Summer, who was born in Boston and whose father was a butcher and mother a schoolteacher, sang from the moment she learned to talk, and her debut performance came in church at age 10 when the scheduled singer didn't show and the pastor asked Donna to step in.
Our teacher, Loretta Lacche, didn't speak much English, but our translator Donna Galletta was an expatriate American who had run several restaurants before becoming an interpreter.
