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# 79 MAY 16 , 2016
# 79 MAY 16 , 2016
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EDITORIAL #79:
What’s up with WTI
Sciame, President of the Conference of
the Presidents of the Major Italian American Organizations; and Anthony Tamburri, Dean of the Calandra Institute.
love with Italy and very interested in We
the Italians. My thanks go to my friend
Lorenzo Agnoloni who brought me there, to Fran Donnarumma who represents
them in the book, and to the two young
vigorous kind President and Vice President, Daniel Elliott and Cristina Salamone. Guys, I’ll be waiting for you in Rome!
By Umberto Mucci
Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 79th
issue of our online magazine. The second tour of presentations of We the Italians – the book has been a big success!
Once again I’ve been lucky to meet a lot
of committed successful Italian Americans and Italians recently moved to the
US, and tell them about the wonderful
100 interviewees and their stories.
Everything started with the NIAF Gala in
Manhattan: 500 important personalities
celebrating Italy in the US, a blessing for
We the Italians to be there meeting many
interesting and dedicated people. The
second gala that saw We the Italians attending has been the one from AIAE, in
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Long Island. Josephine Maietta and her
group did a fantastic job in telling and
awarding and representing the Italians in
one of the most important field of everybody’s life, education. On a personal level, I’ve been happy to meet Mrs. Matilda Cuomo, one of the 100 interviewees
but more important one of my favorite
personalities at all, ever. I’ve also been
live with on my friend Giovanna Auriemma’s radio show on www.wrhu.org! Lots
of fun and Italy on a Sunday morning!
On May 3 I had the honor to be joined by
three outstanding leaders of the Italian
American community in my presentation
at the John D. Calandra Italian American
Institute: Aileen Riotto Sirey, Founder
and Chair Emerita of NOIAW; Joseph
Then I moved to Connecticut, where on
May 4 I had the honor to be the keynote
speaker at the Spring Gala of the Connecticut Italian American Bar Associa- The day after the presentation in Gretion. I found a marvelous group of kind, enwich saw a large participation of pucompetent Italian American lawyers, in blic, with a big group of Italian emigrated
from Calabria: this time the interviewee
I had the pleasure to have with me was
Anthony Riccio, author, teacher, a friend.
On May 6 I had the opportunity to present my book at the only Italian American
bookstore in the US: I AM Books in the
North End, Boston’s Little Italy. With me
I had two young successful Italians who
were born in Italy and recently moved in
the US: Nicola Orichuia and Gianluca De
Novi. It has been a wonderful opportunity to talk about Italy and the US in a historical place.
So, once again, thanks to all the organizers and those who attended to the
events! More to come in October, but
now the focus will be on Italy: in June
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