Crescendo to Becoming
A Memoir of My Life
by Francesco Fiorentino

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This book is truly Cav. Francesco Fiorentino's labor of love. It was originally written around 2010 but was abandoned when the author lost his forty-four-year-old daughter to cancer. Thanks to the insistence and inspiration of his twelve grandchildren the rewriting of the book has been resurrected into this edition entitled Crescendo to Becoming, which translates to Growing to Becoming. Through this book, the author shares with us most, if not all, the kinds and types of person he has become during his lifetime, including some of his beliefs, some of his knowledge, and some of his feelings that impacted and influenced greatly what he ultimately became. The book is also a testimonial about his strong belief that God is the Creator of all things visible and invisible, but he makes no bones about the fact that God created us to be always in a crescendo mode, and in that, we have the opportunity to have considerable input and influence into what we ultimately become. The book makes a strong case, that while there is a lot that a person cannot control in his life, there is also a great deal that he can control: what he thinks, what he does, what he says, and what he becomes. In conclusion, the author believes that we always become tomorrow that which today we still are not. Everything we think, everything we are, and everything we can become is only possible because we are able to grow, learn, and change.

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CAV. FRANCESCO FIORENTINO is a “selfmade”, noteworthy person. He came to Canada at age thirteen and literally had to start with nothing, all over again, in grade one. He has always held tenaciously to the belief that one is capable of taking control of almost everything in one’s life. His strong belief in himself, and in “carpe diem”, i.e. the courage to seize whatever opportunity comes your way, has served him well indeed, and his illustrious career and success-oriented life attest to that. While in high school, he turned his considerable skills in music into a moneymaking venture by forming a ballroom dance band, and that was sufficient to pay for his six years he would attend university education. Subsequently he then became a high school teacher with a very high qualification classification and was thus able to advance to the levels of principal and the pinnacle position of superintendent of a total urban-rural school division. After an early retirement at age fifty-five, he turned his influential attention to volunteer work as a consultant in education and training, particularly with Indigenous First Nation communities. After three years with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, he returned to the Italian Community of Winnipeg as its president, providing his leadership for the building of the Centro Caboto Centre, and also becoming its Vice-Consul for almost ten years. For this, he received the Order of Italy along many other awards in recognition for his great efforts.

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