Table of Contents - January/February • 2004
	Presidents Message		PFA Foundation Board Meeting
	2003-2004 Calendar		Dr. Higue Honored
	PFA Annual MTG: Committee Reports		77th PFA Gold Medal Awards
	PFA Annual MTG con't: - Reports 2		Foundation News
	PFA Annual MTG con't: - Reports 3		Section News- International
	PFA Annual MTG con't: - Reports 4		Section News- United States
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	January/February • 2004		Page 5
	Section News
	Australasia: New Fellows and dignitaries
	PFA Section President Jonathon Rogers welcomed an overflow PFA breakfast congregation, which was held during the Sydney FDI Congress last year. Professor Noel Martin was selected to receive the PFA International Honorary Fellowship Award from International PFA President Kevin Roach. Due to his illness, however, Elizabeth Butcher, AM, accepted the plaque on his behalf. President Roach, International Trustee William Winspear, and Section President Jonathon Rogers inducted some 47 new Fellows into membership. President Kevin Roach presents Fellowship Award plaque to Elizabeth Butcher for Professor Noel Martin Mexico Immediate past PFA President Gary Lowder represented the Academy last November at the Mexican Dental Association’s Session and PFA functions. PFA Fellow Armando Hernandez was installed as the new President of the Mexican Dental Association. ADA President Eugene Sekiguichi attended the Sunday affair. Our past President Gary Lowder addressed the Mexican Dental Association at their opening ceremony of their Congress on Thursday, 6 November 2003, at the request of the Association’s President Elinora Mendez, a PFA Fellow. He discussed the Academy and Foundation roles in our profession. She also requested him to call the Congress to order officially. Section Chair Ernesto Acuna made the arrangements to induct new Fellows that day into the Academy at the Centro Asturiano Polanco with past President Gary Lowder assisting before a large group of Fellows and their wives. Dr. Lowder also met with Dr. Alfredo Navarro, who is one of the PFA Mentorship Program benefactors. He graduated 11 years ago and now serves the PFA with great enthusiasm for its future in Mexico.		Japan Trustee Mamoru Sakuda reports hosting their 34th Annual Section Meeting in Shizuoka City last October. The Chubu Component chaired by Dr. Minoru Yamamoto made the arrangements. Dr. Hidetoshi Ozawa of Chubu was the Meeting Chairman. Over 50 Fellows and their wives were in attendance along with 12 Fellows and two wives from the Korean Section. Two new Fellows were inducted into membership: Drs. Masato Makita and Kazuyoshi Hata. L-R, Dr. Tsuneaki Kuwahata, Chairperson-elect Dr. Masato Makita, Dr. Kazuyoshi Hata, and Dr. Mamoru Sakuda, International Trustee and Section Chairperson The First Chairperson’s Award was presented to Dr. Masanori Kawaguichi for his outstanding dental service to leprosy patients. A PFA Recognition Plaque and a letter from President Gary Lowder were also presented. Dr. Kawaguichi’s address concerning his achievements was most impressive. Dr. Masanori Kawaguichi, the first recipient of the Section Chair Award of the Japan Section with Section Chair Mamoru Sakuda Dr. Tsuneaki Kuwahata was installed as Japan’s new Section Chair to serve for a two-year term. A bust of Pierre Fauchard was presented to Dr. Sakuda, Japan’s outgoing Chair, by Korean Chair Dr. Kim, Hong-Ki. The bust was fabricated by the late Dr. Kee, Chang-Duk, the first Korean recipient of the Elmer Best Award.
	Serbia Chair Dr. Professor Dragoslav Djukanovic of Belgrade was presented the PFA International Award of Merit by Professor Branislav Dasteveski, Section Chair of the Republic of Macedonia, at their Third Congress of Macedonian Dentists in Ohrid in 2002. In 2003, Dr. Djukanovic was honored by the Serbian Medical Society (founded 1872), which currently has 25,000 member professionals, who awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine and Dentistry.		Dr. Dragoslav Djukanovic receives recognition award

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	United States
	New California Fellows with President Lowder
	California, Northern Section Section Chair Dan Castagna inducted five new Fellows into the Academy at the Annual Awards Luncheon in San Francisco. He also reported that his Section presented their PFA Faculty Recognition Awards to UOP’s Dr. Alan Gluskin and to UCSF’s Dr. Donald Curtis. Their Faculty Development Grants were awarded to UOP’s Dr. Zuri Barniv and to UCSF’s Dr. Linda Centore. Their own Student scholarship Awards were made to UOP’s Dr. Ian Paisley and to UCSF’s Dr. Shaine Thenard. The Academy’s Scholarship Certificates were awarded to UOP’s Dr. Josh Erickson and to UCSF’s Dr. Reza Salmassian. And the Foundation Scholarship Awards were presented to UOP’s Dr. Matt Milnes and to UCSF’s Dr. Dorothea Berry. The other Section Officers are Secretary/Treasurer Stafford Duhn, Fellow and Awards Committee Chairman Charles Bertolami, and the Selection Committee is composed of Dan Castagna, Stafford Duhn, Dean Art Dugoni, and Dennis Shinbori The University of the Pacific (UOP) was the first chartered university in California and marks its 152-year history. Upon the recommendation of the Pacific Dental Education Foundation, the UOP Board of Regents approved a resolution to name their School of Dentistry in honor of Dean Arthur A. Dugoni, a PFA Fellow and one of the nation’s most respected educators and leader in our profession. Only one other dental school in the United States or in Canada has been so named. This significant event will coincide with Dean Dugoni’s silver anniversary as UOP’s School of Dentistry Dean on the weekend of 27-28 August 2004. The occasion will include a national leadership symposium, dedication ceremony, a formal fund-raising dinner at The Rotunda in San Francisco City Hall, and a gala celebration at the Louise Davies Symphony Hall starring Bill Cosby as the headline entertainment. Through his 55 years in dentistry, Dr. Dugoni has been in the forefront of innovations in dental education and in organized dentistry. He has served as President of the ADA, the American Association of Dental Schools, the American Board of Orthodontists, and of the California Dental Association. He has also served as Treasurer for FDI. Oklahoma With deep regret, PFA loses another great Oklahoma professional in the passing of past Section Chairman James A. Saddoris, past ADA president (1987-1988) and former ADA Treasurer (1981-1986). He gently left us last October at the age of 75. Dr. Saddoris had been Oklahoma Section Chair from 1989 to 2000. And he was in attendance at last year’s meeting. He was a warm, charming man who will be dearly missed from our ranks. Illinois Fellow Irwin Robinson of Northbrook will be honored by the University of Illinois Alumni Association with the Lou Liay Spirit Award at the 17 January UIC Flames basketball game during the college’s Reunion. This award is bestowed upon Illinois Alumni who have consistently demonstrated extraordinary loyalty, commitment, dedication, and service to the Alumni Association. It is named after the Alumni Association’s late Executive Director (1983-1998). Dr. Robinson , a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Dentistry, is a clinical Associate Professor in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department. He is a Fellow in PFA, ACD, ICD and a member of OKU, IADR, and has held positions in many other dental organizations. Oregon Trustee Charles Eller reports that he has appointed past ADA president William Ten Pas as Section Chairman for Oregon. His appointment has been approved by the PFA Board.		California, Southern Section Trustee Charles Eller relates that Dr. Amir Biniaz, a New York dentist retired to Camarillo in 1993, has another use for his dental instruments and prolific hands. He sculpts complicated sand structures. His most recent achievement at The Oaks Shopping Center in Thousand Oaks for their “Fabric of America” display is pictured here. The Wright Brothers are making plans for their first flight in a power-driven aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, by Dr. Amir Biniaz Ohio Chairman Al Uveges hosted their 45th annual PFA Ohio Section breakfast last September in Columbus during the Ohio Dental Association Meeting. Over 105 Fellows and guests attended the buffet to induct 14 new Fellows into membership. Their 2003 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Dr. Henry Fields, past Dean of the Ohio State University School of Dentistry. Dr. Edward Hills, President of the Ohio Dental Board, gave a talk on “The Board and You.” L-R, Chair Al Uveges presents Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Henry Fields

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