On Wednesday. the Brooklyn Law School Italian-American Student Association held its annual alumni dinner at the school where it honored alumnus Frank Carone, the president of the Brooklyn Bar Association. A crowd of about 50 students and alumni and their families, colleagues and friends joined together at the event to share a dinner and to present the award to Carone.

The event was opened by Joseph Caldarera, a past president of the student association, and a Republican candidate for Congress in Bay Ridge and Staten Island, who read the poem “I am an Italian-American” by Angelo Bianchi. “I am an Italian-American. My roots are deep in an ancient soil, drenched by the Mediterranean sun, and watered by pure streams from snow-capped mountains,” the poem opened.