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.
