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The DiUlus Institute stands in memory of its namesake Alfonso and the legacy he left his family. His name represents the common bond of immigrant American families who helped build the United States into the world's great nation it has become. These courageous, selfless men and women empower us today to shine the light of knowledge for all who would follow their sacrifice, determination, and resolve to be successful. Alfonso Pasquale DeIuliis (DiULUS) 1871-1964, was for much of his life an entrepreneur. He was determined to learn. He worked long hours as a common laborer in order to underwrite and set out on his own path. He remains today the quintessential everyman -everywoman who passed through Ellis Island in the late 19th Century. Welcome to America
Arriving in New York in the1890's, Alfonso was a man of drive
and determination. He was obsessed with a burning desire that his children and his children's children would
have every education advantage both life and freedom in America could possibly provide. It was not easy for Alfonso
and Josephine. she was an immigrant from France whom Alfonso met and married in the coal country of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. A
widow who had lost her first husband in a tragic coal mining accident and with several small children of her own,
she met, fell in love with, and married Alfonso, a promising entrepreneur. Together, they had five more children.
They fought ignorance, prejudice, and financial hardship. Possessed by the dream of America, they endured and succeeded.
Alfonso's Descendants Personify
His Belief in Education Alfonso DeIuliis came in search of a dream. And although his name was
involuntarily changed for him by immigration officials seeking to spell what he was pronouncing, they actually made it easier for
him to assimilate into the melting pot called "America" enabling him to go on and prosper in
his new homeland. As a student of life, he summed up his love of America and the educational opportunities it provided
his family this way: 
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