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INDUCTION
CEREMONY –EUROPEAN SECTION President of the European
Section of the ICD, Fellow Peter Pré It is my great pleasure to greet you all. I would like to express my satisfaction and thanks for letting me, as the International President of the International College of Dentists, participate in the Annual Regents’ Meeting, and Convocation and Induction Ceremony of the European Section. I consider it a privilege to be invited to attend this most important, traditional activity your Section organizes every year. My wife, Mirza, and I have travelled a very long distance to reach this beautiful country. As you know, we are from Peru in South America. Certainly, we are very happy to be here. Our College is an institution built by visionaries and selfless people with the highest professional and personal qualifications. They are particularly known for having cultivated the highest values of brotherhood, friendship, and tolerance. Certainly these are the qualities that make the I.C.D. so great, where justice and truth prevail in its members’ vision of the future, in a world filled with problems, inequity, and abuse! The Sections and their Districts have a long-term goal of independency in their respective geographical areas. We must recognize that our Sections indicate the correct path for the College. The great potential of the I.C.D. emanates from its Sections. They bring together the most prestigious and best-known professionals in each District and Region. Precisely, these are the professionals who have the greatest influence and hold the most respected and accepted opinions. It is a source of great pride to know that the Fellows of the I.C.D. are the ones who lead, in their respective countries, the various academic, scientific, and professional organizations. Some Sections, Regions, and World
Executive Committee have achieved significant accomplishments.
However, there are some critical subjects that still require solution.
For these, we urgently need the active participation and assistance
of the more experienced members of our College. The College is
constantly reaffirming its basic philosophical concepts. Let me
mention a few: These past years the I.C.D. Executive Committee has been working on subjects of vital importance to develop functions and achieve the College’s objectives. This has been done, primarily, to secure institutional growth and development. The following stand out and should be emphasized: 1. Communications:
They are fundamental and have first priority in the successful
development of the I.C.D. We are living in the electronic era
and all sorts of electronic devices facilitate communications.
We must take advantage of these unique opportunities to practice
the primary concept that originated the ICD; namely, the fluid
exchange of information among the members of the College. Our
Communications and Information and Technology Committees as well
as the Editor are developing a kind of ICD Information System
that entails practical and more efficient means for spreading
relevant and useful information. Nonetheless, we must prepare a programme for the future. Our past is specially enriching when we are knowledgeable about the institution to which we belong. We are intensely living the present, enjoying the ICD’s large and significant achievements throughout the world. But, more important yet is to design and truly know the road we wish to travel. This is especially true for those of us who still actively participating in manifold activities. It also applies to the new leaders of the profession who will have to make decisions and take on responsibilities within the frame of an optimistic and enthusiastic perspective. To end, I would like to address very briefly each one of the Fellows who were incorporated into our International College of Dentists. Your professional and personal merits, as well as your high Ethical standards, have qualified you for membership in this unique and pre-eminent international honorary dental organization. Welcome to your new home! The International College of Dentists enjoys prestige and is well known for the services it performs. Now you have the unique opportunity to serve your College, your profession as well as humankind. Dear colleagues, thank you again for your wonderful hospitality! I congratulate you for this successful meeting and I wish you all a successful year in all your endeavors. This particular happy occasion is my wife’s and my biggest reward for the efforts involved in undertaking such a long journey. Thank you! RAMON CASTILLO, D.D.S., M.S.
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