Dear Lodge Sisters & Brothers, this months’ major event was

the NYS OSDIA WINTER PLENARY SESSION held at Brumidi

Lodge in Deer Park. Several of our Lodge Members attended a

very informative meeting. National President from California,

Vera Ferrara Girolami, a very gracious and warm person,

honored us with her attendance. All Committee reports were

given throughout the day.

One of the main concerns is the ongoing fight to save

Columbus Day and the Columbus Statues. NYS OSDIA

President Robert Ferrito, assures we have a very active

committee working on all the Columbus Issues.

Please refer to the flyer in this Newsletter about the March 3,

Culture & Heritage Festival Committee Music & Dance Event.

The State Raffle Drawing Tickets are available. There will be

$34,500 of prizes in various amounts for 12 winners. Call me

after 4:pm for tickets. 589-5517.

The Sons of Italy Foundation, Chair, Joe DiTrapani reported,

some of the funds collected has been donated to build Parks

and Schools in Italy.

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.

AVANTI, President Bob

This Issue of the Newsletter

is Dedicated to,

Sgt. John Basilone who died

a hero February 19, 1945

February 2018 Volume 5 Issue 2

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LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

P.O. BOX 173 BLUE POINT NY

11715

EDITOR; ANGELA DONATO, WITH PLEASURE, CON PIACERE

These are your fellow Lodge Brothers & Sisters

who were presented by the Nominating Committee

& approved by the Membership to serve as Officers.

PRESIDENT: BOB DONATO

VICE PRESIDENT: GRACE FICARRA

ORATOR: LUISA POTENZA

RECORDING SECRETARY: DOROTHY CURTO

TREASURER: ROB RIZZO

FINANCIAL SECRETARY: LARRY FILIPPINO

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: STEPHANIE STALTER

TRUSTEES: PHYLLIS AUER, GINNY FIELDS, NAT IERARDI,

DAWN NICCHIO, LYNN RUSSO

MASTER OF CEREMONY: PETE FICARRA

MISTRESS OF CEREMONY: ROSE MANCUSO

SENTINEL: ANGELA DONATO

ARBITRATION COMMISSIONERS: RAE FLAHERTY,

GRACE LAVIO GONZALEZ, LUCY JACKSON, LIZ RIZZO, JUDITH

TRISCUIZZI

ALTERNATE ARBITRATION: LOUIS BASTONE,

JACKIE FISCHER, MARIO MIONE

ELECTED STATE DELEGATES: LIZ & ROB RIZZO,

MADELINE MATTEUCCI

THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME AND ENERGY

The pleasure of your company is requested

March 5, 2018

INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS FOR 2018-2019

It is important that you attend this event. There will be many visiting

state officers, dignitaries and of course family & friends attending.

This is an evening to join together and have fun.

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

FROM THE PRESIDENTS DESK:

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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

winter festival celebrated with

parades, masquerade balls,

entertainment, music,

and parties.

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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.

WHADDYA MEAN

YOU DON’T

WANT

ESPRESSO !!!!!!

Welcome to the

COFFEE CUP

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. A small wave of protestants, who were of French and northern Italian heritage (specifically Piedmontese), occurred during the 17th century. The first Waldensians began arriving around 1640, with the majority coming between 1654 and 166. They spread out across what was then called New Netherland, and what would become New York, New Jersey and the Lower Delaware River regions. The total American Waldensian population that imigrated to New Netherland is currently unknown; however, a 1671 Dutch record indicates that, in 1656 alone, the Duchy of Savoy near Turin, Italy, had exiled 300 Waldensians due to their protestant faith.

LODGE SISTERS,

LUISA POTENZA – MADELINE BREWSTER - REGINA ALLEN - DOTTIE CURTO

MRS. MANCUSO’S FIG COOKIES

(CUCCIDATES)

FILLING:

1 pound dried figs

½ pound pitted dates ½

cup orange marmalade

¼ cup orange juice

¼ teaspoon black pepper

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

DOUGH:

4 ¼ Cups all purpose flour

¼ cup granulated sugar

¼ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 ¼ cups solid vegetable shortening, chilled

½ cup plus 4-6 tablespoons cold water

ICING: (see note)

For each of 3 batches:

About ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon confectioners’

sugar ½

teaspoon anise or vanilla extract 1

tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon milk

Confetti sprinkles

2 or 3 drops of food coloring

RED GREEN

DOTTIE CURTO: Crabbing on the Great South Bay Eating Oysters from the Great South Bay Swimming in the Great South Bay Visiting Fire Island (Dottie says she is never leaving.)

ANGELA DONATO: I would miss driving back to Copiague, where I grew up. Seeing the old house, the school, the places I hung out. I need a bit of nostalgia once in a while.

JACKIE FISCHER: I would miss watching the sunset at Cedar beach

GINNY FIELDS: I would miss the italian bread, and eggs on a kaiser roll.

STEVE FLOTTERON: Our charming villages, beaches and bays, the Italian bread & pizza. Arthur Ave in the Bronx

ANTOINETTE TROTTER: I would miss my family, that’s why I won’t leave without them. I Also, I would miss the Ocean too.

PHYLLIS AUER: I would definitely miss my kids, grandchildren, friends and my new friends I made at our lodge.

GRACE FICARRA: I would miss all the choices we have for shopping, eating and entertainment.

LUCY JACKSON: I have had the opportunity to live off Long Island and what I missed was: family, the beaches, bagels, really good pizza and talking with people who don't say, "You talk funny. You're not from around here, are you!" (having spent quite a bit of time down South, I TOTALLY AGREE)

LORRI BRAUNHEISEN: I would miss the food. I would also miss the flat landscape and beautiful beaches where I put down roots. I would miss the smell of the salt water and fresh pizza being made at my favorite pizzeria.

BILL FONTAINE: Bagels, pizza, beaches, just knowing you can jump on a train and hit the city or your car and hit Montauk.

JOAN TASOGLU: I did move off Long Island for 5 years and I missed my family. I also missed being able to get to the beach and the ocean within 1/2 hour.

DAWN NICCHIO: I would miss Pizza, Italian Pastries, Italian bread. Anything Italian.

MADELINE BREWSTER: short, sweet, sincere, EVERYONE & EVERYTHING

LINDA JOHNSON: I would miss all my family, and friends I have made over so many years, from school, neighbors past & present. Those from the numerous organizations I belong to including the Holbrook Fire Dept. & the Sons and Daughters of Italy.

LARRY FILIPPINO: Like most, I would miss our beautiful Parks, Beaches & the proximity to Manhattan. Honestly, mostly, I would miss the Italian Bread, bagels & Pizza, just like all my friends who moved away do.

NAT IERARDI: Good Italian bread, Pizza, Bagels, Chinese food, friends, proximity to the shores the City (Manhattan), almost anything I need or want to do is usually less than an hour away.

LUISA POTENZA: I would miss my house which holds good and not so good memories, and, my favorite Mexican restaurant, "Viva La Vida."

GEOFFREY GERBORE: I would miss the beach, hot bagels and Italian cookies. I guess if i moved to Florida I would still be near the beach and have NY style bagels - but not the Italian cookies!

MARIO MIONE: It all depends to where you are going to move. N.Y. is cultural state, so I would miss the cultural events that New York offers, restaurants, art, musicals, museums, shows and much more.

RAE FLAHERTY: I would miss my children, they all live here. ANNE KOCUR: I would miss the beaches and the Jazz loft where I volunteer.

STEPHANIE STALTER: I would miss the ocean, the food and being close to NY City.

ITALIAN BREAD, PIZZA, BAGELS AND THE OCEAN, TOP OUR LIST. A few wouldn’t miss the taxes, but we are still here.

Being a Snowbird is an option for some of us.

For Sharing….

SEND CHECK TO:

Sunday February 25, 2018 NYOSIA CSJ Annual Dinner Dance LODGE MEMBERS MAY ATTEND,

, 12:00pm COST ? at Russo’s on the Bay, Howard Beach honoring Past

CSJ Chairman Louis Gallo, 12:00pm. Contact: Josephine Morici Cohen @ 631-345-6586.

Tuesday April 03, 2018 @ 6:00PM - NYOSIA Grand Lodge Foundation Cooley’s

Anemia Dine Around LODGE MEMBERS MAY ATTEND, CONTACT PRES. BOB, 589-5517,

THIS IS A MAJOR FUND RAISER FOR OUR LODGE.

The money raised is used to cover our expenses throughout

the year. You can make it a success by donating items. The

more variety, the better. Sale will be held MAY 19-20th at

1032 SMITHTOWN AVE BOHEMIA.

WE ARE COLLECTING ITEMS NOW, if you have donations,

give President Bob a call; 589-5517 after 4 pm.

Thank you for your continuous support, President Bob

SEVERAL OF YOUR LODGE BROTHERS &

SISTERS WILL ATTEND,

CALL LODGE SISTER GRACE:

631-846-6240 so she can arrange a table

for us all.

THIS PARTY IS FOR SINGLES & COUPLES

JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF DINING,

DANCING

THE EVENING WILL FEATURE

LIVE MUSIC

BY JACK FONTANA JR.

A ROAST BEEF DINNER INCLUDING:

GARDEN SALAD, BEER, WINE AND

SODA DESSERT AND COFFEE

ALL FOR ONLY $25 PER PERSON

** (see above information) TO PURCHASE

OR RESERVE TICKETS CALL MIKE BOEHM AT 774-2605, OR E-MAIL AT MB1122@MSN.COM

NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR

VALENTINES PARTY FEBRUARY 17th

** **

LODGE SISTER JACKIE VISITED LODGE #2549 IN FLORIDA,

WHERE HER MOM IS A MEMBER, AND GAVE A PRESENTATION

ABOUT HER BOOK.

If you travel out of State, because you are a member of OSDIA,

you can attend other Lodge Meetings.

Frank Curto (Lodge Sister

Dottie’s son) and wife Dawn

with Howard Stern's wife

Beth (in middle) They

adopted their cats from her.

She and Howard place

cats for adoption