In 1991, Vince and Peter established a fund to sponsor a two-day visit from a well-known academician/orthodontist. The first Visiting Scholar was Lysle Johnston in 1992 and there has been at least one scholar per year since then. By 1996 enough money had been donated for the fund to be endowed as the Kokich-Shapiro Endowed Scholar Fund. As the fund has grown, it recently was renamed the Kokich-Shapiro Fund for Excellence in Orthodontics. Eventually it may become a named professorship or chair.