Dr Woelfel received awards for his comprehensive research activity by IADR, The Ohio Dental Association, The New York
Prosthodontic Society, The British Prosthodontic Society and the Nihon University Dental Alumni Association.
After his retirement in 1989, he and his wife, Marcile, took very long trips to China, South America, Costa Rica, many South
Pacific islands, Europe, Africa, Madagascar, and last but not least Easter Island and Papua New Guinea.
In 2001, upon my invitation as Secretary General of the Romanian Society of Stomatology, the second Romanian Society to be
accepted as an FDI member, Dr Woelfel offered two free master classes. The audience, members of the Bucharest Society as
well as the teaching staff of the Faculty of Dental Medicine in Bucharest appreciated the originality, scholarship and novelty
of the two conferences on dental occlusion and dentures, Dr Woelfel's favorite topics.
After the classes, Prof Dumitru David and I accompanied him and his wife Marcile on a two-day Dracula tours, the reason
and support of his trip to Romania. On the way back to Bucharest we had Dr Woelfel and his wife Marcile as our guests for
the Easter dinner in our villa, in Breaza, Prahova County, a villa which was returned to us after having been nationalized by
the communist regime.
I will always remember his unparalleled Christmas cards, the messages where he recollected the moments we spent together
for the 2001 Easter and his annual news on his family.
Professor Julian Woelfel will remain in our hearts as a legend, a living flame dedicated to his profession, offering with the
utmost generosity fundamental contributions to the generations to come.
Sincerely yours,
M-V Constantinescu
Editor-in-Chief
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