Friends and colleagues,
SCCOS Holiday Party on Dec 8th was definitely the festive event of the year for our society. Congratulations to our society party co-chairs Dr Barbora Bell and Dr Ellen Szeto for all their hours of hardwork. It was fun, the food delicious, and it was wonderful to get a chance to visit with friends.
Our SCCOS Optometrist of the Year for 2007 was presented by Dr Linda Hur. Congratulations to Dr. Sandra Bozich!!!
It is the season for giving, especially thanks. Please remember to contact Drs Shirley Hong or Thomas Pan to arrange to have a storage bin from 2nd Harvest Food Bank in your office as part of our society project for this year.
Your SCCOS board will meet on January 8, 2008 instead of the first Tuesday of the month due to the holiday.
We will meet again on January 17, 2008 for our next SCCOS general meeting @ David's Restaurant-Conference Center in Santa Clara. Remember to RSVP to Dr. Chris Kavanagh for that date.
Thank you to all the doctors who agreed to be delegates and alternates to the COA House of Delegates for Feb 8-9, 2007 in Sacramento, at the Sacramento Convention Center. Our host hotel is Sheraton Grand Sacramento: 1230 J Street, Sacramento CA. 916-447-1700. Please make your hotel reservations ASAP, the reservation deadline is January 11, 2008. For more info, please contact Michelle Whitlow, governance coordinator at 800-877-5738 or mwhitlow@coavision.org.
The following is SCCOS's delegates/alternates list:
- Delegates: Sandra Bozich, Jeff Calmere, Ray Chin, Brent Chinn, Keith Chow, Scott Feldman, Linda Hur, Chris Kavanagh, Saul Levine, Rodney Lum, Karin Meng, Dennis Olson, Philip Ong, David Redman, and Kenneth Schwaderer.
- Alternates: Sam Pesner, Deborah Rheam, and Ellen Szeto.
Please also save the dates March 13-16 2008 for Optowest 2008 @ the Long Beach Convention Center. For more information, please go to: www.optowest.com.
This coming January COA member statement will reflect one invoice for the entire year's dues. You will have a choice of paying in full, or in monthly installments. COA will continue to mail a statement to members until the entire annual dues amount has been paid in full.
Thank you to all our SCCOS Board members for their hard work and time along with all our other volunteers who help make SCCOS such a great society.
May you all have a wonderful, happy, healthy holidays. See you all in the new year.
Philip Ong