50 years ago, Dean Charles Abel signed a clinic affiliation agreement between LACO and the U.S. Navy, perhaps the earliest clinic program for the college and possibly the first of its kind between a school or college of optometry and the armed forces.
With the new affiliation, fourth-year students spent a three-day rotation at the eye clinic of the Long Beach Naval Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Albert Mibeck, a U.S. Navy commander. Dr. Mibeck retired from the U.S. Navy in 1970 and joined the LACO faculty.
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