Today ends 30 years of dental practice in Denison, Texas! I was just 28 years old (with long brown hair) when I started practice on July 15, 1978. It has been a great thirty years! We have seen the birth of two sons, they have married and we now have two great daughter-in-laws and one grandson (and even one more grandson on the way...due September 15!). I've seen long BROWN hair turn into VERY short grey hair! We have seen 3 parents die as well as all grandparents pass away. It was kind of different leaving the office this evening and looking around at all the changes that have been made in 30 years. Little did I know that we would be taking digital xrays and no film would be used!
For those of you that don't know the story, I bought the practice from Dr. Noel V. Boothman, who went back to dental school late in life. He practiced dentistry in Denison for 20 years/9months following a successful business on Main Street selling men's clothes at his shop called NOEL'S. So between the two of us this practice has been in existence for 50 years, 9 months! In fact, I saw a patient today that was one of Dr. Boothman's patients and I have seen him for the past 30 years! There are fewer and fewer of those Dr. Boothman patients as many have died or moved from the area.
So what am I going to do tomorrow? First, we closed the office tomorrow and everyone has the day off work! Barbie and I are going to Dallas at 4:30am tomorrow and I am going to try to buy one of the new 3-G iPhones. Cell phones were not even invented 30 years ago! Then home to watch the Baseball All-Star game tomorrow night with Jeff and Carolyn Walton! An exciting day!
At Thursday's Sherman Daybreak Toastmaster meeting I am going to give a second IceBreaker speech. This week represents a double mulligan. A mulligan is a golfing term....meaning to "do over". My speech will be about starting Toastmasters over again with a second icebreaker speech where I tell about myself. The second part of the speech will be about a three year period in our life where we made some important decisions that landed us in Denison on July 15, 1978. This week represents a "do over or a start over" in both Toastmasters and another XX years in dentistry in Denison, Texas. What are you doing at 6:30am on Thursday? Come to Sherman Daybreak and hear the complete story!
Lee
Wow, 30 years...to put that in perspective, I turn 30 years old in August...so you've been practicing dentistry for as long as I've been alive! :)
A quick search of the internets reveals some fun facts about 1978:
Top 5 Songs of 1978 according to Billboard:
Night Fever - Bee Gees
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Le Freak - Chic
Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Other notable 1978 events:
April 3 - Annie Hall beats out Star Wars for Best Picture (ceremony for '77 movies was in the spring of '78)
February 16 - The first computer bulletin board system (CBBS) is created in Chicago.
May 5 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.
August 6 - Pope Paul VI dies at age 80.
October 2 - The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 5-4 at Fenway Park to clinch the AL East after being 14 games out of first place only two months earlier. The Yankees would eventually go on to defeat the Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Dodgers and win the World Series.
November 18 - Jonestown
December 13 - The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation
and July 15 - Lee launches his dental practice :)
Congrats Uncle Lee! Enjoy that new iPhone
Posted by: Blake | July 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Congrats on your 30 year anniversary!
Posted by: Tiffany | July 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Congrats! Too bad you have to go back to work tomorrow.
Posted by: TDC | July 15, 2008 at 11:40 PM
And no new posts since July ...
I think a pic of the injured truck would have been interesting ....
a warning to friends to watch out driving through parking lots ...
later ... mg
Posted by: Michael G. | August 17, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Thank you for the post. 30 years in service is not that easy. congratulations anyway.
-heather-
Posted by: cosmetic dentistry pasadena | June 07, 2009 at 09:10 PM
Im proud of you. Keep it up!
Posted by: anaheim auto glass | December 16, 2010 at 09:12 PM
Wow! Thirty years of dental practice is awesome! Your service with the people within your area changed their lives, I'm sure. Dentists are important in relation to overall health of an individual. My Dad have been friends with Los Angeles cosmetic dentists and most of them told him that they felt fulfillment every time they were able to help a patient.
Posted by: Jenna Schrock | February 23, 2011 at 11:40 PM