Buona Fortuna Leadership



President | Dan Kaestle |
Vice President | Joe Del Signore |
Immediate Past President | Patricia Russo |
Orator | Vacant |
Recording Secretary | Ginny Barberi |
Financial Secretary | Lori Pope |
Treasurer | Vincent Tucei |
Trustees | Tiffany Bock |
Frank Chiarello | |
Mia Chiarello | |
Shayla Kaestle | |
Diana Mancini | |
Matt Rossetto | |
Sally Valletta | |
Guard | Kathy Andrade |
Master of Ceremonies | Andy Fricano |
Mistress of Ceremonies | Shirley Cotita |
Past Presidents | Gene Valentino |
Mark DeNunzio | |
Pete Resedean | |
Joyce Russo Bollenbacher | |
Brooke Hardy |
Auxiliary Roles
Arbitration Commissioners | |
Ginny Barbieri | |
Tom Cacciatore | |
Mark DeNunzio | |
Andy Fricano | |
Tod Wilson | |
Alternate Commissioners | |
1st | Dawn Wilson |
2nd | Shayla Kaestle |
3rd | Patricia Russo |
4th | Brooke Hardy |
5th | Diane Fordham |
Committee Chairs
Budget | Lori Pope |
ByLaws | TBA |
Charities | Shayla Kaestle |
Communications | Shayla Kaestle |
Electoral | TBA |
Festa Italiana | Mark DeNunzio/Tod Wilson |
Historian | TBA |
Investment | Mark DeNunzio |
Membership | Kathy Andrade |
Nominating | TBA |
Scholarship | Joe DelSignore |
Seafood Festival | Mark DeNunzio |
Social | Shirley Cotita |
Technology | Tom Cacciatore |
State and National Leadership
State and National Positions Held by Buona Fortuna Members
Mark DeNunzio — Fourth Vice President, National OSDIA
Shayla Kaestle — Trustee, National Sons of Italy Foundation
Patricia Russo — Trustee, Grand Lodge of Florida Foundation
Dan Kaestle — Arbitration Commissioner, Grand Lodge of Florida
Founding Members




Buona Fortuna Lodge was created in Pensacola, Florida in November 2006 by Gene Valentino, Bill Zuppa, and Rita Somma. We are profoundly grateful to these three founding members for establishing Buona Fortuna Lodge. Their vision and hard work created the wonderful club that local members and the public at large continue to enjoy and benefit from to this day.
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