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with professional classes beginning in 1953. Borish became a part-time optometry faculty member at IU, commuting weekly from his home in Kokomo. After World War II, enrollments in optometry schools increased and copies of his textbook Outline of Optometry soon sold out. Borish went to work on an updated and expanded textbook. In 1949, the first edition of Clinical Refraction was published, followed by a second edition in 1954. For the third edition, Borish recruited an expert group of 19 collaborators and the book expanded to 1,381 pages. Clinical Refraction became optometry’s most famous book. An American Optometric Association publication called it “optometry’s bible,” and in a survey in which respondents listed what they thought were the most important 20th century optometry books, it received the most nominations. 3,4 Twenty-eight years later marked the publication of a new book, Borish’s Clinical Refraction, composed with the same level of comprehensiveness and authority of Borish’s 1970 book, and with Borish serving as a consultant and one of the authors. The second edition of Borish’s Clinical Refraction appeared in 2006, with Borish co-authoring chapters on refraction and bifocal contact lenses at more than 90 years of age. 5 Among Borish’s areas of particular expertise were contact lenses, optometric testing procedures, and binocular refraction. He held several patents in the United States and Canada for methods for the modification of contact lens refractive power and for bifocal contact lenses. In 1978, he introduced the Borish nearpoint chart, a polarized chart for testing binocular function at near. 6 In 1973, Borish left private practice to become a fulltime faculty member in the IU School of Optometry. He taught courses in refractive analysis, was clinic director from 1978 to 1982, and established a strong contact lens research program. In 1979, Clifford Brooks and Borish published System for Ophthalmic Dispensing, a textbook on the selection, measurement, ordering, verification, dispensing, optics, and adjustment of spectacles. A second edition appeared in 1996 and a third in 2007. In the early 1980s, Borish published some of the first studies on the effectiveness of progressive addition spectacle lenses, leading to their wide acceptance among practitioners. 7,8 Borish retired from the IU faculty in 1983. He then held a position as the first Benedict Professor of Optometric Practice at the University of Houston College of Optometry from 1983 to 1989. Throughout his career Borish was in great demand as a continuing education lecturer. He presented at national, regional, and state conferences all over the United States and in more than 45 other countries. He also spoke frequently at optometry schools across the country, and continued to do so until well into his 90s. He served on a number of committees of the American Optometric Association and the American Academy of Optometry. His expansive knowledge of optometry, his many service activities in optometry, and the fact that he was a student of optometry history made him valuable as an advisor to optometry leaders and optometry school administrators. He was one of the leaders of the movement to expand the scope of optometry practice into areas previously exclusively the province of medicine, but he was quick to point out that it was essential that the optometric profession maintain its expertise in refraction and binocular vision. 9-11 Borish always championed the importance of research in optometry. One of his legacies is the Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research established at IU in 1995, as a center for patient-based research in optometry. Among Borish’s interests outside of optometry were rose gardening and painting. Some of his paintings have been sold at auctions to benefit the American Optometric Foundation. Many of his paintings are displayed in a book produced by the spectacle lens company Essilor commemorating his 90th birthday. On a personal note, I can recall Borish lecturing to my class when I was an optometry student at Pacific University in the early 1970s. I still have my third edition of Clinical Refraction which I had him sign at that time. In the late 1970s, when I was a graduate student at IU, he was a member of my thesis committee. More recently, I enjoyed some in-depth conversations with him when I was preparing a history of the founding and early years of the optometry school at IU. Borish received many awards from various organizations and institutions, including eleven honorary degrees from optometry schools. 1 Among the most significant of his awards were the American Optometric Association Apollo Award (1968), American Optometric Association Honorary Life Fellowship (1980), National Academy of Practice Page 9 ... Vol. 15, Nos. 1/2 ... 2012 ... Indiana Journal of Optometry ........................................................
Distinguished Practitioner (1982), American Academy of Optometry William Feinbloom Award (1985), American Academy of Optometry Max Schapero Memorial Award (1987), American Optometric Association Contact Lens Person of the Year (1988), American Optometric Association Distinguished Service Award (1989), Prentice Society Award for Excellence in Clinical Education (1992), World Council of Optometry Optometrist of the Year (1996), and one of the first two inductees into the Optometry Hall of Fame (1998). In 1999, he was voted “the most influential optometrist of our time” by readers of Review of Optometry. He received an honorary LLD degree from IU in 1968, and the Herman B Wells Visionary Award in 2002. Irvin M. Borish died on March 3, 2012, in Boca Raton, Florida. References 1. Baldwin WR. Borish. Springfield, MA: Bassette, 2006. 2. Goss DA. History of the Indiana University Division of Optometry. Indiana J Optom 2003;6:28-74. 3. Clinical Refraction at 50: Team takes “optometry’s bible” into new era. AOA News July 19, 1999;38(2):11- 12. 4. Goss DA, Penisten DK. Most important 20th century optometry books. Hindsight 2004;35:36-40. 5. Benjamin WJ, ed. Borish’s Clinical Refraction, 2nd ed. St. Louis: Butterworth Heinemann Elsevier, 2006. 6. Borish IM. The Borish nearpoint chart. J Am Optom Assoc 1978;49:41-44. 7. Borish IM, Hitzeman SA, Brookman KE. Double masked study of progressive addition lenses. J Am Optom Assoc 1980;51:933-943. 8. Borish IM, Hitzeman SA. Comparison of the acceptance of progressive addition multifocals with blended bifocals. J Am Optom Assoc 1983;54:415-422. 9. Borish IM. Don’t leave a vacuum. Optom Economics 1991;62:718-721. 10. Borish IM, Catania LJ. Putting optics back into primary care: why returning to our core services will be crucial in the years ahead. Optom Management 1998;33(10)22,23,26-29. 11. Borish IM. Optometry: Its heritage and its future. Indiana J Optom 2001;4:23-31. Selected Significant Publications of Irvin M. Borish: Borish IM. Outline of Optometry. Chicago: LeGros & Co., 1938. Borish IM. Comments on a “delayed subjective” test. Am J Optom Arch Am Acad Optom 1945;22:433-436. Borish IM. Comments on the large undergraduate enrollment in certain optometric colleges. Am J Optom Arch Am Acad Optom 1946;23:530-538. Borish IM. Subjective testing. Opt J Rev Optom 1946;83(12):50,52-53. Borish IM. Subjective testing. Indiana Optometrist 1946;18(6):5-8. Borish IM. Prismatic prescriptions – a clinical report on 147 cases. Am J Optom Arch Am Acad Optom 1948;25:579-592. Borish IM. Clinical Refraction. Chicago: Professional Press, 1949; 2nd edition, 1954; 3rd edition, 1970; 3rd edition in 2 volumes, 1975. Borish IM. Comments about subjective refraction and the importance of reliable communication. J Am Optom Assoc 1960;31:457-462. Borish IM. Cylinder lenses. Bulletin no. 4. Indiana Contact Lens Company, Marion, Indiana, 1960. Borish IM. Procedure for fitting ballasted cylinder lenses and high riding bifocals. Bulletin no. 8. Indiana Contact Lens Company, Marion, Indiana, 1962; revised version published in Pennsylvania Optometrist 1968;28(1). Borish IM. Contact lens centering. J Ill Optom Assoc 1962;22(5):9-12. Borish IM. Refracting for residual astigmatism. Penn Optometrist 1966;26(6). Borish IM. Historical development of refractive techniques. J Am Optom Assoc 1967;38:941-945. Borish IM. Indiana University – Division of Optometry. J Am Optom Assoc 1968;39:270-276. Borish IM. Ballasted cylinder lenses. J Am Optom Assoc 1971;42:243. Borish IM. Optometric education. J Am Optom Assoc 1975;46:540-543. Borish IM. Ballasted cylindrical lenses. J Am Optom Assoc 1976;47:318. Borish IM. William Policoff’s contribution to optometry. Am J Optom Physiol Opt 1977;54:514-516. Borish IM. The Borish nearpoint chart. J Am Optom Assoc 1978;49:41-44. Borish IM. A new organization to serve optometry. J Am Optom Assoc 1978;49:39-40. Brooks CW, Borish IM. System for Ophthalmic Dispensing. Chicago: Professional Press, 1979; 2nd edition, Boston: Butterworth Heinemann, 1996; 3rd edition, St. Louis: Butterworth Heinemann, 2007. Borish IM, Hitzeman SA, Brookman KE. Double masked study of progressive addition lenses. J Am ................................................. Indiana Journal of Optometry ... 2012 ... Vol. 15, Nos. 1/2... page 10
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