Given these circumstances, it was obvious to Spain and the other original officers, that there was no longer a need for SADA to continue. Although it was in existence for just one year, the founders of the organization considered it to be a success. They had fulfilled their obligation to their medical and pharmacy school colleagues by helping them to secure their grant and by participating in an important public service effort in Appalachia. Perhaps of greater import, they had created an opportunity for friendship and open communication, and the sharing of information and grievances between student leaders from all over the country. They fully realized that without significant financial resources, their national organization could not survive. However, it was a consensus belief that without the existence of SADA, the ADA would not have agreed, at that time, to form a bona fide, representative student section. They had succeeded in accelerating the timetable to create a legitimate organization with meaningful student input into organized dentistry and dental education, regardless of what it was called.