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Letters to the Editors IHR GETS AN ‘A’ RATING ON AEA LEADER PROFILE
Dear Editors: I thoroughly enjoyed International Hair Route’s profile on Teresa Petricca in your December issue. She deserves huge congratulations for all that she has achieved. – Janet Ellard-Smith British Assoc. of Electrolysists
Editors’ Note: The article “Teresa Petricca: Electrology’s First Lady” brought the Magazine many compliments, and we are told Ms. Petricca herself received a great amount of congratulations. For more letters in this vein see “IHR Gets an ‘A’ Rating On AEA Leader Profile,” below
FATE OF IGPE NOW IN HANDS OF CONVENTION ATTENDEES Dear Editors: I am writing on behalf of the new Ethical IGPE Coalition, which has been formed in response to the Terry Brooks letter, “Sa ‘Nay’ to Brown’s Lasermania,” in the December 2001 issue of Hair Route. The Ethical IGPE Coalition has come together to protect the total destruction of the International Guild of Professional Electrologists, preserve the integrity of its original Charter (proven needle electrology only), and protect the Organization from further threat by the laser onslaught. While the American Electrology Association (AEA) has done a fine job of keeping our profession free of infidels, Trudy Brown, the current president of the IGPE, has been practicing laser hair removal in complete violation of IGPE’s original bylaws. Ms. Brown’s moral turpitude and lack of respect for the IGPE bylaws has been an insult to Fino Gior, the Organization’s founder, and to the electrology profession in general. The current IGPE board and its president are presently embarrassing our profession by attempting to change the IGPE’s name and function to meet their own purposes. To compound the injury, the entire executive board of the Society of Clinical and Medical Electrologists (SCME) has pledged to help the IGPE board meet its objectives. If the IGPE membership does not vote to oppose Ms. Brown’s changes at the forthcoming IGPE Congress in Chicago (April 28-30, 2002), the IGPE will be turned against the majority’s best interests and the Organization will officially join forces with the “LazerBlazers,” along with those who operate electronic tweezers and other types of temporary hair removal. The agenda at the IGPE’s Chicago meeting includes an election to reinstate the current president and board – the very people who have already failed the electrology profession. Only two percent of existing electrologists have gone the laser route, and we, the remaining 98 percent, need proper representation. As an honorary life member of the IGPE, Mr. Gior is not allowed to vote, but he does have the right to be re-elected president. Given the present circumstances, Mr. Gior has consented to be a candidate for president (in opposition to Ms. Brown) at the forthcoming elections. It is now up to the newly formed Ethical IGPE Coalition, to rally the participation of those IGPE members who want to see the Organization back in the hands of people who will best serve the needs of needle practitioners. To help in this way, a voter has to be a fully paid-up member, and must attend the convention to nominate their candidate from the floor, as the IGPE’s charter dictates Candidates for office must be over 21 years of age and have been a member of IGPE for two years prior to the elections. The fate of the IGPE and the electrolysis profession is now in the hands of those IGPE members who show up at the Chicago convention and make their wishes known. – James Walker The Ethical IGPE Coalition Buffalo, New York
GUILD FOUNDER WILL HEAD NEW ETHICAL IGPE COALITION Dear Editors: As a follow-up to the letter from Terry Brooks, in your December 2001, “Letters to the Editors,” in which it was suggested that I might “assume leadership of the organization [IGPE] temporarily, in order to protect its total destruction and preserve the integrity of its original Charter (proven needle electrology only) and its bylaws, which are presently being corrupted.” Allow me to set the record straight. I was asked by a group of electrologists called the “Ethical IGPE Coalition” to be a candidate for president of the IGPE (at the IGPE General Membership Meeting) this April, and I have agreed. It is the platform of the Ethical IGPE Coalition to simply restore the IGPE to it’s original purpose, i.e. to support the three approved modalities of electrology and promulgate the virtues of the profession through the media with a good Public Relations program. This platform in no way slows the progress and innovative services of electrology. In fact, what we wish to do is keep the integrity of the electrology profession intact and rid it of a serious virus, LASER. If, at the IGPE General Membership Meeting in April, the concerned electrologists vote me in as president, I plan to help as long as I can, and once the IGPE returns to it’s original objectives (to sincerely assists all electrologists and 100 percent of the public), I will hand over the stewardship to the 1st Vice President and assist the new board in whatever way is deemed necessary. – Fino Gior IGPE Founder and first President
NEEDLE ELECTROLOGISTS NEED TO WAKE UP, SMELL THE COFFEE Dear Hair Route Editors: It was with great interest and understanding that I read Terry Brooks’ “Letter to the Editors” in your December issue, and that prompted me to voice my opinion. I’ve been involved in the profession of electrolysis since 1969, and it has been my only career since that time. Lately, many colleagues of mine in Texas and across the U.S. have found themselves looking for other work, due to the laser. I’m not saying that the laser’s performance (or lack thereof) had anything to do with this: It’s the lies that the purveyors of laser have spread about electrolysis that bothers me. It’s their insistence on advertising in the ‘Electrolysis’ category of our phone books. It’s their continual, insatiable craving to be associated with us, that hurts. I’ve watched my profession being ravaged by this savagery and I can watch no more. I must act; and I’m beginning my counterattack now. Why do we sit idly by and allow this to happen to us? Are we wimps? Do we think it will all “blow over?” Why have we not filed a class-action lawsuit against those who threaten our very existence (and the existence of the one way that hirsute patients can permanently be rid of their problem)? Why do we say nothing about their deceptive trade practices? We must unite and wipe this scourge on our profession from the face of the Earth. I used to be an officer of the Society of Clinical and Medical Electrologists (SCME). I was there when the laser first surfaced, and I watched Mr. Wallace Roberts, president of the SCME, “work the crowd.” I saw something else: I saw a craving for power. A few of us brave souls challenged Mr. Roberts’ motives and requested that he resign as president of SCME, because we felt that his involvement with laser hair removal was a “conflict of interest.” Our actions made little difference, and sickened by the political maneuvering and “dirty tricks” I dropped my membership in this organization that I’d been instrumental in forming. With 25 years of experience as an electrologist, and having just achieved my bachelor’s degree at the U of T, I felt I was in a good position to judge the laser’s value as a method for hair removal. I studied the process thoroughly, and finally came to the conclusion that the only method that could permanently remove hair from all types of skin without scarring was electrolysis/thermolysis, plain and simple. So, I chose to not be involved with laser hair removal. When my association, the SCME, literally abandoned electrologists, I looked around for an organization that would offer me continuing education in my chosen field. It did not take me long to discover that the American Electrology Association is the only organization out there supporting the electrologist and fighting for our rights. In October of last year I became a CPE. And while sitting the exam I realized how much more professional its compilation and administration were, as compared to the SCME’s certification exam I’d taken a few years earlier. At this point I knew I had come to the right place. I had not joined the International Guild of Professional Electrologists for two reasons. Firstly, I have no respect for that association’s president, Trudy Brown. And secondly, I recognized that the IGPE leaned toward the laser (and the lies told by laser technicians about electrolysis were even then hurting my business!) Why would I support them with my hard-earned dollars? I cannot understand how IGPE members who are strictly needle operators can send their membership dues to an organization that prescribes to the demise of needle electrolysis. If there are any IGPE members out there who still believe in its original tenet (of being there “to promote needle-only electrolysis”), they need to act now. To speak now, or forever hold their peace. Trudy Brown has twisted and subverted the IGPE’s original purpose to a degree that astonishes past president Fino Gior, as well as myself. The Guild bylaws have been reworked to such an extent that the executive committee (Brown and five other officers) can meet on behalf of the board of directors, and a quorum for the meeting need only be four persons (Brown and three other officers). Any motion put forth at a meeting can be carried by Ms. Brown and two other officers. Dare we call it a “Dictatorship?” How can members of the IGPE allow this to happen? Now I’m told that Ms. Brown and Mr. Roberts are planning a “merger” of their two organizations. Members of the IGPE who do only needle electrolysis need to wake up and smell the coffee. The way I see it you have very few choices to save your career. Here they are: 1. Go to the IGPE meeting in Chicago en masse – vote the rotten apples out of the barrel, take back your organization. 2. File a lawsuit against Ms. Brown for malfeasance and misappropriation of funds. 3. Demand a refund of your membership dues and any monies you have paid toward the Chicago meeting and use them to join the AEA in their battle to save our profession. I know what you are thinking; ‘This is politics’ – and you don’t like being involved in politics. Well, “Hello,” the entire world runs on politics. It’s the vehicle by which ideas become reality. By not being involved, all we do is allow someone else’s ideas to become reality instead of ours. This is the time to put aside petty bickering and to band together while we still have a profession. This is the time for anyone who makes the major part of his or her income from needle electrolysis to support those who are fighting for their future. – Bette Napier Pritchett Austin, Texas
ON AEA LEADER PROFILE Dear Hair Route: Thank you for your wonderful article on Terri Petricca. Most of us have always known that Terri is a hard worker and was always there for us; however, I don’t think too many of us realized what it really entailed. I feel truly privileged to have been a part of AEA for the past 16 years at a time when she was our leader and role model. I know there are many others who work very hard for the organization and are very devoted, but Terri is in a class by herself. – Gertie Reingold Staten Island, NY
Dear Editor’s: Your story on Teresa Petricca is a great tribute to a great lady. – John Fantz Whittier, California
Dear International Hair Route: We are pleased to communicate with your magazine. The Japan Skin-Esthetic Association (JSA) is the American Electrology Association’s sole affiliate association in Japan, and we administrate the Japanese Certified Professional Electrologist (CPE) for more than 1,100 people as of this date. To enlighten Japanese CPEs with updated information on electrolysis we issue twice a year a publication titled JSA News, for free distribution to all members. We are subscribers to International Hair Route, and in the December 2001 issue we have found the article “Teresa Petricca: Electrology’s First Lady.” Ms. Petricca is extensively known and greatly respected by CPEs in Japan. The article covering everything about her would be very informative and valuable for Japanese electrologists. We would, therefore, with your permission like to reprint a Japanese translation of the article in the next edition of JSA News. It would be very much appreciated if you will accept this proposal favorably. We believe Ms. Petricca’s entire dedication to the profession will motivate Japanese CPEs to further improve their abilities and skills as electrologists. – Fumio Amatatsu Secretary General, Japan Skin-Esthetic Association
Dear Editors: What a surprise on receiving the December issue of IHR. Congratulations are long overdue to Terri Petricca for her many years of dedicated service to the profession and the American Electrology Association. I have not seen eye-to-eye with Terri on every issue, but I hold true admiration for her years of effort and countless accomplishments. What we were always able to agree upon is that our profession is Electrology, not other forms of hair removal! I thank Joe and Nina Ferrie for teaching me well. Our ultimate goal and that of many others, to further our profession, has never changed. – Harry W. Cary III President, Precision Electrolysis Inc. Barrington, Rhode Island
Dear Editors: I have to tell you how wonderful it was to read the Teresa Petricca story in the Hair Route. It was certainly long overdue and gave credit (finally) to the many contributions she has made to our profession. I hope everyone read it especially the critics. I think most of the AEA membership had a good idea as to good she has done, but few realize how much she has given of herself. Congratulations on a great article. – Julia Hamilton Santa Cruz, California
Dear Editors: The article about Teresa Petricca in the December issue of Hair Route is excellent. I think it is a wonderful tribute to this lady, in recognition of all that she has contributed to the profession of electrolysis and the public it serves. I found it as much a history of electrology as a history of Ms. Petricca. It fills in some pieces of the story that I had not picked up before now. The article also perfectly captures Ms. Petricca’s forward-looking personality. She has never been one to rest on her laurels because she knows that so much more remains to be achieved. Newcomers to the profession who read the article will learn a great deal about its development and the role of the AEA. – Ted Molczan Toronto, Ontario
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