To the members of Cento Amici, This morning we learned that Cento Amici member Steve Kalafer had passed, after a years-long bout with cancer. Many of you will remember the night Bob Hurley became a member of Cento Amici. Hearing of the difficult position St. Anthony’s was in, Steve turned to Greg Olsen and suggested […]
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Cento Amici’s Jack Morris helping the Shinnecock Nation launch a new casino in Southampton
Hard Rock’s Morris talks casinos: On Long Island, in Atlantic City — and maybe elsewhere Says Shinnecock Casino Hamptons is opportunity to help Native American group that has been mistreated for too long Read the story on ROI-NJ.
Coach Bob Hurley Remembers Kobe Bryant
Bob Hurley remembers when St. Anthony played against Kobe Bryant, Lower Merion Bob Hurley remembers it like it was yesterday. When St. Anthony traveled down to Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia during the 1995-96 high school basketball season to take on Lower Merion High School, Kobe Bryant was the No. 1 senior player in the […]
Cento Amici Annual Dinner & Auction featured in NJBiz
Cento Amici welcomes NJ real estate leaders as newest members Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. David Bellavia added along with Jack Morris, Joe Marino The nation’s newest Medal of Honor recipient, Staff Sgt. David Bellavia, and New Jersey real estate developers and leaders Jack Morris and Joe Marino became the newest members of Cento […]
St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark announces ambitious fundraising goal of $100M
Newark school is known for its ability to create leaders and scholars If you’re looking for another metric that shows just how important St. Benedict’s Prep is to Newark — and how many individuals and corporate sponsors are determined to keep it that way — consider this: Moments after the school publicly announced its ambitious […]
Grano inspires next generation with speech at Cento Amici scholarship dinner
Grano inspires next generation with speech at Cento Amici scholarship dinner The speech was short (maybe two minutes or so) and the message was simple (metaphorically use these three arms movements to guide your life). The hope is that it was profound. If just a few of the three dozen or so scholarship winners at […]
The coach…and his pizza
It takes $2 and a pizza to get Bob Hurley Sr. into a HS hoops game these days Bob Hurley Sr. hasn’t attended many high school basketball games since St. Anthony closed. So we took him to one. “Two seniors, please.” The man behind the ticket table at the Seton Hall Prep gymnasium has spent […]
Cento Amici Member Bob Hurley in the New York Times
The School Closed. The Players Left. But the Coach Can’t Quit. It was 3:50 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon when the gray-haired coach parked his silver Toyota Camry and strode purposefully toward the gym. Bob Hurley, 70, wasn’t heading into his gym and he wasn’t getting set to coach his players — he no longer […]
Cento Amici featured in ROI-NJ
Nonprofit Profile: Cento Amici, the ‘100 Friends’ Cento Amici (100 Friends) was founded 30 years ago by Thomas Zito, executive director of the Bayonne Housing Authority, and Robert Zito, then an executive at the New York Stock Exchange. The two had been members of Tiro a Segno, a New York organization that was both a […]
Col. Jack Jacobs and Joe Grano in Legacies of War: Vietnam
Legacies of War: Vietnam This documentary film explores the legacy of the Vietnam War through the experiences of veterans from the New York tri-state area. Veterans highlight stories of their service in Vietnam and the treatment they received upon coming home, along with a discussion of how the Vietnam War has affected how American civilians […]