I had the pleasure of attending the 1^st District Dental Society Meeting yesterday in Evansville, Indiana.  Aside from the torrential downpour during my 3 hour trek the experience was quite nice.  I attended the meeting to recruit dentists for the full time position that’s available at the Wabash Valley Correctional Institution   I met several dentists one of whom I had spoken with over a year ago.  It was finally nice to put a face to the name!  I was pleasantly surprised to find the dentists actually remembered receiving my advertising letters or saw my ads in their dental association journals.  Now it was their turn to put a face to the name!  I’m sure the docs get a lot of advertisements so hopefully my personal appearance there will help them recognize my letters amongst the junk mail.  My hope is they will think of Mid America if and when they are looking for a position outside the private practice sector.  Oh and special thanks to Shelly Schmelzer, Executive Director, for allowing me to attend the meeting on short notice.  I look forward to attending the larger meeting in November.

As a side note……On my way to Evansville, ironically, I had to make a detour to Wabash Valley Correctional.  It had been at least 8 years since I’d visited that facility and I had forgotten how modern it was.  I was there to arrange security clearance for one of our employees and thankfully the administrative staff was super nice to work with.