SEPTEMBER 2012
Lodge Picnic SAT SEPT 22
10am – 5 PM
V I N C E N T LINGUANTI LODGE #2212
NEWSLETTER
“Liberty is our most precious prerogative. If we give it up for some
temporary safety we will have neither liberty nor safety.”
The President’s
Message
Brothers,
Welcome to the fall season.
The leaves are about to
change colors, schools are in
full session and baseball is
winding down and football is upon us.
REMINDER***
Join in for fun and good food at the annual picnic for
our members and their families on Saturday,
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September 22 from 10:00 am- 5:00 pm at Clark
Recreation, Suffern, NY. Brothers Al Galan and
Tony DeAngelis are working diligently to create a
memorable day.
On September 28th the Columbus Day Parade
committee will be holding its annual dinner gala
where the committee will be announcing Joe Miele,
of the Rockland Review as the Grand Marshall,
Dorothy Filoramo, Vice President for Institution
Advancement at Dominican Collage, and 2012
Italian American Business Woman of the Year. Sal
Battaglia, President and owner of Rockland Bakery,
2012 Italian American Business Man of the Year.
Also at the gala, Pat Cooper will be receiving the
Lifetime Entertainment Achievement Award. I'm
sure his acceptance speech will be very entertaining.
Columbus Day Parade committee has been working
to organize and make it an outstanding event. The
parade will be held on Sunday, October 14th at 1:00
pm. It will start at Carol Place and Washington
Avenue, Orangeburg and continue up Washington
Avenue onto Western Highway to the Masonic Park.
After the parade, there will be a mini Italian Feast
with food and games. Fun for all.
It would be appropriate for all members marching in
the parade to wear our lodge jackets and hats.
Hope to have participation from many of our
members.
Brother Thomas V. LiPuma, President
MONTHLY MEETING
Monday September 24th
7:30PM Tagaste Monastery
Don’t Miss the
NITE AT THE RACES Linguanti Style
Friday Nov 2nd at Tagaste Hall
DOORS Open 6:00 PM
FOOD Served 6:30 PM
RACES Start 7:00 PM Admission $8
Concert Celebrates Italian
Heritage and Culture
On Friday October 5th at 7:30 PM, Rockland County will
be treated to an evening reminiscent of those special
times which were the focal point of every feast in every
Italian Village and Little Italy in America. The finest
Italian classical and Neapolitan music, played by the
only remaining Italian concert band in the tri-state area,
is featured in the Fifth Annual Rockland County Italian
Heritage and Culture Month Concert.
Conductor Joseph Stamboni will lead the 31-piece
Yonkers Concert Band in a free, two hour performance
at Tappan Zee High School, 15 Dutch Hill Road in
Orangeburg. The program will include the symphonic
march “Cuore Siciliano” (Sicilian Heart), highlights from
Verdi operas, the Light Cavalry Overture, a surprise
“Pop” selection, and the band’s signature piece: a
unique sing-along of twelve Neapolitan songs, with
words provided to the audience. Soprano Christina
Rohm and tenor Dale Smith will join the band. Each
will sing two operatic arias and then join in a love duet.
Sponsored by Piermont Sons of Italy and Loggia
Giovanni da Verrazzano # 1236, in cooperation with So
Orangetown Central School Dist. For more info call
845-623-7587.
Our Lodge is named for TSgt Vincent S. Linguanti, USAAF, the first Italian American service member
from Rockland County to be killed in WWII.
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HEALTH AND WELFARE
Prayers are requested for Brother Andy Laiosa who is
hospitalized. Your prayers continue to be requested
for Brother Vinny Dima and Brother Phil Lupo. Also
remember in your prayers Bro Rich Bagnara who is
recuperating and Mary Gardella who was
hospitalized.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL
Please call President Tom LiPuma at 634-3282 if
you know of a brother who is sick or hospitalized.
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Notes from all over:
Tagaste Monastery will hold their “Italian Night” on
Saturday Oct 6th. Members and guests are invited to
go to this event. The lodge will pay for the tickets.
At Tagaste Hall (where we hold our meetings.)
Next Council Meeting
Monday Oct 22
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at 7:30PM
Lodge Family Picnic
Saturday Sept 22nd 10AM –5PM
(Rain Date Sun Sept 23)
Clark Recreation – Suffern
YOU MUST CALL BRO AL GALAN 845356-7495 or BRO TONY DeANGELIS 845623-5456 IF YOU ARE COMING
Leave message with number of Adults &
children.
Bring Tables & Chairs
Football Pool
New end-of-season prizes $500, $250 & $100
Return ticket stubs AND any UNSOLD tickets to
Bro Cookie Campi or mail them with your check
to PO Box 155, Suffern NY 10901.
Mark Your Calendar
Upcoming Events
Sat Sept 22
10AM-5PM
Linguanti Family Picnic (rain date Sun)
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Clark Recreation Suffern (Sept 23 )
Sun Sept 23
1:30 PM
Dr Orazio’s Opera Program
Suffern Library
Sat Oct 6
7PM
Tagaste Monastery Italian Nite
Tagaste Monastery Hall
Sun Oct 14
1PM
Columbus Day Parade
Sat Oct 27
9AM -4PM
State Lodge Plenary Session at
Linguanti Lodge (Tagaste) see below
Fri Nov 2
6PM
Nite at the Races Linguanti Style
Tagaste Monastery Hall
Sun Dec 16
2PM-6PM
Lodge Member Christmas Party
NYACK SEAPORT
October Birthdays
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CATHERINE CELENTANO
LAURA SCOTTO
MARYANN JOHNSON
PATRICIA MOLINARO
FRANK COMPOSTO
JEAN MINUTO
GLORIA ROSENBLUM
FLORIO CAMPI
SUSAN GIELLA
EDNA BRASILE
GREGORY FERRARO
ANTHONY DeANGELIS
GERALDINE ECONS
We wish them all Salute a cent’anno.
October Anniversaries
10/24/53
10/21/56
10/12/68
10/21/78
Jo & John Pelletiere
Jean & Carlo Minuto
Anna & Anthony Ciccotelli
Nancy & Andrew Laiosa
Is your Birthday or Anniversary missing or
wrong? See Bro Sam D’Urso or call him at 845369-0766 to get it corrected.
Plenary Session Coming to Our Lodge
Did You Know . . .?
LA TRAVIATA at THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
SUFFERN LIBRARY SUN, SEPT 23rd, 1:30 PM
"LA TRAVIATA at THE METROPOLITAN OPERA" will feature
16 different singers in the opera's major roles. The program
will be given by Dr. Louis D. Orazio, a frequent presenter at the
Library's Sunday afternoon programs.
Dr. Orazio's program will feature sopranos Caballe, Callas,
Cotrubas, De Los Angeles, Moffo, Sutherland and Te Kanawa;
tenors Bergonzi, Domingo, Gedda, Kraus and Tucker; and
baritones Merrill, Milnes and Sereni.
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On Saturday October 27 Vincent Linguanti will host the
quarterly NY Grand Lodge Plenary Session. The
meeting runs from 9AM to 4 PM with a break for lunch.
Over 50 Grand Lodge officers, state Sons of Italy officials
and others from our surrounding lodges will attend in our
meeting hall at Tagaste.
Bro John Pelletiere is Chairman for this event, and will be
responsible for the food for breakfast and a hot meal
lunch. He will need some help. (More at the meeting.)
After the meeting there will be mass in the chapel upstairs,
which will count as Sunday mass.
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Culture Corner
Italian-Swiss Colony
In 1880, California viticulture was rising in prominence. For Andrea Sbarboro,
an Italian-American businessman, a winery seemed a natural fit for his Italian
countrymen who were looking for work. He formed a new association
chartered to fund an agricultural investment. Membership would be limited to
Italians, but given the closeness of the Ticinesi both culturally and linguistically,
Swiss were also allowed to join. He would name his venture the Italian-Swiss
Agricultural Colony.
The modern history of the Asti Winery began in 1881. Sbarboro founded it as
a place to re-create life in the old country. Sbarboro invited anybody of Italian
or Swiss descent to join him and work the land for a share of the profits – and,
of course, wine.
Within months, nearly a dozen families had answered the call, taking the train
north from San Francisco to form a 1,620-acre community.”
Sbarboro was an Italian immigrant who had arrived in San Francisco in 1850 at
the age of 13. He started in the grocery business but later shifted his activities
to local loan associations. He would famously found the Italian-American Bank,
which merged in 1927 with A. P. Giannini’s Bank of Italy to become the Bank of
America.
“When Asti, CA was founded more than 125 years ago as Italian Swiss Colony,
the goal was to create a thriving community that revolved around wine. For a
while, that plan worked – at one point in the 1960s, the winery was the No. 2
tourist attraction in the state, second only to Disneyland.
Italian-Swiss Colony Plaque
Vintage Cellars
Early on, the Colony only grew grapes for other wineries, but in 1887, the price
paid for a ton grapes had fallen to only $8, which didn’t even cover costs.
Sbarboro had to make a decision to either close down or move forward as a
vintner himself. He chose to make his own wine.
The first winemaker he hired
was from Switzerland and
tragically an old-world
technique did not translate to
California. In Switzerland
they had to close the door and
windows of the winery during
harvest to get the winery
warm enough to support
fermentation. When the
unfortunate winemaker closed
the doors of the winery at the
broiling Asti, he was rewarded
with a winery filled with
vinegar.”
Afterwards, Sbarboro would
hire Pietro Rossi as his
winemaker, an Italian with a
degree in agricultural
chemistry.
“Incorporating high-quality
Charbono, Mourvedre and
Zinfandel grapes, Rossi
released his first vintage of
cheap, simple red table wine
in 1886. He called it Tipo
Chianti.
As interest in Tipo Chianti
grew, so too did the Asti
winery facilities. The first
building, a two-story concreteand-timber structure, opened
in 1887 and housed the
colony’s presses and nine
12,000-gallon redwood tanks.
It also included cellars where
Sbarboro aged his barrels of
red wine. One of these was
Cellar No. 8.
By the late 1800s, the Asti
Winery was cranking out 2
million gallons of wine per
year. To manage this volume,
Rossi had to improve upon
traditional winemaking
techniques. He pioneered
temperature-controlled
fermentation and became the
first California winemaker to
use sulfur dioxide as an
antioxidant.”
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Lodge Officers 2012-13
Little Old Winemaker
President
Thomas V. LiPuma
From the beginning, the
colony had been popular
with tourists, but the
numbers of visitors exploded
in the late 1950s and early
1960s thanks in part to the
“Little Old Winemaker” ad
campaign. In the late
1950s, ISC served visitors a whopping total of 4,000 gallons of wine annually.
Few modern tasting rooms pour more than 2,000 gallons a year. The imagery
of that time seemed to veer towards a Germanic Swiss appeal, rather than
Italian. A great commercial for Italian-Swiss Colony’s Vin Rosé can be seen
here.
Vice President
Amid an evolving wine business and a string of ownership changes, the Asti
Winery shut its doors to the public in the late 1980s and essentially became an
industrial wine factory. Now the facility is back under the brand Cellar No. 8, a
tribute to one of the locations where it all began.
Principal Trustee
Joseph Gregory
Immediate Past President
Charles M. Gardella
Orator
Anthony Ciccotelli
Financial Secretary
John Pelletiere
Treasurer
Alfonso Galan
Lodge Secretary
Joseph Consiglio
Ernie Bosco
Trustees
Anthony DeAngelis
Robert Langiulli
David Tampkin
William Villanova
Below, an early label.
Masters of Ceremony
Michael Gregory
Victor Secreti
Sentinel
Frank Hagen
Chaplain
Fr Francisco Sandoval OAR
Past Presidents
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Edward Mazzola †
Paul W. Ludwig, Jr. †
Florio S. Campi
Edward Magliola
John Leiti
Ralph J. Izzo
John Margherita †
Joseph V. Visconti
Ralph V. Jeffrey
Joseph Costanzo
James J. Molinaro
George C. Persico
John A. Pelletiere
George Duarte †
Sebastian D’Urso
Charles J. Calotta
Alfonso Galan
Vincent Linguanti Lodge
Newsletter
Brother George Persico, Editor
(845) 429-8671
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Vincent Linguanti Lodge #2212 OSIA
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