Dental World®		JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2000
	PIERRE FAUCHARD ACADEMY

	From the President’s Notebook
	I finally figured out why the Pierre Fauchard Academy President’s medallion placed around his/her neck at the time of the installation ceremony is so heavy. I think it is supposed to be a reminder, symbolically, that the President has a significant burden to carry. But the real lesson to be learned is that the President need not carry the load all alone. The burden can and is shared. I did learn early on that this concept is one of the greatest strengths of our Academy. The foundation of our system depends very much on the integrity and activity of the Section Chairpersons. All Chairs administer their Sections in a framework set forth by the Academy’s bylaws. Beyond that, the Chair has the freedom to inject his/her own personality into the Section, which adds to the richness of our worldwide organization. Which brings me to mention the Chicago Leadership Conference in February. I am most eager to have every Section Chair come to this event. Experienced Section Chairs will surely learn new things and the conference is a great fast start for new or recent Chairs. The Chairman of the event, Trustee Dr. Robert Friedman has a great program in store. As your President, I have had the opportunity to see Sections in action and to participate in their activities. Mexico City was the site of the prestigious Elmer Best Award Ceremony and the Mexico Section meeting. It was magnificently put together by the well-known Dr. Ernesto Acuña and Secretary/Treasurer Dr. Richard Kozal. The admired and honored oral surgeon Dr. Francisco Miranda was the award recipient. Also, a marvelous group of superbly qualified new Fellows were inducted. Other very deserving Mexicans were honor award recipients.		Another exciting Section activity was that of the Peru Section, held in Lima at the time of the 8th Congreso Internacional in November. Our superb Section Chair, Dr. Javier Flores-Araoz, not only masterminded the entire scientific sessions of the convention, but his Section Meeting was a model. Ceremonies included 42 new Fellows inducted, six honor awards presented, remarks by important officials, and a delightful reception. Region 7 Trustee Dr. Bernardo Levit was a splendid part of the official proceedings. I was asked to present a scientific paper on the program of the meeting, which I did. It was a marvelous experience inasmuch as it is the first one I have ever given that needed translation into Spanish. The President of La Academia de Estomatologia, Fellow Dr. David Loza Fernandez, was my translator. I owe a debt of gratitude. Dr. Flores’ wife, Ursula, like so many spouses of the Section Chairs, worked very diligently for PFA behind the scenes. She had a great suggestion. Perhaps there should be a special award for Section Chair spouses. The President’s medal is heavy, but the burden, shared by so many, is light. Frederick J. Halik, D.D.S. President

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	Leadership 2000 Conference
	Saturday, 26 February 2000, at Chicago’s Swissôtel, our Leadership Conference and the interim Meeting of the Pierre Fauchard Academy will be held during the Chicago Dental Society’s annual Midwinter Meeting. The Swissôtel in Chicago is where we have held the previous Leadership Conferences. The address is 323 East Wacker Drive in Chicago (60601-9722), two blocks east of Michigan Avenue on the south side of the Chicago River. The Conference will be in the William Tell Theater on the second floor. Leadership 2000 Conference Chairman Robert Friedman has arranged for an informative and entertaining series of presentations. This is a must-attend event for new Section Chairs as it will present the Academy in capsule form, from the international level to the grassroots. For more experienced Chairs, it is a chance to share ideas. It is ancillary training for anyone in leadership roles in any organization or government. It provides the basics for action within a group and specializes those missions to the Pierre Fauchard Academy. But the Leadership Conference is not just for Chairs. Any Fellow is invited to attend. Please let Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal at the Central Office know in advance so he may insure your place and provide materials for your attendance. This is one of your membership benefits for those wishing to avail themselves of this opportunity. Why wait until you assume a leadership position to begin training for your role? If the Central Office knew who would be interested in ascending to the offices in PFA, they would invite you personally. Invite yourself and join other Fellows across the world in attending this event. The international contacts are worth the effort alone. But seating is limited, so reserve your spot immediately by calling the Central Office at 1-800-232-0099. Conference Chairman Robert Friedman has designed the program to begin with our PFA International Historian Ben Swanson’s presentation on the history of PFA. PFA International President Fred Halik will outline the goals and mission of our Academy (an oft-asked question by non-Fellows). Secretary/Treasurer Kozal will describe our organizational structure. Then, past PFA President Shig R. Kishi, Executive Director of the Academy Foundation, will address the activities of our Foundation. After lunch, President-elect David Campbell and Editor Jim Brophy will describe our publications, how to achieve publicity, and what effect public relations. After lunch, President-elect David Campbell and Editor Jim Brophy will describe our publications, how to achieve publicity,		and what effect public relations has on our organization. This will lead into presentations by International Trustees Pierre Marois of France, Michael Perpich of Minnesota, Gordan Stine of South Carolina, James Englander of Wisconsin, and Kevin Roach of Canada, and by past PFA President Ray Klein, Rhode Island Section Chair Christine Benoit, and Southern California Chair Charles Eller. These talks will encompass Membership, Mentorship, Honors & Awards, Hall of Fame, and our Smokeless Tobacco Program. Then comes the focus of the Conference, with International Trustee Robert Friedman leading off with the specifics for organizing and managing Sections—a Section’s annual meeting, communications, leadership, organization, duties, service projects, Foundation support, and how to implement a successful Mentorship Program. Dr. Friedman will be assisted by Delaware Section Chair Alan Stewart, Connecticut Section Chair Howard Mark, and Rhode Island Chair Christine Benoit. International Trustees will then meet individually with their Section Chairs and Fellows to listen to their presentations on Section successes and problems, and to share ideas and solutions. Then these Trustees will compile their reports for general presentation to the entire conference in closing. That evening, an optional Leadership Conference Dinner Party will be held at the Swissôtel. The dinner will be $55 a person and is open to spouses and Fellows who were not able to attend the Conference 2000. Please mail your reservation and check to the Central Office (PFA, P.O. Box 80330, Las Vegas, NV 89180-0330) so that we can insure the dinner attendance to the hotel in advance. Because planning ahead is a necessary attribute for leadership, your response will allow us to initiate proper plans and execution of a rather complex event. The decision to attend is in your hands. Are you a leader for the new millennium who would like to brush up on your skills? Are you a leader-in-the-making for the next century who could use an additional armamentarium for your quest? Or do you just want to compare notes with leaders from all over the world? Attending is a must if your answer is yes. And then again, what better way to spend a winter Saturday than by honing your own abilities?

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	From the Desk of the Foundation Executive Director...
	by Dr. Shig Ryan Kishi Our Hawaii Meeting was quite successful. The Board of Trustees approved 18 grants. These recipients have been notified pursuant to the terms dictated by the Foundation Board of Trustees. Scholarship recipients outside of the United States were notified of their selection. Treasurer George Higue sent student scholarship checks in the amount of $40,500. We notified scholarship winners at 54 U.S. schools and asked the Section Chairs to be present at the awards ceremony for the presentation. The schools were asked to forward copy and pictures to the Dental World editor for publication. The scholarships amounted to $81,000, which included the 1999 contribution from Dr. William Stiefel on behalf of the Emory Chapter of Xi Phi Chi Dental Fraternity (now closed). The Foundation continues to fund the establishment of the Brenes-Espinach Audio Visual Computer Clinic at the Costa Rica Dental School as each section is completed and invoiced. Expenditure reports are now due from past recipients of Foundation grants to insure that the grant funds were properly used as intended.		The deadline for Foundation grant applications is 1 June 2000. New guidelines and restrictions have been approved by the Foundation Board of Trustees that will apply to future grant applications. Applicants can obtain these and the grant forms by writing to Dr. Shig Ryan Kishi, Foundation Executive Director, 1441 Avocado Avenue, Suite 508, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Elections for the Foundation offices were held at the Hawaii Meeting. Dr. Robert Shira of Maryland was re-elected as President, Dr. Carl Lundgren of California as Vice President, and Dr. George Higue of California as Treasurer. The Board now consists of 12 voting members: PFA past Presidents Larry Barrett of Iowa, Michael Cripton of Canada, Minoru Horiuchi of Massachusetts, William Kort of Illinois, James Long of Mississippi, Nicholas Saccone of Pennsylvania; the chair officers; PFA President Fred Halik; and PFA President-elect David Campbell. PFA Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal is an ex-officio member. Past PFA Presidents Martin Naimark of Texas (formerly of Michigan) and Leo Bongers of Kansas retired from the Board this session. In closing, I would like to thank Dr. William Stiefel, Mrs. Betty Lu Murvin, and all those who have sent in their contributions to the Foundation.

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	Central Office in Nevada
	Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal is asking for your cooperation in helping to make this Chicago Meeting an organizational success. He notes the importance of making reservations for the Chicago PFA Meeting, and the Leadership 2000 Conference, both at the Swissôtel. The dates are fast coming upon us. Due to the large dental meeting attendance, it is essential to make your reservations early to ensure getting into the hotel. The Academy Meeting dates are Thursday, 24 February (for officers), through Sunday, 27 February. The Leadership Conference is Saturday, 26 February. Deadline dates: Swissôtel reservations must be made by 24 January; call 1-800-654-7263 during business hours or fax 312-565-9930. Rooms are $172 per night. All meeting/conference reservations must be made with the Central Office; all reports for the meeting packet must be received to be included in the mailing to the officers. All the Central Office computers are now networked with Windows 98 NT. A security program is being designed so members can access the Membership Directory directly through the PFA Web site in the		immediate future. Our Web site, which is constantly updated, has added a new section where members may purchase PFA items. Final dues notices have been sent out. One third responded, with the remainder dropped from the rolls effective 1 January 2000. In 1999, 74 Life Members were processed. The year 2000 dues notices were mailed out on 1 November. The 1999 donations for the Foundation totalled $24,134, with $20,594 coming from U.S. Fellows, $2,455 from Life Members, and $1,085 from international sources. Section Chairs were notified of the Chicago Meeting so they could plan accordingly. In 1999, 26 Section Dentist of the Year plaques were issued, with special plaques for the Hawaii, Mexico City, and Peru ceremonies.

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	The PFA Southern Tour.......in Ten Scenes
	So many PFA events filled the Autumn 1999 calendar. We were moving from one place to another, with one of those places we visited for a little while being home and office. At our Annual Meeting in early October were many events for PFA, ADA, AADE, and the other colleges set against a paradise background in Hawaii’s sand and surf. Our Hall of Fame Ceremony was scheduled just outside Miami during the Pankey Institute Alumni Meeting for the weekend of 23–24 October. And we finished off the month in Mexico City with the Elmer Best Ceremony and the FDI Congress. Then President Halik and Trustee Levit headed for Peru in November to attend the PFA functions there and to represent us at the 8th International Congress of the Peruvian Stomatological Academy. It took two Presidents and several officers to get it all accomplished. From one side of the United States to the other, from Chicago to Mexico City to Peru, the PFA banner waved all over October and November. Hall of Fame Chairman Ray Klein, past PFA President, timed this year’s event to induct our 11th Hall of Fame honoree during the annual alumni meeting of the Institute that this dental great had founded. Dr. Klein would personally present the plaque honoring Dr. Lindsey Dewey Pankey, Sr., to his wife, Betty, and son, Dr. L. D. Pankey, Jr. The Hall of Fame was established by the PFA in the early ’90s to honor the most distinguished leaders of our profession. This concept was the brainchild of past ADA President Joseph Cappuccio, the Committee’s Founding Chairman. The Hall of Fame Committee consisted of world dental leaders and many past ADA Presidents who met at the ADA’s Chicago headquarters to establish the procedures and select the worthy recipients as famed dental leaders. In his prologue to this year’s ceremony, Dr. Klein related the global progress of our Hall of Fame as the idea spread. The Academy Board approved the Hall of Fame Committee’s original six inductees. Dr. Pierre Fauchard’s plaque was placed first on our Wall of Fame in the Paris		Chairman Ray Klein office of the French Dental Society, le Conseil National de l’Ordre des Chirurgiens-dentistes. This Inaugural Ceremony was held in May 1994 and established our international location in Paris. The Academy went on to induct Dr. Harvey J. Burkhart, founder of the Eastman Dental Clinics in Europe; Dr. Horace Wells, the discoverer of general anesthesia; Dr. G.V. Black, the father of modern restorative dentistry; Dr. Frederick McKay, promoter of fluoridated water supplies; and Dr. Harold Hillenbrand, ADA organizer of professional dentistry. The Board later approved Dr. Thomas P. Hinman, founder of Atlanta’s Hinman Meeting. The rest of these plaques were placed on our Wall of Fame in a Paris ceremony in 1996. Our U.S. venue was established in 1997 at the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, Maryland, where Drs. Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris, founders of the first American dental college, were honored in the converted former Baltimore College of Dental Surgery they established. We returned to Paris last year to induct Dr. Edouard Charles Godon, founder of the FDI and of l’École Dentaire de Paris, and to add the additional plaques to our Wall there. In 1999, we honored Dr. L.D. Pankey, founder of the Pankey Institute, in Key Biscayne, Florida.

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	Dr. L.D. Pankey Lindsey Dewey Pankey was born on the last day of January in 1901, and grew up in Illinois and Indiana. He earned his dental degree at the University of Louisville in 1924. His mentor, Dr. T.M. Crutcher, helped him to locate a practice in New Castle, Kentucky, consisting mostly of extractions and denture cases. In 1926, Dr. Pankey moved to Coral Gables, Florida, and opened a practice where he dedicated himself to saving teeth and educating patients. Little by little, he helped change the complexion of professional dentistry. Over time, he incorporated scientific function and personal philosophy to develop a holistic approach to saving teeth. By 1931, “occlusion” was barely a word in the dental vocabulary when Dr. Pankey first read Dr. Clyde Schuyler’s 1926 article in the New York Dental Journal outlining the basics of occlusal function. Dr. Pankey adapted those techniques to his own practice with success. In 1947, Dr. Arvin Mann moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and entered practice with Dr. Pankey. By the late 1940s, the two professionals had achieved great success with their techniques and were sharing them with other colleagues. They formed the Occlusal Rehabilitation Seminars, which were the genesis of the Pankey-Mann-Schuyler technique. They and their dentist “missionaries” went around the country teaching occlusion and professional fulfillment. By the late 1960s, Dr. Pankey’s schedule of teaching, practice, and serving on the State Board of Dental Examiners had become overwhelming. So in 1970, Dr. F. Harold Wirth of New Orleans suggested forming the Pankey Institute where dentists could come to learn and evaluate themselves. In 1972, the Pankey Institute opened at Miami’s DuPont Plaza Hotel with Dr. Loren Miller as its first Director and Dr. John Anderson as Director of Education. “L.D.,” as he was known to everyone, insisted on two conditions: that the training reflect quality, and that it be financially successful.		In 1985, under Executive Director Christian Sager and with Dr. Irwin Becker as Director of Education, the Institute moved to Key Biscayne (just south of Miami). In 1999, the Hall of Fame event marked the opening of the new Institute building in Key Biscayne designed for the course teachings with extensive computerization and facilities for translation into foreign languages. Dr. Pankey’s philosophy of life was that while we all struggle to achieve happiness, the supreme pleasure comes not from what you have, but what you can give to others. Some 8,000 dentists have passed through the Institute to discover better lives as dentists practicing a life philosophy with the professional training it takes to help others to the best of our current abilities. Dr. Pankey died in March 1989, but the Foundation and the Institute he helped develop are successfully fulfilling their charge of saving teeth. But more than a mere graduate course in technique, the Pankey Institute teaches a philosophy of life that can be applied to any occupation: happiness = love + work + play + religion. That is the “Cross of Life” Drs. Pankey and George Crane developed. Their “Cross of Dentistry” is that your spiritual and material reward comes from knowing yourself, knowing your patient, knowing your work, and applying your knowledge. From there comes the four-legged stool of dentistry: total patient care = hereditary predisposition + nutrition + periodontal therapy + restorative dentistry. The Pankey Institute, part of the not-for-profit L.D. Pankey Dental Foundation, is the one place where all your skills grow together.

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	The Ceremony Within a Ceremony On Thursday, 21 October, some 300 alumni, family, and friends gathered to celebrate the dedication of the new teaching facility that is to become the Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education. Friday held various seminars at the Sonesta Hotel a few blocks away. On Saturday, seminars were conducted at the new Institute location. The occasion was the 1999 L.D. Pankey Alumni Association Meeting in Key Biscayne, and the PFA was there for this momentous event. L-R: PFA President Jim Long, Dr. L.D. Pankey, Jr., Mrs. L.D. (Betty) Pankey, Sr., State Chair Robert Hart, Hall of Fame Chair Ray Klein As his last official act as PFA President, James Long of Mississippi represented the PFA at the ceremony, demonstrating how important this event was to our Academy. Hall of Fame Chair Ray Klein and his wife Renee of Georgia represented the Hall of Fame Committee. Florida State PFA Chair Bob Hart and his wife Eileen came down from Tampa to represent the State Section. And Dental World Editor Jim Brophy and Shirley from Illinois covered the event with pictures and video camera. The Hall of Fame Ceremony was held at 10 am on Sunday, 24 October 1999 at the Sonesta Hotel during the Alumni Association’s formal meeting. L-R: Pankey Institute Foundation CEO Chris Sager, past PFA presidents Ray Klein and Jim Long, and State Chair Bob Hart		Dr. Long introduced the dignitaries and Hall of Fame Chairman Ray Klein. Dr. Klein then gave a brief slide presentation on the history of the Hall of Fame, the past recipients, and the venues of the Walls of Fame. Then, with his voice cracking, Ray Klein described the achievements of his friend and mentor, Dr. L.D. Pankey, followed by a reading of the presentation L-R: L.D. Pankey, Jr., Ray Klein, Jim Long plaque with “L.D.’s” son on his right and President Long on his left. Then Dr. Klein presented the plaque to Betty Lindsey, wife of L.D. Pankey, Sr., and with tears in both their eyes Ray kissed her. Mrs. Pankey and Ray Klein

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	The Institute Tour Following the formal ceremony, Dr. Bill Amos, Chairman of the Board, drove the PFA entourage, Executive Director Chris Sager, and Communications Manager Deborah Bush to the newly dedicated Institute facility for a private tour. As we entered the building’s reception foyer, below the portrait of Dr. Pankey commanding the room, there was an easel with the PFA Hall of Fame plaque already in a place of honor for all to see. The new Pankey Institute Executive Director Chris Sager led us through three floors of offices, labs, and lecture halls. He demonstrated the world’s only computer-synchronized pressure-sensitive articulator, as well as all the other state-of-the-art equipment used in teaching the Pankey-Mann-Schuyler techniques. He also told us about hurricane-proofing the facility, which had recently been tested by Hurricane		State Chair Bob Hart, past Presidents Ray Klein and Jim Long in Institute reception area with L.D. Pankey portrait and PFA Award Irene. He then presented our Academy with copies of A Philosophy of the Practice of Dentistry, by Drs. L.D. Pankey and William Davis, and Treasure Your Teeth, by Christian Sager and Peter Evans. These books are available for loan to PFA Fellows through Publications Chairman Jim Brophy. The Institute facilities were impressive, to say the least. The blend of Institute officials, the Pankey family, and the PFA Officers was more than warm and cordial. It is easy to see how the philosophy of L.D. Pankey, Sr., is practiced. Through the “missionaries” of the Institute, L.D.’s legacy continues in the lives of many who may have never even known he was alive. We hope to share the feelings of this event through this report, which is a testimony to the greatness of the dentist-philosopher that we have honored with Hall of Fame status.

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	In Mexico City at the Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI) World Dental Congress OnTuesday morning, 26 October, the PFA Officers took roll call at breakfast in the Presidente Hotel. Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal informed us that Immediate past President Jim Long would not be attending as his wife Marge had been taken to the hospital President Fred Halik with President-elect Dave Campbell suddenly with a serious problem. That left us with President Fred Halik from New York, President-elect M. David Campbell from Michigan, and Editor Jim Brophy from Illinois. Dr. Kozal then juggled the official assignments for the next few day’s events. The first for that day was to take our seats at the FDI Congress Assembly A at 9:30 am at the Nikko Hotel, next door. President Halik would move up as leader of our delegation in the absence of Dr. Long. Dr. Acuña addressing the Assembly with his committee Dr. Kozal led us over to the meeting hall, which held hundreds of tables and chairs.		President Halik with FDI Executive Director Per Ake Zillen Delegation signs adorned the tables set up like the United Nations. Delegations from the 129 member countries filled the center of the hall, with the FDI affiliate organizations to the right of the country delegations. PFA is one of eight affiliate member organizations that attended. No other international honor colleges were there. If PFA were ranked by membership along with the country delegations, we would be 25th out of 130. Our Mexico PFA Section Chairman Ernesto Acuña was the Organizing Chairman for the FDI event in Mexico City, as well as the Elmer Best Ceremony host. With all his activity, Dr. Acuña found time to meet and greet our delegation. President-elect Campbell with PFA Honorary Fellow Jardine Neilson, Canadian Dental Association Executive Director PFA President Fred Halik, President-elect David Campbell, and Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal made the rounds of the various tables to meet the delegates many of who are PFA Fellows.
			Secretary/Treasurer Kozal (left) with the ADA Delegation

 

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	Korean Luncheon After the FDI morning session, our entourage left to attend a luncheon with Dr. Lee Kee-Taek, President of the Korean Dental Association, and the Korean Delegation in the Granada Room of the Nikko Hotel. The purpose of the luncheon was to invite us to attend the 24th Asian Pacific L-R: Secretary/Treasurer Kozal, President Halik, and President-elect Campbell in Korean Luncheon receiving line Dental Congress in Seoul in 2002. This gave us another opportunity to develop new contacts and renew old ones. The Pierre Fauchard Academy officers were everywhere. President Halik and President-elect Campbell at the museum’s entrance		Museo Nacional de Antropologia Following the brief afternoon session, President Halik led us down the street from our hotel to attend the world’s foremost museum on Central American culture, the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology. Even before you pay (25 pesos) to get in, you must go through a metal detector. Police guards were stationed in every hall. But the museum was well worth the effort, as the exhibits start at the beginning with Primates and take you from hall to hall through time with Teotihuacan, the Olmecs, theToltecs, the Maya, and their outstanding Hall of the Aztecs, up through the present-day Mexican culture. While the idea to visit the museum was an independent one by the officers, our wives—Woody Halik, Judy Kozal, and Shirley Brophy—had also decided to go that morning. The ADA Reception Wednesday evening was a busy night for the PFA. We were hosting our Best Award Ceremony later that night, but President Halik felt we ought to be represented at the ADA Reception earlier in the evening. So President Halik led President-elect Dave Campbell and Editor Brophy over to the Marriott Hotel to attend. We got there right at the beginning and were able to greet the ADA Officers and secure their promise to attend our event that night. L-R: PFA President-elect Dave Campbell, PFA President Fred Halik, ADA President-elect Robert Anderton, ADA President Richard Mascola, and ADA Executive Director John Zapp

	The Elmer Best Award Ceremony On Wednesday evening, 27 October, our PFA entourage was in place at the French House garden to greet the elite of the Mexican dental profession and visiting Fellows The French House Garden from all over the world. The L-shaped “garden” had the old French Embassy on the inside of the L and fashionable shops on the outside. The speaker’s podium was set up at the turn of the L. Mexico Chairman Ernesto Acuña Dr. Ernesto Acuña, the Mexico Section Chair, welcomed us all and introduced the dignitaries. President Fred Halik then addressed the overflow crowd. No representatives from either the French or the American Embassy were present despite their promises. Dr. Acuña read the citation for the Elmer Best Memorial Award and presented the plaque to Dr. Francisco Raul Miranda while President Halik placed the Elmer Best gold medal on Dr. Miranda and noted his outstanding achievements for Mexican dentistry. He was in private practice from 1911 to 1993 and has served as Historian for the Mexican Dental Association, President of the ICD Mexico Section, Life Member of the El Salvador Dental Association, PFA Fellow, and teacher (1943–1992) in high school and college. His life has traveled many pathways of service for his fellow man, one of which was dentistry. Dr. Miranda was visibly touched as he accepted the award and gave a few remarks. Dr. Acuña then introduced Diana Cecilia Ortega Amieva, General Director of Professional Regulations. President Halik then presented our PFA Honorary Fellowship Award plaque. Diana Ortega oversees 12 professions, including dentistry. Through NAFTA, her office is working with Canada and the United States to standardize dental education in North America and eliminate the differences between our countries in the level of standards of practice.		President Fred Halik then presented our PFA Certificate of Merit to Dr. Ernesto Acuña in recognition of the outstanding job he has done for the Mexico Section of PFA. President Halik and Chair Acuña present Best Award to Dr. Miranda (center) Chairman Ernesto Acuña and President Fred Halik then presented our Presidential Citation plaque to Miguel Limon Rojas, the Secretary of Education and Public Licensure. Secretary Rojas is responsible for the granting of dental licenses in Mexico. Secretary of Education Miguel Limon Rojas Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal read the names of the dozen or so new Fellows, Chair Ernesto Acuña presented them with their Certificate of Membership, and President Halik bestowed upon them our ribbon medal of Fellowship. Mexico Dental School Dean Rolando Peniche Marcin thanked the Academy and Foundation for their dental student scholarship awards this year. Dean Rolando Peniche Marcin With the ceremonies concluded, the party went on with everyone getting a chance to socialize. The ADA’s President Richard Muscola, President-elect Robert Anderton, past President David Rose, and Director John Zapp thanked our officers for the invitation and the opportunity to get together with the Mexican dignitaries. Many foreign dignitaries attended as well: Dr. Professor Eugeniusz Spiechowicz of Poland, Netherlands Section Treasurer Dr. Henk Schotte, Republic of Georgia Chair Vladimer Margvelashvilli, Canadian Dental Association Director Jardine Neilson, to name a few.

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	FDI Opening Ceremony Thursday evening’s Opening Ceremony was held at the National Auditorium, a huge hall seating 18,500 located on their prestigious Avenue of the Reform. Our entire entourage attended to participate in the magnificent work Dr. Acuña had done in organizing such an event. Dr. Acuña even took a few minutes from the podium to personally welcome us. National Auditorium Earlier in the day we registered for the FDI meeting and got our badges and tickets. Then we toured the exhibits. For the afternoon, there was General Assembly B and more world dental business. Our spouses joined us for the Opening Session, which began with music by the Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Navy. FDI Executive Director Per Ake Zillen initiated roll call of the nations. Each country placed their flag on the stage until a blaze of color filled it. The guest of honor for this evening was Mexico’s Health Secretary Dr. Juan Ramon de la Fuente.		FDI President Katsuo Tsurumaki greeted everyone in the nearly full hall on behalf of the 87th FDI World Congress and the 25th Congress of the Mexican Dental Association. Our Mexico Chair Ernesto Acuña was singled out for making the joint meeting such a success. Dr. Tsurumaki presented Honors to two other PFA Fellows: past Sweden Section Chairman Dr. Runo Cronstrom, who served 16 years as President of the Swedish Dental Association, and Dean Art Dugoni of our Northern California Section, who has served as past ADA President and FDI Treasurer. Dr. Tsurumaki turned the gavel of President over to Dr. Jacques Monnot of France, noting that the 100th anniversary of FDI was bringing the Presidency back to the country that initiated FDI (by the first President Dr. Charles Godon, whom PFA honored last year in Paris with Hall of Fame status) on 15 August 1900. Dr. Jacques Monnot accepted the responsibility, thanking everyone for the success of FDI in the 20th century. The Mexican Dental Association President, Dr. Rolando Gonzalez then welcomed all the participants. The evening’s gathering concluded with a performance by the National Folkloric Ballet and a Welcoming Reception. Our PFA delegation departed Mexico City the next day with President Fred Halik just catching his breath to travel further south to Peru.

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	Peru’s 8th International Congress PFA International President Fred Halik and International Trustee Bernardo Levit joined our Peru Chairman Dr. Javier Flores-Araoz P. in Lima last 17 November to participate in the 8th International Congress of the Peruvian Stomatological Academy in celebrating their 75th Anniversary of the Peruvian Academy of Stomatology.		Chairman Flores-Araoz hosted a PFA Induction Ceremony the evening of 19 November at the Lima Sheraton Hotel. Many dignitaries were in attendance—Brazil’s Dr. Riaz, and Drs. Americo Olivera, David Loza Fernandez, Hugo Aguayo, Mario Bermejo, and Dental School Dean Fernando Donayre. Many new Fellows were inducted that evening. President Halik presented the Foundation scholarship award to dental student Roxanna Saldarriaga with Chairman Flores-Araoz, Trustee Levit, and Dean Donayre.
	- PFA President Halik, Trustee Levit, and Chair Flores-Araoz in center of PFA Ceremony