Robert L. Simpson was elected president of the Southern Eye Bank at the organization's annual dinner meeting Saturday night at the St. Charles hotel. Simpson was one of a host of newly-elected officers.
Also at the meeting, it was announced that the Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., has donated a mobile eye clinic to the Southern Eye Bank* Dr. James H. Allen was named chairman of the mobile unit.
The dinner was part of a daylong program to familiarize the Louisiana State Elks Association, sponsors of the eye bank, with its accomplishments and procedures.
Other newly-elected officers are: Dr. William B. Clark, first vice-president; Wood Brown, second vice-president; Dr. George Hardin, third vice-president; Blake West, secretary; and Brandon B. Woolley, treasurer. Dr. George Haik was elected chairman of the research committee. All the new officers are of New Orleans. PHOTO: TWO PRESIDENTS attending the annual meeting of the Southern Eye Bank are shown together as they met at the St. Charles hotel Saturday. From left, they are Herbert Boudreaux, president of the Louisiana State Elks Association, and Robert L. Simpson, newly elected eye bank president.
Serve Rural Area
The purpose of the new mobile unit is to serve the rural com-munities of Louisiana which have no ophthalmologists (doctors who specialize in treatment of the; eyes). It will be used only for preventative and diagnostic purposes and to recommend treatment for severe cases.
Earlier in the day. Dr. Allen, professor of ophthalmology at Tu-lane university, and Dr. Haik, professor of ophthalmology at Louisiana State university, addressed the meeting, which included tours through laboratories! at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat hospital and the Tulane university school of medicine.
