APRIL 2012
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Cari amici,
Buonapasqua! I wish you and your family a joyous and peaceful Easter.
I am looking forward to serving as your president this year. Thank you for the warm welcome you gave me at the installation in March.
At the Executive Council meeting last month, your officers identified three objectives for the coming year including:
1. Increasing the emphasis on celebrating our rich Italian intellectual and artistic heritage;
2. Building our membership with a special focus on college students and families; and,
3. Increasing our funds to provide us with more resources for charitable work and lodge activities.
A sample of the strategies we discussed to achieve our objectives include:
· Sponsor a festival of Italian opera and classical songs;
· Offer an Italian language lesson at each lodge meeting;
· Schedule a bocce tournament;
· Consider changing our lodge meetings to a different day, time, or place;
· Provide baby-sitting at lodge meetings; and,
· Staff an Italian food booth at a community event.
At our April 14 lodge meeting, we will ask for your ideas and input.
At the April meeting, we will learn about life in the southern Italian town of Matera as experienced by a young American who spent a year in this remote but charming town teaching English to teen-agers. Please join us for good food, good fellowship and an interesting look at the oldest continuously inhabited town in Europe.
A presto,
Anne
ITALIAN HERITAGE LODGE 2517 – OFFICERS
President Anne Marrelli Lodge Trustees
703 385 0814 Anne.Marrelli(at)faa.gov Sal Guli----Angelo Vecchio
Vice-President Fred Michaelangelo Tony Finocchiaro----Dennis Lillo
703 323 8294 AMichaelangelo(at)msn.com Art Moscatello
Imm Past-President Frank Marcinkowski Master/Mistress of Ceremonies
703 323 8447 FMarcinkow(at)Verizon.Net Kevin Brady
Orator Dot Saia Yolanda Pelosi
703 978 8499 Dmjcs(at)cox.net Sentinel ---- Paul Alligood
Recording Secy Eleanor Lillo Membership Chair:
703 354 2454 Delillo1(at)Verizon.Net John Asiello (jfasiello(at)AOL.Com)
Financial Secy Jo Lowe 703 321 7840
Lowejs(at)AOL.Com Education Chair:
Treasurer Gene La Colla Art Moscatello (ArthurMoscatello(at)
703 246 9464 Gino4one(at)AOL.Com Comcast.Net)
Members on the Grand Lodge Publicity Chair: Joe La Marca
Susan Agosta McFetridge – Trustee (Jlamarca(at)erols.com)
(smcfetridge(at)caci.com) 703 455 0376
La Bandiera Editor:
Paul Alligood, 703 848 1758 – , 1908 Youngblood St., McLean, Va. 22101
Visit our lodge website at WWW.ITALIANHERITAGELODGE.ORG. Check the website for breaking news between newsletter editions.
FUTURE LODGE EVENTS
Apr. 12 Lunch Bunch 12:00 Noon At Brion’s Grill
Apr. 14 Lodge Meeting 6:30 PM At St. Leo’s K of C
Apr. 18 Council Meeting Fairfax Library 7:00 PM
Apr. 28 Language Group 6:00 PM At Joe Onofrietti’s
May 18-20 Grand Lodge Mini-Convention Manassas, Va
Program for April 14 Lodge Meeting
In our April program, Lauren-Claire Marrelli Kelley will share with us her experiences working and living in Matera, a remote town in southern Italy in the Basilicata region. Lauren-Claire was awarded a Fulbright teaching assistantship to teach English to secondary school students in this charming and ancient town. Matera is best known for its sassi, caves in which people lived for thousands of years. Few Americans visit Matera because it is so difficult to reach. Join us in this giro as Lauren-Claire shows us photos of the sassi and the even older neolithic caves as well as modern Matera. We will learn about the food, customs, and people and share Lauren-Claire's fascinating experiences teaching in two Italian liceo.
LODGE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thanks to Joe La Marca and Susan McFetridge for the photos taken at the installation
ceremony; they are now on the lodge web site; and,
Our lodge publicity chairman, Joe La Marca, who claims he is the world’s worst photographer (the pics on the web site belie that assertion), begs you to bring your digital cameras to lodge events and then send your photos to him at Joe.LaMarca@ItalianheritageLodge.org.
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
Susan Bonsiero Apr. 3 Marianne Hallahan Apr. 15
Carlo Mignani Apr. 3 Neil Nappo Apr. 19
Linda Moran Apr. 8 Vincent Serafino Apr. 20
William Broome Apr. 9 Fred Ingham Apr. 29
Patricia Baskette Apr. 11 Frank Marcinkowski Apr. 29
Kathleen Ognibene Apr. 11 Victor Haburchak Opted Out
APRIL ANNIVERSARIES
Joseph & Renee Signorelli April 5
Patricia & Horace Baskette April 28
LUNCH BUNCH
The lunch bunch will meet at noon on Thursday, April 12, at old favorite, Brion’s Grill, in the University Mall Shopping Center at the corner of Braddock Road and Route 123. They serve a nice buffet at a reasonable price. Hope to see you there. Please contact Dennis Lillo at 703 354 2454 or email him at so he can make the appropriate reservation.
Need a ride to lodge activities?
ContactFrank Marcinkowski for help in arranging a carpool.
ITALIAN WORDS AND PHRASES
Cinquains (five line poems) fatti dagli studenti d’italiano di Heritage lodge
Natale
felice eccitante
regalare mangiare cantare
Natale è un’idea santissima
natività
vino
frizzante dolce
bere brindare respirare
La vita è come un vino buono
sorriso
Italia
bella allegra
camminare abbronzare mangiare
Quando in Italia fai come gli italiani
tesoro
cavallo
grande elegante
galoppa caracolla salta
il primo modo di trasporto
libertà
la pioggia
umida quieta
scende circonda penetra
Piove nella città come piove nel mio cuore.
malinconia
cibo
gustoso colorato
nutrire godere cucinare
Nel cibo italiano si trova l’anima italiana
pasto
FAIRFAX CITY INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE NEWS
Since the 4th of July holiday is on a Wednesday this year, fewer lodge members and friends are likely to be out of town. Thus, we have an opportunity to make an especially good showing at the Fairfax parade by a larger number of participants. Please put this event on your calendar now and invite your friends and neighbors to join us. If you would like to participate but prefer not to walk, can you suggest a free or low cost source for a truck to transport us? For any suggestions or questions concerning the parade, please contact Joe La Marca, 703-455-0376 or
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GRAND LODGE MINI-CONVENTION MAY 18-20
The George Washington Lodge will be hosting the Grand Lodge of Virginia’s mini-convention from May 18-20 at the Four Points by Sheraton in Manassas. If you want to attend and stay at the hotel, the cost is $105 per night which will include a full buffet breakfast for every night of your stay. To reserve a room, call 1 (703) 335 0000 or 1 (800) 368 7764 and ask for the block room rate under “Sons of Italy”.
The cost of the events for the week end is $75 which includes a hospitality room on the evening of May 18 from 5PM to 10PM, a sit-down banquet on the 19th and lunch after the grand lodge meeting on the 20th.
There will also be an opportunity to visit the Manassas National Battlefield Park for an extra $3.00 which will include a 45 minute movie about the battles and a one hour walking tour.
SPARE BEDROOM, ANYONE?
Cari amici,
A friend of ours from Milan, Italy, has requested our help in finding a family who is willing to host his niece with an American familythis summer (last two weeks of July and first week of August) to increase her English language skills.
She is a high school senior attending "Liceo Carduccci" (High School in Milan). She enjoys sports (volley ball), plays the guitar and is very studious. She would like to be hosted by a family with a child or children about her own age. Her goal is to experience "total immersion" in the English language.
It is a wonderful opportunity to enrich one's culture and establish a long-term friendship.
Ilook forward to hearing from anyone who might be interested. Suggestionsas to how we can accommodate this request would be greatly appreciated.
Tale care,
Lucio