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Southern College of Optometry Student Rob Carlsen
Earns Military Scholarship

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (February 22, 2008) – Rob Carlsen, a second-year student at Southern College of Optometry (SCO) in Memphis, has been named one of only five recipients of the U.S. Air Force Health Professions Service Program (HPSP) Scholarship.

A resident of Payson, Utah, Carlsen was also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. A 1999 graduate of Payson High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Utah-Salt Lake City in 2006. Carlsen is the son of Ray and Wilma Carlsen and the grandson of Ramona Asay, all of Payson, the husband of Tina Moore Carlsen of Hamburg, New Jersey, and the father of a daughter, Kaelin, and a son, Sean.

Established in Memphis, Tennessee in 1932, Southern College of Optometry is an independent, not-for-profit institution of higher education with a mission to educate men and women in the art and science of optometry.

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