President Adam led his last meeting as club president before next week's changeover meeting.
Opening and Invocation led by Marc Kreuser – at 4:50 pm summer is officially here!
Wellness Report – Helmuth is home from surgery, Ted O’Toole is having surgery.
Guests: Libo Alexanian, Lyons Rotary Club
Announcements:
- Reminder to purchase a $100 Raffle ticket – maybe give one to a friend
- Jim Weiler – Evie Taylor has set up a Newark Rotary event on Monday, July 1st - Newark Pilots game at 7:00 pm – only $5.00 a ticket
- Jim Weiler – sign up to help with the Newark Family Festival – we need help in many areas – kids area, clean up, hot dog stand, traffic direction, rovers, etc. Please pitch in to help make this happen.
- Ken George – Chicken BBQ at Apple Shed 7/20 (4 - 7pm) – there will be a band and a 50/50 raffle – to benefit Fairville Cemetery. Ken is selling tickets
- Adam’s band, Flannel Underground, will be headlining Peppermint Days on 7/20
- Saturday, June 22 – Habitat for Humanity Palmyra Build - hope we have a great Rotary turn out!
Birthdays: Holly Kreuser, 6/19; Steve Hasseler, 6/21; Dave Doebler, 6/22
Club Anniversaries: Lucina Hallagan, 4 years
Program: Steve Hallagan introduced Dr. Steven Fine.
Steve Fine, founder and president of the Melanoma Education Foundation, attended colleges in the Boston area, receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Northeastern University. He then moved to Pennsylvania, completing a year of postdoctoral research at Lehigh University. After 5 years as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he moved back to New England where he served in technical and management positions in high tech chemical companies.
Shortly after his son, Dan, died of melanoma in 1998 at the age of 26, he founded the non-profit Melanoma Education Foundation and, since 2000, has devoted full time to the Foundation.
The primary activity of the Foundation has been educating high school and middle school wellness teachers about melanoma and providing them with free online lessons to educate their students about self-detecting melanoma while it is curable. Prior to the Covid 19 Pandemic over 1700 schools in all 50 U.S. States and Canada were using the lessons, resulting in saved lives of students, teachers and their loved ones. In 2022 outreach was expanded to U.S. and Canadian Rotary clubs in Eastern and Atlantic time zones. Since then over 300 virtual sessions on early self-detection and prevention of melanoma have been conducted.
Steve Fine reviewed what melanoma is and isn’t, gave some examples of what it may look like, shared statistics, and finally gave some advice on how to detect it.
The reality is that while Basal cell and Squamous cell carcinoma usually don’t appear until age 40 or later, Melanoma can appear in children as young as 10 years old. Basal and Squamous Cell carcinomas are usually slow growing and treatable, Melanoma is not. It usually grows fast and is almost always fatal if not found early. It also can be found in areas of the body that are not exposed to sun. This is why early detection is so important.
His best advice regarding a suspicious spot or area on your skin: “When in doubt, have it out!” If it turns out to be melanoma you will be glad you did.
To learn more and to watch a video please visit skincheck.org