{"id":22649,"date":"1999-09-29T00:00:23","date_gmt":"1999-09-29T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22649"},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:40:24","slug":"kenneth-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/09\/29\/kenneth-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewiston ophthalmologist to deliver Sawyer Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kenneth Wolf of Wolf Eye Associates, Lewiston, will discuss <em>Project ORBIS: The Flying Eye Hospital<\/em> at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13 at Bates College in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. The public is invited to attend the college&#8217;s annual Sawyer Lecture in Biology free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Project ORBIS is an international nonprofit organization that combats blindness throughout the world through education and hands-on training. The principal vehicle for Project ORBIS&#8217;s work is a DC-8 jet donated to the organization by United Airlines. Housed on board the converted aircraft is a fully equipped ophthalmological teaching hospital, complete with an examination and laser treatment area, operating room, recovery room, television studio, 18-seat classroom, scrub and sterile area and library for video tapes, textbooks and current journals.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf, a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology who serves in the departments of ophthalmology at Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary&#8217;s Regional Medical Center, has had a private practice in Lewiston since 1973. He is the author of <em>Eyewise<\/em> (Harper &amp; Rowe, 1982), and serves as chairman of the Auburn-Lewiston Airport Authority. He received his bachelor&#8217;s from Brandeis University and his master&#8217;s from Tufts University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carl E. Andrews &#8217;40 established the William Sawyer Memorial Biology Lecture Fund to honor William H. Sawyer Jr. &#8217;13, who taught biology at Bates from 1916 to 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kenneth Wolf of Wolf Eye Associates, Lewiston, will discuss &#8220;Project ORBIS: The Flying Eye Hospital&#8221; at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13 at Bates College in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. The public is invited to attend the college&#8217;s annual Sawyer Lecture in Biology free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1690],"class_list":["post-22649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92389,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649\/revisions\/92389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}