President Andy Browne called the meeting to order. Ed Morvay led us in the Pledge of Allegiance, Steve Schiavo performed the 4 Way Test and Pastor Heather Sugden gave the invocation. Linda Rumick was our notetaker.
Josie Spinelli reported that the final numbers are not in yet, but to date, our first Golf Outinghas netted $21,000!Josie thanked everyone who volunteered to make the event a great success. Thanks were offered to our sponsors and golfers and special thanks were given to Cara Stanzione and Alicia Fichera who coordinated the basket raffle and recently sent beautiful Thank Yous to all those who donated baskets for the raffle This special effort will encourage our donors to participate in our future events!
Two members received years of service pins from Ed Morvay representing the Membership Committee. Preston Centuolo received his 5 year pin while Karen Bauman received her 20 year pin Congratulations to Karen and Preston on their milestones with Vineland Rotary!
Congratulations Preston and Karen on your membership milestones!
Our Program - Karen Bauman "Be Ear-Responsible"
Rotarian Karen Bauman spoke with us about the importance of caring for your ears, and more specifically, protecting your hearing. Karen said when she was young, she wanted to be in the allied health field. She started out in physical therapy, but didn't like that, so she went to her counselor, and asked “what else can I do?” They suggested speech and hearing. Karen didn’t want to go into speech because she didn’t want to have to be making “lesson plans and things like that”. So she chose to become an Audiologist. After receiving her master's degree, she worked for someone else for about nine years; then 29 years ago, she opened her own office (Sound Advice on Karin Street in Vineland).
Karen asked how many of us have had our hearing tested since grade school? She said most people would answer “no” to that question. Then she asked “ can anyone tell me how we hear with our ears? We don't hear with our ears. We hear with our brains!” She explained that our brains deliver sound as electrical impulses via the auditory nerve, and our brain translates these impulses to what we recognize as sounds. “I want to share with you today how better hearing means better overall wellness. So what do we gain from our hearing, or through better hearing, via hearing aids when needed” she asked.
Number one, healthy hearing helps us communicate effectively with others and to be engaged with life. So our hearing helps us understand complex ideas and passing thoughts, and helps us communicate those to others. It lets us put things into a specific context that only our brains can do that other senses cannot. It is the basic tenet for our ability to communicate and interact with others. Our hearing helps us to hear positive aspects of sounds, and can help alert us to danger, and aid us in sensing when other people are in distress, allowing us to intervene.
Number two, healthy hearing helps us to be and stay healthy. So those who participate in healthy hearing or improve their hearing health by using hearing aids increase the quality of their life and reduce the risk of depression. Those with untreated hearing loss, withdraw from social situations, family gatherings, regional religious services, and other activities. This can lead to isolation and worse - to depression. Some studies have shown that if you use hearing aids when you have hearing loss, the depressive symptoms can improve after just a few months.
Number three, healthy hearing helps postpone adventure. Your hearing can identify frequency, pitch, location, and many other details simultaneously and instantly. The better it works, the sharper your mind is likely to be. Most times, hearing loss is gradual, and even after diagnosis, many people don't do anything about it for seven years. Failing to treat even mild hearing loss can result in auditory deprivation. And over time, the part of the brain, that's responsible for hearing can shrink or atrophy. It might even react by shifting how it operates, assigning that part of the brain to other things. Your brain can lose the ability to process sound, so you need to use it, or you will lose it.
Number four, healthy hearing helps you remain on your feet. Our ears are a key contributor to our balance, and when they are negatively effected, incidents in falling can increase. Balance and hearing are directly connected and share a common pathway to the brain. Balance is one of the things that we take for granted, but it is very cognitively demanding - but so is hearing loss. So when you have hearing loss, you need to concentrate harder to interpret sounds. This leaves you less mental resources for balance. Studies show that hearing aid use is associated with a lower risk of experiencing a fall for those with hearing loss.
“So, simply in conclusion," Karen said, " I invite you to become EAR-RESPONSIBLE! Get a baseline hearing test and if you have hearing loss, do something about it! Protect your ears wear ear protection when necessary, and take care of your general health.”
Thank you Karen for a very informative presentation!
Look who was at last week's meeting!!
Challenger League 2024 - another great day
of service with Vineland Rotary!
Thank you to the following Rotarians and family members who came out
to Vineland Rotary Challenger League Day on Saturday, June 1st. Karen Bauman, Jay Einstein and his son Austin, Gus Foster, Linda Foster, Dawn Hunter, Michael Loyle, Harry Maloney, Gail Marino, Cara Stanzione, Nick Surace and his son Dominic, Caitlin Terry and Dave Schad We also need to thank the Delgado family who volunteer every week at Challenger League. Joe Delgado and his wife Lauren Delgado and their children Jenna and Anthony. Special thanks to Joel Cruz for announcing all players every week of the season. Special thanks to Lisa Toboloski for coordinating all the volunteer "buddies" every week of the season.
The Phillies Strike Out Hunger game is scheduled for Wednesday, August 14th at 6:40 pm vs Florida Marlins. Tickets are $52.00 each for seats in Section 138 (these are the best seats available).
We try to order the best available seats. There are other seats available at lower prices.The Phillies are charging us $49.00 per seat plus $2.50 ticket fee per seat = $51.50 each plus a $ 4.50 fee for the order.
We are rounding off the cost per seat to $52.00 each.
The Phillies are donating $8.00 per ticket back to the Rotary Foundation.
If we want to sit together as a group, we need to place a special order ASAP for more than 12 tickets. Dave Schad is coordinating and would like to place our ticket order no later than June 11, 2024.
Tickets are ONLY issued electronically. Anyone ordering tickets will be required to provide an e-mail address and a cell phone number so the tickets can be sent to your phone.
For information or to sign up, contact Dave Schad at
You will be billed and expected to pay in advance for the tickets.
Dave can forward the ticket ordering information to anyone who wants to SEPARATELY order tickets for this game.There are specific instructions and codes for how to order tickets with the Rotary prices for the Strike Out Hunger Game.
Your Proposed Slate of 2024-2025 Board of Directors
Andrew Browne, Immediate Past President
Jay Einstein, President
Josie Spinelli, VP of Programs
Joseph O’Rourke, VP of Fundraising
David Schad, Charities Treasurer
Bonnie Laube, Club Treasurer
Melody Montgomery, Club Secretary
Sherry Soutiere, Community Service Chair
Karen Bauman, Club Administration Chair
Gail Marino, Membership Chair
Maureen Simmons, Foundation Chair
Sandy Hearing, Youth Services Chair
Susanna Philippoussis, International Service Chair
To Be Announced, Community Awareness Chair
2024 Rotary Day of Service
Join 30,000 Rotary members around
the world in helping us feed the hungry
and engage in other service projects
District 7505 Volunteers, teaming up with Rise Against Hunger will prepare about 20,000 meal packets, at two locations on two days.
This is part of a worldwide effort. We are joining more than 800 Rotary clubs, over 30,000 Rotarians, and thousands of volunteers spanning ten states and seven countries who are joining forces June 8 also to tackle wide-ranging projects from collecting clothing for those experiencing homelessness and refurbishing long-neglected parks to feeding those with food insecurity.
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