RED BANK WOMAN FILLS SHOES OF EYE DOC
Erin Moss Curtis with one of her trusty tools, a phoropter. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
A few years ago, Erin Moss Curtis walked in to her childhood eye doctor’s office for a routine exam and walked out with better vision of what to do with her life.
Curtis, a Red Bank native, had been teaching biology at Brookdale Community College, but felt the job was just a way station while she figured out what she really wanted to do. She was in a bit of an existential rut, but a therapeutic talk with her doctor, Donald Johnston, pulled her out of it that very day, she said.
“Doctor Johnston said to me, ‘what are you doing here? You should be an optometrist,'” she said. “He was right. It was exactly what I was looking for.”
Johnston made her an offer: “He said, ‘Erin, you’ll always have a job here with me,'” Curtis told redbankgreen.