2009Calendar Of Events

May 28
LICS Golf Outing
Conestoga Country Club
Frank Innacola to register 717-735-8828

PHOTOS of EVENTS

Our speaker will be Alessandro Casadei della Chiesa. Alesandro is the Vice President of Operations for the Italian owned company CAREL which has its North American Headquarters here in Lancaster County.
Alesandro will talk about his life experience in Italy and how he adapted to Italian corporate life eventually coming to America. He will discuss the Italian economy and how his company decided to invest in America.

Christopher Accardo of Ephrata High School, who plans to attend Ithica College in Ithica NY, and Bryson Velletri of Lancaster Country Day School, who plans to attend University of the Sciences at Philadlephia, were selected from a list of 12 applicants.

They wrote essays on Italian regions and Italy, respectively, that were judged by four educators: Cindy Burkhart, executive director of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit; Enrica Gerhart, principal of Akron Elementary School, Larry Roda, a retired English teacher who taught at McCaskey High School and Giovana Faleschini Lerner, Assistant Professor of Italian at Franklin & Marshall College.

Christopher Accardo is committed to social causes. He served as president of Ephrata High School's chapter of the Peace Council.He has coordinated several events including drives to collect shoes for a local charitable organization, money and hygienic supplies for Clair House and cereal for Water Street Rescue Mission. He also initiated a schoolwide recycling program.

He successfully completed Advanced Placement course in literature, European history statistics and composition. Accardo has written 32 short stories and 10 poems in his portfolio. This year hews awarded the gold key in Lancaster Public Library's Scholastic Writing Awards.

Christopher has participated in various high school music organizations which include marching, concert and symphonic and jazz bands, and the wind and percussion ensembles. An inductee of the Tri-M Music Honor Society, Accardo has been the principal percussionist for the high school musical groups and served as president and drum line captain for the marching band.
He works for his mother at her yoga studio in Ephrata.

In his free time Accardo volunteers in the warehouse at Ten Thousand Villages to prepare for sales and major events. He attends sittings at the Red Rose Sangha (Buddhist Temple) in Lancaster. Christopher enjoys reading the works of Ernest Hemmingway, Douglas Adams and Joseph Conrad.

Bryson Velletri enjoys chemistry and has been active in his high school as a member of the Baseball team, and as the leader of the community service club. He has been on a Rotarian mission to Peru, has built bird houses for Longs Park, and has been an active member in the Little Conestoga Watershed Alliance . As a Senior project he did a year-long study of riparian buffer zones. This past winter he participated in the Model United Nations in the Netherlands, representing the country of New Zealand, and submitting a proposal for the funding of the international criminal tribunal. Bryson also worked part time at Stauffers of Kissel Hill and will work full time this summer at Colonial Electric in King of Prussia. He enjoys working on cars, racing cars, reading and boating. His grandmother is Lidia Maglio who was born in Fregento Avellino, and his grandfather (who is deceased) was from Sturno Italy. His Paternal family was originally from the city of Velletri, Italy.