--Member News-- May 2008

In the last meeting of the staff of the Italian Medical Tennis Society, new components have entered in the council:

President - Reali Franco from Frascati (Roma)
Vice-President - Cellini Antonio - L'Aquila
Secretary - Sciacca Vincenzo - Roma
Treasurer - Cardi Maurizio - Roma
Technical Manager - Dalle Grave Riccardo - Verona
Member - Natali Roberto - Perugia
Member - Valdè Giorgio - Bologna
Honorary President - Mercurio Giovanni - Palermo
Honorary President - Bresciano Bartolo - Marene ( Torino ) - delegated to the relationships with the foreign countries

Our website is www.tennismedici.com

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Dr. Alonzo (Lon) Olsen, M.D., President Elect of WMTS and Betty Olsen, Executive Director of AMTA celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on a cruise to Alaska with 12 of their family members. Their anniversary date was March 31, 2006. Alaska was the cruise destination because Lon & Betty spent their first 1 1/2 years of marriage in Whittier, Alaska with the Army. It also happens to be the boarding port for Princess Cruise Lines. Nothing much has

Lon & Betty departing the port of Skagway, Alaska.

changed in 50 years except the Army pulled out nearly 40 years ago, and just 2 years ago Princess Cruises started using the Port of Whittier for their Alaska cruise. Their 4 daughters surprised them with a celebration in the ship's Wedding Chapel complete with toasts, slideshow, wine and cake for a trip down memory lane of 50 years!! Betty & Lon Olsen, MD - Provo, Utah

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Jaroslav Kratochvil, M.D., Czech Republic. Jaroslav Kratochvil, M.D. from Czech Medical Tennis Society entred 50+ category just four days ago. Jaroslav is an excellent player-former No.5 in Junior Czech Ranking. He achieved some good results in WMTS events as well as in open senior tournaments - e.g.Czech International Senior Tennis Champion, cat.45+ in 2002. He was a member of Czech Team - a winner of Nations Cup in Karlovy Vary in August 2002 (see him on photo of this team - Jaroslav first from the right holding The Cup ). It's always a big pleasure for me to practice with Jaroslav (but I am not sure if it's a pleasure for him ). His strokes are always perfect and classic. He belongs to founders of CMTS and actually is a secretary of our society. Jaroslav belongs to the team of organizers of 32nd WMTS Congress and Championships in Karlovy Vary. He is an internist and gastroenterologist. He is married to Alena and they have a son Jan who is in teen age. Congratulations.

Jan Kirchner,MD - President of Czech Medical Tennis Society

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Mike Reilly, M.D., USA. (Mike was a mainstay for many years with us, and he's a fantastic player, but he's become fairly domesticated, as you'll see when you read this.) He married late, at age 49, and he now has 4 boys, ages 5,3,2, and 1, with more to come. "My wife let me play tournaments this year and I am ranked #1 in Florida for 2005 in the Men's 55 singles. Family Medicine is the specialty and am the team doctor for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for 10 years including being president of the Major League Baseball Team Doctors' Association the past 2 years. On the Board of The Free Clinic (volunteer monthly for 25 years), Alpha House Pregnancy Center, Catholic Charities, Florida State High School Medical Advisory Committee, and our self-insured medical malpractice board for 300 physicians for 20 years. We all have to do what we can when we can because life may end at any time as many of us see with our friends. Keep playing tennis."

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Giorgio Dobrilla, M.D., Italy. Dr. Dobrilla and a priest have made comments, aphorisms, in a book, Homo Sapiens? Un Prete Un Medico E 200 Aforismi, on themes of "love, hate, war, peace, God, Devil, science, physicians, Church, marriage, etc." Royalties are totally devoted to the distal adoptions of children in Africa and Brazil. If one of our colleagues wishes to translate the book in English, the benefits for the unfortunate children could be much greater.