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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | March 26, 2013 02:40 PM |
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| From: | Representative W. Curtis Thomas |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Resolution honoring and congratulating Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry on its 150th anniversary |
| In the near future, I plan to offer a non-controversial resolution recognizing, honoring and congratulating the Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. In the fall of 1862, Dr. John Hugh McQuillen resigned his position as chairman of operative dentistry and physiology at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and, seeing a need for more degreed dentists, began preparations for a second dental school in Philadelphia. His vision and work resulted in the Pennsylvania General Assembly passing, and Governor Andrew Curtain signing, on April 18, 1863, legislation to create the Philadelphia Dental College. The new dental college began operations on Nov. 1, 1863 with a class of 11 students enrolled and Dr. McQuillen serving as Dean. Over the years, the school grew and evolved, becoming Temple University School of Dentistry in 1913 and being renamed in 2007 in honor of Maurice Kornberg, a 1921 graduate of Temple Dental School. I hope you will join with me in honoring the Temple University Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry on its 150th anniversary. In doing so we recognize the pioneering vision of Dr. McQuillen and the contribution the dental school has made not only in advancing the field of dentistry, but in educating dentists from around the world, and touching millions of lives both in Pennsylvania and abroad. |
Introduced as HR211