The Rady Faculty of Health Sciences hosted its largest Dean’s Homecoming Breakfast ever on Sept. 21, as more than 240 UM alumni came to the Brodie Centre atrium to celebrate a record 24 milestone reunions, spanning six decades.
Among those in attendance were classmates celebrating milestone reunions dating back to the 1960s to 2014 and from across all Rady colleges. Read more about the Dean’s Homecoming Breakfast.
After the breakfast, members of the dentistry classes of 1981, 1984 and 1991, and the dental hygiene classes of 1974 and 1999 toured the dentistry building. The tours were led by Dr. Anastasia Kelekis-Cholakis, dean of the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry, and Mary Bertone, director of the School of Dental Hygiene.
On the tours, alumni reminisced about their time at the dental college. Some shared stories about professors, others sat in their old seats in a lecture hall and a group spoke with a student about the current curriculum and compared it to when they were studying dentistry.
The college also held a Community Dentist Appreciation Day for the Dr. Sam Borden Periodontology Clinic’s referring dentists and prospective new dentists. And the Graduate Periodontics Program and Continuing Professional Development Dentistry and Dental Hygiene presented a series of mini-lectures by four residents on the latest advancements in periodontology and implantology.
