PDA History - 150 years+ | Page 7

1946

Dr . Clark J . Hollister resigns as executive secretary and is replaced by Ray Cobaugh .

1951

Ford City ( in Armstrong County ) becomes the first community in Pennsylvania to fluoridate its water . Brookville , in Jefferson County , followed three months later .
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1952

Pittsburgh became the first large city in Pennsylvania , and one of the first major cities in the country , to fluoridate the water .
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1948

The name of our publication was changed from the Pennsylvania State Dental Journal to the Pennsylvania Dental Journal .
OCT

1949

Many district and local societies in the Pennsylvania State Dental Society participate in the American Dental Association ’ s first national observance of Children ’ s Dental Health Day .
FEB

1950

The Women ’ s Auxiliary was organized , with the statewide auxiliary formed as a federation of local dental societies ’ auxiliaries .
Children ’ s Dental Health Day
PDA Presidents Drs . Charles S . Patton 1950 , Paul E . Bomberger 1951
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