Board of Directors

Chairman – Bill Burrus (Burrus & Associates, Inc.)

Treasurer – Dexter Reese (Retired Owner of Reese Tire Company)

Secretary – Stancil Handley, OD (Optometrist, Handley Optometry)

Kerry Stein (Vice President, KGS Steel Company)

Krista Saari (Membership Sales/Marketing, The Club at PGA WEST)

James Izer, MD (Ophthalmologist, Institute For Total Eye Care)

Leon Ashford (Trial Lawyer, Hare Wynn Newell & Newton)

From the Chairman, Bill Burrus:

The staff at Sight Savers America has maintained a commitment and earned a reputation for providing the best follow-up eye care services for children in Alabama and Mississippi. Virtually all organizations in Alabama and Mississippi working in the field of children’s vision health are now referring their children to Sight Savers because of our reputation for unsurpassed follow-up effort.

Great strides have been made to ensure that children receive the eye care they deserve. All elementary school children now have the opportunity to receive the appropriate level of eye care. Many preschool and all kindergarten, second, and fourth grade students in Alabama are vision-screened and provided follow-up eye care services by Sight Savers. Many other school children are also referred for these same eye care services. Soon all children with severe visual impairment will have the vision aids they need and we are now beginning to fill the equipment needs of blind children.