PFA Dental World Newsletter — July/August • 2004

Table of Contents - July/August• 2004

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The President’s Award

This Award is selected exclusively by the current PFA International President to honor an individual who our President views as actively promoting our profession on many other levels, taking into consideration outstanding community and civic service, leadership, and dedication to serving humanity. This transcends the other award requirements, which concentrate on dental activities in our profession. This year President Kevin Roach has selected Dr. Gordan B. Stine to receive this honor at the Awards Luncheon.
Dr. Gordan B. Stine, a retired dentist, retired school administrator, retired community/civic leader has spent his entire life in the service of others. As he crosses through his eighth decade, he views a career that spans a variety of activities and achievements.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Gordan graduated from the College of Charleston and then earned his dental degree at Emory University School of Dentistry. He maintained a full-time dental practice in Charleston from 1950 to 1985. In 1983, he affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) as a Clinical Associate Professor in Community Dentistry, as Director of Dental Continuing Education, as their liaison and dental advisor with the South Carolina Area Health Consortium, and as Special Assistant to former University President James Edwards on community and dental affairs.

Dr. Stine served as President of the Charleston Dental Society, President of the Coastal District Dental Society, and President of the South Carolina Dental Association. He served PFA starting as South Carolina Section Chair, then as Academy Board Trustee, Academy Vice President, and PFA President-elect. He is recipient of the 1992 and 2000 PFA South Carolina Section Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Stine is co-founder and past Chairman of the South Carolina Dental Political Action Committee, and is a past Councilman for the City of Charleston. Dr. Stine also served as past Chairman for the Charleston County Council, for the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Regional Council of Governments, and for the South Carolina Regional Council of Governments. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Stine served on the Board of the National Association of Regional Councils.

In his community, Gordan has served as past President of the Charleston Trident Chamber of Commerce, and is/was a member of the Charleston Bicentennial Committee, the Exchange Club of Charleston, the Charleston Jewish Welfare Fund, Congregation Beth Elohim, the College of Charleston Alumni Association, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Association, the Trident United Way, and the Community Pride of Charleston County. For 12 years, Dr. Stine served on the Board of Trustees for the College of Charleston, eight of those years as Board Vice Chairman.

Dr. Gordan B. Stine

In 1998, Dr. Stine was named Dentist of the Year by the South Carolina Academy of Dentistry. In 1992, he had been honored as Charleston Dental Society’s Dentist of the Year. The Exchange Club of Charleston presented him their Man of the Year Award in 1964, and the following year they presented him with their Outstanding Service Award. The Boy Scout Camp Health Center was named in his honor in 1996. He had received their Boy Scout Silver Beaver Award in 1985.

Dr. Gordan Stine was the College of Charleston Alumnus of the Year in 1966 where in 1999 he was awarded their honorary degree of Doctor of Humane letters, and in 2000 was selected for their Alumni Award. The MUSC Dental Lifelong Learning Program was named after Dr. Stine in 1994. And he was presented their Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 2000.

Dr. Stine has been awarded an unprecedented three Orders of the Palmetto by former South Carolina Governors Riley, Campbell, and Beasley; and has been honored with the Order of the Silver Crescent by State Governor Hodges.

In 2002 at the 229th Annual Meeting of the Greater Charleston Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Stine received their highest award, the Joseph P. Riley Leadership Award. In that presentation, they cited his “distinguished dental career of more than 50 years and his volunteer service of thousands of hours to hundreds of local organizations,” mentioning the Exchange Club of Charleston, the Coastal Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts, the YWCA of Greater Charleston, the Charleston Jewish Federation, MUSC Alumni Association, the Trident United Way, the Palmetto Safety Council, the Charleston County Aviation Authority, the Cooper River Bridge Replacement Study Committee, the South Carolina Association of Counties’ Legislative and Constitution Committees, and the Charleston County Council (op.cit. Dental World, November/December 2001 and September/October 2002 issues).

Immediate Calendar Updates

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	The PFA President’s Award of Excellence
	R-L, Drs. George Higue, Robert Shira, and Cliff Loader in younger years
	This Award was invented this year to honor an individual who has received nearly every other top award from PFA and many other organizations. In recognition of his continuing outstanding service to PFA, his USC alma mater, his community, and to his neighborhood, PFA recognized Dr. George Higue of Huntington Beach, California, at the April Meeting of the 34th Annual Awards Luncheon in Anaheim of the Southern California Section (op.cit. Dental World, May/June 2004 issue). Dr. George Higue (from the dinner program) entered professional dentistry an astounding 42 years ago becoming the third of 12 Chairmen of the Southern California PFA Section. During that era, he and past PFA President Cliff Loader were responsible for increasing the local Academy membership by 150 members. Together they formed numerous international Sections that included the induction of over 800 new members. In 1974, George served as the PFA International President. In 1990, Dr. Rex Ingraham presented Southern California Section’s Distinguished Service plaque. Then in 1994, George was awarded PFA’s most prestigious award, the PFA Gold Medal. When Dr. Brenes-Espinach of Costa Rica bequeathed his $5 million estate to the PFA Foundation’s care, it was George who served as the Foundation Treasurer for the last eight years.		A lifelong benefactor of USC and its School of Dentistry, George received the Presidents Award from the USC General Alumni Association in 2003. He recently served as President of the dental school’s Alumni Association. And he regularly sponsors a USC dental school alumni reception at the Anaheim Meeting of the California Dental Association. He and his wife Mary reside in Huntington Harbor in Huntington Beach. As an avid boater, he has his 50-foot powerboat docked in front of his house. For years, one of his favorite endeavors has been to host a large number of friends to view the spectacular nighttime Christmas Boat Parade. At every USC home football game, George can be found sitting in his seat near the 50-yardline, not only watching the game, but also viewing his name tag being displayed on the scoreboard as being a major supporter of the University. The Student lounge at the USC School of Dentistry has his name on it because he funded the lounge. He is now being honored to take the post of Foundation Treasurer-emeritus for PFA. As USC football is first in the nation, so its alumnus George Higue is tops in PFA.

	Honorary PFA Fellowship Award
	The awarding of the PFA Honorary Fellowship Award is presented to an individual who has locally performed outstanding services on behalf of our profession over time. This recognition is to honor such individuals, not necessarily a dentist, who have made significant contributions to dentistry in their respective areas and PFA wishes to acknowledge those individuals. This year, Brian James Henderson of Perth, Ontario, was presented this honor during the Canadian Dental Association Meeting in Vancouver in March of this year. Brian Henderson earned his BA degree with honors at Queens University (1960) and his Masters in Education at the University of Ottawa (1972). Until he retired in 2000, he served as Director of Accreditation, Director of Professional Services, and Associate Executive Director of the Canadian Dental Association. From 1978 until 1983, he was Coordinator of the Medical/Allied Medical Education and Accreditation for the Canadian Medical Association in Ottawa. From 1973 to 1978, he served as Dean of the Health Sciences Division for the Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology. At Algonquin College, he was Chairman of the General Arts and Sciences Department and Director of Social Sciences (1970-1973) and Supervisor of the English Faculty in the Applied Arts Section (1968-1970). At South Carleton High School, he was a teacher in English (1960-1961) and became the English Department Head in 1961 to 1968. He was a Tutor in the English Department at Queens University from 1959 to 1960.		In 1991, Brian Henderson was one of six Founders of HealthTeam Association (HTA) and during his activity with them, worked on a number of projects such as the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, the College of Dental Technologists of Ontario, the Health Protection Branch of Health Canada, the Ontario Board of Funeral Services, the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa/Vaad ha’Ir, the College of Dental Technicians of British Columbia, the Labour Mobility Workshop Facilitation, for the National Association of Pharmacy Regulators (NAPRA), and for the Royal College of Dentists of Canada. Since his retirement in 2000, Brian Henderson has provided consulting services to the Canadian Dental Association. His list of lifelong activities is quite broad and extensive. His list of honours and awards are as long. He received the CDA’s Distinguished Service Award in 2003, Honourary Fellowship in the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (1999), Honourary Fellowship in ADI (1998), the Canadian Standards Association Award of Merit (1992), Honourary Member of the Canadian Dental Hygienists Association (1989), Honourary Member of the Canadian Dental Assistants Association (1988), the 50th Anniversary Medal of the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technologists (1987), and Charter Member of the Canadian Society of Ambulance Personnel (1984). Brian Henderson’s career has been varied and deeply involved in many different activities that have shaped the entire face of Canadian public life.

	PFA Certificate of Merit

	IThis Award is presented to honor the distinguished work of an individual in his Section in both his professional and his personal life as well as his activity for the Academy. This year this special award will be presented posthumously to Dr. Javier Garro Barrio, the late PFA Section Chair for Spain, (op.cit. Dental World, November/December 2003 issue) at the PFA Section Ceremony in Cordoba. Professor Javier Garro Barrio In addition to Dr. Garro’s outstanding and exemplar service to the Academy in Spain, he was likewise dedicated to teaching and practicing his profession. This man had a zest for life in many directions.		Fortunately, dentistry was one of them. He started his career with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Zaragoza Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (1958), his dental degree from the University of Madrid (1960), and his specialty degree at the University of Navarra (1972). He began teaching at the University of Paris Vasco in 1979, and by 1989 was Chairman of Pathology and Therapeutic Dentistry on the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in Bilbao. He also maintained a private practice in Tafalla, Navarra, from 1960 to 1967, when he moved to Pamplona and continued his practice from 1967 to his death. The PFA Officers wish to thank the extremely outstanding effort in putting together this year’s Awards Presentation candidates to the Awards Committee: Chair James Englander (U.S. Midwest Trustee) and his members past President Nicholas Saccone, European Trustee Pierre Marois, Canadian Trustee Barry Dolman, Latin American Trustee Bernardo Levit, German Section Chair Frank Braun, and past Indiana Section Chair Ray Maddox for their tireless efforts on behalf of the Academy for a job well done.