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Newsmakers
Summer
2003
FELICE
SCADUTO BRYANT, who co-wrote more than 800
recorded songs with her husband, Boudleaux, died of cancer
April 22 at age 77 in Tennessee. Among her hits were the
rock 'n' roll classics "Wake Up, Little Susie," and "Bye
Bye Love," which helped make the Everly Brothers famous.
The songwriters' tunes sold an estimated half a billion
records worldwide. She was born Matilda Scaduto in Milwaukee.
PETER COCCI, a graphic
designer at the United States Bureau of Printing and Engraving,
has redesigned the U.S. dollar bill to make counterfeiting
more difficult. He has also designed several U.S. postage
stamps.
RICHARD DEVENUTI is
vice president of computer giant Microsoft, where he is
responsible for the company's internal technological infrastructure
and external communications. The University of Washington
graduate is the son of former NASA engineer Riccardo Devenuti.
FRED MARCIANO, M.D.,
an Arizona-based neurosurgeon, led the surgical team that
operated on former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch. The internationally
known neurotrauma specialist was called up for duty in
March and sent to Germany's Ramstein Air Base. He joined
an army reserve unit in 1990 to finance his medical training.
LUIS MARDEN, an explorer,
photographer and writer for the National Geographic Society,
died of complications from Parkinson's disease on March
3. He was 90. Marden, whose extraordinary career with
the magazine spanned 64 years, was pioneer in the field
of 35 mm color and underwater photography. He was born
Annibale Luigi Paragallo in Massachusetts.
REV. AL MASCHERINO,
59, renovated a hundred-year-old chapel near Shanksville,
Pa., adding a 40-foot bell tower to commemorate the sacrifice
of the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93 that crashed
near the chapel on September 11, 2001. Father Mascherino
got help from local contractors after buying and initiating
work on the building himself. Now a non-denominational
memorial chapel, it is called appropriately, "Thunder
on the Mountain."
JANA NAPOLI, a New
Orleans-based artist of Sicilian heritage, founded and
runs Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc. (YA/YA), which
helps artistically talented inner-city youth create and
sell their work. The kids keep half the proceeds and the
rest goes into their college funds. YA/YA clients include
Fortune 500 companies, MTV and Swatch. See www.yayainc.com,
e-mail yaya_art@earthlink.net
or call 504-529-3306.
DONALD J. PALMISANO, M.D., J.D.
is president of the American Medical Association. The
multi-talented Palmisano is an attorney, vascular surgeon
and Air Force general. He holds clinical professorships
in both surgery and medical jurisprudence at Tulane University
in New Orleans where he was named one of the city's "top
doctors" in 2001.
Stanford University professor GILBERT
SORRENTINO was a finalist for this year's PEN/Faulkner
Award for Fiction for his novel Little Casino.
He has published over eight books of poetry and a dozen
novels, including the highly successful "Mulligan Stew"
(1979). Sorrentino's Italian roots lie in the Sicilian
town of Sciacca.
Basketball phenomenon DIANA TAURASI
led her University of Connecticut Huskies team to a second
consecutive Division I National Championship this year
in Atlanta. At only age 21, she is already considered
one of the top female players of all time.
BARRY ZITO pitches
for the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball franchise.
He earned a spot on the 2002 All-Star team, and his eccentric
but endearing demeanor has garnered him several minor
television roles.
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