From then on the courses in Columbus were offered annually (Fig 39) with Bruce Hohn as General Program Chairperson (see Fig 24); in 1997 Professor Marvin Olmstead (Fig 40) became co-chairperson. The equine courses were chaired by Professor Al Gabel with Dr Larry Bramlage as co-chairperson. These were different times, when lectures were given with old-fashioned slide projectors. Text slides were white letters on a solid blue background and not multicolored with interesting backgrounds as they are today. In the early 1970s Bruce Hohn and Marvin Olmstead were responsible for developing teaching videos for practical exercises in the small animal courses following the AO guidelines. In 1977 Professor Gustave (Bud) Fackelman (Fig 41) took his young resident Dr Joerg Auer (Fig 42) to Columbus before the courses to prepare the first teaching videos for the equine course.
Fig 40 Professor Marvin Olmstead, of the Ohio State University, co-chairperson of the Ohio Courses. After Bruce Hohn passed away, Olmstead succeeded him as General Program Chairperson.
Fig 41 Professor Gustave (Bud) Fackelman of the University of Pennsylvania was a strong and avid promoter of the application of AO Techniques in large animals. To his right Andi Kása, the son of Feri and Geri, who eventually took over responsibilities at the small animal clinic in Lörrach, Germany.
Fig 42 Jörg Auer, at that time of Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, together with Len Langlands, a small animal veterinarian from Johannesburg, South Africa, who organized the first small animal AOVET courses in his home country and attended the Davos Courses every year just to be with the AOVET group.
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