Dr. Clark J. Hollister
resigns as executive
secretary and is
replaced by Ray
Cobaugh.
The name of our
publication was
changed from the
Pennsylvania State
Dental Journal to the
Pennsylvania Dental
Journal.
1949
1949
1948
1948
Many district and
local societies in
the Pennsylvania
State Dental Society
participate in the
American Dental
Association’s first
national observance
of Children’s Dental
Health Day.
Children’s
Dental Health Day
1950
1951
1952
Ford City
(in Armstrong
County) becomes
the first community
in Pennsylvania to
fluoridate its water.
Brookville, in
Jefferson County,
followed three
months later.
1946
1946
1951
Pittsburgh became
the first large city in
Pennsylvania, and
one of the first major
cities in the country,
to fluoridate the
water.
1952
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1950
The Women’s
Auxiliary was
organized, with
the statewide
auxiliary formed as
a federation of local
dental societies’
auxiliaries.
PDA Presidents Drs. Charles S. Patton 1950, Paul E. Bomberger 1951
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