When residents of Wells House planned a recent
dinner to honor their housekeeper, Rosina Guzzo, they accepted her offer
to bring “just one dish.”
But her motherly instinct took over. Guzzo, who loves to
prepare her Italian specialties, turned “just one dish” into
many. On the night of the dinner, she arrived with manicotti, chicken
marsala, pasta primavera, chicken Florentine, salad … and an assistant,
Anna Riccio of Dutch Hollow fame, to help with serving.
Guzzo, at Union since 1984 and Wells House since it
opened in 1993, has become something of a surrogate mother to students who
live in the community service theme house.
“I always call them my kids,” says Guzzo,
herself the mother of three grown children.
“We were just expecting her to bring a pan of
lasagna,” said one of the 20 Wells House residents who were treated
to the home-cooked meal. “It was incredible.”