Il Cenacolo, established in 1928, hosted annual picnics since at least 1933, with an understandable hiatus during the war years. Salvatore Reina joined the club around the same time in those early years, and when he became the fourth president in 1952, he shaped this idea into a grand tradition. One fine Sunday in August, 1954, the vintner Louis M. Martini hosted the Cenacolisti and their wives—the term “significant others” had not yet been coined—at a Sunday luncheon at his Monte Rosso Vineyard on the west slope of the Mayacamas Mountains north of Boyes Hot Springs.  In the meantime, back in San Francisco, Il Cenacolo had put on an Opera Luncheon for some time, in which Italian members of the San Francisco Opera Company were honored guests. The annual picnic and the celebration of opera lirica finally converged on Sunday, October 10, 1954, with  Il Cenacolo’s first Opera Outing, again under the pergola of the Monte Rosso Vineyard in the Valley of the Moon. The cost per person was $4.00! Il Cenacolo’s Opera Outing was held at Louis Martini Vineyards every autumn for over 50 years, and, since 2008, at the Seghesio Family Vineyards, Deer Park Villa, and now at the beautiful Marin Art & Garden Center.