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Professional Abstract

    Lawrence D. P. “Larry” Vellani has more than twenty-five years experience in building and leading research, education, policy development and direct service organizations in Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio, and has served as a technical consultant through the U. S. Department of Justice and The Sentencing Project, Inc., to public and private agencies in more than a dozen other states.  In January 2003, he joined Elon University’s Office of Institutional Advancement as director of corporate & foundation relations to strengthen Elon's commitment from foundations and other philanthropic institutions, and to work with senior administrators and faculty on major university initiatives.

    Prior to his current position with Elon, Larry served the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), assisting local jurisdictions and community-based organizations with the establishment and continuous quality improvement of sentencing programs, and coaching public and private agencies in organizational development and change (1994 – 2002).  Previous positions include director of the Indiana Sentencing Resource Center, an agency of the Indiana state court system (1988 – 1994); executive director of Community Corrections Resources, Inc., in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1986 – 1988), and co-executive director of the North Carolina Prison and Jail Project, Inc. in Durham, North Carolina (1980 – 1986).

     At the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts, he has had particular responsibilities for the revalidation of the Prison Risk Assessment Instrument with Amy Craddock, Ph.D., of the Pacific Institute for Research and Development in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the design and implementation of the AOC’s Evidence-Based Practice Initiative, in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections; technical liaison and assistance to the “Victim-Offender Mediation in Community Corrections Project” of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and the North Carolina Mediation Network; the development of model program guidelines for use under the new Sentencing Services Act of 1999; and an evaluation of the impact of the use of actuarial assessments on judicial and offender behavior in collaboration with Professor Ellington T. Graves, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

    Since January 1996, he has served as an adjunct lecturer in Elon University’s Center for Public Affairs, a program of the University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration.  In addition to supervising interns and advising the University’s mock trial team, he has authored and taught courses on organizational behavior, judicial administration and comparative criminal justice.  His judicial and criminal justice courses include overnight residence on the Qualla Indian Boundary, the sub-national jurisdiction of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians.  Larry has also served as adjunct faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice at Martin University, the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, and in the Department of Social Sciences at Alamance Community College.

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    The immediate descendant of Reggio Emilian immigrants, he collects melodies and lyrics from family and friends reflective of the reality of the uprooted and resettled.  He has had the privilege of performing with some of the last quarter century's most respected artists who interpret songs of peace and struggle.  This list includes Guy and Candy Carawan, Barbara Dane, Mimi Fariňa, Beverly Grant, Si Kahn, and Baldemar Velasquez.  He has also had the honor of performing with some of the southeastern U.S. premiere traditional musicians, including Lonny Austin, Tommy Jarrell, Paul Taylor and Joe Thompson.  A solo as well as ensemble musician, his musical performances draw upon source material from lands and peoples on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the waters of the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Mexico.

His early work included performing with the Ohio-based groups Streetroot Ensemble (with Kath Narcross Burgess and David Stone, as well as Lori Michaels, Jimmy Paul, Billy Strickland and Paul Williams); the Scioto Valley String Band (with Bill Desmond, Mike Eberle and Mike Sisson, as well as Barry Chern, Richard Kolb, Bob Loechler and Chas Williams)-- see below; and the street and dance hall busking Turkeys in the Straw.  Today, he performs with the music Americana ensemble, Mebanesville.  He also appears with the swing and American song book band, The Jazztones; an bliantúil Lá Fhéile Pádraig banna craic agus ceoil, Rogues of the Bog; the once-and-future banda musica italiana, Suonacomune; as well as Piedmont North Carolina's "most punctual" old time string band, Durham Rangers. 

    With paesani in the Greater Alamance County community and on the campus of Elon, Larry has helped to co-found Tavola Italiana--a local society promoting the appreciation of the history, culture, language and fellowship of Italy and the Italian diaspora.

 

Streetroot Ensemble (1973 - 1977) from a 1975 live radio broadcast, WYSO-FM, Yellow Springs, Ohio - some cuts begin with conversation -	Scioto Valley String Band (1976 - 1979) * with K. Narcross; # with B. Chern
Box Cars (Vellani)	Fed You All For a Thousand Years (von Leibich & Phillips)
St. Kitt's Holiday (Vellani)	See How the Land (adapted by Sisson & Vellani) *, #
Raggle Taggle Gypsies (Traditional)	Pretty Polly / Pastures of Plenty (Traditional / Guthrie) *
Brown River (Vellani)	Wild Cat Blues (Dane)
Who Will Buy (Vellani)

Follow the links where you can / Ci seguite a che luogo si guidano

Arciprete della Chiesa di San Nicolò Cavriago, RE, Italia    Don Francesco Pacifico Vellani nato, Correggio Provincia di Reggio Emilia Ducato di Modena Impero d’Austria settembre 1853 morto, Cavriago Provincia di Reggio Emilia Regno d’Italia aprile 1902

 

     A native of Columbus, Ohio, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Ohio State University and Indiana University, with degrees in history, modern language, education and public administration, he lives with his wife, Peggy Boswell, the curator of the Scott Family Collection at the Alamance Community College and two children, Ben and Ginny, in Alamance County, North Carolina.

Contact
    919.304.3670 (evenings)
    336.278.7449 (days)
    Vellani@elon.edu
    www.elon.edu/facstaff/vellani

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Larry & Peggy Hawfields, N.C. June 1999

Raimondi, Vellani e Violante membri della squadra italiana di pallacanestro alle Olimpiadi Speciali Chapel Hill, N.C., USA luglio 1999

                                                                      

last updated - August 2006
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