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MARCH/APRIL 2012To All Italian Club MembersPlease share your family history with us. You will have the opportunity to do so on Sunday, April 1, 2012, in theItalian Club Cantina.The Festa Italiana Cultural Committee is seeking photos (family/weddings/parties, etc.), artifacts, handmadecrafts, clothing, dishware, pottery, etc., or anything that has been handed down to you from your ancestors thatyou can share with us. We are also looking for any type of sports memorabilia, trophies, medals, photos, etc.that involved any Tampa Italians.We would like to display them in the Cantina for Festa Italiana on Sunday, from 10am – 6pm. The cherisheditems will be protected in glass cases and a volunteer will be there at all times to insure their safety. Items canbe brought to the Italian Club on the morning of the Festa from 9:00 – 10:30am. Please contact Barbara Poolat 1-727-264-7573 or 813-230-3390, or Tony DiSalvo at 727-417-3698 or 727-726-5004 if you would like todisplay your items or if you want to make arrangements for bringing them at an earlier time.We are also in need of volunteers for a two-hour block of time, between the hours of 11:00 am - 5:00 pm, tohelp us man this display. Please contact Vienna Fuente at 813-220-1474 if you would like to help.Thank you so much in advance,The Festa Cultural CommitteeDundee RememberedA few years back I caught upwith Angelo Dundee, the acclaimedboxing trainer, Muhammad Alicorner man and on-set advisor toWill Smith (“Ali”) and RussellCrowe (“Cinderella Man”). It wasearly evening at the Italian Club inYbor City. The Philadelphia native,Oldsmar resident and adopted son ofYbor, who recently died at age 90,was doing a book signing – and a lotmore. He had just co-authored “MyView From the Corner” with boxinghistorian Burt Sugar.Dundee was Mr. Congeniality,shaking hands, exchanging backslaps, laughing heartily, holdingcourt, working the house andregaling everyone with back-in-thedaytales. Happy Hour was rarely thisgregarious – even at the hands-onItalian Club.Some notes you keep. A fewDundee outtakes:• Early Ali: “He was an introvert.”• “You know all that ‘poetry’ thatAli was famous for? It was mostlymine. And it stunk.”• “What did I teach Ali? How tomove • “What in the did ring. he [Ali] But lose I made himthink after being it was out his [via idea.” Vietnamdraft protest] of boxing inhis prime? He lost his edge.He never regained it.”• “The greatest boxerever? Willie Pepp. Thegreatest impact on thesport? Ali.”• “The Muslims reallydidn’t affect me. I did myPAGE 15job. I don’t get involved with thingslike a person’s religion.”Gene V. SiudutAssistant to the EditorLa Gaceta Newspaper3210 E. 7th AvenueTampa, FL 33605813.248.3921