President Mark Butters President Elect/Membership Nick
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<strong>President</strong> <strong>Mark</strong> <strong>Butters</strong> ● <strong>President</strong> <strong>Elect</strong>/<strong>Membership</strong> <strong>Nick</strong> Pisalyaput<br />
Immediate Past <strong>President</strong> Andrew MacPherson ● Vice <strong>President</strong> Michael Doyle<br />
Vice <strong>President</strong> Prasert Mangkornkarn ● Secretary Dana Caron ● Rotary Foundation Jon Plate<br />
Fund Raising Douglas Riach ● Communications Rakesh Sodhia ● Administration Dean Outerson<br />
Treasurer Adrian Topham ● Service Projects David Record ● Sergeant-at-arms Rudy van der Hoeven<br />
Chris Thatcher & Team<br />
New Year Predictions<br />
No 3423<br />
6 January 2012<br />
Winston Fiore (Sgt/USM)<br />
Smile Trek: 5,000-mile trek to bring smiles to their faces<br />
While Winston could<br />
have talked about his<br />
adventures, he was<br />
obviously more prepared<br />
to talk about the<br />
International Children's<br />
Surgical Foundation<br />
he supports.<br />
With this in mind, I<br />
thought it would be<br />
best to follow suit and<br />
provide a brief intro to<br />
the group he is supporting.<br />
In 1998, plastic surgeon<br />
Dr Geoff Williams traveled to<br />
northern India to perform free surgery.<br />
His second patient was a 26-<br />
year-old man with a severe cleft lip<br />
that had never been treated. Dismayed<br />
anyone would have to suffer<br />
for so long with such an easilycorrectable<br />
deformity, he was<br />
shocked when he learned the patient<br />
and his father had traveled from Nepal<br />
after hearing of an American doctor<br />
coming to operate for free.<br />
After the successful surgery, the<br />
man, paradoxically, seemed expressionless,<br />
prompting Dr Williams to<br />
ask the father if his son<br />
was happy. The father,<br />
having sought in vain<br />
for 26 years to find<br />
treatment for his son,<br />
became emotional and<br />
explained that his son<br />
was actually very happy<br />
but had learned to not<br />
smile because when he<br />
did, his cleft lip opened<br />
even wider for the world<br />
to see.<br />
This patient opened Dr<br />
Williams' eyes to the alltoo-common<br />
problem of children in<br />
the third world having to live with correctable<br />
deformities due to a lack of<br />
resources and the tragic effect on<br />
their lives.<br />
Subsequently, during his five-year<br />
faculty appointment as Assistant Professor<br />
of Plastic Surgery at the University<br />
of Texas Medical Branch<br />
Medical Center, he continued his volunteer<br />
work by donating his surgical<br />
expertise in poor countries, at times<br />
using his vacation time and paying<br />
his own way.<br />
Feeling his efforts were not quite<br />
enough in fighting a problem that<br />
was too large, he left all practice in<br />
the United States at the age of 47<br />
and began volunteering full-time, financing<br />
his work largely out of his<br />
own savings.<br />
Realizing his work was too vital to<br />
not carry on, Dr Williams, in 2005<br />
created the International Children's<br />
Surgical Foundation to support and<br />
sustain the work of changing the<br />
lives of third world children who<br />
would otherwise be confined to lives<br />
of seclusion and shame.<br />
He has recruited a wide array of specialists<br />
trained in treating childhood<br />
deformities including orthopedics, ear<br />
-nose-throat, maxillofacial, burns and<br />
neurosurgery.<br />
Dr Williams' vision has now become<br />
ICSF's mission, which is to provide<br />
free corrective surgery to poor thirdworld<br />
children suffering with correctable<br />
deformities and to exponentially<br />
magnify this effort by teaching and<br />
training the doctors in these countries<br />
to adequately care for their own<br />
patients and train their own students.<br />
For more information; visit http://<br />
www.icsfoundation.org/
Rotary in pictures<br />
The newest Rotary Club of Bangkok<br />
South Fashion Statement… Glass<br />
up… smiles on...<br />
All smiles as Rtn Narinder has yet to receive his<br />
500-Baht call…<br />
All smiles as it is the last meeting of the year...
CIMB Huaykwang Community Computer Center<br />
KSN (Non-Formal Education)<br />
The CIMB Huaykwang Community<br />
Computer Center was furnished<br />
and renovated with a 500K<br />
Baht donation from CIMB Foundation<br />
and has been administered by<br />
Rotary Club of Bangkok South.<br />
The transformation in the facilities<br />
and students is quite remarkable<br />
and will be invaluable to the lowincome<br />
community the center<br />
serves.<br />
The grand opening for the center<br />
is set for January and all Rotarians<br />
are welcome to attend.<br />
The students in these pictures are<br />
teenagers who came from Northern<br />
Thailand with no formal education.<br />
The 10 to 15 students have studied<br />
with KSN (Non-Formal Education)<br />
for the past few years and<br />
are now at the 6th grade level.<br />
The center is open six days a<br />
week and has three formal<br />
classes per day.<br />
Article and Photos By Rtn Vince<br />
Shueh
Khun Prakai’s<br />
Club Almanac<br />
No 3423 6 January 2012<br />
Happy Birthdays<br />
PP Wanit Mekdhanasarn (3 January)<br />
Rui Belo<br />
(5 January)<br />
Volker Betsch<br />
(5 January)<br />
Attendance for 23 December 2011: 56%<br />
Present 31, Make-up 15, Absent 36, Exemption 26,<br />
Total 108<br />
Visiting on 9 December 2011<br />
From Abroad:<br />
Per Dibber (Bruxelles Vesale, Belgium)<br />
Hans Mannheim (Minerva, Holland)<br />
Holger Michael (Berlin Gendarmen, Germany)<br />
Denise Spaull (Cape Town Noon Gun, South Africa)<br />
Robert Spaull (Cape Town Noon Gun, South Africa)<br />
Invited Guests<br />
Stuart Lucani<br />
Bernard Collin<br />
<strong>Mark</strong> Shaw<br />
Peter Formhals<br />
Gary Gregson<br />
Stephen Berghoff<br />
Introduced by<br />
Doug Riach<br />
Tim Cornwall<br />
Chris Thatcher<br />
IPP Andrew MacPherson<br />
Dana Caron<br />
Tim Cornwall<br />
Recent Make-up<br />
Suanluang, 18/12/11: PP Vichai Tantrativud<br />
Make-up Credit<br />
Rotary Foundation Committee, 14/12/11: Jon Plate,<br />
Rod Vergara, PP Narinder Sachdev, PP Krit Wongsaengarunsri,<br />
PP Vichai Tantrativud, Krin Charnmayteesakul,<br />
Manu Mekdhanasarn, Rui Belo<br />
Board of Directors,19/12/11: P <strong>Mark</strong> <strong>Butters</strong>, Prasert<br />
Mangkornkarn, PE <strong>Nick</strong> Pisalyaput, Dana Caron, Adrian<br />
Topham, Ian Morris, Douglas Riach, Jon Plate, David<br />
Record, Dean Outerson, Rudy van der Hoeven<br />
Flood Rehabilitation Committee, 19/12/11: PP Philip<br />
Baechtold, IPP Andrew MacPherson, P <strong>Mark</strong> <strong>Butters</strong>,<br />
Prasert Mangkornkarn, Jon Plate<br />
Golf Sponsorship, 20/12/11: Douglas Riach, Tyrone<br />
Jenkins<br />
Club Calendar<br />
Friday, 13 January (Lunch)<br />
Dr Mike Moreton<br />
Epidemics<br />
Friday, 20 January (Lunch)<br />
HE Douglas Gibson<br />
Ambassador of South Africa<br />
to the Kingdom of Thailand<br />
Friday, 27 January<br />
06.00 to 14.00<br />
Coins on Silom<br />
Polio Plus Phase 1: 18 January 2012<br />
Thursday, 02 February (Paul Harris Dinner)<br />
Pichai Chuensuksawadi<br />
Polio Plus Phase 2: 15 February 2012<br />
Thursday, 01 March 2012<br />
Club Golf Tournament<br />
For Bangkok South Events<br />
rotarybangkoksouth.org/<br />
calendar-of-events<br />
South Wind Editorial Team<br />
Tim Cornwall (Editor), Gary White,<br />
Jamie Cummiskey, Geoffrey Carter,<br />
Chris Thatcher (Photographer)<br />
Suggestions, comments or content to<br />
southwind@rotarybangkoksouth.org