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For Immediate Release: May 20, 2004

Contact: Robin R. Merrifield

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Phone: 800-343-0549 or 360-471-7837

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Norwalk, Iowa—At its Board of Directors meeting in April 2004, the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE) voted to donate $50,000 to the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER).  Although numerous requests for funding are received by NBCE, each is weighed on its potential to positively influence the profession.  In March 2004, Anthony L. Rosner, Ph.D., persuasively illustrated the importance of FCER’s research and education mission for the profession to NBCE representatives. 

Explained Peter Ferguson, D.C., President of NBCE, “The NBCE is very proud to make this contribution to FCER, an organization whose history demonstrates the worthiness of our support.  FCER’s commitment to excellence in chiropractic research creates opportunities for students and strengthens the future or our profession.”

At the time the gift was made to FCER, Dr. Lucido presented NBCE with FCER’s A. W. Schwietert Award.  The award is named in honor of Arthur W. Schwietert, D.C., a South Dakota doctor who foresaw a need for research in the chiropractic profession and was one of FCER’s founding fathers.  The A. W. Schwietert Award is presented to state and national associations that follow Dr. Schwietert’s lead with support of FCER.

Said Dr. Lucido at the presentation of the A. W. Schwietert Award to NBCE, “On my way here I was thinking about the forces at work within the chiropractic profession. Some are being generated by egomania and cultic obsession that allows no room for differing views of chiropractic education and practice. These are destructive forces.

“The other major forces are represented by responsible individuals who are working on their own or within organizations to promote intra-professional cooperation, broader acceptance of the chiropractic paradigm, higher levels of professionalism, and continued efforts to place chiropractic on a solid scientific and ethical foundation through research and education. The NBCE is one those forces. I am grateful that they have selected FCER to be a beneficiary of this positive cooperative effort.”

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