Our FOUNDERS
(From left to right) MICHAEL ANGELO PONTRELLI, AUGUST CARLONI, PAUL CARUSO, CARL A. "TONY" CAPOZZOLA
(Co-Founder Eugene Damiano now resides in Florida. The Honorable Mario Clinco, a Superior Court judge who was a co-founder, is deceased. He was represented at the event by his widow, Betty Clinco.)

Our PRESIDENTS
From left to right (seated): PAUL CARUSO (1977), MICHAEL ANGELO PONTRELLI (1978), GEORGE WEST SR. (1981) (Dec'd.), THOMAS CACCIATORE (1982), Hon. BRUCE SOTTILE (1983), [a telephone, marking the place of Hon. LAWRENCE CRISPO, who telephoned from Italy] (1984), PHILIP BARTENETTI (1985), WILLIAM TORTU (1986); (standing): DIANA CARLONI (1988), CAREY CARUSO (1989), Hon. GEORGE SCHIAVELLI (1990), PATRICIA LOBELLO-LAMB (1991), AUGUST CARLONI (1992), DALE La CASELLA (1993), WAYNE DAPSER (1994), ROCCO LIBERIO (1995), JO-ANN W. GRACE (1996)

President Jo-Ann Grace hands phone to Co-Founder and Past President Michael Angelo Pontrelli while Co-Founder and Past President August Carloni observes. On the other end, telephoning from Italy, is Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Crispo, a past president. It's 5 a.m. in Italia when a droopy Crispo calls to extend his greetings over a speaker-phone. (Standing is Metropolitan News Company Assistant General Manager Vahn C. Babigian who oversaw technical arrangements.)

Co-Founder Tony Capozzola holds up 1977 photo of the founders.

Betty Clinco, widow of Co-Founder Mario Clinco, is congratulated on her moving remarks to the organization by Past President/Co-Founder August Carloni.