New England College of Optometry - Scope Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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TAHE SCOPE I also met these three chaps, Gulezian, Goldfarb and Soutra. They are state board members now. Goldfarb gives the Pathology exams of which one question always is, If you did not recognize a disease, what would you do? The answer, i'Dig into your Parsons, is known by every optometrist in Mass. Now Johnny, if you will get me my scrap book, I will tell you what happened to other members of the class. This Hrst picture is good old Seale. Seale, Helman and Tieri enjoy one of the finest practices in Boston. They have, as an office, a suite at the Statler and wear morning frock coats while refracting. Seale takes the history, Helman gives the best subjective, and Tieri theorizes on the exam. These two pictures are Bonaventura and Cowin. This clipping insists they are political bosses of Boston, Bonaventura being manager and Cowin candidate, at all times. ln school Bonny was the quietest member of the class and Cowin probably the noisiest. But time changes man and now Bonny talks for hours about the fighting, and I don't mean maybe, champion of the people, while Cowin quietly buys, I mean, gets the votes. And this picture is Katz. Katz,s story is a sad one. He used to enjoy a fine prac- tice until he started to sing during refractions. In fact, since this tragedy happened, they can't rent a store in the entire neighborhood. This clipping is from a Lynn newspaper. It says, See Parrott, about your eyes. birdeof an eye manf, This handsome brute is Goldberg, prexy of our class. He owns a chain of theatres and has all his ushers use Calobar lenses so that they do not need to use flashlights to see in the dark, thus cutting down expenses. All the actors in pictures shown at his theatres must wear glasses, and he even has lenses on Leo the lion. Paster is out West selling magnifying glass to the farmers to make their tall corn look taller. And here, dear children, is Rubin. He was quite a man. This letter is dated way back in 1936, when he announced the arrival cf twins. He says, quoting Rubin, I call them Eso and Exo, because I could never understand how these two conditions came about, and the same holds for the twins. This distinguished man named Lipsky is joke editor for Judge. No Johnny, he wasn,t made joke editor because of his face. Clark owns a chain of 5 81 10 cent Jewelry stores. They all have optical depart- ments. He uses a series of poker hands for test charts, and if the patient picks out the best hand, he says they see enough, -and gives them that li ' These two pictures are Schwartz and Sunshine. Here is a clipping from Wiri- chell's column about them. Flash - E Schwartz of the firm of Schwartz and Sun- shine, Optometrists, of Los Angeles, is said to be that way about Marie Dresslerf' Hoping this little story makes you two feel that way about bed, Iam saying good- night, and I hope the pictures do not give you night-mares. V . 5. ISI

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THE SCOPE Class Prophecy BERNARD SIEGAL Time 7 ,Iune 4, 1944. Place - At home, before a fireside. Hello, Johnny and Mary. What's on your minds this evening. Oh, you Want me to tell 'you a story about the funny men in the 1934 year book of M. S. O. All right, get the book, and come here onto my lap, and I'1l begin. Do you remember, I took a trip to Boston a few months ago? Well, I went to the optometry convention. Of course, a great many of my school mates were there. One of the first I met was Joe Monkarsh. No Johnny, he's not trying to imitate Chaplin. He says the moustache gives him sex appeal. Joe is at present, Q'Chief assumern for one of the big optical houses. His job is to decide what to do, assuming the customers do not pay. They call him assumer because he always sends bills stamped Kindly remit as- sume as possible. Of course, at a convention, the best place to Hnd all your friends is at a hotel bar and that is where I went. Sure enough, there was Mills, Brucker and Rowan exhort- ing Reilly - who was sipping a raspberry soda - to forsake the evils of drink. McCabe was behind the bar preparing strawberry sundaes. Inasmuch as it was too early for any excitement, I decided to walk around town. At the first turn to the right I saw a large neon sign, proclaiming, Lichtenstein and Gribbin, optometrists extraordinary.U. I decided to say hello, and dropped in. They were not busy, so we talked. Suddenly Oscar said, No, prove it, that's not so, prove it, wrongf' XVith that he rushed out. I looked at Gribbin and asked him if Oscar was sick. He said, No, Oscar is taking a course at Harvard and is practicing for class. I left and headed for the convention again. Arriving, I found in front of the C. and C. exhibit, Collins and Clements, owners of the C. and C. optical company. This company is now famous because Collins invented that long looked for machine, where you turn a few handles and the Rf' comes out. Clements is business manager and treas- urer. He takes care of the money, because the sight of greenbacks, makes Collins talk with a brcgue, and this is bad business since Muddy Kaplow is his biggest customer. Cc-llins informed me Joe Cohn, has made N. J. eye conscious, and has glasses for every conceivable purpose, from protecting eyes from grapefruit to magnifying key-holes for columnists. I met Kcrnetsky. He told me he has an oiiice on the boardwalk at Revere. Out- side is a large sign saying, Don't let those ultraeviolet rays get you. Colored lenses sold inside. On entering the lecture hall, I heard Dr. Chaitin giving a long discourse on his new theory. This is his picture. Don't laugh so much, Johnny. No, Mary, his ears don't lift him off the ground when he runs. As I was saying, he was explaining his new theory of correcting hyperopia with minus lenses, by producing a eramp of the ciliary great enough to take care of the error. l4l

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