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Dreams really do come true. "We're halfway there!" exclaimed Dominic Candeloro, co-chair of the Campaign to Create an Endowed Professorship of Italian American Studies at Loyola University Chicago.   "We started formally about a year ago and the first nine months were really challenging, but year-end donations in 2013 brought us within strik...

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  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Our dear Italian language. Who among us has never faced a word of Italian language? Surely spaghetti, opera, amore, pizza are among the most popular words ... and yet the lexicographic material of our beautiful language contains a huge trea...

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By Steven Litt   A $1.6 million renovation has brought the historic but underused Alta House in Little Italy back to luminous vitality as the new home ofCleveland Montessori School, previously housed at nearby Holy Rosary Church.   On a gray Wednesday morning, the school's second day in its new home, parents pulled up at the East 125t...

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Program Overview Through the Sons of Italy Foundation® (SIF) with hundreds of thousands of family members located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) has awarded nearly $59 million in scholarships to date. In past years, the SIF has offered 10 to 12 merit-based scholarships (National Leaders...

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A partire da domani, venerdì 30 gennaio, il chapter di Mantova di Filitalia International, organizzazione internazionale impegnata nella diffusione della lingua e della cultura italiana nel mondo e nel rafforzamento dei rapporti tra Italia e Stati Uniti, avvia corsi di lingua angloamericana.   Pasquale Nestico, fondatore e presidente emerito...

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Michael Pizzini, son of John Thomas Pizzini and Airey Phelan Pizzini, is a Junior Music Education student at Loyola University New Orleans. He has been singing on stage since he was 10 years old and is thrilled to be continuing with Loyola's fabulous production of Gianni Schicci.   He is following his grandparents', parents', and sister's le...

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by Maureen Daye   Linda Schiano, who teaches Italian at the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School, enthusiastically shared her knowledge about how to create and cook pasta with more than 100 eighth-graders on a recent day at the school.   Some 10 years ago when Schiano began teaching at MEMS, she came up with the idea of having an annua...

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After a delicious Italian buffet catered by Rocco's Restaurant and served by members Cheryl Caira, Julie Manos, Alicia Johnson and Terri Woods, the Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge 2183 of Wilmington awarded several $1,000 scholarships at its June 19 meeting. To begin the awards program, Trustee Lennie Malvone personally awarded a $1,000 scholarship...

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by Cassandra Day   Thanks to modern technology, a group of children learning Italian language and culture "traveled" across the North Atlantic to last weekend to meet the mayor and students just like them who live in Middletown's sister city of Melilli, Sicily.   About 10 children ages 7-13 who study at the city's Italian American Com...

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The Italian Teachers Association of New Jersey (ITANJ) and the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America at Montclair State University joined forces on March 26th for their seventh annual collaboration, Italian Language and Culture Day.   This full day of performances showcased the hard work and creativity of middle school and h...

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