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PubliIshed 1T1 times aAnnually bLy the IAN TIMES Italian Community Center 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202 Become a member of the Italian www.ICCMilwaukee.com Community Center and you will receive JUNE 2018 • VOL. 40, NO. 1 home delivery of this publication. Your address label will be placed here. – CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED – ‘A Taste of Italy’ provides Fr. John Baumgardner to comforting relief after be Principal Celebrant of lousy wintry weather week Festa Mass on July 22 Father John Baumgardner has accepted an invitation from the Festa Italiana Mass and Procession Committee to be the Principal Cel - ebrant of the Festa Mass on Sun - day, July 22. The Festa Mass, free and open to all persons interested in attend - ing, begins at 11 a.m. in the Amer - ican Family Insurance Amphi- theater on the Summerfest Grounds. The gate to the am - phitheater will open at 10:15 a.m. Fr. Baumgardner will become an Assistant Pastor at several East Side Milwaukee churches including Old St. Mary Catholic Church and Three Holy Women Parish – St. Hedwig, St. Rita and Holy Rosary – on July 1. He will be part of the pastoral team that is led by the Very Rev. Timothy Kitzke, the longtime Fr. John Baumgardner Chaplain of the Italian Community Louise Balistreri and Salvatore Lo Center (ICC). The ICC is, of course, Coco, managers of the Mass and the nonprofit Italian organization Procession Committee. “He is an that hosts Festa Italiana. outstanding young man. We are While it wasn’t exactly summer time weather, many Taste of Italy guests July 22 has special meaning for pleased that he accepted our invi - chose to enjoy their food in the Italian Community Center’s Courtyard. Fr. Baumgardner. Not only is it the tation to join us to celebrate the After all the lousy wintry weather during the week leading up to the date that he presides over the Festa essence of Festa Italiana, the Mass event (including wet heavy snow and freezing rain), the sunshine, low Mass, but it also marks the one and procession.” 60s temperature and variety of delicious Italian food on the menu at the year anniversary of his ordination A complete story on Fr. Baum - event on Apr. 22 provided comforting relief for the guests. Among those into the priesthood. who enjoyed their food selections in the courtyard were Kathy McEwen gardner will appear in our next edi - and Carmine Forte. Look for many more photos, a Taste of Italy wrap-up “We’re very excited to have him tion, the July/August Festa story and messages of thanks to donors and volunteers on pages 14-19. as the Principal Celebrant of our Italiana issue, which will be avail - (Times photo by Tom Hemman) 41st Festa Mass,” said Sister Mary able in late June. Italian Community Center Cosa c’è dentro? What’s inside? Room ‘Naming Rights’ explained President’s message page 2 Festa announces acts on First donor: Rose Purpero and her family 3 more stages, including by Susie Christiansen The Fundraising Committee eral Membership. flagthrowers from Italy’s ICC Fundraising Chairperson was faced with two tasks: Consid - A set of specific guidelines was Lazio region page 3 The Italian Community Center ering the current offer and creating created, specifying length of rights VIP Day for disabled was presented with an offer by a a set of rules and conventions nec - and the cost of each term, eligibil - set for Saturday, July 21 page 4 family of longtime ICC members to essary to manage this offer and fu - ity requirements, possible rooms See fast-paced futsal purchase naming rights to one of ture offers of the same kind. and walls, payment requirements, tourney at Festa page 5 the rooms at the ICC. A sum of The committee discussed all of signage standards and right of first money would be donated to the the details and possible issues be - refusal. Donations and volunteers ICC, and the purchase and instal - hind naming rights, and after much sought for Festa Mass page 6 lation of the beautiful lettering consideration and effort, it made an How the funds will be used Festa announces an even would be split between the family official recommendation to the Since the ICC now has a plan in better 50/50 raffle page 7 and the ICC. Board of Directors and to the Gen - Please turn to page 8 Festa admission deals page 7 Looking for your Festa photos (1978-2017) page 7 Spang family honors Charles Summer Courtyard Music and Rosalie Purpero with naming rights donation page 8 Win premium parking spot for summer festivals in schedule announced Tradizione Vivente’s Bartolotta Catering, joined by served basis. The music begins at legendary blues band, The Bel-Airs, fundraising raffle page 10 its sponsoring partner, Milwaukee 6:30 p.m., however, Cafe La Scala’s will perform. Fun event to bring in new Brewing Company, has announced staff will be on hand to take food At this time, there are no shows members is June 13 page 12 the schedule for the summer 2018 and beverage orders starting at 5 scheduled on Tuesday, June 24, be - “Live Music in the Courtyard” at p.m. The shows will go on rain or tween June 27 and July 9 (due to Pallino Magnets win the Italian Community Center. shine. In the event of inclement Summerfest at nearby Maier Festi - ICC’s spring bocce championship page 13 The schedule includes acts en - weather, the music will be brought val Park), Thursday, July 26, Tues - compassing a wide variety of musi - indoors. day, Aug. 7. Thursday, Aug. 23, UNICO organizations cal genres including jazz, blues, The shows are mostly on Tues - Tuesday, Sept. 4 and Thursday, award scholarships page 20 R&B, rock and roll, classic rock, day and Thursday nights, the only Sept. 13. Rosalie Giamo is Americana, bluegrass and rollick - evenings that Cafe La Scala will be June lineup “Angel of the Year” page 20 ing piano. open starting June 1 through Sept. The first show of the summer, on There will be free admission. 10. There is an exception to the Getting Azzuri back Thursday, June 7, will feature to World Cup in 2022 page 22 Seating is on a first-come-first- rule, when on Monday, Aug. 27, the Please turn to page 11 A message from Dean Cannestra,

IAtnayonle wihao thninks Ctrue voolumn - micateud anndihatrdy-workCing inedinvidtu -erLivPe musriceinsthiedCouertnyart d teer spirit no longer exists needs als. My sincerest thanks go out to Live music returns to our Court - only to come to the Italian Commu - all of you! yard this summer starting June 7. nity Center these days for a re - With all the work being put in Bartolotta Catering at the Italian fresher course. for Festa Italiana, we still need to Community Center and its spon - First, we had an extremely suc - have everyone who is reading this soring partner, Milwaukee Brewing cessful “A Taste of Italy” on Apr. 22. message working to promote the Company, have announced the That, of course, is one of our key event among family members, lineup. The full lineup is in this fundraising events. This year’s friends and co-workers, talk about issue and appears on the ICC’s Taste was planned and executed by everything that is happening at website, ICCMilwaukee.com. our volunteer chairpersons Valorie Festa on social media, buy advance I hope you support the series. Sanfilippo Schleicher, Christina admission tickets, buy raffle tickets Come as often as you can. Enjoy the Ziino and Marie Andaloro Lieber, and pray for three beautiful sum - food, your favorite beverages and who did an excellent job. mer days! the variety of music. You can’t beat spending a summer evening in our We had something like 200 vol - There’s a lot you can learn about our Festa by reading this issue of beautiful Courtyard listening unteers operating the food and bev - late husband, Joseph, and their The Italian Times or by going to our and/or dancing to your favorite erage booths, working in the children in memory of Charles website, FestaItaliana.com. music. Admission is still free! kitchen with the Bartolotta Cater - Purpero and his wife, Rosalie ing staff, selling the tickets (food, More volunteers are still needed. Thanks to Rose Spang (Emanuele) Purpero. Charles and beverage and both raffles), and We’re still looking for people who and family Rosalie were the parents of Rose. working security. In addition, a lot can help with set-up and tear down As you may have heard or read, On behalf of the ICC Board and of individuals and businesses vol - of the festival. The Festa Mass is the ICC has implemented a naming our members, I want to thank Rose unteered to donate cash and/or looking for choir members and ush - rights program for the various and her family for their generous product to the event. (There’s a ers. The Festa Patrol is looking for rooms in our building. This is a donation. “Thank you to the donors” column volunteers. We can always use peo - fundraising activity. All of the de - We hope other families will come in this issue.) ple to staff the booths that are vol - tails are in this issue. forward and make a donation for Now, we have a few dozen vol - unteer-operated. If you are able to We have already had one family naming rights. unteers working day in and day out help, send an email to cpalmer@ic - step forth to make a donation for – Dean Cannestra to do the planning and organizing cmilwaukee.com or call 414-223- the Board Room. This donation was ICC President for our 41st Festa Italiana, July 20- 2180. made by Rose Purpero Spang, her Festa General Chairman 22. Virtually every area of Festa is receiving attention at this time from our volunteer managers. I really can’t say enough about our volunteers. They are truly ded - The 41st Festa Italiana Deadline July 20-22, 2018 for 2018 Festa issue is looking for you! All advertising copy, news stories and photos for publica - tion in the July/August Festa If you are physical fit, able to lift 50-75 lbs., Italiana 2018 issue of The Ital - ian Times must be submitted to climb step ladders, use basic tools and can the editor no later than Sunday, June 10. All materials can be emailed commit to working any or all of these days, to editor Tom Hemman at them - [email protected] or sent Monday – Thursday, July 16-19 and/or to The Italian Times, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. For further information, Monday, July 23, Festa Italiana is asking you call 414-223-2189. to step forward and become a volunteer

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PAGE 2–JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Festa announces acts on three more stages including Italian flag throwing group from Lazio region Since last month, when Festa Italiana announced the entertain - ers on the Harley-Davidson Stage and the Miller Lite Stage, it has gone on to name the acts perform - ing on three other stages and added one new act to the Miller Lite Stage lineup. The 41st Festa will be Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22 on the Summerfest Grounds (Maier Festival Park). Here’s a look at the entertainment on the three addi - tional stages and the addition to the Miller Lite Stage. Acts on the Cucina/Johnson Controls Stage will include Èvero Sbandieratori Ducato Caetani from Sermoneta, Italy (featuring R. Stuart Mitchell) and Opera, Windfall Theatre, Corner - Enzo Scarano. There will also be stone University, Music By The the Italian Idol contest nightly on Lake, Concord Chamber Orchestra this stage. and South Shore Chorale. Making its debut at Festa Ital - Scarano, who was born in iana will be the flag-throwing Salerno (Campania), Italy, has troupe, Sbandieratori Ducato Cae - been performing professionally tani from Sermoneta, Italy. This since he was a teenager when he troupe will perform on the court of sang in many piazzas (town the Colosseum Stage. Tradizione squares) throughout Italy. In the Vivente, the Italian Dance Group of late 1980s, he formed a production Milwaukee, Anita’s Dance Com - company and collaborated with pany and the Festa Italiana March - Walt Disney Company in a travel - ing Band led by Ron DeVillers on ing production of “Snow White and also performing there. the Seven Dwarfs.” The Children’s Stage performers Scarano collaborated and con - will include the Children’s Italian sulted for various Italian television Dance Group, the younger mem - programs and large-screen theatri - bers of Anita’s Dance Company, Il - cal events. In 1993, he was awarded lusionists Rick & Bruce Present the “Telegatto” for music he wrote “It’s Magic,” and Michelle’s Magical for the TV program “Sabato Al Poodles. R. Mitchell Stuart Circo.” The “Telegatto” is the equiv - The addition to the Miller Lite alent of the “Emmy” Award. He em - Stage lineup is Swing Explosion Choir and Orchestra, MAMCCO barked on a solo career. A tour for with vocalist Pete Sorce. (MKE), Grand Rapids Symphony his first solo album, “L’Arca” This will mark the first appear - Orchestra, Southwest Florida Sym - brought him to the United States ance for Èvero featuring R. Stuart phony Orchestra, Racine Sym - and Milwaukee’s Festa Italiana in Mitchell, a classical/Italian opera phony Orchestra and other 1992. His trip to Milwaukee was act. symphonic and artistic organiza - Enzo Scarano (left) and his group, chronicled by Italian television and Breezeway Mitchell is a lyric tenor who has tions. was later broadcast in Italy. performed as a soloist with the Mil - As an opera performer, he has The singer continues his musical Band is comprised of members of waukee Symphony Orchestra, Bel performed principle roles with the career, working with several ac - the Ron DeVillers Band, which has Canto Chorus, Wisconsin Philhar - Florentine Opera, Milwaukee complished musicians. When not been performing in the Festa pro - monic Orchestra, Bach Chamber Opera Theatre, La Musica Lirica performing, he produces music for cession for the past 15 years. The other artists and composes original band plays mainly Italian march - music for documentaries. ing selections for the procession. After the benediction, the band Sbandieratori Ducato Caetani plays the “Star Spangled Banner” was formed on Sept. 12, 1996 to (the American National Anthem) promote the ancient art of flag and “Inno di Mameli” (The Italian throwing and to participate in na - National Anthem) to conclude the Harder tional and international folklore program. Expect the band to per - festivals. The performance of this form a concert of mostly Italian Funeral Home group is based on the folklore of the music when it gives its only Colo - return home of the Duke of Ser - seum Stage performance on Sun - moneta and Captain of the Pontifi - day, July 22. These are all skilled cian troops on Sept. 30, 1571, after musicians who will enhance the JAMES T. the epic fight with Lepanto, who Italian flair of this year’s Festa. liberated the Christian world from Look for articles on Tradizione the risk of Turkish Muslims. Look Vivente, Anita’s Dance Company, GUARDALABENE for more on this troupe in the Festa Swing Explosion with Pete Sorce, issue. and the Children’s Stage acts in the The Festa Italiana Marching 18700 W. Capitol Drive Festa issue.

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THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 3 38th annual VIP Day for disabled set for Saturday, July 21 Festa Italiana will host its 38th open to the public. These free VIP addressed, stamped envelope fruit wholesaler, who wishes to re - annual VIP Day for the disabled on Day admission tickets will be ac - so your tickets can be main anonymous, is donating the Saturday, July 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 cepted until 2 p.m. processed on a timely basis. fruit. p.m. “Our gratitude is extended to VIP Day tickets are available at Proper postage is required. This year, Festa our sponsors, Goodwill Industries, the Festa office at the Italian Com - Send the request to: VIP Day c/o Please note: asks that caregivers provide each Summerfest and the Italian Com - munity Center during regular busi - Festa Italiana, 631 E. Chicago St., VIP guest with an adhesive name munity Center,” said VIP Day Man - ness hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Milwaukee, WI 53202-5916. The tag listing the following: 1). Name ager Bill Jennaro . Monday through Friday. The last cut-off date for all mail orders is of guest. 2). Name of the group with During the three-hour time pe - day to secure these tickets at the Friday, July 6. A ticket order form which the guest is attending. 3). riod on July 21, Festa provides per - ICC is Thursday, July 12. accompanies this article. The mobile phone number for the sons with disabilities and their VIP tickets can also be ordered For group VIP ticket orders, responsible party. This information caregivers the following deals. by mail. Be sure to include the please email Constance Palmer at is essential when a VIP gets lost Each VIP Day guest and a care - name of the VIP and one guest, [email protected] or you from his/her group. giver can, with a special pre-or - phone number, the type of disabil - may call her at 414-223-2808. She dered advance ticket, attend Festa ity and indicate if you may require will make the arrangements for the VIP guests that arrive in groups for free starting at 11 a.m., a half- any special needs for the disability. pickup of group orders. can be dropped off and picked up hour before the grounds officially With your request, include a self- During the VIP Day hours, food near the Mid Gate on Harbor Dr. vendors will have special offers on There will be vehicle parking avail - two food items. Each vendor will able for $5 in the ICC lot and Sum - have those items plus soda for half merfest Lot P until 2 p.m. VIP Day ticket order form price, courtesy of Festa Italiana. In “We’re looking forward to a addition, each VIP will also be eli - great turnout of the disabled in our Name of VIP guest(s): ______gible to pick up free fresh fruit at community and presenting to them the Catalano Fruit stand in the all that Festa Italiana has to offer,” ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Miller Lite Area. A Milwaukee area Jennaro said. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Last chance to get your Type of Disabilities: ______

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Name of Caregiver(s): ______comes June 18-24 You’ve heard the saying: “If you The $7 promotion ticket will Mailing address: ______snooze, you lose.” If you missed the save you $3 off the price of a regu - opportunities to get the bargain $7 lar advance ticket and $6 off a City, State, Zip: ______admission Festa Italiana tickets in ticket that is purchased at the gate the online-only offers of April and the days of Festa Italiana, Friday, Phone No.: ______May, you still have one final chance July 20 through Sunday, July 22. in June. Keep in mind that children, 12 Email Address: ______These are the details you need years and younger, are admitted to know to take advantage of for free when accompanied by an All VIP Day ticket orders must be received by Friday, July 6 to en - Festa’s $7 for 7 Days’ online ticket adult all three days of Festa. sure timely processing. Make sure to include a self-addressed en - deal. During the week of June 18- Remember the dates: June 18- velope with significant postage for the tickets that will be sent to 24, visit the Festa’s 2018 website – 24 and the website: festaital - you. Mail your request to: VIP Day, Festa Italiana, 631 E. Chicago https://festaitaliana.com, click on iana.com. Don’t snooze and lose out St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. For any questions, contact 414-223-2180 the tickets tab and follow the in - on this ticket deal. or email [email protected] structions. Editor looking for writers to FESTA ITALIANA 2018 help with Festa BOCCE TOURNAMENT issue stories Tom Hemman, editor of The Italian Times, is desparately look - REGISTRATION FORM ing for individuals to help write some of the articles that will ap - 41st Annual Tournament – pear in the July/August 2018 Festa Italiana edition. Persons with solid writing skills Sunday, July 22 at 2 p.m. and/or a basic understanding of the newspaper reporting principles • Entrance Fee: $50 should contact Hemman at them - [email protected] or call per four player team. 414-223-2189. These are voluntary positions which offer individuals opportuni - • Single Elimination ties to get the stories they write published with their byline, which with Consolation Round. may be valuable when they seek future employment in journalism, public relations, marketing or gen - • First Place – $250, Second eral writing fields. “We can also assure all of the Prize: $150, Third Prize: $100. writers that they will receive tick - ets for Festa Italiana, July 20-22, on the Summerfest grounds,” Hem - TEAM NAME: ______man said.

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ONLY ONE CHECK PER TEAM, PLEASE! MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY CENTER AND MAIL TO TOUR - NAMENT COORDINATOR, Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202-5916. Any questions, please feel free to contact John Alioto at [email protected] or 414-745-7523. FEE INCLUDES COMPLIMENTARY SUNDAY FESTA ADMISSION TICKETS, WHICH WILL BE MAILED TO THE TEAM CAPTAIN UPON RECEIPT OF TEAM “PRE-PAID” REGIS - TRATION AND COMPLETION OF THIS FORM BY JULY 12. TOURNAMENT IS PLAYED RAIN OR SHINE.

PAGE 4–JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Fast-paced futsal tournament returning to Festa on July 21 by Thomas Hemman again as the sponsor of the tourna - Times Editor ment. The pub is well known for its Futsal, a variation of the game extensive beer list, live soccer, of soccer that is taking the world by trivia, live music and happy hour. storm, is back in the lineup for the Festa’s Futsal Manager Mike fifth consecutive year at Festa Ital - Palmisano said, “The skill level of iana. An eight-team tournament is the players will be Reserve Division scheduled for Saturday, July 21 and higher with some professionals starting at noon on the sports as well. What this means for people courts adjacent to the Colosseum who might be watching the Stage. matches for the first time is that Nomad World Pub, 1401 E. the action is fast-paced and the Brady St., Milwaukee, is serving players are highly skilled athletes.”

These photos are from Festa’s 2017 tournament. FC Palermo, the tour - nament champion, is featured in both photos in the black and pink jer - sey. (Times photos by John Ferraro and Tom Hemman) Eight area teams will compete This is a “5 v. 5” playoff, mean - for the “Coppa Festa Italiana Fut - ing there will be four players and a sal Championship” trophy. The goalie on the court for each team reigning champion, FC Palermo, during each match. There will be coached by Sal Carini and spon - three officials for each match. sored by Papa Luigi’s, plans to de - The championship team will re - fend its title. ceive $250 cash prize in addition to Carini, who is a longtime mem - the traveling trophy. The runner- ber of the Italian Community Cen - up and the consolation division ter, expects the seven other teams winner will receive $100. Medals to be gunning for his FC Palermo will be given to the players on the team because it not only won last top three teams. Palmisano antici - year’s championship, but has cap - pates that the champion will be tured the title each of the four crowned between 6 and 6:30 p.m. times the tournament has been Teams that are interested in played. participating in the tournament are asked to visit the Festa website – https://festaitaliana.com – go to 2018 COPPA FESTA ITALIANA TORNEO “Activities” tab, click on “Futsal” SIGN-UP & FUTSAL RELEASE AGREEMENT and download the registration 1st Place: $250, 2nd Place: $100, 3rd Place: $50 form. The form must be emailed to Palmisano at mpalmisano@dcmi - group.com . The same form also ac - TEAM NAME: ______companies this article. In futsal, the field (or surface) is Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______smaller than a regulation soccer field, and the goals are smaller. The Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______rules create an emphasis on im - provisation and techniques as well as ball control and passing in small Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______spaces. “All of this makes for fast- paced action,” Palmisano said. Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______“With the bleacher-style seating around the court, everyone can see Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______everything that is going on.”

Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______Seeking

Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______photographers for Festa Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______Tom Hemman, editor of The Italian Times, is looking for indi - Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______viduals to volunteer to take pic - tures at Festa Italiana, Friday, Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______July 20 through Sunday, July 22. Photographers must have their own camera and feel secure with Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______taking photos in varied lighting conditions. These positions also re - Participant’s Name: ______Age: ______Initial: ______quire that the photographers have notebooks to take names of people RELEASE AGREEMENT. The person named on this release form (hereafter referred to as “I”) appearing in their photos and can wishes to use the Summerfest facilities (the “Facility” or “Facilities”) of Festa Italiana, Inc. (here - provide a brief description of the after Festa) at the Summerfest Grounds on Harbor Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Festa, the Fa - photos they submit to the editor. cility and its employees wish to ensure the fullest extent possible that they are not sued or held These volunteer photographers liable for injuries sustained by users of the Facility. I make this release and agreement on my be - can be assured that some of their half and on behalf of anyone who would be able to sue if I were injured while using or attending photos will appear in the Septem - the Facility. ber issue of The Italian Times or on the Festa Italiana website, In return for being allowed to use the Facility, I agree and acknowledge as follows: 1). Use of the http://festaitaliana.com. Some will Facility carries with it some risk of serious injury, including even in rare cases death. The risks be used for the marketing of future include, but are not limited to those caused by equipment, the Facilities, staff mistakes and ac - Festa Italiana celebrations. tions of other users, over exertion, and collision with other person(s), equipment, fixtures or Hemman will supply interested other parts of the Facility; 2). I assume all risk of using the Facility; 3). I understand that the Fa - individuals with free admission cility and its employees are relying upon the agreements and representations I herein make. 4). and free parking. Each photogra - I release Festa, the Facility and its employees from any and all claims, including negligence and pher will be given a badge to wear claims relating to personal injury or property, arising out of my use or attendance at the Facil - to ensure the access needed to get ity; and 5). I have carefully read this document and understand it. the pictures they desire. Interested individuals should If you have any questions related to team sign-up or this agreement, please contact Festa Futsal contact Hemman at: themman@ic - Manager Mike Palmisano at 414-688-7547 or at [email protected] cmilwaukee.com or call 414-223- 2189.

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 5 Committee welcomes Help the Hunger Task Force feed Milwaukee’s struggling citizens donations to offset costs by donating nonperishable food associated with Festa Mass at Festa before Mass on July 22 The Festa Italiana Mass and by the Mass Committee, as evi - Festa Italiana officials are urg - Lo Coco, Festa Mass Co-Chair. Procession Committee is seeking denced by comments received on a ing everyone who comes to the “We want to encourage all of our your donations to help to offset regular basis from people – in - Mass and procession on Sunday, ICC members and all of our Festa the costs associated with produc - cluding visiting clergy – who at - July 22 to bring along a minimum volunteers to join the public in ing the celebration of our Mass tend the Mass for the first time. of three nonperishable food items making these donations to help us and procession on Sunday, July The Mass and the traditional for donation to the Hunger Task to do our part,” Lo Coco said. “We 22. procession that follows have, since Force. are asking people to bring at least “We’re extremely grateful and the beginning, been an essential This marks the fifth straight three nonperishable food items to appreciative of all the support we component of Festa Italiana. year that Festa and each of Mil - help us surpass last year’s total.” have received from the sponsors of Festa itself is an outgrowth of the waukee’s lakefront festivals that the Mass and procession over the street festivals held at Our Lady are part of United Ethnic Festivals Fests Feed Milwaukee last several years,” said commit - of Pompeii Catholic Church to (UEF) have joined Summerfest in The “Fests Feed Milwaukee” tee co-chairs Sister Marie Louise honor patron saints. “The Fests Feed Milwaukee” cam - campaign has been in existence Balestrieri and Sal Lo Coco. “It is Persons interested in making paign. Over the course of the festi - each summer since 2014. a very costly undertaking to con - donations for the Mass and pro - val season, the goal of UEF and “When people come together, vert the American Family Insur - cession are advised to send checks Summerfest is to keep the shelves like the United Ethnic Festivals ance Amphitheater from a concert made out to the Italian Commu - of the Hunger Task Force filled and Summerfest have done to sup - venue into a place of worship.” nity Center with “Festa Mass” with food that thousands in our port this campaign, it makes a pos - “For the last several years, a written on the memo line. Mail community can’t afford to buy. itive statement about our city. It is number of people have stepped those checks to the ICC at 631 E. The Hunger Task Force will col - great for the Hunger Task Force forward with individual donations Chicago St.,. Milwaukee 53202- lect nonperishable food as well as and for the hungry people we to help defray those costs, and we 5916. cash donations near the entrance to serve,” said Sherrie Tussler, Exec - hope that people will be similarly Donations by credit card can be the American Family Insurance utive Director of the Hunger Task moved this year,” the co-chairs made by calling Constance Amphitheater, just outside the Force. said. Palmer at 414-223-2808. South Gate and inside on the path - The Hunger Task Force’s aim is Every year, the overnight Persons with questions are in - way to the amphitheater forecourt. to prevent hunger and malnutrition transformation of the Amphithe - vited to call Lo Coco at 414-961- Last year, Festa attended do - by providing food to people in need ater is accomplished successfully 9823 or 262-617-8727. nated more than 3,100 pounds of today and promoting social policies food and made cash donations to - to achieve a hunger free community taling $1,316.51 , according to Sal Seeking singers for tomorrow. Festa Committee seeks ordained Festa Italiana religious, lay members, 1st Mass Choir Communicants to take part in Mass by Denise Cifaldi The Mass, which is the heart The Festa Italiana Mass Com - “We invite you to help us in this Festa Mass & Procession of Festa Italiana, will be held on mittee is well underway with Mass wonderful tradition,” said Sr. Marie Committee July 22 at 11 a.m. in the Marcus preparations for this year’s 41st an - Louise Balistreri and Salvatore Lo We welcome and invite singers Amphitheater. Additional instru - nual Festa Mass on Sunday, July Coco, Mass and Procession Com - to join their voices to this ments will augment the choir to 22 at 11 a.m. The committee in - mittee Co-Managers. “Feel free to year’s Festa Choir which will pro - add to the festivity. vites priests, deacons, brothers, eu - pass this message on to parish - vide the music for the Mass on Sun - To register to sing with the charistic ministers and first ioners.” day, July 22. The choir will be Festa Choir, please contact director communicants to participate. Please contact Therese Ciofani rehearsing at St. Sebastian Michael Kamenski by e-mail at The Mass will take place at the at 414-303-9772 or e-mail her at Catholic Church, 5400 W. Wash - [email protected] (please American Family Insurance Am - [email protected] if you are in - ington Blvd., Milwaukee. use “FESTA CHOIR ” in the subject phitheater. Fr. John Baumgardner terested in participating in the Rehearsals will last two hours line) or by phone at 414-453-1928. will be the Principal Celebrant . Festa Mass and procession. and music will be provided. Some hymns will be sung in Italian and Latin, but no previous knowledge of Call put out for There is no better time to either language is necessary as lan - advertise in The Italian guage coaching is provided. Festa Mass ushers The mixed choir is open to all Times than in our Festa voice parts – soprano, alto, tenor Ted Catalano, Mass and Proces - cession, which follows the Mass, and bass. No auditions are neces - sion Committee member and man - will be discussed. Italiana issue. Itʼs our ager of the ushers, has issued a call Catalano requests that new ush - sary. However, previous choral ex - biggest and most read perience is recommended. for at least 15 new ushers to step ers sign up with him early and then Maestro Michael Kamenski re - up and volunteer for this year’s follow through on their commit - issue of the year! quests that singers participate in at Festa Italiana Mass on Sunday, ment. To volunteer as an usher or least four rehearsals including a July 22. for more information, call Catalano For ad size and cost mandatory dress rehearsal. Re - To be an usher, you must be at at 414-305-9769 or email him at details and the deadline, hearsal dates are as follows: least 16 years old. The only other [email protected]. Thursday, July 12, 6:30 p.m.; Sat - requirement is that you attend a At least 55 ushers are needed call (414) 223-2189 or brief instructional meeting at the every year for the Mass, which has urday, July 14, 9:30 a.m.; Monday, send an email to July 16, 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday, July Italian Community Center on Mon - drawn up to 10,000 people. Cata - 17, 6:30 p.m.; and a dress rehearsal day, July 16 at 7 p.m. At that time, lano said he has about 40 dedicated themman@ on Wednesday, July 18, 6:30 p,m. information on the duties of an ushers who show up automatically usher during the Mass and the pro - each year. iccmilwaukee.com

PAGE 6–JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Festa to have a 50/50 raffle but better While the usual 50/50 raffle re - all of the dollars collected. The winner, Jacqueline Houlihan of also have the tickets available on sults in one ticket buyer splitting “even better” part comes next: Chicago, IL, won $3,130. With the some of the evenings of the “Live the pot with the raffle’s organizing Festa officials will draw another two additional cash prizes, Festa Music in the Courtyard” series, body, Festa Italiana organizers are ticket for second prize. The buyer of Raffle Manager Liz Ceraso said she hosted by Bartolotta Restaurants making your chances of winning this ticket will win $500! Then, one expects the first-prize winner’s and presented by Milwaukee Com - even better. This will result in not more ticket will be drawn, resulting share to be even larger this year. pany. The series schedule can be only one winner taking 50% of the in a third-prize winner getting a People who want to buy raffle found on the ICC website, iccmil - cash from ticket sales, but two oth - $100 cash prize! tickets before Festa starts can come waukee.com, and in this issue. ers winning smaller cash prizes! The drawing will be held live at to the Italian Community Center, During Festa, July 20-22, raffle Here’s the deal – from the thou - Festa at 10 p.m. on Sunday night, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee. The tickets will be sold at locations sands of people who buy Festa’s July 22 on the Miller Lite Stage. tickets will be sold at the reception across the grounds. 50/50 raffle tickets – available for Winners need not be present. desk during regular business The winners’ names will be pub - $5 each or 3 for $10 – the first prize The first-prize winning sum is hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. lished in the September issue of winner will receive exactly 50% of likely to be quite hefty. Last year’s The Festa Raffle Committee will The Italian Times. We’re looking for your best Festa admission deals Persons attending the 41st everyone on opening day – Friday, Festa pictures (1978 – Festa Italiana will have several op - July 20 from 3 to 5 p.m. portunities to attend the festival for 2017) for Festa display free. Please read the details in this Saturday deals article carefully. Please read carefully these op - by Susie Christiansen Desired photo format portunities for Saturday, July 21. and Christine Conley Send either a high quality pho - Festa will take place from Fri - day, July 20 through Sunday, July Festa Italiana is once again hav - Festa’s Italian Heritage tograph or digital photo. We are ing its VIP Day program from 11 Exhibit Managers going to enlarge your photograph to 22 at Henry W. Maier Festival Park (the Summerfest grounds). a.m. to 2 p.m. During this time The Heritage Photo Committee a size ranging from 11 x 17 to 24 x frame, Festa offers free admission is seeking photographs that cap - 36 inches. The possibility of using Festival hours are: 3 p.m. to mid - night, July 20 and 11:30 a.m. to for persons with disabilities with ture the memories, the highlights, your photo will depend on the qual - one care-giver. However, the free and the pride and the passion of 40 ity of the photo or scan that you midnight, July 21 and 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.. July 22. admission voucher must be ob - years of Festa Italiana in Milwau - submit. tained on or before Friday, kee. We welcome photographs that If you have digital pictures, Pre-Festa deal July 13 at the Italian Community date back to our first Festa in 1978, please send scans in a high-resolu - By ordering advance tickets, you Center, 631 E. Chicago St., a block or our 40th Festa just last year, or tion JPEG format to Christine Con - can save $3 per ticket. These tick - west of the Summerfest grounds. some time in between. We will dis - ley at [email protected] . ets can be purchased online at Those individuals who have not play some of the photographs at Mail photos to: Italian Commu - http://festaitaliana.com and at the secured these free admission Festa Italiana 2018 as part of the nity Center, Heritage Photos, 631 E Italian Community Center, 631 E. voucher (valid during the 11 a.m. to Italian Heritage Exhibit, and we Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202, Chicago St., Milwaukee, for $10 2 p.m. time frame) will need to pur - intend to create a gallery of poster- Attn: C. Conley through Thursday, July 19. Ad - chase a regular admission ticket size enlargements to grace the Please include: vance tickets can also be ordered by ($13) unless they take advantage of walls in the Italian Community 1). Name, phone number and using the form appearing with this one of the other Saturday promo - Center Bocce Room. email address of the person sub - article. Please note: The deadline tions during the time frames listed We are asking members to sub - mitting the photograph. for ordering mail order tickets is below. mit photos sharing special Festa 2). The people shown in the pho - Friday, July 6. The first free admission oppor - memories, particularly those pho - tograph. During the three days of the fes - tunity on Saturday, July 21 runs tos that capture spontaneous, 3). The year (or approximate tival, gate admission will be $13. from noon to 2 p.m. heartfelt moments – moments year) the picture was taken. After watching the U.S. Air spent with family and friends, mo - 4). What event, show, proces - Everyday children’s deal: Force Thunderbirds dazzling per - ments celebrating the music, the sion, booth is shown in the picture, Children, 12 and younger, are forming along Milwaukee’s lake - people, the food, the culture, and if it may be unclear. admitted for free all three days front, come to Festa for free from 4 the spiritual experiences that sym - By submitting your photo, you when accompanied by an adult. to 5 p.m. Make it a completely en - bolize Festa Italiana. Countless give the Italian Community Center joyable day with the fabulous memories have been made at Festa permission to use your photo in dis - Opening day special Italiana – allow us to display those plays or publications of the ICC or There will be free admission for Please turn to page 11 cherished memories at the Italian Festa Italiana. Community Center. We look forward to sharing your memories. ORDER YOUR MONEY-SAVING ADVANCE TICKETS TO FESTA ITALIANA 2018

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THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 7 ICC Room ‘Naming Rights’ explained from page 1 ful culture and offer classes in Ital - Rose Purpero Spang family • 20% – Culture Committee place with the Bartolotta Restau - ian music, culture, food, and wine makes 1st naming right • 20% – Membership Committee rants, which assists in remodeling on a constant basis – and hold donation • 10% – Avanti Committee the building and maintaining it events that bring us together as a Rose Purpero Spang has named • 10% – Italian Language Com - going forward, and a plan in place family – along with the pleasure of the Board Room after her parents, mittee with the Milwaukee Ballet, whose charging our members only a nom - Charles Biagio Purpero and Rosalie • 10% – Carnevale purchase of 1.8 acres has helped to inal amount, as opposed to charg - Emanuele Purpero, for three years, • 10% – Christmas Party lower the mortgage, the Fundrais - ing our members almost the same and has donated $5,000 to the Ital - • 20% – Miscellaneous (ICC ing Committee recommended that price we charge the public to attend ian Community Center. scholarships, Italian study, etc.) the money taken in from this events here. We are very excited to accom - We are excited that the room fundraiser be designated to the spe - We have to increase and en - plish our first naming rights and was named in time for “A Taste of cific committees at the Italian Com - hance that feeling of community look forward to handing over some Italy,” and we hope it inspires oth - munity Center. here. money to our committees so that ers to name the rooms at the ICC This fundraiser will fund the This specific fundraiser is for the they may use it for our enjoyment after their loved ones. We would community within, making it possi - members, for their enjoyment, and and to foster the Italian culture like to continue to bring in funds so ble for us to offer more to our mem - for the wonderful committees who here at the ICC. that our hard-working committees bers than simply a beautiful work tirelessly to preserve our Ital - After we deduct money for the can really begin to advocate for our building. ian culture and offer our members a lettering and deduct money to re - members and keep them enter - With this fundraiser, and we good time. design those donation plaques that tained and happy and compel our hope it doesn’t end with this first Silver Leaf Signs created and in - were previously on the walls into a members to want to remain mem - offer, we will now have the money stalled the lettering for our first beautiful display, the following bers and to want to spend their necessary to celebrate this beauti - naming rights contract. Committees will benefit: time at our beautiful center. Spang family provides naming rights donation to honor Charles and Rosalie Purpero by Thomas Hemman Times Editor “I wanted to honor my father and my mother,” said Rose Purpero Spang, referencing the donation that she and her family made to ac - quire naming rights for the board room at the Italian Community Center. Charles Biagio Purpero and Ros - alie Emanuele Purpero were among the youngest children of immi - grants who voyaged from Sant’A - gata, Sicily, to the United States, eventually settling in Milwaukee’s old Third Ward starting in 1900. The couple was wed in Milwau - kee on Oct. 2, 1920. They became parents to five children, Phillip, An - thony, Caroline, Rose, and Sam. Phillip and Sam are now deceased, but Caroline Besasie, Anthony Purpero and Rose Spang are still very active members of the ICC. Charles established a trucking Gloria Italiano donates her Pinocchio bilingual translation book The family of Rose and the late Joseph Spang pur - on each side of the memorial display, which includes chased naming rights for the Board Room at the Ital - the memorial lettering, three photos and a recogni - to ICC ian Community Center to honor Charles Biagio tion given to Charles Purpero by the Wisconsin Exca - Purpero and his wife, Rosalie Emanuele Purpero. vating & Grading Association. (Times photo by Tom Rose Spang (left) and Ginamarie Spang are standing Hemman) business in 1919, which evolved in the Italian community to pros - off the names of several of those into the highly successful excavat - per.” families: Catalano, Glorioso, Jen - ing and grading business known as The donation made to acquire naro, Palmisano, Dragotta, Ma - C.W. Purpero, Inc. The company the Purpero naming rights was of - niaci, Sanfilippo, Pipia, Marchese, was incorporated with the State of ficially presented to the ICC by Maglio and Machi. Wisconsin in 1949. Charles was Rose Purpero Spang, her late hus - Rose added that when the ICC recognized by the Wisconsin Exca - band, Joseph, and their children, Board moved to establish the nam - vating & Grading Association as its Ginamarie Spang, Rosemarie ing rights program, she knew im - “Excavator of the Year” in 1973. Pankow, Annmarie Donahue and mediately that it was something Today, the company is run by the Joseph Charles Spang. she had to do to recognize her par - third generation members of the Ginamarie Spang said, “Our ents and support the ICC. Purpero family has gained recogni - hope is that this donation will in - Throughout the years, the chil - tion as a leader in its field. spire other members of the Italian dren and grandchildren of Charles community to donate to the ICC to and Rosalie Purpero are on the After 64 years of marriage, Ros - acquire naming rights in honor of short list of the greatest supporters alie died in October of 1984. their parents or grandparents.” As of the ICC in its 40-year history. In Charles passed away on Jan. 11, ICC members probably know Gina addition to their financial support, 1989. Both are entombed at Holy is a past president of the ICC, hav - they have been active dedicated vol - Cross Cemetery. During the April 19 general mem - ing served two terms (2012-2014). unteers. bership meeting, ICC member Glo - “My parents were great people,” “When I think about my father, I “The ICC is our home,” Rose ria Italiano presented to the added Rose. “They were outstand - think about his great entrepre - said. “All of us should stand up and Center copies of her book transla - ing parents and important mem - neurial spirit.” Rose said. “We grew show our support. It is something tion (with bilingual Italian- Eng - bers of Milwaukee’s Italian up on Jefferson Street in the old my parents would have wanted us lish text) of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. She is a community. They came here with Third Ward, and in our neighbor - to do. It is with great pride that we retired teacher who taught at the practically nothing, but through hood, there were many individuals make this donation to honor my University of Florence and is the their determination, they became like my father, who wanted to ex - parents, my children’s grandpar - author of many books and articles successful members of the commu - perience the success they had ents and show our support for an on Linguistics. (Times photo by nity. They helped to pave the way dreamed about in Sicily before com - organization that is so important in Tom Hemman) for their children and many others ing to America.” She then rattled our lives.”

PAGE 8–JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 9 Tradizione Vivente announces parking spot fundraiser to aid its 2019 trip to Italy and region of Sicily by Susie Christiansen In June 2019, the members of Tradizione Vivente (the Italian Dance Group of Milwaukee) will travel to Italy including the region of Sicily, to study dance, specifically Italian folk dancing. The dancers will shadow Italian and Sicilian folk dance groups, learning from them, and hopefully performing with them. We are embarking on this trip to immerse ourselves in the music, traditions, dances, and language, which will only enhance and im - prove our Italian dance group and intensify our passion for the Italian culture. To be among the people, listening to their music, dancing with them, studying their cos - tumes, and exchanging ideas will no doubt reflect in our perform - ances when we return to Milwau - kee. The dance group has been and will continue to fundraise until members leave, constantly pursu - ing different ways to earn the money needed to participate in this cultural experience. The Italian Community Center has most generously donated an ICC parking spot to the dance group, so that they may raffle it off for use during the upcoming Sum - mer 2018. The very lucky raffle winner will have sole use of that parking spot for the entire summer. Tradizione Vivente members would like to express their tremendous gratitude to the ICC. Buy one raffle ticket or buy six. Tickets are $10 each or six for $50. Tickets may be purchased online only at www.iccmilwaukee.com under “Events” tab or in person at the ICC office. Take a chance on winning a treasure of a prize and support cul - ture and ethnic tradition in Mil - waukee, specifically in this case, Italian. This experience will be a dream come true for Tradizione Vivente – as dancers, they want to be as skilled as they can be, and as Italians, they aspire to be as au - thentic as possible. Help them achieve these goals. Thanks for your Meet the artist donations to the ICC The officers and directors of the by a Sicilian artist Giacoma Lo Italian Community Center wish to Coco whose photo appears to the thank and acknowledge all those right of this column. Her paintings who pledged, fulfilled a pledge, or are displayed in the Members’ made a contribution to the non - Room. profit organization. To obtain information on how to In memory of make a pledge or a donation, please Peter Frank Sorce Peter T. and Kathy M. Sorce call Constance Palmer at 414-223- Christina Sorce 2808. xxxx Please note: When the ICC is in - In memory of Sam Purpero formed of and can confirm the Ray and Caroline Besasie death of a member, an email blast is being sent out to all members who In memory of Rose Iannelli have signed up to receive these Ted A. Catalano email blasts as part of their mem - In memory of Ambrose Ciano bership. Ted A. Catalano The following memorials and Bill and Jessica Stocks contributions were received be - Here is Sicilian artist Giacoma Lo Coco, who recently donated three of tween April 9 and May 8, 2018. In memory of Dan Conley her paintings to the Italian Community Center. The only costs incurred The final contribution is a spon - Ted A. Catalano were for shipping, insurance and handling. These costs were initially ad - vanced by ICC Director Blaise Di Pronio who met Lo Coco while travel - sorship for three paintings donated In memory of Josephine to the Italian Community Center ing in Italy. A fundraising program has been established in which Stocks organizations and individuals can become sponsors of the paintings. To Bill and Jessica Stocks date, funds have been contributed by the Abruzzese Galileo-Galilei So - Interested in advertising in The Italian Times? ciety. the Giuseppe Garibaldi Society and ICC member Sophie A contribution for sponsorship Michalovitz. The paintings are on display in the Members’ Room. Per - Call 414-223-2189 or send an email to Tom of paintings from artist sons or societies interested in making a contribution and thus become a Giacoma Lo Coco sponsor of the paintings can contact Di Pronio at [email protected] . Hemman at [email protected]. Sophia Michalovitz All future contributions will be reported in The Italian Times.

PAGE 10 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Bartolotta, Milwaukee Brewing Company announce 2018 Courtyard music series from page 1 makes its first appearance in the ing Americana and bluegrass band sidered one of the best vocalists in Myles Hayes, a Chicago area jazz series. This classical Chicago-style hailing from Madison, makes a stop Milwaukee. Find more information musician whose primary influences blues band recently released a new at the ICC on Thursday, June 14. at: facebook.corobin.pluer for more. are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, CD, “My Life,” which has already The band performs over 220 shows The last group playing in the se - Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin and obtained high ranking on the vari - a year. For more information, visit: ries in June is Chicken Wire Em - Tony Bennett. Visit: myle - ous blues charts. The group has a mightywheelhouse.com. pire on Thursday, June 21. This shayesmusic.com. steady touring schedule this sum - Robin Pluer & The R&B Co - contemporary bluegrass band has Next, on Tuesday, June 12, the mer. Visit: reverendraven.com for quettes will make its first of three become one of the hottest up and one-and-only Reverend Raven & more. appearances in the ICC Courtyard coming bands on the local and re - The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys WheelHouse, a nationally tour - on Tuesday, June 19. Pluer is con - gional music scene since its forma - tion in 2014. The group includes Ryan Ogburn (mandolin), Jordan Kroeger (upright bass), Ernest Festa admission deals Brushbardis IV (fiddle), Greg from page 7 the case of active and former mili - your service. Brundage (guitar) and Jon Peik Thunderbirds, then Italian food, tary members, to receive free ad - Like Saturday, Festa will offer (banjo). For more information, visit: music and fireworks! mission, present a valid military free admission for Air Show fans chickenwireempire.com. identification or a DD-214 card from 4 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. After The entire Live Music in the Sunday deals along with a valid ID at the Mid watching the U.S. Air Force Thun - Courtyard at the Italian Commu - Festa Italiana invites everyone Gate cashier’s window. derbirds, come to Festa and enjoy nity Center flyer accompanies this to attend its Mass and procession Festa Italiana thanks you for the rest of the day Italian style. article. on Sunday, July 22 in the American Family Insurance Amphitheater. There will be free admission from the South Gate or Gate 11 from 10:15 a.m. to the start of the Mass at 11 a.m. Admission into the amphithe - ater and the amphitheater fore - court is free whether persons attend the celebration of the Catholic Mass or not. Those indi - viduals who wait outside the am - phitheater will be admitted to the Festa grounds for free at 1 p.m. Sunday is Festa’s day of service recognition. Anyone who is a fire - fighter, law enforcement member or in the military will be able to enter Festa for free with one guest all day. To receive free entry, present a valid employee identification as the cashier window at the Mid Gate. In Festa Patrol June Thursday, July 19 – Tuesday, Auguet 28 – looking for Thursday, June 7 - Oldies But Goodies Spectacular Jim Liban Blues Combo Myles Hayes Tuesday, July 24 – Thursday, August 30 – volunteers Piano Brew Ralph Busalacchi, manager Tuesday, June 12 – Jim Liban’s Blues Combo of the Festa Patrol, is seeking Reverend Raven & The Tuesday, July 31 – volunteers to serve on his crew Chain Smoking Altar Boys September during Festa Italiana, July 20- Blue Disciples 22. Thursday, June 14 – Thursday, September 6 – Volunteers on the Festa Pa - WheelHouse The Squeezettes trol serve as first responders to August a variety of situations on the fes - Tuesday, June 19 - Tuesday, September 11 – tival grounds, ranging from se - Robin Pluer & Thursday, August 2 – Robin Pluer & curity and first aid to lost Jayne Taylor The R&B Coquettes children. They strive to keep The R&B Coquettes order along parade and proces - Thursday, June 21 – Thursday, August 9 – Tuesday, September 18 – sion routes and work to ensure Chicken Wire Empire Joe 2.0 Jim Liban Blues Combo that Festa’s guests experience a pleasant and safe family event. Tuesday, August 14 – Thursday, September 20 – Those interested in volun - July Altered Five Blues Band Hungry Williams teering should contact Busalac - Tuesday, July 10 – Tuesday, September 25 chi at 414-534-6455 or email him Thursday, August 16 – Leroy Airmaster & Reverend Raven & at [email protected] . Trapper Schoepp Trio Little Maddie The Chain Smoking Altar Boys Thursday, July 12 – Tuesday, August 21 – Thursday, September 27 – And now, a Mic Over Matter Reverend Raven & FBI & The Untouchables Horns The Chain Smoking Altar Boys word from Tuesday, July 17 – Visit: Robin Pluer & Monday, August 27 – www.bartolottas.com/events Italy The R&B Coquettes The Bel-Airs (414) 223-2800 by Blaise Di Pronio Fantasy: An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as • Live music begins at 6:30 p.m. a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need. • FREE ADMISSION • Seating first come, first served. It comes from the Italian musi - •Bartolotta Staff on hand to sell food and beverages. cal term fantasia which means a continuous composition, not di - • Shows go on rain or shine. vided into what are called move - • If inclement weather, the music is brought inside. ments, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design but in which the author’s fancy roves un - restricted by set form. Understand - ably, fantasia also means imagination in Italian.

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 11 Membership Committee planning new events in 2018 starting with a ‘Members’ Aperitivo Hour’ on Wednesday, June 13 This year our Membership Com - Aperitivo is the Italian version of bers during this event. This event tickets when joining or renewing a mittee has been actively brain - the “happy hour” so commonly held will be a great way for new mem - membership or up to eight Festa storming new ideas to increase the at eating and drinking establish - bers to meet our seasoned members tickets for a family membership. membership and ICC member in - ments across America. But, as and create new friendships and This is a great way to promote our teraction. Many of the ideas that Marisa Huff explains in her new connections. We would love to see Italian Community Center and our we have enthusiastically been dis - book celebrating the custom “Aper - you there. great heritage. cussing include: Member’s Happy itivo: The Cocktail Culture of Italy” Another event that is right Hours, movie nights in the Court - (Rizzoli, $35), it is something spe - around the corner is our amazing As we continue to explore new yard, membership specials, special cial. Aperitivo is the time when you Festa Italiana. We hope that every - ideas, we would love to hear sug - guest speakers, and more. sit in a cafe, alfresco preferably, one who is a member will continue gestions from our members, so feel We are excited to announce that and catch up with friends while sip - to promote this great festival and free to share your ideas and on Wednesday, June 13 from 5 p.m. ping a drink and nibbling on appe - spread the word throughout the thoughts with us. See you soon! to 7 p.m., we will be having our first tizers. community. One of the great bene - – Bill Stocks Member’s Aperitivo Hour here in Cafe La Scala will offer 20% off fits for new and current members is Membership the ICC at Bartolotta’s La Scala. on food and drink for all ICC mem - that they can receive four Festa Committee Member Calendar of Events May 28 – June 21, 2018 Monday, May 28 • Live Music in the Courtyard with Robin Pluer & The R&B Co - • Memorial Day. The Italian Community Center, Festa Italiana and quettes, 6:30 p.m. Italian Times offices will be closed. Wednesday, June 20 Tuesday, May 29 • Pompeii Women’s Club general membership social and meeting, 5:30 • Milwaukee Ladies of UNICO Board meeting, 6 p.m. p.m., social, 6:30 p.m., meeting. Wednesday, May 30 Thursday, June 21 • Pompeii Women’s Club May Crowning ceremony and dinner, 5:30 • Italian Community Center membership meeting, 5:30 p.m. Reserva - p.m., social, 6:30 p.m., dinner. Details in this issue. tions required by Monday, June 11. • Italian Community Center general membership meeting, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 6 • Live Music in the Courtyard with Chicken Wire Empire, 6:30 p.m. • Pompeii Women’s Club Board meeting, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7 Daily and weekly classes and activities • Live Music in the Courtyard with Myles Hayes, 6:30 p.m. Details on • Bocce leagues. The fall bocce season will begin the week of Sept. 10. all Courtyard music shows in the issue. Team registrations forms are available at the ICC or online at www.iccmilwaukee.com. Monday, June 11 • Italian Community Center Finance Committee meeting, 6:30 p.m. • ICC Italian classes . Look for an announcement on the fall semester of classes in an upcoming issue. Tuesday, June 12 • Abruzzese Galileo Galilei Society spuntino and meeting, 2 p.m. • I Bei Bambini, The Children’s Italian Dance Group. This children’s • Live Music in the Courtyard with Reverend Raven & The Chain folk dance group practices weekly on most Monday nights at 6:30 p.m. Smoking Altar Boys, 6:30 p.m. at the ICC. New dancers are welcome. For details, visit: • Milwaukee Chapter UNICO National meeting, 7 p.m. www.tradizionevivente.com. Breaks are taken during the holidays and after Festa Italiana through Labor Day. Wednesday, June 13 • Italian Community Center “Members’ Happy Hour,” 5-7 p.m. Details • Tradizione Vivente, The Italian Dance Group of Milwaukee. This in this issue. folk dance group practices weekly on most Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. at the ICC. Visit: www.tradizionevivente.com for details. Breaks are Thursday, June 14 taken during the holidays and after Festa Italiana through Labor Italian Community Center Board meeting, • 6:30 p.m. Day. Ballate con noi! Dance with us! • Live Music in the Courtyard with WheelHouse, 6:30 p.m. • Hula hoop dance fitness class . Every Tuesday night, 5:45 – 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, June 19 in the bocce court room. Everyone is welcome. Cost: $5 per member, • Milwaukee Ladies of UNICO general membership dinner meeting, 6 $10 per non-member. No classes during the holidays. p.m.

Cafe La Scala ICC Members: Planning to Summer Hours attend the dinner before the General Meeting on June 1 - Sept. 10 Thursday, June 21st? Summer Lunch If so, you are kindly asked to Monday – Friday 11am – 3pm make a reservation on or before Monday, June 13th. Call as well as 414-223-2180. Your reservation Tuesdays and Thursdays will help the culinary staff of During the Summer Bartolotta Catering prepare Live Music in the Courtyard Series sufficient food for the buffet. 5pm – 9pm Thank you for your cooperation! Looking to enjoy Dinner? We would be hon - ored for you to join us at one of our Bar - tolotta Restaurants. Find our more and make Catering your reservations at Bartolotta.com at the ICC

PAGE 12 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Pallino Magnets win ICC’s spring bocce championship At the end of an intense evening place team, in the semifinals. of competitive indoor bocce, the The Pallino Magnets had less Pallino Magnets emerged as the difficulty making it to the finals. It Italian Community Center’s spring won its quarterfinal match, 12-3, champion on May 14. The Pallino over Helga & The Jennaros, Tues - Magnets entered the eight-team day afternoon’s second place fin - tournament as the first place team isher. In the semifinals, the Pallino from the Tuesday afternoon seniors Magnets defeated the Wednesday league. night league first place team, Club The final match of the evening Garibaldi, by a score of 12-6. pitted the Pallino Magnets against The Pallino Magnets’ players Club Garibaldi 2, the second place Craig Lieber, Mike Renda, Anita finisher in the Wednesday night Moyer and Dennis Antonie seemed league. to have everything going their way Here’s how each team got to the in the championship match and championship game. Club rolled past Club Garibaldi 2 by a Garibaldi 2 had two very nip-and- 12-4 score. tuck matches, winning both by an This marked the first time that identical 12-11 score. In the quar - the Pallino Magnets has won the terfinals, Garibaldi 2 defeated Por - ICC’s bocce championship. ticello, the Monday night second In other matches during the place finisher, and went on to best evening, Club Garibaldi won its The ICC’s spring bocce champs, the Pallino Magnets. From the left: Craig It’s All Good, Monday night’s first opening match, 12-11, over Little Lieber, Mike Renda, Anita Moyer and Dennis Antonie. (Photo by Troy Halverson) Sicily, Wednesday night’s third Editor’s note: Thanks to Bocce place finisher. It’s All Good also Coordinator Troy Halverson for Welcome new Italian won its opener, 12-8, over Meta - providing the information, scores gannis, Monday night’s third place and photo of the championship Community finisher. team. Center members!

The following persons became members of the Italian Community Center between April 9 and May 8, 2018. Benvenuti (Welcome!) Tony Olivo of Colgate, WI Joseph Bartolotta of Waukesha, WI All of those events take place at the Italian Community Center unless Steve Thompson & Mary Balistreri and otherwise indicated. child, Owen Thompson) Wauwatosa, WI Pompeii Women’s Club May Crowning Banquet Beverly J. Draws of Milwaukee, WI Wednesday, May 30. Starts at 6 p.m.

Christine Russo of River Hills, WI Italian Community Center’s “Members’ Happy Hour” Grace Sheldon of Mequon, WI Wednesday, June 13, 5-7 p.m. Bartolotta’s Cafe La Scala at the ICC 41st annual Festa Italiana Friday, July 20 – Sunday, July 22 St. Joseph’s Day Henry W. Maier Festival Park (Summerfest Grounds) celebrated by these Josephs Planning to attend Summerfest, Festa Italiana and the other lakefront festivals this summer? Your best bet for parking is the Italian Community Center lot. The ICC Parking Lot is across the street from the festival grounds and accepts credit card payments.

Saint Joseph’s Day is known to be a time for people named Joseph to honor and celebrate their religious namesake. When the ICC hosted its 26th annual St. Joseph’s Day Luncheon this past March, several men whose first name is Joseph were present, including these four. From the left: Joseph Mangiamele, Joseph Emanuele, Joseph Zambito and Joseph Ziino. (Photo provided by ICC member Ann Zambito)

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 13 Chairpersons report on a ‘very successful’ Taste of Italy Good food, good weather and a We want to express our deepest huge crowd made for a very suc - appreciation to all who took part cessful “A Taste of Italy” on Apr. 22. and worked so hard and want to ac - Of course, we can’t forget all the knowledge some behind-the-scenes hardworking volunteers who made people like Laurie Bisesi and her the event possible. The Bartolotta crew for set-up, Tony Zingale for or - kitchen staff along with our volun - ganizing the volunteer meal passes, teers produced a delicious array of Joe Jannazzo, Joe Zambito and Joe traditional foods. The friendly faces Ziino, who handled the accounting and efficient serving of the booth of funds in the ICC’s back office. servers kept the sometimes-over - Your efforts made our job a lot eas - whelming crowd moving smoothly ier for all of us. through the lines. Congratulations to all the raffle We acknowledge that some winners. They all went home with booths ran out of food way too early. some great items. Such issues will be looked at and We hope to see all of you at “A addressed for next year. A meeting Taste of Italy” 2019. with the booth captains was sched - – Christina Ziino, uled for May 21 to get their feed - Valorie Schleicher back as to how to correct any and Marie Lieber problems that may have occurred. Taste of Italy Chairs ICC President Dean Cannestra and the entire ICC Board thanked first- time chairpersons (l – r) Valorie (Sanfilippo) Schleicher, Christina Ziino and Marie (Andaloro) Lieber for their hard work and efforts in carrying out the successful 23rd annual “A Taste of Italy.”

Eileen Schalk and Ellen Zarcone tried several of the delicious items on Veteran volunteer Giovanni Frijia and Vito Perez of the Bartolotta the Taste of Italy menu. Catering staff were deep-frying the calamari when this picture was taken. Sicilian delicacy calamari fritti (deep-fried squid) is a favorite All Times photos by Tom Hemmn among Taste of Italy attendees. Mille grazie a tutti!! The Taste of Italy committee of Marie Andoloro Lieber, Val Sanfilippo Schliecher and Christina Ziino want to acknowledge and thank all the generous donors that made this year’s event such a success. Mille grazie a tutti!! BUSINESS DONORS Sargento Cheese Diana Otzelberger Alioto’s Restaurant Saz’s Hospitality Group Anna Pitzo Bad Dog Studios Sciortino Bakery Val Schliecher Barilla Pasta Scrima’s Pizza Alexander Smith Bartolotta Catering at the ICC Sprecher Rose Purpero Spang Carini’s La Conca D’Oro Suminski Funeral Homes Fran Tollefson Divino’s Wine and Dine Chris and Joe Ziino INDIVIDUAL DONORS European Gelato – Joe Reina Anonymous SOCIETY DONORS Fazio’s Chocolates Louise Au Abruzzese – Galileo-Galilei Society Glorioso’s Italian Market Larry Baldassaro La Società di San Giuseppe Grande Cheese Vince Carini Milwaukee Ladies of UNICO Meijer’s – Gift card Arthur Cola Pompeii Men’s Club Milwaukee Brewers Peter Gustin Pompeii Women’s Club Palermo’s Pizza – Joe Jannazzo Società Maschile Maria SS del Lume Giacomo Fallucca & Family Marie Lieber Milwaukee Chapter UNICO National Patrick Cudahy Santa Mazza La Società di Santa Rosalia Pietro’s Pizza Sophia Michalovitz

PAGE 14 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Glorioso’s Italian Market not only supplied its delicious Romanita pasta salad for “A Taste of Italy,” Before the start of “A Taste of Italy,” thousands of Ital - Schleicher, Barbara Lupo, Carol Martinez, Lena Zin - but it had a store representative ian cookies made by Peter Sciortino Bakery had to di - gale, Patricia Guttuso, Tony Lupo, Sophia serving the product. Her name is vided up into the individual bags that were sold at the Michalovitz, Taste of Italy Co-Chair Chris Ziino, Megan. Joe Liberto, who worked event. These volunteers did that job. Going from the Frances Murphy, Tony Zingale and Ray Martinez. at the nearby sausage booth man - left side of the table: Taste of Italy Co-Chair Valorie aged to sneak into the picture.

Mary Cannestra and Joe Noto were selling the last of sfinciuni close to the end of the event when this picture was taken.

Craig Lieber (left) and his son, C.J., scooped out servings of Italian gelato to guests.

Joe Emanuele, ICC Vice President and the immediate past president of the Filippo Mazzei Lodge of OSIA, makes certain that volun - teering at “A Taste of Italy” is a family thing. He had his grand - daughter, Kadun, and his daugh - Here is where Taste of Italy guests could buy home - Michalovitz as they have done for years now. Staffing ter, Jessica, staffing the booth made manicotti and we mean homemade literally. It the manicotti stand when this picture was taken were where bottled water was sold. The was generously donated and made in the home Sophia, her son, Robert, and the partially hidden Filippo Mazzei Lodge was in kitchens of ICC members Anna Pitzo and Sophia Carla Pellin. charge of the booth.

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 15 Scenes from the 23rd annual ‘A Taste of Italy’

First time volunteer Chris Weiss, a teacher at Divine Savior Holy An - gels High School, helped to sell tickets for the 50/50 raffle. She was stationed outside of the Festa Ball - room with longtime volunteer Bruno Giacomantonio. These hard-working volunteers prepared the fried Valorie Sanfilippo Schleicher, Peggy Salamone, Joe bread dough in the kitchen. From the left: Jennifer Schleicher and Diane Otzelberger. Berg, Rose Purpero Spang, Taste of Italy Co-Chair

Members of one of Milwaukee’s first Italian mutual aid societies, the Abruzzese Galileo-Galilei Society, staffed the first stand that many peo - ple visited after entering the Pompeii Grand Ballroom. These volunteers served a variety of pizza, donated by the Giacomo Fallucca family and Palermo’s Pizza. From the right: Vince Vitale, Tony Corrao, Gaetano Can - zonieri, Ben Di Pronio and Joe Vitale.

Chris Ziino, co-chairperson of the 23rd annual “A Taste of Italy,” is seen here with Glen Murphy, the gentleman whom she described as the event’s “Superhero” in an article appearing in the May 2018 issue of The Italian Times. Readers might recall that Murphy, a truck driver by pro - fession, volunteered to pick up 100 lbs. of pasta that was donated to the ICC by Barilla from its warehouse in Ames, Iowa. Had it not been for Murphy’s kind act, the ICC would have had to either pay a high price for transporting of the boxed pasta or decline the donation. Murphy is the son of ICC member Frances Murphy, who volunteered for “A Taste of Italy.” The event served as a key fundraiser for the nonprofit organiza - tion. (Photo provided by Chris Ziino)

Above: Chicken pastina, lentil and Italian wedding soups were served by volunteers representing La So - cietà di San Giuseppe. They in - cluded: (r - l:) Peter Balistreri, Joe D’Acquisto, Tom Spera, Santo San - filippo, Jack Corrao and Salty Nault.

Right: Ann Romano (seated), gen - eral chairperson for 21 of the first 22 Taste of Italy celebrations, served as a consultant for this year’s 23rd annual Taste of Italy. Ann got to sit back and enjoy this year’s event. Standing behind her is Faye Ann Kessler, who volun - teers on the newspaper mailing crew and helps to sell advertising.

Italian wine was available at this booth. It was staffed by volunteers rep - resenting the Milazzese Social Club.

PAGE 16 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Longtime food and beverage ticket sellers Sal and Antonette Lo Coco greeted guests as they entered the Festa Ballroom where the desserts were available for purchase.

More photos on pages 18 and 19. Pompeii Women’s Club members volunteered at the Veierstahler, Maria D’Amato, Rosalie Giano, Suzanne booth where calamari was available. The group seen Wypijewski and Lucy Sorce. (Photo courtesy of here included (l – r): Mary Winard, Sr. Ann Catherine Suzanne Wypijewski)

Enrica Tarantino Woytal and her son, Fabio, were among the volun - teers who operated the eggplant with red sauce booth.

The Pompeii Men’s Club came out in full force to staff the Italian sausage booth. This is a volunteer activity they have done since the inception of “A Taste of Italy.”

ICC Director Joe Jannazzo took some time out of his volunteering at “A Taste of Italy” to enjoy some of the food with his family. Joe and his wife, Jennifer, are seen here with their daughters Gillian, Mia, Gianna and Is - ICC President Dean Cannestra seemed to be having a good time prepar - abel. Joe was among the volunteers who tabulated the revenue taken in ing the sfinciuni that he and his restaurant, Divino Wine & Dine pro - that day. vided for the event.

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 17 These people seemed to enjoy a wide variety of the Italian entrees avail - able at “A Taste of Italy.” From the left: Mary Flamino, Jeff and Chris Ku - biak and Butch Freeman.

Bill and Rita Jennaro (seated) were among the food and beverage ticket sellers in the galleria outside of the Pompeii Grand Ballroom. The Jen - naros have been volunteer participants in “A Taste of Italy” since the in - ception of the event in 1996. The first Taste of Italy occurred in the spring after Bill Jennaro had completed two one-year terms as ICC Pres - ident.

Here’s Filippo Reina with a couple of the Vespa scooters that were on display, courtesy of Reina International Auto/Vespa Milwaukee.

Peter Carini and his brother, Sal, sold the eggplant spiedini from Peter’s restaurant, Carini’s La Conca d’Oro.

If you wanted a cup of coffee in the Festa Ballroom, you saw these vol - unteers, Bud Nichols and Rosemary (Lomenzo) Nichols.

This certificate hereby

attests to the fantastic job Talia Huttl, Rosalie Ferrante and Odilia Di Pronio were among the vol - done by all of the unteers who prepared and sold pizzelle. hard-working and dedicated volunteers of the Italian Community Center who worked at “A Taste of Italy” on April 22, 2018.

Our sincerest appreciations and gratitude, Christina Ziino Valorie Schleicher Marie Lieber Chairpersons Longtime ICC members Rose and Tom Zingale were part of the large crowd that enjoyed the 23rd annual “A Taste of Italy.”

PAGE 18 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES I Piccolini (the little ones) to I Ragazzi (the oldest boys and girls) who participated in I Bei Bambini, the Children’s Italian Dance Group performed for delighted au - diences in the Festa Ballroom.

Times photos by Tom Hemman

The Sicilian Serenaders – Ted Pappalardo (mandolin), Tom Pappalardo Vocalist Jayne Taylor performed with accompanist Frank Colarco in the (accordion) and Peter Balistrieri (guitar) returned for another year to Festa Ballroom. entertain guests with traditional and regional Italian music. The group appeared courtesy of La Società di San Giuseppe.

Tradizione Vivente, the Italian Dance Group of Milwaukee dis - played its expertise in Italian folk and regional dancing during two performances in the Festa Ball - room.

If you want to see how busy it was at “A Taste of Grand Ballroom was packed from one end to riety of delicious Italian food. The Festa Ball - Italy,” take a look at this picture. The Pompeii the other with guests who enjoyed the wide va - room and other rooms were also very crowded.

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 19 UNICO organizations award scholarships Eight graduating high school Central High School, recipient of a Catherine Kelly Memorial Award, attend the University of Wiscon - seniors and a college student – all Milwaukee Ladies of UNICO plans to attend Waukesha County sin-Milwaukee and major in Mete - of Italian descent – were awarded Award, plans to attend Winona Technical College and major in orology. $1,000 scholarships during the State University and major in Ath - Registered Nursing. 82nd UNICO Scholarship & letic Training. • Patrick Michael Mazza, Award for college student Awards Dinner that was held on • Gregory Antonio Frija, Glen - home-schooled, recipient of the The Milwaukee Chapter May 15 at the Italian Community dale Nicolet High School, recipient Joseph Spang Memorial Award, UNICO National awarded its Ital - Center. of the Gaetanina Balistreri Memo - plans to attend the University of ian Studies Award to Lori Listed first are the high school rial Award, plans to attend Loyola Wisconsin-Platteville and major in Martello, a student at the Univer - seniors and the school they cur - University and major in English. Civil Engineering. sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. rently attend along with details on • Sofia Maglio, Wauwatosa • Elizabeth Saggio, Glendale Martello is majoring in History their collegiate plans. East High School, recipient of the Nicolet High School, recipient of and Italian. • Gino Joseph D’Alessio, Pius Beatrice Ceraso Memorial Award, the Anita Mazza Award, plans to Scholarship history XI Catholic High School, recipient plans to attend the University of attend the University of Alabama The Milwaukee UNICO schol - of Theodore Mazza Award, plans to Wisconsin-Whitewater and major and is undecided on a major. arship program has awarded over attend Quincy University and in Communication Sciences and • Luciano Stephenson, Mar - $1 million dollars in scholarships major in Business – Finance and Disorders. quette University High School, re - over the past 82 years. It started in Sports Communication. • Margaret Caroline Mazza, cipient of the Carmelo and 1936, when one $250 scholarship • Thomas Francour, Brookfield home-schooled, recipient of the Antonina Cusima Award, plans to was awarded to Frances Alioto. Rosalie Giano honored as Pompeii Women’s ‘Angel of the Year’ Each year, the Pompeii Women’s lains, and the serving of the dinner, came vacant, she volunteered to May 30 at our May Crowning cere - Club recognizes one of its dedicated President Suzanne Wypijewski take it on. Rosalie is always willing mony. The dinner event, also at the members as the “Angel of the made the announcement that Ros - to help with any of our projects. The ICC, is open to non-members. Year.” This year, the honor was alie Giano was the recipient of the entire club offers our congratula - given to Rosalie Giano, at our April 2017 Angel of the Year. tions to her. For more information on this an - 25th dinner meeting at the Italian Rosalie is well deserving of the As our 2017 Angel, Rosalie will nual event, please read the infor - ation in the May issue of The Community Center. award as she is not only our Corre - have the honor of placing the crown m Italian Times After an opening prayer by Fr. sponding Secretary but when our of flowers on the statue of our or call Past President Mike Hammer, one of our co-chap - office of Recording Secretary be - Blessed Mother on Wednesday, Pat Consolazione at 262-786-3984. We hope to see you there. Back to our Apr. 25 meeting. After our business agenda was com - pleted and a closing prayer by Fr. Mike, names were drawn for door prizes. Our hostesses for the dinner meeting were Peggy Zoet, Pauline Cannestra and yours truly. – Mary Winard P.R. Chair Pompeii Women’s Club And now, a word from Italy by Blaise Di Pronio Disco: Popular dance music, especially of the late 1970s, characterized by strong repeti - tive bass rhythms. It comes from the Italian dis - coteca or a record collection or record library and coined from disco or phonograph record and modeled on biblioteca or library. Here is Rosalie Giamo, the Pompeii Women’s Club at the club’s Apr. 25 general membership meeting. A disco volante is a flying 2017 Angel of the Year. She was presented the honor (Photo provided by Suzanne Wypijewski) saucer. Interested in playing Words in an Italian word by Blaise Di Pronio How many words can you make with the letters in the name in OSIA Golf Classic? "PINOCCHIO"? Members of the Filippo Mazzei dinner is $40 per person. Checks Lodge #2763 of the Order Sons and are payable to OSIA and must be ______Daughters of Italy in America in - mailed to: Filippo Mazzei Greater vite all interested individuals to Milwaukee Lodge, P.O. Box ______participate in the organization’s 510654, New Berlin, WI 53151- Golf Classic on Sunday, June 24 at 0654. For more information, con - ______Grand Geneva Resort and Spa. tact OSIA President Nick ______This includes golfers and those per - DeQuardo at 262-599-3908. sons who might want to simply Participants can also make a ______enjoy a day of great company and weekend of it by calling the Grand plenty of food. Geneva directly at 855-833-5345. ______Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. Mention “Sons and Daughters of A shotgun start opens the day of Italy Golf Classic” to get special ______golf at noon. The banquet dinner is room prices. Rooms are limited. at 6 p.m. A driving range and lunch There is a course dress code. No ______will be available after registration. denim allowed. Shorts must be ______The cost for golf, lunch and a hemmed. Collared shirts are re - banquet dinner is $125 per person. quired. No tank tops or cutoffs are Answers on page 22 The cost for lunch and the banquet permitted.

PAGE 20 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Famous Italian Americans Word Search: with Abruzzo ancestry Festa Italiana 2018 Researched by by Blaise Di Pronio Blaise Di Pronio With a special nod to all the Abruzzesi connected members of the ICC, my own family and the Abruzzese Galileo-Galilei Society, here’s a few of us you might know: Name - Profession - Abruzzese native location Mike Pompeo – Secretary of State (Caramanico) Madonna – Singer (Pacentro) Dean Martin – Actor/Singer (Pescara) Rocco Siffredi – Movies (Chieti) Rocky Marciano – Boxer (Chieti) Henry Mancini – Composer/Conductor (Scanno) Perry Como- American singer and television personality (Palena) Tommy Lasorda – Professional American Baseball Player/Manager (Chieti) Gabriele D’Annunzio – Writer (Pescara) Jarno Trulli – Formula 1 Racer (Pescara) Juan Manuel Fangio – Formula 1 Racer (Chieti) Filippo Giovanni De Cecco – Founder of De Cecco Pasta (Chieti) Benedetto Croce – Philosopher (Pescasseroli) Mario Batali – American Chef and Media Personality (Chieti) Bruno Sammartino – WWF Wrestling Champion, inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame (Pizzoferrato) Giada Colagrande – Film Director, married to actor William Dafoe (Pescara) Ariana Grande – Singer (Lanciano, Chieti) Stephanie D’Abruzzo – Actress, singer and puppeteer (Sant’Angelo del pesco) Garry Marshall – Actor and writer for notable films and television se - ries such as Happy Days (San Martino Sulla Marrucina, Chieti) Penny Marshall – Nominated for Golden Globe and casted on the sit - com Laverne & Shirley . (San Martino Sulla Marrucina, Chieti) Mario Lanza – Tenor and Actor (Tocco da Casauria) Al Martino – Actor and Singer. Well known for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather (Parents were immigrants from Abruzzo) Andrea Iannone – Italian professional MotoGP rider (Vasto) John A Volpe – Governor of Massachusetts and Secretary (Pescosan - sonesco, Pescara) Daniel Bison – Founding owner of the Syracuse Nationals and in - ducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (Miglianico, Chieti) Alfred Zampa, famous bridge worker who helped construct Golden Gate Bridge, and several bridges in San Francisco Bay Area (Ortucchio, L’Aquila) To find Word Search solved, turn to page 22 Pierluigi Zappacosta – Co-founder Logitech (Chieti) Dan Marino - Professional American football player (Pianella)

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 21 New generation of players will return Azzurri back to World Cup by Joseph Reina out on the round of 16. They were more attacking and change their Moise Kean to make their presence With the World Cup in Russia the fourth and eleventh oldest team style of play. The squad definitely known and restore Italy to the quickly approaching, many fellow at those tournaments, respectively. has the talent coming up through grandeur of old. Italian American calcio fans are not The team’s failure is based par - the ranks and there is absolutely no * * * looking forward to the most presti - tially on a reliance on the older ex - reason Azzurri should not be in Editor’s note: Joseph Reina is a gious tournament in the world as perienced players rather than the Qatar. We hold our team to a junior at Marquette University much as usual. This is primarily new younger ones. higher expectation than most coun - High School. He is looking forward due to the shocking absence of our They also have relied much too tries and this is a failure of the ut - to studying Broadcast Journalism beloved Azzurri. heavily on their defensive strength most importance. The players, staff in college. He is the son of Italian Following a tough draw where and focused on shutting their oppo - and fans must take this agony and Community Center members Joe they were placed in a group with fa - nents out and scoring on the translate it into a positive learning and Mary Reina of Reina Interna - vored Spain, the recently strug - counter rather than adapting to experience. Buffon and De Rossi tional Auto. The Reinas operate two gling Italians always looked the their situation and changing their have had their day. Now is the time gelato booths at Festa Italiana and underdogs. Expectedly, the out - approach. An example of this for the likes of Gianluigi Don - have been active in the ICC for come was second place where they played out in the second leg fixture narumma, Andrea Belotti, and many years. faced a playoff tie against Sweden. against Sweden. Italy played with Here, the Italians seemed to be the five defenders on the field in a better of the two outfits and were game where they needed to score to heavily predicted to advance. How - advance. Former manager Giam Words in an Italian word ever, the Swedes won the first leg Piero Ventura opted to sit Napoli’s from page 20 at home where they ran rampant star winger Lorenzo Insigne in the against the Italians. Their reward second leg and at one point signaled The answer: 91 words in “PINOCCHIO” came in the 61st minute when to the aforementioned De Rossi to 1. chicon 2. chopin 3. cochin 4. coinop 5. concho Jakob Johansson’s effort form out - come on as a sub late in the game. side the box took a deflection off of De Rossi protested this decision 6. iconic 7. inhoop 8. phonic 9. picnic 10. pionic De Rossi and past seemingly ever- himself as he knew that they 11. poncho 12. chico 13. chino 14. choco 15. choon present Buffon. This proved to be needed a win and putting him on 16. cinch 17. conch 18. conic 19. cooch 20. ionic the deciding moment across the two was counter intuitive. The Italian legs as Sweden advanced 1-0 on ag - talent pool boasts many young bud - 21. phono 22. pinch 23. pooch 24. chic 25. chin gregate. ding attacking prospects such as 26. chip 27. choc 28. chon 29. chop 30. cion 31. coch Even though this is arguably the Lorenzo Insigne, Federico most surprising exclusion from the Bernardeschi and Andrea Belotti. 32. coco 33. coho 34. coin 35. coni 36. coon 37. coop World Cup, which includes the While Belotti was used well, 38. hioi 39. hoon 40. hoop 41. icon 42. inch 43. noop likes of Chile, Netherlands, and the Bernardeschi was only used as a USA, it should not have come as a late sub in the second leg and In - 44. phon 45. pion 46. poco 47. pooh 48. poon complete surprise to devout Azzurri signe in the first. These players 49. chi 50. con 51. coo 52. cop 53. hic 54. hin fans around the world. when used properly can mean dev - Since the World Cup triumph in astation to opposition defences and 55. hip 56. hoc 57. hoi 58. hon 59. hoo 60. hop 2006, the Italians have consistently can provide the key spark in close 61. ich 62. ion 63. nip 64. noh 65. noo 66. och fielded one of the oldest squads in games. each of the tournaments in which Ventura’s rigidity with regards 67. oho 68. ono 69. ooh 70. oon 71. oop 72. phi they have competed. This has to tactics cost the Azzurri a spot in 73. pho 74. pic 75. pin 76. poh 77. poi 78. poo proven to be a disastrous choice Russia and to prevent this from 79. ch 80. hi 81. ho 82. in 83. io 84. no 85. oh nearly every time. They came dead happening again, the new manage - last in their group in 2010 despite ment must allow the youth to play 86. oi 87. on 88. oo 89. op 90. pi 91. po being drawn with Slovakia, and gain experience for the next Paraguay, and New Zealand, and World Cup in 2022. third in 2014, once again missing They must be willing to play Word Search: Italy’s Festival dei Festa Italiana 2018 Due Mondi SOLVED / from page 21 The Festival dei Due Mondi be strengthened by the fact that it (The Festival of the Two Worlds), was held in conjunction with its also known as the Spolato Festival, “twin,” the Spoleto Festival USA, is an international event featuring held annually in May and June in music, art and culture. It has taken Charleston, S.C. place every year in Spoleto (Um - The twinning only lasted some bria), Italy, since 1958. 15 years. After growing disputes The 61st edition will be held Fri - between the Menotti family and the day, June 29 through Sunday, July board of Spoleto Festival USA in 15. The festival features a vast the early 1990s, a separation oc - array of concerts, opera, dance, curred. drama, visual arts and roundtable In 1986, under Menotti’s direc - discussions on science. tion, a third installment of the Spo - Early on, the festival developed leto Festival series was started in into one of the most important cul - Melbourne, Australia. In 1990, the tural events in Italy, with a three- Australian fest changed its name to week schedule of music, theater the Melbourne International Festi - and dance performances. For some val of Arts. time, it became a reference point Following Menotti’s death in for modern sculpture exhibits and 2007, changes occurred in the ad - works of art left to the city by ministration with the Italian Min - Alexander Calder (“Teodolapio”) ister of Cultural Affairs appointing and as others are a testimony to a new Artistic Administrator to this, but, for a variety of reasons, continue to run the festival. After including loss of funds and the the changes were implemented, birth of many similar festivals Spoleto’s city administrators and throughout Italy, the Spoleto Festi - Charleston officials started talks to val has now lost some of its inter - reunite the two festivals, but noth - national prominence. It, however, ing ever materialized. remains a very important cultural event. Composer Gian Carlo Menotti And now, a word founded the festival. He chose Spo - leto because of the presence Teatro from Italy Nuovo and Teatro Caio in the cen - by Blaise Di Pronio ter of the city and the Piazza del Facade : The principal front of a Duomo, an open-air theater, ideal building that looks onto a street or for the event. open space. The name of the festival comes It comes from the Italian fac - from Menotti’s intention to have ciata which means the look out the worlds of American and Euro - area or front of a building which in pean culture facing each other in turn comes the word faccia or face, his event. This concept would then as in the human face.

PAGE 22 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Italian American women in sports by Lawrence Baldassaro Saville, she took bronze in the 100- ine “Cammi” Granato, captain of as a pitcher (183-18 record) and in - For much of the 20th century meter freestyle and gold in the the U.S. Women’s hockey team that fielder for the renowned Raybestos women found little encouragement 4x100-meter freestyle relay, be - won the gold medal at the 1998 Brakettes of Stratford, Connecticut. and few opportunities to participate coming the first woman to win two Winter Olympics, is an inductee in The most elite team in women’s in organized sports. Nevertheless, individual medals in the 100-meter the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2006, sports, the Brakettes won six na - there have been several notable freestyle. Julia Mancuso won the gold medal tional American Softball Associa - Italian American pioneers in At 17, gymnast Concetta “Con - in the Giant Slalom. tion championships in her 10 years women’s sports. nie” Caruccio was one of the Italian Americans came late to with the team. Clementina Brida, a famous youngest athletes competing in the golf and tennis, two sports histori - After obtaining a PhD from the pitcher who began her long career 1936 Berlin Olympics. Twelve cally associated with the more afflu - University of Southern California, in 1897 playing for the Boston years later, competing as Connie ent sporting community. Donna Lopiano served as Director of Bloomer Girls, went on to pitch for, Lenz, she won a bronze medal in Caponi, a member of the World Golf Women’s Athletics at the Univer - manage, create and own several of the team all-around competition. Hall of Fame, won the U.S. Women’s sity of Texas (1975-1992), president the leading women’s teams in the American women have contin - Open and LPGA titles twice each be - of the Association for Intercolle - country. But like several male ued to excel in later Olympic tween 1969 and 1981. Jennifer giate Athletics for Women, and ballplayers of that era, she masked Games. A silver medalist at the Capriati won three Grand Slam ti - CEO of the Women’s Sports Foun - her ethnic identity, playing under 1980 Winter Olympics, figure tles and an Olympic Gold medal, dation (1992-2007). Named by The the name of Maud Nelson. Baseball skater Linda Fratianne won four leading to her induction into the In - Sporting News as one of the “100 historian Barbara Gregorich called consecutive U.S. Championships ternational Tennis Hall of Fame. Most Influential People in Sports,” her a “legend who dominated the (1977-1980). Mary Lou Retton, the Few, if any, Italian American she has been internationally recog - early years of women at play.” first American woman to win the women athletes have enjoyed such nized as a leading advocate for gen - Margaret Gisolo was 14 years old individual all-around gold medal in wide-ranging success and influence der equity in sports. when she helped lead her Blanford, gymnastics, was named Associated as Stamford, Connecticut, native Note : This article is an excerpt Indiana (boys) team to the state Press Female Athlete of the Year in Donna Lopiano. Barred from play - from “Italian Americans in Sport,” American Legion Junior tournament 1984. Jennifer Azzi, who led Stan - ing Little League baseball because chapter 28 of The Routledge His - championship in 1928 by hitting ford to the NCAA championship in of her gender, as a teenager, she tory of Italian Americans. Ed. By .429. She later played professionally 1990, won a gold medal with the turned to fast pitch softball. From William J. Connell and Stanislao G. from 1930 to 1934 for the All-Star U.S. Women’s basketball team in 1963 to 1972 she was a nine-time Pugliese. New York: Routledge, Ranger Girls, a barnstorming team the 1996 Winter Olympics. Cather - All-American and three-time MVP 2018. co-owned by Maud Nelson, before be - coming a college coach. Agnes Iori (married name Iori I’ll bet you didn’t know Robertson) was a pioneer who led Compiled by Blaise Di Pronio has about 30% less chance of sur - The full name of the city of Los the way for future basketball stars. If a statue in the park of a per - viving than a cat that falls off the Angeles is “El Pueblo de Nuestra After starring in high school in the son on a horse has both front legs 20th floor. It supposedly takes Senora la Reina de los Angeles de small coal-mining town of Cocker - in the air, the person died in battle; about eight floors for the cat to re - Porciuncula” ill, Kansas, she played for the Dal - if the horse has one front leg in the alize what is occurring, relax and * * * las Golden Cyclones, a company air, the person died as a result of correct itself. The rat has been called the sponsored team that won the 1931 wounds received in battle; if the * * * world’s most destructive mammal, AAU national championship. From horse has all four legs on the The dot over the letter ‘i’ is other than man. 1929 to 1932, Iori was named to the ground, the person died of natural called a tittle . * * * first four AAU All-American teams. causes. * * * It is physically impossible for In the 1928 Olympics, swimmer * * * You can’t kill yourself by holding pigs to look up into the sky. Eleanor Garatti won a silver medal A 75 year-old person will have your breath. * * * in the 100-meter freestyle and a slept about 23 years. * * * The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth gold in the 4x100-meter freestyle * * * The strongest muscle in the sheep’s sick” is said to be the tough - relay. Then, in 1932, competing Studies show that if a cat falls body is the tongue. est tongue twister in the English under her married name of Garatti- off the seventh floor of a building it * * * language.

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 23 La Pagina Italiana I più comuni nomi di bambini in Italia di Blaise Di Pronio preferiscono quelli stranieri Matteo, Gabriele, Mattia, regioni. Campania e Sicilia In passato gli italiani avevano ispirandosi anche alle celebrità, Leonardo, Davide e Riccardo. Non mostrano delle peculiarità rispetto l’abitudine di dare ai propri figli i secondo una tendenza diffusa in mancano però casi di grafia alle altre regioni. Infatti vi si nomi di santi riconosciuti dalla molti altri paesi del mondo. Di straniera applicata ad alcuni nomi ritrovano ancora di frequente Chiesa Cattolica, soprattutto quelli conseguenza Zeno, Calogero, molto comuni, ad esempio in Antonio e Giuseppe, segno questo che si celebravano il giorno della Dante, Gilberto, Carmelo, Maria e Christian, Alexander, Thomas, di un legame duraturo con la loro nascita oppure quelli del santo Vincenza stanno diventando meno Gabriel, Michael e David. tradizione secolare di trasmettere patrono locale. Era frequente usuali. La scelta del nome è influenzata ai figli maschi i nomi dei nonni. battezzare i bambini nati nel I dati aggiornati dell’Istituto anche da fattori geografici. Fonte: italymagazine.com periodo pasquale col nome di Nazionale di Statistica rivelano che Francesco è il nome più comune per – Tradotto dall’Inglese da Pasqua o Pasquale e quelli nati nel i nomi più comuni per le bambine i bambini maschi in tre regioni del Laura Duronio periodo natalizio col nome di Natale sono corti e semplici. Nella Sud Italia: Molise, Puglia e o Natalina. Un’altra tradizione classifica dei dieci nomi femminili Calabria. Il nome Lorenzo domina ancora più frequente era quella di più scelti si trovano Sofia, Giulia, in sei regioni: Piemonte, Liguria, Italian mantenere per i figli il nome dei Martina, Giorgia, Sara, Emma, Toscana, Umbria, Lazio e Abruzzo. nonni. Tutto ciò ha portato i classici Aurora, Chiara, Alice e Alessia. Tra Leonardo ricorre spesso in Valle everyday nomi italiani a resistere nel tempo. i nomi di origine straniera si d’Aosta, Veneto, Friuli Venezia- Al giorno d’oggi i genitori trovano Michelle, Deborah, Emily, Giulia e Marche. Alessandro expressions italiani si sono avviati sulla strada Jennifer, Jasmine, Ashley, Jessica, predomina in Emilia-Romagna e Avere un chiodo fisso in testa. di un rinnovamento delle proprie Erika, Chanel e Sharon. Sardegna. Literally: Have a nail stuck in scelte. Nonostante la maggior parte Per i bambini maschi i nomi classici Per quanto riguarda le bambine, one’s head. delle persone si attenga alla dominano ancora tra le scelte. I Sofia è il nome più scelto in metà Meaning: Have a bee in one’s tradizione scegliendo alcuni dei più dieci più popolari sono Francesco, delle regioni italiane mentre Giulia bonnet. comuni nomi italiani, altre Alessandro, Andrea, Lorenzo, è il più frequente in tutte le altre Trattare a pesci in faccia. Literally: Treat you with fishes in your face. Meaning: Showing you disre - In celebrazione alla Festa della spect. Fare il contropelo. Literally: Shave against the Repubblica Italiana: growth. Meaning: Go against the norm. Ecco L’Italia Ubriaco come una scimmia. Se incontri una donna giovane, l’àncora dal mare e stendere la Se vedi una donna piangere Literally: Drunk as a monkey. forte, bella, con in braccio il suo vela, quello è l’Italia. sulla tomba d’un Caduto, quella Meaning: To be wasted. bambino e un pane nella mano, è l’Italia. Fare la gatta morta. quella è l’Italia. Se vedi un soldato ubbidire al comando d’un superiore, quello è Se senti una voce che dice: Literally: Do like a dead cat. Se vedi un contadino arare il l’Italia. – Coraggio! Nel lavoro e nella Meaning: Play dumb. campo, mietere il grano, quello è concordia godremo la libertà e la Uscire allo scoperto. l’Italia. Se vedi un mutilato di guerra, pace, – è l’Italia che parla. Literally: Go out uncovered. Se vedi un marinaio sollevare quello è l’Italia. Poesia di Renzo Pezzani Meaning: Stand up and be counted. Taormina La Festa di San Pancrazio La Festa di San Pancrazio si Patrono si porta in giro anche una primi anni del I secolo. Fu lo stesso pugni, morsi, bastonate e lo svolge il 9 luglio di ogni anno. statua di San Pietro. Questo perché Pietro a battezzarlo, a ordinarlo uccisero, poi occultarono il suo Taormina infatti si ricorda il suo proprio l’incontro con Pietro portò sacerdote e quindi vescovo di corpo in fondo a un pozzo. I Patrono, San Pancrazio, martire e Pancrazio a convertirsi Taormina dove iniziò a predicare. I discepoli di Pancrazio però primo vescovo della cittadina. A definitivamente. suoi modi garbati e il suo fervore trovarono il cadavere grazie a una San Pancrazio è dedicata la bella Non ci sono notizie storiche nella fede fecero in modo che molti luce divina che illuminò il pozzo e Chiesa barocca che sorge sulle molto precise sul Santo Patrono di pagani si convertissero al poterono dargli una degna rovine di un tempio greco del quale Taormina, bisogna quindi affidarsi cristianesimo, compreso il prefetto sepoltura. è ancora possibile scorgere le pietre alle agiografie dove si evince che e diversi appartenenti alle famiglie Non si conosce con precisione la del basamento. Oltre al Santo nacque in Cilicia, ad Antiochia, nei patrizie. I detrattori del vescovo data del martirio di Pancrazio, i però non gradirono l’alta documenti riportano che avvenne considerazione in cui veniva tenuto durante l’impero di Traiano, salito e organizzarono un agguato per al trono nel 98 d.C. ed è dunque ucciderlo a capo del quale si pose un presumibile che il vescovo fosse già tale Artagato che viene definito in età molto avanzata nel momento nelle agiografie come “adoratore della sua morte. Il culto del santo degli dei”. San Pancrazio. ebbe inizio fin da subito, ma fu Invitò a casa sua Pancrazio per durante l’occupazione bizantina che un banchetto con un gruppo di venne intensificato grazie al fatto amici e impose al santo con la forza che Pancrazio era di origine di baciare una statuetta lignea di orientale, così la sua venerazione un idolo. Si narra che egli fece il da Taormina. In occasione del segno della croce e l’immagine andò periodo di festa la statua di San in mille pezzi e ciò scatenò l’ira dei Pietro viene portata in solenne convenuti che lo aggredirono a Continua a pagina 25

An aerial view of Taormina. The Duomo of Taormina.

PAGE 24 – GIUGNO 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Curiosando tra i Mestieri di Antica Maniera di Donato Di Pronio lavanderine, cullate (si fa per dire) logorante mestiere del tintore prestigio al proprio mestiere, si Dai racconti di Any, una ragazza dal gioioso gorgoglio dell’acqua, ci diventò nel corso dei millenni una posero sotto la protezione di Gesù, di tanti anni fa, all’occorrenza cimentavamo con le canzonette vera e prestigiosa arte perché sia sotto l’aspetto della LAVANDAIA ed anche TINTORA. dell’ultima ora, imparate da chi richiedeva abilità e fantasia nel Trasfigurazione (gli abiti di Gesù tornava dai grandi centri; ogni creare, combinare e usare sostanze cambiarono colore), sia sotto Ascoltiamola: tanto dovevamo alzare il tono della coloranti: i procedimenti venivano l’aspetto di Gesù Bambino, il quale, È arrivata la primavera: la voce per zittire le ragazze che coperti da attenta e massima secondo il racconto di un Vangelo risposta che l’inverno si merita. La insistevano con i canti degli anni segretezza. apocrifo, da ragazzo andò ad natura si risveglia, i campi verdi delle loro nonne. Con il Dopo l’avvento del Cristianesi- imparare il mestiere del tintore cominciano a rivestirsi a festa ed è trascorrere delle ore …addio bel mo, i tintori, per conferir maggior presso un tintore di Tiberiade. tempo di fare le pulizie generali. canto e allegria: curve e Finalmente potremo andare a inginocchiate sulla ghiaia sparsa lavare lenzuola e biancheria sul letto del torrente, tra pesante con l’abbondante e l’insaponare e lo strofinare, il limpidissima acqua del vicino battere e lo sbattere i panni, l’acqua E fatt’na risata torrente. Per un bel po’ diremo fredda, … le forze cedevano per la Due giovani, marito e moglie, bambino esclama: “ma non voglio addio al pubblico lavatoio, dove stanchezza. scendono le scale per portare a i soldi, voglio i dolci.” purtroppo si corre il rischio di Grazie a Dio, oggi nelle case spasso il loro piccolino. * * * ritrovarti nella biancheria qualche corre l’acqua fredda e l’acqua calda, Lui tiene il figliolo per i piedi, Una bambina e suo padre sono minuscolo pizzicoso insetto, e dove le lavatrici risparmiano le mani e le con la testina in giù, facendogliela a teatro e la bambina dice: non di rado devi passare il tuo forze; eppure, sapete che vi dico, sbattere ritmicamente su ogni “Papà, papà guarda com’è preziosissimo sapone a chi lava belle mie, pure quei sacrifici gradino. vergognoso quel tipo lì...sta soltanto con acqua e … sapone di avevano il loro lato positivo e non vi Lei sbraita: “ma che fai, dormendo!” gomito. nascondo che la poesia di quelle ore cretino, così il bimbo perde il Ed il papà: “e tu mi svegli per Di buon mattino, con in testa un l’ho ancora nostalgicamente nel berrettino!” dirmi questo?” canestro colmo di panni, scendevo cuore! E il marito imperturbabile: “no * * * nel vicino torrente, mi sistemavo in Sentiamola ancora: che non lo perde, gliel’ho fissato Durante una passeggiata in un punto il più possibile comodo, Quando mio nonno se ne andò, con un chiodino!” campagna la mamma e la cercando di trovare una pietra purtroppo con anticipo, da questo * * * bambina vengono sorprese da un piatta e rasposa per strofinarci mondo, ci ritrovammo senza abiti di Un signore vede un bambino temporale. sopra i panni (era troppo disagevole colore nero da indossare, secondo la che sta fumando un grosso sigaro Un lampo illumina tutto il portarmi appresso l’annosa asse generale costumanza, in segno di e di tanto in tanto si tracanna un paesaggio e la bimba: “oh mamma seghettata che mio nonno aveva lutto. La nonna non si perse lungo sorso di whisky: “ma che guarda, è il signore che ci fà una ricavato da un tronco di quercia). d’animo. Mise a scaldare un gran diavolo stai facendo? perché non foto!” Mentre si lavava, io e le altre pentolone d’acqua, vi versò una sei a scuola?” * * * polverina e subito dopo vi immerse E il bambino: “Ma, che scherza Ero un bambino così brutto, gonne e camicette di colori chiari. E ho solo 5 anni!”. ma così brutto...che mamma mi così potemmo partecipare alla * * * allattava con una cannuccia! Taormina Messa di riuscita tutte ritualmente contina da pagina 24 Un bambino decide di fare una * * * vestite in nero. rapina ed entra in una Un bimbo chiede alla mamma processione, il 29 giugno, Tingere i panni non fu certo pasticceria, appena entrato tira se può avere la banana per cena. raggiunge San Pancrazio e insieme un’invenzione della nonna di Any, fuori la sua pistola. La mamma risponde di no vengono accompagnati al Duomo né un’invenzione del Medioevo, giocattolo e puntandola verso il perchè è troppo pesante. Dopo dove vi rimangono fino al 9 luglio, bensì l’affermarsi ed il cassiere esclama: “dammi tutto o qualche minuto il bambino prende giorno della solenne processione. perfezionarsi di un’arte vecchia ti ammazzo, metti tutto dentro in mano la banana, la porta alla Le statue in tale giorno vengono come l’uomo. Gli antichi popoli, questo sacco.” mamma e le dice: “guarda, non è portate in processione con i loro Babilonesi, Assiri, Persiani, Egizi e E il cassiere comincia a pesante...la sollevo con una sola fercoli per le vie della città. via dicendo, furono abili tessitori ed riempire il sacco di soldi e il mano.” – dal comune.taormina.me.it espertissimi tintori. Il duro e

THE ITALIAN TIMES GIUGNO 2018 – PAGE 25 The Little Corporal ** by Blaise Di Pronio things: ended up loving and fighting for In your writer’s ongoing quest of • His parents were culturally France. But he never forgot and not rewriting history but rather Corsican (Italian then). They did was forever proud of his Italian her - clarifying it, the next inquiry deals experience resentment to French itage. with that famous French statesman ownership which was typical of ** The Little Corporal: This was and military leader who became Corsicans after the French pur - an affectionate nickname given to prominent during the French Revo - chase. Napoleon by some old soldiers after lutionary Wars. With the Italianate • Napoleone means “Lion of the battle of Lodi in 1796. They name of Napoleon Bonaparte, Naples” (Italian city). were so pleased with his bravery, surely he was Italian, right? And, of • When the French revolution that they elected him their corporal course, he was. broke out, he fought for Corsica and as a compliment. The nickname He was born in 1769 in Ajaccio, not France, at one point leading also referred to his short stature Corsica just 15 months after France troops against a French army. and great courage. had purchased the island from the • He was an opportunist. He Italian city-state of Genoa. The an - was “French” because he saw great cestors of Napoleon descended from opportunity in being French. When minor Italian nobility of Tuscan ori - being Corsican benefited, he was How to use gin who had come to Corsica from Corsican. Liguria in the 16th century. His • He spoke with a thick Italian that Italian parents were Carlo Buonaparte accent all his life. and Maria Letizia Ramolino. They • Napoleon boasted of his Ital - bubbler were born in Ajaccio when it was ian heritage. He said, “I am of the by Blaise Di Pronio under Genoese control and, thus, race that founds empires.” This article is directed to were Italian as was their future son • He also once said, “I am more those readers who came from, whose given birth name was Italian or Tuscan than Corsican.” lived in or visited Italy. You Napoleone Buonaparte. He (“ Io sono Italiano o Toscano, piu - Napoleone di Buonaparte: The Em - lucky ones had the good fortune peror Napoleon in his study at the changed his name to the more tosto che Corso. ”) to discover that very Italian French-sounding “Napoléon Bona - • The ancestral home of the Tuileries. (By Jacques-Louis David, 1812) bathroom accoutrement: the parte” when he was 27 at the time Buonaparte family is in San Mini - bidet. A bidet is a low riding oval he embarked upon a career in the ato in Tuscany where there is a pi - Roman general. basin placed next to the toilet French military. azza Buonaparte and other • He adopted the eagle as the and is used for washing one’s Arguably then, Napoleon was reminders of the Buonaparte fam - rallying symbol for his troops just nether regions. It is a very legally French but also Italian per ily. as the Romans had done. strange concept to foreigners. blood lines. But where were his loy - • He was a lifelong admirer of So, then, where are we? Well, They stare in wonderment at the alties? So, let’s consider a few Caesar and often emulated the let’s call him French-Italian as he fixture and often just use it to wash their feet after a day at the beach. The bidet originated in the early 1700’s and it has come a ICC Membership Dues long way from its roots. Modern bidets are now sleek and operate by shooting jets of water upward and washing your private areas. N N N Benefits of Italian Community Center Membership N N N Today, many bidets come with Four (4) Festa Italiana Tickets – Maximum of Eight (8) Per Family functions such as a heated seat, a self-cleaning mode and a dry - Voting Privelegs (21 & Older) Postal Service Delivery of The Italian Times ing and deodorizing option. You Member Discounts on Social Events, Classes & Bocce Leagues can also control the temperature of the water with the touch of a Members Rooms Cultural, Educational & Social Activities button. Not a bad alternative to Forever Friendships Stronger Bonds Between Your Family & Your Culture the days of dried leaves and newspapers. Now that we all know what bidets are and we further know Age 20 and under Annual Dues that they are rarely used for Ages 21 – 65 Annual Dues their intended purpose. Let’s let our imaginations wander and Individual Gratis – $0.00 Individual $50 per year think of alternate uses for a Members, age 20 and under, receive two (2) free Festa bidet next time you stay in Italy. Italiana tickets. No voting rights. At age 18, a member Couple/Family $100 per year Here are some I contemplated (I may vote, but must purchase a membership to do so. have too much free time, me - thinks): • Pull up a chair and make it Ages 66 – 84 Annual Dues Ages 85 & Older Annual Dues a soaking foot spa. • It’s a private sink for small Individual $50 per year Individual $30 per year children. • Clean your mops there. • Make it your pet’s drinking Couple/Family $75 per year Couple/Family $50 per year bowl. • And your cat’s bathtub. Effective: January 1, 2018. All Memberships Valid Through December 31, 2018. • And Barbie’s hot tub. • Wash your wiener in it, a Dachshund that is. MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION FORM • A place for wet umbrellas. • For soaking hand wash - ables. Names & Birthdates of Each Adult: ______• Home for fish when chang - ing their water. ______• Fill with ice and it’s a Names & Birthdates of Each Child (under age 21): beer/wine cooler. ______• Baby’s bathtub, floor nearby if dropped. ______• Wash stinky feet. Address, City, State, Zip Code: • Last minute leg shave. ______• Huggable when room is Phone No.: Email Address: ______spinning. • Store fresh-cut flowers. • Take a sponge bath and No. of Members under 21: _____ No. of Members 21-65: ______No. of Members 66-84: ______No. of Members 85 & Older: _____ save water. • Clip those toenail clippings Payment Amount: ______Method: Cash Check Credit Card – Card Type MC Visa Discover Other Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì in place. Card No. : Expiration Date: “So it is with minds. Unless ______you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle ______and control them, they throw Signature – Adult Member Signature – Adult Member themselves in disorder hither Mail this form to: Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202-5916. The ICC respects your privacy and does and yon in the vague field of not sell or distribute personal information such as birthdates, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. This membership imagination.” – Michel de Mon - registration form can also be emailed to [email protected]. For further information, call (414) 223-2180. taigne I plead guilty.

PAGE 26 – JUNE 2018 THE ITALIAN TIMES Opera insights by Barbara Collignon pus, the true home of happiness. Last month, I wrote about Mon - Students: Do not die, Seneca. teverdi’s opera, L’Incoronazione di For my part, I do not want to Poppea . It was noted that the Flo - die. rentine Opera is scheduled to per - This life is too sweet. form the opera in March 2019. The The sky is too clear. once neglected opera experienced a All bitterness, all poison, is just revival in the 1960s and has since a small obstacle. entered the repertoire of major If I lay down to easy sleep, I opera companies worldwide. That’s wake up in the morning but a tomb easy to understand since it is con - of fine marble never gives back sidered the culminating point of what it receives. Monteverdi’s work. Seneca: Go, all of you, to pre - As an innovation in the develop - pare my bath. ment of opera, it contains tragic, ro - If life runs like a river flowing in mantic and comic scenes and the a warm river I want this innocent characters are drawn more realisti - blood to go. cally, motivated with human faults I want it to color my road to of ambition and greed. death. This month, we take a deeper The Florentine’s performance look into this masterful composer. promises to be extraordinary! The How fortunate we are that such Coronation of Poppea will be sung a revival has taken place for Mon - in Italian with English supertitles. teverdi’s art (1567 – 1643)? His Jory Vinikour, world renowned music is so very beautiful. He was harpsichordist, will lead an au - and is greatly revered. He died thentic Baroque ensemble. Not to about a year after the opera opened be missed, the opera will be per - and he was honored by being buried Bass Mathew Treviño formed March 22, 24, 30 and 31, in the church of Santa Maria Glo - Here is the English text of so much. 2019. riosa dei Frari in Venice. This is an Seneca’s aria, his students’ objec - Death is brief anguish. The Florentine will be under important Franciscan church that tions, and Seneca’s last words: A wandering sigh leaves the new direction since this past May 9, bears the status of a minor basilica. Seneca: My friends, the time heart where it has been for many the Florentine announced the res - It contains exceptional art includ - has come to put into practice with years, almost like a guest, like a ignation of William Florescu. ing Titian’s “The Assumption” and facts that virtue I have celebrated foreigner, and it flies up to Olym - Bellini’s “Triptych of the Virgin Mary and Saints.” Monteverdi is buried in the 2nd chapel to the left of the main altar where his memo - Silvana Bastianutti Kukuljan rial service was held. Wagner vis - ited there in 1861 and was inspired to compose The Meistersingers . The writes of her memories in war church is often referred to as “Frari.” Music critic Denise Midgley torn Italy in new book to be Arnold writes, Monteverdi “also did much to bring a ‘modern’ secular spirit into church music.” A preco - available at Festa this July cious pupil, Monteverdi, the son of by Barbara Collignon Her story is poignant and rele - culture. a barber, surgeon and chemist, Silvana Bastianutti Kukuljan is vant today as people from war torn Bastianutti Kukuljan is also the studied under Giaches de Wert. De a familiar and beloved name to countries immigrate to new coun - author of two children’s books: A Wert’s music was very emotional. many students of Italian studying tries, Italy and our own among Girl Who Loves to Read and The His pupil published several books through the Osher Lifelong Learn - them, to flee oppression and even - Story of Roxy . She and her Osher of religious and secular music when ing Institute and to many students tually make significant contribu - students published Tastes of Italy/I he was still only in his teens. In of a certain age who attended St. tions to their new countries of Sapori D’Italia , a bilingual cook - 1603 and 1605, Monteverdi pub - Rita’s School, Vieau, Fratney or allegiance. Bastianutti Kukuljan book. lished two more books of madrigals, Gaenslen. She recently wrote My contributed much to Milwaukee as Note: My War, My Peace is pub - considered masterpieces. Orfeo , War, My Peace , A memoir of World an Italian immigrant through her lished by Cosala Publishing, White - composed in 1607, established him War II and how its aftermath passion for teaching children and fish Bay, WI. as a composer of large-scale music caused her Italian family to seek a as a teacher of Italian language and rather than of exquisite miniature new life in the United States and in works. Milwaukee, in particular. Arnold writes, “In Orfeo, he As a young girl, she experienced showed that he had a much the horrors of German occupation broader conception of the new and fled as a refugee after the Fas - genre than did his predecessors. He cist government’s collapse. Her combined the opulence of dramatic memoir recounts how she, a 16- entertainments of the late Renais - year-old Italian girl, and her family sance with the straightforwardness fled their home in Fiume, Italy of a simple pastoral tale told (now Rijeka, Croatia). Her journey in recitative, which was the ideal of involved many encampments in the Florentines. His recitative is various countries and is told more flexible and expressive than through rich observations and theirs, based on the declamatory humor. Michele Merens, writer melody of his madrigals rather and educator, says, “Her voice is than on their theories about height - that of a poet’s.” Actress and writer ened speech. Above all, he had a Catherine Jones writes, “ My War, greater gift for dramatic unity, My Peace is an exceptional story of shaping whole acts into musical loss, tenacity and courage”. units, rather than assembling them Throughout all her varied experi - from small sections. He also ences, Bastianutti Kukuljan was showed a sense of matching the cli - determined to maintain her Italian maxes in the drama by musical cli - culture and language. maxes, using dissonance, the In one of the first chapters, Bas - singer’s virtuosity, or instrumental tianutti Kukuljan describes her sonorities to create the sense of childhood in Fiume. War had heightened emotion.” started far away. Ration cards were needed. There were family dinners Florentine Opera’s production cooked over a wood-burning stove. In the Florentine Opera’s pro - There were trips to the beach. Life duction of L’Incoronazione di Pop - was good but challenging. Then in pea , bass Mathew Treviño will 1943, the Germans entered her portray the philosopher Seneca. city. There were curfews, marching After warning Nerone not to get in - songs, the sound of boots hitting volved with Poppea, Seneca is or - the pavement in unison. Bombs be - dered to commit suicide. His came so frequent that they had to nobility is strikingly revealed when live in shelters for days and weeks. he announces to friends and family Lest, I give away too much, I’d en - his intention to carry out Nerone’s courage you to read this warm and order. A trio of his students entreat inspiring memoir that will be avail - him to not die and sing how reluc - able in the Market Place during tant they would be to die. Festa Italiana, July 20-22.

THE ITALIAN TIMES JUNE 2018 – PAGE 27 Live and learn: Tripping in Italy Compiled by Blaise Di Pronio pay the transaction fee. water” (which is free) or “min - and it isn’t awkward to talk while Are you planning a trip to Italy 5). Always demand and walk out eral/bottled water.” If you don’t, the touching your hands and arms. So, this year or in the near future? If with a bill or receipt as the Guardia waiter will bring you bottled water don’t backpedal. so, here are some helpful hints and di Finanza (sales tax police) can and you’ll be charged for it. 14). Stay away from any and all insights which will save you time, stop you. If you can’t produce it, 13). Italy lacks what we call per - street games of chance as you have energy, frustrations and some both you and the shopkeeper are in sonal space. It is consider polite to no chance! money and make your trip more en - serious trouble, fine wise. be close to someone while talking Buon viaggio! joyable: 6). After you buy a ticket for a 1). It is cheaper to stand at a train/bus/vaporetto, it isn’t consid - bar/cafe than sitting down. That’s ered valid unless you validate it at Flowers presented to because there is one price for coffee, a nearby ‘punch-in’ like machine pastries or drinks and another before boarding said train/bus/va - price for table service if you sit poretto. The machine time and date originator and longtime down to enjoy them. Also plan to stamps your ticket so that it cannot pay more if there is a tablecloth on be reused. chair of ‘A Taste of Italy’ your table. Thus, order al banco (at 7). Don’t assume you can buy the counter) and stand and enjoy your train/bus/vaporetto ticket on with all the others. board. You’re required to buy your 2). You do not need to tip in Italy ticket before boarding. If there is no as it is not required and can even be machine (a real possibility), look for deemed offensive. Just be careful if the nearest tabaccaio (tobacco shop) you feel the need to tip, since it is to purchase your ticket. If you plan possible that they will feel like you to travel on a Sunday, purchase are trying to give them a “hand- your ticket ahead of time. Better out.” Usually, the menu will guide safe... and validate! you on any service charges. 8). Major churches enforce dress 3). How to spot mass-produced codes so cover those bare shoulders gelato from the real, freshly made? and knees when entering. The color of gelato should be a 9). Most public places close be - muted, natural color and not tween noon and 3 p.m. for lunch brightly colored as it is sign that it and rest/nap. is made with artificial flavoring and 10). When visiting markets, colors. Also if the gelato is all keep your hands to yourself! Al - fluffed up and set inches above the ways ask permission to see some - container – also a sign there are thing and the vendor will get it for preservatives and thus not natural you. If handling produce, plastic or artisan. Trick: Check the banana gloves should be provided and gelato and if it is a grayish hue, it make sure you use them. was made with real bananas and if 11). Look out for the Zona a it’s bright yellow, stay away. Also Traffico Limitato (ZTF) to avoid look for a pistachio that’s a dull high traffic fines. These are touristy In recognition of her many years of service as the general chairperson of grey-green and you’ll know it’s areas where car traffic is very lim - the Italian Community Center’s “A Taste of Italy,” a bouquet was pre - yummy. ited or forbidden at certain times of sented to Ann Romano at the May 17 general meeting. Ann served as 4). Cash talks and credit cards the day or night. chair of 21 of the 23 Taste of Italy events held by the organization, in - balk, especially in street markets. 12). When you order a Coca cluding initiating the first one in 1996. “A Taste of Italy” serves as an es - Stores most likely will not accept (Coke) or any other soda, that is all sential and profitable fundraiser for the ICC. As President Dean Cannestra announced the recognition, Vice President Joe Emanuele pre - cards for purchases of less than 10 you get: one! No refills! Also, you sented Ann with the bouquet. Ann served as a consultant for this year’s euros as it’s not worth it for them to must specify if you want “tap Taste of Italy. (Times photo by Tom Hemman)

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