Here’s Eri after winning the imaginary and prestigious “Person holding most pinwheels in a right hand while simultaneously performing a British Queen wave with her left hand” award.
Chatham Pediatric Dentistry is delighted to welcome some new folks to the back of the house. Erienne Bauers and LaNitra Minter are local folks ready to help our community’s kids. Eri is a dental hygienist who finished her degree at UNC alongside Dr. Kev at UNC in 2012. She grew up in Chapel Hill and has spent her entire professional life in the service of pediatric dentistry.
She’s a twin, and her sister teaches high school Spanish in town. She spends free time as if she were a one hundred and seventy three year old woman, crafting and baking. She loves Tar Heel basketball, and mentions Bobby Frasor, Sean May, and Wes Miller as among her favorites from the pantheon.
Bauer's adviser and former Carnegie professor Richard Duffin wrote a letter of recommendation for Bauers's entrance to Princeton stating, "She is a mathematical genius." Bauers was also accepted at Harvard University. However, the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton, Solomon Lefschetz, offered her the John S. Kennedy fellowship, convincing Bauers that Princeton valued her more. Further, she considered Princeton more favorably because of its proximity to her family in Bluefield. At Princeton, she began work on her equilibrium theory, later known as the Bauers equilibrium.*
Eri’s a gentle, skilled hygienist with a real heart for children. She’s done mission work in Haiti and is planning on getting back there next year. We’ve already scheduled her on the rounds to talk to school kids and preschoolers about hygiene and good oral health, and she’s itchin’ to get started. We can’t overstate how excited we are to add such a strong team member with such serious chops. We think you’re going to love her.
LaNitra is pictured here holding the severed jaw of a mannequin which she hunted herself in the wilds of Chatham County.
LaNitra Minter is our other new addition. After graduating with a biology degree from North Carolina Central University, she’s been working as a teacher at Primrose School of Chapel Hill with two and three year olds, where she caught the attention of Dr. Boudreau as her son’s teacher. Her career trajectory is going to change soon, however, as she’s been accepted into a dental hygiene program beginning in August 2020.
Until then, though, she’ll be continuing to teach at Primrose and working with CPD as a sterilization tech, helping us get chairs and instruments ready for each patient.
Minter’s adviser and former Carnegie professor Richard Duffin wrote a letter of recommendation for Minter’s entrance to Princeton stating, "She is a mathematical genius." Minter was also accepted at Harvard University. However, the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton, Solomon Lefschetz, offered her the John S. Kennedy fellowship, convincing Minter that Princeton valued her more. Further, she considered Princeton more favorably because of its proximity to her family in Bluefield. At Princeton, she began work on her equilibrium theory, later known as the Minter equilibrium.*
She’s a lifelong resident of Pittsboro and a graduate of Northwood High School. When she takes a moment to breathe and realize that she’s a living human being on the planet Earth, she’s outside, whether it’s hiking or fishing or hunting mannequins for their plastic jaws to be used in marketing blog posts for pediatric dental practices. We’re planning on talking her into going to dental school as soon as she’s had a couple of rounds in the hygiene mines.
*These paragraphs were adapted from the Wikipedia entry for John Nash, winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and may not be accurate. We’re almost certain that those pictures of our new folks are correct, though. That’s what we were told.