IN MEMORIAM

Alfred Weisx *ALFRED \yEIsz died on Aug. 13,1963, at the age of 59 years.

A lifelong resident of Pittsburgh (Squirrel Hill), Pennsylvania, Dr. Weisz was a member of the American Dental Association, the Odontological Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the Great Lakes Society of Orthodontists, as well as Rodef Shalom Congregation and its Men’s Club. He had spent many years of association with the Boy Scouts, and that organization felt his death with great sorrow.

Dr. Weisz is survived by his wife, Hannah; a son, Louis; a sister, Mrs. Aaron Klein; and a brother, Dr. Walter Weisz.

Be it resolved that this Society place on record an expression of its somow. And be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the

bereaved family as evidence of our sympathy and that a copy be placed in the minutes of our Society.

Robert R. McGonugle Necrology Committee Great Lakes Societ,y of Orthodontists

Artur Martin Schwarx (1887-1963) INTERNATIONAL orthodontics lost one of its greatest leaders with the death of Professor A. Martin Schwarz in Vienna on June 15, 1963.

The son of a teacher, Professor Schwarz turned to teaching in his youth and exhibited a skill in drawing that was to stand him in good stead throughout his scientific career. Graduating from the University, of Vienna Medical School in 1913, he served as military surgeon during World War I. After the war he studied otorhinolaryngology under Neumann and practiced that specialty until 1924, when Gottlieb encouraged him to turn to dentistry. Among his teachers in orthodontics were Pichler, Griinberg, Oppenheim, and Kantorowicz.

From 1928 to 1932, Professor Schwarz was leader of the School Dental Ser- vice of the Vienna Dental Society. He continued his research, study, and t.each- ing, and in 1939 he became Director of Kieferorthopaedia of the famed Vienna

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Polyclinic. Under his guidance, orthodontic service was expanded to cover more than 3,000 patients (instead of the 100 being treated when he took over), with as many as forty postgraduate dentists assisting him. In 1951 he was named Professor Extraordinary at the Polyclinic. Even after his retirement, he con- tinued writing and lecturing all over the world. His wife, a talented artist in her own right, accompanied him on most of his trips.

4. Martin Scharz.

Professor Schwarz wrote more than 160 scientific papers on the genesis of anomalies, on tissue changes incident to tooth movement, and on orthodontic diagnosis and treatment. Indeed, there is hardl- any phase of orthodontics that was not covered in his periodical literature or in his two-volume Lehrgang der Gebiss-Reg’elung, the third edition of which was published in 1961 by Urban and Schwarzenberg of Vienna. He was an active member of many orthodontic so- cieties, and he had been given honorary membership and recognition by both medical and dental groups.

While much of his fame rests on his pioneer work on tissue changes, Profes- sor Schwarz would perhaps wish to be remembered best for his dedication to the philosophy of extending orthodontic services to the broadest possible group of children. His last years were spent championing this philosophy, and he was hard at work on the English version of his text at the time of his sudden death. His work and his influence will truly live after him.

T. M. Graber.