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My Presidential year has allowed me the privilege of visiting numerous international and domestic sections. With each visit I return with the ever-increasing knowledge that a deep sense of community exists among the fellows of our Academy. Although we may be geographically separated by thousands of miles, our professional camaraderie is as close-knit as any small community.
The Academy is comprised of the most capable individuals within our beloved profession. Each individual, regardless of their status in the profession, did not rise to their level of professional expertise by themselves. Instead, one realizes that each individual accomplished their achievements because of the encouragement and trust of their beloved mentors. Many years ago, one of my dearest mentors, Dr. Clifford F. Loader, eloquently wrote the words that seem to best describe the spirit of fellowship in the Academy and the deep sense of community that it fosters. I would like to paraphrase those words of wisdom written by Dr. Loader. Dr. Clifford F. Loader wrote: "What is one's life like in a small town? Well, it is like a big family where people care about each other. A nice feeling of trust prevails in the very fabric of your life." The axis of the earth sticks through every community in the world. Small cities are but a microcosm of a larger city. All the elements of social behavior are there. You can be what you were created capable of being. Yesterday is but today's memories and tomorrow is but today's dreams. It has been said that the future belongs to those that prepare for it, and we must. If we are to maximize our worth in society, it is those persons that we meet along the way that make the opportunities available to us and/or open the door for us that we could not do alone. We have all had this kind of help. It could be our spouse, our parents, our teachers, or our family or friends. They are the people in your life that have shaped your thinking or helped you take better aim at your goals or gave you the opportunities to serve mankind more fully. "Dentistry gave us a point of identity and of becoming ourselves and a humanness for which we can all be grateful. To all of our mentors, those now living and those that belong to history, we owe our heartfelt gratitude."--Dr. Clifford F. Loader. |
My wife and I would sincerely like to thank each officer, trustee, and fellow of the Academy for making this past year one of the most memorable and enjoyable in our entire lives.
In closing, I would like to scribe the words from the poem, "The Bridge Builder," that seem to best describe the appreciation we all must feel for those individuals who have helped all of us throughout our entire lives. An old man, going a lone highway, |
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International Mentorship Program
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Mentorship is a service project that any PFA Section of any size can adopt. Even Rhode Island, the smallest PFA Section in the world, has had a Mentorship Program for 4 years! Young dentists are able to ask questions of their wise, reassuring, and caring mentors. A gap is filled. The mentor can provide the new professional with valued information. The PFA Fellow Mentor is supportive and genuine. |
The mentor is like a navigator helping a young professional to avoid disasters. You can help that young dentist achieve their dreams! To volunteer in a Pierre Fauchard Academy Mentorship Service Project or receive further information on how to promote mentorship, please call Dr. Christine Benoit at (401) 364-6300, fax (401) 364-9190, or write to 4995 South County Trail, P.O. Box 850, Charleston, RI 02813 (USA).
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Dr. William Frank to receive President's Award
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Awards Luncheon, 24 October 1998, San Francisco Marriott
The Academy of General De ntistry called Dr. William Frank "Dentistry's envoy to the world" in presenting their 1984 Humanitarian Award to him. This general dentist from Los Angeles has served his profession and community in many ways. In OKU, he has served as President of the Supreme Chapter. He is a Master and Fellow in AGD, President of ADI, Vice Regent in ICD, and a PFA Fellow. He has received the Torch of Learning Award from Hebrew University. He is an associate clinical professor in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Southern California, his alma mater. At USC, he has twice served as President of the Jones Gold Foil Study Club, and he is a past President of the USC Dental Alumni Club. He is past President of the Los Angeles Alpha Omega Alumni Chapter, which honored him with their Community Service Award. Dr. Frank has provided volunteer dental care and instruction to colleagues in Mexico. He and his wife have been involved in the "Hands Across the Sea" program to benefit the children of Honduras. Together, they have been Founders of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the HU Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, and the Tel Aviv School of Dentistry. He is a life member of the ADA, the California PTA, and the Boy Scouts of America. As a Rotarian for nearly a half century, Dr. Frank has served as local President, District Governor, and Phil Harris Fellow, and he has received their Service Above Self Award, Meritorious Service Award, and Distinguished Service Award. He served as the International and National Coordinator for the Polio-Plus Campaign, which raised over $250 million to purchase polio vaccine for children in underdeveloped countries.
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Dr. William Frank
Our Academy will be honoring him with its President's Award at the Awards Luncheon to be held on Saturday, 24 October 1998, in the San Francisco Marriott Salons 15 and 16. Nevada State Senator Ray Rawson will be the featured speaker and receive PFA's International Service Citation. At this Luncheon, the Kerr Corp. will be presented with our Dental Trade & Industry Award. PFA's prestigious Gold Medal Award will be bestowed on Dr. James B. Edwards, President of the Medical University of South Carolina. The incoming international officers for the 1998–99 will be sworn into office after the award presentations. An envelope for Luncheon reservations was included in the last issue of Dental World. You may also make reservations by contacting Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal. |
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1998 Calendar
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24–28 October
ADA Annual Meeting, San Francisco 8–12 October FDI Annual Congress, Barcelona, Spain |
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Friday, 23 October
7:30–11: 30 a.m. |
23–25 October
PFA Annual Meeting, San Francisco Marriott Hotel: |
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Saturday, 24 October
7:30–11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. |
Sunday, 25 October
7:30–10 a.m. 6:30–10:30 p.m. |
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Section News
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ARGENTINA
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International Trustee Bernardo Levit celebrated his country's Friendship Day by sending a holiday card to all his global Fellows through Dental World. What wonderful holiday wishes to extend to us all.
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CANADA
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International Trustee Kevin Roach is Associate Editor for the Colgate Oral Care Report, a global publication.
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Foundation News
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University of Sydney dental student Carmel Trudgeon was awarded the Foundation scholarship.
PFA Section Secretary-General Jong-Nyool Yee reported that student Jin-Myung Song of the Chon-Nam National University College of Dentistry has been selected to receive our Foundation's scholarship award. |
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UNITED STATES
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Massachusetts Student Even Diane Shieh received our Foundation Scholarship Award at the Fifth Annual Tufts University School of Dental Medicine Senior Awards Banquet last May. She also received the ACD New England Section's Award at the 1998 Yankee Dental Congress. Ms. Shieh was President of her class and a member of OKU. Our Fou ndation Award was noted in their Senior Awards Luncheon program (held at Boston's Tremont House Hotel) and in the Tufts Commencement Exercises program.
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Connecticut
Dean Peter Robinson presented senior dental student Stephen Noxon with our Foundation Scholarship Award during the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine's Student Awards Dinner last May.
L-R: Award recipient Stephen Noxon is congratulated by Dean Peter Robinson
He was selected by the dental school's Award Committee based on his leadership and accomplishments. Section Chairman Howard Mark is also Chairman of the Connecticut State Dental Association's Oral Health 2000 Committee, which initiated a tobacco-cessation project last year with a Foundation grant. Besides continuing that project, the Committee plans to begin a baby-bottle tooth decay information program with a coalition of interested groups.
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Foundation scholarship student Even Diane Shieh (center) is presented with her award certificate. 
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Section News
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ARGENTINA
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International Trustee Bernardo Levit celebrated his country's Friendship Day by sending a holiday card to all his global Fellows through Dental World. What wonderful holiday wishes to extend to us all.
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CANADA
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International Trustee Kevin Roach is Associate Editor for the Colgate Oral Care Report, a global publication.
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California, Southern
Chairman Charles Eller noted in his Section's newsletter, PerSpecTive, that PFA membership in southern California makes their Section the largest in the world. Their annual Meeting was held last April at the West Coast Anaheim Hotel. Past State Chairman Steven Ferriot has accepted the position of Consultant to their Board. Their mentorship program at the University of Southern California is being implemented by Dr. Ron Clarke. Pennsylvania PFA Fellow Kay F. Thompson passed from our rolls this May, from cancer. Dr. Thompson pioneered hypnosis in dentistry and led the way for women in dentistry. She was the first woman to serve as President of the Dental Society of Western Pennsylvania in 1981, and then as President of the Pennsylvania Dental Association in 1989. She was the second woman to serve as ADA Trustee. Dr. Thompson conducted her own personal mentorship program by taking women students into her own home, finding placement for them after graduation, and patients for them afterwards. Dr. Thompson helped organize the American Association of Women Dentists. She taught at her alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh Dental School, and at West Virginia University School of Medicine. The Pennsylvania Dental Association honored Dr. Thompson with its highest award at its annual meeting just a few weeks before her death. Dr. Thompson was one of a kind and will be sorely missed. Idaho International Trustee Scott Welch inducted 11 new Fellows to form the Idaho Section. Dr. Frederick Hansing was elected State Chairman and Dr. Dwight Romriel Vice Chairman. Utah State Chairman Gary Lowder, who was instrumental in helping to establish this Section, also attended.
Iowa Dr. Alan Hathaway received their Dentist of the Year Award for his volunteer work in Brazil throughout the last 15 years. |
Connecticut
Chairman Howard Mark hosted their annual Luncheon last May and honored Dr. A. Howard McLaughlin. Dr. McLaughlin has served as President of the Greater Waterburg Dental Society, President of the
Connecticut State Dental Association, and twice as Speaker of the CSDA House of Delegates, as well as a Delegate to the ADA House of Delegates. He served as CSDA Editor for a decade, President of the American Association of Dental Examiners, and Chairman of the NE Regional Board. His civic accomplishments are also outstanding: Dr. McLaughlin has served on local school boards, the Boy Scouts of America, Town of Woodbury Moderator, and the Republican Town Committee. His accomplishments are reflected in the many honors he has received--the Dental Society of Greater Waterburg's 25th Annual Award, the CSDA's Horace Hayden Award and Fones Memorial Award, the Hartford Dental Society's McManus Award,and the Yankee Dental Congress Etherington Award.
University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine Dean Peter Robinson was the presenter and gave the Address pledging his support for the PFA Mentoring Program. PFA International Trustee Robert Friedman gave the Charge of Membership to new Fellows Betheney Brenner, Tris Carta, Joseph D'Ambrosio, Michael Egan, Robert Goldman, Thomas Gorman, James Heise, Philip Levin, Michael Levinson, Nupur Narain, Andrew Ponichtera, Monroe Rackow, and Walter Russo. Chairman Howard Mark has been elected an Associate Member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Alumni and Friends of the School of Dental Medicine. He will help the group continue their Mentorship Program this fall with freshman and sophomore students. |
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Kentucky Chairman Karl W. Lange presented PFA to the Kentucky Dental Association at their annual meeting last April at their luncheon in conjunction with the other colleges. PFA received great exposure with their participation in the summer Special Olympics. At the first annual Special Smiles event, National Chairman Steve Pearlman was impressed with Chairman Karl Lange's Section participation. L-R: National Special Smiles Chairman Steve Pearlman, Kentucky PFA Chairman Karl Lange, Kentucky Dental Health Coalition President Lois Brown, and unidentified man
PFA supplied dental training videotapes for 130 volunteers, who screened 611 of the 850 participants. The Kentucky Section screened participants, provided oral hygiene education, and fabricated mouthguards. Chairman Lange, who also serves on the Kentucky Dental Health Coalition Board, wishes to continue to support the Kentucky Special Olympics/Special Smiles program as an annual project for his PFA Section.
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Kansas Chairman Estel Landreth and International Trustee David Campbell honored Kansas State Dental Association President R. Wayne Thompson and KDA President-elect Phil Zirnuska.
L-R: Trustee David Campbell, KDA President Wayne Thompson, and Chairman Estel Landreth Rhode Island Chairman Christine Benoit reports that Fellow Martin Nager of East Greenwich was honored as the Outstanding Volunteer in Health Care Services by Rhode Island's Travelers Aid Society. The Society runs a clinic in Providence for homeless and needy persons. Past PFA President A. James Kershaw (1972) was awarded a citation for his dedication to Rhode Island oral health care since 1932 by Blue Cross Dental.
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Dr. McLaughlin receiving the Outstanding Dentist of the Year Award from Dean Peter Robinson 
Chairman Howard Mark congratulating Dr. Howard McLaughlin on receiving their Section's Award 
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South Dakota
Co-chairmen Jim Cunningham and Paul Reinke held their annual meeting during the Session of the South Dakota Dental Association last May. SDDA President Patrick Coyne was honored with their Section's Outstanding Dentist of the Year Award. As the keynote speaker, International Trustee M. David Campbell discussed the PFA throughout the world today. Seventeen new Fellows were inducted: Drs. Steven Buechler, John Carrels, Janell Christiansen, Craig Cooksley, Amber Determan, Richard Ellenbecker, Daniel Goede, Robin Grossenburg, J. Vincent Jones, Marc McClellan, Dennis Mills, Paul Miskimins, Mark Nielsen, David Peterson, Mary Roth, Keith Vanhuizen, and Ryan Van Laecken.
New South Dakota Fellows with Trustee David Campbell and Chairman Paul Reinke A prayer was given in memory of past PFA President Don Dendinger (1985). Dr. Dendinger had most recently served as South Dakota PFA Chairman and as Vice Chairman of the PFA Foundation.
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Michigan
Dr. Philip E. Blackerby of Spring Lake passed from our Fellowship suddenly last February. His widow, Clara Mae Blackerby, noted that during his life of dedicated service to dentistry, he made friends all over the world. His Fellows in the PFA will miss his guiding light. The Michigan Section inducted their new Fellows at a ceremony in April. International Trustee M. David Campbell attended the induction ceremony.
Wyoming International Trustee Scott Welch assisted at their annual Breakfast Meeting in Jackson last June to honor Dr. Frank T. Manning with their Section's Outstanding Dentist of the Year Award. Trustee Scott Welch (center) with the Wyoming PFA Section at their annual Breakfast |
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In foreground, Trustee David Campbell, Award recipient SDDA President Patrick Coyne, and Chairman Paul Reinke 
