Chicago College of Optometry - Focus Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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From the DEAN EUGENE FREEMAN OD., Ph.D. A vocation evolves into a profession when those members of the vocation who are both competent and scrupulous band together to form a central organization, the prime purpose of which is to afford a guarantee to the public that anyone who is a member of the association has accepted the ideals and responsibilities of professionalism. The technical lcnowledge and slfill of the professions are so highly specialized that the layman is rarely able to evaluate the quality of the professional services which he purchases. He is not only forced to reserve his own judgement until after the worlt of the professional man has been completed, but even then he is frequently still unable to malce an informed and intelligent evaluation. The professions are accepted by society because they are founded on trust, instead of the law of caveat emptor. From this point of view, the professions are essentially those vocations which have evolved beyond the culture of claw and fang into a civilized community guided by the Golden Rule. The point of view expressed above can be summarized for worlcing purposes in a very simple state- ment: a profession is an honored and slcilled ethical vocation. While this statement is admittedly too broad to serve as a precise logical definition, it approaches closer to the essence of the term, profession than many of the definitions which have been proposed formally for the term. Our own profession of optometry has clearly evolved beyond the development of special skills, be- yond the development of a high minded and humane code of ethics, and is achieving public recognition as an honorific profession. Over 50 years of devoted public service, with continuously widening horizons of functions and public responsibilities, and a corresponding elevation in educational and professional standards have been required to bring our own profession of optometry to its present full-fledged maturity.

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CATHERINE STRATEGOS W ,, 1 .y,,f'2, mf, r 4 wg! gf ' ff, rrrrrr ,, f f ff M . , 5 ' I A I M, 7 ,-fr gas. , 4 -. ' - 'i ' .A ,r 4 ,201 Q J Z. fi :HW ' X? 'Z L 'ZX' 9 N , 'L LEO S. STEIN C.P.A,, D.O,S. Comptroller -wx' 1 ANNE R. SEID Treasurer S. H. PAUL STEPHENS DOS. Director of Public Relations W3 S. j. ROSE Business Manager ANNE MANTZORAS CARL STOCKDALE A.B., M.A. Athletic Director 'Z'- -it it ' 'U' LEE WYLAND MARGARET RICHOTTO Receptionist