Sarah Sumida of Chattanooga, a first-year student at Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, was honored with the Dr. M.E. Broome Endowed Scholarship Award. The award recognizes a first-year optometry student and comes with a $20,000 scholarship award over the course of the four-year doctorate program.
Ms. Sumida is the daughter of Mark and Deidre Sumida. She is a graduate of Baylor School and Middle Tennessee State University.
Each year, Southern College of Optometry recognizes its most outstanding first-year students with scholarships to help defray the costs of their education in pursuit of their doctor of optometry degrees.
For the 2022-23 academic year, the college awarded various scholarships to 87 first-year students, representing nearly two-thirds of the entering class and totaling approximately $779,000, the highest in the school’s 90-year history.