In discussions of optical industry history, Arthur Lemay’s name doesn’t often come up. Unlike celebrated figures like Bernard Maitenaz, who invented the Varilux lens, or Noel Roscrow, Robert Graham and Rene Grandperret, who played key roles in the development of plastic lenses, or O.W. Coburn, who helped commercialize automated surface generators, Arthur Lemay is relatively unknown. Joe Santinelli has made it his mission to change that. For the past 30 years Joe, the founder of lens finishing equipment maker, Santinelli International, has been waging a one-man campaign to get Arthur Lemay the belated recognition he fervently believes Lemay deserves. Joe’s mission is driven by his sense of pride and personal loyalty. Arthur Lemay was Joe’s uncle and he gave Joe his start in the optical industry job in 1954, when Joe signed on as an apprentice at A. Lemay & Co., a New York-based developer and distributor of lens finishing equipment. Read More