Sylvia and Dominick Maino received the Heart of St. Bartholomew Parish Award for their many contributions to the parish. Sylvia is involved in numerous parish activities and committees, and Dominick created the parish websites and is active in the choir and other groups. Dominick received the A.M. Skeffington Award for excellence in writing and has authored over 200 publications. He continues to be active in optometry and give presentations, while Sylvia remains active in the parish and may retire soon from her hospital position. Their children are also doing well in their careers and education.

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Last year St. Bartholomew active in the Parish Mission
Parish recognized Sylvia as and Carnival. He has been
being the Catholic Women's involved in the parish Market
Guild Woman of the Year for Day and Parent's Club. He
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Dominick's on Facebook and Twitter excellence in writing. optometry. He is currently or more than 13 publications.
as well..Ws keep in touch1 Dominick has written more has been the editor He continues to write....

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Maino Family Update: Sylvia is f l o ~at Children's Memorial Hospital. CMH will be moving downtown, next to Northwestern Univer-
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sity Hospital, in the next couple of years once CMH's new building is completed. She does not want to move downtown...so Syl may be retiring from
CMH a bit sooner than expected! She continues to be very active at St. Bartholomew Church as the Art & Environment Guru, alto in the choir, member
of the Catholic Women's Guild and much, much more.
Dominick lecturedlmade presentations at the several meetings around the country. In April he will be lecturing at the Neuro-Optometric Association
meeting and the International Congress of Behavioral Optometry. He is the editor of Optometry & Vision Developmentjournal and is in the process of
establishing an eye clinic at the Easter Seal Society of Chicago for children with autism and a Traumatic Brain Injury Service at the Illinois Eye Institute.
Dominick has several blogs and invites you to visit MainosMemos.blogspot.com He's had several articles published including: Polypharmacy and
the lack of oculo-visual complaints from those with mental illness and dual diagnosis in Optometry; The Etiology of Autism; Brain anatomy, electro-
physiology and visual functiorJperceptionin children within the autism spectrum disorder in Optometry & Vision Developmentand Optic Nelve Heads
in Pediatric African Americans Using Retina Tomography in Optometry and Vision Science. He also had several showings of his photography at Casa
ltalia and the Addison Town Hall rotunda. Join Dominick on Facebook and Twitter as well.
Dominic Ill, Edie, and Dominic IV are all doing well. Dom is working full time and going to school while being a great husband and dad. Edie is with
AT&T (She answers ALL my questions!)And the little one is growing very quickly! (What a joy!)
Christina is finishing up at DePaul. With any luck she will be done at the end of the summer with a degree in Psychology. She wants to go into Human
Services and is currently helping to take care of a young adult with cerebral palsy both to earn a couple of $$$ and to share her talents of compassion
and caring. (She's awesome!) Christina is also a budding photographer She's taking better pictures than me!!