Who We Are

In the late 1970's Howard West, Don Wannagat, Kevin Benzenhoefer and several others initiated the development of an Alfa Romeo Owners Group in the Pittsburgh area called "Allegheny Alfisti". Several meetings where held over about 3 year but the club just wasn't able to get up and running.
In 2010, during the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix's Cortile Italian Car Show that was celebrating the "Alfa Century",  Marianne Fenoglietto and Jim Shaw started discussing the idea of creating an AROC chapter in Western Pennsylvania.  ​
Marianne's family had donated a wonderful Alfa Romeo cake to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Alfa Romeo, the "Alfa Century", and Jim Shaw was the Chef for the Cortile. Both owned Spiders and suggested doing some driving events to gage some interest.  
The idea was discussed for quite a number of years but no one could really take the mantle of leadership to get a club launched.  There where quite a few potential members, who where more than willing to help out, but the idea needed someone to really drive home the entire launch effort.
In 2016, Ron Lewis Automotive Group became the only local Alfa Romeo dealer in the Western Pennsylvania area.  Jim Neville, who was the Alfa Romeo chairperson for the Cortile just happened to be stuck on the tarmac with the sales team from Ron Lewis as they where returning from Alfa Romeo corporate training.  

​They where truly indoctrinated as new Afisti and where quite excited to learn about that the Cortile was celebrating Alfa Romeo as it's Proiettore Macchina for 2017.

Gwen Lewis, was put in charge of the promotion for the new Alfa Romeo Giulia and hosted "An Evening with the Giulia" in Sewickly in April of 2017.  It was at that event that the Alfa Romeo Owners Club chapter idea again sprung up.  Gwen, fully embraced the idea that Bernie Martin proposed.  Bernie was the managing director of the Cortile and also an Alfa Romeo owner.
Three Rivers Alfisiti Location form Alfa Romeo Owners Clubs
More than 20 Alfa Romeo Owners Clubs are within 500 miles of Three Rivers Alfisti
According to Bernie, "Gwen was really motivated about the Alfa Romeo brand and her team was equally as passionate, I hadbeen hoping to find some other folks who could help management  and leadership of a local Alfa Club for  a couple of years as I was really out of bandwidth.  Gwen and Jim really stepped up to the plate to make that happen."

The Three Rivers Alfisti officially launched at the Cortile Italian Car Show Saturday July 15, 2017! 

Howard West's Sprint Speciale was on display at the show, and Don Wannagat's' Alfa was on the track both weekends bringing AROC history in along the Three Rivers full circle.

Join us and become a part of history!
Founding Members 2017
  1. Kevin Altomari
  2. David Beatty
  3. Tom Boyd
  4. Lisa Boyd
  5. Janice Cowder
  6. Vasilig Dimitriev
  7. Kathy Dozzi
  8. Scott Drab
  9. Richard Edge
  10. Mario Fatigati
  11. Carol Fatigati
  12. Russell Fuhrer
  13. Pete Fuscaldo
  14. Patricia Fuscaldo
  15. Sarah Gallo
  16. Aanchal Garg
  17. Vincent Grieco
  18. Grant Haag
  19. Sue Harford
  20. Scott Hodges
  21. Elizabeth Hodges-Freihoef
  22. Jed Hottenstein    
  23. Coney Hurst
  24. Pat Hurst 
  25. Roman Ivanou
  26. Thomas Jaffe
  27. Jim Joseph
  28. Betsy Joseph
  29. Michael Kendlick
  30. Anthony Larocca
  31. Gwen Lewis    
  32. Bernard Martin
  33. Ian Martin
  34. Doug McAdams
  35. Jacklyn Nealon
  36. Jim Neville
  37. Louis Nudi
  38. Patrick Nudi
  39. David Paul
  40. George Riggin
  41. Laura Riggin
  42. Anthony Scaturro
  43. Michael Sirianni
  44. Jason Snyder
Founding Member: July 2017
  • Michael Halperin
  • Julie Kasing
  • John Kasing
  • Gwen Lewis 
  • Bernard Martin
  • ​Ian Martin
  • Susan Meier 
  • Uwe Meier
  • Jim Neville
  • Joe Paliotta
  • Julie Paliotta
  • Bob Schultz
The final list of Founding member list will not be completed until the chapter is founded officially on December 2017

Founding Developments

On June 8 Gwen Lewis hosted an initial meeting of interested people at the Ron Lewis Automotive dealership.  The founding members got to check out a newly delivered Alfa Romeo 4C.  The club was officially voted on and created.

It just so happened that John DiVitto, the current President of the Alfa Romeo Owner Club NE Ohio chapter stopped in the dealership while passing by.  Everyone took this to be a good sign!