Sons of Italy is a fraternal organization dedicated to promoting Italian
culture and
heritage. Our motto is "liberty, equality, and fraternity"
VOLUME – 8 ISSUE – 3
MAY – JUNE 2010
Website – http://www.orgsites.com/ga/italians
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
I would like to thank the following members for there
service on the Council For 2008 – 2010.
President
Vito Leanza
Guard
Dottie Arcaro
Vice President
Joe LonatiC
Trustee
Frances Giove
Immediate
Past President
Sal Rongo
Trustee
Vicky Scacco
Orator
Frank Masi
Trustee
Dominick Esposito
Recording
Secretary
Dawn Benton
Trustee
Connie Esposito
Financial
Secretary
Santo Scacco
Mistress of
Ceremonies
Christine Beard
Treasurer
Frank Giove
Master of
Ceremonies
Wally Beard
The members of Lodge #2607 appreciate and thank you for your
dedication and hard work during this period of time.
Members like you make our Lodge what it is.
I also would like to welcome the new members on the Council.
We will strive to live up to the standards established by the previous
Councils
Thanks & God Bless
LJ
We had a great Picnic on Sunday May 2.
Vito Leanza Dedicated the breakfast as the
Bob Bietighofer breakfast.
It will be known as from this date forward.
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FAMOUS ITALIANS
HULK HOGAN
(Terry Gene Bollea)
As a boy, Bollea was un-athletic and fat. He weighed 195 pounds by the time he was
12. At 14 he was deemed a juvenile delinquent, and sent to the Florida Sheriff's Boys
Ranch, where he first tried wrestling. He wrestled professionally as Terry Bollea, Terry
Boulder, and Sterling Golden, earning perhaps $125 for a good week's work on the
small-town circuit. He was discovered by Vince McMahon, Sr., the father of present
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) chief, Vince McMahon. The elder McMahon
hired Bollea as a heel -- a bad guy, in the sport's melodramatic bouts -- and suggested
the name "Hulk Hogan".
Hogan wasn't a great wrestler when he started, but he was big (6 foot 8), the camera
loved him, and he always put on a great show. He couldn't stay a heel for long. When
the younger McMahon took over WWE in 1982, Hogan's ring persona was quickly
reworked into "the honest and courageous good guy", who would always remind kids to
"Train, say your prayers, take vitamins, and believe in yourself". First it was just good
advice. Later it was a slogan, for Hulk Hogan brand vitamins.
Hogan became tremendously popular, and was largely responsible for the rapid growth
of wrestling's fan base in the 1980s. And for decades, every night Hogan's name was
on the bill, there was certain to be a sellout. Hogan won his first championship in 1982,
defeating Nick Bockwinkel for the American Wrestling Alliance (AWA) World
Heavyweight belt. His win, however, was immediately nullified when officials ruled that
Hogan had hit Bockwinkel with "an illegal object".
He first won the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) title in 1984, defeating the Iron
Sheik, and first lost his title in 1988, to André the Giant. After that, Hogan won and lost
and won and lost the title several times. His most famous bout, though, took place in
1987, in front of 93,000 people at the Pontiac Silverdome and a huge "Wrestlemania"
audience on TV, again against André the Giant. Hogan not only defeated the 500-pound
Frenchman, he lifted him into the air and dropped him to the ground. It made a loud
thud, and sold a lot of tickets.
Early in his career, Hogan played a big-time wrestler in Rocky III. In the 1990s he
became a bonafide B-movie action star, with No Holds Barred, Suburban Commando,
and a series of films you're progressively less and less likely to have heard of, including
The Secret Agent Club and Santa with Muscles. He also released an album called Hulk
Rules, on which he played bass guitar. The album made it into the top ten, on the
children's charts.
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In 1985, appeared on the TV show Hot Properties, and put a chin lock on the show's
host, Richard Belzer. Belzer fell unconscious, and sued Hogan for $5 million. They
settled out of court.
In 1994, a steroids scandal threatened the WWE, and Hogan testified in court that he
had used steroids over a period of 12 years "to get big". Hogan never accused WWE
head honcho Vince McMahon of distributing steroids himself, and explicitly said that
McMahon had said not to use them, but Hogan also testified that steroid use was
rampant in the WWE. His testimony may have kept McMahon out of prison, but it
definitely hurt WWE's public image -- and Hogan's. Hulk Hogan brand vitamins were
discontinued. And when Hogan started wrestling outside the WWE, in Ted Turner's
World Championship Wrestling (WCW), McMahon held a very public grudge against
Hogan for several years, before (and even after) Hogan came home to the WWE.
Hogan announced his retirement from wrestling in 2002, with a touching speech before
a packed house in Tupelo, Mississippi. But then, before Hogan could finish talking,
McMahon stepped into the ring and announced that he -- McMahon -- owned the name
"Hulk Hogan" and had Hogan under contract and wouldn't let him retire. Furious, Hogan
grabbed McMahon, and they began brawling, until the Awesome Undertaker jumped the
ropes and blasted Hogan with a forearm to the back. After that, things got violent.
Eventually, McMahon and Hogan settled their grudge in the ring -- not in a wrestling
match, but in a "street fight", with everything on the line. If Hogan lost, he'd have to
retire from wrestling forever. In the promos, McMahon screamed at Hogan, "You
testified against me!... You went south and joined up with Ted Turner and competed
against me! You tried to put me out of business!" McMahon hollered that he'd "invented
Hulk Hogan" and "could have gotten anyone to play Hulk Hogan". Hogan glared back at
him and said, "You better start training, you better start taking your vitamins, and you
better start saying your prayers." The ratings were huge. And Hogan didn't lose.
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Out of the Ghetto, and Italy, a Jewish history
A 17th century Hanukkah lamp
made of brass is one of the exhibition's Italian artifacts.
(Judah L. Magnes Museum)
Visitors to the Museo ItaloAmericano at Fort Mason read up on the
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David Rosenberg-Wohl gazed at the double latte he'd ordered
in a cafe just north of the UC Berkeley campus.
"Do you realize this cup of coffee comes to us by way of the
Jews of Italy?" he asked. "In 1632."
He should know. Rosenberg-Wohl is the curator of an exhibition at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco titled "Il
Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities 1516-1870."
Jews in Italy
by the numbers
200
Minimum number of years
that Jews lived in Italy
before there were
Christians.
1555
Pope Paul IV decrees that all
Jews in the Papal States be
segregated into enclosed
quarters.
1797
Napoleon invades Italy and,
with destruction of Venice's
ghetto gates, begins liberations of the country's
ghettos.
"I guess I didn't think designing an exhibit would be any different
from telling stories. And I like telling stories," said the former
lawyer, who is working on a joint doctorate in Jewish studies at
Cal and the Graduate Theological Union.
8,000
Italian Jews deported to
death camps during World
War II.
And the story Rosenberg-Wohl tells goes well beyond the
ghetto.
28,700
Jewish residents of Italy in
2008.
Source:
"It's a crash course in the history of Jews in Italy," said Paola Museo ItaloAmericano
Bagnatori, managing director of the Museo. "A" corso
es-espresso"
A corso
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Ghetto got its start at venice foundry
The show includes photographs, artifacts and objects such
as ceramic plates, spice boxes, manuscripts, a prized musical score and items of religious worship ranging from Torah
pointers to Hanukkah lamps.
"It's rare to have an opportunity to learn about a hybrid culture," Rosenberg-Wohl said. "It's particularly relevant for
those of us living in a multicultural society."
The exhibition is full of surprises, starting with the word
"ghetto" itself.
In 1516, the Jews of Venice were sent to live on the island
dumping ground of a copper foundry, or geto, which comes
from the Italian gettare, meaning to throw or cast away.
Although linguists and historians don't agree on how the word evolved into "ghetto," it's
clear that at some point between 1516 and 1633, it lost the original meaning and instead
described an enclosed, segregated Jewish quarter.
In 1589, it surfaced for the first time in an official document produced by a Jewish notary in Rome, who referred to an area
where Jews had been segregated as il nostro ghet (our
ghetto). The Hebrew word ghet, so similar to geto, means divorce or separation.
"The word resonated with the Jews of Italy, who saw their confinement as a separation from the larger society," said Mary
Serventi Steiner, project coordinator for the Museo show. "I
thought this was so interesting: The blending of the two cultures can be seen in the word 'ghetto' itself."
The idea for the show was hatched when Steiner suggested a
Jewish Italy tour. Bagnatori replied, 'Why not a Jewish Italy
exhibit?' "
"We felt that it was a little-known aspect of Italian culture that we wanted to share with
the public," Steiner said.
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Two years later, there is an exhibition, lecture program, 11 community partners and a
tour of Italy scheduled for March.
Sheila Baumgarten, a nonprofit consultant, helped get financial support for the show,
which, at more than $50,000, is the most expensive in Museo history; her husband,
Professor Murray Baumgarten, provided academic expertise. The images alone came
from more than 30 national and international museums and libraries.
"Generally, modern Jewish culture is thought of in terms of its Eastern European roots,"
Steiner said. "But this exhibit shows
another aspect of it: the interaction between Jewish culture and Italian culture, and the
impact and influence they had on each other."
The exhibition looks at more than 350 years of Jewish life in Venice, Rome and Florence - with forays into Livorno, Padua and Mantua - leading up to 1870, when Italy was
unified.
Article contributed by Evie Nordstrom ( Lorayne Attubato‘s Sister )
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Harry Truman after the presidency:
Harry Truman, from Missouri, was a different kind of President. He probably made as
many important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42
Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left
the White House.
Historians have written the only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in,
which was in Independence, Missouri. On top of that, his wife inherited the house from
her Mother.
When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S Army pension reported to
have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and
personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of
$25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri
by themselves. There were no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, 'You don't want
me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to
the American people and it's not for sale.'
Even later, on May 6, 1971 , when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of
Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, 'I don't consider that I have
done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise.'
He never owned his own home and as president he paid for all of his own travel
expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency,
resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become
quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale.
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, 'My choices early in life were
either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's
hardly any difference.'
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You don’t have
to be a Paesano
to love Italian
arts
and music
By Stephanie Salter
In Verdi‘s sweeping opera, ―Attila,‖ an impassioned Roman general named Ezio sings a
duet with the invading Attila the Hun.
“Avrai tu l”universo, resta
universe, Let Italy remain mine.”
Italia a me ”
Ezio implores. “ You may have the
That sentiment pretty much sums up the attitude of the men of II Cenacolo — even the
guys who are Irish.
Tastes, trends and affinity groups have come and gone in San Francisco, but over 75 years
II Cenacolo has stayed the course with minimal change. The club exists today for precisely
the same reasons it was founded in 1928 gby the signori Avenali, Campione, del Lungo,
Filiasi, Turco and Ponce de Leon: So that its members can learn about and support art,
music, language and culture — particularly of the Italian persuasion.
Throw in the fact that this civilized pursuit has taken place all these years, primarily over
weekly lunches, and the marvel that is II Cenacolo becomes apparent.
So, guys get old and die?
So, their sons and grandsons, nephews and sons-in-law pick up the torch and carry it to
lunch.
So the number of Italians who actually live and work in San Francisco — let alone have
time for such things as cultural enlightenment — is not what it used to be.
So the club finds some Chinese, German, Irish, french and Jewish American guys who are
paesano In their hearts and they take their place alongside the Italian pillars.
After all, one of the most loyal and enthusiastic Cenacolisti of all time was not a Veronese
but a Viennese: Kurt Herbert Adler, who massaged, hammered and thrashed the
San Franscisco Opera into an international force during his 28 years as general director.
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Top: II Cenacolo, a generous group of artloving Italian americans, has met weekly for
lunch for 75 years. Above: The club, with thenpresident Fred Campagnoli at center, honored
Kurt Herbert Adler, San Francisco Opera general director, at its Christmas dinner in 1969.
Mens club stays the course
We have many members who aren‘t Italian— our best Italian speaker is Chinese— but we
do ask that everyone be an Italophile,‖ said Bob Palazzi, a retired high school principal
who is the current president of II Cenacolo. ― And we still have a tradition: the president
has to have a vowel at the end of his name.‖
The term ―II Cenacolo‖ (pronounced ― ell Chey-KNOCK-oh-lo‖) was picked by the club‘s
Founders to mean ―a meal among friends in a private room.‖ Leonardo da Vinci titled his
famous painting of Jesus and the disciples— which we know as ―The Last Supper‖— ―II
Cenacolo.‖
―Cena is ‗supper‘ in Italian and the cenacle is the room in the abbey where the friars eat
together,‖ said Gianni audieri, who does not belong tp II Cenacolo but has cooked for the
men every week for 22 years at his North Beach restaurant, Fior d‘Italia.
―I inherited the crowd when I came,” he said ―They‘ve been eating here for 30 years. Some
of the other clubs, it‘s unfortunate, they‘re down to about 10 or 11 members, everybody‘s
passed away. Cenacolo, they‘re persistent.”
That persistence — the club still has more than 200 members — and decades of II
Cenacolo generosity will be honored April 2 at the Merola Opera Program‘s annual gals
at the Ritz Carlton.
―We‘d never honored a group before. But when we looked back on all that II Cenacolo has
done for Merola, all the Adler Fellows they‘ve sponsored,
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how they‘ve been the most faithful of our group supporters, we thought it was time,” said
Blanche Germain Streeter, a Merola board member and chairwomen of the gala.
And who but the Cenacolisti to better fit the theme of this year‘s gala: Mille grazie,
Italia”?
Back in the early days, when II Cenacolo‘s membership included Bank of America founder A. P. Giannini, the donations were a little less structured. Since
1979, however, the club has Been formally handing out thousands of
dollars each year in Merola Opera scholarships.
The late Adler created Merola as a kind of operatic farm club to San
Francisco‘s big-league opera company, as a training program where
talented younh singers can hone their skills and gain an edge in the
powerfully competitive workd of professional opera.
Among the 46 Merolini who‘ve received scholarships from II Cenacolo are baritone Thomas Hampson, sopranos Patricia Racette and
Laura Claycomb and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop.
The men also award two annual scholarships for Italian language
study at various Bay Area universities and high schools.
II Cenacolo‘s combined purpose of cultural patronage and camaraderie has proved irresistible to all the Cenacolists, no matter their profession, ethnic heritage or geographical
upbring.
―I‘m not by nature a joiner, but after I spoke to the group at a lunch, thry asked me to join.
I was honored,‖ said composer David Litwin, who operates a sound studio in sausalito and
hasn‘t a drop of Italian blood in his veins.
But Litwin has traveled often to italy to research and record an album of historical music
played on six famous pipe organs. The oldest, in bologna, was built in 1473.
―I became infatuated with Italy,‖ he said. :It‘s the whole ball of wax: the physical beauty
of the country, the cuisine, the art and all the layers of history that are right there in front
of you in every city. Overriding all that — the Italian people; they know how to live and
they do a lot of it.
―And there‘s the language itself. As a musician, I am partcularly aware of the music of
speech. The Italian language is wonderful music, Oh, and did I mention the wine?”
Nearly every II Cenacolo lunch is anchored by a speaker who educates the men — and
frequently their guest — about anything from Renaissance art to astonomy. Slide shows
or PowerPoint displays are common.
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Earlier this month, San Francisco State University professor emeritus Ludmila Ershov
Discussed Italian architects in Russa. Last week, Angela Cincotta, of the AliotoLazio Fish Co.
Spoke on what it‘s like to run a women-owned firm in a male-dominated industry. In April,
Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal, who wrote ―Footsteps in the Fog,” will talk about Alfred
Hitchcock‘s films in San francisco.
In all the years I‘ve belonged (24), I‘ve never regretted going to a meeting,” said semiretired
lawer David Giannini, no relation to A.P. ―The talk is usually pretty lively and you never go
Without learning something.”
Celbrated chanteuse Welsa Whitfield graced an II Cenacolo lunch a few months ago, sharing
the story of her career, which includes an early stint in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera.
Whitfield‘s husband (and arranger-accompanist) is Mike Greensill, another non-Italian
member. Of British and french descent — ―We came from Devonshire pirates” — Greensill
was recruited by retired college English teacher Don Cunningham, who‘d previously been
sponsored by a retired city College colleague Warren White. White likes to joke: ―I‘m
responsible for the Irish renaissance in this club.”
Like most of the men in II Cenacolo, White said one of his favorite things about belonging
Is that, despite the high level of professional accomplishment among the men, ―We never talk
business. It‘s the comradeship, the group itself. Somebody like Rocco Gulli, he‘s just
delightful.”
Gulli is a soft-spoken retired biochemist. In 1956, a ship brought him to New York from his
native Calabria; a greyhound bus hauled him to the west coast. He has lived a few blocks
from north Beach ever since, the last 40 years with wife, Sandra. He joined II Cenacolo in
1965, thanks to his father-in-law, Julian Pardini. Gulli used to be a big fan of the operas of
Richard Wagner. He especially loved discussing them with Maestro Adler.
Then I get disenchanted with Wagner — too long and only 20 minutes of dramatic singing in
all the hours of music,‖ he said.
He would be happy to listen to Verdi, Puccini and Rossini on any stage anytime but laments
that ―today Italian opera isn‘t really sung, it‘s bubbled. Most singers, they just don‘t
enunciate,‖
One of the Gullis‘ longtime Russian Hill neighbors is Ernestine Cervelli Camoagnoli. It was
her father-in-law‘s restaurant, Campagnoli‘s on geary Street, that served as the first home of
II Cenacolo. Widowed for three years now, she remembers dozens of Cenacolo trips with
husband, Fred, especially to the Louis Martini winery for sun-dappled afternoons of
socializing with opera stars beneath the trees.
―I remember one year Fred and I drove Mario del Monaco and his wife up to Mr. Martini‘s.
She was worried the whole time about his throat, always wrapping a scarf aroun him and
Calling him ‗tesoro‘ which is ‗treasure‘ in Italian,” said Campagnoli
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Article Contributed by Lorayne Attubato
Andrew Jackson
Seventh President
1829-1837
More nearly than any of his predecessors, Andrew Jackson was elected by popular vote; as President he sought
to act as the direct representative of the common man.
Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767,
he received sporadic education. But in his late teens he
read law for about two years, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee. Fiercely jealous of
his honor, he engaged in brawls, and in a duel killed a
man who cast an unjustified slur on his wife Rachel.
Jackson prospered sufficiently to buy slaves and to build a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville. He was the first man elected from Tennessee to the House
of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate. A major general in the
War of 1812, Jackson became a national hero when he defeated the British at
New Orleans.
In 1824 some state political factions rallied around Jackson; by 1828 enough had
joined "Old Hickory" to win numerous state elections and control of the Federal
administration in Washington.
In his first Annual Message to Congress, Jackson recommended eliminating the
Electoral College. He also tried to democratize Federal officeholding. Already
state machines were being built on patronage, and a New York Senator openly
proclaimed "that to the victors belong the spoils. . . . "
Jackson took a milder view. Decrying officeholders who seemed to enjoy life tenure, he believed Government duties could be "so plain and simple" that offices
should rotate among deserving applicants.
As national politics polarized around Jackson and his opposition, two parties
grew out of the old Republican Party--the Democratic Republicans, or Democrats, adhering to Jackson; and the National Republicans, or Whigs, opposing
him.
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Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and other Whig leaders proclaimed themselves defenders
of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson. Hostile cartoonists portrayed him
as King Andrew I.
Behind their accusations lay the fact that Jackson, unlike previous Presidents, did not
defer to Congress in policy-making but used his power of the veto and his party
leadership to assume command.
The greatest party battle centered around the Second Bank of the United States, a
private corporation but virtually a Government-sponsored monopoly. When Jackson
appeared hostile toward it, the Bank threw its power against him.
Clay and Webster, who had acted as attorneys for the Bank, led the fight for its
recharter in Congress. "The bank," Jackson told Martin Van Buren, "is trying to kill me,
but I will kill it!" Jackson, in vetoing the recharter bill, charged the Bank with undue
economic privilege.
His views won approval from the American electorate; in 1832 he polled more than 56
percent of the popular vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay.
Jackson met head-on the challenge of John C. Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid
themselves of a high protective tariff.
When South Carolina undertook to nullify the tariff, Jackson ordered armed forces to
Charleston and privately threatened to hang Calhoun. Violence seemed imminent until
Clay negotiated a compromise: tariffs were lowered and South Carolina dropped
nullification.
In January of 1832, while the President was dining with friends at the White House,
someone whispered to him that the Senate had rejected the nomination of Martin Van
Buren as Minister to England. Jackson jumped to his feet and exclaimed, "By the
Eternal! I'll smash them!" So he did. His favorite, Van Buren, became Vice President,
and succeeded to the Presidency when "Old Hickory" retired to the Hermitage, where
he died in June 1845.
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KNOW YOUR PRESIDENTS
Andrew Jackson
The Seventh
President
• 1829-1837
Child:
Andrew Jackson, Jr. (adopted)
(1808-1865)
Religious Affiliation: Presbyterian
“Old Hickory”
Education: Public Schools; studied law
in Salisbury, N.C.
Biographical Facts
Birth: The W axhaws, South Carolina ,
March 15, 1767
Ancestry: Scotch-Irish
Father: Andrew Jackson
Birth: Carrickfergus, Antrim, Ireland
Death: The W axhaws, South Carolina,
March 1, 1767
Occupations: Linen Weaver; Farmer
Mother: Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson
Birth: Carrickfergus, Antrim, Ireland
Death: Charleston, South Carolina,
1781
Occupation Before Presidency: Lawyer
Military Service: Judge adocate general
of Davidson County militia (ca. 1791);
Major General of Tennessee Militia
(1802-1812); Major General of United
States Army (1814-1821)
Prepresidential Offices: Attorney general of Western District of North Carolina; Delegate to Tennessee State Constitutional Convention; United States
congressman; United States Senator;
Tennessee Supreme Court Judge; Governor of Florida Territory
Inauguration Age: 61
Occupation After Presidency: Retired
Brothers: Hugh Jackson (1762-1780);
Robert Jackson (1765-1780)
Death: Nashville, Tennessee,
June 8, 1845
Marriage: Natchez, Mississippi,
August 1, 1791 January 17, 1794
Place of Burial: The Hermitage,
Nashville, Tennessee
Wife: Rachel Donelson Robards
Birth: Halifax County, Virginia,
June 15, 1767
Death: Nashville, Tennessee,
December 22, 1828
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MASSACHUSETTS ( The Bay State )
Year of Statehood Feb. 06, 1788
EARLY MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY
Before the arrival of English settlers, six major Indian tribes lived in what is now Massachusetts: the Massachuset, Wampanoag, Nauset, Pennacook, Nipmuc and Pocumtuc. Massachusetts probably gets its name from an Algonquian Indian village and may mean "place of big
hills." Giovanni da Verrazano, sailing in the service of France, explored the Massachusetts
coast in 1524. In the early 1600s, two Englishmen made important explorations: Bartholomew
Gosnold landed at Provincetown on Cape Cod in 1602, and Captain John Smith sailed along
the coast in 1614. Smith gave New England its name and later wrote a travel account that contributed greatly to further explorations.
The colonial period of Massachusetts's history began when the Pilgrims--members of a dissident religious community that had broken away from the Church of England--landed at Plymouth in 1620. Theirs was the first permanent settlement by Europeans in Massachusetts and
in 1621 they gave thanks for their survival with the first Thanksgiving celebration.
Within a decade English people began to swarm to Massachusetts and new settlements appeared around Plymouth. In the late 1620s, another group of religious dissenters from England, the Puritans, arrived in the Boston area. In 1630, a fleet of ships brought over a thousand
Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop, beginning what is called the Great Migration. These
settlers founded the towns of Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, Lynn, Medford, Roxbury and
Watertown, which became the heartland of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
As the coastal settlements expanded, relations with the once friendly Indians began to deteriorate and eventually led to warfare. In 1637, Massachusetts and Connecticut settlers joined in a
war against the Pequot Indians of Connecticut that virtually annihilated the tribe. In King
Philip's War (1675 76), the English destroyed the Wampanoag and their allies, the Narragansett of Rhode Island. Massachusetts was the site of many key events of the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Bunker Hill. On
February 6, 1788, Massachusetts entered the Union as the sixth of the 13 original states.
MASSACHUSETTS' MIDDLE HISTORY
In the early national period, Massachusetts underwent a profound economic revolution. Freed
from British restraints, its ships and sailors roamed the world, opening up new trade routes
and carrying goods from nation to nation. Trade with China and other Far Eastern nations became a key element of the economy.
In the 19th century, Massachusetts became an important industrial state, manufacturing textiles and shoes. What set Massachusetts apart from the other northeastern states was the emergence of a remarkably talented group of men and women who became national figures in a
wide spectrum of activities, from art to literature to social reform. These included the writers
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville; the antislavery leaders William Lloyd
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Garrison and Wendell Phillips; the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes; the painter John Singer Sargent; and the
reformers Horace Mann and Dorothea Dix. It was an amazing galaxy of talent for so small a state.
Perhaps the key to this powerful intellectual group was the Massachusetts educational system, including
Harvard University, one of the strongest in the nation.
MASSACHUSETTS TODAY
The Bay State's economy has been transformed and highly diversified in the past few decades. The
decline of the once powerful textile and leather industries from the Great Depression to the postWorld
War II era was a severe economic setback. However, the later explosive growth of high-technology
industry has compensated for the earlier decline. The greater Boston area, in particular, has become an
important scientific center, with many firms exploring the possible applications of new discoveries in
nuclear physics, computers and other highly technical devices and machines. Tourism is also important to
the state's economy. Massachusetts is famous for its summer resorts, such as the sand beaches of Cape
Cod, along with its many historic sites and cultural institutions.
Famous "Bay Staters" include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Louisa May Alcott,
Horatio Alger, Susan B. Anthony, Crispus Attucks, Clara Barton, Alexander Graham Bell, John Cheever,
E. E. Cummings, John Hancock, Winslow Homer, John F. Kennedy, John Kerry, Cotton Mather, Samuel
F. B. Morse, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Revere, Norman Rockwell, Dr. Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel), James
McNeil Whistler and John Greenleaf Whittier.
MASSACHUSETTS Fun Facts
Boston is famous for its many colleges, its annual marathon and its baked beans.
Crispus Attucks, a black man and former slave, is considered to be the first casualty of the American
Revolution. He was shot by a British soldier during the so-called Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770.
Paul Revere made his famous ride from Boston to Lexington at the dawn of the American Revolution to report
that British troops had closed Boston Harbor.
The Pilgrims first came to Massachusetts in 1620 to escape from religious persecution in England. By 1640
there were eight towns in Plymouth Colony.
Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, is the oldest Major League ballpark. It opened on April 20, 1912.
Volleyball, originally called Mintonette, was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts, by a YMCA physical
education director named William G. Morgan.
The Fig Newton, a popular fig jam-filled cookie, was named after the Massachusetts town of Newton.
Springfield, Massachusetts, is home to U.S. Basketball Hall of Fame, where the first basketball game was
played. The game was invented by James Naismith, then a teacher at Springfield College.
Lowell, Massachusetts, was one of America's first planned industrial cities. It was also a pioneer in employing
women workers.
Harvard University, the oldest college in North America, was established in Cambridge in 1636.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
We would like to wish a
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
We want to wish a
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Dominick Esposito
5/9
Frank & Linda Masi
5/13/1962
Joe Lonati
5/9
Ben Spotts
5/15
Ralph & Lee Scognamiglio
5/23/1948
Christine Beard
5/18
John & Pauline Brisacone
5/1954
Joseph Scarimbolo
5/18
Frank & Frances Giove
6/24/1961
Toni Leanza
5/21
Doris Spotts
5/21
LJ & Dawn Benton
6/30/1973
AI Como
6/10
Joseph & Joan Coppolino
6/68
Frank Giove
6/11
John Dorso
6/27
BOOSTER CLUB
Dottie and Joe Arcaro
Dawn and L.J. Benton
Christine and Wally Beard
Vincent & Rosemarie Belmonte
Linda Lee Bietighofer
John & Pauline Brisacone
Grace Buonocore
Mal Clark and Arlene Gross
Carmela & Dick Colella
Vera and Al Como
Joseph & Joan Coppolino
Annette & Carmine Disclafani
John Dorso
Constance & Dominick Esposito
Frances and Frank Giove
John & Raelee Laporta
Toni and Vito Leanza
Roseann and Joe Lonati
Vincent & Katherine Mancuso
Linda and Frank Masi
Pam and Frank Palmieri
Frank & Jackie Panacciulli
Tony and Carol Pucci
Vicki and Santo Scacco
Joseph & Antoinette Scarimbolo
Lee and Ralph Scognamiglio
Joan Stokes
Sam & Ann Testa
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2010 -2012 Officers
President
L J Benton
770-928-9314
[email protected]
Vice President
Wally Beard
770-594-1354
[email protected]
Immediate Past President
Vito Leanza
770-479-6950
[email protected]
Orator
Carmine Disclafani
678-445-0648
[email protected]
Recording Secretary
Dawn Benton
770-928-9314
[email protected]
Financial Secretary
Santo Scacco
770-924-2360
[email protected]
Treasurer
Frank Giove
770-928-4034
[email protected]
Guard
Ben Spotts
770-516-5448
[email protected]
Trustee
Vincent Belmonte
770-971-7746
[email protected]
Trustee
Rosemarie Belmonte
770-971-7746
[email protected]
Trustee
John Brisacone
770-928-0062
[email protected]
Trustee
Carmela Colella
770-973-1093
[email protected]
Trustee
John Dorso
678-594-7023
[email protected]
Mistress of Ceremonies
Dottie Arcaro
770-424-1391
[email protected]
Master of Ceremonies
Joe Arcaro
770-424-1391
[email protected]
YEARLY FOOD SCHEDULE AT COBB GOV CENTER ( repeats every year )
Arcaro to Coppolino
JAN
APRIL
FEB
MARCH
JUNE
MAY
SEPT
JULY
OCT
NOV
DEC
AUG
Meat, Fish Etc
DiSclafani to Martino
Bread, Pasta, Vegetables, Salad
Masi to Testa
Dessert, Fruit
Arcaro to Coppolino
Dessert, Fruit
DiSclafani to Martino
Meat, Fish Etc
Masi to Testa
Bread, Pasta, Vegetables, Salad
Arcaro to Coppolino
Bread, Pasta, Vegetables, Salad
DiSclafani to Martino
Dessert, Fruit
Masi to Testa
Meat, Fish Etc
All Members
Dessert, Fruit Only
In Memory of Our Departed Members
Dee Arasi
Ralph Palladino
Rita Morano
Harold Valery
Mike Moffitt
Silverio Buonocore
Vita Scacco
Lorayne Attubato
William J. Bloodgood
Bob Bietighofer
Rest in Peace
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MICHAEL J. LONATI
ATTORNEY AT LAW
110 EVANS MILL DRIVE
SUITE # 603
DALLAS, GEORGIA 30157
Directly across from Hardy Chevrolet/Ford
PHONE : (678) 363-3500
WWW.LonatiLaw.com
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AUTO ACCIDENTS
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS
18 WHEELER ACCIDENTS
DOG BITE INJURIES
WATERCRAFT ACCIDENTS
WORKERS COMPENSATION
WRONGFUL DEATH
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Marietta Lodge #2607
P.O. Box 669781
Marietta, GA. 30066
Chicago’s
Steaks Seafood
Pasta
Sun Brunch 11:00 – Dinner Til 9:00 PM
Open
5:00 to 9:00 PM Mon
5:00 to 10:00 PM Tues, Wed , Thurs
5:00 to 11:00 PM Fri & Sat
Live Entertainment Fri & Sat in our Speak Easy Lounge
Early Bird Dinner Special, 5:00 to 7:00 PM ( except Holidays )
Sun – Thurs $14.00 bottle wine specials
Daily $5.00 Drink Specials
Facebook Chicago’s Steak and Seafood Restaurant
4401 Shallowford Rd
Roswell, Georgia 30075
General Manager Phone 770-993-7464 . Fax 770-993-0855
Jeanne Wittner
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Valerie Semple
Manager