Alpha Omega, the Jewish dental fraternity, announced plans today at its 54th annual convention here, for a campaign to raise $250,000 for a graduate school of dentistry for Israel.
The graduate school will be established as part of a project to raise standards of dental care in Israel. The fraternity has completed a campaign for $1,000,000 for a dental school and work on the school building will begin this year, delegates were told.
Dr. John Sherman of Toronto, a past president of the fraternity, said that there was "a crying need" for the dental school. He said that the dentists in Israel are in most cases immigrants from Europe. "Their average age is 60," he reported, "and their methods are now considered outmoded."
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