Professor Michael Vivian (‘Mike’) Morgan BDS GDipEpid MDSc, PhD (b.1956) studied dental science at the University of Otago, New Zealand, graduating in 1979. He joined the University of Melbourne Dental School as a graduate student in 1982 and became a staff member in 1988. He was appointed Deputy Head of the School of Dental Science in 1999, and has held the Colgate Chair of Population Oral Health since 2006.

- Personal communication, Mike Morgan to Ann Westmore.

The first reference to the Dental School of the University of Melbourne occurs in the University Calendars of the 1950s. However Professor Wilkinson, the Foundation Professor of Dental Science (1924-33), used to talk about “the Dental School” when referring to the academic entity.

- James A.McL. Robertson, The Australian College of Dentistry: A Centenary of Dental Education in Victoria, History of the University Unit, 1998, p.45.

Professor Eric Charles Reynolds AO, BSc (Hons) PhD studied science with honours in biochemistry at the University of Melbourne (1973) and undertook a PhD thesis (1977) titled “Thymidine sensitivity of murine myeloma and lymphoma cells” in the Russell Grimwade School of Biochemistry.

In 1980 he started researching dental caries prevention and remineralisation, identifying molecular processes enabling the repair of early tooth decay. He subsequently led a team developing a range of Recaldent^™ products including a sugar-free chewing gum that substantially reduces the risk of tooth decay.

He was appointed Head of the School of Dental Science in 1994, was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and led the Cooperative Research Centre for Oral Health Science and the Victorian Centre for Oral Health Science.

His research earned him many prizes including the Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award (2002) and the Victoria Prize (2005).

Ms Ruth Strutt, Administrative Assistant, School of Dental Science.

Ms Sandra Turner AssDipSec&Admin FCT BA GDipSocHlth(HlthCareHist) returned from a period overseas in Japan and The Netherlands (1970-85) to administrative positions in the health and education sectors before joining the University of Melbourne in 1991, becoming Manager of the School of Dental Science in 2002. Throughout, she studied part-time, gaining qualifications in Secretarial and Administrative Studies, a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Asian Studies and Political Science, and a Graduate Diploma of Social Health, specialising in health care history.

As School Manager, she has responsibility for management and administration, staff and student support, strategic planning, and program and policy development and implementation.

- Personal communication, Sandra Turner to Ann Westmore.

Dr Ann Felicity Westmore MSc PhD (b.1953) is an Honorary Fellow in the University of Melbourne Centre for Health and Society. She is responsible for the conduct of the Witness to the History of Australian Medicine seminar program and the content of The Online Historical Compendium of the University’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, http://www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/gateways.html

The first training institution for dentists in Victoria, the Australian College of Dentistry, was established in Lonsdale St. Melbourne in 1897 by John Iliffe (1847-1914) and colleagues from the Odontological Society of Victoria. It initially offered a Licentiate of Dental Surgery degree (LDS).

In 1904 the Australian College of Dentistry affiliated with the University of Melbourne and a Faculty of Dentistry was created. The Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree (later known as the Bachelor of Dental Science degree – BDSc) then became available. The College moved to 193 Spring St. Melbourne in 1907 and the first DDSc (Doctor of Dental Science) graduates gained their degrees in 1913.

Until 1925, the College and the Hospital were one entity, but in that year they separated, though they continued to occupy and share facilities in the same Spring St building.

In 1963, after 67 years, the College was wound up and dental education in Victoria became wholly the responsibility of the Dental Faculty. From that time, also, a new School of Dentistry and the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne occupied the triangular site on Elizabeth St, diagonally opposite the main University campus.

In 2003 the re-named School of Dental Science re-located, along with the Dental Hospital, to its current 720 Swanston St. Melbourne site.

- For the early history of the Faculty of Dentistry see R.J.W. Selleck, The Shop; The University of Melbourne 1850-1939, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2003, pp.464-468.

Dr John Vincent Rasmussen MDSc FRACDS (b.1931) graduated in dentistry from the University of Melbourne in 1953 after which he worked in a private dental practice 1954-75. During this time, he became a Senior Clinical Demonstrator in the School of Dental Science, 1963-1975 and undertook studies for a Master of Dental Science, graduating in 1967.

In 1975 he became a specialist prosthodontist and a Senior Clinical Demonstrator in prosthodonty at the School, and was still working in this capacity at the time of the seminar.

- Personal communication, John Rasmussen to Ann Westmore.

The Melbourne Dental Hospital was established in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, in 1890. It moved to 193 Spring St. Melbourne in 1907, and then to 711 Elizabeth St., diagonally opposite the University of Melbourne’s tri-radiate Medical School building in 1963.

Dr John Michael Hales BDSc (b.1933) trained in dental science at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1956. He worked in a private dental practice until his retirement in 1996, the associated flexibility enabling him to pursue his passion for amateur theatre and singing.

Since retirement he has been active in the University of the Third Age, serving as a local branch president.

- Personal communication, John Hales to Ann Westmore.

Dr John Gordon Rogers BDSc, MPH (b.1950) studied dental science at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1974. In 1981 he completed a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Michigan. He was a Dental Adviser within the Victorian Department of Human Services, 1990-97, and Principal Dental Adviser from 1997 until the time of the seminar.

- Personal communication, John Rogers to Ann Westmore.

Dr Hector Josiah Orams DDSc (b.1923) gained his Bachelor, Masters and Doctor of Dental Science degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1946, 1954 and 1970 respectively. He worked as a House Surgeon at the Dental Hospital 1947-48, a part-time Visiting Dental Officer to the Tuberculosis Ward at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital 1948-52, an Honorary Clinical Assistant in Oral Surgery at the Alfred Hospital, 1952-54, part-time Tutor in Oral Anatomy and Pathology at the Dental School, 1954-64, and Honorary Dentist to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1955. He also worked in private practice, 1947-65.

In 1972-73 he was Senior Foreign Fellow and visiting Professor to the Dental School at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US, and in 1979 he was visiting Professor to the Nippon Dental University Tokyo, Japan.

As an active member of the Australian Dental Association (Victorian branch) from graduation until retirement, he served on the Post Graduate Committee for a number of years and was Chairman for part of that time. He was also a member of the IADR, Chairman of the Melbourne Section, 1977-81, Vice-President and then President IADR ANZ Division, 1981-83, and a member of the Board of Directors of IADR, 1982-83. He was subsequently appointed an Honorary Life Member of the ANZ division. Other strong interests included the Societies of Experimental Pathology, Cell Biology and Forensic Dentistry.

This broad experience equipped him for the positions of Senior Lecturer and Reader in Dental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Melbourne, 1965-88.

After retiring in 1988 he worked until 1990 undertaking research part-time at Monash University and at the University of Melbourne.

- Personal communication, Hector Orams to Ann Westmore.

Dr Maurice White BDSc (b.1933) graduated in dentistry in 1960, and was associated with the Dental Hospital, 1952-60. He retired in 1996.

- Personal communication, Maurice White to Ann Westmore.

Dr John Kenneth Harcourt OAM, DDSc LDS FRACDS FADM (b.1931) undertook training for Bachelor, Masters and Doctor of Dental Science degrees at the University of Melbourne. His DDSc thesis (1968) was a micro-radiographic study of the structure of human enamel and dentine.

At the Dental School, he was Demonstrator (1954-56), Lecturer (1957-62), Senior Lecturer (1963-83) and Reader/Associate Professor (1990-96), and Consultant to the Dental Hospital in Removable Prosthodontics.

He also worked overseas at the Northwestern University Dental School, Chicago, as Visiting Associate Professor (1967-69) and Visiting Professor (1979-80), and at the University of Hong Kong where he was Visiting Reader (1990-91).

Active in professional affairs he was Editor of the Australian Dental Journal, 1985-98 and Editor of the Annals of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (1985 to the time of the seminar). He was also President of the Australian Dental Association’s Victorian Branch in 1975 and President of both the Royal Australasian College of Dental Science and the Dental Board of Victoria, 1994-96. He retired from full-time work in 1996, and for the next decade worked part-time.

- Personal communication, John Harcourt to Ann Westmore.

Dr Patricia (‘Pat’) Storey MB BS DipGM (b.1928) graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1953. She worked for the Mental Hygiene Department to support herself and her husband, Tony, who was studying for his higher degrees in dentistry.

During her medical career, she also studied cytology and then geriatric medicine (at Mount Royal Hospital), before working in private practice. She retired in 1993.

- Personal communication, Pat Storey to Ann Westmore.

Professor Elsdon (‘Tony’) Storey ED, DDSc PhD (1924-1988) trained for Bachelor, Masters and Doctor of Dental Science degrees at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1945, 1953 and 1956 respectively. He worked for a short time after his first degree in a private dental practice with his father before discovering that he was allergic to the dental anaesthetics used at the time.

In the period 1945-63 he held appointments at the Dental Hospital of Melbourne (1945, 1948-55 and 1960-63), in the Dental School where he was Senior Demonstrator in the Orthodontic Department (1948-55 and 1957-63) and Conservative Dentistry Department (1959-63), and in the University of Melbourne Pathology Department where he was Tutor and Demonstrator in Pathology (1959-63).

He conducted research as a Research Fellow (part-time) at the Dental School, 1953-55, after developing an interest in tooth movement when force was applied. His DDSc degree was titled “Factors influencing the rate of tooth movement and the associated bone changes”.

He then won a Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship which enabled him to undertake further studies in London University’s Morbid Anatomy Department, 1956-57. On returning to the University of Melbourne, he joined the Pathology Department as Research Fellow, 1957-63, completing a PhD thesis (passed 1959) on the subject, “Bone changes associated with experimental cortisone administration”.

He was appointed University of Melbourne Professor of Conservative Dentistry, 1963-73, and in this role researched fluorides, anti-decay substances and bone metabolism. He then became Professor of Child Dental Health, 1974-88, and campaigned vigorously on a range of strategies aimed at conserving young teeth, including fluoridation. In the Faculty of Dental Science he was Associate Dean, 1968-70 and Dean, 1971-77 and 1980-81 and, in the Royal Dental Hospital, he was Senior Consultant for a time.

He was a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Dental Advisory Committee, 1963-74 and, shortly before his death, the Australian Dental Association conferred on him its Distinguished Service Award for service to the profession and the community.

- Personal communication, Pat Storey to Ann Westmore; William E. Chalmers, ‘Obituary Professor Emeritus Elsdon (Tony) Storey’, Australian Orthodontic Journal, 11 (1), March 1989, p. 79.

Professor Emeritus Henry Forman Atkinson MBE, MSc DDSc LDS FDSRCSEd (b.1912) was born in Lancashire, England, and trained in science and dental science at the Universities of Manchester and Edinburgh. At Manchester, he was taught by Professor Frank Wilkinson, Foundation Professor of Dental Science at the University of Melbourne, 1924-33.

He was Professor of Dental Prosthetics at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Consultant to the Royal Dental Hospital, Melbourne, 1953-77; Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science, 1968-70; and Honorary Dentist to the Royal Children’s Hospital, 1954-64.

After his retirement from full-time work in 1978, he was appointed Professor Emeritus, honorary historian to the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and Honorary Curator of the Dental Museum, which was named in his honour in 2006. In these positions he gathered much material of historical significance and wrote a history of the hospital, In Defence of Ivory Towers; The History of the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, private publication, 1990, which can now be found on the Dental Museum’s website.

He was closely involved in the Ministerial Review of Dental Services in Victoria, released in 1986.

- Personal communication, Henry Atkinson to Ann Westmore and Historical Compendium of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, http://www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/umfm/biogs/FM00066b.htm

A Dental Museum was proposed soon after 1884 when a group of overseas-trained dentists formed the Odontological Society of Victoria. At one of the Society’s early meetings, it was decided to develop a dental museum towards which “Mr Blix, a member, gave a cedar wood cabinet”.

- http://museum.dent.unimelb.edu.au/dental/history.html

Ms Louise Murray GDipInfoMgmt BA BFA (b.1961) trained as an artist and graduated with a BA (Fine Arts) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1983. After exhibitions in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she gained a BA from Monash University in 1994 and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from RMIT University in 1995. She was the Archivist for the City of Melbourne, 1997-99.

In 1999 she worked as a Curator/Researcher at Museum Victoria and worked on the Human Mind and Body Program and on the exhibition, Medical Melbourne. In 2001 she worked on projects at the Immigration Museum and developed content for the Settlings interactive database.

After subsequent work as a Cataloguer and Assistant to the Curator at the University of Melbourne Medical History Museum and a Cataloguer with the Dental Museum, she was appointed Curator of the Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum in 2006.

- Personal communication, Louise Murray to Ann Westmore.

Dr Felicity A. Crombie BDSc(Hons) (b.1978) joined the Dental Hospital as Dentist in 2001 and the School of Dental Science as a Clinical Demonstrator in 2004. At the time of the seminar, she was a Member of the Dental Hospital’s Quality and Safety Committee.

- Personal communication, Felicity Crombie to Ann Westmore.

Dr Mina Borromeo BDSc MSCMed PhD FFPMANZCA FRACDS(SND) (b.1964) studied science at Monash University before undertaking training in dental science at the University of Melbourne. Her on-going interest in research resulted in her undertaking further studies in pain management at Sydney and Monash Universities.

In 1999, she was appointed a Dental Consultant at the Austin Hospital and, in 2000, she took up a similar appointment at St Vincent’s Pain Clinic.

- Personal communication, Mina Borromeo to Ann Westmore.

Professor Emeritus Peter Clarence Reade AM, MDS MDSc PhD FDSRCS FRCPath FFOPRCPA FDSRACDS (b.1930) undertook dental training at the University of Adelaide before studying oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Post-graduate Institute of Dental Surgery, University of London, and at the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

After returning to Adelaide he lectured in periodontics, 1958-62, worked in a private dental practice, and undertook research towards a PhD in the Department of Microbiology at Adelaide University, 1962-64. The topic of his thesis was “The Development of the Reticulo-Endothelial System in Rats”.

He won a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship, 1964-65 and was a research associate at Harvard Medical School, 1966-68.

From 1968 to 1992 he was Professor of Dental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Melbourne and Senior Consultant to the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne. He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science, 1978-79.

He retired from full-time work in 1992 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. At the time of the seminar, he was still involved in a part-time capacity at the Dental Hospital.

- Personal communication, Peter Reade to Ann Westmore and Who’s Who in Australia 2000.

Mr C. David L. Thomas MEng MIEEE (b.1949) trained in engineering and joined the technical staff of the Dental Prosthetics Department of the Dental School in 1978 and has continued to work there ever since.

- Personal communication, David Thomas to Ann Westmore.

Dr Clive Geoffrey Dennis DDSc (b.1925) studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1947, gained a MDSc degree (1953) and a Doctorate (1959). While studying for his higher degrees he was a Demonstrator in the Dental School and, when Professor Atkinson arrived in 1958, he was a Lecturer. He later became Senior Lecturer, Head of Department and took responsibility for the Cleft Palate Clinic. There is a portrait of him in the Dental Museum (Series 11, DMCO 1586).

Dr Keith D. B. Faulkner MDSc PhD was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer on the staff of the Prosthetics Department. He came from Queensland to complete his studies on the effects of irradiation on dental tissue. There is a photograph of him with Dental School staff on the day of his graduation in the Dental History Museum (Series 11, DMCO 1582).

Mr Garry Pearson MEdSt HDT(SAC) AFAIM MAICD (b.1952) was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch Inc. in 1991. Prior to that, he was Secretary of the Board and Director of Corporate Services with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Board, which was responsible for senior secondary curriculum and examination programs.

- Personal communication, Garry Pearson to Ann Westmore.

Dr Jeremy Peter Graham BDSc, LDS, DipForOdont (b. 1952) graduated in dental science from the University of Melbourne in 1975. He became interested in forensic odontology after undertaking an ADA continuing professional development course on reconstruction of the skull in 1999. He then undertook the Diploma in Forensic Odontology at the University of Melbourne in 2000.

- Personal communication, Jeremy Graham to Ann Westmore.

Forensic odontology is that branch of dental science associated with the administration of justice. In part, it is the science of establishing the identity of deceased persons by comparing dental records compiled in life with postmortem findings. The Centre for Human Identification at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine was established in 2004.

Dr Owen Crombie BDSc LDS (b.1950) graduated in dentistry from the University of Melbourne in 1973. He then worked in private dental practices in Dandenong, 1974-79, and in Hampton, from 1979 until the time of the seminar.

- Personal communication, Owen Crombie to Ann Westmore.

Dr Renton Dawson Newbury was one of three dentist sons of Dr Charles Renton (‘Ren’) Newbury (1915-1986), the first Australian to hold the post of World President of the Federation Dentaire Internationale (1985).

- Alan G. Parker, ‘Obituary Charles Renton Newbury’, Australian Orthodontic Journal, 9 October 1986.

Dr Gerald David (‘Gerry’) Dalitz DDSc LDS FRACDS (b.1927) won the Victorian Free Place for Dentistry in 1943, after which he commenced his BDSc in 1944 at Spring St, graduating with distinction in 1948. He started general dental practice in 1949 at Bentleigh and completed his MDSc (Part One: Metallurgy and Dental Materials) in 1951. Proceeding to his MDSc (Part Two), he majored in orthodontics and graduated in 1955.

He became interested in the subject of forensic odontology when an acquaintance who was a policeman said, “They don’t know anything about teeth at the morgue.” After investigating the subject worldwide, he applied to start research towards a DDSc at the University of Melbourne, where he was supervised by Professor Amies and Dr Keith Bowden, Government Pathologist to the Coroners Court. He gained his DDSc in 1961 for a thesis on forensic aspects of dental science with special reference to the identification of human remains. He was made a part-time lecturer in Forensic Odontology at the Dental School and, working in the field of human identification, he became consultant to the Coroners Court, Victoria Police (Homicide), the Royal Australian Air Force and the Department of Civil Aviation.

He was a member of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences and a number of forensic societies in Australia, and was also involved with the early establishment of Disaster Victim Identification in Australia.

In the 1980s he cut back his involvement in forensic dentistry and in the years preceding the Witness seminar, he helped Jeremy Graham at the Department of Human Identification to catalogue many teaching specimens and historical records related to his unusual, broad-ranging and satisfying career.

- Personal communication, Gerry Dalitz to Ann Westmore.

Dr Donald R (‘Don’) Dalley BDSc (b.1924), graduated in dentistry from the University of Melbourne in 1947. He was in private dental practice in Richmond until 2000 when he retired. During the 1990s, he worked for a time at the Dental School demonstrating clinical techniques to dental science students.

- Personal communication, Don Dalley to Ann Westmore.

Mr Dennis Kenneth Rowler AssDip AppSc(MedLab) joined the School of Dental Science in the Oral Pathology Laboratory in 1969, supporting teaching and research and the small animal house that existed at the time.

Professor William John (‘Tucky’) Tuckfield MACD ScD DDSc LLD FDSRCS FACD (1881-1969) gained his primary dental qualification from the Australian College of Dentistry and was registered to practice as a dentist in 1902. He served on the Faculty of Dental Science at the University of Melbourne from 1908, was Dean of Dentistry 1922-23 and was appointed Director of Prosthetics in 1934. During the absence of Professor Amies at the war, he was Acting Dean (1940-42). He gained his DDSc degree in 1945 for a thesis titled “Full denture technique” and was appointed Acting Professor of Dental Prosthetics, 1949 until 1952.

By the early 1950s he was Honorary Director of the Visual Aids Laboratory, although nearly blind, but continued to serve the College through his membership of the Building Committee for the proposed new hospital.

Active in professional affairs, he was President of the Odontological Society of Victoria, 1920 and 1921, which coincided with the amalgamation of that organisation with the Australian College of Dentistry Alumni Society. He served as Federal President of the Australian Dental Association, 1939-41, having held numerous other positions with the ADAVB. He also edited the Australian Journal of Dentistry, 1914-56, became Editor Emeritus of the Australian Dental Journal and was the College/School photographer for many years, reflecting his lifetime interest in photography. His book, Full Denture Technique, was published in 1944 and became the standard work on prosthetics for generations of Melbourne dental students.

The William J. Tuckfield Prize, donated by the Commonwealth Dental Supply Co., honours his contribution to dental prosthetics. Since 1946 it has been awarded to the University of Melbourne dental science student with the best record in dental prosthetics throughout his or her course. The Tuckfield Memorial Library at the ADAVB is also named after him.

- H.F. Atkinson, ‘Tuckfield, William John (1881-1969)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 12, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp. 280-281, and James A.McL. Robertson, The Australian College of Dentistry: A Centenary of Dental Education in Victoria, History of the University Unit, 1998, pp.50-51.

Mr Alan Robert Docking MBE, MSc FRACI FRACDS (1915-1973) studied science at the University of Melbourne gaining a BSc in 1936 and an MSc in 1938 for a thesis on the adsorption of salts of methylcellulose. He was appointed Director of the Dental Materials Research Laboratory in 1946 which developed an international reputation under his leadership.

He maintained close relationships with Dental Faculty and was Senior Lecturer (part-time) in Metallography and Dental Materials, 1951-63. He was also a member of the Council of the Australian College of Dentistry.

In 1967 he was appointed head of the S.S. White Research Laboratories in the US, but poor health prevented him from taking up the position.

Active in professional affairs, he was a founding member of the Australian Section of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).

The year after his death, Owen Makinson proposed that the IADR establish an award to honour his memory and, in 1978, the first Alan Docking IADR Science Prize was awarded to Professor Tasman Brown from the University of Adelaide.

Another award honouring his memory is the Alan Docking Prize in Dental Materials Science, donated by the Australian Dental Industry Association. It is awarded annually to the BDSc student who obtains the highest marks in the first year Dental Materials Science and Conservative Dentistry module.

- Bryan Radden and John Harcourt, A History of the International Association for Dental Research in Australia and New Zealand 1960-85, Colgate-Palmolive Pty Ltd, 1987, p.44.

Elsdon Storey, ‘Bone changes associated with tooth movement. The influence of the menstrual cycle on the rate of tooth movement, Australian Journal of Dentistry, vol 58, 1954, pp.80-88.

Professor Frank Clare Wilkinson BDS MB ChB MD DDSc (1889-1979) studied medicine and dentistry at the University of Liverpool, and was Lecturer for the Dental Board of Great Britain, before becoming Foundation Professor of Dental Science at the University of Melbourne, 1924-33, a position for which there were 34 applicants. He was also Dean of the Dental Faculty, Director of the Dental Research Department and Principal of the Australian College of Dentistry over the same period.

He is credited with upgrading dental training and research facilities in Melbourne before returning to England in 1933. During the next quarter century, he established a reputation as a dynamic leader at the University of Manchester and at the Eastman Dental Institute, University of London. He retired in 1970.

According to an article published in the British Dental Journal, he was loyal to his staff and trainees, but did not suffer fools gladly.

- Historical Compendium of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, http://www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/umfm/biogs/FM00378b.htm

Professor John Neill (‘Neil’) Greenwood DSc MMetE was appointed Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Melbourne in 1924 and Professor of Metallurgical Research in 1945. He was appointed to a Personal Chair in 1960. He headed the University’s Metallographic Research Laboratory to which the College of Dentistry provided start-up funding.

- University of Melbourne Calendar 1961.

Howard Knox Worner CBE, DSc FIM FAA FTSE (1913-2006) studied metallurgy at the University of Melbourne (graduating in 1934) before becoming a Lecturer in Metallography at the University (1936-38), Director of the Metallographic Research Laboratory (1938) and a Research Fellow at the Dental Materials Research Laboratory, Melbourne.

After gaining his Doctor of Science degree (1942), he was appointed Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Melbourne, 1946-55. He then moved from academia to industry, becoming Director of Research at Broken Hill Pty Ltd. (1956-64) and Director of New Process Development at CRA Ltd (1964-75). He returned to academia in the final years of his working life, as Director of the Microwave Applications Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, 1987-89.

- R.W. Home, ‘Worner, Howard Knox’, Physics in Australia to 1945, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000917p.htm and James A.McL. Robertson, The Australian College of Dentistry: A Centenary of Dental Education in Victoria, History of the University Unit, 1998, pp.29.

The Metallographic Research Laboratory, established in 1936, was part of an entity called the Dental Research Department of the University of Melbourne. At first it was situated in the Metallurgy Department on the university campus, but it later moved to the Prosthetics Laboratory at the College in Spring Street.

- James A.McL. Robertson, The Australian College of Dentistry: A Centenary of Dental Education in Victoria, History of the University Unit, 1998, pp.29.

Dr Edward Hubert (‘Eddie’) Marks DDSc (1911-1989) graduated in dentistry from the University of Melbourne in 1934 and practised at 2 Collins St with his brother, George Marks. Their father, Isador Jacob (‘Izzy’) Marks, was one of the first dental student apprentices at the Melbourne Dental Hospital.

In 1936, Marks was the first person to be awarded the Melbourne DDSc. His thesis on alloys used in making dental amalgams telegraphed an abiding interest in researching dental materials and was significant in the establishment and equipping of the Dental Materials Research Laboratory at 193 Spring St.

In 1946 he was appointed a foundation member of the Standards Committee of the Australian Dental Association and, during the next 20 years, he served on its Committee, including a long period as its Chairman. He was also a member of the Panel of Co-operating Practitioners to the Commonwealth Bureau of Dental Standards and was President of the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch in 1961.

He was an Honorary Clinician in Dental Prosthesis at the Dental School for many years and a committee member of the Victorian Division of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, including a stint as its President. One of his hobbies was amateur radio, and he held a licence to broadcast for some fifty years.

- Australian Dental Association (Victorian Branch) Newsletter February 1990, and personal communication Robin Marks to Ann Westmore.

For further information see Joan Chong and Martin Tyas, The Australian Dental Standards Laboratory 1938-1975, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988 and Henry Atkinson, In Defence of Ivory Towers.

In fact, the Masters degree was introduced after the Doctor of Dental Science Degree. The first graduates of the MDSc appeared in 1962/63 while the first DDSc graduates received their degrees in 1913.

- University Calendars; Personal communication, Bryan Radden to Ann Westmore.

Dr Percy Raymond (‘Ray’ or ‘Tick’) Begg AO, DDSc (1898-1983) was born in the Western Australian goldfields and educated in Adelaide. After working as a jackaroo and serving as a soldier in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, he contracted influenza and was invalided out of the army.

He moved to Melbourne, he graduated in dentistry from the University of Melbourne in 1923, before pursuing his interest in orthodontics at the Angle School of Orthodontia in California, 1924-25.

On returning to Australia, Begg established Adelaide’s first orthodontic practice and completed a Doctor of Dental Science degree (1935) with a thesis titled, “Some Aspects of the Aetiology of Irregularity and Malocclusion of the Teeth”.

He acquired the services of metallurgist, Arthur J Wilcock, and as a result of their collaboration introduced the Light Arch Wire Differential Force Technique in 1961 using lightweight, low force braces. These were more affordable, less painful and required less manipulation and fewer dental visits than their predecessors and were adopted worldwide, providing a platform for the development of modern orthodontic techniques and braces. Three editions of his book, Begg Orthodontic Theory and Technique, were published before he retired in 1980.

The Begg Society of Orthodontists, the European Begg Society, the P. Raymond Begg Research Award, and the Begg Museum and the Begg Orthodontic Unit at the Adelaide Dental Hospital were named in his honour.

- Milton R. Sims, ‘Dr P Raymond Begg, A.O. (1898-1983)’, Australian Orthodontic Journal, 8 March 1983, pp. 39-40; and Encyclopedia of Australian Science biographical entry, ‘Percy Raymond Begg 1898-1983’, http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004690b.htm

The scientist was Dr Ernest Matthews PhD, a polymer chemist who was qualified in dentistry.

According to Henry Atkinson, Wilkinson was trapped in a burning carriage on a night train between London and Manchester that was attacked and set on fire. As a result of his injuries, he was known as ‘Scarface Wilkie’.

The Australian College of Dentistry was a college ‘of and within the University’, according to Henry Atkinson.

Report of the Dental Advisory Committee to the Honorable the Minister of Health, 1969. Among other things, the Committee addressed ways in which the Dental Hospital and the University of Melbourne Dental School could improve the level of dental services available to Victorians. The first recommendation of the report was that “the School of Dental Science, with appropriate increases in staff and facilities, should plan its undergraduate capacity so that as soon as possible it is graduating approximately 100 dentists each year.” (See p.11.)

Ibid, p. 20.

Greene Vardiman Black MD DDS ScD LLD (1836-1915), was the first Dean of Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago and one of the fathers of modern dentistry. He researched the composition of dental amalgams and the cause of dental fluorosis (mottling of the teeth), invented a foot-driven dental drill, and organised a classification system for dental decay patterns. He also developed a series of principles to prepare teeth for filling.

- W.B.Dunning, ‘Greene Vardiman Black’, Journal of the Allied Dental Societies, 10, 4, December 1915, pp. 409-417.

Professor Charles Harold (‘Fluff’ or ‘Harold’) Down DDSc FRSRCS FACD (c.1893 -1965) was one of the first BDSc graduates from the University of Melbourne (1912). Soon after graduating, he volunteered for army service and was appointed a Captain in the Dental Department of the Medical Corps.

After returning to private dental practice post-World War I, he was appointed in the early 1920s to positions as Demonstrator and then Lecturer in Operative Technique. In 1934 he became Senior Lecturer in charge of Conservative Dentistry at the College of Dentistry and in 1940 he gained a DDSc for a thesis on the methodology of teaching dentistry. The thesis reflected an interest in dental education, which was recognised in 1949 when he was appointed Foundation Professor of Conservative Dentistry and Associate Dean of the Dental Faculty. He remained in these positions until his retirement in 1958, and was subsequently voted Emeritus Professor. He continued to work after retirement and is listed as an Honorary Consultant Dental Surgeon at the Dental Hospital of Melbourne in the 1960 Calendar of the University of Melbourne.

A photograph of him was displayed at the 1997 Centenary of Dental Education. See the Dental History Museum, Photographs: File Book 4, DMCO1233.

- Who’s Who in Australia 1959.

The phrase “extension for prevention” summed up G.V. Black’s idea that dentists should follow preventive approaches to help patients guard against tooth decay and loss of teeth.

Fluoridation, the addition of fluoride to drinking water, increases the fluoride to a concentration of about one part per million, that is I milligram of fluoride in a litre of water. Its purpose is to reduce the prevalence of tooth decay in the population.

The first experimental fluoridation of water supplies in Australia began at Beaconsfield, Tasmania, in 1953.

The metropolitan water supply of Sydney was fluoridated in 1968, and fluoridation of Melbourne’s water supply started in February 1977, though the Health (Fluoridation) Act was passed in 1973. By 1985, two-thirds of Australians drank water containing optimum levels of fluoride.

- Report of the Royal Commission into the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies, Hobart, 1968; Peter Tyler, ‘Fluoride and the dental health revolution in Australia’, Address to Health and History; International Perspectives Conference, 16-19 Feb 2005, Auckland, NZ; and ‘Victorian Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into Fluoridation of Victorian Water Supplies (the Myers Committee)’, Parliamentary Papers 1980-81, vol 5 no 5.

Recaldent^™ is an ingredient derived from casein, part of the protein found in cow’s milk. Its technical name is casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP).

It safely strengthens teeth by delivering calcium and phosphate in a soluble form to help remineralise tooth enamel.

Identified by Professor Eric Reynolds and colleagues, it has since been commercialised as lozenges, rinses, tooth mousses and chewing gum, and is licensed to Cadbury which markets it internationally.

Sir Rupert ‘Dick’ Hamer LLM, FAIM (1916-2004) was Premier (representing the Liberal Party) in the Victorian Parliament, 1972-81.

Hon. Johnstone William (‘John’) Thwaites BSc LLB (b.1955) was Shadow Minister for Health (representing the Labor Party) in the Victorian Parliament, 1993-96. He continued in a number of ‘shadow’ roles until the Labor Party came to power in 1999, serving as Minister for Health 1999-2002 and Deputy Premier.

At the 25th anniversary celebration which took place on 22 March, 2002, five “Fluoride Heroes” were honoured. They were Professor Storey, Dr Bruce Levant, Dr Gavan Oakley, Dr Gerald Dickinson and Dr C. Renton Newbury.

- ‘Melbourne celebrates the Fluoride Heroes’, University of Melbourne Media Release, 22 March, 2002.

Hon. Edward Norman (‘Ted’) Baillieu BArch (b.1953) was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 1999 and after stints as Shadow Minister for Tertiary Education and Training, Gaming, Planning and the Arts, he was elected Leader of the Liberal Opposition in 2006 and Premier in 2010.

Sir Arthur Barton Pilgrim Amies, CMG, DDSc DLO LRCP FRCS FRACS (LO) FDSRCS FRSE FACD FRS(1902-1976) was born in Perth, Western Australia, and studied dentistry in Melbourne (graduating 1924) and medicine in Edinburgh (graduating 1928). After returning to Melbourne, he worked part-time at the Dental Hospital, started a private dental practice, and studied for a DDSc (1929) followed by a Diploma of Laryngology and Otology (1933).

In 1934 he succeeded Professor Frank Wilkinson as Professor of Dental Science (later renamed Dental Medicine and Surgery), Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, Principal of the Australian College of Dentistry and Dean of the Dental Hospital. While head of the Faculty he succeeded in his long-cherished goals of establishing a new and independent Dental Hospital and Dental School. These were opened in 1963, four years before his retirement. He was also an Honorary Oral Surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, 1934-62, and Chairman of the Melbourne University Professorial Board.

Active in professional affairs, he was President of the Australian Dental Association in 1936 and 1937, and of the Victorian Dental Board.

According to Professor Henry Atkinson, “there were two sides to Sir Arthur. Besides the ambitious professional there was the public figure, a member of the establishment who achieved much and who basked in the glow of success. . . He did not take kindly to criticism, attacking the critic rather than the substance of his argument, as in the debate on fluoridation. . . A big man, he stood out in a crowd by his bearing and appearance.” He died in 1976.

- Obituary, Australian Dental Journal, 1977, pp. 59-60; H.F.Atkinson, Amies, ‘Sir Arthur Barton Pilgrim (1902-1976)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp.39-40; and http://www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/umfm/biogs/FM00377b.htm

Dr Phillip Richard Neville Sutton DDSc FRACDS gained his DDSc from the University of Melbourne in the early 1950s for a study on the gingival condition of recently released prisoners of war. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Dental Science at the University of Melbourne in 1963. He resigned in 1974, citing a desire for more time to extend his studies on dental conditions in Polynesia and Micronesia. In 1959, Melbourne University Press published the first edition of his monograph, Fluoridation: Errors and Omissions in Experimental Trials, which he updated in 1980. He continued to be sceptical about fluoridation into the 1980s. See Mark Diesendorf and Phillip R.N. Sutton, ‘Fluoride: New Grounds for Concern’, The Ecologist, 16, 6, 1986.

Dr Paul Pincus DDSc PhD FDSRCS gained his BDSc at the University of Melbourne in 1916. He later undertook a DDSc in Melbourne, graduating in 1934 with a thesis titled ‘Local Factors Influencing Dental Caries: a study of organic matter associated with enamel”. In 1934 he was also listed as a research worker with Professor Frank Wilkinson. He gained a PhD in London and wrote The Metabolism of the Human Tooth (1968) which was a compilation of his research work over many years.

Dr Laurie R A Williams BDSc DDS(Northwestern) (1919-2007) studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1942 with honours and the Ernest Joske Prize awarded to the best all-round student in the final year of the dental course. He joined the armed services and served in the Solomon Islands before winning a post war rehabilitation scholarship to Northwestern University in Chicago. There, he became acquainted with early trials of water fluoridation and, for the remainder of his life, advocated its introduction as a sound public health measure. On returning to Melbourne he worked in private practice, following the principles of minimum intervention dentistry, and taught prosthodontics in the Dental School for many years. In 1977 he became a senior dental officer at the Royal Dental Hospital and, from 1984, worked part-time as a dental consultant for the Motor Accident Board and the Traffic Accident Commission.

He served on the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch (ADAVB) Fluoridation and Dental Health Education Committees from the 1940s to the 1970s, on the National Health and Medical Research Council and on the World Health Organisation. He was President of the ADAVB in 1969.

In 1988, the ADA honoured his outstanding contribution to dentistry with the Award for Distinguished Service.

He died in 2007 after several years of ill-health.

- Kaye Roberts-Thompson, ‘Dr Laurie Williams 1919-2007’, Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch Inc. newsletter, July 2007.

Report of the Royal Commission into the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies, Hobart, 1968.

See Report of the Dental Advisory Committee to the Honorable the Minister of Health, Victoria, 1969.

See ‘Community dental services; Auditor General’, Victorian Parliamentary paper, session 1999-2002, no. 186.

GD Slade, AJ Spencer, MJ Davies, JF Steward, Caries Experience among Children in Fluoridated Townsville and Unfluoridated Brisbane, AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Unit, 1996.

William Tyndale (‘Bill’) Smith MBE, BDSc LDSRCS (b.1922) studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1951, followed by further studies in England. He was a Senior Demonstrator in Exodontics in the Faculty of Dental Science during the 1960s, was a member of the staff of the Dental Hospital for 30 years and Dental Superintendent for 19 years prior to his retirement in the late 1960s.

- Personal communication, John Dawkins to Ann Westmore.

The W.T. Smith Award for the Best Teacher in the Dental School.

For details of papers given at the first meeting, see Bryan Radden and John Harcourt, A History of the International Association for Dental Research in Australia and New Zealand, 1960-1985, Colgate Palmolive Pty Ltd, 1987, p.5.

This first IADR organisation in Australia dates back to October 1950. For further information see Chapter 8, ‘The IADR Dental Materials Group in Australia’ in op cit Radden and Harcourt, A History of the IADR, 1960-1985, pp.38-39.

Dr Edward (‘Ted’) Campbell MDSc (b.1918) studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne gaining his BDSc degree in 1939 and his MDSc degree in 1950. He was Past President of the Australian Dental Association and Chair of its Standards Committee in the early 1960s.

Op cit Radden and Harcourt, A History of the International Association for Dental Research in Australia and New Zealand, 1960-1985. A push for the organisation’s establishment also came from the Institute of Dental Research in Sydney in the 1950s. See p.4.

Dr Hartley Gibson was President of the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch in 1952.

Sir Benjamin (‘Benny’) RankKt CMG KDtJ, MB MS LRCP FRCS FRACS FACS (1911-2002) was a pioneer and leader in the development of plastic surgery in Australia. He was associated with the Royal Melbourne Hospital for 52 years and established the Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit at the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH) in 1963.

He was an experienced chairman of committees having been President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1965 and President of the Australasian College of Surgeons 1966-68.

Hon. Jeffrey Gibb (‘Jeff’) Kennett (b.1948) was the Member of the Legislative Assembly seat of Burwood in the Victorian Parliament, 1976-1999. He was Premier of Victoria, 1992-99, during which time he undertook an extensive program of privatisation of services previously carried out by the government or its agencies.

Hon. Robert Doyle BA DipEd BEd MLitt (b.1953) was a teacher before becoming the Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Victorian Parliament for the seat of Malvern, 1992-2006. He was Parliamentary Secretary for Human Services, 1996-2000, and leader of the Liberal Opposition, 2002-2006.

Review of Dentists Act 1972 and Dental Technicians Act 1972, Final Report, Department of Human Services, July 1998.

The School Dental Service, established by the Education Department in 1921 to provide free dental treatment to primary school age children, now offers dental care to all Victorian children and eligible adolescents in Years Seven and Eight.

Dr Geoffrey Alfred Kaye MB BS MD FFARCS DA(RCP&S) (1903-1986) was a Melbourne medical graduate (1926) who trained in anaesthetics at the Alfred Hospital, the UK, Germany and the US. He was appointed an honorary anaesthetist at the Alfred Hospital in 1930 and was a founding member of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists in 1934. He edited Practical Anaesthesia in 1932 and co-authored Anaesthetic Methods in 1946.

He was a part-time lecturer in anaesthetics at the University of Melbourne, 1938-57. From 1945, he also lectured at the College of Dentistry and was honorary anaesthetist to the Dental Hospital. In 1958 he was honoured when the Anaesthetic Museum of the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australian College of Surgeons, (later the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists) was named for him.

- Ray Marginson, ‘Geoffrey Alfred Kaye, anaesthetist’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 17, pp. 605-606.

The first University of Melbourne Professor of Surgery, Professor Maurice Ewing, CBE, MB ChB MSc MD(Hons) FRCS FRACS (1912-1999) was appointed in 1955. Initially he was based at the Alfred Hospital where he was allocated a surgical unit. He also maintained a sub-unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was an inaugural member of the Monash University Council and took part in discussions that decided the Alfred and Prince Henry’s Hospitals would be linked to the Monash Medical School. He left the Alfred in 1962, continuing his association with the University of Melbourne as Professor of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital until his retirement in 1977.

- http://www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/umfm/biogs/FM00247b.htm

Dr John Dawkins DDSc FACDS FICDS FANZSOS (b.1926) gained his BDSc, MDSc and DDSc from the University of Melbourne in 1949, 1954 and 1959 respectively, the latter for a thesis on bone healing following apicectomy. He was an oral surgeon, member of the Faculty of Dental Science at the University of Melbourne, 1965-89, and Dental Director of the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, 1975-89.

- Personal communication, John Dawkins to Ann Westmore.

Emeritus Professor Frederick Allan Clive (‘Clive’) Wright MDS PhD FICD studied dentistry and undertook a PhD at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

He was closely involved in the Ministerial Review of Dental Services in Victoria (1986) and, in 1989, he was appointed the first Professor of Preventive and Community Dentistry at the University of Melbourne and for six months was Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry before it amalgamated to form the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.

After retiring as Professor of Preventive and Community Dentistry in 1997 he returned to New Zealand as a private dental practitioner, before coming back to Australia and working with Dental Health Services Victoria.

Professor Louise Jovine Brearley Messer LDS, MDSc PhD FRACDS FICD studied dentistry and dental surgery at the University of Melbourne before being appointed Lecturer in the Department of Conservative Dentistry, 1963-69.

She moved to the US and undertook a PhD in the University of Minnesota Department of Nutrition on nutritional biochemistry as well as directing the university’s Pedodontic Clinic and Department of Pediatric Dentistry.

After further senior appointments at the University of British Columbia in Canada and the University of Minnesota she returned to the University of Melbourne in 1990 to take up the position of Elsdon Storey Professor of Child Dental Health, and appointments at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne.

She was Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Dental Science and her teaching and management skills were recognised with the W.T. Smith Award for Best Teacher in the Dental School in 2004, and the VWDA Award for leadership in dentistry in 2005.

Hon. Haddon Storey LLM (b.1930) was the Legislative Council Member in the Victorian Parliament for the seat of East Yarra from 1971 to 1996. During that time, he served in many positions including Attorney General, 1976-82, and Minister for the Arts and Tertiary Education and Training, 1992-96. Early in his Parliamentary career he served on the Council of the Dental Hospital.

Professor Roy Douglas (‘Pansy’) Wright AK, DSc, MB MS FRACP (1907-1990) was Professor of Physiology at the University of Melbourne, 1939-71, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, 1946 and 1950-52 and Dean of Veterinary Science, 1945-62. He was Deputy Chancellor of the University, 1972-80 and Chancellor, 1980-89.

- Historical Compendium of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, http://www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/umfm/biogs/FM00012b.htm

Sir William Hewson Anderson CBE, BEc (1897-1968), a chief accounting and financial executive of Shell Australia, 1935-1957, and Federal President of the Liberal Party, 1951-56, and its Federal Treasurer, 1956-68, was President and Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne during the 1960s. The Hospital’s auditorium was named in honour of him.

- Robert Murray, ‘Anderson, Sir William Hewson (1897-1968)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, v. 13, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp.52-53.

The falling out of ‘Pansy’ Wright and Arthur Amies occurred in about 1955, at which time Wright was having personal problems and was losing faith in Amies as an academic over difficulties with the “new” school and hospital.

- Personal communication, Henry Atkinson to Ann Westmore.

Associate Professor Jane Chalmers worked at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Dental Statistics and Research Unit in Adelaide in 2002 and was later employed by the Department of Human Services Victoria as a leader in Geriatric/Special Needs Dentistry with a brief to develop policy in these areas. She held an Associate Professor position with the University of Melbourne.

- Personal communication, John Rogers to Ann Westmore.

Dental Health Services Victoria was established in 1996. It provides dental care to eligible Victorians through the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, the School Dental Service, and several Adult Dental Clinics.

For the 2004-2005 period, it provided dental services to more than 182,000 adults and 107,000 children from rural, regional and metropolitan Victoria. It also purchased dental services for around 60 community dental agencies located in community health centres and some public hospitals.

Dr John Henry Lindell MD MS FPS FAIHA (b.1908) was a 1940 University of Melbourne medical graduate who was Medical Superintendent of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, 1943-53, before being appointed Chairman of the Victorian Hospitals and Charities Commission in 1953.

- Who’s Who in Australia 1959

Dr Lindell was Chairman of the Committee that produced the Report of the Dental Advisory Committee to the Honorable the Minister of Health, Victoria, in 1969.

The Melbourne Model is the University of Melbourne’s new educational approach to be introduced between 2008 and 2011. A range of undergraduate degrees – in Biomedicine, Science, Arts, Commerce, Environments and Music – will seek to provide scholarly breadth as well as depth, the latter achieved through internships, research projects and/or overseas exchanges. After successful completion of an undergraduate degree, students may opt to seek employment, or enroll in a professional graduate degree, including dentistry, or a research degree.

Dr Doug Loader (d.2005) was a member of the Dental Technicians Licensing Committee and the Advanced Dental Technicians Qualifications Board from their establishment in 1972, and the Dental Board of Victoria from 1980. He was President of the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch in 1977 and President of the Dental Board, 1984-86. He was also Executive Secretary of the Australian Dental Council.

- Dental Practice Board of Victoria Bulletin, March 2006.

Spencer J and Lewis J, “Dental Manpower”, Research Paper no. 5, Ministerial Review of Dental Services in Victoria, Health Department Victoria 1986.

E.H.Greener, J.K.Harcourt and E.P.Lautenschlager, Materials science in dentistry, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1972.

Dr Bryan Gray Radden AM, BDSc PhD FDSRCS FRCPath FRCPA FFOP(RCPA) (b.1931) the son of H.G. Radden who obtained his DDSc from Melbourne University in 1939, studied dentistry at the University of Western Australia before completing postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Post Graduate Institute of Dental Surgery and the University of London. He was Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Oral Pathology at the University of Adelaide, 1960-68, and Reader in Oral Pathology at the University of Melbourne and Pathologist to the Dental Hospital, 1968-91. His major research interests involved topics related to oral pathology.

- Personal communication, Bryan Radden to Ann Westmore.

Professor Victor Martin Trikojus CBE, BSc PhD FAA (1902-1985) lectured in organic chemistry and medical organic chemistry at the University of Sydney 1928-43 before joining the University of Melbourne as Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the School of Biochemistry, 1943-68.

- Australian Science Archives Project, The Papers of Victor Martin Trikojus (1902-1985) , vol 1.

Emeritus Professor Alan Archie Grant DDSc MSc FRACDS FDSRCS (b.1930) trained in dentistry at the University of Melbourne and worked at the Melbourne Dental School as Research worker (part-time), 1956-59; Lecturer in Dental Prosthetics, 1960-64; and Senior Lecturer in Dental Prosthetics, 1964-1970. In the meantime, he gained his Doctor of Dental Science degree in 1961 for a thesis on the causes of the increase in vertical dimension occurring during the fabrication of full denture; was Visiting Associate Professor of Dental Materials at Northwestern University, Chicago, 1965-66; and Secretary of the ADA (Victorian Branch) Dental Materials Committee, 1966-70.

In 1970 he moved to the University of Manchester where he was Professor of Restorative Dentistry, 1970-93; Dean of the Dental School and Director of the University Dental Hospital, 1977-81 and 1988-92; and Pro-Vice Chancellor, 1983-86. He was elected Professor Emeritus in 1993.

- Personal communication, Alan Grant to Ann Westmore.

Associate Professor Roger Kingsley Hall OAM, MDSc FRACDS FICD (b.1934) trained in dentistry at the University of Melbourne before undertaking postgraduate studies in oral surgery and paediatric dentistry at the Eastman Dental Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In 1960 he was appointed the first full-time Paediatric Dentist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, with a special interest in facial and jaw trauma and cleft lip and palate. For the circumstances of his appointment, see the Witness seminar on the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

When the Hospital created a Department of Dentistry in 1967, Hall was appointed its head, serving in that position until 1998. He then continued as Senior Dental Surgeon on a sessional basis.

He had a long-standing research involvement, and worked closely with geneticists to identify genetic syndromes with a dental component. In 2003, he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Victorian Clinical Genetics Service and the following year became a Principal Fellow of the University of Melbourne, where he has held teaching appointments continuously since 1957.

In 1973 he founded the Australian Society of Dentistry for Children, with the encouragement of Professor Vernon Collins and other staff members of the Children’s Hospital, and became Foundation President, 1973-76. He was President of the International Association of Dentistry for Children, 1985-87.

In 1994 his textbook, Pediatric Orofacial Medicine and Pathology was published.

- Personal communication, Roger Hall to Ann Westmore.

Emeritus Professor Bill Rachinger MSc PHD was Professor Experimental Physics at Monash University 1972-92.

Dr Prem Phakey was formerly Reader in Physics, Monash University.

Dr Joseph (‘Joe’) Palamara BSc(Hons) PhD DipEd, formerly Research Associate, Physics Department, Monash University, joined the Dental School as a Research Fellow in 1998. By 2007 he was a Senior Lecturer, supervising postgraduate students and teaching dental materials to BDSc and BOH students in the Dental School.

- Personal communication, Joe Palamara to Ann Westmore.

Dr Frank Stephen (‘Steve’) Seward DDSc MS FRACDS (1928-1989) trained in dentistry in Melbourne before studying at the Royal College of Surgeons in England and the Angle School of Orthodontia in Chicago where he gained his DDSc. He then worked as an orthodontic specialist in private practice.

He joined the Growth Research Unit of the Anatomy Department at the University of Melbourne as a research assistant in 1957 and in the same year became a part-time lecturer/demonstrator in anatomy. He wrote 30 scientific papers and was a member of the Angle Society, a prominent North American dental society. He was President of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Orthodontists, 1959-60.

- B. Darryle Bowden, ‘Obituary Frank Stephen Seward, Australian Orthodontic Journal, 11 (2), October 1989, pp 140-141; personal communication, Geoff Kenny to Ann Westmore.

Dr Gerald (‘Gerry’) Dickinson MDSc studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1963. He was a part-time member of staff of the Dental School, teaching several sessions a week in the Department of Conservative Dentistry and demonstrating anatomy to dental students in the Medical School.

According to neuroanatomist, Dr Geoff Kenny, who did much of the lecturing on head and neck anatomy to dental students, Darryle Bowden was the person from the Dental School who most often lectured to dental students. Steve Seward occasionally gave lectures and Gerry Dickinson and Rod Sutton were long-serving demonstrators.

- Personal communication, Gerry Dickinson, Ian Johnson and Geoff Kenny to Ann Westmore.

Dr Elizabeth Ann (‘Betty’) Fanning (1918-2007) was a Reader in Preventative Dentistry at the University of Adelaide.

Dr Wallace Arthur (‘Wal’) McDougall BSc MDSc DDSc (1926-2008) trained in dentistry at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1947. Being under 21, he was too young legally to enter dental practice, and so joined the University’s Faculty of Dentistry as a lecturer. To extend his knowledge, he studied Science, majoring in biochemistry and bacteriology. Later, he embarked on a DDSc, graduating around 1963 with a thesis on the biochemical and microbiological aspects of dental plaque.

By 1967 he was a Reader in Dentistry at the University of Queensland and when he looked around Australia for a place to extend his research, he thought that Melbourne stood out. After successfully applying for the position of Reader in Conservative Dentistry at the University of Melbourne he undertook research with Professor Tony Storey and later Dr Eric Reynolds on the remineralisation of early dental caries and the preventive possibilities of milk. He retired in 1991.

- Personal communication, Wal McDougall to Ann Westmore.

The Cooperative Research Centre for Oral Health Science (CRC-OHS), established in 2003, is a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Dental Health Services Victoria and Primary Industries Research Victoria. It focuses on improving oral health through the development of new diagnostics, preventives and treatments for a range of oral disorders.

Professor John Gerald Clement PhD BDS LDSRCS DipForOdont (b.1948) became interested in forensic odontology while working as a lecturer in dental anatomy and histology at the London Hospital Medical College (LHMC), which did much of the forensic casework in London. From 1984 to 1988 he was Lecturer in Dental Anatomy and Forensic Odontology at LHMC.

He joined the University of Melbourne in 1989 as Senior Lecturer in Oral Anatomy, attracted by the requirement that the successful applicant was required to provide forensic odontological expertise to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology, now the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM).

He was Senior Lecturer in Oral Anatomy, 1989-1993 and Associate Professor in Oral Anatomy and Forensic Odontology and Consultant Forensic Odontologist in charge, VIFM, 1994-99.

In October 1999 he was appointed Foundation Professor in Forensic Odontology.

He has worked to identify deceased persons through dental records in a number of mass disaster incidents and, in 1996, received an award from the Historic Port Arthur Trust for his contribution in the wake of the Port Arthur tragedy.

- Personal communication, John Clement to Ann Westmore.

Dr Harry Athol McIntosh DDS BDSc (1919-1998) studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1951. After undertaking further studies in Toronto, he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Conservative Dentistry in the Dental School in 1967.

The Dental Museum has a black and white framed photograph of HRH Albert Duke of York in full dress uniform with honours. Also in the same frame is a copy of a letter from the Duke’s private secretary to Mr Cecil D. Hearman, President of the Melbourne Dental Students Society, thanking the Society for the offer of membership which was politely refused.

The incident was also referred to in a copy of Mouth Mirror in 1947.

- Dental Museum Collection DMC02023.

Dr Harry Ian Gill MDSc (b.1923) studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, gaining his BDSc degree in 1947 and his MDSc in 1956. He was Senior Lecturer in Prosthetic Dentistry at the Dental School during the 1960s and 1970s.

Dr John P. S. Campbell BDSc (b.1943) studied dentistry at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1967. He was Senior Lecturer in Oral Surgery at the Dental School and Head Oral Surgeon at the Dental Hospital.

Mr Dennis William (‘Bill’) Charles FIAT AIST MRSH MLASA (b.1923) worked in England in medical laboratories before migrating to Australia in 1962 where he was appointed Senior Technical Officer in the Pathology Department, University of Melbourne.

In 1964 he was a founding member of the technical staff in the department of Ophthalmology under Professor Gerard Crock, where he worked until 1966.

He then returned to England before moving back to Melbourne in 1973 where he became Chief Technical Officer, Department of Dental Medicine and Surgery, Australian College of Dentistry (from 1974, part of the Faculty of Dentistry). In 1979 he was appointed Laboratory Manager, Department of Dental Medicine and Surgery for the Dental Faculty, working in that position until his retirement in 1984. According to Henry Atkinson he was “a good instructor, well liked and hard working”.

- Personal communication, Louise Murray, Henry Atkinson and Ian Johnson to Ann Westmore.

Dr Wilfred Edward (‘Wilf’) Fleming MB BS DDSc DLO (1894-1968) studied dentistry at his father’s insistence, gaining his BDSc in 1920 and his DDSc in 1930 from the University of Melbourne. He had started dentistry in 1911 but delayed completing it because of service with the Australian Army Medical Corps, 1915-1918 in France. Having always wanted to do medicine, he eventually did so part-time while practising dentistry, graduating MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1941. He later gained the Diploma in Laryngology and Otology while practising as an oral surgeon.

He worked as an honorary at the Royal Melbourne, Victorian Eye and Ear and Dental Hospitals, was Senior Lecturer in Dental and Oral Pathology at the Dental School and was also the Reader in Pathology at the Dental Hospital, where he continued to work until his death.

- L.B. Cox and R. Willis, ‘Obituary’, Medical Journal of Australia, 1968, II, p.1199.

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