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Getting ready for an optometrist appointment and remembered my father supported the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry.

My late father was a maverick so he pushed to establish it under the dept of science but he always surprises me.

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Now let us turn back to the report that resulted in the move of the College of Optometry to the University of Waterloo. The report that we are referring to is entitled "Report of the Senate Committee, University of Waterloo on Optometric Education in the University." The committee was established by the University Senate on April 28, 1966. Its membership consisted of four from the university (W.A.E. McBryde, chemistry; C.H. Fernando, biology; H.M. Morrison, physics and G.E. MacKinnon, psychology) and four from the College of Optometry (I. Baker, C.W. Bobier, W.L. Lyle and W.S. Long). The committee met several times during 1966. In addition to visiting the College of Optometry in Toronto, visits were made to the optometry programs at The Ohio State University (Columbus) and Indiana University (Bloomington). The resulting 29-page report, recommended that an optometry program be developed at the University of Waterloo and that it be established in the Faculty of Science. The positive recommendation rested on the recognition that optometry is a "mature and sophisticated discipline based on a recognized body of scientific knowledge and appropriate for study at the university level" and that "Optometry is a profession in the health care field but operating outside and independent of the medical profession."
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM