Abstract
IT IS GOOD to be asked to share your first program of the season with your well-known orthodontic “elder statesman, ” Dr. Charles R. Baker. Charlie has been an editorial anchor man of the QMERIC-4~ JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS for your district for many years. At editorial meetings each year, the chair representing your district of the American Association of Orthodontists has never been unoccupied and the occupant has never been tardy; that’s a perfect score. In asking Charles R. Baker a.nd me to share t.he podium, perhaps you intended for each of us to check the other. We are bot.h well aware of our long “orthodontic mileage, ’ ’ and it is no doubt prudent that we should hold the “stop watch” on each other. Your kind invitation to relate some “off-the-cuff’ ’ incidents of orthodontic vesteryears recalled to mind a similar occasion when I was asked to say some” thing about some of the things that took place when our specialty was young iqnd struggling through its fabulous infancy. I responded to the telephone invitation by suggesting that the group should invite a wide-awake young man with vim, vigor, and vitality to talk, because a young man would say more about the future and less about the past. I added that, after all, the future is where we must live and the future offers the big challenge. That same answer would no doubt be equally appropriate now. However, recent important developments in the specialties of dentistry reveal that new forces are at. work and seem to indicate that the real background of the dental specialties is not so well known as it might be. The American Association of Orthodontists has attained a membership of about 3,000 members. Resolution 2’ was approved by the House of Delegates of the American Dental Association in Philadelphia in October. The American Association of Orthodontists has now employed a full-time, widely experienced secretary Mr. James E. Brophy. The Board of Directors of the American Association of Orthodontists has held its first ad interim two-day meeting in
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