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

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OPEN LETTER FROM THE CLINIC DIRECTOR The Iast two years of your college Iife were spent, to a great part, in our cIinic. No wonder then that the bonds of friendship to the clinic are strong. You came here as juniors and waited nervously for your first patient, and as time went on Icnowledge and sI4iII repIaced those earIy experiences of confusion when examining your patients. It is our hope that our efforts in teaching you the art and science of Optometry have cIarified your duty towards the patient and will heIp you to uphoId the sanctity of our profession. We trust that as you Ieave our CoIIege and enter your private practice, our teachings will guide you. The cIinic, though equipped with modern instruments for refraction, visuaI training and speciaIty branches of Optometry, is onIy what it is due to its staff. And it is the cIinic staff, I feeI, who has buiIt our cIinic within a few years to a Ieading center of eye care. All our gratitude gces out to such men as Dr. Iunius Brodnax for his inspiring infIuence on students and his great sI4iII in pathoIogy and refraction, to Dr. Robert Sternberg, who so wiIIingIy spent hour after hour expIaining and teaching and permitting the intern to observe his compIete mastery of refraction, pathoIogy, contact Ienses and aniseiIconia, to to Dr. Joseph Shepherd who combined his unusuaI gift of teaching with his compIete understanding of thecry and practice, to Dr. TeIesfor Tob3IsI4i for his fine clinical analysis and keen understanding of physicaI Optometry, to Dr. Herbert Brautman for his human understanding and devotion to his worIc, Dr. RaouI Sabatini for his outstanding worI4 in visuaI training, his I4nowIedge in deaIing with chiId- probIems, to Dr. I'Ioward WaIton who so readiIy gained the confidence of his students, and to all the many other teachers who have so abIy heiped us. The staff and personneI of the cIinic ShirIey Cohen, IfveIyn Larson, Bernard I.ipsIcy, James WaII4er, IV1ichaeI Risso, Murray Spivak, IV1eIvin KapIan, Seymour Garner, Arthur Rubin and Iaime Estrada- join me in wishing you all success and happiness. -E. R.TENNANT ADVANCED READING AND PERCEPTION The Institute of Advanced Reading and Perception was started in 1948 by Dr. Seid, who was the first optometric educator in the United States to appIy accepted visual training techniques to the fieId of developmental reading. The department was estabiished for the purpose of doing research to vaIidate these techniques and to deveIop new ones which wouId be appIicabIe. The department was organized into the Institute for Advanced Reading and Perception in October 1951 under the directorship of Mr. SIade. Since the opening of the institute, research projects have been conducted with such concerns as: International I'Iarvester, Standard Oil, IIIinois CentraI RaiIroad, Carson, Pirie 8t Scott, IV1arshaII I:ieId, and SpiegaI's to determine the validity of these techniques under industriaI conditions. These projects were paid for by the companies interested, which marI4ed the first time in the country that industry has financed optometric research. In the Iast 18 months many students have come to the institute from Wheaton, Moody BibIe, Mc- Cormack Seminary, University of IIIinois, and University of Chicago for the purpose of increasing reading and perception sI4iIIs. ArticIes have been published deaIing with research done by personneI at the institute in both opto- metric and educationai pubIications. The Iatest was in the Archives this past year deaIing with the newest techniques in increased efficiency in clerical operations. Speakers from the institute have presented its techniques before optometric and educationaI con- ferences throughout the country. A survey conducted by the Optometric WeeI4Iy Iast year among optometrists indicated 87 were in favor of instituting such a program as part of optometric practice and indicated a desire to Iearn more about it-concIusive proof of Chicago College of Optometry's foresight in estabIishing such a program. 55

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