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Newsmakers
Winter
2005
ANTHONY
BIANCHI was elected to the city council
of Inuyama, making him the first North American to hold
elected office in Japan. Bianchi, 44, won the most votes
in the council's history. In Japan since 1988, teaching
English, he plans to interest young people in government
and make the tradition-laden council more open to new
ideas.
RALPH CICERONE has
been elected president of the National Academy of Sciences
in Washington, D.C. A leading environmental scientist,
Cicerone now heads the nation's leading society of scientists
that includes more than 190 Nobel Prize winners among
its 2,000 members and is in charge of advising the government
on issues of science and technology.
LUCIANO D'ADAMIO, M.D.,
Ph.D., is a leading researcher in the
causes of Alzheimer's disease. From his laboratories
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York
City, D'Adamio has discovered that an overproduction
of amyloid beta deposits kills neurons in the brain essential
to attention, judgment, learning and memory. His work
could lead to better treatment and drugs for this disease.
SALVATORE Di MASI is the new Speaker
of House in the Massachusetts state legislature. Elected in Oct. 2004, Di Masi
together with Senate President Robert Travaglini are the two most powerful men
in the Massachusetts legislature. Their elections mark the first time in the
state's 224-year history that Italian Americans hold these two positions. Other
notable Italian Americans serving Massachusetts are Boston Mayor Thomas Menino
and State Auditor Joe DeNucci.
THOMAS FOGLIETTA, former U.S. ambassador
to Italy and long-time U.S. congressman from Philadelphia, died Nov. 13 following
routine surgery. He was 75 years old. He began his career at age 26 as a city
council member, the youngest in Philadelphia's history.
SUSAN NIGRO GELSOMINO is one of
the world's few contrabassoon soloists. In 2004, she had several world premieres
playing music written specifically for her. For recital dates, to hear audio
clips or order CD's, visit: www.bigbassoon.com.
MICHAEL GRECO, will become president-elect
of the American Bar Association (ABA) in August 2005. He is the first immigrant
and the first Italian American to head the ABA since its founding in 1878. Born
in Italy and raised in the U.S., Greco graduated from Princeton University and
Boston College Law School and has built a 32-year career as a trial lawyer, mediator
and arbitrator. Currently he is a partner in the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart,
LLP.
A. DAVID MAZZONE, the federal judge
whose landmark rulings led to the massive $3.8 billion clean-up of Boston Harbor
in the early 1980's, died Oct. 26 of cancer. He was 76 years old. A Harvard graduate
and Korean War veteran, Judge Mazzone was appointed to the federal bench in 1978
by President Jimmy Carter.
CAROLYN MANTO is one of only 52
artists whose work has been accepted by the National Sculpture Society Exhibition
in New York City, which begins in January. Her "Arethusa" was chosen
from more than 568 works by 127 sculptors competing for this important exhibit.
MARIO PANICCIA was named among
the top 50 U.S. scientists in 2004 by the Scientific American magazine.
The director of photonics technology at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, Paniccia
built low-cost, mass-produced silicon circuits for high-speed optical switching—a
technology that could lead to cheaper, faster connectors between servers in corporate
data centers, between personal computers and servers and eventually between chips
inside PCs themselves.
RACHEL RAY is teaching busy families
how to prepare meals that are fast and healthy. Of Italian and Cajun heritage,
she began her career selling candy at Macy's in New York. Ray has had a successful
run operating gourmet markets but found her passion teaching cooking classes
that became the popular Food Network series, 30 Minute Meals. Check
local listings for times.
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