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
Notre Dame of Midsayap College Notre Dame of Midsayap College Notre Dame of Midsayap College (Tagalog: "Dalubhasaang Notre Dame ng Midsayap" or "Kolehiyong Notre Dame ng Midsayap") (colloquially known as "NDMC" or simply "Notre Dame") is a private, Catholic academic institution run by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Midsayap, Cotabato. Established on 13 June 1941 making it as the "First Notre Dame School in Asia and in the Philippines", it was the first link in the long chain of Notre Dame Schools in the Philippines that form the Notre Dame Educational Association under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the school Patroness