Joseph E. Aulisi

AULISI Joseph E. Aulisi Vice principal of Kearny High School, 78 Chairman of N.J. Recreation Commission Joseph E. Aulisi, 78, a resident of Belleville for 50 years, passed away on Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, at St. Michaels Medical Center, Newark. The funeral will be from the Biondi Funeral Home of Nutley, 540 Franklin Ave., on Friday, Feb. 2, at 8:30 a.m., followed by a Funeral Mass in his memory at St. Lucys Church, Newark, at 10 a.m. Entombment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover. Visitation will be on Wednesday, Jan. 31, from 7 to 9 p.m. and on Thursday, Feb. 1, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mr. Aulisi was born in Newark. He graduated from Seton Hall University in 1953 with a degree in physical education and health. He received a masters degree in administration from Seton Hall in 1958, and also earned a doctorate equivalent in administration from Seton Hall University in 1961. He was vice principal of Kearny High School from 1970 to 1998, when he retired. A Marine Corps veteran of World War II, Mr. Aulisi was a member of the N.J. Education, the N.J. Coaching Association, the Kearny Drug Council, the N.J. Physical Education Directors Association and the National YMCA Physical Directors Association. A lifelong member of the YMCA, he was a current member of the Montclair YMCA. He was appointed chairman of the N.J. Recreation Commission from 1972 to 1980 by former Governor Brendan Byrne. He was a Barringer High School Alumnus of the Year in 1982 and was elected to the Queen of Peace Hall of Fame in 1998. Mr. Aulisi is survived by his devoted wife of 53 years, Mildred (nee Napolitano) Aulisi, and was the loving father of Donna Dyte and her husband, Peter, Annie Calabrese and her husband, Carlo, Flora Giaimo and her husband, Dennis, Barbara Sickles and her husband, Michael, Dr. Edward Aulisi and his wife, Gabriele, Lisa Aulisi-Memmelaar and her husband, Peter. He is also survived by his brother, Vincent Aulisi and his wife, Erma; his sister-in-law, Lucia Napolitano, and his 14 loving grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Montclair YMCA Support Youth Scholarships. c/o Dawn McFadden, 25 Park St., Montclair, N.J. 07042 or the Joseph Aulisi Scholar Athlete Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o John Millar, Kearny High School, 336 Devon St., Kearny, N.J. 07032.