LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY February 2018 Volume 5 Issue 2

P.O. BOX 173 BLUE POINT NY [email protected] 11715

EDITOR; ANGELA DONATO, WITH PLEASURE, CON PIACERE

FROM THE PRESIDENTS DESK:

Dear Lodge Sisters & Brothers, this months’ major event was These are your fellow Lodge Brothers & Sisters the NYS OSDIA WINTER PLENARY SESSION held at Brumidi who were presented by the Nominating Committee Lodge in Deer Park. Several of our Lodge Members attended a & approved by the Membership to serve as Officers.

very informative meeting. National President from California, PRESIDENT: BOB DONATO Vera Ferrara Girolami, a very gracious and warm person, VICE PRESIDENT: GRACE FICARRA honored us with her attendance. All Committee reports were ORATOR: LUISA POTENZA given throughout the day. RECORDING SECRETARY: DOROTHY CURTO TREASURER: ROB RIZZO One of the main concerns is the ongoing fight to save FINANCIAL SECRETARY: LARRY FILIPPINO Columbus Day and the Columbus Statues. NYS OSDIA CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: STEPHANIE STALTER President Robert Ferrito, assures we have a very active TRUSTEES: PHYLLIS AUER, NAT IERARDI, DAWN NICCHIO, LYNN RUSSO committee working on all the Columbus Issues. MASTER OF CEREMONY: PETE FICARRA Please refer to the flyer in this Newsletter about the March 3, MISTRESS OF CEREMONY: ROSE MANCUSO Culture & Heritage Festival Committee Music & Dance Event. SENTINEL: ANGELA DONATO ARBITRATION COMMISSIONERS: RAE FLAHERTY, The State Raffle Drawing Tickets are available. There will be GRACE LAVIO GONZALEZ, LUCY JACKSON, LIZ RIZZO, JUDITH $34,500 of prizes in various amounts for 12 winners. Call me TRISCUIZZI after 4:pm for tickets. 589-5517. ALTERNATE ARBITRATION: LOUIS BASTONE, JACKIE FISCHER, MARIO MIONE The Sons of Italy Foundation, Chair, Joe DiTrapani reported,

some of the funds collected has been donated to build Parks ELECTED STATE DELEGATES: LIZ & ROB RIZZO, and Schools in Italy. MADELINE MATTEUCCI THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME AND ENERGY A State Committee is working on a 2019 Calendar, featuring Historic Achievements by . It will be available for purchase later in the year.

Please do your best to attend The March 5th Installation of Officers into our Lodge, it’s important that you support the volunteers.

Looking forward to seeing you Monday, February 5th at our General Meeting. Culture Chairlady, Luisa Potenza, has a wonderful Culture Presentation Planned. The pleasure of your company is requested

AVANTI, President Bob March 5, 2018

INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS FOR 2018-2019 It is important that you attend this event. There will be many visiting

This Issue of the Newsletter state officers, dignitaries and of course family & friends attending. is Dedicated to, This is an evening to join together and have fun. Sgt. John Basilone who died a hero February 19, 1945 Please dress accordingly for this celebratory occasion.

Officers please arrive by 6:30 p.m.

Guests please arrive no later than 6:50 p.m.

Thank You, Bob Donato, President i

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WHAT TERRIBLE WEATHER THE NIGHT OF THE MEETING, HAIL, SNOW, RAIN, YUCK.. BUT WE PERSEVERED AND GOT THE WORK OF THE ORDER DONE.

LODGE BROTHER CARLO MATTEUCCI READ THE LIST OF BOARD POSITIONS & NAMES. HE ASKED FOR NOMINEES FROM THE FLOOR, NO NOMINATIONS FROM THE FLOOR WERE HEARD.

STATE DEPUTY CIRO CAPANO, AND LODGE PRESIDENT BOB DONATO TAKING NOTE.

Madeline & Carlo Mattuecci, President Bob with National President Vera Ferrara Girolami

Ciro Capano, Pete & Grace , Carlo & Madeline & President Bob

Each of the District One Lodges who donated to host the Event, received a letter of appreciation.

Saint Clelia Barbieri was an Italian Roman Catholic and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows. Barbieri declined the married life in her adolescence - even when pressured - in favor of leading a life dedicated to the needs of others; she served as an educator for a while and joined a religious movement which made her a notable figure in her village.

Saint Clelia Barbieri was born in , Italy on February 13, 1847 into a poor family of hemp farmers. Her father Giuseppe died during a cholera epidemic that swept through Italy in 1855 when Clelia was only eight years old. Without him, Clelia's mother, her two sisters and her seventy-five-year-old grandfather were faced with a difficult future.

But Clelia was a great consolation for her mother and assisted her by learning to use the loom and weave hemp. Even at this age Clelia was devout and learned all she could about the Catholic faith from her mother and the parish priest.

After she had learned to read and write, Clelia's favorite book was her catechism, because it taught her about God and encouraged her in the way of virtue. Clelia died at age 23 on July 13, 1870. Her short life edified everyone who came into contact with her. She is the founder of the Congregation of the Suore Minime dell'Addolorata (Sisters Minims of Our Lady of Sorrows) and she is the youngest foundress of a religious community in the history of the .

Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 Known as The Father of Science, his contributions included confirming the phases of Venus, discovering four of Jupiter's moons, and inventing the thermoscope, the precursor to the thermometer. A major figure in the scientific revolution, his advocacy of the theory of heliocentricism, which postulated that the earth revolved around the sun, made him an enemy of the Catholic Church.

While training to become a doctor under his father's wishes, he became fascinated with mathematics, which led him to study the stars.

The Catholic Church arrested him under vehement suspicion of heresy for his defense of the heliocentric model, and he was forced to spend the remainder of his life under house arrest.

He had three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba: two daughters named Virginia and Livia and one son named Vincenzo.

He died at age 77 on Jan 08, 1642.

1. DURING WHAT MONTH OF THE YEAR IS CARNIVALE TYPICALLY CELEBRATED? 2. AT WHICH UNIVERSITY DID GALILEO GALILEI TEACH? A. Pisa B. Bologna C. Padua 3. THE FIRST SIZEABLE GROUP OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA ARRIVED IN 1656 FROM HOLLAND. THIS GROUP SETTLED IN THE DUTCH COLONIES OF NEW AMSTERDAM (now New York) and FOUNDED NEW CASTLE IN DELAWARE. WHO WERE THESE FIRST ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA?

WINTER; inverno

IT IS COLD; fa freddo

THE WEATHER IS BAD; fa bel tempo

I AM WAITING FOR SPRING; Sto aspettando la primavera

ITS SNOWING AGAIN; La sua nevicata di nuovo

THERE IS ICE EVERYWHERE; C'è ghiaccio dappertutto

IS IT SPRING YET? È primavera ancora

THE OLDER I GET, THE LESS I LIKE WINTER; Il più vecchio ottengo, meno mi piace l'inverno

I AM GOING TO BUY A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS AND THINK OF SPRING

Ho intenzione di comprare un mazzo di fiori e pensare di primavera

CARNEVALE

Carnevale, also known as

carnival or mardi gras, is

celebrated in Italy and many

places around the world 40 days

before Easter, a final party

before Ash Wednesday and the

restrictions of Lent. Italy celebrates Carnevale with a huge CLICK THE LINK winter festival celebrated with BELOW TO BUY parades, masquerade balls, MASKS LIKE THIS entertainment, music, ONE IN THE PHOTO

and parties.

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Carnevale di Viareggio 2018

Viareggio is the southernmost Italian Riviera style resort on Italy's Mediterranean coast and the largest beach town in Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Since 1873, people have flocked to the Tuscan coastal city of Viareggio to party during Carnevale, the one- month period before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. It's a long tradition that has grown over the years, making Viareggio the lively, fun-loving venue of one of Europe's most famous and largest Mardi Gras-style festivals. In Italy, it's second to Venice as the most popular Carnival in the country. Millions of Italians tune in to watch Carnevale's Fat Tuesday parade, which is broadcast live on national TV each year. The floats and huge figures are designed locally by teams of artisans, some of whom learned the art from their fathers and grandfathers. The towering characters are funny, whimsical, allegorical, mythological or often satirical takes on political, show business and historical figures. Not only are the figures stunning in their visual artistry but, underneath the animated surfaces, they are run by sophisticated machinery that moves limbs and facial features by complex mechanisms. Some liken watching the Carnevale

parades to attending exhibits of moving art.

Carnevale in Italy is all about fun! It’s the last hurrah before the more serious and less frivolous Lenten period, and it’s celebrated in exactly that way. The more vino, brulee, sweets, costumes and parties, the better!

So join in the festivities but be careful, because “a carnevale ogni scherzo vale”— at Carnival, anything goes.

Welcome to the COFFEE CUP

WHADDYA MEAN YOU DON’T WANT ESPRESSO !!!!!!

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca Sciacca, Italy. (March 19, 1886 – December 26, 1960) was an ITALIAN AMERICAN airplane designer and builder who created the first enclosed-cabin MONOPLANE in the United States in 1922. This aircraft is now on display at the National Air & Space Museum. He graduated with an engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano. He emigrated to Brooklyn in the United States in 1911 where he operated the Bellanca Flying School (1912–16)

Bellanca taught FIORILLO LAGUARDIA how to fly in exchange for driving lessons.

1. FEBRUARY, PRIOR TO THE START OF LENT. 2. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PISA. 3. WALDENSIANS, ITALIAN PROTESTANTS SEEKING RELIGIOUS REFUGE.

THE FIRST Waldensians in North America arrived in 1656. Having joined with recent Dutch emigrants who were settling “New Amsterdam,” these Waldensians were refugees from their native Piedmont after the terrible Piedmont Easter massacre of 1655. A small wave of protestants, who were of French and northern Italian heritage (specifically Piedmontese), occurred during the 17th century. The first Waldensians began arriving around 1640, with the majority coming between 1654 and 166. They spread out across what was then called New Netherland, and what would become New York, New Jersey and the Lower Delaware River regions. The total American Waldensian population that imigrated to New Netherland is currently unknown; however, a 1671 Dutch record indicates that, in 1656 alone, the Duchy of Savoy near Turin, Italy, had exiled 300 Waldensians due to their protestant faith.

LODGE SISTERS, LUISA POTENZA – MADELINE BREWSTER - REGINA ALLEN - DOTTIE CURTO

MRS. MANCUSO’S FIG COOKIES (CUCCIDATES)

FILLING:

1 pound dried figs ½ pound pitted dates ½ cup orange marmalade ¼ cup orange juice ¼ teaspoon black pepper 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

DOUGH:

4 ¼ Cups all purpose flour ¼ cup granulated sugar ¼ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 ¼ cups solid vegetable shortening, chilled ½ cup plus 4-6 tablespoons cold water

ICING: (see note)

For each of 3 batches:

About ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar ½ teaspoon anise or vanilla extract 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon milk Confetti sprinkles 2 or 3 drops of food coloring RED GREEN

ITALIAN BREAD, PIZZA, BAGELS AND THE OCEAN, TOP OUR LIST. A few wouldn’t miss the taxes, but we are still here. Being a Snowbird is an option for some of us. DOTTIE CURTO: Crabbing on the Great South Bay ANGELA DONATO: I would miss driving back to Copiague, Eating Oysters from the Great South Bay where I grew up. Seeing the old house, the school, Swimming in the Great South Bay the places I hung out. Visiting Fire Island (Dottie says she is never leaving.) I need a bit of nostalgia once in a while.

JACKIE FISCHER: I would miss GINNY FIELDS: I would miss the italian bread, and eggs on a watching the sunset at Cedar beach kaiser roll.

STEVE FLOTTERON: Our charming villages, beaches and bays, ANTOINETTE TROTTER: I would miss my family, that’s why the Italian bread & pizza. I won’t leave without them. I Arthur Ave in the Bronx Also, I would miss the Ocean too.

PHYLLIS AUER: I would definitely miss my kids, GRACE FICARRA: I would miss all the choices we have for grandchildren, friends and my new friends shopping, eating and entertainment. I made at our lodge. LUCY JACKSON: I have had the opportunity to live off Long LORRI BRAUNHEISEN: I would miss the food. I would also Island and what I missed was: family, the beaches, bagels, really miss the flat landscape and beautiful beaches where I put down good pizza and talking with people who don't say, "You talk roots. I would miss the smell of the salt water and fresh pizza funny. You're not from around here, are you!" being made at my favorite pizzeria. (having spent quite a bit of time down South, I TOTALLY AGREE) BILL FONTAINE: Bagels, pizza, beaches, just knowing you can JOAN TASOGLU: I did move off Long Island for 5 years and I jump on a train and hit the city or your car and hit Montauk. missed my family. I also missed being able to get to the beach and the ocean within 1/2 hour. DAWN NICCHIO: I would miss Pizza, Italian Pastries, MADELINE BREWSTER: short, sweet, sincere, Italian bread. EVERYONE & EVERYTHING Anything Italian. LINDA JOHNSON: I would miss all my family, and friends I LARRY FILIPPINO: Like most, I would miss our beautiful have made over so many years, from school, neighbors past & Parks, Beaches & the proximity to Manhattan. Honestly, mostly, I present. Those from the numerous organizations I belong to would miss the Italian Bread, bagels & Pizza, just like all my including the Holbrook Fire Dept. & the Sons and Daughters of friends who moved away do. Italy.

NAT IERARDI: Good Italian bread, Pizza, Bagels, Chinese food, LUISA POTENZA: I would miss my house which holds good and friends, proximity to the shores the City (Manhattan), almost not so good memories, and, my favorite Mexican restaurant, anything I need or want to do is usually less than an hour away. "Viva La Vida."

GEOFFREY GERBORE: I would miss the beach, hot bagels and MARIO MIONE: It all depends to where you are going to move. Italian cookies. I guess if i moved to Florida I would still be near N.Y. is cultural state, so I would miss the cultural events that the beach and have NY style bagels - but not the Italian cookies! New York offers, restaurants, art, musicals, museums, shows and much more. RAE FLAHERTY: I would miss my children, they all live here. ANNE KOCUR: I would miss the beaches and the Jazz loft where I volunteer. STEPHANIE STALTER: I would miss the ocean, the food and being close to NY City.

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THIS IS A MAJOR FUND RAISER FOR OUR LODGE. The money raised is used to cover our expenses throughout the year. You can make it a success by donating items. The more variety, the better. Sale will be held MAY 19-20th at 1032 SMITHTOWN AVE BOHEMIA.

WE ARE COLLECTING ITEMS NOW, if you have donations, give President Bob a call; 589-5517 after 4 pm.

Thank you for your continuous support, President Bob

Sunday February 25, 2018 Tuesday April 03, 2018 @ 6:00PM - NYOSIA CSJ Annual Dinner Dance NYOSIA Grand Lodge Foundation Cooley’s LODGE MEMBERS MAY ATTEND, Anemia Dine Around , 12:00pm COST ? LODGE MEMBERS MAY ATTEND, at Russo’s on the Bay, Howard Beach honoring Past CONTACT PRES. BOB, 589-5517, CSJ Chairman Louis Gallo, 12:00pm. Contact: Josephine Morici Cohen @ 631-345-6586. VALENTINES PARTY FEBRUARY 17th

SEVERAL OF YOUR LODGE BROTHERS & SISTERS WILL ATTEND, CALL LODGE SISTER GRACE: ** 631-846-6240 so she can arrange a table ** for us all. THIS PARTY IS FOR SINGLES & COUPLES

JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF DINING, DANCING THE EVENING WILL FEATURE LIVE MUSIC BY JACK FONTANA JR.

A ROAST BEEF DINNER INCLUDING:

GARDEN SALAD, BEER, WINE AND SODA DESSERT AND COFFEE

ALL FOR ONLY $25 PER PERSON

** (see above information) TO PURCHASE OR RESERVE TICKETS CALL MIKE BOEHM AT 774-2605, OR E-MAIL AT [email protected]

NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR

Frank Curto (Lodge Sister

Dottie’s son) and wife Dawn

with Howard Stern's wife Beth (in middle) They adopted their cats from her. She and Howard place cats for adoption

LODGE SISTER JACKIE VISITED LODGE #2549 IN FLORIDA, WHERE HER MOM IS A MEMBER, AND GAVE A PRESENTATION ABOUT HER BOOK.

If you travel out of State, because you are a member of OSDIA, you can attend other Lodge Meetings.