Lasting Impressions | Summer 2017

22 © NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Faculty Impressions At 91, Sigmund Stahl, M.S., D.D.S., isn’t ready to retire. He tried 20 years ago, leaving a prominent dental career at the New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry. He left the bright lights of Manhattan for sunny South Florida after spending decades as a periodontics professor, researcher, and associate dean. He told his NYU colleagues he was going to retire. But the lure of dental medicine was too strong. In 1996, Nova Southeastern University recruited Stahl to help start the College of Dental Medicine. He agreed. Stahl, who is now an adjunct professor of periodontics at the CDM, worked closely with the college’s founding dean, the late Seymour Oliet, D.D.S., to launch a fledgling dental school in 1997 with 75 students. The school has since blossomed into one of the best and most selective in the nation. Teaching For Life BY MICHELLE F. SOLOMON AND KEN MA Sigmund Stahl worked closely with the CDM’s founding dean, the late Seymour Oliet, D.D.S., to launch a fledgling dental school in 1997 with 75 students.