An annual luncheon is held at a time and location to coincide with the Annual Session of the American Dental Association. This luncheon can be memorialized to an individual who has left an outstanding and lasting contribution to dentistry. Those memorialized in the past and their essayists are:


HARVEY J. BURKHART (1969)
CYRIL DEVERE-GREEN, essayist

JOHN E. FOGARTY (1970)
HAROLD HILLENBRAND, essayist

GREEN VARDIMAN BLACK (1971)
HAMILTON B. G. ROBINSON, essayist

JOHN R. CALLAHAN (1972)
ALVIN L. MORRIS, essayist

HERMANN BECKS (1973)
LOUIS J. BAUME, essayist

OLIN KIRKLAND (1974)
MAYNARD K. HINE, essayist

GEORGE B. WINTER (1975)
ROBERT B. SHIRA, essayist

PIERRE FAUCHARD (1976)
HON. JACQUES KOSCUISKO-MORIZET, essayist

C. EDMUND KELLS, JR. (1977)
FRANK P. BOWYER, JR., essayist

STERLING V. MEAD (1978)
WOODSON T. BIRTHRIGHT, essayist

WILLOUGHBY D. MILLER (1979)
DAVID B. SCOTT, essayist

HORACE H. HAYDEN & CHAPIN A. HARRIS (1980)
JOSEPH P. CAPPUCCIO, essayist

THOMAS W. EVANS (1981)
LESTER W. BURKET, essayist

HOWARD R. RAPER (1982)
RALPH R. LOPEZ, essayist
PERCY R. HOWE (1983)
J. MURRAY GAVEL, essayist

THOMAS P. HINMAN (1984)
ROLLIN C. MALLERNEE, essayist

CHARLES E. WOODBURY (1985)
LEO V. BONGERS, essayist

C. VICTOR VIGNES (1986)
JOHN H. MOSTELLER, essayist

HAROLD HILLENBRAND (1987)
CLIFTON O. DUMMETT, essayist

F. HAROLD WIRTH (1988)
EMMETT L. ZIMMERMAN, III, essayist

JOHN MOTT-SMITH (1989)
ROBERT M. GIBSON, essayist

HARRY SICHER (1990)
ANTHONY W. GARGIULO, essayist

W. I. FERRIER (1991)
BRUCE B. SMITH, essayist

L. D. PANKEY (1992)
PETER E. DAWSON, essayist

MORINOSUKE CHIWAKI (1993)
MINORU HORIUCHI, essayist

GEORGE M. HOLLENBACK (1994)
JAMES P. VERNETTI, essayist

RONALD E. JORDAN (1995)
MIKE SUZUKI, essayist