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Notiziario Ufficiale del circolo italiaNo di dallas • ottobre 2015 • Vol 36 NUm 10

The unofficial holiday commemorating Italian-American culture and heritage is Columbus Day, officially recognized the second Monday in October. And the Italian Club of Dallas celebrates this special day at our most elegant evening of the year, our Fall Gala!

Celebrated at the Clubhouse, it’s a “must-attend” event for our Members and guests. The annual theme sets the tone for the evening ~ from the glamour of Italian cinema to the majesty of Italy’s mountains at a Notte Bianca, Gala attendees eagerly anticipate their first glimpse of how the distinctive decorations will set the mood. The evening features a gourmet five-course dinner accompanied by fine Italian wines and, throughout the evening, music and dancing. There’s no better way to spend time between courses than by burning off a few calories on the dance floor!

A highlight of the evening is the Silent Auction. A wide variety of Italian wines, along with gourmet baskets, art, and much more, are available for bidding. As the close of the auction nears, the action gets more intense as bidders try to out-strategize their amici to ensure that special case of Barolo or the assortment

of fine Italian liqueurs goes home with them! And after dinner those of us with a sweet tooth experience a taste of heaven on earth at our dessert table, filled with homemade Italian cookies lovingly baked and contributed by our Members - or, if you prefer, you can head straight to the liqueur bar!

The 2015 Fall Gala will be held on Saturday, October 17 with the theme Dall’Uva al Vino, or “From Grapes to Wine.” Our entertainment for the evening will be provided by DJ Diamond Dave, so be ready to kick off those high heels and hit the dance floor.

Plan to spend this magical evening with your amici at the Italian Club! Reservations are required and can be made at the Clubhouse or through Eventbrite here.

Event Underwriting and Wine Sponsorship opportunities are available and are essential in making the evening a success for the Club. And, of course, volunteers are always needed to make this event as special as it can be, so whether your specialty is baking cookies, decorating, or just lifting and carrying, your help is needed and appreciated! Click here to request more information on underwriting or volunteering.

colUmbUs Day gala ~ Dall’Uva al vino

STATE FAIR OF TEXAS 2015Save the date to see the performing group on

Oct 11, 2015 at the State Fair. Time of performances to be announced.

letter frOm the presiDeNt

Ciao a tutti,

My first thoughts as the 4th quarter begins is to say Grazie ancora to all the members who continue to support our Club each week and each month, especially throughout the summer.

We have so many wonderful members each week helping in our kitchen, dining and bar area not to mention the great turn out to help clean the Club in August. To the committees and volunteer people for the Cicerone, the special events, the cultural, the membership, the charitable events, the facilities group, the Festa Italia – 2016 and the board of directors we can’t say THANK YOU enough for your continuous support.

During this 4th quarter of the year let’s focus on just one month at a time. October is a very important month for the ICD. This year our Fall Gala, traditionally our biggest fund raiser, is in October and it is fast approaching. We are counting on our membership to support – “DALL’UVA AL VINO” on October 17. The success of this Gala generates the revenues the Club needs to help us through the 4th quarter and into 2016.

Please be generous with your support of the Gala

• Sponsorshipslevels–BrunelloorAmaroneorChiantior Pinot Grigio

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• Makeyourreservationtoattend

• Volunteertobake

• Participateinthesilentauction

It promises to be a great evening for all – there will be something there for everyone – wonderful wines and plenty of appetizers, a delicious dinner, dancing and unbelievable desserts.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there and thanking you in person for all your support you give our Club.

Tante belle cosa

Ken Venuso President ICD

culiNary eveNts

Wednesday ~ Pasta & Pizza Night: October 7,14, 21, 28. Doors open 6 p.m. Every Wednesday evening features our fantastic antipasti bar and one of several pasta or pizza selections for a great price. Add extras if the mood suits you – meat, seafood & veggies. Pasta or Pizza - Members $12 / Non-Members $16; Antipasti Bar only - Members $8 / Non-Members $12.

Call for reservations and large tables (972) 931-9167 or http://icdcena.eventbrite.com

friDay ceNa scheDule & priciNg

Member Adult $20 / Non-Member Adult $28 Reservations are kindly requested as seating is often very limited.

October 2 ***Raffle night October 9

October 16 Guest Cena *** Raffle night October 23 October 30 Halloween

Come, visit and enjoy the company of friends with a glass of wine while waiting for the delicious meal Chef Gerard and Chef Christian have prepared for our enjoyment. Join us, you know you will enjoy a great meal. DON’T FORGET TO BRING A GIFT TO RAFFLE OFF WITH OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY…… It’s just a lot of fun! What a great way to celebrate any occasion at the Italian Club, come and have a great evening Guest Cena, bring your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, it’s a great event to introduce them to our treasured Italian Club of Dallas. *** What a great time to re-gift those extra gifts that you have no use for - bring them to the Club. They might become someone else's treasures and make them very happy. Your donations assist in increasing the Club treasury. ***. Each Friday, we make special time to enjoy Cena (dinner) with famiglia e amici (family & friends) Come and Trick or Treat for an evening of fun and great food. Visit the Club for a delicious four-course menu, enjoyed insieme (together). Join us to savor the taste of authentic Italian dishes from fresh ingredients & recipes old and new, prepared by our Chef. Share the joy of good food, good wine and good company ~ Italian-style! Weekly menu available via Club Mail. Reservations recommended at (972) 931-9167 or online at http://icdcena.eventbrite.com .

Save the DateChildren’s autumn Festival

October 31 at 11am

Save the DateChildren’s Christmas Party

San Nicola - December 5

raiN fails tO DampeN the Olympic spirit sPeCIal olymPIans anD ICD volunteers Ignore raIn

What had been forecast as a “20% chance” for a passing rain shower instead became an hours-long area wide downpour. Be that as it may, the rain did nothing to deter the dedicated Special Olympians and our staunch Italian Club volunteers from soldiering on and keeping the bocce balls rolling. Some came prepared with umbrellas and rain gear while others did not. Regardless, the rain was ignored by all as a mere inconvenience and the tournament continued although somewhat soggily but uninterrupted.

As always the Special Olympians brought a level of intensity and skill to today’s games that is ever to be greatly admired. Bocce and all the Special Olympics Tournaments including ones such as Bowling, Softball, Basketball, Swimming and others mean so very much to the participants and their families. You see it in the pride in the eyes of the mothers and fathers of the Special Olympians as they cheer on their sons and daughters. And you see it in the can do attitude of the Special Olympians themselves.

And all in all that’s why there’s pride in my eyes for those Italian Club volunteers who devoted their time and energy to officiate in today’s tournament and my pride in our organization, The Italian Club of Dallas, for being a supporter of Special Olympics of North Texas.

To Carole and Carlo Strippoli, Carol and Charlie Castellano, Mary Ellen and John DiTucci, Karen Mungioli, Semira Pacifico, John Pully, Nick Parigi, Carrie Harris, Dee Mellett and Dottie Parlapiano, Thank You, Thank You and Thank You.

Ben – Chair, Charitable Outreach

OttOriNO respighi – empire Of sOuND a CeleBratIon oF rome

September 9 we had the great pleasure of having Gigi Norwood from the Dallas Wind Symphony give a presentation about their upcoming concert September 15 of the works of Respighi, The Fountains of Rome, The Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals. She gave a wonderful insight into the music. The Club was full that night and I hope many of you took advantage of her discount offer.

My sister Mary and I attended the concert this past September 15 and enjoyed it tremendously. We “ran into” John and Hildy Pulley who came with Toni and Nick Parigi. We all agreed the concert was a thrilling experience.

Thank you, Gigi, for opening our eyes to one of the great things about Dallas.

OctOber bOOK club News

Escape to Tuscany where in A Vineyard in Tuscany, A Wine Lover’s Dream author Ferenc Mate` invites you to join him and his wife as they pursue their fantasy of creating a memorable Tuscan wine. As they pursue their dream, their ambitions lead them to create a memorable and award winning Brunello. The Book Club will meet at the Club at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28, 2015. If you would like more information about the Book Club, please contact the Coordinator, Norma Iacovo at (972) 386-4321 or niacovo@tnsk.com.

i cOlOri italiaNi aND i piccOli cOlOri

Our very own Traditional Dance group, “I Colori Italiani” and “I Piccoli Colori” just performed Labor Day weekend on September 6 at WESTFEST in the town of West, Texas. The event was great and energy packed. Anna Maria Battaglia and Larissa Chobany came back and joined us, dancing beautifully as if they had never left. Anna Maria will be in her second year at the University of Siena. She is home for summer vacation and came back to dance for this event. Larissa just received her Master’s in Dance Therapy and Counseling and is job hunting.

Our children performed wonderfully and the audience loved them. Other adults who helped make this a great show were Bill Lombardi, Frank DiSimone, Andrew Chobany, Carrie Harris and our Director Maria Chobany.

Our next performance is at the State Fair on October 11. Please come out and enjoy.

club reNtal

It won’t be long before pictures of sugarplums will be dancing in our heads. The holiday season will be here before we know it, with friends and neighbors gathering to celebrate the season.

The Italian Club facility is available for your holiday events! Melissa and Francesca can help you plan the food, from appetizers to wonderful desserts, decide the decorations, and provide the best pricing.

If you’re not throwing the party, you can also sponsor friends and family to rent the Club. They will receive value for their plans and you also help support the Club. See the brochure at the desk as you enter our Club “A Taste of Italy” for food package and prices.

Spread the word to your friends and business associates that the facilities are available. Melissa Partin Stoa, our banquet manager, can work with everyone to create the right combination of food and pricing. For more information or an appointment, contact Melissa at (972) 931-9167 or by email to mlpartin1@yahoo.com

Save the Date for Mother’s Day

Brunch on May 10!

atteNtiON all club members

We have a tremendous amount of history in our Club and many wonderful members who donate their time and money to help spread our Italian Culture and make this Club a place for all of us to come to enjoy with our extended family…our membership.

Our purpose is to respect, honor and cherish our history and past members who have helped build this Club. In addition, we also want to acknowledge people from our current membership base. We have many members who give their time and efforts to this Club freely and do things for the Club because they want to do it. The Club is like family; if someone needs help we go over to their house and help out.

The Board selected two individuals for this month. We have an open door policy on nominations so anyone can nominate someone and give their name to the Board.

Keep in mind there is no specific order or rules to go by here, it’s just a simple criteria of saying GRAZIE MILLE to a member who helps make this Club a better place for this month or since they have been a member.

Ken Venuso President ICD

grazie mille - member Of the mONth

This month the Board wants to recognize a person who loves to read and made her passion a benefit for many members at the Club. This member has spent hours reading and researching Italian books for the ICD Book Club which she began several years ago. Our GRAZIE MILLE honoree this month is...

NORMA IACOVOI first met Norma on a Wednesday night when she was conducting one of her monthly book club meetings. My interest was to ask her to attend an upcoming New Membership meeting to talk about the ICD Book Club.

You could see from those attending the meeting all eyes and ears were focused on what Norma had to say. She does a lot of research on the Italian authors and the books and makes a personal effort to select books people would like to read.

She puts together a brochure of the nine books the Club will read during the year. They have a two-month summer break in July and August and have the month of December to enjoy the holidays.

It takes a lot of time to put together all this, but that doesn’t slow her down because she helps with articles for the Cicerone and did a great job introducing the Book Club at the New Membership reception we held.

Norma is another of our wonderful members who is great to sit down and visit with. She has a great attitude and is always willing to help or volunteer to help the Club. If you see an empty seat next to her on Wednesday or a Friday Cena sit down and enjoy a wonderful evening

If you are not part of the Book Club take the time to visit with Norma next time you see her at the Club and while you are visiting. Say Grazie Mille for all you do for the members and the Club and continue to do month after month.

GRAZIE MILLE NORMA

a lOOK bacK – grazie mille

As a Club that stands for Italian culture we have an obligation to honor and cherish our past. We have a group of individuals who are known as Founders, lifetime members or long time members.

They helped establish and build the Club. They helped create what we have today: a Club that is a place to enjoy being around friends and family and the Italian culture. It is up to our current and future members to learn from our past and to remember what these individuals created,

THE ITALIAN CLUB OF DALLAS

Once again we are challenged to select someone who was there at the beginning or at an early stage of the Club or a member we all know, but our aim is also not to single one person out, because his or her contributions are greater than someone else’s. Our focus is on honoring and cherishing people from our past or current membership base but in no specific order.

It is with pride the Board announces as our Honoree this month of “A LOOK BACK”

DOMENICK IACOVO – GRAZIE MILLE

The Italian Club was created for people of Italian heritage to share their knowledge of Italian culture and traditions, speak the Italian language with other members, have fun and above all be Italian.

Domenick is definitely one of our many members who loves to sit down and talk with you about the Italian traditions and culture. He can go back to his own family in New Jersey or even further back to his family ties in Italy.

When given the chance, like at New Membership receptions, Domenick will recall stories how he went to the city where his family is from and talked about his aunt and other family members and the traditions and culture they shared with his family. His home town is even the same home town as Nicola and Livia Tamburinno.

Yes Domenick can share many stories of weddings and other events from Italy or times with his brothers and sister growing up. If you walk around the Club and see old photos on the wall just say thanks to Domenick for putting them up and he will be happy to tell you about them as well.

These Italian values inspire Domenick to be a big supporter of the Club. He and his wife Norma are Life Time Members and he is one of our past presidents of the Club. He dedicated one year to focus on just the Italian Club and helped lead the Club through some challenging times. He still continues to serve the Club as our legal counsel and offers assistance to the treasurers and other board members.

Like many of our members Domenick shares that common thread of strong loyalty to the Club and willingness to help and support what the Club may need throughout the years.

It has been said many times that the Club’s members become like our family and we are proud to have Domenick not just for the things he has done and continues to do for our Club, but more importantly, because he is family and we count our blessings that he is part of the Italian Club Family. From all of us at the Italian Club of Dallas,

GRAZIE MILLE DOMENICK IACOVO

We are rearranging the office space at the club. If anyone has a desk that they can donate to the cause, please contact Melissa or Francesca via email.

francabarone@gmail.com -or- Melissa.Partin@italianclubdallas.org

CHICKPEAS SOUP

Ingredients:• 11/8pounds(500g)chickpeas• Abayleaf• Acloveofgarlicfinelychopped• ½smallonion• ¼cupofceleryfinelychopped• 1tbspfreshItalianparsley• ¼cupofoliveoil• Pinchofsalt• Pinchofblackpepper• Chickenstockasneeded(optional)• Apinchofsodiumbicarbonate(optional)

Directions:Soak the chickpeas overnight in lightly salted water, adding a pinch of sodium bicarbonate if you want -- it hastens the cooking of the chickpeas, but leaves an aftertaste many find offputting. Drain the beans and put them in a pot with freshwatertocoverandsimmerfor½hour.Drain½ofthewateronlyifyouwilladdchickenstock.Addalittlesalt,the bay leaf, the clove of garlic, chopped celery, chopped onion, parsley and olive oil. Cover and simmer for at least two hours, or until the chickpeas are soft.

icD welcOmes cONsOle geNerale D’italia eleNa sgarbi

The Italian Club of Dallas held a special reception on Sept 8 for Italian Console Generale Elena Sgarbi at their Club in Addison. Many members and Italians attended the reception to meet the Honorable Elena Sgarbi. It was her first time in Dallas since becoming Console Generale last year.

CG Sgarbi was accompanied to the Club by Mary Ann Webster, a member of the COMITES. Reuben Sonnino, another member of the COMITES, was in attendance and special committee members Francesca Barone and Lisa Newman, who are members of the ICD, were at the reception.

The reception was hosted by the ICD Board Members – Ken Venuso, President; Carole Strippoli, Vice President; Barbie Gumin, Secretary; and Paul DiCarlo, Al DeMarzo and Francesca Barone.

Several Past ICD presidents were also at the reception including the Club’s first president Roberto Agostini, as well as Luigi Mungioli, Maria Chobany and Ron Miglini.

The reception had an array of Italian appetizers thanks to Jimmy’s Italian Food Store from Italian cold cuts to cannoli along with many additional breads and appetizers prepared by Semira Pacifico, Club manager Melissa Stoa, and board members Paul DiCarlo and Francesca Barone.

The highlight of the evening was the talk by CG Sgarbi who thanked all the many attendees for coming after the holiday weekend and how pleased she was they worked around her schedule so she could be at the Italian Club that evening.

CG Sgarbi spoke about how important it is to continue to promote and maintain the Italian culture and traditions from the previous generations who brought them from Italy. Just as important is how the Italians of today in Dallas have embraced these traditions and incorporated them into their life styles and are shown through the special events and festivals put on by the Italian Club of Dallas.

For those in attendance, they had the pleasure of sitting down with the

CG Elena Sgarbi for a one-on-one visit and of course posing with her for a photo to cherish the moment.

State Rep. Matt Rinaldi could not be at the reception, but ICD President Ken Venuso read his letter to CG Sgarbi and the audience. Rep. Rinaldi wrote about how the Italian Club of Dallas offers so much of the Italian culture to the Italian community in the Dallas area.

The Club gave CG Elena Sgarbi a special edition of its Festa Italia brochure which shows many of the activities at the Festa promoting Italian culture and traditions. Seeing the many pictures of the I Colori dancers in their beautiful Italian Costumes inspired her to say she wants to attend Festa Italia 2016.

Grazie to the Italian Console Generale Elena Sgarbi for making Sept 8 a memorable moment for all of us at the Italian Club of Dallas were comments of all the attendees at the reception.

member News Diane Caneva lost her Mother, Lillian Caneva, on Sept 12. Please remember the Caneva family in your prayers.

Lena and Joe Jackson have had their ups and downs. Joe appeared at the Club one Cena to pick up some take out. He looked good.

Joe and Camille Manginelli are both dealing with health issues.

Bea Dixon, a long time previous member, has been fighting a problem with her eyes.

Francesca Barone is recovering from foot surgery. You would never know, because she is a constant at the Club! She is always pitching in for cooking and other needs.

Many of you remember Frank and Marie Frontario who were long time members until they moved to Florida. Recently Marie fell and broke a foot which required a cast. She is still determined to enjoy the cruise they had planned.

Give these members a call to let them know we miss them and hope they are soon back at the Italian Club with us. Except Francesca who must have a cot in the back, because she is always there.

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Wyatt showing his hard work

Time to make Italian meatballs

Nonno Carlo getting a sweat to keep up with Nolan and Wyatt under the eyeful

watch of Nonna Carole

Jordan making pasta

NONNi e NipOti WoW! great Fun!

Grandparents’ night was amazingly fun for Nonni e Nipoti.

Jordan Neal with her Love to Cook apron working at the pasta machine making

tagliatelle while Nolan and Wyatt Strippoli showed off the finished product.

Once finished with pasta making they eagerly tackle the learning of making Italian meat balls. What a Success!

That was hard work but very satisfying; they got to take their finished product home to share with their parents. SO

PROUD!!!!!

After the hard work, time to play and show Nonno Carlo who is the best in

bigliardino, and of course the Champions were Nolan and Wyatt.

Jordan was our youngest Champion and showed off a few moves to all of us.

What a great evening! Thank you to all!

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W W W . I T A L I A N C L U B D A L L A S . O R G

The Mission Statement of the Italian Club of DallasTo explore, preserve, and promote Italian culture, language, history, and traditions; perform charitable works; and foster

social interaction within the community.

La Missione del Circolo Italiano di DallasConoscere, conservare e diffondere la cultura Italiana, la lingua, la storia e le tradizioni; fare opere benefiche; promuovere i

rapporti sociali all'interno della comunità.

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Ken Venuso - PresidentCarole Strippoli - Vice President

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Paul DiCarloAl DeMarzo

Francesca Barone

Save the Date Seven FiSheS • December 6