We
here at the AAO believe that our members are the cream of the crop! Not only do you provide top notch
optometric services in your day to day practice, but you also go out of
your way to make a difference outside of the office. We want to acknowledge some of the
ways that you contribute and say thank you for being involved locally
and around the world. We are
PROUD of our members! Keep up
the good work!
Here
is just a sample of the many ways you’ve volunteered your time:
Vice Chairman of the Community & Foundation board of Covenant Health
St. Mary’s Hospital
Kindergarten presentations
through Eye See… Eye Learn
Giving office tours to
kindergarten students and educating them about the career of Optometry
School
science class lectures on the eye
Career Expos in high
schools and colleges
Volunteering in local
hospitals adjusting or repairing glasses and fixing dislodged prosthetic
eyes
Speaking
to Seniors about eye health
Local clubs such as Lions
Club and Rotary Club
Oversees vision missions
in places such as Costa Rica, Ghana, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico
and Nicaragua
Sikh temple, educating the
community about eye health and systemic diseases
Trap Shooting events to
talk to participants about proper eye safety and specialized glasses for
shooting
Calgary
Urban Project Society and Gift of Sight: providing volunteer eye exams
for the homeless and inner city youths and adults
Outreach clinics in local
churches providing eye exams and glasses for low income families at no
cost.
OGS
Day: Collect donations from patients, donateportion of eye exam fees
and silent auction over the month of October to give to Optometrists
Giving Sight
THARP
, Dr. Bernard John Stanley 1918 to 2010 Bernie Tharp passed away
peacefully in the presence of family on Thursday, April 15 at the age of
91. Bernie left this world as steadily as he lived, meeting each day
with uncommon grace, humility and courage. He embodied the words
husband, father, grandfather and friend, and brought joy to all of those
who had the privilege to know him. Bernie was born in the Scottish
Nursing Home in Calgary to loving parents Ernest and Florence Tharp. At
the age of nine his beloved brother and lifetime friend Raymond was
born. He grew up in Scarboro, attended Sunalta School and Central High
School. After graduation he joined the Navy becoming a coder and petty
officer doing escort duty aboard Canadian corvettes in the North
Atlantic. In 1943 while stationed in Sydney, Nova Scotia he met and
married Ada Ione MacAulay to whom he was happily married for forty nine
years until her death in 1992. After the war he became a doctor of
Optometry at the University of Toronto before returning to Calgary. His
father, E.S. Tharp ran Consolidated Optical which made Bernie the second
generation in the optical business. He started his practice in the
Greyhound building prior to founding Chinook Optometric and Chinook
Optical, and spent many years on the Board of the Alberta Optometric
Association. He practiced optometry until the age of eighty five and
continued to work at Chinook Optical until he was ninety one. Bernie
believed in volunteering and served as president of the Downtown Lions
Club. In 1973 he became a member of the Rotary Club of Calgary South,
serving as president in 1982 to 1983. Bernie had a passion for horses
and was a member of the Al Azhar Mounted Patrol, Canadian Cutting Horse
Association, Alberta Quarter Horse Association, president of the Alberta
Light Horse Association, and after thirty years of service became an
Honorary Life Member of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. In 1997 he
married Jean Cowie and they enjoyed twelve happy years together. Bernie
was the adored grandfather to Anna Mandelkau Tharp, and the loving
father to Biba Tharp and Sydney (William) Pieschel. As well, he leaves
his treasured wife Jean Tharp, his only brother Raymond S. Tharp,
Melissa Tharp, Linda (Tony) Tse, Bill (Jocelyn) Tharp and Ian (Alana)
Tharp, and his stepdaughters Susan (Geoff) Stanbury and Judi (John)
Uphold. In lieu of flowers please send donations to the Salvation Army
(Glenmore Temple). For full obituary, or to
leave a message for the family, please click here.
About
three
weeks ago, the AAO sent out a bulletin alert inviting you to take
advantage
of special pricing available on safety frames.This
special selection of the 4 top selling
frames makes an excellent
addition to your existing OVC safety frame fitting
kit, whether
you’re selling to patients of our OVC client companies or
retailing
to walk-ins.
We
launched
the promotion with a special insert in the assistant’s information
packages
at the recently completed Vision Rocks Conference in Banff at the end
of
May and followed that up with an e-mail and bulletin alert to all of
the
member OD’s.Please
contact us if you
did not receive an order form yet.
Immediately
in
the first few weeks, we’ve already had 40 offices across the province
purchase
these booster kits!Be
sure to
take advantage of this special, limited time offer in order
to offer the latest
and most fashion forward safety frames to your
patients.
There
are
three models from the UVEX (Titmus) line: SW02, SW06, SW07 and one from
On-Guard;
OG151.Follow
the link
to view
the offer and place your order!
You can
receive more
information by contacting the AAO offices at 780-451-6824.
