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Show Dr. C. Kowallis Attends Seminar Last Fri. Dr. Calvin Kowal.lis returned last Friday from Salt Lake City where he attended a graduate optometric conference and seminar semin-ar held at the Hotel Utah. Dr. A. M, Skeffington, internationally interna-tionally famous author, research worker and Director of Education for the Optometric Extension Program, was the lecturer. The general theme of the meeting was "Why Today's Children Can't Read." "Vision is the most complex mechanism in the whole human organism " Dr. Skeffington pointed out. "Much of the present attack on the nation's educational systems sys-tems would be forgotten if par-I par-I ents and teachers came to under-, stand that a child with a visual problem just does not have the visual ability to cope with his tasks at school 80 of which are based on vision." |