Rendering of the new Oregon Elks Children's Eye Clinic Building. The facility will be 11,500 square feet and home to Clinical Trials, Macular Degeneration and Ophthalmic Genetics Centers. (Rendering by NBBJ)

Rendering of the new Oregon Elks Children's Eye Clinic Building. The facility will be 11,500 square feet and home to Clinical Trials, Macular Degeneration and Ophthalmic Genetics Centers. (Rendering by NBBJ)

Rendering of the new Oregon Elks Children's Eye Clinic Building. The facility will be 11,500 square feet and home to Clinical Trials, Macular Degeneration and Ophthalmic Genetics Centers. (Rendering by NBBJ)

Rendering of the new Oregon Elks Children's Eye Clinic Building. The facility will be 11,500 square feet and home to Clinical Trials, Macular Degeneration and Ophthalmic Genetics Centers. (Rendering by NBBJ)

Rendering of the new Oregon Elks Children's Eye Clinic Building. The facility will be 11,500 square feet and home to Clinical Trials, Macular Degeneration and Ophthalmic Genetics Centers. (Rendering by NBBJ)

Rendering of the new Oregon Elks Children's Eye Clinic Building. The facility will be 11,500 square feet and home to Clinical Trials, Macular Degeneration and Ophthalmic Genetics Centers. (Rendering by NBBJ)

Jim Damon, past national president of the Elks, of Bend. (OHSU)

Gene Spina, chair of the Elks Youth Eye Service charitable fund. (OHSU)

This undated archive photo shows a staff member at work during the early days of OHSU’s ophthalmology department, likely when it was still part of the then-University of Oregon Medical School. (OHSU)

Elks members Bruce Reed and Clyde Larson present OHSU’s Kenneth Swan, M.D., in February 1976 for his work at the Elks Children’s Eye Clinic. (OHSU)