Guest speaker this week at the Lions Club meeting was Rhonda Anderson, East Texas Deputy Field Director for Governor Abbott. The Regional Field Director, Gina Whitehead also joined us. L to R-Lion Stuart Smith, Rhonda Anderson, Gina Whitehead, Lion Stevi
Lambert receives First Year Basic Science Award
Kellianne Lambert of Atlanta, Texas, was recently honored with the First Year Basic Science Award at Southern College of Optometry. The award, with recipients selected by the SCO faculty, recognizes students who have excelled academically and demonstrated outstanding clinical skills.
Lambert is the daughter of Pam and Kelly Huffman and the granddaughter of Billie Ann and Charles Huffman and Billie Jo and Duncan Thompson. She is married to Carson Lambert. Lambert is a graduate of Atlanta High School and Texas A&M University.
Each year, Southern College of Optometry recognizes its most outstanding students at a convocation ceremony in the fall semester. For the 2021-2022 school year, 94 students were honored with awards and scholarships worth nearly $100,000.
About Southern College of Optometry
Southern College of Optometry was established in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1932. SCO is an independent, not-forprofit institution of higher education with more than 500 students and residents from 40 states. The Eye Center at SCO serves nearly 60,000 patients annually, helping make the college one of the top in the nation for clinical optometric education. SCO’s Community Outreach Program reaches more than 12,000 children through vision screenings provided annually to Shelby County students in public, private and charter schools. Additionally, SCO opened a second clinic, University Eye Care, on the campus of The University of Memphis in 2013. For more information on SCO, please visit http://www.sco.edu.