Al Brewer

Professional

Al Brewer has spent his lifetime in public service.  He served our country honorably in the United States Marine Corps; he worked for and retired from the State of New Jersey's Department of Corrections as a Senior Parole Officer; and he has devoted the years since he retired to a 501c3 non-for-profit corporation.  

Since 2007, Al has also been a full time volunteer running and operating the New Jersey Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center located in West Trenton.  As President and CEO of one of the largest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers in North America, Al leads the annual collection and distribution of approximately 100,000 pairs of recycled glasses which are sent to about 26 different countries.

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Public and Community Service

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• Coppermine Villiage Homeowners Association, VP, 2020 - Present

• Flemington Borough Council, 2016

• Flemington Historic Preservation Commission, Commissioner, 2017-2019

• Flemington Borough Planning Board, Alternate, 2015-2016

• Flemington-Rartian School District Board of Education, Member 2014-2015

• Samuel Fleming House Museum, Board Member, 2014

• NJ Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, President/Executive Director, 2007-Present

• Lions Eye Bank of Delaware Valley, Wills Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, Life Member

• Lions Eye Research Foundation, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ, Life Member and Past Trustee

• New Jersey Lions MD16, Council Chairman, Red Bank, NJ, 2007-2008

• Lions Club International, NJ District Governor 16D, 2004-2005

• Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 16, Somerville, NJ, Life Member 

• Marine Corps League, Hunterdon County Bulldog Detachment, 2012-Present

• United States Marine Corps, Honorable Discharge, 1975

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Education

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Ramapo College of New Jersey, BA, 1989

Rutgers University, MA, Labor Studies

and industrial Relations, 1994