UNICO kc Newsletter 03/11/2025
- Michael Cucchiara
- Mar 11
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 24
![]() | "Marzo pazzerello, esce il sole e prendi l'ombrello" - Italian Proverb Translation : Crazy March, the sun comes out and you grab your um-brella | ![]() |
Upcoming Meetings/Events - Save The Date(s)
March 2025 Wed March 26th Monthly Meeting @Johnny C’s 7012 Universal Avenue, KCMO 64120 Cocktails at 6pm Dinner at 7p | April 2025 Wed April 23rd TBD | May 2025 Wed May 21st Scholarship Dinner Jewel Event Space Scholarship Winners and Families in Attendance, spouses are welcome |
Salve UNICO Familia
I hope everyone has thawed out a little and is enjoying the warmer weather. For the Cucchiara household, yardwork and soccer season have started, so I hope you get to spend some time doing something you en-joy with the warmer weather.
Shrimp Dinner—Thank you to all who supported our Annual Fundraiser with volunteer hours, purchas-ing tickets and attending. If you have not sent in your checks for tickets, you can still mail them to our treasurer or use the donate button online.
UNICO Scholarships—The deadline for KC Chapter applications has now passed. However, if you have candidates still looking for scholarship opportunities, please follow the link and scroll to the bottom of the page for directions to our UNICO National site (they are still accepting applications).
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Heritage Committee—Heritage Committee continues to do some wonderful things. One of their recent endeavors is to work with Christopher Miceli to create UNICO Heritage Page on the website. Please check our the new page on our website at your earliest opportunity.
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They are also working with Jasper Mirabile to support his monthly dinner adventures where you can learn to prepare some of their Italian specialties. There will be a new dinner each month, so follow the link to our events page for more information. https://unitedventuresllc.wixstudio.com/unicokc/events
The Committee is also looking for your support to find pictures/headshots of all of our past UNICO Presi-dents. Please refer to the list in the appendix of this letter, and if you can help us with pictures of any past presidents you can reach out directly to Jody Valey at 816-807-7048 or email Jody@KCItalians.com
A Night Out—If you are looking for a night out exploring some Italian Culture, the Latin Jazz Institute is hosting a KC-Italy Jazz Project for all ages on Saturday March 22nd. You can check out our events page for more information.
Festa Publication—We are looking for articles to post in this years Festa Italiana Publication shared at our Festa each year. If you have something you would like to see in print, please reach out directly to Frank Cherrito with questions frankc07000@gmail.com.
Bring a potential member—The March and April monthly meetings are a great time to bring a potential member with you as your guest to dinner. Our Chapter covers the dinner expense for all 1st time guests you have invited as a potential member.
Monthly Dinner—We have a new events page to collect monthly dinner RSVP’s. Please RSVP with the link provided. https://unitedventuresllc.wixstudio.com/unicokc/events
If you are attending and would like to pay online, simply click the donate button and then note the dona-tion is for the next monthly dinner. If you are attending but would prefer to pay in person, please RSVP only at the right of the page. You will need to include your email and if you are only RSVP’ing for yourself you are done. If you RSVP’ing for additional persons please note that on the page.
Saluti,
Michael A. Cucchiara
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UNICO National
Kansas City Chapter, Past Presidents
Frank Mazucca 1950-52
Nicholas J. Nero 1952-54
Louis Tritico 1954-56
Dr. James A. DiRenna 1956-59
Nicholas Lombardo 1959-61
Americo Felici 1961-63
Louis Bellanti 1963-65
Anthony Pace 1965-68
Alexander Nigro 1968-70
Dr. Louis Badeen 1970-72
George Grego 1972-74
Tudie S. Patti 1974-77
Ross J. Cascio 1977-79
Carl DiCapo 1979-81
Tom Rago 1981-83
Victor G. Cascio 1983-84
Joseph D. Vigliaturo 1984-85
Ross J. Cascio 1985-86
Phil Balano 1986-88
Charles Malaponte 1988-89
Larry Janacaro 1989-90
James B. Murray 1990-92
Dr. Henry Cosentino 1992-93
Jerry Fornelli 1993-96
Bennie Sciortino 1996
Glenn Kesse 1996-98
James LaSalle 1998-99
Joseph LoCascio 1999-2000
Carl DiCapo 2000-01
Ross Marine 2001-03
Eric Parrinello 2003-04
Anthony Pace 2004-05
Joe A. Nastasi 2005-07
Melchior “Mike” Cucchiara 2007-09
Frank Cherrito 2009-11
Mike Mange 2011-13
Michael Cucchiara 2013-15
Mark Enna 2015-17
Frank Cherrito 2017-19
Nicola Merenda 2019-21
Frank Cherrito 2021-24
Michael Cucchiara 2024-
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