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At this time of the year, my thoughts turn to the graduating dental students worldwide who are striving to complete their requirements, studying for various Board exams, and anxiously awaiting acceptances to a specialty program, general practice residency, or a practice associateship. As a proud father, I offer congratulations to my daughter Maureen as she prepares to don her cap and gown, at the end of May this year, as part of Nova Southeastern’s fourth graduating class. Every year, your Pierre Fauchard Academy Foundation focuses its attention on our profession’s newest graduates. We annually provide a $1500 scholarship to a junior student in each dental school in the United States as well as 18 scholarships to students in PFA Sections throughout the world. As the 2004 graduates depart, dental faculties around the world are in the process of finalizing acceptances for their new freshman class—the Class of 2008. Each country has its own criteria, with high performance demanded in things like grade-point averages, dental aptitude test scores, personal interviews, communication skills, perceptual ability/chalk/wax carving, etc. We older dentists often wonder if we could meet such increasingly demanding academic and performance criteria and make it into dental school in today’s world. |
We also worry about keeping our profession open to those whose personal circumstances and finances represent still another set of formidable challenges (and those who, above all else, simply have their hearts set on being dentists). Across the world, we still need graduates who know how hard it is to rise from humble beginnings, graduates willing to work in underserved areas, graduates with appropriate linguistic abilities and cultural sensitivities, graduates with compassionate hearts and dedication to serving our patients. Our newest graduates will undoubtedly continue to bring such qualities to our profession and to our patients. We should, all of us, however, give thought to finding ways to ensure that dental faculty admissions processes, over time, do not emphasize academic performances to the exclusion of the “human” dimensions that characterize our profession. We should also give thought to the increasing costs of dental education and the possibility, if costs get even worse, that the ultimate cost to our profession might well be its very “soul.” My hearty congratulations to those receiving PFA Scholarships this year, and to all of our newest colleagues. May you find success and happiness in dental practice and help all of us find ways to meet the challenges developing in our profession. |
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| Our PFA Webmaster Mark Stanley reports that the new updates are creating quite a stir. The average monthly traffic has nearly doubled this year over the same time last year with March 2004 setting a new all-time high record of 20,381 pages viewed. This was up from February’s 15,734 pages and January’s 17,052 pages. For comparison, February 2003 had 10,453 pages and March 2003 had 11,699 pages. On the average, there have been increases of about 1000 pages each month, except for the summer months when the numbers remained static. | The word is finally getting around and the Web site has become a viable tool in aiding the Sections and membership. Applications and forms can be downloaded more easily than requesting them by mail. Links to other sites have made it easier to follow up information. The history section has provided interest. And the easily reached Directory helps you discover who is a Fellow in your area. The language translation may take some credit, but the quality is not perfected yet. Mark is currently working on that aspect. |
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The Executive Board Meeting of the Pierre Fauchard Academy was convened by PFA President Kevin Roach on 6 March 2004 in the PFA Board Room at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, at 9 a.m. Officers present were President Kevin Roach, President-elect Michael Perpich, Vice President Howard Mark, Immediate Past President Gary Lowder, Secretary General Richard Kozal, Editor James Brophy, and Accountant Dan Jonker. Immediate past President Gary Lowder gave the Invocation. |
Executive Board Officers in SessionThe Minutes of the October 2003 San Francisco Board Meeting were approved without additions on a motion by Howard Mark and seconded by Michael Perpich. |
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| President Kevin Roach gave opening remarks, citing that the “management team” was functioning well and that Secretary General Richard Kozal will be serving through 2005. The management team has distributed a flood of information that is available to every member if they want to know it. Everyone has accepted the responsibilities of doing their jobs; they are aware of the jobs they are to do; and they are functioning to the best of their abilities to do them. The President reported on attending the Australasia PFA Meeting in Sydney during the FDI Congress, where he assisted in presenting awards and inducting 37 new members into the Academy with Trustee William Winspear. President Roach also attended the Georgia PFA Section Meeting, ably run by Chair Karyn Stockwell, where about 20 new members were inducted; and the Canadian PFA Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 3-4, ably handled by Canadian Trustee Barry Dolman, where about 38 new members were inducted. President Roach thanked Gary Lowder for well representing the Academy on his behalf at the PFA Mexico Dental Association Meeting in November 2003. Then President Roach went over future travel arrangements. President-elect Michael Perpich would represent the Academy at the Southern California Section Meeting 18 April 2004 in Anaheim and present a Presidential Award to Foundation Treasurer-emeritus Dr. George Higue on President Roach’s behalf. President Roach, Hall of Fame Chairman Ray Klein, and Editor James Brophy will attend |
the Colorado Dental Association Meeting on June 11 to induct Hall of Fame candidate Dr. Frederick McKay. President Roach is still working out arrangements to attend the Connecticut State Dental Association’s 139th Charter Oak Dental Meeting and the PFA Regional Meeting on May 13-15 on the invitation by Vice President Howard Mark. These functions fit in with the philosophy concept of the management team traveling to represent PFA at more events than just one President could possibly do and still keep his practice intact. The Annual Board Meeting will be held in Orlando at the beginning of October during the ADA Session there. President Roach is planning to hold an Executive Board Meeting on the afternoon of Thursday, 30 September 2004. Past ADA President Richard Mascola has accepted to be the Awards Luncheon speaker on Saturday October 2. President Roach then discussed how the unexpected early demise of the Foundation Executive Director Shig Kishi caused some logistics problems for the Foundation. To be prepared for such a possibility, President Roach suggested that both the Secretary General and the Editor sign legal documents, to be drawn up, giving the Academy legal access to all their records on the Academy. Both the Secretary General and the Editor agreed that this was a wise move. |
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12. Our next Board Meeting will be held in October in Orlando during the 145th annual ADA Session there. Our hotel room request has been submitted to the ADA, along with that of the Foundation’s, to host our meetings and social functions at the Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes Hotel. This block of rooms will be held for PFA until May 26 for PFA. 13. Forty-three Life Members who subscribe to Dental World have been sent renewal letters. Seventeen have renewed, five have dropped, and the remaining we are waiting to hear from. 14. Eighty-two new Life Member letters have been mailed and we are awaiting their response. 15. Honorary Fellows are sent Dental World gratis. 16. Eighty-four letters have been sent to dental libraries informing them that current and back issues of Dental World may be downloaded from our Web site. Thus, we have discontinued mailing them copies. 17. The 1376 U.S. Life Member donation statements for 2004 have been mailed out to request donations to the Foundation’s Scholarship Fund. 18. The current PFA pamphlet has been updated with the new insert information cards added. This is available to all Section Chairs upon request. 19. The Fauchard Museum continues to grow with new material donations coming in from many retired Fellows. The Executive Committee toured the site at the Community College of Southern Nevada. The site at the new dental school at UNLV will include the turn-of-the-century Zeller Dental Office secured through Bob Ibsen of Den-Mat Corp. in our name. And we are entertaining a request from the Community College in Reno (Truckee Meadows, Nevada) to place a small antique dental hygiene-type office there. Several local newspapers have highlighted the dental museum at the CCSN location. |
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| Treasurer- 1. The 2003 publishing bill has been paid. The membership database cleanup project will result in a credit adjustment to reduce the 2003 bill. 2. Donations through the Academy for the Foundation for 2003 were $23,075. A check for this amount was sent to Foundation Treasurer George Higue in December. The 2004 Foundation donations are better with the Foundation request notation on the Academy dues statement. 3. The Shig Kishi Memorial Fund received $3670, which has been forwarded to the Foundation. 4. Dues payments to the bank “lock box” program have demonstrated to be effective and efficient. The dues are deposited daily, the list is current, and immediate. The cost of the lock box is well offset by the Central Office expense of doing the same work in house over a longer period of time. 5. As of this date for 2004, there have been 44 new members processed. |
6. Quarterly conference calls with the Executive Committee and the Budget & Finance Committee have continued to prove effective for refining the Academy’s budgeted finances properly with the accountant. 7. The 2003 Financial Review is a standard order of business for the Central Office and all necessary arrangements have been made to complete it on time. 8. The Academy has no outstanding bills as of this date. All invoices are reviewed and paid in a timely fashion. 9. The Financial Statements and bank reports are included in this meeting packet, and the bank financials can be viewed at any time online. This marks the 20th year of Judy and Richard Kozal serving the Academy. The support of the officers and members has been and is always appreciated by them both. Judy’s support of the Academy is constant, dedicated, and remains strong. She particularly wants to thank the Academy for recognizing her efforts through the years with the recent honor of Academy Associate Fellowship. |
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Accountant’s Report
The Academy Accountant Daniel Jonker presented the budget, financial statements, and income/expenses in the meeting packet. The Central Office has a computerized program for the checks issued to generate a spreadsheet to the accountant who then reviews the record and reconciles the monthly bank statements. These are used to prepare the quarterly statement reports, reconcile the statements, and post them. If concerns arise, the accountant will call this to the attention of the Executive Board. The accounting office also prepares the annual tax returns. The Central Office assembles raw information on diskette, adjustments are made, and the proper coding entries are noted. This is sent to the accountant for auditing and review. Every year, codes are changed to better define the expenses, but this has resulted in some lack of consistency in comparison from year to year. Judy Kozal and Dan Jonker are attempting to establish regular codes on their computers to synchronize better reporting and to define what are in those code categories in this modified accrual basis operation. The accrual system tries to pay, or at least credit, the income/expenses in the year they occur, regardless of the date when the bill comes in or the income paid in advance. |
It was noted that unspent funds from the previous year’s budget are not carried over to the next year, but that line item is budgeted separately for that year. Excess funds remaining after the fiscal year are returned to the general fund as income and rebudgeted. President Roach noted that under his “management team” concept, the officers’ travel line item is for use in having other representatives from the Academy Executive Committee attend important functions in which the President cannot represent the Academy. This permits attendance at these significant events by an Executive Officer and still provides recognition of their worth to the international community. Constitution and Bylaws Report Chair Michael Perpich went over several housekeeping changes in the final draft of the Constitution and Bylaws as discussed at the San Francisco Board Meeting. All were approved on a motion by Mike Perpich, seconded by Howard Mark, and passed. |
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| Web Site Mark Stanley submitted a report on the history of Web sites through the current year, along with our history of our involvement and the new updates he has instituted. Our Web site is an ongoing project as the old material needs to be removed or updated, new material added to entice regular visitors, and a general appearance makeover to attract browsing. As the site is expanded, more PFA information is added. The savings in not publishing and mailing a PFA Membership Directory goes a long way to paying for the Web site entry; in addition, it is current daily. Forms and other information can be downloaded immediately at any time of day. This saves the expense of a staff member responding by mail during regular working hours in the workday week. |
The online calendar needs to be kept current. This will be mentioned at the Section Chair Caucus that the Chairs are responsible for feeding this information into the Central Office to be included on the Web site. The President will also send a letter to the Chairs informing them of this, to enhance their own Section attendance. The Web site was determined by the Executive Committee to be placed under the Subcommittee of Communications, which consists of Secretary General Richard Kozal as Chairman, with members Editor James Brophy, Officers Michael Perpich and Howard Mark. |
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Pierre Fauchard Academy Museums
With the amount of material being donated by Fellows, it will be possible to establish the dental museums planned for the new dental school at UNLV, the current location at the Community College of Southern Nevada, and the Community College of Reno. The PFA Museum is incorporated as a “not-for-profit corporation.” The Museum concept came from Senator Rawson in a suggestion to then PFA President Fred Halik, who discussed the idea with Secretary General Richard Kozal. Dr. Kozal discussed the idea with the Foundation and with Executive Director Shig Kishi personally. All thought that the suggestion was an excellent one and agreed to fund it from the Foundation, as they have every year since. The response from the retired Fellows has been overwhelming in donating items to the Museum. The media has taken note of the Museum. Other schools have requested a similar exhibit for their institutions. Where possible, this enhances the name of PFA and deepens the mutual commitment between the Academy and the Nevada dental teaching institutions. President Roach noted that if we have the exhibits to donate and if the institutions would provide the space required and maintain the equipment and the museum at their expense at their schools, then we could provide those exhibits to them at no further cost to the Academy. Secretary General Kozal reported that he had discussed this with Dean Sanders, but he had not made any commitment on the part of the Academy. Dr. Kozal has a written agreement with the Community College of Southern Nevada; the UNLV agreement contract is to come; and the Community College of Reno equipment is ready for exhibit placement, awaiting such agreement from the institution. |
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| Foundation Foundation President Carl Lundgren sent in his report about the history of the Foundation, the investments they have made to insure their ability to issue grants and scholarships, its successes through the years, and information about their 3 April 2004 Interim Meeting in Chicago. President Kevin Roach, Vice President Howard Mark, and Editor James Brophy will be attending the April Foundation Interim Board Meeting in Chicago. Membership For the last quarter of 2003, 139 new Fellows were processed into the Academy. For the first quarter of 2004, 83 new Fellows are awaiting processing. Archive Report Archivist James Brophy reported attempting to centralize all the various publications that the Academy offers to its members. Currently, we are trying to get back copies of the stored book by Drs. Loader and Kishi, Legacy. An itemization of the materials already on hand, including the Dental World source material that goes into making up the copy of the issues, which dates back to 1989, was listed. The Board was asked to determine how long those materials should be stored. The Executive Committee agreed seven years was enough time. Those materials up to 1996 might be discarded except for the photographs, which could be used in future issues. Editor’s Report Editor James Brophy noted that sending hard copies of Dental World to all dental libraries has been dropped as a cost-cutting measure. The libraries have been suggested to pick up and download current issues and back issues from our Web site. This also gets the librarians familiar with our online services. |
International Hall of Fame Committee Chair H. Raymond Klein submitted a report that he has made arrangements to present the Hall of Fame Plaque for Dr. Frederick S. McKay at the Colorado Dental Association’s annual meeting in Vail, Colorado, on June 11 at their Annual Awards Luncheon. The Induction of Dr. Terence Ward is tentatively scheduled for summer of 2005. The four remaining nominees have had their resumes sent to the other Committee members for approval and presentation at the Fall PFA Board Meeting. Those remaining nominees, yet to be approved, are: Drs. Morinosuke Chiwaki of Japan, Rafiuddin Ahmed of India, Maynard K. Hine and Edward H. Angle—both of the United States. Nomination of 2004-2005 Officers Chairman Gary Lowder’s Committee placed in nomination the following members for office: • Michael Perpich for President • Howard Mark for President-elect • William Winspear for Vice-President • Kevin Roach for Immediate past President (which is automatic) |
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| Awards Committee Chairman James Englander’s Committee has approved Honorary Fellowship for Dr. Brian James Henderson (which was presented to him at the Canadian Dental Association Meeting in Vancouver). They also approved the President’s Award for retiring Foundation Treasurer George Higue (a past PFA President and recipient of the Gold Medal). The Committee approved of presenting (posthumously) the PFA Certificate of Merit to Spain’s Section Chair Professor Javier Barro. The Dental Trade & Industry Award of Recognition has suggested Chairman Arthur Zwingenberger of SciCan Corp. Since the Award’s inception in 1994, nine companies have received it. They are J. Morita Corp (1994); Durr Dental GMBH & Co. (1995); Roemmers Pharmaceuticals (1996); Den-Mat Corp (1997); Kerr Corp (1998); 3M Company (1999), Ultradent Products, Inc. (2000); Degussa Dental (2002); and Patterson Dental Supply Company (2003). The Committee’s suggestion concerning some recognition for the late past PFA President Shig Kishi was to place an Honor Plaque at his alma mater USC. This will be open to discussion at the Fall PFA Board Meeting. Dr. Englander thanked his Committee of Drs. Nick Saccone, Pierre Marois, Barry Dolman, Bernardo Levit, Frank Braun, and Ray Maddox for their assistance. The former Gold Medal recipients participate in the nomination process. Two have passed away recently. They have provided suggested nominations for 2004. The Executive Committee suggested a “bank” of nominations be kept from year to year to provide a wide range of possible recommendations to the PFA Board for both the Elmer S. Best Award and for the Gold Medal Award. |
Section Chair Caucus The Executive Committee reaffirmed the ongoing importance of the Section Chair Caucus input to the International Board. The next Caucus has been scheduled for the Orlando Meeting this Fall. The Executive Committee discussed the wish of the Chairs to collect their Section dues at the same time the International dues notices are mailed out. Due to the various amounts of each Section’s dues, this was demonstrated not to be cost effective as well as difficult to register by Section without special computer programs developed. The Executive Board suggested a $10 dues increase, which would be kept by the Central Office for tendering to the working Sections upon receipts of program costs. Since notices have already been sent out for 2004, this plan will take effect in 2005. The suggestion was passed on a motion by Howard Mark, seconded by Mike Perpich. This would also only apply to full dues–paying Sections. Further parameters need to be defined to bring this idea into operation so that (1) working Sections receive their share, and (2) non-full dues–paying Sections are not included. President Roach has requested that Georgia Section Chair Karyn Stockwell present her Section’s program as an excellent example for discussion at the Section Chair Caucus. Mark Stanley has replied to the request of the Section Chairs to provide them a CD-ROM version of the presentation he had given the officers and the Caucus to have available for demonstrations at their own meetings. President-elect’s Report Dr. Michael Perpich has reviewed the 2003 financial report and has been working on the 2005 budget. The quarterly conference call meetings to review the 2004 budget have helped to keep the Academy on track for the year and to monitor expenses. |
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| Trustees Reports Trustee Richard Walsh of Region 2 (Northeast United States) reported that he has sent a letter of introduction to all his area’s Section Chairs and has attended the Massachusetts Breakfast at the Yankee Dental Congress on January 29, where Dr. Arthur Schwartz was presented their Outstanding Service Award. He has also plans to attend the Maryland PFA Meeting on March 3 and the Connecticut/New Hampshire/New York Meeting held in conjunction with the Charter Oak Dental Meeting on May 15. Trustee Mamoru Sakuda of Region 9 (Asia) distributed reports to all his area’s Chairs about the PFA and the business at the annual meeting last Fall. He reported on their annual meeting held on January 24 in Nagoya. Trustee Sakuda made particular note of the Philippine Outreach Program under Chair Diampo Lim, sponsored by past 2002 Elmer Best recipient Dr. Rufino Achacoso, which works in the Poon Bato Resettlement Area of Batolan, Zambales to extend dental education services for the depressed native inhabitants. |
Long-Range Planning Committee Chair Howard Mark has submitted an update to his original outstanding work for guiding PFA through this century. Particularly discussed were the provisions to increase Fellowship, not only by nomination but though preventing lapsation and increasing retention. Mentorship, publicity, communications, a transparent budget plan, and regular reporting were discussed as well. Dr. Mark noted that the concept of such a plan is to constantly update and reevaluate its principles. New tools and different perspectives will need to be considered to keep the plan current. The assistance of the Foundation is vital to implementing the concepts and visions the Academy wishes to foster. Because of his depth of involvement in this project, President Roach appointed Dr. Mark chair of the committee. Such ideas as a Section newsletter to keep the membership informed and up-to-date was suggested along with Regional workshops. The operation needs to function from the top down through the Regional Trustees to the Section Chairs, with their comments being relayed back up the chain. |
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| Old Business The Academy Policy Manual is the next item on the agenda to update and add all the past policies. The rough draft of 31 October 2003 was reviewed for corrections. The Policy Manual for the Foundation was included in the meeting agenda packet for review. Included was an officer flow chart. New Business Orlando Annual Meeting The Annual PFA Board Meeting will be held 1-3 October 2004 in conjunction with the 145th annual ADA Session in Orlando, Florida. University of the Pacific School of Dentistry This first chartered university in California—152 years ago—will be hosting a weekend of festivities on 27-28 August 2004 to celebrate Arthur A. Dugoni, PFA Fellow and Dean of the School of Dentistry for 52 years, by naming the dental school after him. Since this is a momentous occasion for one of our members, the Executive Board has suggested that Trustee Charles Eller attend on behalf of President Roach to represent PFA at the ceremonies. |
Academy Officer Succession Discussion ensued about developing a succession plan for the Secretary General and, in fact, all officers, to prepare a replacement officer, even temporarily, in the event of such an incident occurs as that of the passing of Foundation Executive Director Shig Kishi. This would be to insure that their positions do not leave the organization devoid of continued function. Legal documents that would permit the Academy to secure the records from such a deceased officer’s files and home were to be drawn up and signed so as to preclude any impairment of securing Academy documents as quickly as possible from the family of the deceased officer. Announcements In addition to the reminders about the Orlando Annual PFA Board Meeting, it was noted that the FDI Congress will be held 10-13 September 2004 in New Delhi, India. In 2005, the FDI Congress will be held in August in Montreal, and the ADA Annual Session will be in October in Philadelphia. With all business being concluded, the Executive Board Meeting was adjourned. |
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Reminders: The 2004 dues are $100 U.S.
The one-time initiation fee is $150 U.S. The total fee for a new Fellow is $250 U.S., which includes the Initiation Fee and one year’s dues. A formal Induction Ceremony of your own tradition is recommended, such as during an appropriate dental meeting or social function. All new Fellow certificates, pins, and ribbons will be sent to the Section Chair. Allow at least 14 to 20 days for certificate preparations. For all awards, include full name of the recipient as it is to appear on the award. Fill out the Nomination Form completely. Include the recipient’s degree (e.g., DDS/DMD or equivalent). Provide the mailing address of the recipient so a congratulatory letter can be sent from the President of the Academy to the recipient. Allow 30 days for the award preparation and mailing. |
Fellowship lists and mailing labels are available upon request. Allow a week for preparation and mailing.
Send in your event dates as soon as you arrange them so they may be entered on the Web site, published in Dental World, and appropriate officers informed for possible attendance. The Central Office address, phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses are always included on the last page of Dental World.
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What special recognition do you give a person who has devoted his whole nine decades of life to serving his community, his alma mater, his State, his country, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, and the Pierre Fauchard Foundation? How do you honor a person who has received the highest honors from his organizations already?
George Higue at work in the Foundation Treasurer’s OfficeBut, as the passing moment is ours, here and now, what do we say? What do we do to express our deep heartfelt thanks and admiration for this humble great man? With the passing of our dental greats, most recently General Robert Shira and Foundation Executive Director Shig Kishi, our attention is drawn to a person still in our midst, still active in all the things that have shaped his life, and that have changed our world. All of us try to make this planet a better place to live. That is why we have chosen the difficult task of being dental surgeons for the public. This call to service does not usually limit itself to merely filling teeth. The call is about serving our fellow man—in dentistry, in our communities, in all our activities. George J. Higue has left giant footsteps to follow, one toe at a time. And in 90 years, that is a great many footprints. George Higue’s history of life comes in volumes, not one book. Nor can a few words on this page even begin to express all the hundreds of thousands of people he has affected in his zeal and passion for serving. The tapestry of his life is interwoven tightly into all of our own lives, whether we know it or not. George graduated from USC’s School of Dentistry and joined the Army Dental Corps during World War II. His uniform, decades later, he has donated (along with other items) to the PFA Museum where it is on display today (see picture, page 3, Dental World, May/June 2001 issue). He married the love of his life, Mary, whom he cherishes daily, carrying her photo around to show off her beauty. He is a quiet, humble man who has pushed over mountains. In 1962, George became the third Section Chair for Southern California. Under his outstanding leadership, that Section grew by 150 new Fellows. As PFA President in 1974, George added 800 new Fellows and helped establish PFA Sections internationally. With his dear friend Cliff Loader, George made PFA a world-leading dental honor organization. In 1990, the Southern California Section honored him when Dr. Rex Ingraham presented George the Section’s Distinguished Service Award. In 1994, the International Academy presented him with their highest award, the prestigious PFA Gold Medal. |
George did not sit on his laurels. That is not what drives the man. He was there in 1996 when the Foundation received the Brenes-Espinach Estate. In becoming Treasurer of the PFA Foundation, he carefully invested the funds to reap a generous return, so that each year $300,000 was available to offer scholarships to dental schools all over the world and to provide money for dental projects that serve the international populous even as we read this. His talent for generating the Foundation revenue has helped hundreds of dental students and hundreds of thousands of indigents and needy in our world.
George’s article in the March/April 2002 issue of Dental World expresses his philosophy of life—”Service Above Self.” George was there to step up and translate the French book on the Life and Times of Pierre Fauchard by Dr. Andre Besombes. His English version is in every dental library in the United States, Canada, and many international dental schools. He paid for it all himself. In addition to his ongoing dental practice for his patients, Dr. Higue has never forgotten the roots of his service. He has been a huge benefactor to the University of Southern California. Though he never asked for anything, he has been showered with awards from his dental school and his university. He has received their highest awards as well. The USC President’s Award came from the all-university Alumni Association in 2002. He has served as the President of the USC Alumni Association. He sponsors a huge USC Dental School Alumni Reception at the April Anaheim Meeting of the California Dental Association. In 1993, George received the USC Merit Torchbearer Award. He completed a $150,000 pledge to the dental school. He was a Board Member of their Century Club, which was formed for the advancement of the School of Dentistry. He chaired their 94th annual Alumni-Student Day in 2002 and has the Student Lounge there named after him. Last year, George was honored at their Volunteer Recognition Luncheon. Since his home already is a museum of every top award USC presents, they invented a new award just to recognize his dedication and service.  George Higue at home with his many USC Awards. (Note his wife Mary’s reflection in the mirror) |
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Then there are the little things George will be remembered for as well. He and Bob Ibsen brought Miss America to the New Orleans Meeting in the early 1990s. He helped raise funds for President George H. Bush and had his picture taken with him. George was always there, always putting together the details, always producing.
On USC game day you can find him on the 50-yard line cheering for the Trojans.  George Higue at the office with a few of his many awards. (Note the picture in the background of George squeezed between two USC Cheerleaders)As with us all, time has a way of slowing us down. George is realizing that now and has stepped down as Foundation Treasurer, though was named Treasurer emeritus. He has had to cut back his school activities due to the drive from his home. But he has other things he likes to do that he can continue with. |
George and Mary love to take out their 50-foot yacht. This beautiful boat is hard to miss being parked right under his living room picture window. It is fully equipped and can serve as his own navy if need be. As George puts it, “one turn and it is straight out to sea” into the Pacific Ocean. George is well known for his participation in the annual Huntington Harbor Boat Parades and this last time was Parade Marshal.
George and his boatThis year the officers had debated whether one could receive the Gold Medal twice? Hall of Fame honor? But that is for past dental greats and George is not “passed” and very filled with a zest for life. So President Kevin Roach decided to present George with a Special President’s Award at the California Dental Association’s Meeting in Anaheim last April 18. It would be easy to end this article with the cliché that Dr. Higue exemplifies the term, “Let George do it.” But that would be unfair to him. George never waited to be assigned any job. George just saw it needed to be done and he did it! And God bless, he still is doing it.  George outside his office in a quiet moment holding the USC President’s Award |
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In a PFA-sponsored International Continuing Education Course held in London on 22 June 1998, then NIH Director Harold Slavkin (now USC School of Dentistry Dean) shocked listeners by telling them that by 2005 there would be a shortage of dentists. Dental schools all over the United States were closing due to rising costs and lower enrollments—Loyola’s Chicago College of Dental Surgery, Northwestern, Emory, Farleigh Dickinson, Washington University, Oral Roberts, to name a few that come to mind.
But as the country’s population moved West, a few States made plans to build their own dental schools —Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada. Since our own Central Office is located in Las Vegas with the prospect of headquartering in the new UNLV dental school, we have paid a great deal of attention to its progress. A series of dental exhibits has been planned for the new UNLV facility. Dr. Ibsen has contributed to purchasing the “turn of the century” dental office of Dr. Zeller through the PFA. A midcentury dental facility is already prepared by our Secretary General Richard Kozal with PFA equipment donations and Foundation funding. And a modern dental office will be donated by an equipment supplier. The Nevada Legislature, under the spearhead of our own Senator Ray Rawson, first approved the development of the UNLV dental school in 1999 as an answer to the need for dentists, particularly in Las Vegas—dubbed the fastest growing city in America.  A passing glimpse at the construction of the UNLV School of Dentistry This concept was also supported by Nevada’s Higher Education System. Recently, the Legislature established a Committee to Evaluate Higher Education Programs composed of six lawmakers, three members of the Board of Regents, and several other participants to review studies prepared by a consultant in deciding about further educational institutions for nurses, teachers, and dentists. The consultants, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems of Boulder, Colorado, reported that Nevada’s number of dentists compared against the nation as a whole was actually higher. The 2000 U.S. Census Bureau stated that Nevada had 41.5 employed dentists per 100,000 population, which was significantly higher than the national average of 32 employed dentists per 100,000. The Committee Chairman, Senator Warren Hardy (R-Las Vegas), expressed surprise at the figures, but suggested that the raw data does not address the issue of how many dentists are appropriate. Chancellor Jane Nichols went further to state that perhaps a dental school is not necessary. But she noted that other sources of information were used to justify the need for the new school and those need to be compared before making a final decision. Two weeks later, Chancellor Nichols reported that the data presented earlier had not counted all the practicing dentists nationwide, and that Nevada does have a lower ratio of dentists to population. In her letter, as mentioned by news reporter Sean Whaley, she noted, “There is an alarming shortage of oral health care for a significant segment of the population in Nevada.” |
The data provided by the consulting firm came from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and excluded dentists in private practice. Nichols noted that most dentists are self-employed and thus were not counted in the labor statistics. She also commented that the ADA maintains data on all active dentists, some 168,000 in 2001. That establishes the ratio at 60.7 for every 100,000 population. According to the ADA, Nevada’s ratio is 39.2 dentists per 100,000 residents. The report from the Oral Health America National Grading Project 2003 gave the United States an overall “C” rating in dentist availability. In that report Nevada received an “F.”
The Nevada Board of Dental Examiners provided statistics that there were 41.5 dentists per 100,000 population. But the respected Pew Health Professions Commission stated that there were 61 dentists nationally per 100,000 population, thus Nevada was below the national average. Those figures were confirmed by the American Dental Association as well. Has anyone checked the figures from the National Institute of Health, which in 1998 first predicted a shortage of dentists nationwide by 2005? Assemblyman Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas), a dental school opponent, is running against Senator Ray Rawson (R-Las Vegas) for his seat, stating, “that is certainly an expensive mistake if that is what it turns out to be.” (Reported by Sean Whaley of the Review-Journal Capital Bureau.) When many of us started out in practice, we were given the figure that to be successful, an average dental load was 2000 patients. That amounts to 50 dentists per 100,000 population. Currently, those of us attempting to acquire dental associates in our practice to be able to slow down as age creeps up on us are having an impossible time finding them. Those trying to sell their practices and retire are discovering the same problem. If asked by questionnaire whether I was a practicing dentist, I would have answered in the affirmative. But I have cut back my hours in recent years to accommodate the PFA workload, enjoy my family more, and participate in more community activities now that I have worked up the chairs over the years. Perhaps I am that half dentist in the statistics. In previous articles in Dental World, we have advocated a national open licensure, like the European Union has already. Several States are crying out for dentists to practice in their rural and underserved areas. California is one such reported State that has agreed to Licensure by Credentials, as well as others. This has been reported by the Academy of General Dentistry. Statistics do not tell the whole story. How many hours does a dentist put in? How much time in the year does a dentist take off? How has the graying of the baby boomers started to affect tomorrow’s future of dentistry? Nobody has taken an accurate head count, but the reality of the situation is simply that there are not enough dentists. And within a decade, the situation is going to get worse. Some States do not even have a dental school. Where do you suppose they get their dentists from? Nevada voters need to be aware of this and not make a political football out of building a much-needed school of dentistry—if not for student access from Nevada into the profession, at least for the rest of the country. If Nevada finds that it has too many dentists, send them East. We need them if you do not. I will take two right now. They start Monday.  Senator Ray Rawson greeting President Kevin Roach and Vice President Howard Mark |
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| Dr. Kishi had a deep love for the Pierre Fauchard Academy and its Foundation. The efforts he dedicated to our organization date back decades—serving as Southern California Chairman, Academy Trustee, then through the Chairs of the International Academy Offices, and finally as Executive Director of the Academy’s Foundation. Last year, after more than a year of silent suffering from cancer, Dr. Kishi passed away. The outpouring of heartfelt regret was international. Many friends of Shig expressed their grief in contributing to his Memorial established by his love—the PFA Foundation. This is a list of his contributors (alphabetically). Contributions are still being accepted in his name by the Central Office. • Dr. C. F. Larry Barrett (past PFA President) • Dr. James M. Brophy III (PFA Editor) • Dr. M. David Campbell (past PFA President) • Dr. David W. Eggleston (Shig’s staff) • Dr. Steven H. Ferriot (past California Chair) • Dr. Frederick J. Halik ( past PFA President) |
• Dr. Steve K. Hedlund (PFA Trustee) • Daniel R. Jonker (PFA Accountant) • Dr. H. Raymond Klein (past PFA President) • Dr. Richard A. Kozal (PFA Secretary General) • Mrs. Judith Kozal (PFA Assistant Secretary) • Mrs. Rae D. Loader (wife of past President Cliff Loader) • Dr. James E. Long (past PFA President) • Dr. Carl G. Lundgren (past PFA President and Foundation President) • Dr. Howard I. Mark (PFA Vice President) • Dr. Pierre Marois (PFA European Trustee) • B. Reynolds Murvin • Dr. Michael J. Perpich (PFA President-elect) • Dr. Nicholas D. Saccone (past PFA President) • Dr. Mamoru Sakuda, (PFA Japan Trustee) • Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Schrantz • Mr. & Mrs. Jake G. Steidinger • Dr. Gordan B. Stine (past PFA President-elect) • Dr. Scott M. Welch (past PFA President) • Mrs. Tomiko Yakayama (Hakusui Trading Company of Japan) |
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Our mission as Fellows in the Pierre Fauchard Academy is to consistently focus on professionalism, integrity, and ethics worldwide, by our own conduct as worthy role models, by the advancement of dentistry to the highest level, by supporting and honoring colleagues for their distinguished work, research, contributions, and public service, and by providing excellence in programs, education, and example.
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Connecticut State Dental Association’s 139th Charter Oak Dental Meeting, Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino, Uncasville, CT Hall of Fame Installation, Vail, Colorado 92nd FDI World Congress, New Delhi, India Deadline for all annual Meeting Agenda packet reports PFA Academy/Foundation Annual Board Meetings, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Orlando, Florida Executive Board Meeting PFA Board Meeting/Section Chair Caucus Foundation Board Meeting Annual Awards Luncheon/President’s Reception Foundation Board Meeting/Academy Board Meeting Presidents Dinner 145th Annual ADA Session, Orlando, Florida Implantology Congress, Berlin, Germany (Have your PFA Event date put here. E-mail Editor Brophy at PFADWJMB@aol.com) |
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The Foundation Board of Trustees conducted a very productive Meeting at the Chicago workshop on Saturday April 3. The facilities at the Chicago Airport Hilton that Richard Kozal had arranged for us were just right, and he is to be commended. Richard is an ex-officio member of our Board and does a great deal of behind-the-scenes work for us that most do not realize.
All Foundation Board members were present, along with three additional Academy representatives who serve on our committees. The Board needed the time to go over our investment program, the bylaws, and the policy manual. More than two hours beyond our scheduled time was necessary to complete the work, but we got it all in. Our Board is a functioning blend of Past Academy Presidents and Academy board people that follows the format originally set forth by Bob Shira, and approved by the Foundation Board in 1994. This dovetailing of efforts leads to a harmony and mutual understanding. We are now slightly altering it to fit the current circumstances. The Budget & Finance Committee Chairman Bill Kort is ordering an accounting review of our finances as the Board wishes, along with a number of other tasks needed in the transition. The Public Relations Committee Chairman Larry Barrett has done his publicity efforts very well, as usual. I trust that the ADA News will follow through as promised because we rely on them for our requests for proposals. The volunteer work by Editor Jim Brophy to produce the Minutes of that very complex San Francisco Meeting is certainly appreciated. He is again to be congratulated on an excellent performance in Dental World. We have gotten great coverage for the Foundation. The Investment Subcommittee Chairman Nick Saccone brought us a couple of investment offerings to consider as well as an analysis of the strength of different sectors of the current market. The Bylaws and Policy Committee Chairman Howard Mark is to be commended for his splendid work in developing a more clearly written set of Foundation Bylaws and a newly compiled Policy Manual document that reflects the resolutions the Foundation Board has deliberated and approved over the years. No one realizes how much time, experience, and effort goes into this task. This is done over a long period of perseverant and painstaking time. The Board was so helpful in working to help him refine the wording. Howie promises a draft to be in our hands well before the Fall Meeting for our review. We did not have the time at this meeting to review the Grant Committee process in depth, but we have a proven leader and conscientious worker in Gary Lowder to lead that function. I am confident that Executive Director Fred Halik has passed on all of his vast grant knowledge. |
The Memorial and Tribute Funds Program is going to be essential to our success. The 5% donation rule keeps us on the straight and narrow and gives us very little wiggle room. Over the last 10 years, we have been very successful in managing to keep our overhead low so we can meet the goals of our mission. I believe that we can continue to do so. Donors, large and small, can then set up a program with our fund that is tailored to fit their wishes and gain their confidence that we will preserve their capital and provide the kind of program that they wish.
Keep in mind that we can count on a regular estimated income from our long-term U.S. government-backed securities that will be available to us for our Fall Annual Meeting and our grant and scholarship awarding for 2004. We included that figure in our budget at the San Francisco Meeting. This current investment formula has utmost safety and will cover what we need to accomplish our mission. There is no investment risk to erode our principal this year. There may be a place in the future for altering our current investment course. The stock market may give us better income if we can find a plan that could work for us. I do not oppose a sure-fire pilot program with a small amount of our assets. The point was brought out, by a member at the Board Meeting that any future investment decision has the potential for causing us to invade our principal. This is against all rules of the Foundation. That would mean, for an unknown period of time, the elimination or decimation of the scholarship program and/or the Foundation donations to the Academy, assuming that we continue to support the core humanitarian efforts that we have been doing—and the reduction of all line items of our operating costs as needed. And then there are the large penalty taxes that go with a decreased giving program. We have to take our time and be exceptionally careful. The influences that effect the stock and bond markets have gradually changed and the markets are now in some ways at the mercy, upon global conditions beyond U.S. control. In accordance with the agreed-upon protocol by the Board, e-mail and other means will be used to reach every member of your committee in order to reach a consensus on what actions to bring before the Board. It is requested that each committee chairman work with his committee members to develop a consensus on any proposed action. When that consensus is reached, please include the documentation, to be written by the Committee Chairman into the Agenda Manual. Now is a good time to start. As an ex-officio member of each committee, I would appreciate it if each of you would copy me with your committee communications. We are fortunate to have such a group of dedicated people on our Board to administer the funds. And we are really fortunate to have all of that money to administer. The standing of the Academy depends on what we do. But mostly, the people whom we reach with direct dental care depend on us.  Dr. Carl Lundgren |
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The India Section, at their recent Convocation and Awards Ceremony, presented the Foundation Scholarship Award to Sandeep Pawade, II BDS, G.D.C., Aurangbad.
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The Netherlands Dr. J. R. Dam Backer, Secretary of Bridge the Gap Foundation, reported that their project, financially supported by the PFA Foundation, the ADI Foundation, the Rotary Foundation, and the ACD European Section, donated a new modern operation room to the hospital in Vietnam. Bridge the Gap Foundation is composed of seven professionals—two plastic surgeons, two maxillofacial surgeons, an anesthesiologist, and two dental surgeons—from the Academic Hospital University of Amsterdam. They regularly aid the Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery Institute in Saigon responsible for treating patients in all of Vietnam. The Dutch professionals train and instruct their Vietnamese colleagues as well as operate on the many cleft palate patients in the country. Their expectations have turned out better than even they believed they would. The Dutch Team again visited Vietnam last January and inspected the new surgical operating room at the hospital. This all started from a 2003 contract with the Dental School in Saigon to establish a dental follow-up program to treat the children. The Dutch Team wanted to form more than a “hit and run” circuit by introducing a complete, multidiscipline treatment scheme of surgical, restorative, orthodontic, speech training, etc, like in the western world. |
The first pilot project of 56 children had some flaws in travel distances, fear of costs to the parents, and the misconception by the parents that since the lip was closed the problem was over. And cleft palates were not the only problems addressed. There were motor vehicle accident disfigurements, orthodontic and surgical problems, cranio-dysfunctional situations, macrognathic and micrognathic and cancer deformations. The Team spent a week in Saigon, then went to Laos. Laos, a country as big as England, has 5 million very poor people with very little medical surgery facilities. The government has not handled these problems for their people. The cleft palate problem in Laos is as bad as it is in Vietnam. The resolute Dutch team wanted to begin assisting the need by starting right in at the Vientiane Mahosot Hospital. However, the bureaucracy of the situation resulted in stacks of paperwork and hours of translated negotiations before the Dutchmen were able to reach an agreement to start in 2005. |
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L-R, top row, PFA student scholarship recipient Sandeep Pawade, best student award for Bapuji Dental College (2002) recipient Dr. S. G. Jyothi, best student award for Maulana Azad Dental College (2003) recipient Dr. Ambica Kuthuria, and best student award of Bapuji Dental College (2000) Dr. Dinesh Singh Chauhan. Second row: PFA Section Secretary/Treasurer T. Samraj, Chief Guest Dr. B.P. Rajan, Section Chair Nilesh Gandhi, and Chief Editor V.P. Jalili|
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Trustee William Winspear awarded Honorary Fellowship to Professor-emeritus Noel D. Martin AM at their recent PFA Awards Dinner in Sydney, Australia. Professor Martin is recognized throughout Australia as an authority in dental education, dental public and community health, and preventive dentistry. He joined the faculty of dentistry at the University of Sydney in 1944 as a lecturer. He was then appointed the inaugural Professor of Preventive Dentistry in 1961. In 1970, Professor Martin was elected the Dean of the Dental Faculty, a position he held until his retirement in 1988. Professor Martin has had a distinguished career with many exceptional achievements, his role in introducing fluoride into the Australian water supplies was his finest. He has been the driving force in educating the public, and the government, of the benefits, efficacy, and safety of water fluoridation. Through these efforts he has reduced the rate of dental decay in Australian children to one of the lowest in the developed world. PFA Trustee William Winspear Canada The Canadian Section Annual Awards & Induction Ceremonies were carried out last March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. International PFA President Kevin Roach presided over the ceremonies assisted by British Columbia Section Chair Evelyn McNee, Western Canada Section Chair Tom Brenemen, and Canadian Trustee Barry Dolman, with over 90 Fellows and guests attending to induct 38 new Fellows into the Academy. |
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New members inducted were Drs. Larry Levin, Paul Germain, Brian Feldman, George Raborn, Dennis Fuchs, Ashok Varma, David Isen, David Lawson, Patricia Grassick, Tony Gill, Marcel Van Woensel, Lorne Wiseman, William McNiece, William Christie, Walter Dubrovolsky, Jonathon Lang, Gilbert Chapnick, Tony Chehade, Peter Doig, Kevin Doyle, Philip Shedletsky, Richard N. Rodney, Peter Nkansah, Keith Climenhaga, Peter M. Lobb, Jim Yuan Lai, Serge Langlois, Lisa McGregor, Ken Glover, Susan K. Chow, John B. Perry, Elizabeth Anne Toporowski, Michael Roux, Angelique Leung, Michele Williams, Peter E. Copp, Paul Andrews, and Robert Munce. Dr. Marcia Boyd was presented the PFA Distinguished Service Award in absentia for her outstanding contributions to dentistry as an educator and clinician. Marcia will be honoured again in Montreal at their next Meeting. Brian Henderson was presented with an Honorary PFA Fellowship for his many years of support to the profession as Director of Accreditation and Professional Services, and Associate Executive Director of the Canadian Dental Association. Also in attendance was President Louis Dube of the Canadian Dental Association, Vice President George Rhodes of Dentsply International, and Listerine Brand Manager Christine DaCoste of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. Also honoured at this event were the 10 Canadian student finalists who participated in the Student Clinician Program. They were the University of British Columbia’s Jasdip Minhas, the University of Alberta’s Derek Nordstrom, the University of Saskatchewan’s Kim Neudorf, the University of Manitoba’s Anita Glockner, the University of Western Ontario’s Ellen Park, the University of Toronto’s Amy Yuen, the University of Montreal’s Celine Messier, the University of McGill’s Melissa Lee, the University Laval’s Claude Raymond, and Dalhousie University’s Carlie Lemoine. The Canadian PFA Section will be holding a special event in Montreal during the FDI Congress to be held there in 2005. |
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| India The PFA Section held their 17th annual Convocation Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Sunday 23 November last year at the Hotel Savera in Chennai. The Invocation was given by Drs. Vidya Hari and Priya. Chairman Nilesh Gandhi welcomed the guests and discussed attending the PFA International Meeting in San Francisco. He reported that India remains the second largest Section in the world for the fifth year. Chair Gandhi introduced the Chief Guest, Dr. B. P. Rajan, former Vice Chancellor of the Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University in Chennai and special Representative of the Government of Tamilnadu at New Delhi. Secretary/Treasurer, Dr. T. Samraj, presented 23 new Fellows for induction. Chair Gandhi administered the PFA Pledge to the new Fellow. Chief Guest Dr. Rajan awarded the Fellowship Certificates while Chairman Gandhi presented the PFA pins and Chief Editor V. P. Jalili handed them the PFA pens. Chief Editor V. P. Jalili distributed their new issue of the Journal of the PFA India Section. |
The Awards were presented by the Chief Guest. The Best Student Award of Bapuji Dental College, Davangere, for 2000 was presented to Dr. Dinesh Singh Chauhan; and for 2003 to Dr. S. G. Jyothi. The Best Student Award of Maulana Azad Dental College in New Delhi for 2003 was presented to Dr. Ambica Kathuria. The PFA International Student Scholarship Award for 2003 was awarded to Sandeep Pawade, II BDS, G.D.C. of Aurangabad. The PFA International Certificate of Merit for 2002 was presented to Dr. Hari Parkash, Professor & head of the department of Dental Surgery for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Dehli. Chief Guest B. P. Rajan is an International Honorary Fellow of PFA. He spoke about the ideals of the Academy and challenged the new Fellows to set an example in their own lives. He also suggested establishing a Continuing Education Programme to pass on their education to their colleagues in dentistry. On behalf of the new Fellows, Dr. Ragini, Principal of I.T.S. Dental College, Murad Nagar responded to establish such programmes for PFA in their college during the ensuing year. Dr. Raji Viola Samraj compeered the evening’s events where 120 participants attended the dinner and 100 delegates attended the Convocation. |
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Spain Chair Jose M. Aguirre has planned their annual Ceremony in Cordoba this year in which the PFA Certificate of Merit would be posthumously awarded to their late outstanding Section Chairman Dr. Javier Garro. Macedonia Chair Professor Branislav Dastevskinotes that his is a small country on the Balkan Peninsula with about 2000 practicing dentists. They are planning to induct Professors Mile Cracev and Ljuben Guguvcevski of the Dental Faculty of Skopje University. He also invites us to the Macedonia Congress to be held there. |
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United States Florida Dr. Charles Mandell, a world lecturing implantologist, has thanked the Academy for being asked to become a Fellow in PFA. “It is an honor to be associated with this ethical and educational society.” Dr. Mandell is a diplomate of the International College of Oral Implantology, of the American Board of Implantology, a Fellow in the American Academy of Osseointegration, and has Fellowships in ADI and AGD. Illinois Past PFA President William Kort from Westchester has been honored in being elected to serve as the PFA Treasurer of the Foundation. Recently, he visited the Central Office in Las Vegas and toured the PFA Museum there. Secretary General Richard Kozal and Foundation Treasurer William Kort |
Editor Jim Brophy last February received the highest Illinois Lions Award, the Illinois Foundation Fellowship Award, for his years of service in collecting used eyeglasses for needy countries. A week later, he was again honored at the 50th anniversary dinner of his Knights of Columbus Council for being the most outstanding Council President in their half century of service. Last March, the Waukegan Elks Lodge presented him their “Elk of the Year Award” at their Installation Dinner.  Lion Jim Brophy Michigan The Winter 2004 issue of University of Detroit Mercy Alumni publication The Leading Edge reported on the Michigan PFA’s Bay Cliff Health Camp Project last year, recognizing the volunteers from UDM—Dr. Chris Newman (‘98); Dr. Margaret DeVor (‘02), a 12-year dental assistant to past President David Campbell, and Dental Hygienist Stephanie Newman (‘98). A photograph of the participants was also included in the article. In the same issue, the PFA Mentorship Project was reported as having 30 students from DS2, DS3, and DS4 participating where the students attend programs at the end of the school day three times yearly and are invited to the two Michigan PFA breakfasts where they interact with our Fellows and most of the Michigan Dental Association leaders. Eighteen students attended the PFA breakfast during the Detroit District Dental Review where Alexa Vitek, DS4, was presented the 2003 PFA Scholarship Award by UDM Dean Steiman. Two pictures were included with the article, all mentioning PFA. |
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| Missouri Section Chair Jim Kulild inducted Dr. Ernest Jackson into Fellowship last March during the Missouri PFA Meeting held in conjunction with the Midwest Dental Conference in Kansas City. Professor Kulild presented material on the new postgraduate endodontics program at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Dentistry.  Chair Jim Kulild inducts new Fellow Ernest Jackson Chairman Jim Kulild also presented the Foundation Scholarship award to Kevin Cunningham, a junior dental student at the UMKC School of Dentistry during their Scholarship Award Ceremonies in Kansas City last September. |
 Chair Jim Kulild congratulates Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Cunningham for receiving the Foundation Scholarship Louisiana Last March, the outstanding past Section Chair Peyton Sidney Nuewirth passed away from our ranks at the age of 92. A graduate of Northwestern School of Dentistry, he was born in New York, grew up in Tampa, lived in Peoria (Illinois) for 42 years and then moved to New Orleans. He served on the Illinois Board of Dental Examiners, and was very active in his community in the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. He became an Associate Professor at LSU’s School of Dentistry. He was an active leader in organized dentistry wherever he lived and was a great asset to the activities of the Louisiana PFA. |
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Kevin L. Roach President Canada Michael J. Perpich President-elect Minnesota Howard Mark Vice President Connecticut Richard A. Kozal Secretary General Nevada James M. Brophy Editor Illinois Gary Lowder Immediate Past President Utah |
REGION 1—Europe Pierre Marois France REGION 2—N.E. USA Richard Walsh Rhode Island REGION 3—S.E. USA Robert S. Hart Florida REGION 4—Midwest USA James A. Englander Wisconsin REGION 5—Western USA Charles Eller California REGION 6—Canada Barry Dolman Ontario REGION 7—Latin America Bernardo Levit Argentina REGION 8—Australasia William Winspear Australia REGION 9—Asia Mamoru Sakuda Japan REGION 10—Central USA Steve Hedlund Iowa |
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Carl Lundgren President California M. David Campbell Vice President Michigan Fred Halik Executive Director New York William Korte Treasurer Illinois George Higue Treasurer-emeritus California FOUNDATION EX-OFFICIO OFFICERS Kevin L. Roach |
C. Larry Barrett Iowa Gary Lowder Minoru Horiuchi |