120 POUNDS OF FOOD COLLECTED BY BAY VIEW ACADEMY STUDENTS OF ITALIAN

Bay View Academy’s Upper School Italian Club and National Italian Honor Society recently organized a successful food drive to benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank (Providence, RI). Students collected 120 pounds of pasta, rice, canned beans, canned tomatoes and ready-to-use sauce. Catherine Amoriggi, a junior from East Greenwich, RI, was instrumental in reaching out to establish a connection between the Food Bank and Bay View’s Italian Club and National Italian Honor Society for this purpose. She has worked closely with the Food Bank in the past, producing a fundraising calendar featuring her original recipes.

Graziella Giampaoli (Providence, RI) and Antonelia Lombardi (Cranston, RI) are the Bay View Academy teachers who serve as moderators of the National Italian Honor Society and the Italian Club.

The students involved in the food drive were as follows:

Catherine Amoriggi (Junior, East Greenwich, RI)

Azzurra Catucci (Senior, Pawtucket, RI)

Christina DesVergnes (Junior, Attleboro, MA)

Jenna Krapf (Junior, Providence, RI)

Camilla Macera (Sophomore, Hope, RI)

Cristina Marsocci (Senior, North Scituate, RI)

Stephanie Mattiello (Senior, Cranston, RI)

Marcella Mazzenga (Junior, Cranston, RI)

Bianca McAfee (Junior, Greenvill, RI)

St. Mary Academy - Bay View is an independent Catholic School for girls open to all faiths, Pre-kindergarten through Grade 12, located in East Providence, Rhode Island and sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy. In existence since 1874, Bay View endeavors to provide a quality education preparing girls and young women for the challenges of the global community. St. Mary Academy - Bay View is a college preparatory school accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. 

About the Sisters of Mercy:  The Sisters of Mercy – an international community of Roman Catholic women – dedicate their lives to God through vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service.  For more than 180 years, motivated by the Gospel of Jesus and inspired by the spirit of their founder, Catherine McAuley, the Sisters of Mercy have responded to the continually changing needs of the time.

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