NATIONAL COPILAS GALA HONORS
THE AMBASSADOR OF ITALY TO THE UNITED STATES
AMBASSADOR GIULIOMARIA TERZI DI SANT' AGATA
AT BLACK TIE GALA ON APRIL 2, 2011
WITH EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP AWARD

LEFT TO RIGHT: FR. LIDIO TOMASI, PASTOR OF HOLY ROSARY CHURCH, ANITA MCBRIDE, MASTER OF CEREMONIES, AMBASSADOR TERZI, DR DANIEL STABILE, PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL COPILAS, MRS. MONICA STABILE AND ARCHBISHOP PIETRO SAMBI, APOSTOLIC DELEGATE AND PAPAL NUNCIO TO THE UNITED STATES.

MR. FRANCO NUSCHESE RECEVIES OUTSTANDING SPONSORSHIP AWARD

LEFT TO RIGHT: DR.STABILE, MR. FRANCO NUSCHESE, PRESIDENT, GEORGTOWN ENTERTAINMENT GROUP AND PRINCIPAL OWNER OF CAFE MILANO, AND MRS. ANITA MCBRIDE, MASTER OF CEREMONIES

DR. STABILE PRESENTING FIRST COUNSELOR CRISTIANO MAGGIPINTO THE NATIONAL COPILAS SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Dr. Stabile Challenged the Italian-American Organizations at the Gala with the following statement:

"Are we going to be the remembered by our grandchildren and beyond as the generation of Italian Americans permitting the demise of the Italian Language and culture, such at the AP Examination, diminishing enrollments and programs in our American schools, cultural centers and our families values or are we going to move forward with all the intestinal fortitude and gumption necessary preserving our cultural values, customs and traditions, and be remembered as the generation that met the call to action and preserved our language and culture? Without equivocation, we will do what ever it takes to make it happen. In the words of Charlie Chaplin , comedian, 'you ain't seen or heard nothing yet' We are moving forward and responding!"