72 The Queens Courier • buzz • DECEMBER 4, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com Send us your announcements & pictures to: The Queens Courier c/o making a buzz: 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 • [email protected] subject: making a buzz s people making a buzz overseas studies Joseph M. Mattone Jr. has been elected the new chairman of the Saint Mary’s High School advisory board. Mr. Mattone, a resident of Douglaston Manor, has longstanding close ties to the St. Mary’s community — in addition to having three sisters graduate from the high school, son Joseph III is currently a senior, daughter Jacqueline is currently a sophomore, and youngest daughter Patricia will enroll as a freshman next year. Mr. Mattone is a partner in the Queens-based law firm of Mattone, Mattone, Mattone, Megna & Todd. He has been married to wife Peggy for 21 years. Mr. Mattone replaces outgoing chair Marc de Venoge. One student from a Cambria Heights high school is getting the chance to go to Germany to represent his Virtual Enterprise (V.E.) class at a Virtual Enterprise International Trade Fair. Elijah Taylor, a senior at the Business, Computer Applications & Entrepreneurship High School, in the Campus Education Complex, will travel with V.E. leaders from other schools and chaperones from the NYC Board of Education to the trade fair at cities such as Essen and Waldkrich. Virtual Enterprise International supports V.E. classes in high schools and community colleges throughout the world where students operate the class as if it were a make believe or virtual business selling a specific product. At the trade fair in Germany, Taylor and his peers will sell their virtual products and services. NYFAC gives back to the community Photo Courtesy of NYFAC Pictured from left: Rev. Anthony Rucando, pastor emeritus of OLG; Megan Ryman, NYFAC day habilitation supervisor; and Benny and Johnathan of NYFAC’s Day Habilitation Without Walls program. BY SALVATORE LICATA [email protected] @Sal_Licata1 It’s the season of giving, and that includes food for the needy as donations poured into the New York Families for Autistic Children (NYFAC) facility, which reached out to other community organizations to assist them with collections. On Dec. 1, the organization dropped off four boxes of nonperishable food items to the Our Lady of Grace Ministry of Care Services food pantry in Howard Beach. This followed a successful Thanksgiving food drive that NYFAC organized where they were able to provide a turkey and all the trimmings to over 20 NYFAC families. “It was great that we were able to help not just our NYFAC families, but those families in the Howard Beach community,” said Megan Ryman, NYFAC Day Habilitation Supervisor. Donations are still being accepted by Our Lady of Grace food pantry. For more information, call the rectory at 718-843-6218. Joseph M. Mattone Jr. to chair St. Mary’s High School board Photo credit: St. Mary’s High School Photo by Bob Harris Elijah Taylor
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