Father Teodoro Lucente, director of the Artigianelli Institute (originally the Di Giorgio orphanage), presented all Homeland Tour members with a print of this poem in Italian. This prayer has become the Institute’s credo. Learn a lesson from the past, But live in your time, listen and understand the voices of the universe, of the earth,…
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Mafalda Evelyn Di Giorgio Grant, born February 22, 1916, died Sunday morning, August 13, at the age of 90, from heart and lung problems. She and Bill had been married for 65 years. She was the last of the second generation of Di Giorgios in America.
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I first met Evelyn in 1938 at the University of Oregon. She had been at USC but didn’t like it because it didn’t have her idea of a campus. She and her mother had driven from LA to Wenatchee to visit her brother Sal, and on the way back went through Eugene and got a good look at the campus. It met her idea, and she promptly decided to transfer.
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Bill Grant recently revealed the truth behind his parents’ kitchen renovation back in 1930. Jack and Frankie Grant’s house in Barron, WI, had a storage shed just outside the kitchen. Among other items, the shed held a tank of gasoline for the car. One afternoon when Jack was out, Frankie asked Bill (then about 12…
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Our journey to Vietnam and return home with our second adopted son, Logan.
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Harry Peter Sforzini, a lifelong Santa Clara Valley resident and businessman, died peacefully in his sleep on January 22, 2010. Born in Mountain View in 1916, his life spanned and mirrored most of the 20th century.
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Given by Gerry Nelson, Past President of the Mountain View Kiwanis.
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Born in Portland, Oregon, February 14, 1944. Son of Evelyn DiGiorgio and Wilbur J. Grant; godson of Sal DiGiorgio; brother of Philip Gary Grant.
View Steve Grant: An Autobiography »Harry’s eldest daughter, Sharon, awards the Harry Sforzini Scholarships to Mountain View and Los Angeles high school seniors on behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View.
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