Acts of Service - Message from the DHAC

Message from DHAC President Rebecca Lee

5 March 2020

For the Dental Hygiene Alumni Chapter, volunteering and acts of service are crucial to our ability to connect with alumni, students, faculty, and partners. They allow us an opportunity to engage with our community of oral health professionals through a variety of events and opportunities.

2020 will be an exciting year for the Chapter, as we will be working on reorganizing and developing the many events that are held throughout the year. The events typically hosted by the Chapter include the student-focused Black & White Affair and Graduation Luncheon as well as the Reunion Reception and PDC networking event for the alumni. To help everyone keep up to date with the latest and greatest in the research field, the Chapter also holds a continuing education event once every 3 years to highlight upcoming research in the dental hygiene field.

With growth and time, our Chapter changes, and so must our events. Notably, this year it may have been noticed that we are not holding the PDC Dental Hygiene alumni event with the Dental Alumni Association in Vancouver. We are focusing on developing events that have a more meaningful purpose to our alumni, students, faculty, and partners. With this change, we will require more of our oral health alumni to come together and provide their time, service, and skills to the Dental Hygiene Alumni Chapter.

Many of us out there are looking to create a bigger impact on our careers and have a generous skill set to do that. I truly believe giving time as a volunteer helps bring our community together and strengthens us as Dental Hygienists. So I would like to encourage our oral health community to come together this year to explore what volunteer services they can provide; whether it be with the Dental Hygiene Alumni Chapter, or elsewhere.

“Volunteer service enriches our society, brings us together as a community, and helps keep businesses and other organizations afloat.”
– Anonymous

Sincerely,
Rebecca Lee, DH ‘12
President, Dental Hygiene Alumni Chapter