A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear members and friends:
By the time that you read this message, we will (hopefully) no longer be waiting for spring to spring. Winter this year has seemed to drag its feet (so to speak) and hang around longer than usual. It seems that we too waited a little longer than usual for the second AMHS program in 2018. It did take place however on April 15th at Carmine’s restaurant, where noted nutritionist and writer Diane Welland joined us for an extremely interesting talk on the history of pasta. She explained that pasta is actually good for us and that there are many tips on its use as well as many enticing recipes for preparing it – we just need to know where to look. See Nancy DeSanti’s article for more details on Ms. Welland’s entertaining talk.
The Scholarship Committee was hard at work over the month of April. The Committee received more than twice as many applications as last year, and the uniformly excellent credentials of the applicants required careful scrutiny and much deliberation on the part of the Committee. Learn who the winners are and a little about them in the next issue of the Notiziario.
Speaking of the Scholarship Committee, two members – Peter Bell and I – visited NIAF in early April to deliver the Society’s $4,000 scholarship check. NIAF matches that amount and the two organizations jointly fund the two scholarships that are awarded each year to two very deserving students. See the article in this Notiziario for further details regarding our visit.
The Society’s next meeting is scheduled for June 10th at Casa Italiana. It will feature a talk on immigration by Professor Thomas Guglielmo of George Washington University. Given the prominence of this issue in today’s news, the presentation should be both timely and instructive. Further information and a flyer for the meeting are in this Notiziario. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, there is a membership renewal form in this edition of the Notiziario.
If you are unsure whether your membership is current or expired, check your email queue (or the stack of regular mail on your desk at home) to see whether you have received a notice from our Membership Chair, Lynn Sorbara, regarding the need to renew your membership. If you have, you can use the form included in the Notiziario to keep your membership current. Simply fill it out and send it along with your dues to Lynn’s address, which appears at the bottom of the form. In this way you will stay in the loop on what is happening in the Society and also help to keep our membership strong, which is key to maintaining our healthy financial footing. I hope you enjoy the rest of the Notiziario and the wonderful season of spring too!
Ray LaVerghetta