What did SADA actually do during that first year? Under the leadership of its VP, Jack Tenenbaum, students were recruited to serve in the aforementioned SAMA-sponsored federal public health programs known as the Appalachia Project and the American Indian Health Program. SADA also recruited Jonathan Nash, a junior dental student at NYU and classmate of Jack Dillenberg (SADA northeast regional coordinator) , as their Chairman of Dental Licensure Reform. Nash had formed a student-dentist alliance called the National Council for the Improvement of Dental Licensure (NCIDL) which was devoted to publicizing factual data about the inequities in the licensure system as well as lobbying for change on the national and state levels. This liaison enabled SADA to promote a national advocacy platform which was already of direct concern to all dental students. Although it was widely circulated that SADA had 13,000 student members, that was more of a public relations gambit than anything real and substantive. That number merely represented an inflated total of ‘interested’ dental students from around the country. In reality, there was no official list of dues-paying, “card-carrying”, members of SADA. The major effort that first year was to lobby for financial support. Although official recognition from the ADA was not as yet forthcoming, positive momentum was building from other entities.