"Why I Gave My First Large Gift to the College"

Dr. Clark White

For years, Dr. Clark White, III, has made gifts to the College of Dentistry’s Annual Fund. But when he attended an alumni event and heard Dean Patrick Lloyd speak about the plans for a partial replacement of Postle Hall, he knew he wanted to contribute more than his usual donation. Dr. White gave $25,000 to the Building on Strong Foundations campaign, and that gift will allow his name to be added to a state-of-the-art operatory in the college’s new facility.

“It’s important to ensure that the future dentists Ohio State trains have the best equipment, technology and knowledge available,” said Dr. White, a 1989 cum laude graduate who received a Pierre Fauchard Academy Award and was also inducted into the Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society. He feels it is his responsibility to give back to the college that helped him launch a successful career.

“In order to keep people enthused and learning, you have to have an environment that caters to that.” 

“When I was in dental school in the 1980s, Postle Hall was already an outdated building,” Dr. White recalled. “In order to keep people enthused and learning, you have to have an environment that caters to that.”

Dr. White has a keen understanding of the importance of learning spaces, since he has seen many throughout his career. Following his Ohio State education, he completed general practice and prosthodontic residency programs at the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in affiliation with Marquette University. He then spent several years teaching at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and served as a lecturer for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s general practice residency program. He continues to lecture throughout Ohio on various prosthodontic topics. “My experience at Ohio State working with prosthodontists influenced me to go into my specialty,” said Dr. White. “I wanted to carry that on and hopefully teach some of the things I learned over the years. I enjoy helping students look at the bigger picture and think outside the box.”

Having run a successful prosthodontics practice for the past 26 years, Dr. White felt it was time to make a larger gift to the college. Now, he encourages other alumni to step up their giving as well. “To help support the new building, the college needs a greater percentage of alumni to donate. The new building will be a fresh start, and in order to get it completed in a way that is as thorough and timely as possible, alumni need to support it.”

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