The Daily Bulletin Archive

Francis S. Lestingi, professor emeritus, Physics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, joined fellow members of the Society of Gilders in doing pro bono work for a week in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a Katrina-damaged 155-year-old church. The group restored severely damaged gold-leafed altars and statuary in St. Alphonsus church, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The United States Sign Council (USSC) sign design competition awarded Lestingi’s company, Signs of Gold Inc., first place for its signage work at the Wine Thief Bistro & Wine Bar at Elmwood and Bryant. This is the fifth consecutive year that Signs of Gold has been awarded first place. In December at the USSC annual sign industry convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Lestingi conducted a workshop on “Gold Leafing Techniques.” He has also published an article in Signs of the Times on a new method of gold leafing called “stippled gilding,” and a two-part article in Woodcarving Illustrated titled “Carving and Gilding a House Sign.”