Waterbury unico newsletter january 2015
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published, and of which I have a copy, it looks like the producers of the documentary have done a fair job of portraying our people and their struggles to become assimilated into mainstream America with an exaggeration on the Mafia as a force in the life of the Italian American. We will have to watch the finished product to make sure the producers in their final product haven't caved in to the popular culture's enduring myths and glorification of less than one percent of Italians involved in organized crime. I hope to see you all at the meeting on January 27th. We are also hosting the District Meeting that night. There will be UNICO members from other Chapters in our District ,so our meeting will be very short. Yours in UNICO, Frank Travisano Now that we are in the new year we are also approaching the busiest time of the year for our UNICO Chapter. We are having our Corned Beef Fundraiser on Wednesday March 11. Some of you if not all of you have received your allotment of 4 tickets to sell. Please do your best to sell all of them. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. WE ALSO NEED AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS WE CAN GET FOR THIS EVENT. There are more details on this elsewhere in the newsletter. We need everyone's cooperation to make this event a success. You also will hear more about this at our dinner meeting on January 27. Then, in quick succession are a pasta fundraiser we are having along with the Ponte Club on Sunday April 26; The Gathering in Waterbury on Saturday May 16; and our Scholarship Dinner on Tuesday May 26. Please mark your calendars and make plans to participate in as many of these events as you can. If you've never attend any of these before please do so. I guarantee you will have a good time. I also want to call to your attention that the Public Broadcasting System (CPTV locally) is having a two part showing of a newly produced documentary, The Italian Americans, of Italians in America from the start of the mass migration in the late 1800's to the present day. Right now the program is scheduled to air on 2 successive Tuesday nights, February 17 and 24 starting at 9:00pm each night. This represents one of the few times (if ever!) in history that television is telling our story to the public on a nationwide scale. By the looks of the companion book to the series which has already been Waterbury UNICO PO Box 933, Waterbury, CT 06721 http://www.WaterburyUNICO.com [email protected] January 2015 WATERBURY CHAPTER UNICO NATIONAL MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Information for newsletter can be sent to [email protected]! If you haven’t done so already, please send in your Chapter Dues!! Like us on Facebook…..check us out at facebook.com/waterburyunico!!! Inside this issue: Happy New Year/Corned Beef Fundraiser 2 Chapter Shirts/Chapter Leadership 3 The Italian Americans/Late Spring Events 4 Upcoming Events 5 Corned Beef info/Chapter Shirt Order From 6-8 Our Sponsors 9-10 Note From the President
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Waterbury CT Chapter of Unico National's monthly newsletter. Unico National is the largest Italian American Service Organization. Waterbury is the birthplace of Unico National in 1922
Transcript of Waterbury unico newsletter january 2015
published, and of which I have a copy, it looks like the producers of the documentary have done a fair job of portraying our people and their struggles to become assimilated into mainstream America with an exaggeration on the Mafia as a force in the life of the Italian American. We will have to watch the finished product to make sure the producers in their final product haven't caved in to the popular culture's enduring myths and glorification of less than one percent of Italians involved in organized crime. I hope to see you all at the meeting on January 27th. We are also hosting the District Meeting that night. There will be UNICO members from other Chapters in our District ,so our meeting will be very short. Yours in UNICO,
Frank Travisano
Now that we are in the new year we are also approaching the busiest time of the year for our UNICO Chapter. We are having our Corned Beef Fundraiser on Wednesday March 11. Some of you if not all of you have received your allotment of 4 tickets to sell. Please do your best to sell all of them. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. WE ALSO NEED AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS WE CAN GET FOR THIS EVENT. There are more details on this elsewhere in the newsletter. We need everyone's cooperation to make this event a success. You also will hear more about this at our dinner meeting on January 27. Then, in quick succession are a pasta fundraiser we are having along with the Ponte Club on Sunday April 26; The Gathering in Waterbury on Saturday May 16; and our Scholarship Dinner on
Tuesday May 26. Please mark your calendars and make plans to participate in as many of these events as you can. If you've never attend any of these before please do so. I guarantee you will have a good time. I also want to call to your attention that the Public Broadcasting System (CPTV locally) is having a two part showing of a newly produced documentary, The Italian Americans, of Italians in America from the start of the mass migration in the late 1800's to the present day. Right now the program is scheduled to air on 2 successive Tuesday nights, February 17 and 24 starting at 9:00pm each night. This represents one of the few times (if ever!) in history that television is telling our story to the public on a nationwide scale. By the looks of the companion book to the series which has already been
Waterbury UNICO PO Box 933, Waterbury, CT 06721 http://www.WaterburyUNICO.com [email protected]
January 2015
WATERBURY CHAPTER UNICO NATIONAL MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
Information for newsletter can be sent
If you haven’t done so already, please
send in your Chapter Dues!!
Like us on Facebook…..check us out at
facebook.com/waterburyunico!!!
Inside this issue: Happy New Year/Corned Beef Fundraiser 2 Chapter Shirts/Chapter Leadership 3 The Italian Americans/Late Spring Events 4 Upcoming Events 5 Corned Beef info/Chapter Shirt Order From 6-8 Our Sponsors 9-10
Note From the President
Happy New Year to All Waterbury Chapter Members!!
Charlie Lanza Memorial Corned Beef Fundraiser The corned beef fundraiser will be held Wednesday March 11 from 5-7:30 pm.
Members are need to help in three ways: Placemat Ads, Raffle items, Selling
tickets, and Volunteering at the event. Please see the letter below from Francine
Nido, event chairperson, as well as the letter and brochure, at the end of the
newsletter, which you should have received by postal mail.
It’s Italian Corned Beef Dinner Time!!!
We are asking that each UNICAN sell at least 4 tickets. If you need additional tickets, please contact Don Mancuso immediately. It is important that you that you encourage people to purchase tickets in advance. Last year with having to guestimate the count and the rush of “walk‐ins” we ran out of food and had to turn people away. It’s always a crap‐shoot trying to figure out attendance and while we don’t want to over‐order we definitely don’t want a repeat of last year. Please get your returns to me ASAP. We would prefer all returns in PRIOR to the event so that the ticket‐line isn’t backed up. As always, any ticket you sell that you have collected money for should be marked on the back with “paid” and your last name. Send all checks [payable to Waterbury UNICO] to PO Box 933, Waterbury, CT 06721 no later than February 24th or bring them to the next meeting. If necessary, Don Mancuso can meet you or have someone pick your checks up!!!
In addition, we are looking for donations to our raffle ($25 value) and ad sponsors ($50 business card size) for our placemat. The placemat will be placed at each guest’s seat at the table and all donors will be recognized with signage displayed at the event. If you would like to place and ad or know of a business that would, please contact Diana Zappone at [email protected] or sent the ad copy along with payment to her at 131 Francis Street, Waterbury, CT 06708.
If you have any questions or need more tickets or flyers, contact Francine at 203.510.0276 or [email protected].
Thank you for your support!!!
~Francine
Chapter Shirts The Waterbury Chapter is subsidizing chapter shirts with the UNICO logo Please see the
order form at the end of the newsletter. The choices are Mens and Ladies 3 button short
sleeve polo shirts, Ladies V-neck short sleeve, and long sleeve tees. The cost is $10 for one,
$25 for any additional shirts, and $6.50 for personalization.
Chapter Leadership
Page 3 January 2015
Board of Directors**
National and Regional Leadership National President- Richard D'Arminio National Membership/Retention Director- Francine Nido Eastern Regional District Governor-. Elyse Buonamo CT-I District Governor- Anthony Lancia
Toni Beccia PDG Peter Ciullo Dr. Martin DeSomma
PDG Francine Nido Dr. Carmine Paolino Frank DePaola- Member Emeritus
*=Not an Elected Position
** = Also Includes All Elected Officers,
Delegates & Alternate Delegates
President- Frank Travisano Vice President- Louis Gelada Jr. Secretary- Bianca Daniels Treasurer- Lia Ursini Financial Secretary- Dianne Minardo
Chaplain*- Rev. Ronald Ferraro Historian*– Tom Buzzelli Sargeant At Arms- Tim Clark Newsletter Editor– Dr. Sherry LaCoursiere
Delegates Tom Buzzelli PDG Joanne D’Angelo Lou Gelada Bob Gerace Lia Ursini
Alternate Delegates Angela Buzzelli Fran Donnarumma Don Mancuso Joan Pesce-Veneziano Bob Rinaldi
The Italian Americans This documentary will be shown on PBS/CPTV in February 17 and 24, starting at 9
pm. To see previews, go to http://video.pbs.org/program/italian-americans/
shorts/
There are 9 clips, about the Italian-American experience, including footage about
Mario Cuomo, Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, and The Godfather.
Late Spring Upcoming Events Mark your calendars!
Details will be forthcoming in the February–April newsletters
Sunday April 26- Pasta fundraiser with the Ponte Club
Saturday May 16– The Gathering– Downtown Waterbury
Tuesday May 26– Scholarship Dinner
Page 4
Service Above Self
Waterbury UNICO PO Box 933 Waterbury, CT 06721
Dinner Meetings: 4th Tuesday of the Month at 6:30pm Juniper’s Restaurant, Middlebury- $25
Tuesday January 27, 6:30 pm *District Meeting
Tuesday February 24, 6:30 pm
Charlie Lanza Memorial Corned Beef Fundraiser: Ponte Club– La Bella Vista
Wednesday March 11, 5-7:30 pm
Board Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of the Month— 6:45pm Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hall—Waterbury
Tuesday February 10, 6:45 pm Tuesday March 10, 6:45 pm Tuesday April 3, 6:45 pm
Upcoming Events
UNICO National – Waterbury Chapter PO Box 933 ~ Waterbury, CT 06721
Birthplace of UNICO – Founded October 10, 1922
“Service Above Self”
January 2015 Dear Friends: On Wednesday, March 11th, the Waterbury Chapter of UNICO National will hold their Annual “Charlie Lanza Memorial” Italian Corned Beef Dinner. The event will take place at LaBella Vista located at the Pontelandolfo Club in Waterbury. Tickets are $20.00 per person for a buffet meal of Corned Beef, Cabbage, Potatoes, Carrots & Pasta e Fagioli. We anticipate a crowd of at least 500 guests. UNICO was founded on October 10, 1922 in Waterbury through the efforts of a group of American citizens of Italian heritage and has grown into the Largest Italian-American Service Organization in the United States of America. Currently, ongoing fundraising provides support for Jimmy V cancer research, Cooley’s Anemia research, mental health projects, Italian Studies chairs at universities and scholarships. Proceeds from this specific event will be reinvested directly back into our local community. We are seeking your support for this event and wish that you can help by either purchasing a business card sized placemat ad for $50 or donating an item ($25 value) for the raffle. This placemat will be placed at each guest’s seat at the table and all donors will be recognized with signage displayed at the event. All checks should be made payable to “Waterbury UNICO” and payment, along with ad copy, should be sent to Diana Zappone at 131 Francis Street, Waterbury, CT 06708. I thank you in advance for your participation and your support. In the meantime, if you have any further questions or need additional information, please contact me at 203.510.0276 or [email protected]. Sincerely,
Francine J. Nido
Francine J. Nido - Event Chair
“Charlie Lanza Memorial”
Italian Corned Beef Dinner
WEDNESDAY - MARCH 11TH
DOORS OPEN - 5:00PM LAST SERVING - 7:30PM
LA BELLA VISTA PONTELANDOLFO CLUB - 380 FARMWOOD ROAD - WATERBURY
$20.00 - ADULTS $15.00 - CHILDREN
[UNDER 12 - DINE-IN ONLY]
Pasta e Fagioli
Corned Beef
Potatoes, Cabbage,
Carrots & Italian Bread
Cash Bar
Zeppole for Sale
For tickets contact: [email protected] Francine Nido – 203.510.0276 or
Don Mancuso – 203.910.3437
Takeout Orders Available With Advanced Purchase Only
SPONSORED BY THE WATERBURY CHAPTER OF
UNICO NATIONAL
Proceeds benefit local UNICO Projects.
UNICO National – Waterbury Chapter PO Box 933 ~ Waterbury, CT 06721
Birthplace of UNICO – Founded October 10, 1922
“Service Above Self”
In an attempt to foster unity and raise awareness, Waterbury UNICO is offering members the opportunity to purchase Chapter Shirts. These quality Jerzees Brand 50/50 shirts will be embroidered with our national logo, chapter name and have the option to be personalized.
Each member is able to order ONE shirt at a discounted cost of $10.00. If desired, additional shirts may be ordered at a cost of $25.
[Please note that there is an extra charge for personalization.]
UNICO Shirts Order Form Name:
Style Size Color Selection
& Quantity Optional Name*
3 Button – Men Short Sleeve Polo Shirt
S M L XL 2XL 3XL 4XL 5XL
BLACK WHITE RED NAVY
YES NO
3-Button – Ladies Short Sleeve Polo Shirt
S M L XL 2XL
BLACK WHITE RED NAVY
YES NO
V-Neck- Ladies Short Sleeve Polo Shirt
S M L XL 2XL
BLACK WHITE RED NAVY
YES NO
Long Sleeve Tee S M L XL 2XL 3XL
BLACK WHITE RED NAVY
YES NO
*Print Name to Appear on Shirt:
Lettering Imprint Color on White Shirt – Green
Lettering Imprint Color on Black, Red & Navy Shirt - White
Chapter Subsidized Shirt= $10.00
Additional Shirts X $25.00=
*Personalization X $6.50 =
TOTAL DUE:
Return completed form and payment to: Waterbury UNICO - PO Box 933 - Waterbury, CT 06721 Please make checks payable to “Waterbury UNICO”
Deadline to order is February 13th. If you have questions, please contact Francine at 203.510.0276 or [email protected].
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WATERBURY,CT 06708
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