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Egbert Theodore Loeffler
The Michigan Alumnus 10-17
The Michigan Alumnus 10-17
In the reorganization of the dental school, Dr. Egbert Theodore Loeffler, of Saginaw, was called to the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the department.
Dr. Loeffler was born in 1861, near Saginaw. After train ing in the country schools he was graduated in 1880 from the Saginaw high school. Following a year's teach ing of country school, he came to the University, and was graduated as B.S. (C. E.), in '85. The following autumn he entered the dental school. He completed the course in 1888, and has been in active practice in Saginaw ever since.
In 1897 he was elected president of the Michigan Dental Association. He has been a member of the National Dental Association since 1898. For the past two years he has been president of the Michigan State Board of Examiners in Dentistry. He has served as a member of the Saginaw board of education, as chair man of the committees on teachers, text-books, and studies.
During the past ten years he has given more or less time to the study of medicine in general, and has taken most of the work offered in the Saginaw Valley Medical College.