Public Information and Seminars

• Distribution of VESUVIUS 2000 Brochure
  
• Along the Route of Pliny
  
• Education of School Children and Public
  
• Seminars
  

The Italian and English language VESUVIUS 2000 brochure was produced for the purpose of familiarizing the population and authorities of the Vesuvius area with the central issues associated with the risk and how the VESUVIUS 2000 project intends to develop volcanic risk reduction guidelines for the territory. This brochure has been distributed to many people in the Vesuvius area.

The eruption of Vesuvius on August 24, A.D. 79, produced a catastrophe in the Vesuvius area. As a Roman general and admiral of its fleet stationed in Misenum (Miseno today) near Naples, Pliny embarked on August 24, 79, from Miseno to the shores of Vesuvius to help the population from the erupting volcano. He did not, however, succeed in this endeavor and lost his life in Stabiae (Castellammare di Stabia today). We owe to his nephew, Pliny the younger, the description of the first volcanic eruption and a description of his uncle's death.

The supporters of VESUVIUS 2000 took advantage of the anniversary of the great eruption of Vesuvius by reminding the population of the impending danger of the volcano by retracing the voyage of Pliny. For this purpose, a boat named "Giobe" departed from Miseno in the morning of August 24, 1995, with supporters of the project, leaders of Phlegrean communities, ordinary citizens, newspaper and television reporters, and "survivals" (paintings of Alfonso Marquez) of the 79 eruption. At Portici (one of the most densely populated towns in the world situated below the volcano), Vesuvius area citizens and representatives from local communities welcomed the boat, and a six-year old girl presented symbolically the objectives of VESUVIUS 2000 to the leaders of local communities. The images illustrated below show a sampling of this event, whereas the publication "VESUVIUS 2000: Project Summary and Field Work" includes details with photographs and newspaper articles.

GVES is actively collaborating with the local population by providing seminar speakers at local schools and public places. Many teachers and middle- and upper-level school children, as well as the ordinary people, have shown an extraordinary interest to confront the Vesuvius problem and are actively participating in promoting the "Vesuvius consciousness". This is an important step forward, because until several years ago this problem was not addressed in the open.

Il Progetto VESUVIUS 2000, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli, June 30, 1995. (Public seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Un progetto per la riduzione del rischio Vesuvio, Town Hall of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, June 30, 1995. (Public seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000 e lo sviluppo del territorio, Town Hall of San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy, July 10, 1995. (Meeting with population.)

Rischio Vesuvio, Town Hall of Boscoreale, September 16, 1995. (Public seminar.)

Educazione al rischio Vesuvio, IV Circolo Didatico, Torre del Greco, October 5, 1995. (Meeting with elementary school teachers.)

VESUVIUS 2000 e Piano di Emergenza, Town Hall of Boscoreale, October 16, 1995. (Public seminar.)

Educazione al rischio vulcanico e VESUVIUS 2000, III Circolo Didatico di Portici, October 11, 1995. (Meeting with elementary school teachers.)

Attendibilita' del piano di Emergenza dell'area vesuviana, Town Hall of Cercola, October 24, 1995. (Public seminar.)

Rischio Vesuvio, Town Hall of Torre del Greco, November 11, 1995. (Public seminar.)

Obiettivi del progetto VESUVIUS 2000, Town Hall of Ercolano, November 17, 1995. (Public seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000 ed Educazione, Scuola Media Statale R. Scotellaro, Ercolano, November 22, 1995. (Seminar to high school school teachers.)

VESUVIUS 2000 ed Educazione, Scuola Media Statale E. Iaccarino, Ercolano, November 29, 1995. (Seminar to high school teachers.)

Incontro con il Vesuvio, Villa Campolieto, Ercolano, December 16, 1995. (Meeting with about 500 elementary and high school children and teachers from the area.)

Educazione al Rischio Vesuvio, Liceo Scientifico Statale, Torre del Greco, February 8, 1996. (Seminar to high school children and teachers.)

VESUVIUS 2000 ed Educazione, Liceo Scientifico "Nobel", Torre del Greco, January 29, 1996. (Seminar to high school students and teachers.)

Incontro con cittadini dell'area vesuviana per promuovere una maggiore coscienza mirata alla riduzione del rischio e allo sviluppo della zona, Chiesa di viale delle Mimose, Torre del Greco, February 3, 1996. (Public seminar.)

Incontro con docenti e genitori dell'area vesuviana per un confronto sul tema "rischio vulcanico", Scuola Media Statale F. D. Assisi, Torre del Greco, March 27, 1996. (Seminar to teachers and population.)

Incontro con docenti e genitori dell'area vesuviana per un confronto sul tema "rischio vulcanico", IV Circolo Didatico, Ercolano, April 2, 1996. (Seminar to teachers and population.)

Incontro con studenti e docenti, Scuola Media Statale "Cosenza", Castellamare di Stabia, April 17, 1996. (Seminar to teachers and high school students.)

Incontro di aggiornamento per docenti dell'area vesuviana sul tema "rischio vulcanico", Scuola Media Statale Comes, Portici, May 8, 1996. (Seminar to teachers and population.)

Incontro con studenti e docenti, Scuola Media Statale "Borrelli", Castellamare di Stabia, May 16, 1996. (Seminar to teachers and high school students.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Incontro con i medici dell'area vesuviana per promuovere una maggiore coscienza mirata alla riduzione del rischio, Associazione Medica, Hotel S. Teresa, Torre del Greco, May 31, 1996. (Seminar to medical doctors.)

Scuola Media Statale Francesco D'Assisi, Torre del Greco, September 20, 1996. (Meeting of students and teachers of the school with students and teachers from University of Mainz, Germany.)

Liceo Classico De Botis, Torre del Greco, October 11, 1996. (Seminar to high school students and teachers.)

Quartiere Nuovi Orizzonti, Torre del Greco, October 12, 1996. (Seminar to population.)

Cosi' Lontano ... Cosi' Vicino ..., Museo Ferroviario Pietrarsa, Portici, December 16, 1996. (Manifestation of school children from the Vesuvius area.)

Scuola Media Statale A. Melloni, Portici, January 16, 1997. (Seminar to school teachers and population.)

Scuola Media Statale Beato Vincenzo Romano, Torre del Greco, April 21, 1997. (Seminar to school teachers and population.)

VESUVIO: Quale educazione? Scuola Media Statale Macedonio Melloni, April 28, 1997. (Seminar on volcanic risk education.)

VESUVIUS 2000: A project for the reduction of volcanic risk and development of the area, Istituto Tecnico Commerciale per Geometri, S. Giuseppe Vesuviano, April 29, 1997. (Seminar to high school students and teachers and population.)

Seminar: Forecasting future eruptions of Vesuvius, Department of Geophysics and Volcanology, University of Napoli Federico II, April 29, 1997.

Encounter with Presidents with Vesuvius area schools, Scuola Media Statale F. D'Assisi, Torre del Greco, April 30, 1997. (Meeting with presidents to define an educational initiative for the territory.)

House Laboratory Vesuvius 2, April 30, 1997, Ercolano. (Meeting with elementary school children.)

Vesuvius: Evacuation or active intervention for the reduction of volcanic risk?, Farrocchia S. Maria del Principio, Torre del Greco, May 2, 1997. (Public seminar.)

Istituto Tecnico Comerciale A. Tilgher, Ercolano, May 3, 1997. (Seminar to high school students and teachers.)

Seminar: Socio-economic, cultural, and political effects of the Emergency Plan for the Vesuvius Area, Faculty of Letters, University of Napoli Federico II, May 5, 1997.

Seminar: Volcanic risk in the Vesuvius area and efforts aimed at its reduction. United States Naval Hospital, Agnano (Naples), September 26, 1997.

Istituto Tecnico Comerciale L. Sturzo, Castellammare di Stabia, October 10, 1997. (Meeting with representatives from 22 schools of the Vesuvius area for structuring a volume on risk education.)

Scuola Media Statale Don Milani, Portici, October 31, 1997. (Recitations of school children for New York Times Television.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Un progetto per la prevenzione di una emergenza nell'area vesuviana, November 4, 1997. Town Hall of Gragnano. (Public seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Un progetto per la prevenzione di una emergenza nell'area vesuviana, November 5, 1997. Town Hall of S. Maria la Carita'. (Public Seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Un progetto per la prevenzione di una emergenza nell'area vesuviana, November 6, 1997. (Seminar at Quartiere Torre Nord in Torre del Greco.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Un progetto per la prevenzione di una emergenza nell'area vesuviana e lo sviluppo del territorio, November 11, 1997. (Seminar to medical association members of Torre del Greco.)

Istituto Tecnico Comerciale L. Sturzo, Castellammare di Stabia, November 24, 1997. (Seminar to high school students on Vesuvius.)

Liceo Plinio Seniore, Castellammare di Stabia, November 24, 1997. (Seminar to high school students on Vesuvius.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Un progetto per la prevenzione di una emergenza nell'area vesuviana e lo sviluppo del territorio, December 3, 1997. (Seminar to population in the Town Hall of Pompei.)

VESUVIUS 2000: Un progetto per la prevenzione di una emergenza nell'area vesuviana e lo sviluppo del territorio, December 12, 1997. (Seminar to members of Associations FIDAPA and Lyons of Castellammare di Stabia.)

Istituto Tecnico Comerciale L. Sturzo, Castellammare di Stabia, December 19, 1997. (Meeting with high school teachers to discuss the volume Educazione al Rischio Vesuvio, produced by GVES.)

Le eruzioni del Vesuvio e il probblema della previsione, Parocchia S. Antonio, Torre del Greco, February 24, 1998. (Public seminar.)

Piano Nazionale d'Emergenza dell'Area Vesuviana, Parocchia S. Antonio, Torre del Greco, March 10, 1998. (Public seminar.)

Rotary Club, Castellammare di Stabia and Ottaviano, March 13, 1998. (Public seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000: un progetto per la prevenzione della catastrofe e per lo sviluppo dell'area vesuviana, seminario pubblico presso Parocchia S. Antonio, Torre del Greco, March 17, 1998. (Public seminar.)

Dialogo sul rischio Vesuvio e Piano Nazionale d'Emergenza dell'Area Vesuviana, seminario pubblico presso Biblioteca Comunale, Castellammare di Stabia, March 27, 1998. (Public seminar.)

Le eruzioni del Vesuvio e il probblema della previsione, seminario pubblico presso Circolo del Forestiero, Pompei, March 30, 1998. (Public seminar.)

Dialogo sul rischio Vesuvio e Piano Nazionale d'Emergenza dell'Area Vesuviana, Seminar at Dip. Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, April 2, 1998.

VESUVIUS 2000: prevenzione della catastrofe e creazione di una cultura della sicurezza, Seminar at Dip. Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, April 3, 1998.

VESUVIUS 2000: prevenzione della catastrofe e creazione di una cultura della sicurezza, Seminar at Biblioteca Comunale, Castellammare di Stabia, Pompei, April 3, 1998.

VESUVIUS 2000: prevenzione della catastrofe e creazione di una cultura della sicurezza, Seminar at Circolo del Forestiero, Pompei, April 4, 1998.

Excursion on Vesuvio with students from I.T.C. L. Sturzo, Castellammare di Stabia, April 6, 1998.

Dialogo sul rischio Vesuvio e Piano Nazionale di Emergenza dell'Area Vesuviana, Sport Club Oplonti, Torre del Greco, April 23, 1998. (Public seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000: prevenzione della catastrophe e creazione di una cultura della sicurezza, Sport Club Oplonti, Torre del Greco, April 24, 1998. (Public seminar.)

Rischio Vesuvio, Pianeta Dona, Portici, April 29, 1998. (Seminar to senior citizens.)

Previsione fisico-matematico-probabilistica dell'eruzione del Vesuvio, I.T.C. Sturzo, Castellammare di Stabia, December 4, 1998. (Seminar to high school students.)

Abitudini mentali, incommensurabilita', paradigmi e barriere, Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa, Portici, December 16, 1998. (Public seminar.)

In 1997 and 1998 GVES organized In Torre del Greco (Liceo Classico De Bottis, Parochia S. Antonio) and Portici (S.M.S. Comes) public seminars to discuss in depth the scientific, socio-economic, and cultural issues associated with volcanic risk mitigation. These were promoted by a council member of Torre del Greco, scouts of the Vesuvius area, and Popular University of Portici. Each series attracted many people who followed most of the seminars, as required to acquire a more complete knowledge of problems and issues. These seminars were also reported in newspapers Il Mattino, Roma, Metropolis. The seminar speakers were: Profs. Flavio Dobran, Giuseppe Luongo, Valerio Di Donna, Anna Ibello, and Tulio Pucci.

SEMINAR LECTURES

• Eruptive history and problems with eruption predictions.
  
• Territory, population, and education about the risk.
  
• National Emergency Plan for the Vesuvius Area: socio-economic, cultural, and political effects.
  
• VESUVIUS 2000: a project for risk reduction and development of the area.
  
• Vesuvius: which education?

• Scarce knowledge of various problems associated with the risk of Vesuvius among the population.
  
• Necessity to transmit the information from seminars to much larger number of people.
  
• Inadequate and incorrect reporting by the mass media.
  
• Absence of the transmission of information and scarce promotion of initiatives on volcanic risk by Mayors and citizens.
  
• General bitterness of non-realized possibilities and resignation at the problem by some; willingness to collaborate in order to change the actual stagnant situation by others.
  
• Demands to continue with seminars in different parts of the territory.
  
• Appreciation for the initiatives promoted and organized by GVES.

Global Volcanic Simulator: Eruption forecastsing and urban planning of densely populated ares, International Union of Geology and Geophysics, Birmingham, UK, 20 July, 1999.

VESUVIUS 2000: A volcanic risk mitigation initiative for a megacity of three million people, Interhantional Union of Geology and Geophysics, Birmingham, UK, 23 July, 1999.

Global Volcanic Simulation, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 13 December, 1999.

Educazione alla cultura della sicurezza, S.M.S. Don Milani, Portici, 16 December 1999.

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Sport Club Oplonti, Torre del Greco, 16 December, 1999.

Educazione al rischio Vesuvio, II Circolo Didattico di Gragnano, December 17, 1999.

Educazione al Rishio Vesuvio, S.M.S. Don Milani, Portici, December 20, 1999.

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Scuola Elementare Gigliola Fiodo, S. Agnello, December 21, 1999.

Educazione alla cultura della sicurezza, II Circolo Didattico di S.G. Vesuviano, December 22, 1999.

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Circolo Nautico Stabia (Castellammare di Stabia), December 28, 1999.

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Villa Cycas, Portici, January 6, 2000.

Educazione per la cultura della sicurezza, S.M.S. Don Milani, Portici, 16 December 1999. (Seminar to middle level school children and teachers.)

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Sport Club Oplonti, Torre del Greco, 16 December, 1999. (Public seminar.)

Educazione al rischio Vesuvio, II Circolo Didattico di Gragnano, December 17, 1999. (Seminar to educators and parents of school children.)

Educazione al Rishio Vesuvio, S.M.S. Don Milani, Portici, December 20, 1999.

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Scuola Elementare Gigliola Fiodo, S. Agnello, December 21, 1999.

Educazione alla cultura della sicurezza, II Circolo Didattico, S.G. Vesuviano, December 22, 1999.

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Circolo Nautico Stabia, Castellammare di Stabia, December 28, 1999. (Public seminar.)

VESUVIUS 2000: All'Alba di un nuovo evo, Villa Cycas, Portici, January 6, 2000.

An interdisciplinary initiative aimed at integrating nonlinear eruption variability with densely populated area, European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, April 26, 2000.

VESUVIUS 2000, Terme stabiane, Castellammare di Stabia, December 16, 2000.

Plinian and subplinian eruption forecasting of Vesuvius, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 9, 2002.

VESUVIUS 2000: L'unica soluzione per confrontare in sicurezza l'eruzione del XXI secolo, Circolo Nautico Stabia, Castellammare di Stabia, January 3, 2003.

Incontro con il Vesuvio: VESUVIUS 2000, Liceo Scientifico Don Milani, Gragnano, January 7, 2003.

VESUVIUS 2000: L'unica soluzione per confrontare in sicurezza l'eruzione del XXI secolo, Chiesa di Santa Teresa, Torre del Greco, January 8, 2003.

Le lettere di Plinio il giovane, S.M.S. D'Assisi, Torre del Greco, January 9, 2003.

Incontro con il Vesuvio: VESUVIUS 2000, Parocchia del Carmine, Castellammare di Stabia, January 10, 2003.

Magma chamber dynamics and Vesuvius eruption forecasting, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, April 6, 2003.

VESUVIUS 2000: A multidisciplinary project for the Vesuvius area, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, April 6, 2003.

Vesuvius Area Schools

CONTENTS

• Manifestation of Vesuvius Area School Children
  
• Poetry and Music From Vesuvius Area School Children
  
• List of Vesuvius Area Schools Participating at Manifestations

On December 16, 1631, a subplinian eruption of Vesuvius killed about 10,000 people and destroyed most of the territory surrounding the volcano. On the anniversary of this event in 1995, GVES and University of Naples organized a manifestation in Villa Campolieto in Ercolano where about 500 elementary and high school children and their teachers exhibited their works on Vesuvius (paintings, sculpture, music, recitations).

The following images illustrate some momentos from the manifestation in Villa Campolieto.

Manifestation of Vesuvius Area School Children on December 16, 1996

The anniversary of the eruption of Vesuvius on December 16, 1631, was again remembered in 1996. This time, the gathering was held at Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa (Portici) where over 1000 students and teachers met to socialize and present their projects on Vesuvius. Some typical moments from this manifestation are reported through the following images.

This manifestation (Vesuvius at School) was also held at Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa (Portici) because this place could accommodate large crowds and vehicles used to transport students from different parts of the territory. The following images illustrate some works presented at the manifestation as well as a group photo of some of the participants taken in the amphitheater of the museum.

This manifestation "Education for Security Culture" was also held at Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa (Portici). More than 1000 students and teachers from Vesuvius area schools attended, including the preschoolers. The morning program included exhibitions of works from Vesuvius area schools and video presentations (Encounter with Vesuvius, The Planet's Volcanoes, Le Vesuve). The afternoon program involved public seminars where about 100 school teachers and scientists participated.

In order to make the manifestation as educational as possible, the children were asked to compile a questionnaire whose answers could be found by studying the expository material. The participants were very enthusiastic with this idea and we will reward prices to the first three best-compiled questionnaires. These questions were:

• Why did you come here today?
• List all of the schools which are presenting material.
• List a minimum of 5 volcanoes of our planet.
• Which school illustrates different evacuation plans in the case of an emergency?
• The flower of "sterminator vesevo". (a) Which is? (b) Who described it?
• Which square is shown on the risk map proposed by a school from Ercolano?
• Who is responsible for civil protection in your town or district?
• What is the probability (number) that Vesuvius produces a large eruption every 500 years?
• Describe VESUVIUS 2000.
• A musical recital uses the words of a famous philosopher born in Cordova, Spain, in the fourth century ... Lucio Anneo __________
• Indicate two elements which define the risk matrix.
• Describe the eruption of Vesuvius on 16 December, 1631.
• Where is located the train of the first railway service in Italy and in what year was inaugurated?

Se solo inizio a pensare (When only I begin to think)
che un giorno potrai scoppiare (that only day you will explode)
portandoci via come il mare (taking us away like the sea)
non sapendo piu' cosa fare (not knowing what to do)
sarei costretta a naufragare. (I will be forced to shipwreck.)
Al mattino quando io sono sveglia (In the morning when I am awake)
ti vedo sonnecchiare (I see you taking a nap)
e penso che un giorno (and think that one day)
svegliandoti ci farai tutti crollare. (when you awake all as will fall.)
Dove andremo (Where will we go)
come faremo (how will we do it)
mai piu' torneremo (will we ever return)
la nostra citta' (to our city)
un cimitiero diventera'. (becoming a cemetery.)
Ma comunque la vita continuera' (But the life will continue)
e lui immenso e potente dominera'. (and he immense and powerful will dominate.)
Students of 2F (1996), S.M.S. D. Colamarino (Torre del Greco);
lead teacher Rosi Linda.

Com'e' difficile andar via (How's difficult to go away)
quando il Vesuvio eruttera' (when Vesuvio erupts)
e non ci son vie d'uscite (because there are no escape routes)
per salvar le nostre vite (to save our lives)
a cui nessun vuol pensar ... (for which nobody wants to think ...)
E un'eruzione ci sara' (And there will be an eruption)
dopo tanti anni di silenzio (after many years of silence)
e non si sa quando avverra' (and nobody knows when)
e quante vite uccidera' (and how many will be killed)
perche' la lava scendera' (because the lava will descend)
e il nostro sole morira' (and our sun will die)
e tutti noi saremo li' (and all of us will be there)
a tentare di fuggire via di qui' ... (trying to escape away from here...)
perche' la vita a questa eta' (because the life at this age)
e' proprio tutto o sara' niente (is all or will be nothing)
ed io non mi rassegnero' (and I will not resign)
e a morir proprio ora (and dying right now)
non ci sto'. (will not accept.)
Students of 3G (1996), S.M.S. D. Colamarino (Torre del Greco),
lead teacher Rosi Linda.

The enclosed song VESUVIUS 2000 Part a and Part b was produced in 1996 by the students of S.M.S. Rocco Scotellaro (Ercolano) in honor of the VESUVIUS 2000 initiative. Lead teacher Gianfranco Gambardella.

English translation produced by the children is:

A green spot this mountain looks like
But inside it burning flames abide
A strange condition however it presents
The fact that people live on its rocks.

It's all an awe, a fear and a fright
A dreadful story from morning till night
What it the use of lucky episodes
It suddenly the powder-keg explodes ...

A thousand narrow streets are at your foot
That would like you in their dreams to appear
Before tomorrow you wake up and stir
And this dream one often has indeed!

The black thought comes up in the night ...
Why don't you spare us your salute at last?
My darling, should we pay such a tribute
To die thousands of times every minute?

Signed:
Students of the S.M.S. R. Scotellaro of Herculaneum we are
And on the volcano we are sitting
what can we do? then, we think
A glance ...! A word ...!
No, we study
It's life we learn
And with learning, perhaps
We protect ourselves.
That's why.

Il Vesuvio e' come una palla (Vesuvius is like a ball)
che ha tempo per scoppiare. (which has time to explode.)
E' un rischio abitare (It is a risk to live)
sotto i suoi piedi. (under its feet.)
Un giorno o un altro (One of these days)
lui scoppiera' di rabbia (it will explode from anger)
e cacciera' fuori tutta (and throw out all)
la sua lava. (of its lava.)
La gente correra' sempre di piu' (The people will try to run)
ma la lava scorrera' sempre (but the lava will always)
piu' avanti. (be ahead.)
Dobbiamo fare in modo (We must prevent)
che il Vesuvio non scoppi perche' (Vesuvius from exploding because)
sarebbe la fine di (it would be the end)
tutti noi e della citta. (of all of us and our cities.)
Pero' noi siamo al sicuro (At least for now)
per il momento. (we are safe.)
Gelsomina Sconamiglio 3F (1998), S.M.S. R. Scotellaro (Ercolano),
lead teacher Gianfranco Gambardella.

La sicurezza e' un diritto che ci dobbiamo assicurare.
(Security is the right that we must insure for ourselves.)
Il Vesuvio ... tanto maestoso quanto pericoloso.
(Vesuvius ... so majestic but so dangerous.)
Vorrei poterlo spezzettare in piccoli pezzettini e trasferirlo la'
(I would like to cut it in small pieces and transfer it there)
dove non puo' nuocere. Ma non vorrei farlo
(where it could not be harmful. But I would not like)
scomparire, poiche' e' una parte di noi
(that it disappears, because it is a part of us)
e se non ci fosse piu', gran parte della nostra storia
(and if it would not exist anymore, a large part of our history)
andrebbe in fumo.
(would wind up in smoke.)
Marialuisa 2D (1998), S.M.S. R. Scotellaro (Ercolano),
lead teacher Gianfranco Gambardella.

Sperammo ca quaccuno ce sente (Hopefully someone is listening)

Primma quaccuno diceva (It was said before)
ca era inutile, (not to be preoccupied,)
quaccuno diceva, addiriturra diceva, (someone even said,)
"Ma chi v' 'o ffa fa'?" ("Who told you to be preoccupied?")

E pure nuje stammo ancora cca' (But we are still here)
e nun ce vulimmo capacita' (and we don't have the will)
'e ce arre'nnere (to understand the gravity of the situation)
perche' quanno succedarra' 'sta disgrazzia (because if the calamity really occurs)
a nisciuna parte ce putimmo appennere. (we don't know to whom to turn to.)

E sperammo ca quaccuno ce sente! (We hope that someone is listening to us!)

E nun sulo cu 'e rrecchie, (And not only with the ears,)
ma pure cu 'a capa. (but also with the head.)
Perche' sulo accussi' ce putimmo salva', (Because only like this can we be saved,)
sulo cu 'a bbona vulunta'. (only with good will.)

Paolo Schettino IIID (1999), I.T.C.S. L. Sturzo (Castellammare di Stabia),
lead teacher Ida Mascolo.

Stateve accorte (Be attentive)

Quanno t'affacce a fenestra (When you approach the window)
e vide 'stu spettaculo ca Napule te da' (and see the echanting spectacle of Naples)
dice: "Comme so' ffurtunato a sta cca'!" (you say: "How fortunate am I to live here!"
e quanno vide 'sta muntagna te ne annammure (and when you see that mountain you fall in love with it)
e t' 'a ricuorde pure si a Napule e manca'. ( and remember it even you live far from Naples.)

Ma nun saje, (But you don't know,)
nun puo' sape' (can't know)
'stu gigante che tene dint' 'o core (what this giant hides)
e chello ca nu juorno te po' ffa'. (and one day will do to you.)

Pircio', a tutte quante, (To all,)
stateve accorte a 'stu 'mbruglione (watch out for this cheater)
ca 'nganna 'o core nuosto (that cheats our hearts)
cu parole doce (with sweet words)
e cu tante smancerie, (and many affectations,)
perche' sulo isso sape chello ca vo di' (because only it knows what it wants to say)
e quanno 'o ddice (and when it "speaks")
'o ddice bbuono (it speaks with decisive conviction)
ca tutte quante hanna senti'. (that all can understand.)

Strillanno forte diciarra': (Shouting with all its breath it will declare:)
"So' tturnato, stongo cca'! ("I returned, I am here!)
Vuje crediveve che ero muorto, (You thought that I was dead,)
e invece so' vivo! (but I am alive!)
E mo pruvate a me ferma'!" (And just try to stop me!")

E tanno chi 'o po' ferma'? (Who can stop it?)
'Sta forza chi ci' 'a da'? (Who will give us this force?)

Pircio', stateve accorte (Be thus attentive)
a 'stu gigante (of this giant)
e nun ve facite 'mbruglia', (and don't be deceived,)
perche' pe'colpa soja (because of its fault)
'sta citta' (this city)
'na brutta fine (may succumb)
'a po' ffa'. (to a dreadful end.)

Paolo Schettino IIID (1999), I.T.C.S. L. Sturzo (Castellammare di Stabia),
lead teacher Ida Mascolo.

Queste due poesie nascono dal quore sensibile di un alunno della scuola, Paolo Schettino, attualmente frequentante la classe 3 sez. D; esse esprimono l'entusiasmo per aver potuto partecipare ad incontri sul tema Rischio- Vesuvio e delusione nell'apprendere quanto pocco sia stato fatto per informare e preparare la popolazione ad affrontare un'eventuale futura emergenza.

Nel primo componimento, egi esprime la tenacia con cui alcune associazioni, tra queste la GVES, affrontano il problema Vesuvio, chiedendo, a gran voce, il risveglio della popolazione e soprattutto delle istituzioni sul tema che, finora, e' stato affrontato solo in maniera teorica senza trovare i giusti riscontri nella realta' territoriale.

Speriamo ca quaccuno ce sente esprime tutto cio' e, in particolare, la necessita' di cambiamento di atteggiamento mentale nei riguardi del problema, che deve essere affrontato con una metodologia culturale nuova: LA CULTURA DELLA SICUREZZA .

Nel secondo componimento, Stateve accorte, Paolo evidenzia, in maniera spontanea, la natura infida del vulcano che, non a torto, viene definito "'mbruglione" per la sua intermittente attivita' e per aver dato in passato eruzioni catastrofiche.

Le ultime due strofe mettono a fuoco la pericolosita' della quiescenza del Vesuvio che, facendo dimenticare le sue potenzialita' disastrose (perdita della memoria storica), potrebbe portare l'area vesuviana ad una immane catastrofe.

Breve commento a cura della Prof.ssa Ida Mascolo, I.T.C. Sturzo, Castellammare di Stabia.

Manifestation of Vesuvius Area School Children on December 16, 2000 and January 24-19, 2001.

The manifestation "La Giornata Stabiana Di Attenzione al Rischio Vesuvio" was held at Terme Stabiane (Castellammare di Stabia) on December 16, 2000 to remember the subplinian eruption of Vesuvius on December 16, 1631. About 1500 students and teachers from Vesuvius area schools attended this initiative organized by GVES. The afternoon program involved public seminars delivered by C. Avissati, F. Le Guern, and others. Another manifestation on January 24-29 was held in Ottaviano and organized by Rotary International, where over 1000 students and teachers participated. Shown below are some moments from these gatherings.

Prof. Ricci with a student A. Longobardi from S.M.S. Fucini at the manifestation in Castellammare.

Students and teachers from Liceo Scientifico Don Milani of Gragnano with F. Dobran, following a seminar on January 7.

Maternal and Elementary Schools

• Scuola Materna Bertelli, Portici.
• Scuola Materna IV Circolo. Portici.
• IV Circolo Didattico, Bagnoli.
• IV Circolo Didattico, Ercolano.
• Plesso Villanova, Ercolano.
• I Circolo Didattico, Portici.
• II Circolo Didattico, Portici.
• III Circolo Didattico, Portici.
• IV Circolo Didattico, Portici.
• IV Circolo Didattico, Torre del Greco.
• II Circolo di Pompei, Pompei.
• Squola Elementare Ungaretti, Gragnano.
• Squola Materna, Torre del Greco.

• S.M.S. G. Bonito, Castellammare di Stabia.
• S.M.S. D. Iovino, Ercolano.
• S.M.S. Borrelli, Castellammare di Stabia.
• S.M.S. Don L. Milani, Portici.
• S.M.S. E. Iaccarino, Ercolano.
• S.M.S. R. Scotellaro, Ercolano.
• S.M.S. O. Comes, Portici.
• S.M.S. M. Melloni, Portici.
• S.M.S. E. Cosenza, Castellammare di Stabia.
• S.M.S. Santagata, Portici.
• S.M.S. G. Marconi, S. Giorgio a Cremano.
• S.M.S. E. De Amicis, S. Giuseppe Vesuviano.
• S.M.S. G. Pascoli, Torre Annunziata.
• S.M.S. D. Colamarino, Torre del Greco.
• S.M.S. F. D'Assisi, Torre del Greco.
• S.M.S. B. V. Romano, Torre del Greco.
• S.M.S. Fucini, Gragnano.
• S.M.S. Stabiae, Castellammare di Stabia.

• Liceo Classico Plinio Seniore, Castellammare di Stabia.
• Liceo Classico De Bottis, Torre del Greco.
• Liceo Scientifico Silvestri, Portici.
• Liceo Scientifico, S. Giorgio a Cremano.
• Liceo Scientifico Statale, S. Sebastiano al Vesuvio.
• Liceo Scientifico di Terzigno, Terzigno.
• I.T.G. Vetruvio, Castellammare di Stabia.
• Liceo Scientifico A. Nobel, Torre del Greco.
• I.P.I.A., Portici.
• I.C.C.S. Anastasia, S. Anastasia.
• I.T.C. E. Cesaro, Torre Annunziata.
• I.T.C. L. Sturzo, Castellammare di Stabia.
• I.P.S.I.A. G. Galilei, Vico Equense.
• I.T.C. Vitruvio, Castellammmare di Stabia.
• I.T.C. Elia, Castellammare di Stabia.
• I.T.C. Don Milani, Gragnano.
• I.P.S.S.A.R. De Gennaro, Vico Equense.
• R.S.P.P., Gragnano.
• I.T.C. F. Degni, Ercolano.
• I.T.C. L. Einaudi, San G. Vesuviano.