ALUMNI

'36 Dr. Leo O. Beldo Marquette, Michigan April 26, 2007

'40 Dr. Robert Glaesner Stuart, Florida May 7, 2007

'48 Dr. Thomas S. Bander Dr. Thomas S. Bander, whose dental career spanned more than 50 years and served as a mentor to his son, Samuel (DDS 1981), died July 21, 2007, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was 83. During his career, Bander served as president of the Kent County Dental Society and the West Michigan Dental Society.

'50 Roslyn Tamler (Dental Hygiene certificate) Los Angeles April 29, 2007

'51 Dr. Paul T. DeWitt Delta Township, Michigan August 18, 2007

Dr. Winfield Scott, Jr. DDS 1981, MS 1985 Dr. Winfield Scott, Jr., who earned four degrees from the University of Michigan, died July 15, 2007. He was 55. After receiving both a bachelor's degree in zoology and a master's in biology in 1977, he earned his DDS from U-M in 1981. Four years later, Dr. Scott received a master's degree in orthodontics from U-M.

Dr. Thomas M. Graber (1917-2007)

Internationally renowned orthodontics researcher and clinician, Dr. Thomas M. Graber, who was the only person from the U-M School of Dentistry to receive an honorary degree from the University of Michigan, died at the age of 90 on June 26.

Dr. Graber's affiliation with the U-M School of Dentistry began in 1958 when he was asked by Dr. Robert E. Moyers, then chair of the Department of Orthodontics, to serve as a visiting faculty member.

He served as a visiting faculty member under two successive chairs, including Dr. Lysle Johnston, Jr.

For nearly 20 years, Dr. Graber was a participant in the annual Moyers Symposium, sponsored jointly by the School of Dentistry and the Center for Human Growth and Development, which he helped found, and the School of Dentistry.

In 1994, he delivered the Jarabak Lecture, one of the School's most prestigious named lectures. In December of that year, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the University's Winter Commencement ceremonies.

In 1995, Dr. Graber formalized a $1.2 million commitment to the School of Dentistry to fund the Thomas M. Graber Professorship in Orthodontics. Dr. James McNamara holds that professorship.

When he made the gift to fund the professorship in his name, Dr. Graber, in an interview in the Summer/Fall 1995 issue of the School of Dentistry's alumni magazine, DentalUM, said, "I'm not trying to leave a monument in my name. ... Despite the fact that I'm affiliated with the University of Illinois, I consider Michigan's Department of Orthodontics to be the best in the country. ...Very few schools in the entire country can say they have people the caliber of Lysle Johnston and Jim McNamara."

McNamara, the Thomas M. and Doris Graber Endowed Professor of Dentistry, said, "Tom was a tireless worker, a personal friend, and a great role model for all of us. We'll miss him."

Keary Campbell (1952-2007)

School of Dentistry photographer for 32 years, Keary Campbell, died on his way to work May 8. He was 55.

Born in Detroit, he lived and attended college in San Francisco, and later returned to southeast Michigan to study biology at the University of Michigan. He excelled as a darkroom technician and later was involved extensively in scientific photography.

"I feel like I've lost a brother, rather than a coworker," said Per Kjeldsen, who worked with Campbell for more than 30 years. "He was an excellent technician, and a perfectionist to boot. But he was also a quick study, and it didn't take him long to bring the same perfectionism from the darkroom (before digital photography) to the clinic."

Aside from a passion for photography, Kjeldsen said "we shared a multitude of tastes and interests. It was a good thing, too, because he liked a steady diet of Bach, Debussy, and Shostakovich, and he liked it loud."

Jerry Mastey, editor, who worked with Campbell on many occasions, said, "Keary had a great work ethic. He knew what I was hoping to achieve with photos, yet he was flexible and always on the lookout for a different angle that would make a picture pop. His photo composition was outstanding, especially his marvelous full-page photos that appeared in our annual report about the Dental Scholars program. Those were probably his best that I had ever seen."