St. John's Alumnus Now in Arkansas

Great story, too bad Anthony didn't finish his degree, St. J should give him one anyway for his life experiences.

His Parish in Bay Ridge was my wife's Parish, and he went to Xaverian, maybe close to when Chris Mullin went there.

My guess is he studied accounting at St. J's Staten Island campus --- my wife and I me there before moving on to Queens for graduate and law schools, because SI is so close to Bay Ridge, just over the Verrazano Bridge.

In our class at St. J's SI, two young student became entrepreneurs when in business classes, as a project they opened a pop-up called Everything Yogurt in a little shop on Maiden Lane near Wall Street. It was a gigantic success and when they graduated from St. J they branched out and opened many other Everything Yogurt locations, then they franchised it, after that they branched out to Malls and opened other food shops like Philly Cheesteaks and others. Later on getting into real estate development.

St. John's has so many of these lower to middle class pull yourself up by your bootstraps stories, none as successful as Mike Repole, but DeLuca's Pizza is another example.
 
jerseyshorejohnny said:
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HIGH PROFILE: Anthony Valinoti, the owner of Deluca's Pizza, learned to be fearless working on Wall Street | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Growing up in Bay Ridge, a waterfront city of row houses and brownstones in the New York borough of Brooklyn, Anthony Valinoti was part of a classic Italian family living the middle-class struggle.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but the first time I would have dropped an F bomb at either of my parents, or at the dinner table in general, would have been my last, and the next wake would be mine. The only question would be who would get first crack at killing me.

On second thought, it would have been my father, as my mother would yell, "Not in the head". But everywhere else would be fair game.

I did a lot of business in Arkansas. Overall, GREAT people. But no way I'd want any Italian family, no less any Brooklyn or Queens family, depicted this way as typical, and certainly not in Arkansas.

Honestly, classless is also clueless when you don't realize how much it demeans you and your family.

He may be making some money, but that's no one I'd celebrate.
 
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Beasts of the East said:
I don't know about the rest of you, but the first time I would have dropped an F bomb at either of my parents, or at the dinner table in general, would have been my last, and the next wake would be mine. The only question would be who would get first crack at killing me.

On second thought, it would have been my father, as my mother would yell, "Not in the head". But everywhere else would be fair game.

I did a lot of business in Arkansas. Overall, GREAT people. But no way I'd want any Italian family, no less any Brooklyn or Queens family, depicted this way as typical, and certainly not in Arkansas.

Honestly, classless is also clueless when you don't realize how much it demeans you and your family.

He may be making some money, but that's no one I'd celebrate.
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Can’t disagree that is a word I never ever used in front of my dad with good reason.
 
mjmaherjr said:
Don't curse in front of my parents. In front of 114 all I do is curse and those fu&ks too

Ralph is the best of the cursers
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Funny story i usually don't curse at games partially because I'm almost always with family or a close friend.
In Providence I was losing my sh_t over all the bad calls and started dropping f bombs loudly. Then I realized Pitino's wife grandkids and 1 son and wife right in front of me. I was momentarily really embarrassed until I realized that with Rick's mouth they are very used to it.
 
Beasts of the East said:
Funny story i usually don't curse at games partially because I'm almost always with family or a close friend.
In Providence I was losing my sh_t over all the bad calls and started dropping f bombs loudly. Then I realized Pitino's wife grandkids and 1 son and wife right in front of me. I was momentarily really embarrassed until I realized that with Rick's mouth they are very used to it.
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SJU85 and IDRAFT and Mrs IDRAFT and I were like sailors that night we cursed so much

Was well deserved
 
In my high school we had Xaverian Brothers. One of them Brother Bruno, JV BB coach, once asked his class what is the largest manufacturing company int he entire world?

Answers came back IBM, GM, Ford, and he said no no no, the largest company in the world that makes things is the F#cking Co, Inc., very well known company especially among young males in the NYC region.

We were like, what is he talking about, we've never heard of the F#cking company!

So Brother Bruno says to us, you hear people all the time referring to: their "F#cking shoes, F#cking sneakers, F#cking bats, F#cking balls, F#cking gloves, F#cking socks, F#cking cars, F#cking trucks, F#cking houses, F#cking clothes, F#cking you name it --- the F#cking Co, Inc. makes it, they make everything".
 
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