Social Journal 6

Arriverderci, Francesco Talo

Minister Francesco Talò was fêted the evening before his departure for Italy one final time with 40 friends, including leaders of the Italian and Italian American communities. The reception was held at Hudson Cliff House, residence of Mr. & Mrs. Stefano Acunto.

Minister Talò

Ms. L Airos, of i-Italy; Dott. Strano, Dott. Paradiso; Dr. Bilha Chesner Fish, M.D., member of the IAF Board, Loyse Paradiso

Mr. Acunto presents a proclamation from New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to Consul General Talò

Ms. Helen Fioratti, Dott. Paradiso, Cav. Carl Morelli.

Hon. Mike Spano, member of Assembly New York State; Dr. Caren Heller, M.D.; Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, M.D.; Dott. Riccardo Strano, Director of ENIT; Francesco and Ornella Talò; Dott. Berardo Paradiso, President of IACE and Mr. Acunto

Mr. Acunto; Mrs. Marco Alberti, Carole Acunto, Ornella and Francesco Talò, Vice Consul Marco Alberti, Dott. Lucio Caputo, Chairman of GEI

Minister Talò with Carl Morelli, President of the U.S. Chapter of the Savoy Orders

Baritone Lawrence Harris, entertains with arias from the opera and Broadway

John Cabot University Student Center Opening

The John Cabot University Marc and Peggy Siegel Student Center was officially dedicated on October 3rd, 2011 at a gala party held on the University’s campus to mark the opening.

JCU Chairman Joseph Hagan

The Plaque

Mrs. Peggy Spiegel with Hon. Frank Guarini

Former Ambassador Frederic Vreeland, Trustee; Mrs. Spiegel; Mrs. Vreeland; Mrs. Pat Hagan, wife of the chairman of the JCU Board; Hon. Frank Guarini

Mrs. Spiegel and Mrs. Pavoncello

President Pavoncello welcomes guests

JCU Trustees John Dunlap and Hon. Judge William Martini.

Hon. Guarini with Ms. Vivian Cardia and Mrs. Siegel

JCU administrator Jacqueline Maggi with Trustee Sal Davino

Trustee Barbara Ciongoli; JCU Administrative Director Jacqueline Maggi; Claudia Acunto

Tom Pecora with Dr. and Mrs. Franco Pavoncello

John Cabot University Student Center Opening

Perugia International Film Festival Preview

The Italian Academy Foundation assisted in forming the Perugia-Hampton Film Festival cooperative effort, and attended the Perugia Film Festival launch in October

Oscar-winning costume designer James Acheson; Claudia Palmira Acunto; Kim Brizzolara, Hamptons Film Festival director, and Stefano Acunto

David Nugent, Perugia International Film Festival (PIFF); Mark Ankner of WME; Emanuele Rossi, President of PIFF; Claudia Palmira Acunto; Karen Arikian, Artistic Director PIFF; Stefano Acunto; Francesca Romana Degl’Innocenti.

Jennifern Ahn, Managing Director The Martin Scorsese Film Foundation, Rajendra Roy, Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of the Department of Film MoMA

The Perugia International Film Festival officially launches at the Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia.

Radicati paintings on display in Rome

Together with the launch of his new book 11 settembre – io C’ero, a show of art works of Giorgio Radicati appear at the prestigious Studio S Gallary near Piazza del Popolo in Rome

Studio S Gallery (Rome) owner Carmine Siniscalco, Giorgio Radicati, Anna La Bella, Genny Di Bert and Stefano Acunto

Publisher Gino Iacobelli with Genny Di Bert

A gift from the New York Fire Department to Giorgio Radicati, a helmet worn by a firefighter during the World Trade Center tragedy

One of the Radicati’s mixed media works commemorating the 9/11 disaster.

IAF and ARPA

IAF Chairman met withDott. Franco Mosca in Pisa to further the relationship between his Fondazione ARPA and the IAF. The Italian Academy Foundation and the ARPA Fondazione will collaborate in two medical / media projects in 2012.

IAF Chairman with Dott. Franco Mosca