Many of you are Friends and/or Acquaintances of Professor Emeritus James C. Mancuso, (retired) recently at University of Albany, NY, and just a year ago, he and his wife Sue moved to Los Angeles, CA.

Jim is one of those rare people who is a REAL Intellect, Not a Pseudo Intellect, and yet has Great Practical and Common Sense.

He is one, who as greater Success came to him, he thought Not how to ingratiate himself to the Elite, as many are prone to do, But how he could contribute more to his Italian and Italian American Heritage.

He has also been a stalwart against those in the American Italian Historical Association (AIHA) that seem to be self loathing of their ancestry, and to be almost exclusively super critical of Italian and Italian American history.

Many rely on and benefit from his Italian American Web Site.

Jim, has long been a hero of mine, and an inspiration.

Recently Jim, has had "neuromuscular" difficulties, that has slowed his ability to communicate.

I received this "group letter", and pass it on to you, for the information, and if you know Jim, I encourage you to send him your best wishes, recognizing that he will be unable to individually respond.

Richard Annotico
trimtantre@aol.com

I'll take this opportunity to bring some of my friends and associates up-to-date on what is happening with Sue and I.

We have had a very active round of consultations with different physicians and specialists. The results of those consultations have given us little that allows us to predict the outcomes of my current physical problems.  At best, the consultants have continued to present us with a very general assessment of my situation.  The consultants are most comfortable using a generic label to describe my condition: that label being "neuromuscular disorder."

What is apparent is that the motor neurons that are involved in the control my arm movements do not regenerate; and, as a result, enervation to my arm muscles has become debilitated.  The result is that I cannot control my arm movements.

As you can imagine, being unable to carry on many of my favorite activities has been very frustrating.

Sue and I are doing what we can do adjust to the situation.  Thankfully, our young ones -- Renee, Michele, and Martin -- have been very, very helpful as we lay out our projections for forthcoming courses of action.

I am using a word recognition program to prepare this message.  I am thankful for the availability of this kind of technology.  On the other hand, many of our friends are not in our e-mail lists and we have been unable to communicate with many of the people who will wonder about our slowdown in communication.

I would like to ask you to share our information with other persons who might not get this kind of message

We thank all of you for the many messages of concern.  We hope that you will continue to drop us a line on occasion, and that you'll excuse us for not responding promptly and more thoroughly.

Very best wishes, Jim and Sue Mancuso

mancusoj@mancusopersonalital.net.

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James C. Mancuso, Ph. D.
335 South Norton Avenue
Hancock Park
Los Angeles, CA   90020
323 938 4803

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