{"id":1036,"date":"2017-10-13T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2018-07-31T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:55:50","slug":"its-a-wonderful-world-says-95-year-old-dental-alumnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2017\/10\/13\/its-a-wonderful-world-says-95-year-old-dental-alumnus\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s a wonderful world,’ says 95-year-old dental alumnus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Kaspar, D.D.S. at a Detroit Mercy event in 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The American Dental Association is dentistry’s most important organization and the ADA News is its biggest publication. The most recent issue features an article on a 95-year-old alumnus of Detroit Mercy’s School of Dentistry.<\/p>\n

Robert Kasper, D.D.S. ’54 was featured in advance of Nov. 11’s Veterans Day because he flew B-17s in World War II and returned to Detroit and came to University of Detroit on the G.I. Bill\u00ae.<\/p>\n

“The profession was great,” he told a reporter for the ADA News. “I enjoyed it all.”<\/p>\n

He also enjoyed life, flying planes until 2002 and traveling the world. He now lives in Naples, Fla.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Kasper is a very special man who has an incredible soul,” said Kimberly A. Raleigh, Detroit Mercy Dental’s director of the Institute for Advanced Continuing Dental Education and Alumni Relations.<\/p>\n

To read the entire article, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you know of an alumnus doing great things, let us know by clicking on the Submit a Story Idea link above and tell us a little bit about it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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