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Show IB Thursday, November THE GREEN SHEET 26, 1987 Life Changed Quickly When Orlando Came To USA Italy, to Luigi and Michelina Barberiero, he came to Magna with his family in 1933 when he was 13 years old. Although it was the first trip for Orlando, it was not the first one for his parents who had met and married in Sunnyside, Utah where Luigi worked in the mines and where his brother Sam was bom. However Michelina didnt like the coal town atmosphere because of the strikes and violence that was prevalent then, so she took Sam and went back to the old country. After Michelina left for Italy, Luigi came to Magna to work for Utah Copper Company. Statistics show that at that time there were 5,000 Italian immigrants in the Salt Lake Valley working in the mines. Cosensa, by LaRee Pehrson Green Sheet Staff Writer First of A Series MAGNA. When Orlando Barberiero enrolled at Webster School in September 1934 he was not only the biggest kid in the first grade class, he was also the oldest and the most knowledgable too. In fact, he actually knew more than the teacher, because he had already mastered four different Italian, languages, including Spanish, French and Portuguese, but he couldnt speak or understand one word of English. Born in Calabria, Province of 'Christmas Carol' Due SOUTH SALT LAKE. The Hale Center Theater will present its annual production of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Nov. 27 through Dec. 23. Performances will be given at 8 nightly, Monday through Saturday with matinees on Saturday at 1 p.m. Richard Wilkins will portray with Tom Stam and Scrooge, Spencer Anderson alternating as Ghost of Christmas Present and Old Children include Heidi Oliver, Amber Radebaugh, Quinn Dietlein, Ryan Radebaugh, Ashley Radebaugh, Leigh Hale, Jana Ruth Dietlein, Michael Doge, Kevin Radebaugh, Adam Dietlein, Brant Mandi Oliver, Claire, Oliver, Brooke and Brinton Wilkins and Bobby Swenson 1 icket prices will be; Mondays, all seats $4; Tuesday through Thursday and matinees, $5 adults, Joe. $4 children; Friday and Saturday Andrea Clark will play Christmas evenings, $6 adults, $4 children. Past; Nathan Hale, Marley's Ghost; Reservations are required and scats must be paid for ten days in John Lesko, Bob Cratchit. Other cast members include Mark advance. ticket information call Dietlein, Merrill Dodge, Warren For Holz, Tom Carroll, Bob Bcdore, The 1988 season opener, I Came Brandi Brian, Melanie Radebaugh, Laura Clayton, Tara Meyrick, Todd To Your Wedding, will open Dec. Eve Year Special New Russell, Jared Shaver, Sally Dietlein, 29. Kim Stone, Jim Smith, Jennifer performances will be given at 7 and cost $6 p.m. including Westra, Melinda Ness and Pat 10 refreshments. Oliver. 484-925- 7. MURRAY PARR SKATING RINR OPENS NOVEMBER 27th AT 12 P.M. ADMISSION Children (17 & Under) Adults Skate Rental See Our Coupon In The Coupon Book In Today's Paper 75' $100 50 In the meantime Luigi traveled back and forth to Italy to visit his family, and each time his wife had another child. When he left Italy to come back to the states in 1923, to work on the B&G Railroad, Orlando was only 29 days old. In 1926, when he again paid his family a visit, he brought the two oldest children, Sam and Rose, back with him. Rose stayed with relatives in Salt Lake, and Sam went to work as a water boy when he was only 14 years old at Harker and Dry Fork, working with Peter Costanzo and Frank Rugga on the track gang. It was 1933 when life abruptly changed for Orlando. Up until then the family circle had been comprised of his mother, himself and his two sisters Carmela and Edith. But his fathers decision to take the whole family back to the United States now included a father that he hardly knew, in a country where he felt like an alien from Mars. The family settled down in a little house on 9100 West, across the street from the Rome Grocery which was owned and operated by Rose and her husband Ralph Colosimo. But according to Orlando the first seven months were miserable ones. He couldn't even communicate with his nephew Gailey Colosimo, who spoke no Italian, and he felt isolated in a world full of strangers. Although the boys tried to communicate in their own individual languages, the attempt was a dismal failure, so in spire of the fact that Orland was almost seven years older than his classmates he decided to enroll in school with Gailey. The first day of school everyone looked at the immigrant from Italy with suspicion, but gradually they warmed up to him. Some were slow to accept him at first, while others took him into their hearts and games immediately without reservtaion. On the playground, Orlando found the game of marbles to be a strange one where kids drew a circle on the ground and flipped marbles at other kids marbles. And baseball was equally foreign to him since he had been used to playing soccer in the Italian school. But as time went on Orlando suddenly discovered that music speaks a universal language, and using an old wooden clarinet loaned to him by Phillipo Notarianni (Shorty the Shoemaker), he became part of the school orchestra. Some time later he graduated to the drums. He also experienced a new found freedom in the American school where he no longer feared his teacher as he did in Italy - instead he fell in love with her. Orlando noted that in Italian schools the time was devoted strictly to learning, and by the time the kids were in the fifth grade they had acquired the same amount of knowledge as those m the 12th grade here. Also the Italian schoolmasters were strict disciplinarians who punished their small charges for every infringement of the rules. If their homework was not done they were smacked across the palms of their hands with a hardwood stick about 30 inches long and two inches -- third grade class ct Webster consisted of the following. Front, from left: Betty Bird, Wanda Lloyd, Albina Alberico, Patsy Angelt, Mary Jean Haws, Venice Nichols, Ann Conti, Wilma Pappas, Ida Colonna. Center, Garn Nielsen, Floyd Weston, Rudy Rigler, CIRCA 1934 . . . The elementary in 1934 square. If you pulled back your hands you were whacked on the shoulder. Other methods of punishment included kneeling in dry corn on the floor with bare knees for ten minutes, or standing in the corner with their face to the wall. But one thing for certain was that they all learned geometry and algebra, geography and ancient and modern history, as well as several languages by the time they reached the fifth grade. There was no fooling around They were there to learn. At Webster, Orlando was put into the first grade to learn the rudiments of English However, it didn't hold him back in other subjects because when he saw how different the American schools were he loved to go to school. Among his memories of his school days was when the teacher called him up in front of the blackboard to teach him beginning math, and he added up large sums in a matter of minutes. Orlando was in the first grade for three months, then he skipped the second and went on to the third. He spent a whole year in the grade before being promoted to the seventh, attending school at the old Cyprus junior high that burned dow n Dale Clifton, Toni Nicoletti, Ronald Hales, Jim Vosheil. Back, Rickey Colonna, unidentified student, Elmer Pendleton, Frank Klekas, Orlando Barber, Rex McArthur, Eugene Kone, James Moyes, James Matthews. never missed a day of school He was so intent on learning that he went to school on crutches for a whole year when he hurt his leg playing football in high school. He graduated in 1941 with a col 10 10 lege preparatory degree from Cyprus high school, intending to further his education However, World War II changed the whole course of his life. Next week well see how ROUND TRIP Includes Round trip motorcoach from Salt Lake to Wendover CASH BONUS Monday - Friday A M. CASH BONUS Friday PM. - Sunday P All passengers will let Trip pay ond Trip in 1947. paV There was evidence that Orlando had garnered enough knowledge to be promoted to the ninth grade, and when one of his teachers, Gussie Rapp, found out that he could do algebra and geometry she held him up as a shining example for the other kids to emulate. In high school Orlando was brought up in front of the studenbody by P. T. Brockbank. who was pi.u cipal then, and praised for his efforts at learning new things in a new land Brockbank also cited him for the patriotism he displayed for his adopted country. All through the years Orlando M receive $2 Food Credit and Casino Fun Package 2 Lucky 10 Gift Bucks Shop Discount 2 Complimentary 2 Keno Credits TCP Voupay34r,hT.iP eto. u2. T OPEN THANKSGIVING DAY There's A Million Funtastic Things To Do! 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