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Schott Family Optometry Legacy: Small Town Quality Eye Care

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Schott Family Optometry Legacy: Small-Town Quality Eye Care

If an optometrist doesn’t happen to have a “central obscuring strip,” to conduct the Turville Infinity Balance Test, a coat rack will do just fine.  

That’s one of the things Edwin D. Schott, OD ‘51, taught his son, Edwin M. Schott, OD ‘76, who passed it along to his son, Daniel Schott, OD ‘04.

Another thing the Schott family shared over the course of three generations is upon graduating from PCO, they all returned home to Coudersport, Pennsylvania, to open a private practice. With a 2020 population of 2,371, the borough serves as the county seat of Potter County and is located in rural north-central Pennsylvania, near the New York state border.   

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