College of Dental Medicine benefactor
honored June 15
The
Bumgardner family of Columbia presented a bust of E. Gaither (E.G.)
Bumgardner, DDS, to the College of Dental Medicine, June 15. 
Participating in
the June 15 presentation of the bust of the late Dr. E.G. Bumgardner,
are from left Drs. George K. Bumgardner; Tariq Javed, associate dean,
College of Dental Medicine; John J. (Jack) Sanders, dean, College of
Dental Medicine; John O. Bumgardner Sr.; and Charles G. Bumgardner.Bumgardner, who practiced dentistry for more than 50 years, helped establish the college and provided it with its first endowments in 1973. Bumgardner also assisted his three brothers, three sons and two grandsons in becoming dentists.
Born in Casar, N.C., Bumgardner graduated with a doctorate of dental surgery from Atlanta Southern Dental School (later part of Emory University) in 1921 and practiced dentistry in Columbia until his retirement in 1975. He served as president of the South Carolina Dental Association from 1940-1941, the first president of the Central District Dental Society and as an instructor at Columbia Hospital and Providence Hospital. Bumgardner was awarded Emory University’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1979 and was also a life member of MUSC’s Society of 1824 for his giving to the university.
“My sister, Judy, and I commissioned this bust of our father to honor him and his commitment to our family and to the profession of dentistry,” said John Bumgardner, DDS, son of E. G. “I cannot think of a more appropriate place for it to be housed than at the Medical University’s College of Dental Medicine.”
“This is a very special day for the college,” said John J. Sanders, DDS, dean of the College of Dental Medicine. “I welcome the Bumgardner family and am honored to house the bust of one of South Carolina’s fathers of dentistry in our new Clinical Education Center.”
“We have been honored to have had Dr. E. G. Bumgardner as our benefactor, and his grandsons, Charles and George, as our students,” said Tariq Javed, DMD, associate dean of the college. “I remember them both well during their days at our college and admire them greatly.”
Friday, Aug. 3, 2007
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