UPDATE December 15, 2011:
2012 John F. Johnston Meeting and Dinner (Link to Directions)
Saturday, February 25, 2012
6:00 PM - Drinks and Social
7:00 PM - Dinner
McCormick & Schmick’s
41 East Chestnut Street
Chicago, IL 60613-2015
(312) 397-9500
REGISTER and PAY for 2012 Chicago Dinner
From The President
Pat Dunigan - Winter 2011
Greetings to all JFJ members from Bloomington, Indiana. I hope everyone is healthy and productive! Janet and I are doing well. Our two sons, Christopher (a sophomore at IU) and Kelly (a sophomore in high school) continue to keep life exciting for us.
I did not know Dr. John F. Johnston personally, yet I think I have gotten to know him a little through my interactions with the I.U. graduate students, the faculty, and the alumni. I am sure Dr. Johnston would be reflected in the wonderful qualities of this group: talented, hard-working, and intelli- gent. Dr. Johnston would be proud of the accomplishments of this membership.
At our next board meeting, there will be various items on our agenda. One is a sense of the “changing of the guard.” We have had a talented and generous generation of faculty develop this organization, and now a new generation is taking the reigns. I would like to affirm that we are on “terra firma.”
Other issues and concerns revolve around economics: University funding, student debt, etc. We have a new Dean of the Indiana University School of Dentistry, Dr. John Williams. And then there is my favorite topic—lab support for prosthodontics.
President Herman Wells might have said, “Money, money, never enough money!” I would say, lab work, lab work, never enough quality lab support! I believe this is a sig- nificant problem we all face in prosthodontics. The State of Indiana had four dental laboratory programs in past years, and now it has one. The U.S. has approximately 20 dental laboratory programs today. Can this trend be reversed? This is a challenge that may take years, and possibly generations, to reverse. Yet it is important, and I would entertain suggestions.
A big hello to my former classmates: Joe Macy (Alaska), Serge Frejlich (Israel), John Carpendale (Vancouver), Rajapas Panichuttra (Thailand), Russell Wang (Taiwan), Young Kim (South Korea) and Mark (Minnesota). A spe- cial thanks to Joe Macy over the years for keeping me afloat with techniques and materials and a dose of psychotherapy.
Thanks to Kellie Schaub, Suteera Hovijitra, Don Schmitt, and John Levon this year for their administrative support and active involvement in the John F. Johnston Society. And thanks to all of the JFJ members for coming to Indi- ana University and for enriching our State, I.U.S.D., its Prosthodontic program, and each of us!
May God’s hand be over the JFJ Society.
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