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This week our interview tells a story of beauty. Four different beautiful things, actually. The first beauty is the donation of 500,000 $ by the late Italian American Ernest L. Pellegri, one of NIAF's donors. Mr. Pellegri passed away in April 2012 at age 83. He wanted to give back, and – as many other Italian Americans did and do – chose NIAF to be...

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WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 67th issue of our online magazine. Are you recovering from the Labour Day weekend? As previously told, we're working on a renovation of a few things about our website, and not only that. On Tuesday September 8th, we'll move the websit...

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By Maureen Donnelly   The Italian American Women of Staten Island will hold its annual scholarship dinner on Monday, June 3, at 6 p.m. in Colony Hall on the campus of Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home, 460 Brielle Ave. Returning as co-chairs of the dinner are the mother-daughter team of Janice Lo Presti and Audrey Lo Presti. S...

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UNICO National, the largest Italian American service and charitable organization in America and Marconi University, headquartered in Rome, Italy and accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education, announced a strategic relationship to promote educational and study abroad opportunities and to advance their shared objectives. Under the new relation...

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By Lorraine Thompson   Sons of Italy in America, St. Augustine Lodge 2780, held its annual scholarship award dinner last month honoring three recently graduated high school students. Emily Johnston, Samantha Williams and Danielle Marchanka are the recipients of a $500 scholarship presented by Eileen Dillon, who chaired the scholarship commi...

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By John Kelly About 30 years ago, an Italian friend of ours visited. After a few days doing the tourist thing, he exclaimed: "I love Washington! It's like a Rome where everything works."   I don't know what Adriano would think of D.C. today, when Metro breaks down routinely and Congress seems proud of its dysfunction. But I understood his p...

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by Al Marotta   The Italian American Celebration Honoring Christopher Columbus Committee (I.A.C.) has announced the recipients of their scholarships for 2013. The recipients were selected by a Scholarship Committee headed by Professor Dario Del Puppo of Trinity College, Hartford.   The six scholarship recipients will each receive thei...

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Assemblyman Joe Lentol announced this week that the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is now accepting applications for four $2,000 scholarships to be awarded June 9th at their Annual Legislative Conference Day.   "The cost of attending college is increasing every year, every opportunity must be made by Brooklyn stude...

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The Italian American Cultural Club of Lehigh Valley honored the two recipients of the 2014 IACCLV scholarships recently. Rebecca Nathanson and Janessa Scherrman each received $500 and a certificate of recognition.   Rebecca, a graduate of Easton Area High School, received the Carol DiBiagio Memorial Scholarship, which is given in memory of...

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Alexa Castelluccio of Astoria, N.Y., who attends St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y., will receive the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Michael Gargiulo Scholarship in Broadcasting and Communications. NIAF Board of Director Nicholas R. Caiazzo will present the scholarship to Castelluccio during the Foundation's New York Golf Kick-...

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