Dollars for Dental Scholarship

Attending the first Dean’s Scholarship Ball are, from left, Henry Bitar, president of the Dental Society of Western Pennsylvania; Dean Thomas W. Braun; Stephen Kondis, executive director of the Dental Alumni Association; and Stephen Todorovich, cochair of the Dean’s Ball Committee. Held at the Masonic Temple on May 12, the gala event included a silent auction, which, together with contributions from sponsors and patrons, supports the Dean’s Scholarship Fund, a new initiative established to provide partial tuition support to both needs-based and merit-based students at the School of Dental Medicine. The $70,000-plus raised for the scholarship fund is more than double that of the total scholarship monies previously available to dental students at the school.