Professional

City Wholesale Liquor Company - Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Maselli Development Compnay - Apartment, Retail Shopping Centers and Warehouses
1984 World's Fair and Exposition - Italian Village

 

Civic Activities

Tulane Medical School (1991 to present) - Chancellor's Council
New Orleans Aviation Board (1990 to 1998) - Vice Chairman
Piazza d' Italia Development Corporation (1990 to present) - President

Louisiana Italian American Advisory Commission (1993) - Chairman
American Tour of La Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria (1992) - Principal New Orleans Organizer
Louisiana Quincentenary Commission (1991) - Chairman
Immigration Conference (Rome,1991) - Delegate
Arthritis Foundation (1991) - Chairman
Cultural Exchange Program (Rome,1991)
Piazza d' Italia (1973) - Co-Developer with New Orleans Mayor Landrieu

 

Honors

Center for Italian American Culture - Un Ballo in Maschera 1994
Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Centennial Commission - Medal of Honor 1990
Italian Government - Grande Ufficiale 1989
National Conference of Christian and Jews - Weiss Award
SIAMO - Dante Man of Letters 1989
UNICO - Antonio R. Rizzuto Gold Medal Award1988
Child's Wish Organization - Crystal Achievement Award 1986
University of Naples - Primo Dorso Award 1985
Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem - Knight, 1978
GNOICS - National Italian American Man of the Year 1977

Italian American Involvement

National

1992 to present - Louisiana Italian American Advisory Commission Chairman
1990 - American Italian Historical Association - Conference Chairman
1989 to present - Italian American Legal Defense and Higher Education Fund, Inc.
New York Advisory Board
1988 to present - National Commission for Social Justice - Advisory Board
1981 to 1999 - National American Italian Foundation (NAIF) - Vice Chairman
1981 to 1985 - National Italian American Coordinating Association - Chairman
1980 - Southern Italy - Built Children's Medical Center in Laviano, Italy
1974 to 1988 - Ethnic Advisor to Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan

Local

1978 - Festa d' Italia - Founder
1976 - Italian Earthquake Victims:
Chaired Fund-Raising activities as well as rebuilt City Hall of Venzone, Italy
1974 to 1992 - Italian American Renaissance Foundation and President
1974 to 1982- Italian American of the Southeast - Founder and Chairman

Publications

Italian American Digest
Who's Who in America
The Year 2000

Education

Tulane University (BA) - New Orleans, Louisiana

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