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File #: 24888    Version: 1 Name: Recognition of Italian Workmen's Club Month - January 2012
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/21/2011 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: 1/3/2012 Final action: 1/3/2012
Enactment date: 1/4/2012 Enactment #: RES-12-00002
Title: Recognition of Italian Workmen's Club Month - January 2012
Sponsors: Paul R. Soglin, Michael E. Verveer, Lauren Cnare, Anita Weier, Shiva Bidar, Tim Bruer, Steve King, Lisa Subeck, Marsha A. Rummel, Joseph R. Clausius, Brian L. Solomon, Jill Johnson, Sue Ellingson, Bridget R. Maniaci, Larry Palm, Matthew J. Phair, Scott J. Resnick, Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, Chris Schmidt, Paul E. Skidmore, Mark Clear
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1/3/20121 COMMON COUNCIL Adopt Under Suspension of Rules 2.04, 2.05, 2.24, and 2.25Pass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/28/20111 Mayor's Office RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT UNDER SUSPENSION OF RULES 2.04, 2.05, 2.24, & 2.25 - MISC. ITEMS  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Recognition of Italian Workmen's Club Month - January 2012
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WHEREAS, from the very beginning of our country, Italians have brought honor to themselves and have enriched our national life. In the beauty of Washington DC, Italian immigrants carved the seated figure in the Lincoln Memorial, adorned the National Cathedral with statues, the Capitol Building with art and who built the State Capitol Building plus other Madison Landmarks; and

WHEREAS, the millions of Italians who came to the United States brought with them a distinct strength of character, faith in God, devotion to family and love of life; and

WHEREAS, a group of hardworking men whose speech bore the soft intonations of the Italian language who came to Madison to escape starvation and unemployment in their native land banded together in 1912 to form a mutual benefit organization, the club Lavoratori Sicilani Muto Socorso e Benificenza on January 18, 1912; and

WHEREAS, twelve of these men banded together to form the local society today known as the Italian Workmen's Club; and

WHEREAS, the club during World War II was one of the foremost purchasers of the U.S. War Bonds, demonstrating the members' loyalty to America and the progress they had made in attaining a place in society as "solid citizens"; and

WHEREAS, until 1948, meetings of the society were conducted in Italian; thereafter, the English language was officially used since many of the younger members chose English in preference to their native tongue;and

WHEREAS, many past and present members of the Italian Workmen's Club have been or now are successful businessmen and civic leaders in the CIty of Madison; and

WHEREAS, the Italian Women's Club remains a symbol of mutual assistance inspired by necessity in a strange land in an earlier day;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Mayor and City of Madison Common Council congratulates the Italian Workmen's Club on its 100th Anniversary ...

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