[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 82 (Thursday, May 17, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H5338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN HONOR OF WILLIAM E. COCHRAN

  (Mr. BOOZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to offer my heartfelt 
congratulations and thanks to a fellow optometrist, a leader in our 
profession, Dr. William Cochran. For 24 years, he has led my alma 
mater, the Southern College of Optometry, and under his guidance the 
institution has flourished, turning out highly-trained optometrists and 
serving 60,000 patients a year. His commitment to his faculty, his 
patients and students are examples we can all follow here in the 
Nation's capital.
  I congratulate Dr. Cochran on his retirement from the Southern 
College of Optometry and thank him for the example he has left for 
optometrists now and in the future. He has made a lasting, positive 
impact on hundreds of young students and continued to enhance and build 
a wonderful institution that I am very proud of, the Southern College 
of Optometry.

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