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The Lido Civic Club of Washington D.C. is pleased to announce that it will grant an award of $2,225 to the Casa Italiana Language School/Ente Gestore, to help support and promote the continuation of the AP Italian Language & Culture exam.   The grant will be used by the Ente Gestore to award $89, the fee for taking the AP Italian Languag...

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At a ceremony held at the Italian Embassy on June 19, 2014, the Lido Civic Club of Washington, DC awarded $50,000 in scholarships to seven outstanding Italian-American college students.   In announcing the awards, Francesco Isgro, President of the Lido Civic Club, said that "over the years we have honored prominent Italian Americans, such as...

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The Multilingual Classroom. An Asset for Teaching Italian And Romance Languages Italian Language Resource Laboratory. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street - New York, NY 10036 Saturday, 18 April 2015   Schools and college classrooms in the U.S. are increasingly multilingual. In order to bene...

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Norma Bouchard, Ph.D., will join San Diego State University as dean of the College of Arts and Letters, following the retirement of Paul Wong, Ph.D., later this year. Bouchard is professor of Italian and comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut.   She has served as interim associate dean for humanities,...

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By Jillian McCarthy   On Wednesday, April 29, students from Medford High School Italian classes attended the Boston Lyric Opera's final dress performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the Shubert Theatre in Boston. Forty free tickets were given to us by the educational department of the Boston Lyric Opera.   The bus to take us to...

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By Chris Dolmetsch   Columbia University won dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the school failed to use donations to promote Italian culture as the benefactors intended.   Several Italian-American families in 1927 donated $400,000, worth about $5 million today, to the university to erect La Casa Italiana, the "Italian House," on school...

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Studying famous opera pieces, will effectively help you build new vocabulary, as the memorization of the music facilitates the memorization of the words. Please join ICC native Italian instructor, Mirella Heimpel, to discover Italian opera, and learn more about Italian cultural heritage. Mirella will be the guide as students discover Verdi, and le...

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Central Alabama Community College and 2a s.p.a., an Italian foundry and zipper manufacturer, announced Wednesday an agreement to create the Center for Precision Machining at CACC in response to both 2a s.p.a. and area industries which have identified the need for a machining workforce.   "Community colleges are the perfect partner for my com...

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The K-6 Lincoln School Home School Association's (HSA) first "A Day at the Piazza" event will feature a best meatball competition, kids cupcake wars and a multitude of activities and prizes from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.  The idea for the event was thought up by fundraiser co-chairs, Nicole Greco-Peepas and Paula Sules, who felt...

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Every Wednesday night, a small group of students gather for their language course at the Italian Charities of America Inc. in Flushing, Queens. Ironically, the students are not interested in learning Italian, but a separate language that arrived during the wave of Italian immigration to New York City. These students are the children and grandchildr...

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