Steve retired on September 1, 1991 after working 42 years at the Mountainview Correctional Facility. He served as a teacher, Director of Education and as the Chief Executive Officer during his last 18 years of employment. He continues to serve on the Board of Trustees for the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women after ten years of membership.

Steve is a graduate of East Stroudsburg State College with a BS degree in Health and Physical Education and earned an M.Ed. in Personnel and Guidance from Rutgers University.

Steve served in the Army during World War II in the ETO. He was the recipient of five battle campaign stars, including the landing on Omaha Beach on D Day.

Richard "Rick" Chittum is a retired trader and portfolio manager from Bankers Trust Co. He served 30 years in the municipal securities industry in sales, underwriting and trading. He is a Broker with Met-Life Insurance and also works part-time with Riewert Funeral Home. Rick has been a Lion for 28 years; is a Progressive Melvin Jones Fellow and a Past President of the Bergenfield Lions Club.He served as President of the old LEBNJ during the merger period with the Midwest Eye Bank, and is the current Vice Chairman of the Board of the Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey.

Rick serves on the board of the Eyeglass Recycling Center and advisory board of Camp Marcella for Blind Children. He is President of the 16A Charitable Foundation and President of the NJ PDG Assn.

Rick umpired 50-75 Little League games per season for about 5 years; served on Bergenfield Recreation Committee for 10 years. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Richmond, studied Russian at Syracuse, and served in the U.S.A.F. Rick and his wife Barbara have two sons, and four grandchildren.

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Horace Brown is retired from the Xerox Corporation. Prior to his 23 years there, he worked as a registered nurse in several hospitals in New Jersey for 20 years. He is a member of the Atlantic Highlands Lions Club having served two terms as President. He served as District Governor of 16B in 2005 – 2006 and is a proud Melvin Jones Fellow. Horace also serves as a Board Member of the Middletown Housing Authority and the New Jersey Human Development Corporation (State Commission on HIV/AIDS).

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Ken Mattfield is a past chairperson of the Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey Board of Trustees, and has served on the New Jersey board since 1999.  A Past President of the Springfield Lions Club, he served as 16E District Governor in 2005-2006 and is proud to be a Melvin Jones Fellow. Among his other Lions activities, Ken works with the Union County Theater Project to make audio-described performances available to the blind and visually impaired.    Ken retired from a 33-year career in public education where he served in a number of positions, including high school English teacher, supervisor and administrator. He received his Bachelor's degree in Education from Bloomsburg State College (PA), a Master's degree in English from Seton Hall University, and completed additional studies in education at Kean University and Columbia University. He lives in Scotch Plains with his wife, Catherine, also a retired English teacher.

Lois Schembs has been a priest in the Episcopal Church since 1982, serving congregations in Indiana, Iowa, greater Washington, DC, and in numerous New Jersey locations. Previous to the ordained ministry, she first worked as a researcher and educator at an outdoor living history museum and then she procured funding for and directed several ecumenical programs on aging, all of which were in Indianapolis.

Lois has been a Lion since 1994, and is a member of the Westfield Lions Club. She has been President of the Club numerous times and a Melvin Jones Fellow. She has served Lions District 16E as a Zone Chair, Region Chair and Cabinet Secretary. Lois currently serves as the district Chaplain for the Lions of both District 16A and 16E. She is the past Executive Director of the Lions Eye Research Foundation (LERF), a former staff member of the Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey (LEBNJ) and became a LEBNJ Board member in 2007. She is a former Chaplain for the Hospice Team of the Visiting Nurses Association in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and is a consultant and Past President of the Board of Directors for Youth and Family Counseling Service in Westfield, New Jersey.

Ben Yashinski is a retired manager from Verizon Corporation where he spent 35 years in New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York in varied positions in engineering, finance and human resources. He holds a bachelors degree in social and political studies from Seton Hall University and served in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1967 to 1969.

Lion Ben was invited to join the Metuchen Lions Club in 1981. He has held all officer and director positions within the Club including multiple terms as president, secretary and treasurer, and is the current Club Treasurer.

He served as District 16-D zone chair; President of the District 16-D Eye & Ear Foundation; District 16-D Membership Chair; and 16-D Mission 30 Coordinator; and is currently a trustee on the boards of both the 16-D Eye & Ear Foundation, and the 16-D Audio-Visual Screening Foundation.

As a current district governor, Lion Ben is a trustee on the board of the Lions Eye Research Foundation, representing District 16-D. He is also a member of the advisory board of the New Jersey Camp for Blind Children.

In addition to his faculty appointment as a Clinical professor of Ophthalmology at the University of medicine and Dentistry of new Jersey-New jersey Medical School, Dr. Constad has been in private practice with Hudson Eye Physicians and Surgeons since 1985.

He has served on multiple committees for the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) and Jersey City Medical Center, and has been named among the New York metro Area's Top Doctors by Castle Connolly Medical, LTD. Dr. Constad has been directly involved with the Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey since 1988, and has served as its Medical Director from 1992-95 and from 1997-present. He also serves on the Board of Directors for both the Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey and Midwest Eye-Banks.

Dr. Constad resides in Martinsville, New Jersey.

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