Melinda

Her more than twenty-five years as an optician have taught Melinda that if she is responsible and respectful of her patients' needs, she can always find the right solution for them. “But there’s a side to me that enjoys trying to break my patients out of their old habits. I like to get them out of the style they’re used to by presenting them with new looks. After all, people with silver hair, don’t automatically have to go with silver frames. True style encompasses so much more involving skin tone, eye color, facial features, traditional or contemporary preferences.” 

When Melinda isn’t working at the Wheaton Eye Clinic, she’s likely to be doing any one of three favorite pastimes: perfecting her Karate, (she has third degree black belts in three different systems), and is busy pursuing a fourth degree black belt in each, playing the oboe, or enjoying time with her Jack Russell Terrier Puddin’.  Melinda has been playing the oboe since she was very young and plays professionally with The New Philharmonic Symphony at the College of Du Page and the DuPage Opera Theatre. As for Puddin’, Melinda admits her rotating batch of desktop dog photos helps break the ice with kids and adults alike. “Everyone loves to see Puddin’s latest costumes. People tell me I ought to write a book featuring Puddin’ and maybe someday I will!”