Polis - The city of the Scouts

St. Michael ( Verona ): Yesterday the inauguration of the plaque in memory of Mario Mazza , educator Genovese, founder in Villa Buri in a school inspired by the educational method of Baden Powell .

"Oh, I want to go back .. even just for one day up there in the Alpine valley." They wanted ricordarIo well, with a song, a hymn to the mountains he loved. There were many of his students (some come from far away) an ultra centenary come from Pisa, the inauguration of a stele with a plaque commemorating the discovery of the gardens' Mario Mazza "Mills of St. Michael on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death .

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The ceremony, a short walk from Villa Buri where he lived the last years. Mario Mazza, who was born in Genoa in 1882, at the end of World War II was among the main promoters of the revival of ' Asci , mainly concerned with the training of leaders and the method of advertising. Author numerous clinical textbooks for the elementary school, teaching volumes for schools and children's fiction, an organizer of the old scout in the communities of Knights of St. George.

In 1954 he founded in Rome the Movement Italian Catholic Scouts, adults (males). In the last years of life trying to realize his biggest dream: to create a special school national scout, nut-you could draw adequate preparation Italian teachers and educators for the renewal of teaching and learning throughout the Italian School. For this he founded a college in Cortona in 1950, where experimental and apply the principles of Scouting educational method, developed by Robert Baden -Powell in 1907, a community of growing adolescents. In 1953 he was transferred to Villa San Michele Bernini Buri where he founded a college that housed children of workers killed at work, which soon became a center for the educational culture of the postwar period. Mario Mazza died in November 1959 and was buried in the cemetery of San Michele, where his boys in the morning they wanted to pay homage to the tomb. At the opening of the large memorial stone, which represents the peaks at the base of a mountain with a great protective mantle of the Madonna, as explained by an emotional president of the Scouts of St. Michael, Gigi Falezza, Councillor Barbara Tosi were present representing the City and the seventh president of the district, which has contributed to the work, Daniel Perbellini.

In the afternoon, Mario Sica, ambassador and the most authoritative history of the Scout Movement, gave a talk on Mario Mazza in the history of Catholic Scouting in Italy. Gecchele Professor Mario University of Verona spoke on teaching-learning "how to play them educational mode in Mario Mazza. "

Today, at 9.30, will be held at Villa Buri a round table coordinated by Prof. Alberto Albertini, national secretary of the male, on the theme: "The ideal drive to the service in Mario Mazza." Interventions are planned by Professor Pino Agostini, a former student of Mario Mazza at Villa Buri in the '50s and author of "The dream and the work," Dr. Gori Aegisthus, coordinator of the common male "Mario Mazza" of Prato, Dr. Francesco Marchetti, director of "Open Roads" the national magazine of the males and Giancarlo center studies and documentation Volpato Scout "Mario Mazza" of Genoa.

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Article published Sunday, September 27, 2009
on page 22 of the Verona newspaper: "The ARENA"