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HISTORICAL
TIMELINE 1868-2018
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1936
Our first Central Office headquarters opens at 800 Capital Street in Harrisburg with Dr . Clark J . Hollister acting as business manager .
APR 1
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1937
Our Board of Trustees approves a recommendation that a permanent headquarters for PDA be purchased .
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1938
217 State Street in Harrisburg becomes the new society headquarters after being purchased for $ 10,500 .
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1930
A Committee on Reorganization designs a plan to divide the state society into 11 districts . In 1939 the tenth and eleventh districts combined to form what is now the Tenth District .
JUL 9
1933
Volume One , Number One of the Pennsylvania State Dental Journal was published , with Dr . Thomas J . Cook of Philadelphia as its editor .
217 State Street in Harrisburg , our home from 1938-1978 .
FUN FACTS & TIDBITS
From page 9 of the special issue of the Pennsylvania Dental Journal ( History of Dentistry in Pennsylvania 1868-1968 ), written by Dr . Isaac Sissman :
“ There were about 10,000 men who called themselves dentists in the United States in 1868 . In July of that year , a journal called The Dental Office and Laboratory proudly announced :
A dental college has been established in Boston in connection with Harvard College . This makes seven dental colleges in the United States . One in England , and one in Germany . The world moves .”
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