President Mark Butters President Elect/Membership Nick

President Mark Butters ● President Elect/Membership Nick Pisalyaput
Immediate Past President Andrew MacPherson ● Vice President Michael Doyle
Vice President Prasert Mangkornkarn ● Secretary Dana Caron ● Rotary Foundation Jon Plate
Fund Raising Douglas Riach ● Communications Rakesh Sodhia ● Administration Dean Outerson
Treasurer Adrian Topham ● Service Projects David Record ● Sergeant-at-arms Rudy van der Hoeven
Chris Thatcher & Team
New Year Predictions
No 3423
6 January 2012
Winston Fiore (Sgt/USM)
Smile Trek: 5,000-mile trek to bring smiles to their faces
While Winston could
have talked about his
adventures, he was
obviously more prepared
to talk about the
International Children's
Surgical Foundation
he supports.
With this in mind, I
thought it would be
best to follow suit and
provide a brief intro to
the group he is supporting.
In 1998, plastic surgeon
Dr Geoff Williams traveled to
northern India to perform free surgery.
His second patient was a 26-
year-old man with a severe cleft lip
that had never been treated. Dismayed
anyone would have to suffer
for so long with such an easilycorrectable
deformity, he was
shocked when he learned the patient
and his father had traveled from Nepal
after hearing of an American doctor
coming to operate for free.
After the successful surgery, the
man, paradoxically, seemed expressionless,
prompting Dr Williams to
ask the father if his son
was happy. The father,
having sought in vain
for 26 years to find
treatment for his son,
became emotional and
explained that his son
was actually very happy
but had learned to not
smile because when he
did, his cleft lip opened
even wider for the world
to see.
This patient opened Dr
Williams' eyes to the alltoo-common
problem of children in
the third world having to live with correctable
deformities due to a lack of
resources and the tragic effect on
their lives.
Subsequently, during his five-year
faculty appointment as Assistant Professor
of Plastic Surgery at the University
of Texas Medical Branch
Medical Center, he continued his volunteer
work by donating his surgical
expertise in poor countries, at times
using his vacation time and paying
his own way.
Feeling his efforts were not quite
enough in fighting a problem that
was too large, he left all practice in
the United States at the age of 47
and began volunteering full-time, financing
his work largely out of his
own savings.
Realizing his work was too vital to
not carry on, Dr Williams, in 2005
created the International Children's
Surgical Foundation to support and
sustain the work of changing the
lives of third world children who
would otherwise be confined to lives
of seclusion and shame.
He has recruited a wide array of specialists
trained in treating childhood
deformities including orthopedics, ear
-nose-throat, maxillofacial, burns and
neurosurgery.
Dr Williams' vision has now become
ICSF's mission, which is to provide
free corrective surgery to poor thirdworld
children suffering with correctable
deformities and to exponentially
magnify this effort by teaching and
training the doctors in these countries
to adequately care for their own
patients and train their own students.
For more information; visit http://
www.icsfoundation.org/

Rotary in pictures
The newest Rotary Club of Bangkok
South Fashion Statement… Glass
up… smiles on...
All smiles as Rtn Narinder has yet to receive his
500-Baht call…
All smiles as it is the last meeting of the year...

CIMB Huaykwang Community Computer Center
KSN (Non-Formal Education)
The CIMB Huaykwang Community
Computer Center was furnished
and renovated with a 500K
Baht donation from CIMB Foundation
and has been administered by
Rotary Club of Bangkok South.
The transformation in the facilities
and students is quite remarkable
and will be invaluable to the lowincome
community the center
serves.
The grand opening for the center
is set for January and all Rotarians
are welcome to attend.
The students in these pictures are
teenagers who came from Northern
Thailand with no formal education.
The 10 to 15 students have studied
with KSN (Non-Formal Education)
for the past few years and
are now at the 6th grade level.
The center is open six days a
week and has three formal
classes per day.
Article and Photos By Rtn Vince
Shueh

Khun Prakai’s
Club Almanac
No 3423 6 January 2012
Happy Birthdays
PP Wanit Mekdhanasarn (3 January)
Rui Belo
(5 January)
Volker Betsch
(5 January)
Attendance for 23 December 2011: 56%
Present 31, Make-up 15, Absent 36, Exemption 26,
Total 108
Visiting on 9 December 2011
From Abroad:
Per Dibber (Bruxelles Vesale, Belgium)
Hans Mannheim (Minerva, Holland)
Holger Michael (Berlin Gendarmen, Germany)
Denise Spaull (Cape Town Noon Gun, South Africa)
Robert Spaull (Cape Town Noon Gun, South Africa)
Invited Guests
Stuart Lucani
Bernard Collin
Mark Shaw
Peter Formhals
Gary Gregson
Stephen Berghoff
Introduced by
Doug Riach
Tim Cornwall
Chris Thatcher
IPP Andrew MacPherson
Dana Caron
Tim Cornwall
Recent Make-up
Suanluang, 18/12/11: PP Vichai Tantrativud
Make-up Credit
Rotary Foundation Committee, 14/12/11: Jon Plate,
Rod Vergara, PP Narinder Sachdev, PP Krit Wongsaengarunsri,
PP Vichai Tantrativud, Krin Charnmayteesakul,
Manu Mekdhanasarn, Rui Belo
Board of Directors,19/12/11: P Mark Butters, Prasert
Mangkornkarn, PE Nick Pisalyaput, Dana Caron, Adrian
Topham, Ian Morris, Douglas Riach, Jon Plate, David
Record, Dean Outerson, Rudy van der Hoeven
Flood Rehabilitation Committee, 19/12/11: PP Philip
Baechtold, IPP Andrew MacPherson, P Mark Butters,
Prasert Mangkornkarn, Jon Plate
Golf Sponsorship, 20/12/11: Douglas Riach, Tyrone
Jenkins
Club Calendar
Friday, 13 January (Lunch)
Dr Mike Moreton
Epidemics
Friday, 20 January (Lunch)
HE Douglas Gibson
Ambassador of South Africa
to the Kingdom of Thailand
Friday, 27 January
06.00 to 14.00
Coins on Silom
Polio Plus Phase 1: 18 January 2012
Thursday, 02 February (Paul Harris Dinner)
Pichai Chuensuksawadi
Polio Plus Phase 2: 15 February 2012
Thursday, 01 March 2012
Club Golf Tournament
For Bangkok South Events
rotarybangkoksouth.org/
calendar-of-events
South Wind Editorial Team
Tim Cornwall (Editor), Gary White,
Jamie Cummiskey, Geoffrey Carter,
Chris Thatcher (Photographer)
Suggestions, comments or content to
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