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Table of Contents- May/June 2002
Presidents Message
PFA Dental Museum
Nota Bene
Executive Director- FDI
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Hawaii The Hawaiian Dental Association did a news release on the PFA Foundation grant of $10,000 to HDA’s Dental Samaritans who are doing dentistry for the underserved population. This organization was founded by the Hawaiian Dental Association to provide dental volunteers to serve at nonprofit dental clinics. HAD President Russell Masunaga noted that this project also funds a mobile Care Health Project on the Big Island and at Oahu’s Kalihi Palama health Center and Institute for Human Services. Texas The University of Texas Health Center at Houston Dean Ronald Johnson presented a scholarship award to student Charles Dyer IV.  Dean Johnson presents award to Charles Dyer IV Massachusetts Chair Norm Becker reported that the PFA was mentioned on local cable TV, on the WJDA Radio news station, and in the Brockton Enterprise newspaper for performing student dental identifications on 60% of their local Avon High School. They will continue this program at the University of Massachusetts, South Dartmouth campus. This will be the first time this has been done according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The National Center will send a representative to observe the event. Governor Jane Swift has been invited along with the Bristol County Sheriff, States Attorney, and the State Forensic Dentist, Dr. Kate Crowley. PFA Banners are displayed prominently. An outstanding set of pictures was sent from Dr. Becker to demonstrate how the Foundation-funded CHIP Program run by Dr. David Harte works. |
Massachusetts continued...  Dr. Jay Sullivan and the radio talk host stand before the CHIP booth at the Yankee Dental Congress  Registering and fingerprinting  Bite wafer registration chip |
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| Guatemala/Belize Chairman Bertram S. Moldauer inducted four new Fellows into the Academy at the Hotel Camino Real in Guatemala City including Drs. Estuardo Mata S., Walter Lopez, Estuardo Zachrisson, and Augusto Hurtarte E. Francisco Marroquin University Dean Ramiro Alfaro assisted and discussed plans for the Guatemala Section. One of those planned events will be performing dentistry at the National Hospital in Antiqua, Guatemala. The Ministry of Health is giving the project full charity status as well as support from the Order of Malta. Japan International Trustee Mamoru Sakuda of Osaka, Japan, has announced their Section’s 33rd Annual Meeting to be held on 28 September in Osaka. |
Mexico Chairman Ernesto Acuna held their annual meeting in Mexico City last November. Their main speaker was Dr. Alan Said Sanchez who gave a presentation on gerontology. The Foundation Student Awards were presented to the student winner from the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, FES Zaragoza of the UNAM, Enrique Dario Amarillas Escobar. In attendance was FES Zaragoza Dean Alfonso Gonzalez, Maestro Juan Francisco Sanchez Ruiz, Dr. Jesus Santos S. and student Enrique Dario Amarillas. Their next meeting will be held 19-20 July 2002 for a seminar and an induction ceremony. |
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| Connecticut International Trustee Howard Mark has retired from serving as CSDA Editor for 15 years. Dr. Mark, an oral surgeon in Hartford, teaches at the Connecticut School of Dental Medicine and directs UConn’s mentorship program. His leadership in the Oral Health 2010 Initiative resulted in the first Early Childhood Caries Symposium (1999), activity in the Tobacco Cessation Program, and providing mouth guards. He received the Distinguished Editor Service Award from the ADA at the CSDA House of Delegates Meeting last October. Chairman Bill MacDonald was honored by the Greater Waterbury Dental Society in receiving their distinguished Daniel Lynch Award this year for his outstanding leadership in the Connecticut State Dental Society. Dr. MacDonald, a dentist anesthesiologist in West Hartford, has served as CSDA President, President of their Foundation, the Horace Wells Club, and the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists (ASDA). He has served on the CSDA Board of Governors for seven years, chaired the CSDA Annual Session, and has been a member of both the CSDA and the ADA Houses of Delegates. He chaired the 150th Anniversary Celebration of Horace Wells’ discovery of anesthesia and organized the rededication of the Horace Wells statue in Bushnell Park. Massachusetts Chair Norm Becker held their Section’s annual Breakfast Meeting during the Yankee Dental Congress last February to honor David Harte with their Outstanding Dentist of the Year Award.  L-R, Past PFA President Min Horiuchi, recipient David Harte, MDS President Richard LoGuercid, and Chairman Norm Becker Nevada Fellow State Senator Ray Rawson has lead the initiative to establish a new dental school at UNLV. The Board of Regents approved the concept in 1998. The State Legislature approved it in 1999. In the three years hence, UNLV has moved ahead developing curricula, working to meet accreditation requirements, staffing dental clinics, and preparing to admit the first class of dental students for the Fall of next year. This is in response to the critical need for dentists in their State. There are 35 dentists for every 100,000 citizens. For every two dentists that retire, only one takes their place. Nevada ranks 50th in the country in the ratio of dentists per capita, while needing 40 new dentists each year to keep pace with the expanding population. So far, the new school has received 750 applications for their 75 openings. Nationally, the shortage of dentists has received so little attention that the U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has called it a “silent epidemic.” The Dental Hygiene class of 2002 from the Community College of Southern Nevada has chosen our Secretary/ Treasure Richard Kozal to be their Commencement Speaker at this year’s graduation ceremonies. |
South Carolina The South Carolina Section met in Charleston last January to select Dr. Larry Ferguson of Charleston as their new Section Chairman. Dr. Gene Atkinson was honored as outgoing Chairman. Over 36 Fellows were in attendance along with President-elect Gordan Stine to induct eight new members. Dr. Carroll Player of Florence received the Distinguished Dentist Award.  L-R, President-elect Gordan Stine, Chair Larry Ferguson, and Dr and Mrs. Carroll Player PFA President-elect Gordan Stine was mentioned in the Medical College of South Carolina as having received the Order of the Silver Crescent by Governor James Hodges. Georgia Fellow Congressman Charlie Norwood, Vice Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, was written up in Roll Call for his Patients’ Rights Bill and its stalemate in Congress. He was pleased that President Bush mentioned it in his State of the Union address. Illinois Fellow Lina B. K. Tharp, Assistant Professor of Restorative Dentistry at the UIC College of Dentistry Faculty died suddenly in a car accident near her home in Frankfort, Illinois, last December. She earned her BS (1972), DDS (1974, and Masters degree (1980) in Health Professions Educational Development from UIC and began teaching there ever since. She was a co-author on a textbook about computers in dental education. She was active in the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), in the American Association of Women Dentists (AAWD), in the Lithuanian American Medical Dental Association (LAMDA). She also received the College’s E. Lloyd Du Brul Award for faculty excellence. |
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Nota Bene
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| Well, let us see who has gotten this far in their reading. For gallons of years now, DW has received photographs from all over the world, taken of a variety of subjects, on all kinds of photo paper, by a myriad of cameras, using all types of film, in varying shades of grays and colors, with no captions or with them scribbled on the back so they show through the pictures, and even some pictures glued together. In recent years, those with the technology have begun to send E-mail pictures. Usually, we have only gotten one or two a year, so it has not been a problem in not being able to use them. But this year we have received more than ever. So, it is necessary to explain, as best I can, why they cannot be used. |
This is from the production department of the printer: The hardcopy photo that we receive from DW is basically acceptable for our purposes. But for our halftone procedures, the image should be at a resolution of at least 300 dpi and a hardcopy should follow in the mail. Some software will not be acceptable in providing electronic photos such as PowerPoint, CorelDraw, Harvard Graphics, or word processing programs. Second-hand transmission from the editor lessens their usefulness and should be discouraged. The bottom line is, if you have the pictures, send them to me. Do not E-mail them, as they may be unacceptable for reproduction. |
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Table of Contents- May/June 2002
Presidents Message
PFA Dental Museum
Nota Bene
Executive Director- FDI
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