Dr. W.M. Walker Heading State Optometric Society, June 7, 1922

Winston-Salem Man Named Head of Optometrics. . . Hendersonville Selected as Next Meeting Place of State Society Today

Raleigh, N.C., June 7 (By the Associated Press)—Election of officers for the ensuing year and adoption of a resolution instructing the President of the Society to urge the establishment of a chair of optometry at the University of North Carolina, was the principle business of the closing session of the annual convention of the State Optometric Society here today.

Officers elected were: President, Dr. W.M. Walker, Winston-Salem; vice-presidents, Dr. W.B. Morton, Louisburg; Dr. J.W. Taylor, Greensboro; Dr. K.H. Patterson, Henderson; and Dr. W.B. Hedrick, Raleigh; secretary-treasurer, Dr. John D. Perry, Winston-Salem.

Hendersonville was selected as the place of meeting next year.

From the front page of the Fayetteville Observer, June 7, 1922