ITTIREDDU – OZIERI | June 28, 2024. They will be Put them to sleep e Ozieri to host tomorrow, Saturday 29 June, the edition of the annual gathering of former students of the ENAOLI college of Iglesias. The meeting, organized by former students Elio Farris of Ittireddu and Pino Schintu of Tula and by former Gruppo educator Gavino Contu, will be held according to the following program: ore 9.00 I arrive at Put them to sleepvisit under the guidance of the mayor, the archaeologist Franco Campus, of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum and the Etruscan Exhibition, of the 9th century Byzantine church and, compatibly with the times, of the private Ethnographic Museum of Elio Farris; at ore 11.30 transfer to Ozieriwhere a walk in Piazza Garibaldi (formerly the Garden of Count Toufani) is planned, visits to the Spanish House in Piazza San Francesco, the church of the same name, Piazza Cantareddu, which has always been the meeting place of the people of Ozieri, and, near the symbolic monument of Ozieri, the enchanting Grixoni Fountain, a visit to the headquarters of the “Logudoro Prize” with refreshments offered by Prof. Gavino Contu. The tour will then continue towards Piazza Corte and the Horse Museum in Palazzo Borgia, in the Cathedral church, in the ancient Convent of the Poor Clares and in the splendid work by Aligi Sassu, the Prometheus, whose contents will be illustrated to those present by the scholar Diego Satta. After the visit, the group will reach a well-known restaurant in the city for the canonical lunch that will conclude the initiative.
ENAOLI (National Organization for the Assistance of Orphans to Italian Workers) was a meritorious organization that provided assistance to boys and girls who had had the misfortune of losing their parents due to work-related reasons. It did this in two ways: directly by financially supporting the families and indirectly by keeping the young people in its institutes scattered throughout Italy from Valenza Po, to Rispescia, Mondello and to Iglesias, in whose boarding school the children attended the internal middle school at the same institute, and subsequently the Professional Institute for electromechanical mechanics, turners, with attached laboratories and workshops, giving them the possibility of very interesting professional opportunities. Those who chose other courses had the option of attending schools in the city.
The young people could also attend the summer colonies of the institution in Porto Pino, Caprera and Lu Bagnu and carried out numerous educational activities and workshops both with internal educators and with external experts who introduced them to ceramic, painting, photography, theatre, archeology workshops and music. ENAOLI also practiced intense sporting activity in volleyball, athletics and football and, an important detail, the Iglesias college team became the regional champion of the CSI championship and won the national championship in 1965 at the Spring Games in Rome. All under the governance of educational and managerial staff chosen by competition and prepared in the “Silvino and Agostina Giaccone” Pedagogical Center, on Via Cassia in Rome, by the best teachers of Roman universities before being sent to the various institutes of the peninsula. In the same Pedagogical center the staff were called back annually for refresher courses.
To stick to the reality of Sardinia alone, a class of highly qualified personnel has emerged from the Iglesias college, hired by the best and most important Italian companies, from Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Magneti Marelli, Enel, Telecom to the Ferrovie dello State.
It will certainly be a day full of pathos and amarcord that the participants will remember for a long time.
Raimondo Meledina
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