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NAMED AWARDS
Since that time, Drs. Eugene Blair, William DeKock, James Gjerset, T. M. Graber and George Kottemann have combined their pledges and have named the B. F. Dewel Memorial Research Award; Mr. And Mrs. Leo (Linda) Dohn and Drs. Raymond George, Sr., Raymond George, Jr., Hugh Phillis, Perry Opin and Charles Ruff have pooled their pledges and have named the Anthony A. Gianelly Teaching Fellowship Award; Drs. Kolman Apt, Robert Bray, Robert Fry, Ronald Redmond and John Ziegler have combined their pledges to name the Subtelny, Baker, Eastman Teaching Fellowship Award; Drs. Douglas Eversoll, James Kohl, Darrel Moreland, John Pershing and Stephen Roehm have combined their pledges to name the T.M. Graber Teaching Fellowship Award; Drs. Fred Garrett, Anthony Harwell, Larry Mayer, R. Wick Alexander, Larson Keso, Albert Owen, III, Harry Ryburn, William Mardaga, Woodson Tottenham, C. Lynn Davis, John Gerling, James May, Jeff Keeling, Lee Mahlmann and Joel Martinez have combined their pledges to designate the Albert P. Westfall Memorial Teaching Fellowship Award, the Robert E. Gaylord Teaching Fellowship Award, and the Fred F. Schudy Memorial Research Award; Drs. Patrick Dreiling (Founder) and Terry Duncan have combined their pledges to designate the Robert M. Ricketts Sunflower Orthodontics Fellowship Award; Drs. Jeffrey Cavanaugh, Oles Drobocky, Courtney Gorman, Jeff Schauder, Stephen Scott, Jeff Thompson, David Wardlaw, and Robert Waxler have combined their pledges to designate the Michael Matlof Memorial Teaching Fellowship Award; Drs. Richard Albright, Dwight Damon, J. Anthony Quinn, John Robert Smith, and Gilbert Snow have combined their pledges to designate the Orhan C. Tuncay Teaching Fellowship Award, Drs. Robert Boyd, Harry Hatasaka, James Mc Namara, George S. Payne, and Richard Savage have combined their pledges to designate the Eugene E. West Memorial Fellowship Award; and Drs. Lawrence Harte, George Scott, David Solomon, and Frederic Sterrit (Fellow) have created the Robert E. Binder Fellowship Award. Additionally, the Foundation has available the Center Award designation which may be established when one or more pledges at the Regent level ($25,000) or higher are combined to create an aggregate of a minimum of $250,000. Listed in the order in which these awards were created, the six such awards currently are the GAC International Corporate Center Award, the Ormco/"A" Company Corporate Center Award, the 3M Unitek Corporate Center Award, the Align Technology, Inc. Corporate Center Award, the American Orthodontics Corporate Center Award, and the T.P. Orthodontics Corporate Center Award. The AAO Foundation Board encourages interested individuals to contact Mr. Robert Hazel, Foundation Executive Vice President, at 800/424-2841, ext. 246, for further information on how Teaching Fellowship, Biomedical Research and Center Awards are named.
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In early 1994, the AAO Foundation received a gift from the estate of the late Dr. Earl Shepard, thanks to the efforts of Dr. William Schwartz, an AAO member, and his brother, Mr. Robert Schwartz, members of the family and co-executors of Dr. Shepard's estate. The Foundation Board honored the family's request that there be established in perpetuity, the Willie and Earl Shepard Memorial Fellowship Award. The funds necessary for this include the bequest noted above, a gift received previously from the American Board of Orthodontics and a gift from Dr. Shepard's family so that the total exceeded $125,000. In addition to the Shepard Fellowship, the Board determined that one more Fellowship Award and eight Biomedical Research Awards might also be named by having one or more persons pledging at the Regent level ($25,000) or higher, combine their pledges to create an aggregate of a minimum of $125,000.