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The Pacific University College of Optometry is unsurpassed as a place to obtain an excellent didactic and clinical education from a talented and caring faculty. An optometric education at Pacific University is a wise career investment.
Don Metzger '66, O.D. '67 returned the tail of the original Boxer statue to Pacific University this summer. Watch him recount how he got the tail and why he returned it 40 years later. Then, read more about the effort to bring Boxer home in Pacific magazine at pacificu.edu/magazine.
P.J. Pitts, Pharm.D. ’09 has been awarded the 2012 Pacific University Young Alumni Leadership Award for her work to provide triage and long-term health care in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
Clark Peters ’65, MSEd ’70 has been awarded the 2012 Pacific University Outstanding Alumni Service Award for his years of service to public education in Oregon and his ongoing support of Pacific University’s speech and education programs.
Lynn Meredith ’44 has been posthumously awarded the 2012 Pacific University Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award for his service in World War II and his 32 years protecting presidents in the U.S. Secret Service. He died in 2009 at the age of 84.
Irving Zemrau ’62, O.D. ’63 has been awarded the 2012 Pacific University Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award for his years as an optometrist, as a community volunteer, and as an advocate for schizophrenics and their families following his son’s diagnosis with the illness.
Clark Peters '65, MSEd '70, Irv Zemrau '62, O.D. '63, and Lynn Meredith '44, have been awarded the 2012 Pacific University Outstanding Alumni Service Award. P.J. Pitts, Pharm.D. '09 has been awarded the 2012 Pacific University Young Alumni Leadership Award.
Pacific is a community of highly motivated, intellectual students, faculty and staff committed to an intimate, personalized education. Professors are dedicated to helping students fulfill their dreams.
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