarks and benchmarks, depending on whether the data
came from the Journal or from other sources, while the keystone of the whole endeavor has been the IADR
Constitution, with the By-Laws as cornerstones to guide the actions of the organization.
Lamartine, the French orator and poet, said, "History is neither more nor less than biography on a large
scale." In recognizing this view, names of persons active in IADR are cited whenever appropriate, but, since
events are fashioned by persons under certain motivating circumstances, it is the events that are stressed in this
chapter. Thus the salient historic occurrences have been cited chronologically, the more important of which are
elaborated upon in subsequent chapters.
THE EPIC OF THE IADR
The simple fact is that the IADR was organized with minimal fanfare on 10 December 1920. It seems
logical to conjecture that the Association could not have been formed much earlier than the second decade of
the twentieth century. Almost up to this very time, there were various omnibus societies concerned with broad
areas of science in general. Somewhat later came societies organized to promote special fields and to support a
single-topic journal.
The concept of a society designed to enhance dental research was indeed unique—it was to cover a
special area of the health sciences, yet it was an omnibus in the sense of covering all aspects of science which
were even remotely related to Dentistry. Into this curious duality the IADR was born and surprisingly
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