-Running around like a mob of lunatics-

This happened at the Sons of Italy Hall reception
for the “Installation of Officers” in or about 1952.

Whole families attended.

Gerry Lombarstini:  Treasurer.

Charlie Mangino:  Under Secretary for Catholic Affairs.

Delores D'Adamo Mangino:  Anti-Mussolini Women’s Auxiliary. (AMWA)

Ray Patrucci:  Event Floor Procedures and Emergency Evacuations.

True to form, the kids are running around like a mob of lunatics.
But unlike adults who mostly run in tightly-formed groupings,
usually away from something, generally, for their lives, these kids
weave chaotically between one another testing even the most
tolerant of adventurous parents in attendance.

I see the younger ones are having a hard time keeping up.

They seem to reason there should be somewhere to go,

a pre-determined destination to be occupied by a lucky winner.

So they find some isolated corners, hesitate, look around, then resume the run.

It’s rumored that Delores D'Adamo Mangino’s grandmother, Ida D'Adamo,
village born, was the first woman to be photographed whacking the inverted
Benito with a broom's-head, validating her granddaughter's installation to the AMWA.         

1951, 1953? 1952.