PFA Dental World NewsletterJan-Feb 2000

Table of Contents- JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2000 Page 2.

Presidents Message

In Memoriam

Leadership 2000 Conference

Foundation News - International

From Foundation Executive Director

Foundation News - United States

Central Office in Nevada

Section News - International

2000–2001 Schedule of Events

Section News - United States

The PFA Southern Tour Hall of Fame

FDI Opening Ceremony

Dr. L.D. Pankey

Peru’s 8th International Congress

The Ceremony Within a Ceremony

A Traveler’s Travails

The Pankey Institute Tour

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI)

Teotihuacan

Korean Luncheon

Agradecimiento a la Membresia

Museo Nacional de Antropologia

The Elmer Best Award Ceremony

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A Traveler’s Travails

A dental editor’s life sandwiches many activities into space and time. But the more you squeeze space and time, the more it squeezes back.

I finished a full schedule of patients, hopped into my car, and drove 40 miles into Chicago to take my Master’s midterm tests in anthropology (that I had missed during the Hawaii Meeting). After the evening class, I left for the airport to start another PFA journey.

The first sign of trouble was getting bumped off my flight to Miami. I was first sent to Washington, D.C., to be transferred to another plane heading to Miami. I sat only a couple of seats away from Congressman Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives. We had a brief chat. He is a warm, listening guy and I gave him my views about running the country. He nodded appreciatively since he could not very easily leave a 3-hour flight.

I arrived at Miami Airport, which is under reconstruction. Part of the new concrete bit my shoe and split the sole. This was the only pair of shoes I had brought for the long trip, which included two countries and many formal events. So I flapped when I walked. But it got worse.

The good news was that Hurricane José had switched directions and would not be visiting Miami after all. The bad news was that Hurricane Irene’s aftermath had done quite a bit of damage to the landscape—and to residents’ cars. Because many owners rented cars while their own cars were being repaired, my confirmed rental car was not available at any of a dozen car-rental booths.

Friday-night rush-hour traffic turned a half-hour shuttle bus ride into a 1-hour-plus nightmare.

Miami was having a “cold spell.” The temperature was in the 70s with no humidity. I counted this as a blessing. Score one for me.

The hotel where the Hall of Fame Ceremony was to take place was filled. They had booked me into a place in Coconut Grove instead. But that hotel was not a coconut’s throw away from Key Biscayne. And it was located in a residential area—no shoe stores, no restaurants, no buses. The hotel staff was very helpful, though: I could buy shoes at their hotel shop (prices starting in three figures).

The next day, I ventured out and flapped my way down the main street. I knew it was the main street because on both sides, there was water filled with huge sailboats and yachts. After about a mile, I came to a shopping mall with a shoe store. The first four display selections I picked out were “out of stock.” I settled for anything in black and my size.

There was a restaurant: food, finally! But the chicken something-or-other got even for becoming lunch. Its bone broke the porcelain off my front crown. Thank God for super glue.

I had run out of pipe tobacco as well, and now was not the time to give up smoking. I made the mistake of asking for some at the mall’s health food store. (It looked like a convenience store.) They also did not have Fritos. They did have the super glue.

Returning was another story. After the opening ceremony, the PFA delegation and several others boarded the shuttle bus to return to our hotel. We waited for some time beyond the time the driver said he was leaving. He did not want to leave until the bus was full. And the bus was not filling up since many were attending a cocktail party that followed the opening ceremony. The younger delegates on the bus took their chances crossing the traffic and flipping the fence barricades, but our legs were older. Dr. Kozal talked to the FDI coordinator and he assigned us a youth guide to get us across the street. (By this time the bus could have made two trips there and back.) The youth led us up the street for a couple of blocks when he realized that there were no crosswalks or stop lights. We already knew that! Then he led us back a block to one of the cross-under tunnels. He took us down the stairs and turned left. President Halik suggested that we should be turning right to go under the street. The lad shook his head and beckoned us on. We came up behind the National Auditorium a block further away from our hotel. Dr. Halik shook his head and led us back the other way.

Once up on the right side of the street in the park in front of our hotel, the guide started to lead us back toward the street out of the park. Dr. Halik tried to convince him that we could walk but a few steps in the park to the hotel entrance. The FDI guide beckoned everyone to follow him. President Halik shook his head again and followed the group as the guide led us all the way around the park and the block to the hotel’s entrance.
We all left the next morning. I cannot wait for the next adventure.

The Hall of Fame ceremony had been sketched into a weekend program for Pankey Institute alumni. Originally they had planned to hold it on Saturday, but then moved it to Sunday morning. That was fortunate, since I needed Saturday to glue myself back together.

Early the next morning, I took a 20-minute cab ride out to the location. Key Biscayne appears to be an island, which you must take a toll bridge to get to. But the Ceremony went well, even with the new camera I’d had to buy in Hawaii—after the crack security team at the Los Angeles airport dropped my professional camera and broke it while they were strip-searching me to my shorts. But that is another story.

Before dawn the next morning, and with a healthy, careful respect for the Miami Airport concrete, I winged off to Mexico City.

Everything went well. We landed in thick brown smog, which I figured I would be breathing for the next few days. I got through customs at about 10:30 am and into the crowded concourse where people were holding up signs with personal names on them to pick up arriving passengers. I looked for one that had my name on it. I looked for 3 hours.

During that time, I thought to call the company that was to have picked us up as we came in, but the phones only took phone cards. Just as well, since I did not have any Mexican coins anyway.

I then converted some money into pesos at one shop, then hunted for another that sold phone cards. This was not easy to do in English. And my Spanish is limited to “Open your mouth” and “Does this hurt?”

With phone card in hand, I dialed directory assistance on the phone. Again, I forgot that I was in a foreign country. Spelling out the name helped, but the first number the operator gave me was for the limo company’s fax machine. Back to directory assistance for more numbers, and then to the limo company, whose secretary also did not speak English. And spelling out my name did nothing for her.

By this time, PFA President-elect Dave Campbell arrived at 1:30 pm. He does speak English very well, but no Spanish. The limo was not there for him, either. We then called Mexico Section Chairman Ernesto Acuña’s office. Thank God his receptionist spoke a little English. Once I convinced her that I was not calling to get my dental records transferred, she got the limo to pick us up.

Mexico City is something different. This is the largest city in the Americas and the oldest continuously occupied city in the New World. It has 30% unemployment, and policemen stand at bank entrances with submachine guns. The streets are filled with 1950s Volkswagen Beetles in all bright colors. Most of the taxis—if you can believe this—were VW “Bugs,” as were about 40% of the other cars on the streets. Mexico even exports them to Germany now. I recalled how I did not fit into the Bug I had during dental school in the 1960s, when my long legs were a lot younger. Fortunately, the “limo” was a shuttle van.

Dave Campbell and I got to the hotel all right. Its huge lobby had obvious plainclothes policemen against the walls watching everyone who came in. The first room assigned me was not made up. The second room was on a non-smoking floor, where my pipe smoke would set off the fire alarms. (I did not test this out here, but it happened at the Desert Inn during our Las Vegas Meeting when they put me in a non-smoking room and said it would be okay.) The third room was right by the elevators, where I could hear the cars whooshing up and down. Someone genius had designed the room to put the head of the bed against the bank of three elevators. I was too tired to care anymore. And I had already carried my luggage from floor to floor searching the hotel for a room. I slept at the foot of the bed.

The FDI Congress happenings were in the next hotel, so that was uneventful. But the Elmer Best Ceremony had a few bumps. The “French House” was the old French Embassy converted into a cultural center. The new location of the French Embassy was somewhere else. The ADA delegates could tell you where, since their driver went there first—thinking that was where the Best Ceremony was being held.

Meanwhile, back at the French House, we had our own problems. The Ceremony was set up to be outside, not inside as was planned. Dr. Kozal had not been informed of this until a few hours before the event. Throngs of people arrived and filled all the tables and chairs set up. Rich Kozal had to get more put up right away. Dr. Kozal speaks very little Spanish or French.

Your editor was jumping up and down because holding an event outside in the dark of the evening is not conducive to taking pictures or videotaping. And the rest of us were just plain chilled by the night air. (Mexico City is about 6,000 feet above sea level and gets cold at night. The rising sun does not cut through the smog until about 10 am when it starts to get up into the dry 70s, until about 4 pm when the sun starts to set and the air turns cold again.) But the ceremony came off well.

The next night we attended the opening ceremony of the FDI, which was held in the National Auditorium right across the street from our hotel. The street is a six-lane boulevard with heavy traffic. The underground crossing tunnels were said to be a security problem. So shuttle buses picked everyone up at the hotel, drove down several blocks, went around the block, crossed the boulevard, and drove back to the auditorium to drop us off, right across the street from our hotels.


	Our Lady of Guadalupe Wednesday’s schedule was open until the Elmer Best Ceremony that evening, so our entourage decided to take in more local culture. Our first stop was the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most revered shrine in Mexico. The Miracle of Guadalupe in December 1531, while a religious experience, also marked an historical turn of events in the relationship, with the Spanish soldiers forcing the Indians into slavery under the pretext of converting them to Christianity. The Catholic Church was relatively powerless to stop the soldiers and civil administrators from persecuting the natives. And the native Americans were reluctant to accept a religion solely for political reasons. When an Indian peasant brought his cape to the Archbishop filled with Castilian roses as proof that the Virgin Mary wanted a church built on the rocky hill in Guadalupe, the cape had an image of a dark-skinned Mary on it. With this miracle, the Indians embraced the Church and the archbishop was able to establish control over the civil administration to stop the native American persecution. Today, there are six churches in the shrine area, built at different times. The original church was too small to hold the pilgrims that came. The next two started		PFA entourage entering shrine. sinking into the filled Texcoco Lake bed (Mary said on the top of the hill!). Another was made into a museum. The Capilla del Pocito was built over the spring that burst forth from the rock where Mary had stood. And the Chapel of the Roses marks the spot where the roses were picked. But the new shrine built in 1976 is huge and “daringly modern.” It can hold 10,000 people and has moving walkways under the main altar to view the encased cape of Juan Diego with the Virgin still glorious in color after nearly five centuries. A moving sight in many ways.


	Teotihuacan Before Christ walked this earth, an unknown people erected a huge city about 49 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Mexico City that is estimated to have held up to 200,000 residents in 500 ad. They built the third largest pyramid in the world to the sun god, and another to the moon goddess, with some 80 more along the mile-long avenue. This was the world’s largest city, larger than Rome at that time, with trade routes extending from California to Panama. In about 750 ad, it was abandoned. When the Aztecs moved into the Valley of Mexico in about 1300, it was already an ancient ruin that they named Teotihuacan. Forgotten for centuries, the Mexican government began restoring the structures in around 1900 to produce a most awesome visage. Even today, relatively little is known about its founders or why it was abandoned. But today its 8 square miles of main structures testify to a once-great civilization. Only Editor Brophy braved the 250 steps up to the top of the Sun Pyramid, although President-elect Dave Campbell had done so years earlier, and President Halik did it in a previous life.		L-R: Shirley Brophy, Richard and Judy Kozal, David Campbell, Woody and Fred Halik. Editor Brophy is a black speck halfway up the Pyramid of the Sun
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Agradecimiento a la Membresia Honoraria de la Academia Pierre Fauchard

by Lic. Diana Cecilia Ortega Amieva

Agradecimiento a la Membresia Honoraria de la Academia Pierre Fauchard

Chairman Acuña and President Halik presenting Honorary Fellowship to Director Diana Ortega Amieva

El reconocimiento de “Miembro Honorario” que hoy me otorga la Academia Pierre Fauchard, significa para mi una valoracion muy alta del trabajo que se ha desarrollado en la Direccion General de Profesiomes, de la Secretaria de Educacion Publica; y que, con la labor conjunta del gremio de los odontologos es una muestra clara del interes que prevalece, en este caso, por la superacion permente de ellos y del bienestar social.

Me complace ademas, que exista identificacion entre los programas que hemos emprendido en la Direccion y los objectivos que persigue, desde una perspectiva mundial, la Academia.

Por un lado:

Elevar el caracter, educacion y habilidad profesional de los odontologos, proporcionandoles informacion oportuna y pertinente sobre los adelantos y avances en su materia y ademas.

Motivar la interrelacion personal de los lideres de la profesiom con aquellos sectores que buscan consejo y asesoria esta area cientifica.

Estos y ostros objectivos perseguidos por la Academia coinciden con algunos de los establecidos en el Programa de Desarrollo Educativo de nuestro Gobierno.

La oportunidad de servir a la sociedad, es un enorme privilegio que otorga la vida; los que somos favorecidos en desempenar una funcion con

beneficios colectivos, debemos explotar al maximo el termino servir, y esto implica:

Ser apto para enfrentar exigencias y retos publicos;
Aceptar formas distintas a la nuestra, tanto de pensamiento como de interpretacion de la realidad;

Proporcioner elementos con el objeto de elevar la calidad de vida de la poblacion;

Ser util a los procesos que hacen evolucuioner a la sociedad; y

Trabajar en programas que tengan como fin el favorecer a grupos sociales defindos.

Quines hemos desarrolado esta noble vocacion nos identificamos y emprendemos metas comunes. Este encuentro se ha dado con muchos profesionistas de la Odontologia, con quienes he tenido la satisfaccion de compartir lineas de trabajo, anhelos profesionales y formas de vinculacion mas eficaces.

Es justo resaltar que, en todo caso, mi contribucion es el reflejo del espiritu trabajo que ha logrado construir en la Secretaria de Educacion Publica, el Lic. Miguel Limon Rojas y que ha materializado la Direccion General de Profesiones, gracias al compromiso solidario de todo su personal que merecidamente comparte hoy este reconocimiento.

Finalmente deseo destacar, que es una deferencia muy importante el que la Academia Pierre Fauchard, en mi persona, otorgue por primera vez esta distincion de Miembro Honorario para un latinoamericano. Quiero a la vez extender mi gratitud al Doctor Ernesto Acuña, por la evaluacion que ha hecho la seccion Mexico de las tareas realizadas en nuestra Direccion.

Este reconcimiento nos hace apreciar mas lo que es nuestro trabajo y el valor de las acciones de vinculacion.

Les reitero mi agradecimiento y el compromiso con el desarrollo de los profesionistas y sus organizaciones.

Muchas gracias.

2000–2001 Schedule of Events

24–27 February—Swissôtel, Chicago
PFA Board Meeting

Thursday, 24 February, 4 pm
Pre-Conference Board Meeting briefing
Arosa Board Room, 2nd floor
Friday, 25 February, 7:30 am–5 pm
Academy Board Meeting
Verbier Room, 3rd floor
Saturday, 26 February, 7:30 am–5 pm
Leadership Conference
William Tell Theater, 2nd floor
noon–1:30 pm Luncheon
Edelweiss Room, 43rd floor
6:30–10 pm Fellowship Dinner
Edelweiss Room, 43rd floor
Sunday, 27 February, 8 am–1 pm
Academy Board Meeting
Verbier Room, 3rd floor

27–29 October
—Swissôtel, Chicago
—PFA/Foundation Meetings

Saturday, 28 October, noon–2 pm
President’s Luncheon

28 October–2 November
—Hyatt Regency
—Chicago ADA Meeting

29 November–2 December
—Paris, France
—FDI Congress

27 September–1 October 2001
—Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
—FDI Congress

13–17 October 2001
—Kansas City, Kansas
—ADA Meeting

	In Memoriam
	Loyola Dean Frank M. Amaturo dies Dr. Frank Amaturo, 85, long-time Academic Dean of Loyola University’s School of Dentistry, passed away at Cape Canaveral Hospital in Florida last November. He was buried in Westchester, Illinois, with his wife, Lois, of 54 years in marriage. Dr. Amaturo was raised in Chicago, graduated from Loyola’s Dental School in 1941, and served in the Pacific during World War II. In 1965, he was selected to serve as the assistant chief of the Dental Corps Branch of the Surgeon General’s Office. After earning five service ribbons and five battle stars, Dr. Amaturo retired as full colonel in 1974. He started teaching at Loyola in 1948 and rose through the ranks to retire as Associate Dean in 1976.		Dr. Amaturo served as Executive Secretary of the Dental Alumni Association for 22 years, as well as serving on many Chicago Dental Society, Illinois State Dental Society, ADA, and American Association of Dental School Committees. He was Secretary/Treasurer of the Jesuit Education Association of Dental Schools for 12 years. He was ICD Illinois Regent for 12 years, mainly during the 1970s, and held many Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity offices. He touched many dentists as students in his nearly three decades of teaching.

	Foundation News			7
	Peru During the 8th International Congress of the Peruvian Stomatology Congress last November, President Halik, Trustee Bernardo Levit, and Chairman Javier Flores-Araoz presented the Foundation scholarship award to Roxanna Saldarriaga. L-R: Dean Fernando Donayre, President Halik, student Roxanna Saldarriaga, Dr. Fernandez, and Chair Flores-Araoz		Singapore Professor Chong-Lin Chew, Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry for the National University of Singapore thanked the Foundation for the Dental Student Scholarship Award for Kian Wee Chua. United Kingdom Professor Crispian Scully, Dean of the Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences in London, presented the Foundation Scholarship Award to Jackie Champion.

United States

California, Southern Section

The Children’s Dental Health Association of San Diego sent a holiday card thanking us for our support. They also invited us to their fund-raiser last October, at which they elected new officers

Connie Steppes, UCLA School of Dentistry Financial Aid Director, sent a letter on behalf of the school thanking the Foundation for the student scholarship award, which will be presented to Mark Crane at their Financial Aid Awards Luncheon.

University of the Pacific Dean Art Dugoni presented student scholarship award to Greg Wolkstein.

Dean Dugoni presents Foundation Award to Greg Wolkstein

New York

Daniel J. Ryan, dental student from Buffalo, was recipient of a Foundation scholarship award. He wrote to thank the Academy and the Foundation and said, “through your Web site I have been able to further educate myself on what the Pierre Fauchard Academy strives for.”

Rhode Island

The newsletter of the Rhode Island Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped printed a public “thank you” to the PFA Foundation for its continued grant support. It was also noted that the Rhode Island House of Representatives also recognized their outstanding work for the needy with a government grant. $1.5 million worth of dental services was provided for 1,364 people.

Tennessee

Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry Academic Progress Chairman James Brown sent an appreciation letter thanking the Foundation for the scholarship check for Paula L. Coates.

L-R: Dr. James Brown, recipient Paula Coates, and Dean Kenneth Chance

Virginia

Chair Raymond Meade presented the Foundation Student Scholarship Award to Jamey Watson at their annual Section Meeting last September in Reston.

Chair Ray Meade presents student scholarship to Jamey Watson

The PFA Foundation needs your support!

If you’d like to help the Foundation fund grants for good causes and scholarships for good students, please send a check to:

Foundation of the Pierre Fauchard Academy
1441 Avocado Ave., Suite 508
Newport Beach, CA 92660

	Section News
	Chile Chairman Professor Omar Campos attended the FDIMeeting in Mexico City and the PFA Elmer Best Ceremony. Professor Omar Campos with President Halik at the Elmer Best Ceremony Czech Republic Professor Vacek visiting Central Office with Judy and Richard Kozal Chairman Professor Josef Vacek is the first international Section Chair to visit the new Central Office in Nevada. Republic of Georgia L-R: President Halik, Chair Vladimer Margvelashvilli, and President-elect Campbell at the FDI Congress Section Chair Vladimer Margvelashvilli of Tbilisi attended the FDI World Congress to petition for his country’s recognition status as a member. He also represented Georgia at the Elmer Best Award Ceremony in Mexico City. India Secretary Professor T. Samraj of Vellore hosted their PFA-sponsored Continuing Dental Education Programme last November in Chennai. Chairman John Sebastian welcomed the course faculty—Professor A. Parameswaran and Principal E. Minirathinam Naidu of Meenakshi Ammal Dental College and Professor D. Kandaswamy of Tamilnadu Dental College. Korea FDI Treasurer H.R. Yoon of Seoul, past President of the Korean Dental Society, conferred with PFA President-elect David Campbell and Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal at the FDI Congress Netherlands Section Secretary Henk Schotte attended the FDI World Congress and the Elmer Best Ceremony in Mexico City. Dr. Kozal with Dr. Henk Schotte at the FDI Congress Peru President Fred Halik attended the 8th International Congress of the Peruvian Stomatological Academy last November and inducted new Fellows into the Academy at their annual Induction Ceremony. Chairman Flores-Araoz presents Appreciation Award to President Halik Poland Chair Professor Eugeniusz Spiechowicz attended the FDI Congress in Mexico City and was present at our PFA Ceremonies. Dr. Kozal and President Halik greeting Professor Spiechowicz at Elmer Best Ceremony United States California, Northern Section Chairman Daniel Castagna hosted their annual Induction Luncheon last September during the California Dental Association’s Scientific Session to induct new Fellows Drs. Alan Budenz, Howard Chi, Dudley Chu, Dennis DeTomasi, Terry Eggleston, Henrik Hansen, William Lundergan, and Allen Wong. Chair Dan Castagna (center) with new Fellows Their Faculty Recognition Awards were presented to University of the Pacific’s Dr. Richard Fredekind and Dr. Stephan Eakle of the University of California San Francisco. Their Faculty Training Grants were awarded to the UOP’s Dr. Marc Geissberger and UCSF’s Dr. Mark Ryder. Their own scholarship presentations went to UOP’s Dr. Gregory Vaughn and UCSF’s Dr. Pauline Hormozian. National Student Recognition Certificates were awarded to UOP’s Drs. Ramsey Amin and Gregory Wolkstein and UCSF’s Dr. Tony Heng Chi Hsu. Their Allied Service Award was given to CDA’s Judith Babcock, with the biography being done by Dr. Gene Welling Their keynote speaker for the event was Elizabeth Snow, CDA’s Director of Government Relations. Dr. Castagna was installed as Chairperson and Dr. Dennis Shinbori as Secretary/Treasurer. The New Fellows Committee was announced as past Chair Debra Finney, Chair Dan Castagna, and Secretary/Treasurer Dennis Shinbori.		California continued Their Distinguished Service Award was presented to Dr. Herbert K. Yee by Chair Debra Finney with the biography given by UOP Dean Art Dugoni. Distinguished Service recipient Dr. Herbert Yee Colorado Chair William Uremovich hosted their annual Meeting last August. Fellow Ed Leone of Denver was installed as ADA Trustee for the 14th District. Dr. Leone was past President of the Colorado Dental Association and the Metropolitan Denver Dental Society. He was a volunteer for the MDDS Kids in Need of Dentistry program. He is a Fellow in PFA, ICD, and ACD. L-R: Chair Milan Uremovich, Greg Belauger, James Franckum, Randal Wise, Jeff Lodl, Rhett Murray, Randy Kluender, Jeffrey Hurst, and Vice Chair Bonnie Ferrell Oklahoma Fellow Richard Haught, a Tulsa dentist, was installed as the ADA Trustee for the 12th District. Dr. Haught is past President of the Oklahoma Dental Association and the Tulsa County Dental Society. He is a Fellow in PFA, ICD, and ACD. Nevada Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal inducted Harvey Putter of Las Vegas as the first Fellow to be so honored at our new Central Office at the Community College of Southern Nevada. Secretary/Treasurer Kozal inducts Dr. Harvey Putter as new Fellow Pennsylvania Fellow Ronald B. Gross, a Pottstown orthodontist, serves as second Vice President of the ADA. He was installed at the 140th annual session in Hawaii. Dr. Gross is past President of the Pennsylvania Dental Association, the Montgomery Bucks Dental Society, the American Association of Orthodontists, and the Middle Atlantic Society of Orthodontists. He is a Fellow in PFA, ICD, and ACD. ADA Trustee Ronald B. Gross Rhode Island Fellow Edwin S. Mehlman, a Providence endodontist, was installed as ADA First District Trustee during the Hawaii Session. Dr. Mehlman teaches at Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and has taught at Forsyth Dental Center, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is a Fellow of the PFA as well as the ICD and ACD. ADA Trustee Edwin S. Mehlman Virginia Chair Raymond Meade held their annual Meeting last September to induct five new Fellows, Drs. Robert Steadman, Jay Lipman, Dean Ronald Hunt, Paul Hartman, and Monroe Harris. They also honored Dr. Ronald Tankersley with their Outstanding Dentist of the Year Award during the Annual Meeting of the Virginia Dental Association. Newly inducted Fellows Dr. Tankersley receiving Section Award from Chair Ray Meade. Wisconsin Trustee James Englander reports that the Wisconsin Mentorship Program for 1999–2000 had 280 people in attendance at their kick-off dinner. Dean William Lobb of Marquette University’s School of Dentistry welcomed everyone. PFA Chair Glenn Maihofer gave a presentation, followed by WDA’s President-elect Timothy McNamara (whose own mentor and childhood dentist was Dr. Maihofer). The Wisconsin Dental Association News reported on the event, noting that the Mentorship Program is jointly sponsored by Marquette University, the Wisconsin Dental Association, and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.


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	PIERRE FAUCHARD ACADEMY Fred Halik President New York M. David Campbell President-elect Michigan Scott Welch Vice President Wyoming Richard A. Kozal Secretary/Treasurer Nevada James M. Brophy Editor Illinois James E. Long Immediate Past President Mississippi		REGION 1—Europe Pierre Marois France REGION 2—N.E. USA Robert Friedman Connecticut REGION 3—S.E. USA Gordan Stine South Carolina REGION 4—Midwest USA James A. Englander Wisconsin REGION 5—Western USA Gary Lowder Utah REGION 6—Canada Kevin Roach Ontario REGION 7—Latin America Bernardo Levit Argentina REGION 8—Australasia William Winspear Australia REGION 9—Asia Eiichi Katagiri Japan REGION 10—Central USA Michael Perpich Minnesota

	Table of Contents- JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2000 Page 2.
	Presidents Message		In Memoriam
	Leadership 2000 Conference		Foundation News - International
	From Foundation Executive Director		Foundation News - United States
	Central Office in Nevada		Section News - International
	2000–2001 Schedule of Events		Section News - United States


	The PFA Southern Tour Hall of Fame		FDI Opening Ceremony
	Dr. L.D. Pankey		Peru’s 8th International Congress
	The Ceremony Within a Ceremony		A Traveler’s Travails
	The Pankey Institute Tour		Our Lady of Guadalupe
	Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI)		Teotihuacan
	Korean Luncheon		Agradecimiento a la Membresia
	Museo Nacional de Antropologia
	The Elmer Best Award Ceremony
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	A Traveler’s Travails A dental editor’s life sandwiches many activities into space and time. But the more you squeeze space and time, the more it squeezes back. I finished a full schedule of patients, hopped into my car, and drove 40 miles into Chicago to take my Master’s midterm tests in anthropology (that I had missed during the Hawaii Meeting). After the evening class, I left for the airport to start another PFA journey. The first sign of trouble was getting bumped off my flight to Miami. I was first sent to Washington, D.C., to be transferred to another plane heading to Miami. I sat only a couple of seats away from Congressman Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives. We had a brief chat. He is a warm, listening guy and I gave him my views about running the country. He nodded appreciatively since he could not very easily leave a 3-hour flight. I arrived at Miami Airport, which is under reconstruction. Part of the new concrete bit my shoe and split the sole. This was the only pair of shoes I had brought for the long trip, which included two countries and many formal events. So I flapped when I walked. But it got worse. The good news was that Hurricane José had switched directions and would not be visiting Miami after all. The bad news was that Hurricane Irene’s aftermath had done quite a bit of damage to the landscape—and to residents’ cars. Because many owners rented cars while their own cars were being repaired, my confirmed rental car was not available at any of a dozen car-rental booths. Friday-night rush-hour traffic turned a half-hour shuttle bus ride into a 1-hour-plus nightmare. Miami was having a “cold spell.” The temperature was in the 70s with no humidity. I counted this as a blessing. Score one for me. The hotel where the Hall of Fame Ceremony was to take place was filled. They had booked me into a place in Coconut Grove instead. But that hotel was not a coconut’s throw away from Key Biscayne. And it was located in a residential area—no shoe stores, no restaurants, no buses. The hotel staff was very helpful, though: I could buy shoes at their hotel shop (prices starting in three figures). The next day, I ventured out and flapped my way down the main street. I knew it was the main street because on both sides, there was water filled with huge sailboats and yachts. After about a mile, I came to a shopping mall with a shoe store. The first four display selections I picked out were “out of stock.” I settled for anything in black and my size. There was a restaurant: food, finally! But the chicken something-or-other got even for becoming lunch. Its bone broke the porcelain off my front crown. Thank God for super glue. I had run out of pipe tobacco as well, and now was not the time to give up smoking. I made the mistake of asking for some at the mall’s health food store. (It looked like a convenience store.) They also did not have Fritos. They did have the super glue. Returning was another story. After the opening ceremony, the PFA delegation and several others boarded the shuttle bus to return to our hotel. We waited for some time beyond the time the driver said he was leaving. He did not want to leave until the bus was full. And the bus was not filling up since many were attending a cocktail party that followed the opening ceremony. The younger delegates on the bus took their chances crossing the traffic and flipping the fence barricades, but our legs were older. Dr. Kozal talked to the FDI coordinator and he assigned us a youth guide to get us across the street. (By this time the bus could have made two trips there and back.) The youth led us up the street for a couple of blocks when he realized that there were no crosswalks or stop lights. We already knew that! Then he led us back a block to one of the cross-under tunnels. He took us down the stairs and turned left. President Halik suggested that we should be turning right to go under the street. The lad shook his head and beckoned us on. We came up behind the National Auditorium a block further away from our hotel. Dr. Halik shook his head and led us back the other way. Once up on the right side of the street in the park in front of our hotel, the guide started to lead us back toward the street out of the park. Dr. Halik tried to convince him that we could walk but a few steps in the park to the hotel entrance. The FDI guide beckoned everyone to follow him. President Halik shook his head again and followed the group as the guide led us all the way around the park and the block to the hotel’s entrance. We all left the next morning. I cannot wait for the next adventure. The Hall of Fame ceremony had been sketched into a weekend program for Pankey Institute alumni. Originally they had planned to hold it on Saturday, but then moved it to Sunday morning. That was fortunate, since I needed Saturday to glue myself back together. Early the next morning, I took a 20-minute cab ride out to the location. Key Biscayne appears to be an island, which you must take a toll bridge to get to. But the Ceremony went well, even with the new camera I’d had to buy in Hawaii—after the crack security team at the Los Angeles airport dropped my professional camera and broke it while they were strip-searching me to my shorts. But that is another story.		Before dawn the next morning, and with a healthy, careful respect for the Miami Airport concrete, I winged off to Mexico City. Everything went well. We landed in thick brown smog, which I figured I would be breathing for the next few days. I got through customs at about 10:30 am and into the crowded concourse where people were holding up signs with personal names on them to pick up arriving passengers. I looked for one that had my name on it. I looked for 3 hours. During that time, I thought to call the company that was to have picked us up as we came in, but the phones only took phone cards. Just as well, since I did not have any Mexican coins anyway. I then converted some money into pesos at one shop, then hunted for another that sold phone cards. This was not easy to do in English. And my Spanish is limited to “Open your mouth” and “Does this hurt?” With phone card in hand, I dialed directory assistance on the phone. Again, I forgot that I was in a foreign country. Spelling out the name helped, but the first number the operator gave me was for the limo company’s fax machine. Back to directory assistance for more numbers, and then to the limo company, whose secretary also did not speak English. And spelling out my name did nothing for her. By this time, PFA President-elect Dave Campbell arrived at 1:30 pm. He does speak English very well, but no Spanish. The limo was not there for him, either. We then called Mexico Section Chairman Ernesto Acuña’s office. Thank God his receptionist spoke a little English. Once I convinced her that I was not calling to get my dental records transferred, she got the limo to pick us up. Mexico City is something different. This is the largest city in the Americas and the oldest continuously occupied city in the New World. It has 30% unemployment, and policemen stand at bank entrances with submachine guns. The streets are filled with 1950s Volkswagen Beetles in all bright colors. Most of the taxis—if you can believe this—were VW “Bugs,” as were about 40% of the other cars on the streets. Mexico even exports them to Germany now. I recalled how I did not fit into the Bug I had during dental school in the 1960s, when my long legs were a lot younger. Fortunately, the “limo” was a shuttle van. Dave Campbell and I got to the hotel all right. Its huge lobby had obvious plainclothes policemen against the walls watching everyone who came in. The first room assigned me was not made up. The second room was on a non-smoking floor, where my pipe smoke would set off the fire alarms. (I did not test this out here, but it happened at the Desert Inn during our Las Vegas Meeting when they put me in a non-smoking room and said it would be okay.) The third room was right by the elevators, where I could hear the cars whooshing up and down. Someone genius had designed the room to put the head of the bed against the bank of three elevators. I was too tired to care anymore. And I had already carried my luggage from floor to floor searching the hotel for a room. I slept at the foot of the bed. The FDI Congress happenings were in the next hotel, so that was uneventful. But the Elmer Best Ceremony had a few bumps. The “French House” was the old French Embassy converted into a cultural center. The new location of the French Embassy was somewhere else. The ADA delegates could tell you where, since their driver went there first—thinking that was where the Best Ceremony was being held. Meanwhile, back at the French House, we had our own problems. The Ceremony was set up to be outside, not inside as was planned. Dr. Kozal had not been informed of this until a few hours before the event. Throngs of people arrived and filled all the tables and chairs set up. Rich Kozal had to get more put up right away. Dr. Kozal speaks very little Spanish or French. Your editor was jumping up and down because holding an event outside in the dark of the evening is not conducive to taking pictures or videotaping. And the rest of us were just plain chilled by the night air. (Mexico City is about 6,000 feet above sea level and gets cold at night. The rising sun does not cut through the smog until about 10 am when it starts to get up into the dry 70s, until about 4 pm when the sun starts to set and the air turns cold again.) But the ceremony came off well. The next night we attended the opening ceremony of the FDI, which was held in the National Auditorium right across the street from our hotel. The street is a six-lane boulevard with heavy traffic. The underground crossing tunnels were said to be a security problem. So shuttle buses picked everyone up at the hotel, drove down several blocks, went around the block, crossed the boulevard, and drove back to the auditorium to drop us off, right across the street from our hotels.


	Agradecimiento a la Membresia Honoraria de la Academia Pierre Fauchard by Lic. Diana Cecilia Ortega Amieva Agradecimiento a la Membresia Honoraria de la Academia Pierre Fauchard Chairman Acuña and President Halik presenting Honorary Fellowship to Director Diana Ortega Amieva El reconocimiento de “Miembro Honorario” que hoy me otorga la Academia Pierre Fauchard, significa para mi una valoracion muy alta del trabajo que se ha desarrollado en la Direccion General de Profesiomes, de la Secretaria de Educacion Publica; y que, con la labor conjunta del gremio de los odontologos es una muestra clara del interes que prevalece, en este caso, por la superacion permente de ellos y del bienestar social. Me complace ademas, que exista identificacion entre los programas que hemos emprendido en la Direccion y los objectivos que persigue, desde una perspectiva mundial, la Academia. Por un lado: Elevar el caracter, educacion y habilidad profesional de los odontologos, proporcionandoles informacion oportuna y pertinente sobre los adelantos y avances en su materia y ademas. Motivar la interrelacion personal de los lideres de la profesiom con aquellos sectores que buscan consejo y asesoria esta area cientifica. Estos y ostros objectivos perseguidos por la Academia coinciden con algunos de los establecidos en el Programa de Desarrollo Educativo de nuestro Gobierno. La oportunidad de servir a la sociedad, es un enorme privilegio que otorga la vida; los que somos favorecidos en desempenar una funcion con		beneficios colectivos, debemos explotar al maximo el termino servir, y esto implica: Ser apto para enfrentar exigencias y retos publicos; Aceptar formas distintas a la nuestra, tanto de pensamiento como de interpretacion de la realidad; Proporcioner elementos con el objeto de elevar la calidad de vida de la poblacion; Ser util a los procesos que hacen evolucuioner a la sociedad; y Trabajar en programas que tengan como fin el favorecer a grupos sociales defindos. Quines hemos desarrolado esta noble vocacion nos identificamos y emprendemos metas comunes. Este encuentro se ha dado con muchos profesionistas de la Odontologia, con quienes he tenido la satisfaccion de compartir lineas de trabajo, anhelos profesionales y formas de vinculacion mas eficaces. Es justo resaltar que, en todo caso, mi contribucion es el reflejo del espiritu trabajo que ha logrado construir en la Secretaria de Educacion Publica, el Lic. Miguel Limon Rojas y que ha materializado la Direccion General de Profesiones, gracias al compromiso solidario de todo su personal que merecidamente comparte hoy este reconocimiento. Finalmente deseo destacar, que es una deferencia muy importante el que la Academia Pierre Fauchard, en mi persona, otorgue por primera vez esta distincion de Miembro Honorario para un latinoamericano. Quiero a la vez extender mi gratitud al Doctor Ernesto Acuña, por la evaluacion que ha hecho la seccion Mexico de las tareas realizadas en nuestra Direccion. Este reconcimiento nos hace apreciar mas lo que es nuestro trabajo y el valor de las acciones de vinculacion. Les reitero mi agradecimiento y el compromiso con el desarrollo de los profesionistas y sus organizaciones. Muchas gracias.

	2000–2001 Schedule of Events
	24–27 February—Swissôtel, Chicago PFA Board Meeting Thursday, 24 February, 4 pm Pre-Conference Board Meeting briefing Arosa Board Room, 2nd floor Friday, 25 February, 7:30 am–5 pm Academy Board Meeting Verbier Room, 3rd floor Saturday, 26 February, 7:30 am–5 pm Leadership Conference William Tell Theater, 2nd floor noon–1:30 pm Luncheon Edelweiss Room, 43rd floor 6:30–10 pm Fellowship Dinner Edelweiss Room, 43rd floor Sunday, 27 February, 8 am–1 pm Academy Board Meeting Verbier Room, 3rd floor		27–29 October —Swissôtel, Chicago —PFA/Foundation Meetings Saturday, 28 October, noon–2 pm President’s Luncheon 28 October–2 November —Hyatt Regency —Chicago ADA Meeting 29 November–2 December —Paris, France —FDI Congress 27 September–1 October 2001 —Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia —FDI Congress 13–17 October 2001 —Kansas City, Kansas —ADA Meeting

	United States California, Southern Section The Children’s Dental Health Association of San Diego sent a holiday card thanking us for our support. They also invited us to their fund-raiser last October, at which they elected new officers Connie Steppes, UCLA School of Dentistry Financial Aid Director, sent a letter on behalf of the school thanking the Foundation for the student scholarship award, which will be presented to Mark Crane at their Financial Aid Awards Luncheon. University of the Pacific Dean Art Dugoni presented student scholarship award to Greg Wolkstein. Dean Dugoni presents Foundation Award to Greg Wolkstein New York Daniel J. Ryan, dental student from Buffalo, was recipient of a Foundation scholarship award. He wrote to thank the Academy and the Foundation and said, “through your Web site I have been able to further educate myself on what the Pierre Fauchard Academy strives for.” Rhode Island The newsletter of the Rhode Island Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped printed a public “thank you” to the PFA Foundation for its continued grant support. It was also noted that the Rhode Island House of Representatives also recognized their outstanding work for the needy with a government grant. $1.5 million worth of dental services was provided for 1,364 people.		Tennessee Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry Academic Progress Chairman James Brown sent an appreciation letter thanking the Foundation for the scholarship check for Paula L. Coates. L-R: Dr. James Brown, recipient Paula Coates, and Dean Kenneth Chance Virginia Chair Raymond Meade presented the Foundation Student Scholarship Award to Jamey Watson at their annual Section Meeting last September in Reston. Chair Ray Meade presents student scholarship to Jamey Watson

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