Mentor Corporation Announces Shareholders’ Meeting Results and Adjournment; Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Corporation (NYSE:MNT) announced today that at its annual meeting of shareholders convened on September 15, 2008, Joshua H. Levine, Michael L. Emmons, Walter W. Faster, Margaret H. Jordan, Katherine S. Napier, Burt E. Rosen and Joseph E. Whitters were all re-elected to the Mentor Board of Directors. All directors hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. In addition, the shareholders approved the proposed reorganization of Mentor Corporation into a Delaware holding company structure under which Mentor Corporation would become a subsidiary of Mentor International Holdings, Inc. and ratified the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as Mentor’s independent registered public accounting firm.