Who keeps the «Gen. Pietro Zaglio» Alpini Group of Salce going today? A group leader and about twenty board members, elected by the members’ assembly for the three years 2024–2026. Behind every name there are evenings in the kitchen, pennants carried to ceremonies, pages of the Col Maòr, school trips.
Cover photo: the board of the 60th anniversary in front of the war memorial by Salce parish church, 2024. Photo Michele Sacchet.
Who sits on the board
At the end-of-2023 assembly the members chose Stefano Brancher as group leader; as deputy he had led the Group after the death of Massimo De Vecchi. According to the 60th anniversary book, the board for 2024–2026 is made up of:
| Name | In the Group | |
|---|---|---|
| Stefano Brancher | Group leader since 2024. In 1985, at the National Gathering in La Spezia, he came across the Salce Alpini’s camp by chance: the start of a long adventure. | |
| Giuseppe Bortot | Standard-bearer: he carries the Group’s pennant at ceremonies. | |
| Maurizio Bortot | Board member and Group secretary; wrote in the Col Maòr about the school trip to the Buonconsiglio Castle (2023). | |
| Stefano Brandolin | Board member. | |
| Alessandro Capraro | Board member. | |
| Cesare Colbertaldo | Group leader from 2012 to 2020; on the Col Maòr editorial team. | |
 | Decimo Colbertaldo | Board member since 1967, group leader in the 1980s. He passed away in 2025. |
| Oscar Colle | Board member; author of the articles on the barracks for the Col Maòr. | |
| Maurizio Dall’O’ | Board member and head of the Civil Protection team. | |
| Andrea Dal Pont | Board member; in 2023 he carried the pennant to the Tuscan Alpini gathering in Borgo San Lorenzo. | |
| Ennio Dell’Eva | Board member. | |
| Riccardo Dell’Eva | Board member. | |
| Ivano Fant | Board member; on the Col Maòr editorial team. | |
| Luciano Fratta | Board member; in 2025 one of the companions of a group of Maltese hikers setting off from Alleghe. | |
| Franco Lai | Board member. | |
| Alberto Padoin | Board member and deputy group leader, a serving warrant officer often alongside the pennant. | |
| Ennio Pavei | Board member; on the Col Maòr editorial team, author of many of the Group’s photographs. | |
| Ezio Roni | Board member. | |
| Michele Sacchet | Board member; on the Col Maòr editorial team, editor of the 60th anniversary book. | |
| Paolo Tormen | Board member; on the Col Maòr editorial team. | |
| Loris Guizzo | Joined the board at the assembly of 29 November 2025, already a pillar of the «kitchen squad». |
A story for every board member
We are collecting the memories of the people on the board: military service, their unit, their first day in the Group. If you are a board member, or have a photograph of one of them in uniform, write to us.
Read also the story of Decimo Colbertaldo and of the Salce Alpini Group.
