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Dot Grady, LDO receives OAG Heritage Award
by T.
Blair, Jr., LDO
Retired optician Dot Grady was presented with the OAG
Heritage Award Saturday 21 May 2K11 at the OAG spring meeting in
Macon. Mrs. Grady unable to be present, was presented with the honor
by OAG President Cora L. Lester (standing with OAG Pres. Emeritus
Thomas Blair, Jr.). The Award was initiated on the recommendation of
longtime OAG member Brad Dees, LDO. Mrs. Grady's professional
biography is a long and distinguished one. She began her optical
career in 1949 in North Carolina. After that she spent a brief
period working in South Carolina before spending 5 years (1956-61)
with her husband an Army serviceman in Germany. Back in the "world"
as military types will call it, Dot went to work for what would
become an iconic name in the optical field Dr. Stanley Pearle, whom
had just opened a new kind of practice in Augusta GA named Pearle
Vision. With Dr. Pearle's inspiration and support, Dot became the
first woman licensed optician in Georgia in 1965. Among her other
notable achievements, Dot was a charter certificant of the ABO
(American Board of Opticianry). Over the next several years Dot
(1970) and her family moved to the metro Atlanta area where she
continued her career until retirement. OAG salutes a Georgia legend
and role model for generations of Georgia Opticians.
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