Awards

School of Optometry Foley House Basement Key Award - 1994

About Lois Selk

Lois Selk worked in the Optometry Library from 1970 until 1994. She served in the capacity of Branch Coordinator for nearly 25 years.

In overseeing the function of the Optometry Library for so many years, Selk brought a consistency which precluded the constant training which is customary with frequent staff turnover. Selk will long be remembered for her dedication, loyalty, intelligence, unrelenting hard work, and especially the ability to stay unruffled under pressure.

Thousands of optometry students and hundreds of optometry faculty over the years owe much to her service. As testimony to the esteem in which she is held by the School of Optometry, she was the winner of the Foley House Basement Door Key for 1994. The award is made annually to persons deserving special recognition for their roles in the school's development and is usually made to a prominent faculty member or administrator. Lois is the only non-optometrist to win the award in its twenty-year history.