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 Huw, gp Senior Class History BY MARCUS S. SOUTRA As we now complete our course at the Mass. School of Optometry, thus passing one more milestone in our preparation for a career, in what to us is one of the most fas- cinating of all sciences, we ind ourselves looking back with some surprise to realize that it w-as actually two years ago that we, the largest class in the history of the school en- tered the mysterious realms of Optometry. In September 1932 this group of fifty-two men met to organize, selecting as its officers: President, Arthur Collinsg Vice-President, Milton Lebicng Treasurer, Frederick T. Mills and for Secretary our one and only Co-ed, Evelyn Hollander. This first year the class sponsored two well attended dances, and through the ef- forts of Dr. Svendson we enjoyed several lectures by Dr. H. Williain Bencker. The annual visit to the American Optical plant in Southbridge, in May, was con- structive as well as interesting and afforded an excellent climax to our social year. When we returned, i.n the fall of 1933, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the school authorities had chosen new quarters which were much more spacious and pleasant than the former location. With larger rooms, more clinic booths and added equipment we were ready to start a bigger and better year. At our first organized meeting the new ofhcers elected were: President, Manuel Goldberg, Vice-President, Lester Thomas, Secretary, Daniel Kornetskyg Treasurer, Ralph Clements and Sergeant-at-Arms, Ira Schwartz. We were fortunate this year in having added to our already efficient teaching staff, Dr. Paul S. Cline for Theoretic and Physiologic Optics and John Reilly for Psychology to whom we offer our sincere congratulations for the way in which they have presented their respective courses. We have had the distinct advantage of a larger, more eflicient and instructive Clinic under the direction of Dr. Svendson to whom we extend our deepest apprecia- tion for her untiring efforts in making this a tremendous success. Also, under her di- rection, the Clinic sponsored an exceptionally successful bridge-whist for the benefit of the newsboys from the Burroughs foundation. The Senior banquet, held at the Myles Standish Hotel, marked the final social func- tion of this class. The guest speaker, Dr. Harry Messinger extended very useful hints on the detection of Simple Glaucoma and Simple Cyclitis. Dr. Klein and other mem- bers of our faculty offered words of advice and their best wishes to the graduating class. It is with deepest regret that we bring to a close our associations of the past two years. l7l