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2022 Charlie Kontos Award Winner
The Silvio Laccetti Foundation proudly announces that Logan Bateman of Montclair High School, NJ is the 2022 Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award winner. He is honored for his tremendous effort in organizing and implementing significant preservation work at the Bonsal Reserve in Clifton, NJ. From Rutgers’ web site: access the original article here. The Charlie…
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Garibaldi Award Winner 2022
The Silvio Laccetti Foundation has announced Francesco Pontoriero of Warren, NJ as a winner of its prestigious Garibaldi Award. Winners are chosen from among 14 North Jersey High Schools whose students excel in Italian Studies and who have advanced the Italian American legacy in their schools or communities. Francesco is a junior honor student at…
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Garibaldi Award Winners 2018
Garibaldi Award Jillian CaltagironePassaic Valley H.S. Adam Fogarty & Charles DardisWatchung Hills Regional H.S. Victoria GatopolousBecton Regional H.S. Alessia LombardiLyndhurst H.S. Nicholene SilipinoHammonton H.S. Kayla SleeperWhippany Park H.S. Garibaldi Certificate Joseph BarberioHammonton H.S. Salutatorian (Sally) Award Ana Bozic Garibaldi Award winner Jill Caltagirone with father Alan, mother Stacey, and Mike Rinaldi (right), 2018. Watchung Hills’…
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Garibaldi Award Winners 2019
nj.com: 2019 Garibaldi Award Winners Announced → Garibaldi Award Anthony BrachBridgewater-Raritan H.S. Isabella MarraBecton Regional H.S. Julianna RussottiWatchung Hills Regional H.S. Katelyn PetersLyndhurst H.S. Lauren Lalama & Christina FolanPassaic Valley Regional H.S. Erin Getcliffe & Gabriella La FalcePoint Pleasant Borough H.S. Cathrine DjelevicDumont H.S. Angelina GalettaHammonton H.S. Honorable Mention Anthony SammaroneLyndhurst H.S. Rishi BhatnagerWatchung Hills…
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Garibaldi Award Winners 2021
The Foundation is proud to announce the 2021 winners of its Garibaldi Award. This year we decided to give the award to juniors of significant accomplishments. In this way, these students would have an additional year of high school to work with the Foundation on its various programs, the principal one being the effort to…
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Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award 2020
The Silvio Laccetti Foundation has just announced a new award, the Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award. This award has been named for one of Prof. Laccetti’s Stevens students who went on to begin a promising career in Wildlife Biology. Charlie Kontos was 33 when he died suddently of an undiagnosed heart condition in 2010. Charlie…