Page 142: (Photo) Caption: Patti, Mimi and Toni holding “Pixie” taken at poolside at Mimi’s beach house at Fort Walton Beach, FLa. in 1976.
Page 143: 1 – CARLA COTILLO PATERNO BARRATT-BROWN
Attended Bedford-Rippowam Country Day School, Bedford, N.Y., Foxcroft in Middleburg, Va. and Briarcliff Junior College in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. where she was graduated on the dean’s list. Spent two years at the University of Florence, Italy where she learned to speak the beautiful Tuscany dialect.
Daughter: Elizabeth Paterno Barratt-Brown, presently a sophomore at Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Son: Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown, graduated from Taft School, Watertown, Conn. in June 1979. Will attend Columbia University in the Fall of 1979.
2 – PATRICIA ANN PATERNO BUTLER
Attended Bedford-Rippowam Country Day School, Bedford, N.Y., Foxcroft in Middleburg, Va. While at Foxcroft elected to membership in the Wop Club and was awarded the traditional Italian Mussolini hat. This honor was bestowed only on the best riders. Attended Briarcliff Junio College and eloped with Rodney W. Mutch before completing her college career.
Son: Hugh Charles Mutch, was graduated from high school in Danville, Ky. Now living in Weston, Conn. with his father and in training with the Grand Prix horse “SANDOR.”
Daughter: Victoria von der Porten Mutch. Will be entering Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, Conn. in the Fall 1979.
3 – MINA MINTON PATERNO SCHULTES
Attended Bedford-Rippowam Country Day School, Bedford, N.Y. Member of the first graduating class of the new Kent School for Girls, Kent, Conn. (historically known for the boys’ prep school) where she was awarded the highest honors in “Art History.” Attended Goucher College, Timonium, Md. and then studied art for two years at Boston School of Art. On her own she obtained a job at the famous Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., in New York City.
Son: David Lawrence Cappiello, Jr. Attending junior high school in Niceville, Fla.
Daughter: Carla Ann Cappiello Attending elementary school in Niceville, Fla.
Son: William Berthold Schultes, our “Little Caboose” who came along November 10, 1978.
(Photo) Caption: Winter 1947. Patti, Mimi and Toni at our Ridgebury, Conn. home.
ACKOWLEDGEMENT
Special thanks go to Alfredo Achilles Abbate whose grandmother (Rosa Trivigno Abbate) and my grandmother (Carolina Trivigno Abbate) were sisters. Al was kind enough to furnish me with a great deal of family information, particularly about the old days in Castelmezzano.
Al Americanized his name to Alfred Abbott and is now a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Since retirement he has done a great deal of traveling around the world. The last time Helen and I saw him was when we were visiting my first cousin, Ralph Ciluzzi and his wife Yolanda in July 1975 at their lovely Villa Ciluzzi in Calabria which overlooks the Ionian Sea.
Gratitude is also expressed to my secretary Josephine Bocchino who has been with me longer than fifteen years and who typed and re-typed these anecdotes. Editorial ghosting was performed by a retired New York newspaperman living in Naples.
Page 146: (Photo) Caption: THE CORNER. Taken late in the afternoon with my wide angle lens from the top of my Buick Station Wagon with the help of Helen who was at the wheel.
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