Doug Perkins Doug Perkins Douglas John David Perkins (born April 1943) is a British billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder of Specsavers, an international optical retail chain. Douglas John David Perkins was born in April 1943 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. "His father was a policeman and his grandparents were farmers in the county for generations." He was educated at the Llanelli Boys Grammar School, and he graduated from Cardiff University. Perkins began his career as an optometrist in Llanelli and Carmarthen. In the 1970s, he took over his father-in-law's optician store in Bristol and subsequently opened 22 stores. Perkins co-founded Specsavers with
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is the first center in Louisiana to establish such a program, helping provide highly specialized professionals to the workforce and enhanced care for cancer patients. In 1971, the closest choices for radiation treatment for cancer patients in southeast Louisiana were in Texas or Alabama. They could not stay home and get radiation therapy. Mrs. Anna Lipsey, then chairwoman of the Cancer Society of Greater Baton Rouge, was contacted by physicians who wanted to create a community-owned radiation therapy center in Baton Rouge. Mrs. Lipsey asked Dr. M.J. “Jack” Rathbone Jr.,