Wall of Honor Spring/Summer 2023

DONORS TO MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW ROCHELLE *
James and Robin Coogan Foundation
Patricia Drace
Joellen Vavasour
Corrine Polico
Beatrice Pasciuti
Frank Stranzl
Roy Gilwit
Carney Burns
William L. Fuller
James Hyde
Brian E. Houlihan
Matthew W. Iarocci
Craig LoConte
Mary Claire Nash
John Lapadula
Neil Clark
Nathalie McFarlane
Mary K. Sanford
Frank Mohalley
Walter A. Glatz
Louis Boccardi
Stanley Wasserman
Phyllis Cole
Charles Mikulka and Lisa Milazzo
Sun H. Song
Jeffrey Gottlieb
Judith A. Diachenko
Daniel Kearin
Joseph and Beate Becker
Cloteal Washington
Elaine Fier
Ionie Grant
David McHugh
Rosemary Davis
Herbert S. Smith, D.M.D.
Anthony Ruggieri
David Socrates
Ersaline Callender
Susan Diamond
Linda Fosina
Sonya Brown
Frances A. Grosso
Myron Eagle
Victor Stanionis
Karenann Carty
Linda Fontaine
John and Mary Spollen
Louise Shepherd
Susanna Levin
Aaron and Sherry Eidelman
Randye Friedrichs
Frank and Anne Lammers
Ernie Lloyd
Chrisanne Petrone
Elaine M. Waltz
Pamela Lewis
James and Mary Staten
Walter Friedrichs
Nora Farkouh, M.D.
Michael Lavallato
Roberta Ziegel
Jerome Chiapetta
Michael Roth
Wayne Palladino
Michael Travers
Mildred Summers
Nancy M. Kraus
Deacon Hyacinth Lee
James Gaita
Sidney Rubinstein
Mark C. Zauderer
David Nanus, M.D.
Rosalie Hollingsworth
Frank and Carmelina DiMarco
Dominick F. Aiello
Miguel Rizzo
Dr. Zelma Henriques
Steven Konigsberg
Kenneth and Meaghan Fullerton
Anthony Pepe
Gwendolyn D. Spady
Frances Stachnik
Theodore and Karin Mayer Family Foundation
Jared Baron
Martha Reddington
Jeffrey Hammer
Dolores Lange
Paul Ratz De Tagyos
Goldenberg Family Charitable Fund
Rhonda Ashinoff
Randy Kershner
Patricia and John Natoli
David Eichler
Donald Pinals
Michael Kleinberg
Dori Engley
Bernard Robinson
Donald P. Kotler, MD
Mark H. Minter
Emily Anne Nixon
Lillian T. Polite
Steven Guggenheim
Ellen Shain
Madelyn and Albert Katz
William Miller
Elayne and John Cioffari, jr.
Anne Marie Magee
Karen Barzaitis
Rotary Club of New Rochelle
Rosemary Roach
George DeLuca
Helen B. Murphy
Mel Laytner
Bonnie Schuler
June Danielson
Robert Wechsler and Judith Factor
Robert J. Sommer, MD
Tow Charitable Fund/Diana Echevarria




*Donors are listed in order of donations received: (April 1, 2023 – September 25, 2023)

Meals-on-Wheels of New Rochelle Celebrates Its 40 Year Anniversary

Forty years ago, in 1983, New Rochelle, New York’s population was approximately 70,000. According to the 1980 census, about 14,600 or 20% were over the age of 60. Of those, 4,000 were 75 years or older. The Interreligious Council of New Rochelle (now, The Inter-Religious Coalition) and the Office for the Aging envisioned a much needed home-delivery meals program in New Rochelle.

Meals-on-Wheels* was not a new concept as other communities around the country provided homedelivered meals to their senior citizens. Initially, the New Rochelle organizers recruited volunteers from among the various religious groups in the City as well as active seniors who participated in programs offered by the Office for the Aging.

Today’s volunteers not only deliver meals every day, but they also provide a daily check-in for these homebound and somewhat isolated neighbors. If needed, Meals-on-Wheels of New Rochelle (MOWNR) provides links to other networks and programs that provide assistance to the elderly including the Office for the Aging. During the last few challenging years when our community and the world faced a global pandemic, our services continued and the demand for meals doubled, a challenge we faced and met.

Providing nutritious daily meals is paramount to MOWNR’s mission. For the last forty years, volunteers have delivered close to a half million nutritious meals 365 days a year. Our service allows our homebound seniors to age-in-place and remain in the comfort and familiar surroundings of their own homes.

We salute the vision of our founders who recognized the need to provide basic and essential services New Rochelle’s homebound. Our volunteers continue to carry on their mission by reaching out and providing meals, love, support, solace, and comfort on a daily basis.

As we celebrate 40 years of service to our community, we are grateful to those who came before us and to our volunteers and generous donors who continue to support our crucial work.

* Meals-on-Wheels of New Rochelle is an independent, not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) corporation and not affiliated with Meals-on-Wheels of America.

Our Purpose: (a) To develop, operate, and supervise a program for the procurement, preparation, and delivery of nutritious, and wholesome meals to residents of the City of New Rochelle, New York, who, due to illness, physical handicap, or advancing age, are homebound and unable to obtain or prepare proper and adequate meals for themselves; and (b) to do any other act or thing incident to or connected with the foregoing purposes or in the advancement thereof including the solicitation of funds for such purposes.

Mayor Bramson Visits

Mayor Bramson pays a visit to Meals-on-Meals of New Rochelle at Montefiore Hospital for the daily MOW pick-up! At 11 am every day of the year, MOW volunteers pick up their hot and cold meals and set off throughout New Rochelle delivering food and cheer to our homebound neighbors - a service they have been providing for 40 years, since MOW of New Rochelle was organized in 1983.

Above: "Here Come the Meals!" Just prepared and piping hot from the Montefiore kitchen, along with sandwiches and salads for supper. Carolyn Gumpel, Executive Assistant to Anthony Alfano is pictured in the photo on the left.

Above: The faces of Meals-on-Wheels of New Rochelle: MOW Volunteers of the day with the Mayor and Anthony Alfano, Montefiore Vice President and Executive Director.