Notable Faculty of The Past
The College was the top dental school in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, as several members of dentistry’s “Vienna Group,” top dental faculty with European backgrounds, including Dr. Harry Sicher and Dr. Joseph-Peter Weinmann, joined the College’s faculty.
Dr. John V. Borden, a 1939 alumnus, was the inventor of the highspeed dental handpiece, the basic tool of modern dentistry.
The research of Dr. Bernard G. Sarnat, a 1940 alumnus, head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the College from 1946 to 1956, is considered the basis for the modern understanding of craniofacial surgery.
Dr. Isaac Schour, Dean of the College from 1956 to 1964, was the discoverer of “growth rings” in teeth. He and Dr. Maury Massler, who established the College’s Department of Pediatric Dentistry and served as its Head from 1946 to 1965, created a seminal chart of tooth development.
Faculty members Dr. Earl W. Renfroe, a 1931 alumnus, and Dr. Thomas K. Barber, a 1949 alumnus, wrote what is considered the seminal article originating the concepts of preventive and interceptive orthodontics for the Journal of the American Dental Association in 1957.
Dr. E. Lloyd Du Brul, who taught oral anatomy at the College for 50 years, was considered the greatest dental anatomist of the 20th century. The College’s Du Brul Archives Room houses his collection of human, animal, and prehistoric skulls and jawbones―the finest collection of such artifacts prepared for teaching.
Dr. Allan G. Brodie Sr., who earned two degrees from the University of Illinois, was considered the greatest student Dr. Edward Angle, the “father of orthodontics,” ever taught. He established the College’s postgraduate program in orthodontics in 1929―one of the first in the nation. Dr. Brodie set the standard for orthodontics expertise through much of the 20th Century, and his book, The Dentofacial Complex, was considered so important that it was published nearly 30 years after his death.
Dates of service for notable faculty:
- Allan G. Brodie, Dean, 1943–56
- Bernard J. Cigrand, Dean, 1903–06 and Father of Flag Day in the United States
- G. Walter Dittmar, first president of the Illinois State Dental Society.
- E. Lloyd Du Brul, developer of the science of biomechanics of the head and neck
- Elsie Gerlach, first superintendent of the College's Children's Clinic
- Daniel Laskin, Director of Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 1953–1984
- Charles G. Maurice, established College's Department of Endodontics
- Maury Massler, established College's Department of Pediatric Dentistry
- Frederick B. Moorehead, Dean, 1913–24
- Frederick Bogue Noyes, Dean, 1924–40
- Earl W. Renfroe, first African-American to head a department at the College
- Isaac Schour, Dean, 1956–64
- Stanley D. Tylman, wrote Theory and Practice of Crown and Bridge Prosthesis
- Thaddeus Weclew, helped found the Academy of General Dentistry
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