This edition of the 2011 Maino Christmas News Letter has 99% pictures....and just enough text to know what's being shown. Enjoy! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

1. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Another busy year for the Maino Family....
GRADUATIONS, NEW GRANDSON , NEW JOB, NEW BOOK
Dominic III graduates at UIC
Pavilion with BS in Business.
Sylvia and Dominick sing in the St. Bartholomew Choir with a great Grandson #1, Dominic IV gently
group of choristers! Sylvia heads up SBC’s Art & Environment group holding Grandson #2, Vincenzo.
Our son (Dominic III) and 2 grandsons
(Vincenzo and Dominic IV)
Wella’s Walkers: Alzheimer’s Memory Walk
Christina just before being an employed
college graduate...they grow up fast!
Dominick & Sylvia at the National
Academies of Practice Banquet in
Washington, DC
Christina (left) graduates from De Paul and now
working at Neumann Family Services. She is also taking
guitar lessons (Right) The Family in Chicago.
Sylvia with Great Grandma

2. Dominick’s 2011 in Pictures!
Dominick with Dr. Dori Carlson, Presenting research with my colleagues
President of the American Optometric at the American Academy of
Association Optometry meeting in Boston
In November I was asked to be the official photographer of the
iBAM Festival (Irish Books Arts and Music) and during that time
I managed to get in front of the camera with Irish notables
David Lynch (USA Today, Bloomberg News reporter), Tom
Wright , Frank Delaney (writer, broadcaster, BBC host), and
Ireland’s Consul General, Aidan Cronin. I am now a staff
photographer for the Irish American News.
(Right) Lectured at the
I spoke at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Vision Institute of Canada
Show in Las Vegas in Toronto
My 3rd book to be published by
Lippincott, Williams & Williams is due
out May 2012.
Several doctors from Korea came
to Chicago to work with me at the
Illinois Eye Institute
Still teach, do research and see
patients at the Illinois Eye
Institute/Illinois College of
I was honored as a Optometry
Distinguished Practitioner by
the National Academies of (Right) Dominick and Sylvia
Practice in Washington, DC at the Order Sons of Italy
and am now on the Editorial banquet where Dominick
Board for their new journal, was recognized for his work
As ICO Alumni Council President and Alumni
and given the Leonardo di
Journal of Representative to the ICO Board of Trustees, I
Vinci Award of Excellence
Interprofessional had an opportunity to address the graduating
class of 2011 in Rockefeller Chapel on the
in Medicine
Healthcare
University of Chicago campus
John Arena (right) is the new
2011 was a very busy year….graduations, new jobs, lots of travel 45th Ward Alderman….I
helped out on his campaign
and lectures and a new book. But family, friends and faith played
a bit
a major role as well. Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy
New year. Check out MainosMemos.blogspot.com today!