10 - Wednesday, April 8, 1987 - North Shore News

Operation Eyesight
founder passes away

A WEST Vancouver man who
dedicated his life to providing
Third World poor with the gift of
eyesight died Monday night at the
age of 81.

Dr. Ben Gullison founded
Operation Eyesight Universal
(OEU) in 1963 in Calgary after a
group of area businessmen backed
his worldwide appeal for financial
assistance to perform eye opera-
tions in destitute Third World
countries,

Dr. Gullison began his medical
career in 1933 in Sompeta, India at
the 125-bed Argoya Varam Hospi-
tal. His work there was initially
general practice but the rampant
eye discase among the area’s poor
forced him to concentrate on eye
operations. In the past 40 years,
over 120,000 blind eyes have been
given sight by the hospital’s staff.
Dr. Gullison’s work, backed with
the financial support of the OEU
and its charitable donations, has
since spread to over 60 eye centres
in 17 countries that perform 70,000
sight restoring operations annual-
ly. He was appointed a Member of
the Order of Canada in 1980.

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A memorial service for Dr.
Gullison will take place Friday at
1:30 p.m. at the First Baptist
Church, 969 Burrard St., Van-

DR. BEN GULLISON

Dr. Gullison is survived by his
wife Evlyn, his daughter Marilyn
Heel, his son Ray Gullison and
grandchildren Lisa and David
Heel, and Ben, Ted and Dana
Gullison.

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