In Memoriam Remembering Our Faculty Zdenka K. Bartz DMD, clinical instructor in the Restorative, Prosthetic, Primary Care Division, passed away on October 30, 2011 at the age of 63. Dr. Bartz served as a clinical instructor from 1998 until the time of her death. She was an accomplished artist with numerous exhibitions and she also served as an Army civilian dentist. Dr. Bartz was a three-time Student Government Teaching Award winner, and was the Senior Class Outstanding Instructor for two years. Dr. Bartz is survived by her husband, John. Frank W. “Bill” Brumfield ’61 DDS, assistant professor emeritus, passed away on October 21, 2012 at the age of 76. He served the College of Dentistry for over 30 years in the Division of Periodontology. In addition to his tenure at the college, Dr. Brumfield served as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force for 30 years. He is survived by Paula, his wife of 40 years; five children; 15 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Louis P. DiOrio ‘64 DDS, assistant professor emeritus and former chair of Community Dentistry, passed away on July 31, 2012 at the age of 81. Dr. DiOrio was preceded in death by Jewel, his wife of 54 years, and is survived by three children and six grandchildren. Dennis W. Foreman, Jr. ‘66 MA, PhD, professor emeritus in Oral Biology, passed away on December 11, 2011 at the age of 81. Prior to his tenure at the College of Dentistry, he served in the U.S. Army. Dr. Foreman is survived by Marilyn, his wife of 58 years, and a son. R. Ned Kramer ’60 ‘71 DDS, MS passed away on February 22, 2012 at the age of 76. He served the College of Dentistry as an associate professor in the Division of Pediatrics. In addition to his tenure at the college, Dr. Kramer served as the director of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Dental Clinic, where he worked for 33 years. Dr. Kramer is survived by his wife, Weida, and children.
Recent Faculty Retirements Dr. Wayne Campagni earned a DMD degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, and a Certificate in Fixed Prosthodontics from the Wadsworth Center Veterans Administration in Los Angeles. He practiced dentistry in the U.S. Air Force from 1959-1962, and then joined the general dental practice at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, California. In 1975, he entered academics, teaching at the University of Southern California, Loma Linda University, and the University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty at Ohio State’s College of Dentistry in 1985 as the director of the Section of Advanced Prosthodontics. He left Ohio State in 2001, and then returned in 2004 as a clinical professor of Restorative Dentistry. Dr. Campagni is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, and he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics. He retired as the college’s director of the Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics in 2012. Dr. Stanley Vermilyea received a DMD degree at the University of Oregon, an MS in Dental Materials from the University of Michigan, and a Certificate in Fixed Prosthodontics from Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is a board-certified prosthodontist, and he was co-director of the Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from 1989 to 1992. He retired in 1992 as a U.S. Army colonel after 21 years of service, and he joined the College of Dentistry that same year as an assistant professor in the Section of Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry. During his tenure, Dr. Vermilyea served as course director, clinic director, associate professor in Primary Care, and chairman of Primary Care before serving as associate dean for Clinical Affairs from 2002 until his retirement in December 2011. Dr. Robert Jaynes earned his DDS degree from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry, and he received an MS in radiology from Ohio State’s College of Medicine. He joined the U.S. Public Health Service as a dental provider for the Indian Health Branch in Crownpoint, New Mexico from 1970-72. He then served as a staff dentist at the Mountaineer Family Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, later moving to Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where he was a general dental practitioner until 1975. In 1976, after joining a private practice in Westerville, Ohio, Dr. Jaynes was hired by Ohio State’s College of Dentistry as a part-time faculty member in the Section of Diagnosis, and in 1982 he was promoted as an assistant professor in the Radiology Group. Throughout his career in the college, he was honored by the Alpha Omega fraternity as the 1986 Instructor of the Year, and he received 23 Outstanding Instructor awards from the Student Government Association. He retired in December 2012. 26 ohio state dental journal