08/10/17 Grif.Net - Eye Chart
Robert Griffin
My Grandmother (Milena Prochaska) and family had emigrated from Bohemia, now a part of the Czech Republic, to Prague/Fremont area of Eastern Nebraska. At the turn of the Century, at only 17, she was accepted into the Normal School in Chadron to become a teacher.
She had to pass a physical that included an eye examine. Covering her eye, she was shown a poster on the wall with the letters "C Z Y W X N S T A C Z".
"Can you read this?" the optician asked.
"Read it?" Grandma replied. "I sat next to the guy in third grade."
(Okay, I made up the anecdote, but loved true stories of family from Grandma ‘Millie’. Learned about her family - Adolph, Bohuslov, Olga, Ludwig and Emil and even got to go fishing with some of my great uncles as one lived to be 101; about her mom - my great grandmother - Anna Pospisil and great-great grandmothers who were also both named Anna – Anna Hrozney and Anna Visata. Think they all could be on an eye test chart. 😊 )
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"