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Velia N. Tosi, a former Cultural Ambassador to Italy
from Boston, who with her husband, Carlos, is active in many University
organizations, including the Friends of the Libraries and the Women’s
Council, received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from BU at a
January 29 hooding ceremony. Chancellor John Silber (left) and Board of
Trustees member Frederick Chicos presented the honorary degree. Silber
praised Tosi for her “decades of thoughtful, intelligent, and varied
service to the University.” The Tosis established La Carlos H. and
Velia N. Tosi Casa Italiana, a renovated Bay State Road brownstone for
students to share and expand their love of Italian language, literature,
history, and art. Most recently, they endowed a scholarship at BU in memory
of their son, Carlos, Jr., a student in BU’s foreign languages department
in the late ’60s. While participating in an exchange program during
his junior year in Valencia, Spain, he was killed in an accident. Photo
by Fred Sway
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February 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations