Reporter Volume 25, No.6 October 7, 1993

By ARTHUR PAGE
News Bureau Director

In conjunction with the celebration of its 100th anniversary during
1992-93, the UB School of Dental Medicine and its dental alumni
association set out to raise $l million to provide a permanent
endowment fund to support programs and activities of the school for
which state funding is limited or unavailable.
	Leaders of the UB Dental Centennial Campaign have announced
that they raised the $1 million and then quite a bit moreQexceeding
their goal by 74 percent and collecting $1,747,000 in gifts and
pledges.
	The announcement was made on Oct. 1 at the annual dinner/dance
of the UB School of Medicine Dental Alumni Association by co-chairmen
Roger Triftshauser, D.D.S., a member of the Class of 1961, and Richard
A. Powell, a professor emeritus and 1949 graduate of the dental
school.
	Joining them for the unveiling of a giant banner proclaiming
the campaign's success was George Selfridge of St. Louis, a 1947
graduate of the school who served on the campaign leadership committee
and is the current president of the American Academy of Orthodontics.
	Louis J. Goldberg, dean of the dental school since June 10,
said the campaign's results "represent an extraordinary effort on the
part of the friends of the UB School of Dental Medicine and are a
tribute to the nationally recognized position of excellence that the
school has attained during the more than 20 years under the deanship
of Dr. William Feagans." 
	The UB School of Dental Medicine in March was ranked No. 6 in
the nation in its field by U.S. News & World Report in a compilation
of "America's Best Graduate Schools."
	In recent years, the school has been among the national
leaders in terms of funding from the National Institute for Dental
Research (NIDR). External funding of research in the school has gone
from about $300,000 annually in 1970 to the current level of about $7
million.
	In 1981, the school was named by the NIDR as the country's
first specialized Periodontal Disease Clinical Research Center. In
1986, it was one of the first four dental schools in the United States
named by the NIDR as a national Dental Research Institute in Oral
Biology.
	Goldberg said the endowment established with the money raised
during the campaign "will be used to maintain the excellence of the
academic programs, and to develop new initiatives in teaching,
clinical practice and basic research."
	The honorary chairman of the drive was James A. English of San
Diego, Calif., a former dean of the school.
	In addition to Selfridge, members of the campaign leadership
committee were: Mario Catalano, D.D.S., of Kingston; Sebastian
Ciancio, D.D.S. of Amherst; Edward Downes, D.D.S., of Albany; Alan
Drinnan, D.D.S., of Buffalo; Robert Genco, D.D.S., of Buffalo; Robert
Gianadda, D.D.S., of Buffalo; James Guttuso, D.D.S., of West Palm
Beach, Fla.; Richard Lynch, D.D.S. of Buffalo; Russell Nisengard,
D.D.S., of Buffalo; Harold Ortman, D.D.S., of Buffalo; Barry Ruchlin,
D.D.S., of Tonawanda; Sait Seyrek, D.D.S., of Buffalo, and Wilfred
Springer, D.D.S., of Rochester.