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Andrew,
I just went through all of your FANTASTIC photos from our days in Italy. It was so much fun seeing our professors and friends. Professore Prosciutti was a class act. He truly loved helping his students and hosting them in his home. I will be sending you my photos from 1976 this week. You are doing a great job organizing this reunion!
Just thought of another person. Stephen Chabot did the 3 month language course in 1976. He is currently a psychiatrist in RI and MA. His office number is 401-722-3560. I'm certain he would like to be included in this wonderful reunion that Andrew is organizing.
Tony -
I've been practicing in Rhode Island for twenty years and did not know about Steve Chabot. My first year I worked with another behavioral neurologist at a psych hospital. Steve took an elective with us!
I met Sal LoPorchio a few years agop. We both graduated from a local law school.
Next week I'm heading to Italy for my honeymoon. Not sure if we'll make it to Perugia. There is just too much to see.
Best wishes,
Jeff
Jeff,
Hope you had a great honeymoon in Italy. Looking forward to seeing you at the reunion on June 28, 2008. I know it will be a blast.
Tanti auguri!!!
Andrew,
Outrageous job. I am an internist in CT....still in contact with lots of the boys of Liceo 76..Tommy Appuzzo (family practice NY), Paul Lombardi (IM ny),Greg Lynch (fp new hampshire),Tracy Carbone (neonatal nj),Pat Friccione (PA), Joey Raccuia (liver surgery, NY NY), Vic Cillis (Peds, cape cod), Mark Kudisch (GI,Texas), Steve Cowen (Peds NY). I will be there and so will most of them. Lets all round up as many of our fellow classmates as possible. You even found Johnny Di Pietra. UNreal. You deserve a lot of praise. Great Job.........Ralph
We all have to make every effort to contact our fellow classmates that we are each in turn in touch with......this is a one shot deal..Andy has done a lot of work here.........so now its up to us. So, get out your telephone/address books and Email and call everyone and get them to Newark in June. Ci Vediamo........
Lori and Andy, thank you for a wonderful evening! Your dedication and hard work were much appreciated. It was such a pleasure to see many friends with whom I shared a very special time in my life. This reunion was clearly the BEST I've ever experienced. I look forward to more in the future.
Andy and Lori- sono d'accordo con l'eminente Dott. Ricci al 100%. Ci vediamo alla prossima festa (? a Perugia!)
vin marcaccio
Andrew,
I cannot seem to get to the blog spot from where I'm located. Host country limits Internet access. But I thought this might be a good story for folks at the reunion.
For those who might remember, I was the guy who never ceased to piss and moan about how hard learning medicine was, let alone learning it in Italian. Italian this, Italian that. And I did it to anyone who would listen until their ears would bleed. Yeah, I was that guy.
Fast forward 25 years. At the age of 58 instead of retiring, I joined the Army. I was commissioned and sent to Afghanistan on my first deployment. Each froward operating base( fob ) usually has coalition troops present from one of 30 or so countries. The one I was sent to had a small (100soldier ) contingent of Italians, many of whom were combat medics and docs who were teaching the afghans about combat medicine and point of injury care. The problem was that the Italians did not have any means to communicate with our brigade aid station when they were bringing casualties in. There is a format that the U.S. Army uses to identify number and type of casualty. Since the Italians didn't know the format, and nobody could translate, it was always a surprise at the door as to how many and type of casualty. That occasionally slowed things down and we lost some soldiers. Then I show up. I was able to translate our format, get the radio operators in sync, and help the Italian docs with our processes and procedures. Who would have guessed, 35 years ago, that the real plan for me going to Italy, was to eventually provide care for Italian soldiers and facilitate coalition partnership.. In friggin Afghanistan. Oh and btw, there is nothing in my military record about speaking Italian.
For the skeptics, who may think this just coincidence, I am currently deployed for the second time to the Middle East. We have Brit, Aussie, and Kiwi (New Zealander) soldiers here. An Italian contingent is scheduled to arrive mid June. And the random probability of that is?... Here we go again!
Hope you all have fun at the reunion! I am sorry I will not make it this time. And thank you Andrew for pulling this event together.
Very Respectfully, and with fond memories,
Jim Kelly
Brigade Surgeon
197th Fires Brigade
Camp RedLeg
Jim,
You were a pain in the ass in Italy...........LOL.....only kidding. Hey , your letter was wonderful , I for one am very proud of you . Keep up the good work , the boys from Italy are everywhere . Now , the bigger question that I was just pondering the other day is .......How is our language teacher from the villa Marilena Fruittini ? She was a ten back then , I bet she looks like Sophia Loren now .........take care , thanks for your service , we want to see you at the next reunion ........Ralph La Guardia
Forty one years ago yesterday I, and a group of my future fellow physicians, left this country to begin our journey. That journey has led us all in different directions, down different paths, and to different ends. For some of us the journey has come to a close. For others it continues. But wherever our journey has taken us thus far, wherever it takes us in the future, and wherever it ends, we will all have a bond that continues forever, as brothers and sisters, on the greatest journey of our lives.
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