Samuel Holzman, a retired Coney Island concessionaire, has donated funds for the establishment at New York University’s College of Dentistry the institution’s first chair in endodontics, according to an announcement by Dr. Raymond J. Nagle, dean of the college. Endodontics is the newest dental specialty, using techniques that permit dentists to save diseased or broken teeth without resort to extraction. The size of the gift was not announced, but an endowment for a professorship at NYU usually runs up to $500,000.
According to Dr. Nagle, the contribution is the third large gift given to the college by Mr. Holzman’s family. Previously, Mrs. Holzman’s mother, the late Mrs. Rose Cohen, endowed a clinical bacteriology laboratory at the college, while the Holzman family endowed an endodontic clinic. Mr. Holzman and his late wife, Hannah, had also established at the college an annual award to the senior dental student attaining the highest average in endodontics.
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