Dr. Stabile Challenged the Italian-American Organizations at the Gala with the following statement:

Are we going to be the remembered by our grandchildren and beyond as the generation of Italian Americans permitting the demise of the Italian Language and culture, such at the AP Examination, diminishing enrollments and programs in our American schools, cultural centers and our families values or are we going to move forward with all the intestinal fortitude and gumption necessary preserving our cultural values, customs and traditions, and be remembered as the generation that met the call to action and preserved our language and culture? Without equivocation, we will do whatever it takes to make it happen.

In the words of Charlie Chaplin , comedian, ‘you ain’t seen or heard nothing yet’ We are moving forward and responding!”