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5B DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1999 181 honored as Eagle Scouts Friedrich Griesmeier, Shrine Circus clown tery's entrance, cleared the area of overgrown vegetation and righted fallen headstones. Landers, in conjunction with the Gates Historical Society, will keep a watchful eye on the cemetery from now on. said. But others saw it differently. The Advancement Committee rewarded Landers with the 1998 Eagle Scout Project of the Year Award.

Landers and his team of helpers installed a new sign at the ceme- 1 V' '7 Obituary File photo In character It was as the Little Tramp that Friedrich Griesmeier was best-known to fans of the circus in Rochester. If you've ever taken your kids to Rochester's annual Shrine Circus, you've probably laughed at clown Friedrich J. Griesmeier. Beginning in i960 and continuing through last autumn, he delighted youngsters and their parents by imitating the Little Tramp, a mustachioed, baggy-pants character created by silent-film comedian Charlie Chaplin. Mr.

Griesmeier, a Greece resident who was bitten by the show-business bug as a child but also was well-known as a bookbinder, died of pneumonia Feb. 20 at Park Ridge HospitaL He was 91. Mr. Griesmeier, a longtime Mason and Shriner, missed only one performance in 38 years of Shrine circuses at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial That was in the early 1980s when his wife, Betty, now deceased, was hospitalized. Although he clowned as different characters including a Chinese man, a hobo and a cowboy his favorite and best-known clown was Chaplin's down-on-his-luckbut kindly character.

"Freddie was a charmer," said Edward Zorn, a fellow Shriner and clown who teamed with Mr. Griesmeier as his nemesis, Clancy the Keystone Cop. "He would go up to the young girls and flash a button that said, 'You turn me Zorn said. "He'd get them all laughing. Then I'd come up behind him and say, 'Misbehaving again?" and try to arrest him.

"We did that at a parade one day and an older lady saw what was happening and started beating me over the head with her purse, saying, You leave that old man alone! He's a nice Mr. Griesmeier was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and dreamed of joining the circus, but had to settle for playing comical bit parts in an opera house. "I played the back of a horse once," he said in a 1988 interview. He became a bookbinder, and after World War II bound testimony of the trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg. He emigrated to the United States in 1950 and became a citizen four years later.

Mr. Griesmeier frequently performed at hospitals, nursing homes and parties. But he said he had the most fun at circuses and traveled to Shrine circuses in Pittsburgh, Altoona, and New York City. He also inspired others, including Zorn, to become a clown. The two met when Mr.

Griesmeier visited a hospital at which Zorn's daugh- IsTai txdudtdall sales hnal BIMiftB SHI BY STAFF WRITER KRISTIN GALVIN-BURWICK More than 150 young men in uniform were the guests of honor at a formal luncheon held yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Rochester. They were being recognized as members of the Otetiana Council's Eagle Scout class of 1998. The scouts were honored by their sponsors, members of the business community and former Central Intelligence Agency Director R. James Woolsey. In all, 181 Scouts in the Otetiana Council region were elevated to the rank of Eagle last year, the most since 1974 and almost double the national average of 2.5 percent Martin D'Ambrose, program director of the Otetiana Council, credits a combination of above-average dedication and superior leadership.

"It has to do with strong volun-teerism, and it has to do with placing a value on educatioa We live in an area where leaders value training which leads to these excellent results," he said. Patrick LaMonica, 16, of Troop 138 said he recognized lots of faces from a national Scouting Jamboree he attended in July 1997. "It's good to have 'Eagle Scout' on your resume. It opens a lot of doors," he said. A lot of hard work goes into becoming an Eagle.

Each Scout had to master a variety of skills and earn at least 21 merit badges. They also had to participate in goal-setting conferences and plan and execute a service project, demonstrating a high level of responsibility and leadership. Chris Butera of Troop 167 planted flower gardens at a Continuing Developmental Services home in Pittsford. "It's nice to get recognition for something you've worked hard at," said the 17-year-old. All told, the 181 Eagle Scouts spent 25,130 hours on their service projects.

But only one could be the best. That's not what winner David Landers, 17, of Troop 94 was thinking about when he started work restoring a small cemetery in Gates. "I just wanted to make Eagle," he ter was a patient. "I never thought I could be a clown, but Freddie brought it out of me," Zorn said. Mr.

Griesmeier's wife died in 1983 after 49 years of marriage. Their only child, Fred, died in 1994. Survivors are a granddaughter, Nicol Griesmeier, and a great-grandson, Nicolas Frederick. A Masonic funeral will be at 10 a.m. today at Arndt Funeral Home, 1118 Long Pond Road, Greece.

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