Digitized bythe Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners andthe Institute of Museum and Library Services http://www.archive.org/details/newenglandcolleg2009newe2 The New England College ofOptometry Awards Ceremony Class of2009 "Celebrating 115 Years ofExcellence in Optometric Education" May 2009 Saturday, 30th, 2:30 P.M. Back BayEvents Center Boston, Massachusetts PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTAWARDS F. Dow Smith Award Leadership abilities in theprofession MatthewBauer Dr. Edward Joseph Troendle, Jr Award Class memberwho hasgiven highlyofhimselfto college vfatthewRal]Pr andprofession Dr. Hyman R. Kamens Award Anna Sleeper Demonstratedleadership andcommitmentto others in thefield Alumni Association Award Radbert Chin Outstandingservice to theprofessionandthe community National Optometric Student Association Award Outstandingeyecareservice toBoston's underserved AnhthyTnnh communities andexceptionalleadership commitment andintegrity ACADEMIC AWARDS Valedictory & Beta Sigma Kappa Medal Christine Donahue Highestcumulative GPA in class Kristin Glavine KristyWooler Cleo Yeh Salutatorian Award Secondhighestcumulative GPA in class HaleyDawn Backus Advanced Standing International Program Scholastic Achievement Award Ekta Patel The highestcumulative GPA in theAch'ancedStanding Program William R. Baldwin Award Highestcumulative GPA in theAch'ancedOptometric Weiqun Guo DegreeProgram STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS Served Three Years Served TwoYears Served One Year MatthewBauer KellyCyr Isabel Alonso Radbert Chin Aleem Bandali AndrewHelman AndrewChan Anna Sleeper Meritza Rondon Kluge Loan Trieu AnhthyTrinh CLINICAL AWARDS Outstanding Clinical Performance William C. BarrettScholarship Ekta Patel Outstandingclinicalskills atan Omni Center Class of1969 Scholarship Award KellyCyr Outstandingclinicalperformance The New England College ofOptometry Award KellyCyr Superiorknowledge andcompetence inpatientcare Marchon Eyewear Practice Management Award Anna Sleeper Outstandingclinicalanddispensingskills inpractice management MiraMed Tech Award Shannon Hooker Excellence in clinicalperformance Contact Lens Alcon Award Brian Godard Outstandingexpertise incontactlens GP Clinical Excellence Award AnthonyZieja Enthusiasticabout GPlensdesign andmaterials, desire to improvefittingskills Vistakon Award ofExcellence in Contact Lens Anna Sleeper Excellence in contactlenspatientcare Pediatrics COVD Award for Excellence in Vision Therapy AmyCamerota Stronginterestandclinicalskills in vision therapy Ira SchwartzBehavioral Vision Award Rajvinder Pabla Excellence inpediatricoptometry BETA SIGMAKAPPA MEMBERS DiptyAcharya Lauren Greene Priya Patel HaleyBackus Weiqun Guo Michael Peters MatthewBauer Robyn Hull Jayasaree Seshadri ErinBowser Rachel Irwin Poonam Sharma Kamal Chaaban Amanda Jiminez Rebekah Smith AndrewChan Lauren Kain Elesha Starkey Zheng Chen Tyler Lowe Andrea Vosbikian Sara Crussana Marni Madden Bin Wang KellyCyr JaredMost KristyWooler Christine Donahue NinaMueller CleoYeh Kristin Glavine Anna Opydo Ling Yu Brian Godard Rajvinder Pabla AnthonyZieja Melanie Gonzalez Ekta Patel Low Vision John E. AsarkofScholarship Gina Troiano Outstandingperfonnance in vision rehabilitation Eschenbach Award for MillyMui Excellence in Low Vision Aptitude in interestin lowvision William Feinbloom Low Vision Award Robyn Hull Outstandingachievement in lowvision David J. Kerko Low Vision Award Christine Giblin Interestandexceptionalclinicalproficiency in low vision Teaching Excellence Foster Namias Award ErikWeissberg, OD Superiorteaching, outstandingservice tostudents, highlyknowledgeable in hisfield Carroll Martus Award Ronald Watanabe, OD Excellence in teaching, outstandingservice to students, highlyknowledgeable in hisfield PREVIOUSLY AWARDED Beider MoralObligation Scholarship AndrewChan Dr. WarrenH. Beiderrecognizedbrilliancein KellyCyr students Brian Godard Tyler Lowe Alumni Scholarship Studentsingoodacademicstanding whohave MatthewBauer EleshaStarkey financialneedandpotentialforactivealwnni AnthonyZieja participation WallaceF. Molinari Memorial Scholarship KristyWooler Recognition ofexcellenceinacademicsin honorofWallaceF. Molinari Stacy Rosemore Friedman Endowed Scholarship EleshaStarkey Recognition ofexcellenceinacademicsin honorofDr. StacyFriedman Pinsker Vision ServicePlan Scholarship Christine Donahue Outstandingacademicrecordand Kristin Glavine excellentdeliveryofprimaryeyecare