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 Italians. 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 2 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 Bologna, 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 Catholic Church. 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. https://originalveniceshop.com/en/venetian-masks/1006-virgo/# 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.