To: July 2016 Issue No. 0716 Madam President Reali’s Message PRST STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT #64 PORTLAND, ME 04101 40 Westland Avenue Portland, ME 04102 MADAM PRESIDENT, CARMELA DALFONSO REALI I would like to thank everyone for voting me in as your new President. I am honored and will work hard for the members and for the business end of the Italian Heritage. This month during the General Meeting, July 21st we have two more scholarships to be given out. (Madison Bennett will be receiving the Irace Family Scholarship and Megan Devlin will receive the First ever Employee scholarship, given by the IHC & Dominic and Linda Reali). Members, please attend to give these students your support. We are looking to fill the vacant position of Activity Director. At this time, one more year is remaining on the term. If you are interested in this position and would like to run, please come to the General Meeting on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and either nominate yourself or have someone nominate you. Please feel free to call me with questions at 939-8570. Rocco Toppi has resigned as Board of Director, effective June 1, 2016. Thank you Rocco for your participation and work you have done. Great job! We are looking to fill the vacant position of Director. It is the remaining two years of the term. If you are interested in this position and would like to run, please come to the General Meeting on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and either nominate yourself or have someone nominate you. Call me if you have any questions. PLEASE REMEMBER TO PAY YOUR DUES BY THE END OF JUNE 2016. YOUR KEY CARD WILL BE DEACTIVATED AT THAT TIME IF WE DON’T RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT. THANK YOU. I would like to welcome out our newest members to the IHC. They are: Anthony Salvaggio, Jason Jendrasko, Mary-Elizabeth Nielson, Michael Iosua, Glenn Stankiewicz, Philip and Andrea Doria, Albert DiMillo, Carlo and Cheryl Doria, Carmine Terracciano, James and Lucretia Romano, John Romano, Nicholas and Marcia Russo, Rudolph DiMillo, Catherine Dascanio, Francis and Joanne Bellino. Thank you. Cammy Reali, President July 21, 2016 Board Meeting & General Assembly Board Meeting - 4:00 pm General Assembly - 6:30 pm Cost - $12 per person Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm. Please call 772-2500, ext. 15 for dinner reservations. Reservations must be made no later than July 19. This is a members only dinner and meeting. You will need your key card when paying for your meal. 1
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To:
July 2016 Issue No. 0716
Madam President Reali’s Message
PRST STD
U.S. POSTAGE
PAID
PERMIT #64
PORTLAND, ME
04101
40 Westland Avenue
Portland, ME 04102
MADAM PRESIDENT, CARMELA DALFONSO REALI
I would like to thank everyone for voting me in as your new President. I am honored and will work hard for the members and for the business end of the Italian Heritage.
This month during the General Meeting, July 21st we have two more scholarships to be given out. (Madison Bennett will be receiving the Irace Family Scholarship and Megan Devlin will receive the First ever Employee scholarship, given by the IHC & Dominic and Linda Reali). Members, please attend to give these students your support.
We are looking to fill the vacant position of Activity Director. At this time, one more year is remaining on the term. If you are interested in this position and would like to run, please come to the General Meeting on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and either nominate yourself or have someone nominate you. Please feel free to call me with questions at 939-8570.
Rocco Toppi has resigned as Board of Director, effective June 1, 2016. Thank you Rocco for your participation and work you have done. Great job!
We are looking to fill the vacant position of Director. It is the remaining two years of the term. If you are interested in this position and would like to run, please come to the General Meeting on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and either nominate yourself or have someone nominate you. Call me if you have any questions.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO PAY YOUR DUES BY THE END OF JUNE 2016. YOUR KEY CARD WILL BE DEACTIVATED AT THAT TIME IF WE DON’T RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT. THANK YOU.
I would like to welcome out our newest members to the IHC. They are: Anthony Salvaggio, Jason Jendrasko, Mary-Elizabeth Nielson, Michael Iosua, Glenn Stankiewicz, Philip and Andrea Doria, Albert DiMillo, Carlo and Cheryl Doria, Carmine Terracciano, James and Lucretia Romano, John Romano, Nicholas and Marcia Russo, Rudolph DiMillo, Catherine Dascanio, Francis and Joanne Bellino.
Thank you.
Cammy Reali, President
July 21, 2016 Board Meeting & General Assembly
Board Meeting - 4:00 pm
General Assembly - 6:30 pm Cost - $12 per person
Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm. Please call 772-2500, ext. 15 for dinner reservations. Reservations must be made no
later than July 19. This is a members only dinner and meeting. You will need your key card when paying for your meal.
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Officers & Board of Directors
Contact the President . . .
All members may contact President Carmela Reali by calling 772-5831 or 939-8570.
By-Laws Paul Connolly 799-1131 Cultural Jim DiBiase 767-2292
Activities IHC 772-7715 Health & Welfare Mary Keaney 767-2440
Charity Kathy Paquette 272-0573 Sergeant of Arms Robert Doyle 776-8834
Health & Welfare Committee … If you know of any IHC members who are ill, or recently deceased (including family members), and would like the IHC to send them or their family a get well card, sym-pathy card, or mass card, please contact:
Mary Keaney at 767-2440
La Cantina Summer Hours-July and August
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Lounge opens at 4 pm; last call 8:30 pm; lounge closes 9 pm Happy Hour Thursdays - last call 9:00 pm; lounge closes 9:30 pm Friday Nights Lounge opens at 4 pm; last call 11:30 pm; lounge closes 12 am Saturday Nights Lounge opens at 4 pm; last call 8:30 pm; lounge closes 9 pm Lounge is closed Sundays and Mondays (no liquor service)
The club will be closed from 4:00p.m. Thursday, June 30, 2016 and reopening Friday, July 8, 2016 at 4:00p.m.
Summer is upon us, after a very busy year. July and August weekends are busy with Weddings and events and then Fall will be back before we can blink. This July happy hour will be on the second Thursday, July 14 and will be a Summer barbecue theme. Please join us for some fun drinks and food. A huge, huge thanks to my staff once again. We had a record breaking year and some huge parties! Mancini Electric 50th Anniversary party, held on June 18, was a spectacular event with over 300 guests and the room looked amazing; draped in red and black and gold accents. Some of the best desserts you could ever try were provided by Baked With Love, owner Elizabeth Roberts; and Maine Event Design and Decor provided back drops and beautiful centerpieces. Photos will appear on the IHC Facebook page. Have a safe and Happy July 4th! Kimberly A. McDonough
June General Meeting Winners
50/50 Winner
Joan DeRice with President Reali
Quorum Winner
Albert DiMillo
with President
Reali
General Manager - Kimberly McDonough
Members for Vote . . . The following will be voted on at the July General Meeting:
Regular Members Italian Name Sponsor
Helen Malarsie Malarsie/Errico Barbara Pileggi Erica Darling Manderelli Nicola Cox Associate Members Sponsor Joanne Morin Carmela Reali
If you are not receiving your newsletter via email
and you would like to, please send me a
message to the above address or give me a call.
You will receive our newsletter much faster via
email.
Nicola Cox
Key Cards
Your Key Card will be deactivated on June 30,
2016 if we have not received your membership
renewal.
Please remember that you can renew online
using your credit card or you can mail or drop
your check off in the box located in the IHC
lobby.
Congratulations to our newest members
(l-r) Albert DiMillo, Carmine
Terracciano, Catherine Dascanio,
President Reali, Rudy DiMillo,
Philip Doria, Andrea Doria, Michael
Iosua, Glenn Stankiewicz
(not pictured): Francis and Joanne
Paris Bellino, Jason Jendrasko,
Anthony Salvaggio, Carlo and
Cheryl Doria, Mary-Elizabeth
Nielson, John Romano, James and
Lucretia Romano, Nicholas and
Marcia Russo
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Two IHC administered scholarships were awarded at the June 16, 2016 General Meeting.
Long time scholarship benefactors, Dominic and Linda Reali, awarded the Reali Scholarship to Cassidy Coyne, daughter of IHC members, Patti and John Coyne. Cassidy will be attending the University of New England in the fall. She graduated from Deering High in the top 7% of her class with better than a 95% average. She was the recipient of the St. Anselm book award which is “awarded to a student in the class of 2016 that has excellent academic achievement, an awareness of social responsibility, a display of leadership skills, and possesses strong character.” According to her guidance counselor, Tracey Moore, this “describes Cassidy perfectly.” Cassidy read her winning essay about her mother to the membership.
The first annual Germani Family Scholarship was presented to Erika Darling by Louis and Rose Germani's daughter, Liz. Erika is the wife of IHC member, Michael Darling. Erika will be returning to Kaplan University this fall, seeking her RN. She currently has a 4.0 GPA and as her Student Advisor, Matthew Cremer, said, he is “confident that she will continue to turn in similarly excellent academic performances in this term and the terms to follow.” Erika read her winning essay about her mother-in-law, Nikki Cox, to the membership.
Our thanks to the Germani Family and Dominic and Linda Reali for their ongoing support of the IHC scholarship program. Without the generosity of such dedicated IHC members we would be unable to offer these scholarships each year.
If you are interested in joining the scholarship committee, please contact Carl Paquette via email: [email protected] or by phone (207)956-3588.
We had another successful spring season for our Gin players. The nine winners were Tim Hamm, Jean Shaw, Sam Mack, Bev Waterman, Dick Barter, Joe Ferrante, Mary Toppi, Bob Allen, and Sis Norris.
After the play off, the following people placed:
First Place-Jean Shaw
Second Place-Sammy Mack
Third Place-Sis Norris
Congratulations to all the top players. The bottom nine players decided to play for the top of the bottom. Carolyn Barker won that playoff.
I want to thank everyone in the gin family for everything this spring. It was a pleasure to host gin, and I am planning on hosting it again next year. Gin will start up again sometime in September.
In the meantime, if anyone is interested in playing gin during the summer, some of us will be play-ing on Wednesday evenings in the Cantina. Come on down if you are interested in playing.
If you would like to learn how to play, I will be available to teach you how to play on Wednesday evenings this summer. Give me a call at 899-5149, and we can arrange a time to play. We would love to have more members join us on Wednesday nights this fall.
One Cup Flour, Four Eggs, and A Pinch of Salt We need your recipes!!!
The IHC Activity Committee is producing a new cookbook due out in November. We have collected 60+ recipes to date, but we need more. You only need to send in ONE recipe to help make this a success.
You can drop your recipe off at the IHC or send them to Vicki Dunn at [email protected].
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The Charity Committee is taking a well deserved break for the summer months but that doesn't mean we're not around to help when needed. Please don't hesitate to call or email me, or any other member of the Charity Committee, if you know of anyone that may be in need of some aid.
There will be no Italian Movie Nights during the summer, but ……
Join us again in September for the first movie of the fiscal year. The movie, released in 1950, is about one of the most famous Italian-Americans of the 20th Century. It’s an American movie entirely in English and is sort of auto-biographical based on this person’s career. You can’t rent it, buy it or see it at the movies or on TV in the United Sates. You’ll only be able to see it at the IHC.
A Thesis on Italian Immigration Experiences
Any children or grandchildren of Italian immigrants interested in telling their own story of their folks’ Italian immigrant experience, and who would like to be interviewed for the record to be archived in the Library of Congress, please contact Robin DiDominicus at (323) 810-8341.
Book for sale
There are still some copies of Jamie Carter Logan’s book “Built on Family” for sale for $10 in the Cantina with 30% of the proceeds going to the Cultural Committee. As Jamie states in her Introduction, the book strives to provide a deeper understanding of life in Portland’s Little Italy and the key role which family and community played in day-to-day life, while furthering an understanding and appreciation of Italian-Americans’ contribution to Portland.
Upcoming Events:
Trip to Italy (Sicily, Calabria, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Sorrento, Capri, Mt. Vesuvius, Rome) scheduled for September 26th through October 8th, 2016.
There are no Cultural events scheduled for July, but your Cultural Committee is hard at work to provide
the IHC membership with some new and exciting programs to span the new fiscal year.
Italian Idiom for July:
Fare le corna a qualcuno (to put the horns on someone). If your wife or
girlfriend 'puts horns on you', it means she’s having an affair. You can either use the
phrase or simply make the horns gesture to imply someone is being cheated on.
But where does the expression come from? In Greek mythology, Parsifal, the Queen
of Crete, had an adulterous relationship with the Cretan Bull. Her son, the Minotaur,
was born with the body of a man and head of a bull – the horns acting as a symbol
of his mother’s extra-marital affair. Italian cities which were founded by the Greeks, like Naples,
inherited several of their gestures and sayings. Nowadays the gesture can be used as an insult even if
you've got no reason to assume someone's partner has been unfaithful. For example, you’ll often see
angry Italian soccer players make the horns sign at the referee!
Cultural Committee - Jim DiBiase
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Congratulations To Our New Officers and Board Members
Madam President Carmela
Reali sworn in by
President Frank Reali
Vice President Paul
Andriulli sworn in by
President Frank Reali
Treasurer Salvatore Bonetti
(right) sworn in by Past
President Martin Joyce
Director Rocco Ferrante
(right) sworn in by Past
President Dominic Reali
Membership Secretary
Nicola Mandarelli &
Nicholi Cox sworn in by
Past President
Marianne Reali
Recording Secretary
Adele Tonini Harnois
sworn in by Past President
Marianne Reali
Not pictured was Vincenza Dunn who was elected as a Director to
complete a one year vacancy.
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ACCOUNTANTS
RONALD L. TALIENTO 797-2831 Certified Public Accountant The River’s Edge 23 Bridgton Road Westbrook ***************************************************************************
BAKERS
BOTTO'S BAKERY 773-9647 550 Washington Avenue, Portland Italian Bread & Rolls • Pizza Shells Since 1949 Bob & Steve Mathews, Owners ***************************************************************************
BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTORS
Nappi Distributors 887-8200 615 Main Street, Gorham Miller Lite, Coors Light, Sam Adams, Shipyard, Allagash, and the largest variety of wines and craft beers in the area.
Family owned and operated since 1960, with roots dating back to 1933.
T.A. NAPOLITANO, INC. 799-0538 Electrical Contractor P.O. Box 2301, South Portland Commercial, Residential, Industrial www.tanapolitano.com ************************************************************************************************
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
CONROY-TULLY WALKER FUNERAL HOMES 773-6511 172 State St., Portland
1024 Broadway, So. Portland
Serving the Greater Portland community for over 55 years
Locally Owned and Operated
www.ConroyTullyWalker.com
******************************************************** JONES, RICH and HUTCHINS 775-3763 199 Woodford Street , Portland A Tradition in Caring Your Dignity Memorial Provider for 177 Years www.jonesrichandhutchins.com
Funeral & Cremation Services 660 Brighton Avenue, Portland Carrying on the Hutchins Family Philosophy Of Funeral Service. Locally Owned and Operated www.athutchins.com ***************************************************************************
HEATING OIL
BREGGY OIL & PROPANE SERVICE 772-4631 84 Congress Street, Portland Propane Service A.R. Breggia “60 years in Business"
HARBORCITY REALTY 775-1991 502B Woodford Street, Portland Jean Germani-Russo, Owner “Selling Greater Portland For Over 30Years” E-MAIL: [email protected] www.harborcityrealty.com ***********************************************************************************
MAINE REAL ESTATE NETWORK 883-5135 Lou & Carmel Croce 75 John Roberts Road, South Portland Mobile: (207) 838-0581; Fax (207) 829-5446 www.themainerealestatenetwork.com
"There's Nothing Like a Real Italian" Now located in Maine, NH, Vermont and New York 47 Convenient Locations Amato's Catering * 774-3975 Amato's Bakery * 774-3544 www.Amatos.com
Serving Maine Businesses Since 1902 *************************************************************************
BRUNO'S 878-9511
33 Allen Avenue, Portland Fine Italian Cuisine
******************************************************* DIMILLO'S ON THE WATER 772-2216
Long Wharf
Portland, ME
Steaks, Seafood, Italian Food www.dimillos.com
*******************************************************MAELILY & RYLEIGH’S 878-6575 BREAKFAST AND LUNCH 949 Forest Avenue Closed Monday Tuesday - Friday 6 am to 2 pm Saturday and Sunday 6 am to 1 pm
*********************************************************** PORTLAND PRESORT SERVICES 874-9780 100 Fore Street Portland, ME Daniel Terroni Complete mail service * 1st. class presort * 3rd. class bulk
*********************************************************** MAKING SENSE OF INVESTING 839-8150
Edward J. Doyle, AAMS, Edward Jones, Financial Advisor
Toll Free 866-839-8150; Fax 877-222-8915 28 State Street Gorham, ME 04038 www.edwardjones.com Member SIPC
