EDITORIALS

“Orthodontics has now become bigger

than just the straightening of teeth” THE above words of prophetic importance arc a direct quotation from an address made years ago by the rccipicnt of the 1963 IXstinguished Service Scroll. This award, the highest given h,v the American Association of Orthodontists, as bestowed upon JAowric .Jamos J’or?cr on May 4, 1961, at the sixtieth annual session in Chicago.

Ccrtainl,v, no Inan in the ranks of orthodontics, or in all of dentistry for that matter, has a more distinguish4 curriculum vitae than that ot’ I,owr-icl l’ortrr.

E’ortnnatc indeed ar(’ we, individually and as a specialty of dcnt,istq-, to havp lliitl this man on the> sccnc. I Ic has provided us with a Yista into the waning

years of our initial pioneers, and he has contributed mightily throughout thcb years to dignity and professionalism on the one hand while combining scientific, fact with clinical acumen on the other. This has been done in a manner tha- C~USCS him to be sought to this very day as a diseussor of the philosophp of OUI

way of professional life and has won him respect. too, as an individual of highcbs: clinical responsibility.

It would seem that such a man would be complex, but this is not. so. .1 g(lnt,l(>r man and a more interesting conversationalist has never come this may.

Professional and literary contributions? Tes, numbering i&o the hundre& ovrr a span of years from 1920 to 196-I.

Professional and civic offices? Yes, by thr dozen, including the leadcrxhip ot’ our own American Association of Orthodontists in 1949 and service as iI director on the American Board of Orthodontics from 1951 to 1958 and as A.B.O. president during the latter pear.

I’edagogics? Yes. After graduating from the University of Michigan, 111~ taught there during 1918 and 1919. From 1919 to 1922 he served on the facult,). of the IYew \‘ork College of Dental and oral Surgery. He served the l)ewc;V School of Orthodontia as an instructor from 1919 to 1922. This is but a small part, of his career in teaching, for in postgraduate orthodontics hc has alway+ brrn a(+\-c.

Musician! Yes. He was a member of the ITnircrsity of Michigan symphony and band, where he played clarinet and saxophone.

Frattamities’? YCR. He is a member of Pylon of the Mini\-ersity of Michigall, ol’ .Xi Psi Phi, and of Omicron Kappa Vpsilon.

Clinical practice of orthodontics? Yes. High above fl East 57th Street in ?;cw York (‘it>-, with a magnificent view of the Hudson, hr carrird on an c>nviablc’ practice until just last year when he traded it for the bnsy lift of a conntr~ squirt in Buckfield Lane, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Thrsc are but fragments of the structure of the man who has given of hirrl- self, as few hare done, to his family and to each of LB as friend and leader-this man Lowric James Porter, who has epitomized that which WC would accomplish.

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Orthodontic Directory of the World THE twenty-second edition of the Orthodod Director~~ of the World is now off the press, and it is a very creditable 327 page modern publication.

The Directory dates back to 1942 when the late William C. Fisher of YNvcw York City, recognizing the need for a ready-reference directory, published a small handbook containing a list of specialists in orthodontics. Following Dr. Fisher’s death, the Directory was continued by Claude R. Wood of Knosvillq Tennessee, and more recently it has been edit4 by Oren A. Oliver and William H. Oliver of Nashville.