2008 Fred Gulick

Distinguished Life Member Award

In the early 1900s most dental conferences were held on the east coast. Soon Chicago became the center for annual meetings of dental organizations as most trains went through Chicago and it was perceived as the perfect central meeting place. There was only one west coast meeting, the Pacific Coast Dental Conference. In 1928, a well known and well respected prosthodontist, Fred Gulick, got together with a couple of his friends, Russell Tench and Leslie Eames and decided to form a prosthodontic organization, and in 1930 the Pacific Coast Society of Prosthodontists was formed.

Fred Gulick was a renaissance man. He was a people person. He was a Barber Shop Quartet singer. He was a great dentist, a superb prosthodontist, a leader, an innovator and an educator in the field of prosthodontics. In his honor, the PCSP annually selects a life member to receive the Fred E. Gulick Distinguished Life Member Award. Like Dr Gulick, this life member is a leader, an innovator and an educator in the field of prosthodontics, and by receiving the award will be remembered for his or her service to the profession in perpetuity.

In order to recognize Life Members who have contributed significantly to the profession, the specialty and the discipline of prosthodontics, by way of service to the Society, academics, research and clinical practice endevours, their community and nation, the Executive Council established the Fred Gulick Disinguished Life Member Award.

The fifth award was presented to Dr. Carl Rieder at the PCSP annual meeting in Hawaii.

CONGRATULATIONS DR. RIEDER!

2007 Life Member Dr. Robert Brigante

2006 Life Member Dr. Charles Bolender

2005 Life Member Dr. James Kratochvil

2004 Life Member Dr. Thomas Curtis