Seeing the World - Illinois College of Optometry

in MEMORIAM
1938
Norman Brodkey, NICO, of Sioux
City, Iowa, has died.
1939
J.
Richard
Lee,
NICO, of
Kansas
City,
Mo., died
Feb. 15,
2011. He
proudly
served as
an officer in the Navy, stationed
with the Medical Corps in Panama
during WWII.
1940
Franklin D. Lindquist, NICO, of
Fargo, N.D., died Jan. 23, 2011.
During WWII, he served as a
medic in the Army in the Pacific
Theater, helping transport the
wounded across the Pacific. He
served as a missionary in Congo,
using his skills in optometry,
teaching and ministry.
1943
Joseph S. Covert, NICO, of
Zanesville, Ohio, died Feb. 6, 2011.
Instrumental in establishing the
eye clinic at Ft. Moultrie in S.C.,
he was one of 12 optometrists
of the WWII era honored for
distinguished service in the Army
Medical Corps.
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1944
John W. Ellery, NICO, of Dover-
Foxcroft, Maine, died Feb. 1, 2011.
He was a
member,
director and
past president
of the Maine
Optometric
Association
and New
England
Council of
Optometrists.
He also served
10 years as
a member
of the
Maine Board of Registration and
Examination in Optometry.
1945
Darlene Krambeck (nee Mottram),
NICO, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, died
March 5, 2011.
1946
Charles W. Reed, MCO, of
Hamilton, Mont., died Nov. 7, 2010.
Fred Schpak, MCO, of Northbrook,
Ill., has died.
1948
Albert B. Stroud, NICO, of Marco
Island, Fla., died Jan. 9, 2011.
1949
Donald J. Bye, CCO, of Onamia,
Minn., died April 25, 2011.
Frank W. Clark, NICO, of Stuart,
Fla., died March 31, 2011. He served
as a chief petty officer in the Navy
in WWII, shipping out on the USS
Delta and becoming a decorated
sailor. He belonged to one of the
first groups of men in the country
to prescribe contact lenses and
maintained an active lifestyle
throughout his old age, including
riding horses at the pyramids of
Giza, Egypt (see photo) and even
playing nine holes of golf the day
he died.
Rolland A. Heiser, NICO, of
Yakima, Wash., died March 10,
2011. He served as a Technical
Sergeant in the Marine Corps,
where he spent most of his time
in the South Pacific with the
6th Marine Division. He was
president of the Yakima Society of
Optometric Physicians for three
terms and also President of the
Washington State Optometric
Association. He served on
Washington’s Optometric Board
of Examiners and the board
of Western Vision Services
for six years. He was named
Washington’s “Optometrist of the
Year” in 1977 and “Key Person
of the Year” for the American
Optometric Association’s political
action committee in 1986.
1950
James W. Dyson, NICO, of
Bluffton, S.C., died Feb. 3, 2011.
Milton Joseph, NICO, of Raleigh,
N.C., died Jan. 18, 2011.
Edward M. Labny, NICO, of
Westchester, Ill., died Feb. 3, 2011.