Illinois College of Optometry - Annual Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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f X v Q , ZW s X , f y J .r f JX QA f XS? f 1 Q The Illinois College of Optometry stems from an institution founded in Chicago in l872 to teach the special skills required to examine eyes and correct deficiencies in seeing. This pioneer institution was the Northern lllinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology. lnterest in the new methods of examining and correcting human vision grew rapidly. By the early l9UU's, when the first optometry laws were en- acted to establish higher standards for visual care, the college was engaged primarily in teaching and disseminating new refractive and diagnostic tech- niques. During the last fifty years, the profession of op- tometry has enjoyed unparalleled growth and devel- opment. The college has consistently developed into one of the outstanding optometric institutions in the country. Subsequent to its founding, the Northern lllinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology merged with the Needles lnstitute of Op- tometry, and the name was changed to the Northern lllinois College of Optometry. In H925 a new charter was granted for this institution. Meanwhile, in 1937 the Monroe College of Op- What 9 tometry was founded in Chicago, and in l947 be- came the Chicago College of Optometry. Both the Chicago College and the Northern lllinois College established splendid records of performance in op- tometric education, and in lanuary, 1955, the respec- tive Boards of Trustees of each college voted to merge the two institutions into one outstanding in- dependent college under the new name of the Illinois College of Optometry. Thus, from its humble beginnings nearly a cen- tury ago, the lllinois College of Optometry became the professions largest as well as its oldest educa- tional institution. The combined alumni number lO,UOU optometrists or approximately fifty per cent of all practitioners in the United States. ln addition to serving every state in the Union, the college has graduated optometrists from a large number of other countries throughout the world. Dedicated to the highest standards of education, the objectives of the college have always been to provide its students with a background of prepara- tion which combines the best of the traditions of the past with the most advanced developments of the present.

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mf fw- 'b Mah Koard of nw teeA Top Row: Glenn H. Moore, O.D., D.O.S., chairman: lohn I. Brady, O.D., D.O.S.: M. E. Edwards, O.D., D.O.S.: Samuel D. Hauser, O.D., D.O.S. Middle Row: Felix A. Koetting, O.D., D.O.S.: Henry L. Wolfe, O.D., D.O.S.: Walker Matthews. O.D., D.O.S.: Glyndon D. Rowe, O.D.: D.O.S. Bottom Row: Carel C. Koch. O.D., D.O.S.: Eugene W. Strawn, O.D., D.O.S.: Oscar W. Weinstein. O.D., D.O.S.: Rudolph Ehrenberg, O.D., D.O.S.