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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 2020
Garibaldi Award Gabriella BrunoLyndhurst H.S. Benjamin StefanPoint Pleasant Boro H.S. Ella van BenschotenPoint Pleasant Boro H.S. Angelica DuncanRidge High School Honorable Mention Julia PellicanePassaic Valley High Gabriella Bruno of Lyndhurst High School plans to study elementary education and history at the College of New Jersey in the fall. Benjamin Stefan of Point Pleasant Boro High…
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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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Rutgers NJIHC Conference, October 28th, 2021
Dr Laccetti giving major address to IHC Conference, Rutgers, Oct. 28th. Kayla Sleeper (left) and Alessia Lombardi addressing the Rutgers NJIHC Conference, Oct. 28th. NJIHC Commission Director Robert DiBiase, with Garibaldi Award winners, Liliana Leuzzi, Cliffside Park HS, 2017, Kayla Sleeper, Whippany Park HS, Alessia Lombardi, Lyndhurst High, 2018 and Dr. Laccetti. Kayla and Alessia…
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New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission
(Left to right) Prof. Silvio Laccetti, emeritus, Stevens Tech; Julianna Russotti, student at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Robert Di Biase, chairman, NJ Italian Heritage Commission. An honor’s graduate from Watchung Hills Regional High School Russotti was a 2019 winner of the Garibaldi Award given by the Silvio Laccetti Foundation. She roused the audience…
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What is N.J.’s largest ethnicity? Award aims to remind us of ties to this beloved country
Laccetti: “There are some heavily Italian communities that don’t offer Italian language in their schools,…I thought we should revive the spirit of ethnicity — of our roots.” The Garibaldi award is given to high school seniors who have “excelled in promoting the Italian-American legacy” and familiarized themselves with the life of Garibaldi. Read full article…
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High school commencement: Beyond and beneath the pomp and ceremony
Article in Newsday High school commencement: Beyond and beneath the pomp and ceremonyRank is important, grades do matter, and the highest levels of achievement — including second-place finishes — must continue to be identified and acknowledged. High school graduations offer up the possibility of new beginnings to all attendees – not just the students getting…
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Silvio Laccetti Foundation 2020
2020 will be an exciting year for the many college student members, Garibaldi award winners, of the Silvio Laccetti Foundation. At its recent meeting, the foundation committed to two projects of public significance. The first is the Venice Project, which seeks to increase public awareness of the catastrophic economic, ecological, environmental and preservationist problems confronting…
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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…
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Foundation’s Venice Project an Astounding Success
The Silvio Laccetti Foundation decided in its January 2020 planning meeting to focus attention on the environmental problems of Venice. Originally, their plans called for Garibaldi Award winners to volunteer to raise awareness on their college campuses by showing a film and circulating petitions to ‘help save Venice’ from the behemoth cruise ships which were…