Dr . William Trice PDA President , 1979-1980
Dentistry has been a family to me . When I went to Pitt , I came from West Virginia – I got involved , went to dental school , went to World War II and some guys asked me why I wanted to be a dentist . And I told them about how I had seen a dentist perform a surgery and I was so spellbound , when the operation ended the dentist asked me what I thought , and I said ‘ when this war is over , if I live through it , I think I ’ d like to go to dental school .’ This is how I really got into dentistry – my division officer was a guy from the University of Pittsburgh – he was not a dentist . But when the war was over , I came home – I grew up some 40 miles from Pittsburgh in West Virginia – and I was fortunate to get into Pitt dental school . The more I got into dentistry , the more I liked it .
30 MARCH / APRIL 2018 | PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL JOURNAL