Michael Smith, OD, and his wife, Kimberly Zimmer Smith, OD ’03, report the birth of a daughter, Maya Sidney, born February
28, 2007.
2004… Eric Helwig, OD, recently opened his own practice, North Georgia Eye Care on Main Street in LaFayette, Georgia. Dr. Helwig collects antique optometry equipment, some of which are on display in his new office.
1946 — Willis P. Miller, OD, Pawhuska, OK 1947 — Murray Miller, OD, Pinecrest, FL 1949 — F. Milton Greenwood, OD, Pensacola, FL 1950 — Gordon Noel Graham, OD, Easley, SC 1951 — James W. Link, OD, Sarasota, FL
2006… Alisa Pickering Brogden, OD, is practicing with her father, Mike Pickering, OD at Eye Care Inc., in Louisiana. Her husband, Neil Brogden, OD, is practicing with Charles Lyon, MD, at Vitreo
Retinal Associates in Shreveport. Chad Poole, OD, recently opened Elan Eye Boutique in Braselton, Georgia. The practice offers full-service eye care.
1954 — Frank B. Grimes, OD, Greeneville, TN 1957 — Edward A. Robbins, OD, Belle Haven, VA 1959 — Robert L. Schoof, OD, Dodge City, KS 1960 — John R. White, OD, Baldwyn, MS 1962 — F. Lindford Abernathy, OD, Murphy, NC 1972 — William S. Holliday, Jr., OD, North Myrtle Beach, SC 1978 — Jeffrey Blustin, OD, Duluth, MN
Kim Raharja, OD, was featured in a photograph published on page
five in the 2007 Wal-Mart annual shareholders report. Available to Wal-Mart’s multitude of shareholders, the annual report showed Dr. Raharja assisting one of her patients at her practice in Atlanta.
2007… Kent Bennion, OD, is the optometrist at the new LensCrafters in St.
George, Utah. Cayce Davis, OD, is practicing at the Hughes Eye Center in Jackson,
Tennessee, with Matt Hughes, OD. Jeremy Diamond, OD, recently joined the practice of Jeff Foster, OD ’81, and Kurt Steele, OD ’95, in Newport, Tennessee. A native
of Forest Hills, Kentucky, Dr. Diamond previously spent an externship working with Drs. Foster and Steele. Rebecca Johnson, OD, married Wayne Bills the day after her
graduation. Hal Phillips, OD, is practicing with Tom Hyde, OD ’76, at Hyde EyeCare Associates in Morristown, Tennessee. Eric Stamper, OD, is planning to open a practice later this year in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Cortney Ferguson Waycaster, OD, is practicing at Athens Eye
Associates in Athens, Tennessee.
VISIONS • SUMMER 2007
Henry Nathaniel Peters, Jr., OD ’56, died July 21, 2007 in Memphis. Dr. Peters served on the SCO faculty from 1965 until his retirement as professor in 1985. His teaching experience also included appointments at the University of Tennessee and Southwestern at Memphis (Rhodes College) in fields of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ophthalmic Diagnostic Principles, Physiological Optics and Advance Ophthalmic Clinical Procedures. While serving as National Executive Director of the American College of Optometric Physicians, he established and for five years edited and published the American Journal of Optometric Medicine. Dr. Peters was a graduate of Southwestern at Memphis, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1952. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree and the Doctor of Optometry Degree from SCO in 1956. He was a member of numerous organizations and professional groups associated with optometric medicine. There were no reported survivors. Alison Lindorfer, OD ’03, died July 1, 2007 in Pryor, Oklahoma. A native of Texas, Dr. Lindorfer graduated Summa Cum Laude from Texas A&M even though she had battled cancer her senior year. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from SCO in 2003, Dr. Lindorfer devoted a one-year residency with the Veterans Administration in Muskogee, Oklahoma. At the time of her death, she was an Assistant Clinical Professor at Northeastern State University and worked at the Salina Indian Clinic through NSU. She is survived by her parents, Arno and Linda Lindorfer, who wrote the following about their daughter in a letter shared with her friends and colleagues: “For 30 years God blessed us with the perfect love of a perfect daughter. She spent her life preparing to serve others by entering the medical profession…She truly loved optometry.”
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