MAGAZINE OF THE ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY AND ILLINOIS EYE INSTITUTE
MATTERS
LAST LOOK
SUMMER 2024
Not only do we graduate amazing optometrists, we also have quite a few passionate runners in our mix. Here’s to our many graduates, their love of
pounding the pavement, and many many worn out running shoes.
WINTER 2023
In the early 1980s the ICO faculty played a baseball game against the Cubs grounds keepers.
SUMMER 2023
Dr. Charles Mullen and Dr. Terry Ernest celebrate the foundation of the ICO/University of Chicago partnership. It's still going strong over 25 years later.
WINTER 2022
Current students Jasdip Mann, ’24 and Amina Cheema ’24 share a laugh with Richard Rucoba, OD ’49 and his close friend.
SUMMER 2022
Students from the Chicago College of Optometry perform a conga line at one of their dances in 1954.
WINTER 2021
The faces have changed, but the address remains the same. While digging through our photos, we found this gem. 3241 South Michigan Avenue continues to be our address all these years later.
SUMMER 2021
The Doonaree Pipe Band has been a highlight of ICO’s Commencement for decades.
WINTER 2020
ICO's 2020 Commencement was 100% virtual.
SPRING 2020
Here is one more photo from "the old days," courtesy of R. Mark Hatfield, OD '79, MD.
Dig that far out clinic attire!
FALL 2019
Michael Yu, OD ’10, Carol Fan, OD ’09, and Stephanie Kwan, OD ’15, show some ICO pride at a One Sight clinic in Cali, Colombia. Along with other ICO alumni, they cared for 3,350 patients over 5 days.
SPRING 2019
Can you guess where in the world this photo was taken?
These misty ruins are located in Machu Picchu, Peru. ICO-Students Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) went on a mission trip to this country for Thanksgiving 2018.