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Harry Day, professor emeritus of chemistry at IU Bloomington, received the Sagamore of the Wabash designation earlier this month at his home at Meadowood Retirement Community in Bloomington. The Sagamore is one of the highest honors presented by the governor of Indiana to a citizen in honoring a lifetime of community and civic service. The award was presented by local state legislator Peggy Welsh.
Day, a biochemist for whom the lecture hall in the Chemistry Building at IUB is named, had brought his knowledge of the nutritional value of trace elements to IU from Johns Hopkins University in 1940. After studying and working with the esteemed nutritionists on the faculty there, he arrived in Indiana to begin a 36-year teaching career. He taught the first biochemistry classes to dental students on the Bloomington campus and became a mentor to one of them, a young man named Joseph C. Muhler. Within six months of receiving his dental degree, Muhler and his mentor had convincing findings that stannous fluoride was protective against dental decay. The rest is history.
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