Official Publication of the
Fr. John Papallo Lodge # 2684
Kings Park, NY
Volume 16, Issue 3
March 2010
Awarded Best Newsletter Photo Layout in New York - June 2009
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear Brothers & Sisters;
Our Annual Mass and Brunch held on February 7, 2010 was a beautiful
uplifting and spiritual day. It was a festive celebration of Fr. John’s birthday
and a fitting tribute to our departed members. Thank you to Fr. Richard,
Fr. Joseph and Fr. Mario from the Immaculate Conception Monastery for
celebrating the Mass and to Nick Papallo for making the Mass preparations.
The children and grandchildren of Dora Manna were honored to light the
candle for the memorial ceremony during the Mass.
St. Joseph’s Day Bread to be
Distributed by Lodge Members after the
Fri., March 19, 2010
8:45 AM Mass
to be celebrated at
St. Joseph’s Church
Anastastia and Alexandra Ambrosio did a beautiful job with the Mass
music. Anastasia played the Cello and Alexandra was the Cantor. Together
they added a special quality to our celebration of the Eucharist. Also,
thank you to the Ambrosio family for helping to set up the chapel the night
before the Mass.
After Mass, we had a delicious brunch and enjoyed entertainment provided
by violinist, James Graseck. Thank you to Camille and Rick Annichiarico
and Nick Papallo for preparing such an enjoyable day for our members
and guests.
Call Joe Vallone
if you are planning to attend
269-5725
Congratulations and welcome to our new members, Pauline Duff and Ronald and Cindy Bernardino who were initiated at our
General Meeting on February 15th. We hope that they enjoy their membership in the Lodge.
On March 15, 2010 at 7PM, we will conduct our installation of Officers in Travis Hall of St. Joseph’s Church. Please join us
to congratulate the new Council members and to thank them for their service to our lodge. We will have food and light beverages
after the ceremony.
Fraternally,
, Lodge President
Installation of Officers
(See Enclosed Announcement)
Mon, March 15, 2010 - 7:00 PM Travis Hall
Collation to Follow
Call Maddalena McKee at 269-2906
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Help Us
Support Our Troops and Honor Our Vets!
Do you have a family member who is a veteran or who is presently
serving in the military service?
If so, we need your participation in compiling a commemorative
booklet of our own OSIA military personnel and veterans.
All YOU need to do is complete the NYOSIA Veterans
Commemorative Booklet form (from the Fr. John Papallo Web
Site) and agree to be part of the 2010 State Convention project.
“Dinner & Theater Night”
May 20, 2010
Fiddler on the Roof at the John Engeman
Theater in Northport at 8pm
Dinner at La Villini on Larkfield Rd in East Northport at 5pm
Dinner & Show: $80pp, Show Only: $54pp,
Dinner Only: $26pp
For information Call Joe Dovi at 543-0048, Cell: 516-429-5646
Limited to the First 50 people.
St. Joseph's Annual Lenten Soup Supper
Tue. Mar 9. 2010 - 6pm.
Call Kathy Jones 269-6635
for a donation of soup, bread or dessert
Membership Information
Tell your friends about our Lodge and the Wonderful
Cultural and Social Opportunities that We Offer our
Members. Bring a friend to our next general meeting
(7:30pm, Smithtown Landing Country Club)
Sponsor 5 new members and receive a Fr. John Papallo Lodge Shirt
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HOSPITALITY
Santa Matarazzo (Chair)
269-5816
March
Installation Committee
April
Joan Aliperti
May
Theresa Di Chiara
Please call Santa if you can
volunteer to setup hospitality
at a monthly meeting.
Future General Meetings
March 15, April 19, May 17 7:30pm
Meetings held at Smithtown Landing Country Club, Smithtown
***Mark Your Calendar***
Upcoming Fr. John Papallo Lodge Events
Mon, Mar 15, 2010 -
General Meeting (Lodge Installation of Officers)
Mon, Apr 5, 2010 -
Officers’ Meeting
Mon, Apr 19, 2010 -
General Meeting
Mon, May 3, 2010 -
Officers’ Meeting
Mon, May 17, 2010 - General Meeting
Mon, Jun 7, 2010 -
Officers’ Meeting
Mon, Jun 21, 2010 -
General Meeting
Mon, Jul 5, 2010 -
Officers’ Meeting
Mon, Jul 19, 2010 -
General Meeting
Membership Dues for 2010
Final Friendly Reminder
$35 per member
Remit payment to:
Carolyn Reilly
24 Thistle Lane
Kings Park, NY 11754
(631) 269-4896
Upcoming NYS Grand Lodge Events
Apr 6, 2010 –
Cooley’s Anemia Dine Around (see Home Page for details)
Apr 25, 2010 – State Bowling Tournament Farmingdale Lanes 10:00 a.m. - $18.00 pp
Apr 30, 2010 – 28th Golden Lion Awards Dinner Garden City Hotel 7:00 p.m.
May 1, 2010 – Spring Plenary Session Hosted by the Cellini Lodge #2206, New Hyde Park
May 15, 2010 – 13th Annual Walk A Thon Eisenhower Park, E. Meadow 8:30 a.m.
June 3rd - June 6th, 2010 – 104th State Convention Villa Roma Resort & Conference Center, Callicoon
June 27, 2010 – State Scholarship Awards Ceremony Rockland Community College, Suffern 10:00 am
July 24, 2010 – Summer Plenary Session at John Michael Marino Lodge #1389, Port Washington
Aug 29, 2010 – Garibaldi Meucci Museum 22nd Annual Fundraiser G.W. Manor, Roslyn 11:00 a.m.
Oct 23, 2010 – Fall Plenary Session Hosted by Gabriele D’Annunzio Lodge #321, Schenectady
Visit Our New Home on the Web at
WWW.FRJOHNPAPALLOLODGE2684.COM
New York Grand Lodge Foundation, Inc.
Order Sons of Italy in America
Announces the 13th Annual Walk-A-Thon
Walk for Education & Culture
Saturday, May 15, 2010 (Rain of Shine)
Registration: 8:30 am - Walk Steps-Off 10:00am
New Location: Eisenhower Park, East Meadow
Arrive at main entrance. Meet at Parking Field #1
Music ~ Refreshments
Picnic area available for food and games during and after the Walk
Souvenir tee-shirts will be given to all who participate
Walk - Donate - Sponsor a Walker - Enjoy the Picnic Area
All Proceeds Benefit our NYOSIA Scholarship & Cultural Programs
For Further Information contact:
Chair ~ Angela DeCosimo, 516-837-8550 or Co-Chair ~ Eleanor Jobbagy, 516-358-9151
For Registration and Sponsor Forms Contact:
NYS Grand Lodge Foundation / Walk-A-Thon
2101 Bellmore Avenue, Bellmore, NY 11710 ~ 516-785-4623
National OSIA is planning to publish a cookbook with
recipes from our OSIA members throughout the country.
The target date for publication is September 2010. Why
don’t you get out those family cookbooks and submit an
Italian recipe that is special to your family. You need to
submit the recipe on the Recipe Form ... so we encourage you
to do so today! Don’t forget – it needs to be an Italian recipe.
Download the Recipe Form at:
http://www.nysosia.org/images/RecipeCollectionForm.pdf
Nancy DiFiore Quinn
National Fund Raising Chairperson
Fr. John Papallo Annual Mass and Brunch - Sunday, February 7
Fr. John Papallo Annual Mass and Brunch - Sunday, February 7
General Meeting - February 15 (New Members)
Italian Movie Night
ITALIAN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Shown at the Kings Park High school Auditorium
Route 25A, Kings Park, 7:15 p.m.
ANDIAMO AL CINEMA
Join us on March 22nd for Ciao Professore. It is an
unforgettable, candid story of children growing up in a poor and
harsh environment in the southern Italian town, Corzano. Their
bleak situation presents a serious challenge for the new teacher from the north, Marco Sperelli (Paolo Villaggio) who has been
assigned to their school by mistake.
Waiting for his transfer, Marco decides to do what he can in what appears to him a foreign culture. Fascinating events and
interactions unfold, with both humorous and tragic overtones, which lead to meaningful changes for the teacher as well as his
students. He develops understanding and respect, while they learn to trust and to try. If only for a short time, Marco Sperelli
becomes an agent of hope for the children and their families.
Ciao Professore and our next film,Travolti, were both directed by Lina Wertmuller, the first female to be nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director (1976). Lina studied at the Academy of Theatre in Rome and spent a few years with theatrical
projects before moving on to film. She was assistant director to Fellini for the movie, 8 ½, wrote and directed her debut feature
film, The Lizards, in l963 and swiftly assumed prominence as director in Italy and internationally. Her productions, especially in
the 70’s, were regarded as bold and controversial, yet humorous and entertaining. With a neo-realistic nuance, she typically
portrayed political, social and sexual inequities. In addition to the ones we are presenting, two other of her many masterpieces are,
Love and Anarchy, and Seven Beauties.
Our next film is: Swept Away Monday, April, 26, 2010
For further information call Gail Hessel at 979-0591 or Isabelle Cetlin at 663-3038.
Center for Italian Studies
March
18, Thursday, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture: Antonio Morena,(Harvard University). Topic: 1932: Aura & Historical
Representaion in Fascist Italy. Location: Stony Brook University's Center for
Italian Studies Meeting Hall, Frank Melville Memorial Library, Room E4340.
All are invited.
19, Friday, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Twenty-sixth Annual Secondary School Poetry Contest: Recitation of Poems sponsored by LI Chapter, American Association of
Teachers of Italian in collaboration with Stony Brook University's Center for Italian Studies. Recitations by students of Italian from
participating local secondary schools followed by award ceremonies. Please note Location: SUNY College at Old Westbury. Call
631-632-7444 for additional information.
25, Thursday, 5:30 p.m.
Presentation: Creating a Weak State: George P. Marsh and the Risorgimento with Lucia Ducci, author of the book, L'unità debole.
Hosted by D'Amato Chair Professor, Peter Carravetta. Location: Stony Brook University's Center for Italian Studies Meeting Hall,
Frank Melville Memorial Library, Room E4340. All are invited.
April
2, Friday, 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
The Second Forum in Italian American Criticism (FIAC) on Inventing Italian American History
Location: Stony Brook/Manhattan, 401 Park Avenue South, 2nd Floor. Program details will be made available as they are formulated.
Call 631-632-7444 for updates.
9, Friday, 8:00 p.m. & 11, Sunday, 2:00 p.m.
Stony Brook Opera: New York premiere of Pier Francesco Cavalli's Eliogabalo (1667) featuring innovative lighting and projection
design, with cast and members of the Stony Brook Baroque Players, who will perform on period instruments. The opera will be sung
in the original Italian language with projected titles in English. Location: Stony Brook University's Staller Center Recital Hall. Call
631-632-2787 for tickets: $20 per person; $10 for students and seniors (who are registered as such with the Staller Center Box Office).
Italian Culture & Heritage
Brush Up on Your Italian
The Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first
European explorer to pass New York Harbor. Other
Italians played an important role in early United States
history, as Filippo Mazzei, an important Italian physician
and a promoter of liberty, close friend of Thomas
Jefferson. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for
Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
Throughout the 1800s, Italians arrived in the US in small
numbers, though most immigration from Italy occurred
in the 20th century between 1880 and 1960. Most Italian
Americans came from Southern Italy, Naples at first, and
Sicily, many as rural peasants with very little education.
Smaller but significant numbers came from the northern
regions of Liguria and Veneto. From 1890 to 1900,
655,888 immigrants arrived in the United States, of
which 2/3 were men. The main reasons for Italian
immigration were the poor economic conditions in Italy
during this period, particularly in the southern regions. In
the United States, Italians settled in and dominated
specific neighborhoods (often called "Little Italy") where
they could interact with one another, establish a familiar
cultural presence, and find favorite foods. Many Italian
immigrants arrived with very little cash or cultural capital
(that is, they were not educated or intellectually
sophisticated) and generally performed manual labor.
Their neighborhoods were typically slums with
overcrowded tenements and poor sanitation. Tuberculosis
was rampant. Italian immigration peaked from 1900 until
1914, when WWI made such intercontinental movement
impossible. In many cases, the Italian immigrants were
subjected to severe anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant
discrimination and even violence such as lynching. By
1978, 5.3 million Italians had immigrated to the United
States; two million arrived between 1900 and 1914.
About a 1/3 of these immigrants intended to stay only
briefly, in order to make money and return to Italy, and
were commonly referred to as "Birds of Passage." While
one in four did return home, the rest either decided to
stay or were prevented from returning by the war.
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Recipes From Members & Friends
Fried Risotto Balls
Denise Piacentino
dmppt@optonline.net
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2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped finely
1 garlic clove, chopped
½ red bell pepper, diced
¾ cup risotto rice, washed
1 tsp dried oregano
1 2/3 cups hot vegetable or chicken stock
Scant ½ cup dry white wine
2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
2 ¼ oz / 75g mozzarella cheese
Oil, for frying
Fresh basil sprig, to garnish
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat the oil in a skillet and cook the onion and garlic for
3-4 minutes or until just softened.
2. Add the bell peppers, rice and oregano to the skillet.
Cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring to coat the rice in the oil.
3. Mix the stock together with the wine and add to the skillet
a ladleful at a time, waiting for the liquid to be absorbed by
the rice before adding the next ladleful.
4. Once all the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is
tender (it should take about 15 min in total), remove the
skillet from the heat, mix in grated Parmesan cheese and
leave until the mixture is cool enough to handle.
5. Cut the cheese into 12 pieces. Taking about 1 tablespoon
of risotto, shape the mixture around the cheese pieces to
make 12 balls.
6. Heat the oil until a cube of bread browns in 30 seconds.
Cook the risotto balls, in batches of 4, for 2 minutes or until
golden.
7. Remove the risotto balls with a slotted spoon and drain
thoroughly on absorbent kitchen paper. Garnish with a sprig
of basil and serve the risotto balls hot.
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Lodge Officers
President Anthony DiChiara
First Vice President Maddalena McKee
Second Vice President Molly Vallone
Immediate Past President - Joseph Vallone
Orator Nicholas Papallo
Financial Secretary Carolyn Reilly
Recording Secretary Johanna DiChiara Drab
Corresponding Secretary - Theresa DiChiara
Treasurer Rosemarie Madrose
Principal Trustee Edward McElhone
Trustees Sal Aliperti, Joseph Barbera, Laura Gallagher,
Richard Macellaro, Aniello Matarazzo
Master of Ceremonies Joseph Dovi
Mistress of Ceremonies Maria Amato
Sentinel John Lea
Chaplain Nick Papallo
Grand Deputy Stephen Loccisano
Commissioners of Arbitration Rick Annichiarico, Steve Birbiglia, Maria Iraci,
Diana Sommo, Robert Parrone
Past Presidents
John Misso (1995 - 1999)
Enrico Annichiarico (1999 - 2001)
Maria Misso (2001 - 2003)
Robert Parrone (2003 - 2005)
Camille Annichiarico (2005 - 2007)
State Officers
Enrico Annichiarico - NYS Trustee, District 1
Committee Chairs
Christmas Party...................Laura Gallagher 269-5340
Columbus Day Parade ........Steve Birbiglia 584-4317
Craft Fair.............................Rick Annichiarico 724-3697
CSJ Liaisons........................Dan Matarazzo 269-5816
Heritage and Culture ..........Lois Mignone 751-7475
Dinner Dance......................Maddalena McKee 269-2906
Fr. John Memorial Bkfst ....Camille Annichiarico / Nick Papallo 724-3697
Fr. John Papallo Gardens....Nick Papallo, Theresa Di Chiara 724-2905
Feast............................. .......Tony Tanzi 269-4163, Bob Parrone 269-5998
Fundraising.........................Joe Dovi 543-0048
Golf Outing .................... ....Steve Birbiglia 584-4317, Joe Dovi 543-0048,
.............................................Rick Annichiarico 724-3697
Grants..................................Carolyn Reilly 269-4896
Guest Speakers....................Rick Annichiarico 724-3697
Hospitality...........................Santa Matarazzo 269-5816
Italian Classes.....................Joe Merola 265-8853
Italian Heritage Night .........Joe Dovi 543-0048
Heritage Museum Display.. Johanna DiChiara Drab 619-6086
Journal (Dinner Dance).......Richard Macellaro 663-3522
Kings Park Day...................Sal Aliperti 544-4801
Membership .......................Rich Macellaro 663-3522, Theresa DiChiara 724-2905
Memorial Day Parade.........Sal LaFonte 269-0062
Newsletter Coordinator.......Camille Annichiarico 724-3697
Newsletter Editor................Joseph Piacentino, Jr. 366-1386
Newsletter Distribution.......Stephanie Piacentino, 366-1386
Opera ..................................Gail Hessel 979--0591
Picnic...................................Joe Merola 265-8853
Public Relations..................Steve Weber 361-6624
Queens Pageant ..................Molly Vallone 269-5725
Recipe Corner.....................Denise Piacentino 366-1386
Scholarship and Awards.....Diana Sommo 724-5320
Saint Joseph’s Church.........Ed McElhone 754-1572, Joe Vallone 269-5725
Storage .................... ...........Joseph Vallone 269-5725
Veterans Day Parade...........Sal LaFonte 269-0062
Web Site..............................Ron Roth 979-7157
Fr. John Papallo Lodge #2684
Order Sons of Italy in America
117 Rumford Road
Kings Park, NY 11754
WWW.FRJOHNPAPALLOLODGE2684.COM
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