Editing Don Novello (section)

==Early life==
Novello was born on January 1, 1943,<ref>{{cite web |title=It was a happy new year for... |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/01/01/it-was-a-happy-new-year-for/ |website=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=January 1993 |access-date=March 19, 2024}}</ref> in [[Ashtabula, Ohio|Ashtabula]], Ohio, the son of Eleanor Eileen Novello (née Finnerty), a nurse,<ref name= gluvna>{{cite web| url=http://www.gluvna.net/Gobitdetail.asp?letter=N&RecNo=1359| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628085959/http://www.gluvna.net/Gobitdetail.asp?letter=N&RecNo=1359| archive-date=June 28, 2022| title=Obituaries: Eleanor E. Novello| website=Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada Funeral Chapel| date=April 2008| access-date=May 9, 2018| url-status=dead}}</ref> and Augustine Joseph Novello, a physician.<ref>{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Lebzelter |title=What You Need to Know about Your Home State |url=http://starbeacon.com/local/x343667259/What-you-need-to-know-about-your-home-state |newspaper=[[Star Beacon]] |location=Ashtabula, Ohio |date=September 15, 2007 |access-date=April 9, 2013 }}</ref> He is of Italian and Irish descent.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y-YPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e48DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2530,7942818&dq=the-cast-includes-actor-don-novello&hl=en |title=TV priest joins movie Mafia |newspaper=[[Daily Record (Washington)|Ellensburg Daily Record]] |agency=[[United Press International]] |page=18 |access-date=February 24, 2022}}</ref>

Novello's family moved to [[Lorain, Ohio]], when he was a child.<ref name= gluvna /> In 1961, he graduated from [[Lorain High School]].<ref name="lorain-alumni2018">{{cite web|title=Distinguished Alumni 2018|website=[[Lorain City Schools]]|url=https://www.lorainschools.org/alumni2018|access-date=June 10, 2023}}</ref> He subsequently enrolled into the [[University of Dayton]] and graduated from it in 1964.<ref name= "UDayton">{{cite web| url=https://udayton.edu/blogs/libraries/2015-02-17-snl.php| title=Saturday Night Live!| website=[[University of Dayton]]| date=February 17, 2015| first=Scott| last=West| access-date=May 9, 2018}}</ref> In 1965, he graduated with a Bachelor of Foreign Trade degree from the American Graduate School of International Management (today the [[Thunderbird School of Global Management]] of [[Arizona State University]]).<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/tgmama/id/18/| journal=The Thunderbird| publisher=American Graduate School of International Management| date= Winter 1981| title=Confessions of a T-Bird| first1=Tim| last1=Parish| first2=Dan| last2=Wolf| via=Arizona Memory Project}}</ref>