Olgiate Olona, June 26, 1959 - Commemorative events (2013)

Commemorative events of June 26, 1959

• Rewarded in 2011 with medal of the President of the Italian Republic •

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March 23, 2013 - Ceremony of presentation of this website: Nicola Puddu and Olgiate Olona mayor Giorgio Volpi

March 23, 2013 - Ceremony of presentation of this website: speech of Adele Scarani Pesapane, vicepresident of Comitato 8 ottobre per non dimenticare committee

Commemoration of June 26, 2013

Ceremony of presentation of this website

In 2013 the educational project addressed to the students in eighth-grade was proposed again. Moreover the spirit and commitment which animate the commemorative events have created a tool that perpetuates the memory of June 26, 1959, in a way accessible from anywhere: the website OlgiateOlona26giugno1959.org created by Nicola Puddu with the cooperation of Alberto Colombo and some relatives of the seventy immortal lives. The website was presented in the town hall of Olgiate Olona on March 23, 2013: among the people attending the ceremony were some relatives of the seventy immortal lives and some rescuers of 1959. Brief speeches were made by Carla Pagani, deputy school director of “Beato Contardo Ferrini” Institute, and Adele Scarani Pesapane, vicepresident of Comitato 8 ottobre per non dimenticare committee (relatives of the victims of Milan-Linate air disaster). In the greeting to the visitors of the website Olgiate Olona mayor Giorgio Volpi pointed out the boundless potentiality of this website that - by keeping the memory of June 26, 1959, alive - helps to introduce Olgiate Olona community to the world.

On April 12, 2013 by means of a message sent to Alberto Colombo, President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano (1925-2023) expressed his appreciation about this website and “for the work of in-depth research and historical testimony of such tragic event”.

Commemoration of 54th anniversary of the plane crash

The commemoration of Wednesday June 26, 2013 (a solemn and sober ceremony which took place at 5.33 p.m. in front of the memorial located in “via 26 giugno” street that was partially restored for this event) - was attended by many people of Olgiate Olona, by some relatives of the seventy immortal lives coming from Italy and USA (who also read the international ecumenical prayer in English), by Olgiate Olona mayor Giorgio Volpi who made his commemorative speech, by the delegation of the Comitato 8 ottobre per non dimenticare committee (relatives of the victims of Milan-Linate air disaster), by the students in eighth grade of Olgiate Olona taking part in the educational project (conversation in the classroom and drafting at home of works inspired to the memory of June 26, 1959) including the authors of the ten most deserving works (all were rewarded with a certificate of merit and the first three classified received a book-coupon paied homage by a sponsor operating in Olgiate Olona who preferred to remain anonymous).
During the ceremony Susan and Kathleen Ellis - daughters of Frank William Ellis, First Officer on the TWA flight - gave to the mayor as a tribute to Olgiate Olona a model of the ill-fated aircraft of June 26, 1959.

(page containing the works rewarded)

Invited by “Comitato 8 ottobre” committee, Alberto Colombo delegated by the mayor Giorgio Volpi represented the Municipality of Olgiate Olona on October 8, 2013 in Milan at the commemoration of the victims of Milan-Linate air disaster.