-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recent grants include the Hoover Family Foundation ($10,000), Prevent Blindness Indiana ($15,000), and Marion County Public Health Department ($25,000). In addition, IUSOCO is the beneficiary of the dissolution of Saving Sight Indiana (previously PBI). Fifty percent of the proceeds from the endowment earnings will go to the IUSO Benevolent Patient Fund. This will provide base support in perpetuity and will be supplemented by grants from local and national agencies and foundations. • Recognizing the need for a substantial recruitment scholarship fund that allows all alumni and friends to support incoming students, IUSO has established the IUSO Alumni Scholarship. In conjunction with class campaigns, any class that raises $50,000 or more will have the option to establish their own scholarship. The first event in support of this new scholarship was a golf outing held in September, hosted by the IUSO Optometry Alumni Board. • IUSO alumnus Dr. Norman Bailey, BS’68, OD’69, has provided $2,000 in seed money to create a scholarship in the name of Dr. Irvin Borish. Dr. Borish was a great supporter of students, and this and other scholarships will help the school recruit the best and brightest. • The Indiana Optometric Association (Indiana OPTOMETRY) is developing a memorial scholarship at IUSO in the name of Ron Weunsch, former IOA executive director. • Dr. Victor Malinovsky, BS’71, OD’73, will retire in December. In recognition of his long and distinguished service to the school and his dedication to students, IUSO has established the Dr. Victor and Jan Malinovsky Scholarship as well as and an annual continuing education event in his honor. The inaugural session was held Dec. 8, 2013, in Bloomington. • Dr. Ed Marshall, BA’68, BS’70, OD’71, MS’79, IUSO faculty member and vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs, retired July 31, 2013. Marshall will continue to work with IUSO to launch the IUSO Diversity Scholarship, launched with $200,000 awarded from IU Bloomington Provost Fund. Bloomington Clinic Consolidation: In May 2013, the Community Eye Care Center Primary Care, Low Vision, Pediatric, and Advanced Ocular Care Services moved to the Atwater Eye Care Center. Patients seen at CECC now have access to the same doctors and services, all within one mile of the original location. In addition to rent and overhead savings, consolidation places all of the advanced diagnostic equipment in one place, so all of IUSO’s Bloomington doctors, students, and patients can benefit. In addition, many of the excellent equipment lanes from CECC were incorporated into AECC, IECC, or the school’s preclinic, raising the overall quality of instrumentation used by IUSO students and doctors. The Community Eye Care Center began in the 1970s as an outreach clinic serving low-income patients on the west side of Bloomington. Dr. Ed Marshall, BA’68, BS’70, OD’71, MS’79, was a major player in getting the clinic started. By all measures, CECC was a success for the school, its students, and the patients served. Scholarships: The rising cost of an optometric degree leading to increasing student debt is a significant impediment to recruiting the best and brightest to optometry and IUSO. Scholarships are the best insurance for growing the quality of ODs in Indiana and nationally. Several new merit-based recruiting scholarships are being launched. • Dr. David Hormuth, BS’77, OD’79, MD’83, a member of the Dean’s Development Council, has joined with his family to establish a scholarship in honor of his father, Dr. James Hormuth, BS’57, MS’58. The Hormuths established the scholarship with seed funding of $50,000. In recognition of this generous endowment, David Hormuth and his father received the Spirit of Philanthropy Award in April (see page 10). Dr. Ed Marshall, (left), BS’70, OD’71 n e w S l e T T e r fa l l 2 0 1 3 5