TRIDENT PACIFIC ORTHODONTIC ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
February 2023
COMMITTEE CHAIR’S REPORT
EDITORS Katherine Kieu Jennifer Yau CONTRIBUTORS Jetson Lee Kristin Lo Heesoo Oh Katherine Kieu Jennifer Yau Kika Masunaga Andre Tran Parisa Moravedje Torbaty
Welcome to another issue of the Trident! It looks like the pandemic has improved and is moving into the endemic phase. The school has done an exceptional job with protocols to keep us safe as well as by providing vaccines and boosters to the San Francisco campus and surrounding community. The annual welcome barbecue for the new class was held on Sunday, August 21. With almost 50 people in attendance, it was the most well attended in recent years. Residents and their families, faculty and staff enjoyed the camaraderie. Many thanks to Dr. Mark Vaughn and his wife, Dr. Rebecca Moazzez, for allowing the use of the community meeting room and grounds at their apartment complex, The Morgan in San Mateo. Dr. Richard R. Rutter, architect and first chairman of our post-graduate training program, celebrated his 90th birthday on October 8. He and his wife, Joanne, were in attendance at the “Celebration of Life” for Dr. Harry Hatasaka (another of the original 10 faculty) in August. The 12th Annual Arthur A. Dugoni Graduation Symposium and Dinner was held on September 30. Dr. Larry Tadlock, head of the orthodontic department and program director at Texas A&M, spoke about common orthodontic concepts taught in school that need to be reviewed. The speaker for next year’s Graduation Symposium is Dr. Laura Cervidanes, the Thomas and Doris Graber Endowed Professor of
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