#21 Our rafting trip on the Middle Fork of the American River

Gloria was cleaning out a closet and found the pictures I took on our rafting trip!  Actually, I can’t remember when we took this trip.  I am thinking Freshman or Sophomore year.

Kenny must have been injured?  Any memories here?

I recognize almost everyone.  Dr. Whacker on the right, and his two/three kids.   
A few outliers for me.  Definitely fewer follicles, and more pounds now.
Oh, Gil not paying attention.......

#20 Ron Dailey—A fine wine or aged cheese?

In reviewing old issues of The Ballburnisher, I found a great interview that Craig Story had with our friend, cohort and now Dean, Ron Dailey.  A few highlights:
--Ron graduated from Glendale Academy just two years before I graduated from Mile High Academy.  (No more info needed!)
--He got a BA in Psychology/Business at La Sierra  where he moonlighted as an ambulance driver.
--He took graduate work at Cal State San Bernardino and Walla Walla College, worked at Glendale Adventist Hospital and at a County Crisis Center at Walla Walla.
--On a Christmas break he was doing some research at UCR and was asked to work at LLUSD for a one year term.  He turned the job offer down and returned to Walla Walla to start work on a PhD.
--On reflection, he recontacted the dental school, accepted a position on the TEAM program in 1975 and through skill and good looks started to teach management classes and became the director of Student Affairs.
--As we all remember, Ron was totally invested in “student life”.  He reflected at that time the concerns he had were primarily in two areas. 1) the cost of dental education and encouraging students to control their expenses.  He continued to say that he couldn’t imagine tuition getting any higher.  (We may ask Ron at our reunion his thoughts on that now!)  2)  His other concern was student’s general apathy toward their faith.  He recognized that the curriculum demands were not helpful in this regard and he was part of an ad-hoc committee looking at this challenge.  Ron recognized the need for LLUSD to model “total health” to the students to equip them to provide it to their patients.

So, congratulations Ron.

A 1990 picture of Ron with Dean Klooster.

So nobody is embarrassed, this is what Ron will look like when you see him at the reunion!

Whoa!  He has a family?!  

His wife Karen will be joining us in Palm Springs!

Below, the announcement of Ron’s coronation:  (Oh, Ron Dailey-----Fine Wine)


Ronald Dailey, PhD, executive associate dean, Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, has been appointed by the University board of trustees to serve as the School’s fifth dean, effective July 1, 2013. He will replace Charles J. Goodacre, DDS, MSD, who has served in that position since 1994.
Richard Hart, MD, DrPH, president and CEO, Loma Linda University Health, announced the appointment Tuesday evening, February 26, to a large gathering of LLUSD faculty and staff.  “After a careful search process, Dr. Dailey’s name was selected for presentation to the University’s board of trustees. Dr. Dailey’s long track record makes him an obvious choice for dean and our board confirmed that recommendation. I am delighted to welcome Ron into that position.”
Dr. Dailey was first employed by the School of Dentistry in June 1975 as an instructor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, while completing a Master of Arts degree in Educational Psychology at Walla Walla College.
In July of 1978 he was promoted to assistant professor, and became director of Admissions and Student Affairs; in 1986 his title changed to assistant dean for admissions and student affairs.
On September 30, 1993, Dr. Dailey was appointed associate dean for academic affairs, the same year that he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation which focused on a re-analysis of the relationship of psychomotor and perceptual skills to student performance in dental school.
With the acquisition of his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Higher and Professional Education from USC in 1994, Dr. Dailey was promoted to associate professor, Department of Dental Educational Services; and a year later (September 1995) he was named the Department’s chair, a position he maintains.
One of the more meaningful accomplishments of Dr. Dailey’s teaching and administrative career has been writing, with LLU professor of biostatistics Jay S. Kim, PhD, a ground-breaking textbook,Biostatistics for Oral Healthcare, published by Blackwell Munksgaard in 2008 (344 pp.), that M. E. Munn calls the “first solid biostatistical text completely devoted to oral health research.”
On June 1, 2009, after 15 years as associate dean for academic affairs, Dr. Dailey was named executive associate dean, Loma Linda University School of Dentistry—a position that justified an accumulating list of duties he was already performing.
Dr. Dailey joins a limited fraternity of dental school deans who are not trained as dentists among them the current dean, University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry dean, John Featherstone, MSc, PhD.
Among the honors Dr. Dailey has received is his honorary membership in Omicron Kappa Upsilon—a society that was established in 1914 at Northwestern University Dental School in Lincoln, Nebraska, to promote and recognize scholarship and character among students of dentistry. He has also been selected for Teaching Excellence awards in 1986 and 1987; and the School of Dentistry’s Distinguished Service Award in 2001.

Dr. Dailey retains a seat on the Loma Linda City Council that he won in 2009. He is married to Karen Winston, MD, a Loma Linda University pediatrician, and has three adult children: Casey, Colin and Katie.

#19 The Golden Probe Awards, Sophomore Year

Yep, Boy George

The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and without the Soviets

Second year of dental school, second Golden Probes.  Unfortunately, I don’t have any documentation from our Freshmen Golden Probes.  I do remember tho, that it was in the amphitheater across the hallway from our lab.  I believe we had haystacks in the lab, then retreated to the amphitheater for the Awards.  Any other memories will have to be shared at our Palms Springs Reunion.

From the Program:

Opening Address:  Dr. J. Klooster
“Beat It”: Dennis Zingler
Celebrity Roast: Mark Romanelli, Dennis Bradshaw, Kelly Mohr, Gary Dudar, Victor Burdick, Randy Boyd
The Awards: (these are just a sampling)
--Male Attire Award
--Inspirational Female
--Projectile Award
--Punker Award
--Macho Man Award
--Least Time in Lab Award
--Latest to Class Award
--Pep Boy Award
--Most Unique Lab Décor Award
--Most Dycal Award


It concluded with “Scandle of the Year”, (man….we misspelled scandal), by John Cummings and Jim Loye, Year in Review, (my snarky perspective of the year), and Closing Remarks by the above two.

#18 The Dress Code

REAL TIME COMMENT:  Hello Eighty6’ers.   A bit of a break in the blog.  Sorry, if you were concerned.  :)

 The program I have been using forever, Windows Live Writer, is no longer supported, it has been on life support for a while, but it has now died.  Time to finally learn WordPress.

Thanksgiving was busy; family, work, people around you……yourself.  Let’s continue, a couple more blogs on our sophomore year, then on to Year 3!

 


Just a few highlights as reported in News Caries:

--No undershirts (worn as outershirts), jeans, shorts, thongs, moccasins, gym shoes, sweat shirts and pants, hiking boots.
--Trousers must be “keeping with our profession”.  Hmm……
--A turtleneck sweater is OK.  Hmm X2.  (Oh, it’s the 80’s).
--Wear socks.   (no discussion on the length of said socks, whew)
--Those that wear “mandarin type” clinic clinic jackets don’t need to wear a tie.  Thoughtful.  (I conjure up a vision of Dr. Evil here).
--MEN: Hair must be clean, neat and well groomed. It cannot fall over your eyes when you are bent forward.  (Hmm, the last time I SAW my hair was in dental school)
--WOMEN: The barrettes you wear must match your hair color.  Ladies, did you always follow this rule??  Also, no ribbons or scarves, and if you wear rubber bands, they must be inconspicuous.

--Fingernails must be kept short, clean and neatly trimmed.  (This was especially important since we didn’t wear gloves back then!!)