Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

Correspondence, noted, typescripts and printed materials collected by William P. Turner, Jr., while preparing a master's thesis on dentistry in West Virginia. Correspondents include the State Dental Society, early dentists and dentistry, dentists in World War II, the Sarah Whitaker Glass Oral Foundation, West Liberty State College Hygiene Department, and dental hygiene.

The official records of the society including correspondence, minute books, treasurers' records, papers read at annual meetings, and other miscellaneous materials.

Material concerning the West Virginia State Dental Society consisting of two printed pamphlets containing the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society for 1941 and 1955; a mimeographed information letter for 1954-55 (No. I); and the Society's Annual Historical Record for 1954.

Typescripts of official minutes of the 42nd- 45th annual meetings of the society.

Typescripts of the proceedings of the general convention, and of minutes of the executive council at the forty-sixth convention of the society.

Records, transactions, financial statement, and a typescript, "A History of Dentistry in West Virginia, 1907-1952," by William Patrick Turner, Jr. (unpublished M.A. thesis, West Virginia University, 1962).; also the "West Virginia Dental Journal" for 1957.

These records include a bound typescript "Transactions of 1957"; press clippings from Press Service, Inc., and several volumes of the "West Virginia Dental Journal" which was published four times a year. The collection contains journals from 1958-1974 with the exceptions of editions from 1959, January 1960, October 1962, April 1963, January 1964, January 1865, April 1966, July 1967, January 1968, and April 1971.

Transactions, and Report of Examination for 1958.