SCO News

Ten members of the Class of 2017 have been selected as Southern College of Optometry's newest student ambassadors. Student ambassadors assist in student recruitment, admissions, and public relations functions of the college. They are selected each spring from the current first-year class on the basis of academic performance, nominations by faculty and staff, and personal interviews. Below is a full list noting each ambassador's home state and undergraduate school: Ben Roach... Read More

Successful fundraising over the last several years by SVOSH – Student Volunteers in Optometric Service to Humanity - has enabled the popular student organization to increase the amount of money in the Dr. L. Allen Fors SVOSH Endowment Fund, bringing it to term. SCO President Richard W. Phillips, OD '78, is pictured accepting a $30,830 check from SVOSH for an endowment fund honoring the late Dr. Al Fors. Joining him are Kaeleen Franson, '15, Madeline Bost, '15, Fallon Cone, '15, Craig... Read More

Four new members were recently elected to the Board of Trustees at Southern College of Optometry (SCO) in Memphis. They include (pictured from L-R): Steve Compton, OD ’78, Henry Lindeman, CPA, Terry Tucker, OD ’84, and Chris Wroten, OD ’02. Steve Compton, OD ’78, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University. Following his graduation from SCO in 1978, he founded Compton & Compton Eye Care, PLLC. A member of the American Optometric Association and the Kentucky Optometric Association,... Read More

SCO Professor Emeritus L. Allen Fors, OD '69, MEd, died Sunday, February 2. One of the longest-serving members of the Southern College of Optometry faculty, he taught from 1969 through 2011. Dr. Fors devoted his career to teaching optometry, working with children to help them overcome learning disabilities, and to helping bring sight to the disadvantaged in countries around the globe. After his 1969 graduation from SCO, he received the E.B. Alexander Fellowship to Gesell Institute of... Read More