TIMELINE
Our first Central
Office headquarters
opens at 800 Capital
Street in Harrisburg
with Dr. Clark J.
Hollister acting as
business manager.
1868 -2018
1920
1930
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.
1936
HISTORICAL
1935
1936
1938
Our Board of Trustees
approves a
recommendation
that a permanent
headquarters for
PDA be purchased. 217 State Street in
Harrisburg becomes
the new society
headquarters after
being purchased for
$10,500.
1937
1938
1939
1933
Volume One,
Number One of the
Pennsylvania State
Dental Journal was
published, with
Dr. Thomas J. Cook
of Philadelphia as
its editor.
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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1937
MA R CH/A P R I L 2018 | P EN N S YLVA N IA D EN TA L J O UR N A L
217 State Street in Harrisburg, our home from 1938-1978.
1940