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International College of Dentists 
Minutes - International Council Meeting 
Friday 15 June, 2001 

1. The meeting of the International Council of the International College of Dentists was held at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich, Germany, on 15 June 2001. President Richard Schoessler called the meeting to order at 7:50 AM. President-Elect Vic Lanctis offered the opening prayer.

2. The roll was taken by Secretary General Robert Brady.

Present were:

President  Richard J. Schoessler, USA
President-Elect  V. J. Lanctis, Canada
Vice President  Minoru Horiuchi, USA
Immediate Past President  Sydenham Dobbin, Australia (Excused) 
Treasurer  James P. Kerrigan, USA (Excused) 
Editor   William E. Hawkins, USA
Secretary General  Robert E. Brady, USA
Deputy-Secretary General  George D. Selfridge, USA (Excused) 

Councilmen: 

R. K. Bali  India (Absent) 
Antonio Bello  Mexico
Lon D. Carroll  USA
Ramon Castillo  Peru
Chao Chang Chan  Taiwan
Donald E. Compaan  USA
Thomas E. Emmering  USA
Cyrill Gaum  USA
B. David Glynn  England
Tatsuya Ishikawa  Japan (Excused) 
Donald E. Johnson  USA
Levon Karjian  Lebanon
John B. Lathrop  USA
Gordon M. Marshall  Canada
Emanuel W. Michaels  USA (Excused) 
Norinaga Moriyama  Japan
Luis F. Orosa  Philippines (Excused) 
Lloyd J. Phillips  USA
George Read-Ward  UK
Richard A. Shick  USA
Choo Soo Teo  Singapore (Excused) 
Andreas Tsoutsos  Greece (Excused) 
Woong Yang  Korea (Absent) 

A quorum was present.

Others in attendance:

Gerrit van der Harst  Netherlands
Manfred Seidmann  Chile
Richard Smith  USA

Dr. Woong Yang arrived late afternoon as a result of aircraft problems.

3. The corrected and approved minutes of 12 October 2000 were opened for discussion.

A) Dr. Lanctis discussed 4.E.iv of the minutes. It was left as written.

B) Dr. Lanctis discussed 7.C.ii. Dr. Read-Ward moved to charge for the ICD History.  Dr. Lanctis seconded the motion. The motion was defeated.

C) Dr. Lanctis discussed 8.D.i.c. The word "request" will be removed.

D) Minutes should be made available as soon as possible. Dr. Lanctis moved that the draft should be produced in 45 days if possible and the final minutes in 90 days, if possible. Dr. Marshall seconded and the Council approved. Dr. Lanctis moved to buy a recorder for recording minutes and Dr. Marshall seconded. The motion was approved.

E) Dr. Carroll moved to approve the minutes. Dr. Glynn seconded the motion and the Council approved the motion

4. Officers' Reports

A) President Schoessler: He opened with the quote, "If you were born before 1962, you can consider yourself an immigrant to today's society."

His travels have taken him to Toronto for the Canadian ICD meeting where he also met with the Registrar-Secretary General Committee and Dr. Brady to discuss the Secretary General contract. He will go to the Charleston, South Carolina and Kansas City, Missouri meetings with the USA Section. Kuala Lumpur will see him in September, and in November he will go to Buenos Aires, Argentina for Section IV (South America) meeting.

Dr. Schoessler talked about Immediate Past President Dobbin of Australia. He is doing well but was not up to the trip to Munich. He requested the By-Laws Committee add a provision to the College By-Laws for the Nominating Committee so that the next senior past president is utilized as a member if one of the current members is absent.

He (Dr. Schoessler) is excited about our website because it will give us international exposure and potentially allow each Section to display what it wants under the umbrella of the College. We will see a demonstration later in the meeting.

B) President-Elect Lanctis: He read his report and submitted it in writing (addendum1).

C) Vice President Horiuchi: He went to the Japanese Section meeting this year. He wants to explore the following with the Constitution and By-Laws Committee: every other year the Council meets in the USA with the USA Section at their annual meeting. Therefore, every other year the Council meets outside the USA. A USA Section Fellow is the President of the Council every other year. Every other year a Section other than the USA has a President. The objective is for the Council meeting to be held in the Section whose Fellow is President of the International College of Dentists that year.

D) Treasurer Kerrigan: Secretary General Brady gave His report. All aspects of the report are included in the Council Book. At the bottom of page 31 (disbursement of funds) net increase for 2000 and not 2001 as indicated. Dr. Lathrop moved to accept the Treasurer's Report. Dr. Johnson seconded the motion and the Council approved.

E) Editor Hawkins: He made an oral report and submitted his written report. His four motions will be deferred until after the web site report.

F) Dr. Schoessler announced that past president Gerrit van der Harst had joined us at the meeting.

5. Secretary General Brady: His report was provided in the Council Book.

6. Standing Committee Reports 

A) Awards Committee - Dr. Loflin: Secretary General provided report that no awards were recommended.

B) College Growth and Development Committee -Dr. Castillo: There was no activity so no report was given.

C) Constitution Committee - Dr. Carroll: The Committee moved and seconded acceptance of the Constitution and By-Law's. Under discussion, Dr. Johnson requested to delay the motion until after Resolution # 1 (realignment presented by Councilman Teo Choo Soo in 1999). President Schoessler deferred with the Constitution Committee's agreement. Dr. Shick had several minor editorial changes and he asked for and was given permission by the Council to mail them to Dr. Carroll for his consideration.

D) Finance Committee - Dr. Schoessler: The Finance Committee will meet during the lunch hour and report back after that.

E) Rehabilitation and Appeal Committee - Dr. Dobbin: Dr. Dobbin was excused absence but there was no activity therefore there were no reports.

7. Special Committee Reports 

A) Projects and Funding Committee - Dr. Phillips: The written report was filed and Dr. Phillips moved for approval. Dr. Carroll seconded the motion and the Council approved.

B) Long-Term Investment Committee - Dr. Johnson: Currently there are no funds available for long term investment. Secretary General Brady explained that the current bank used for the checking account has been closed and a new account at First Union National Bank has been opened. The advantages were explained.

Dr. Glynn moved that for long-term investing we should use the same guidelines as the USA Section. Dr. Shick seconded the motion and the Council approved.

President Schoessler directed a letter be written to each Secretary General/Registrar of each Section explaining the action.

C) History Committee - Dr. Shaffer: Secretary General Brady presented the History report. Each Section will be given 40 copies. Dr. Phillips moved to have the Secretary General write a letter of appreciation to Dr. Shaffer for a job well done. Dr. Moriyama seconded the motion. In discussion a request was made to defer the motion until Section IV makes its report. Dr. Phillips agreed.

8. Section Reports

A) Section 1 - USA: Written report submitted. Nothing to add.

B) Section 2 - Canada: Annual meeting was held in Toronto. Written report was submitted. Newsletter was passed out.

C) Section 3 - Mexico: Dr. Bello talked about President Sakar and President Elect Zeron. Written report was submitted.

The Council recessed at 9:27 AM.

The Council resumed at 9:37 AM.

D) Section 4 - South America: Dr. Castillo presented the report that was submitted. He introduced Dr. Seidemann who thanked the USA Section Foundation and the Richard Molton Fund for providing a speaker each year to South America. Over 6,000 dentists in South America have learned more about dentistry because of this. He thanked Drs. Aronson, Brady, Johnson and Shaffer for their help. This project was started ten years ago when Dr. Loflin came to South America to lecture.

Dr. Castillo directed the Council to page seven of the Section IV report and moved that motions 1, 2, and 4 be forwarded to the Constitution and By-Laws committee for their consideration. Dr. Johnson seconded the motion and the Council approved.

Motion 1: Article VIII of the Constitution shall be amended to add: Section 3.

Reporting Fees. Rosters indicating the names and addresses of the Candidates or Fellows included in the payment must accompany all payments. This applies to Annual Capitation Fees as well as Induction Fees. It shall be the duty of the Secretary General of the College to enforce, requirement.

Motion 2: The Constitution, Article VII, Section 6, shall be amended to add a Standing Committee entitled History Committee. Motion: The By-Laws, Article IV, Section 1, shall be amended to add the following duties under History Committee: Annually record the History of the College and provide this information to the membership at least every five years either via published document or over the world wide web.

Motion 4: The By-Laws, Article III, Section 1, C, "Councilmen," shall be amended as follows:
Add Section 6. It shall be considered a conflict of interest for a Councilman to accept or hold a similar position on any other "International Honorary Dental Organization while serving the International College of Dentists."

Dr. Castillo moved motion 3 from page 7 of the Section IV report. This was the same motion that Dr. Phillips deferred earlier. This motion was again seconded by Dr. Moriyama and the Council approved.

Motion 3: The International Council hereby expresses sincere appreciation to Fellow Richard G. Shaffer for his efforts and commends the quality of the publication "From Founding to the New Millennium, 1920-2000." The College President shall transmit such Commendation.

Dr. Bello requested that Section IV report page 2, last paragraph be charged from "Latin America to "South America." Dr. Castillo agreed. Dr. Johnson requested (that the web site in South America have English on it, because it is the language of the College. Dr. Castillo agreed.

A discussion occurred because Section IV is deleting Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as districts. Dr. Lanctis wanted more information as to why they were being dropped. If it was money, perhaps the fees could be changed. Dr. Marshall said we should leave the decision to Section IV who has said those districts were not interested.

E) Section 5 - Europe: Dr. Read-Ward informed the Council he is resigning from the Council at the conclusion of this meeting because he disagrees on many subjects. The History and Globe costs concern him. He feels the Council does not discuss important issues at the meetings and there is lack of subcommittee time and discussion.

The written report was submitted. Dr. Read-Ward then provided a video demonstration of where the European web site is currently. He believes it has great education potential and there can be day to day use of the web site. He also believes this would enable us to reach the less fortunate colleagues and, as an example, the Ukraine who was added this year.

The European Board of Regents gave 1,000 pounds to the project this year.

Dr. Lathrop was sorry to hear Dr. Read-Ward felt that way about the Council and asked him to reconsider his resignation.

F) Section 6 - India: Dr. Bali was not here so no report was submitted.

G) Section 7 - Japan: Dr. Moriyama presented a report orally and the written report was filed in the Council book.

H) Section 8 - Australasian: Dr. Dobbin could not be here so no report was given.

I) Section 9 - Philippine Islands: Dr. Orosa could not be here so no report was filed.

J) Section 10 - Middle East: Dr. Karjin presented an oral report. Written report was filed.

K) Section 11 - Korea: Dr. Woong Yang was unable to attend the meeting because of airline problems so no report was filed.

L) Section 12 - Chinese Taipei: Dr. Chan gave an oral report.

M) Section 20 - International Section: Dr. Teo could not be here but his report was passed out and filed. 

9. The Council went into Executive Session at 11:20 AM to discuss the Secretary General's Contract. At 11:40 AM they asked for the Secretary General to come into the room. At 11:55 AM they came out of Executive Session and returned to General Session.

Dr. Glynn moved that the contract discussion was agreeable to the Council and Dr. Brady, and should now be forwarded to the USA Section for their discussion. Dr. Lathrop seconded the motion and the Council approved.

When Mary Jo and Dr. Brady return to the office they should request from the officers of each section their correct address, phone number, fax number and email address.

10. Miscellaneous Business:

A) Future Council Meetings: Dr. Brady discussed what was known about each city and country and date. In 2002, the Council meeting will be one and one-half days (Wednesday and Thursday, 16 and 17 October). 

B) Master Candidates:

1) Dr. Brady nominated Richard C. Rice of Section I. Dr. Phillips moved for acceptance and Dr. Johnson seconded. The Council approved.

2) Dr. Castillo nominated Walter Lieber Bielli of Section IV. Dr. Castillo moved for acceptance and Dr. Carroll seconded. The Council approved.

3) Dr. Brady nominated Diampo J. Lim of Section IX because the Councilman from the Philippine Islands Section was an excused absence. Dr. Johnson moved for acceptance and Dr. Phillips seconded. The Council approved.

A discussion occurred about the number of Master Fellows different Sections have in relation to the number of Fellows in the Section. Dr. Phillips explained the process. 

The Council recessed for lunch and photo at 12:21 PM.

The Council reconvened at 1:30 PM.

During the lunch break the Finance Committee reviewed the year 2000 financial records. They found everything in proper order and Dr. Schoessler moved for acceptance. Dr. Lathrop seconded and the Council approved. 

C) Secretary General 
1) In 1999 Section IV made two proposals which were sent to all Sections for response (pages 55-58 of 2001 Council Book). In the 2000 Council meeting the Secretary General had asked to defer definitely until the 2001 Council meeting. The Council had agreed. At this meeting Section IV agreed that the Motto and Mission statement adopted at the 2000 Council Meetings satisfied the two proposals and no other response was necessary.

2) At the Council meeting in 1999 the Secretary-General was requested to identify by numbers the Active Fellows, Life Fellows, Master and honorary Fellows for each Section and Regions of the International Section. The Secretary General asked the information be definitely deferred until the 2001 Council meeting. The information is displayed on page 59 of the 2001 Council book. Members of the Council were then asked to verify the numbers so the Central Office could be more accurate.

3) Resolution #1 postponed until after the web site demonstration under New Business.

4) Dr. Chandna, Secretary General of the India Section has once again requested the Council allow Section VI to make a one time payment for induction and all capitation fees for each Fellow (a lifetime payment). Dr. Bali, the Councilman for Section VI, was not available to discuss this request. Dr. Phillips moved that Dr. Brady send a letter again to Section VI explaining the Council cannot accept their request. Dr. Carroll seconded the Motion and the Council approved.

11. New Business:

Dr. Johnson, Councilman of the USA Section, and Dr. Richard Smith of the USA Section presented a demonstration of the web site they created to be used as the web site of the International College of Dentists. A great deal of discussion ensued and Drs. Johnson and Smith demonstrated how it could be an umbrella site whereby the click on a country flag would put you into that Section's web site.

Dr. Johnson moved that the International Council adopt the domain name http://www.icd.org and authorize the Information Technology Committee to make a final preparation for a permanent web site for the International College of Dentists and approve an amendment to the budget to support the same. Dr. Lathrop seconded the motion and the Council approved.

Dr. Johnson informed the Council that when the USA Section meets in July, they would be requested to relinquish the domain name that the College wishes to adopt. He also mentioned many things that could be placed on the site. Dr. Brady requested that the toll free number not be published.

Dr. Johnson told the Council that $3,000.00 (US) would be needed is funds for 2001, and $3,000.00 (US) would be needed in the budget for 2002.

Dr. Glynn moved to increase the 2001 budget by $3,000.00 (US) for the website and increase the 2002 budget by $3,000.00 (US). Dr. Marshall seconded the motion and the Council approved.

Dr. Read-Ward suggested the European flag use a blue field with gold stars in the circle. He also suggested that the updated date be placed on each page. 

The Council now took up the motions of the Editor's report (4E).

Dr. Hawkins offered the first motion: increase the funding to the College from the Sections in the amount of $5.00 per active member. Dr. Shick seconded the motion. Dr. Lanctis and Dr. Read-Ward offered discussion. Dr. Hawkins offered an amendment to the motion to refer the original motion to the Sections so they can report to the Council at the 2002 meeting. Dr. Shick seconded the amendment and the Council approved. The Council then approved the amended motion.

Dr. Hawkins withdrew motions B and C.

Dr. Hawkins offered motion D: Reimbursement for travel and 2 days per diem for the Editor of the College to the Council Board meeting, and the supervising of the publications and the placement of the materials on the web. Dr. Read-Ward seconded the motion. The Council did not approve. The Council approved the motion being referred to the Finance Committee for consideration.

Resolution #1 from Miscellaneous Business was brought forth.

In 1999, Dr. Teo Choo Soo, the International Councilman, asked for three changes to the Regions of the International Section. The Constitution and By-Laws Committee deferred until 2000 because Dr. Teo was not present. Dr. Teo was unable to present in 2000 so the resolutions were deferred again to the 2001 meeting. Due to Hong Kong being returned to China, Dr. Teo was requested to redefine his resolution. He did as the following indicates:

a. Vietnam, which is in Region 23, could be relocated to Legion 31.

b. Malaysia, which is in Region 25, could be relocated to Region 33.

c. China and Hong Kong should remain in Region 22 but be identified as 22a and 22b.

Dr. Glynn moved to accept the Section 20 changes as proposed by Dr. Teo. Dr. Carroll seconded the motion. During discussion Dr. Hawkins moved an amendment to the motion to divide the proposal into 2 parts: Vietnam and Malaysia considered together and China and Hong Kong considered together. Dr. Phillips seconded and the Council passed the amendment.

As further discussion occurred, Dr. Glynn moved to reconsider the amendment just passed. Dr. Shick seconded the motion and the Council passed.

The prevailing thought is that Dr. Teo is the Councilman and he is the one who made the proposal. He is more familiar with the area than the rest of the Council.

The Council then passed the original motion on the floor, which is what Dr. Teo proposed.

12. Budget Approval: Dr. Brady presented the budget because Dr. Kerrigan was excused.  Dr. Lathrop moved to pass the budget as amended earlier to increase the Internet Project to $3,000.00 (US). Dr. Phillips seconded the motion and the Council approved (addendum 2).

13. Nominating Committee Report: Dr. Glynn moved to accept the report and Dr. Johnson seconded. The Council approved.

When asked if there were any nominations from the floor Dr. Phillips moved to close the nominations. Dr. Carroll seconded the motion and the Council approved. Since there were no other nominations, the Nominating Committee's report stands and Dr. Horiuchi is elected as President-Elect, Dr. Castillo is elected as Vice President and Dr. Kerrigan is elected as Treasurer. Dr. Hawkins is appointed as Editor and Dr. Selfridge is appointed as Deputy Secretary General.

Dr. Horiuchi moved that the Council meeting be held in the country of the sitting president. Dr. Hawkins seconded the motion. Under discussion Dr. Carroll opposed. The Council approved and sent the motion to the College Growth and Development committee.

Dr. Carroll moved to accept the Constitution and By-Laws as amended by Resolution #1.  Dr. Read-Ward seconded and the Council approved.

Dr. Castillo mentioned the College Growth and Development Committee has 2 proposals that they will discuss and present at the Council Meeting in New Orleans 2002.

14. Dr. Schoessler thanked the Council for having been nominated to be the President of the International College of Dentists. He and Dr. Lanctis exchanged the gavel.

Dr. Lanctis expressed personal congratulations to Dr. Schoessler for his competent chairmanship of this meeting as well as the Council meeting in Chicago where he had to stand in for Dr. Dobbin. On behalf of all Council members, he wished him well on the remainder of his tenure as President and on his upcoming visits to various Sections. He informed Council that the usual Committee roster could not be finalized at this juncture because of upcoming retirements on Council and the fact that replacements were not yet known. He thanked members of Council for their past support and, in soliciting their continued understanding and patience, he likened the College to fine rare wine which likewise requires attentive care as well as adequate maturation in order to reach its full potential!

Dr. Lanctis adjourned the meeting at 3:55 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert E. Brady, D.M.D.
Secretary General/Registrar


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