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DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1999 5B Morticelli; founded heart group After three heart attacks and open heart bypass surgery turned Obituaries elaborate nickname Angelo Morticelli's world upside tertainment down in the mid1970s, he needed someone to talk to. His family and friends were supportive and concerned, but couldn't answer the many questions about heart disMr. Morticelli ease that had sud- Morticelli denly become crucial. The experience led Mr. Morticelli to form a support group Caring and Sharing for people recovering from heart ailments.

"It was to show them that they could resume normal lives that you didn't have to treat yourself like a fragile instrument," said his son, Peter Morticelli of Rochester. Physicians were regularly asked to speak about coronary health issues at meetings, and Mr. Morticelli encouraged participants to give each other information, not sympathy. Mr. Morticelli succumbed Jan.

2 to the disease that had both plagued and inspired him for nearly a quarter century. He was 85. Before his death, he saw Caring and Sharing adapted for the Spencerport School District's Continuing Education Program, and he he earned by staging Christmas parties and enfor the organization received formal recognition from the American Heart Association. Born in Hulberton, Orleans County, Mr. Morticelli moved to Rochester as a youth.

He attended Edison Technical and Industrial High School and during those years was active in the Aljo Club, a youth social organization. As a young man, he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, building roads in rural parts of the country. He held various jobs in manufacturing and was a tool designer for Friden Singer and the Castle Co. He earned a degree in engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966 and worked in that field until his retirement in 1976. In his spare time, Mr.

Morticelli enjoyed coaching and officiating games in Gates' and Spencerport's Little and Pony Leagues. He was instrumental in finding sponsors and acquiring equipment for the Spencerport league. was also a member of the Gates Democratic Club. Members of the Gates Lions Club came to know him as Angelo "Cecil B. DeMille" Morticelli, a year after year.

"He was kind of like a frustrated producer," said daughter Geraldine Lesniak of Canandaigua. He had a similar reputation for showmanship in Delray Beach, where he and his wife, Rita Mangione Morticelli, spent their winters. He started a talent show there, "Las Verdes Follies," which grew into a local phenomenon. In addition to his wife, son and daughter, Mr Morticelli is survived by two sisters, Sylvia Emma and Ida Van Graafeiland, both of Rochester; one granddaughter; two grandsons; and nieces and nephews. A memorial Mass was celebrated May 15 at St.

Theodore Church in Gates. Burial was at Holy Ghost Cemetery in Gates. A memorial award has been established in Mr. Morticelli's memory. It will be given annually to a senior at the Finger Lakes Area Vocational Center who has demonstrated outstanding proficiency in machining or metal trades.

Memorial contributions may be sent to the Finger Lakes Area Vocational Center Geraldine Lesniak, 3501 County Road 20, Stanley, NY 14561. 0 Betty Bauer, musician, organ teacher Betty Bauer, a dedicated musician and organ instructor, died of heart failure at her home in Geneseo on May 8. She was 75. Born in Oshkosh, Mrs. Bauer earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Mrs. Bauer After graduation, she taught music to high school students in Mayville, and was on the faculty of the music department at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh from 1947 to 1955. She married Norman Bauer in Worker dies in fall at Carrier Dome Sculptor chopping down of trees. The environmentalists among them said construction would speed erosion of the hill, once part of a 19th-century graveyard, according to Hugh Mitchell, facilitator of the Coalition for Pinnacle Hill Park. "(Penn) is changing it into some kind of illegal art project, or whatever else he thinks is beautiful," Mitchell said.

The city's zoning department agreed that construction could have a negative environmental effect and so declared Rudd's copper trees, as well as a wrought iron fence designed by another artist, "structures" for which Penn would need a certificate of compliance. Then they denied his request for one. "The city called it butt ugly," Penn said. "They have tried to destroy this thing at every corner." Indeed, Penn has been summoned, slapped with restraining orders and charged with contempt of court because he continued to cut down trees to make way for the subdivision of 12 homes. Miniature golf FROM PAGE 1B have built a course the LPGA could have played on, though I'm not sure that would have been realistic." But Clinger would have been more than pleased by the miniature layout, said Sue Clinger and everyone else, for it links his love of golf with his desire to improve the lives of children.

Yesterday, some children, as well A contempt hearing scheduled for yesterday was postponed until July 22. The site is private property, but Penn may not alter it until he submits an environmental impact statement. That remains the sticking point: Penn said he had fulfilled that request, and many others, but never to the satisfaction of city officials. An document $460,000 worth of research, soil samples and a bird survey was rejected because it was not bound properly. Penn has not turned in another.

If he did, said Art lentilucci, assistant director of zoning, "he could be in the ground in six months." Meanwhile, Rudd's trees remain disassembled in 1,800 copper pipe pieces, languishing in a Monroe Avenue storage space. The sculptor had expected to display his first major public work the trees he calls The Evergreen, Swirling Canopy Tree and The Really Broad Leafed Maple by August 1998, four months after Penn approved his designs. Their worth diminishes daily, though Penn promised to "protect" Rudd financially and professionally: "If I have to put it in my own back yard, I'll do it," said the 64-year-old as some adults, tried the course out. "It's fun, but it's hard," said Tiffany Bostick, 12, of Rochester, who was at the camp with other sixth-graders from Rochester's Monroe Middle School. Her words were echoed by Kathy Whitworth, the LPGA Hall-ofFamer who will be honored at today's Pro-Am event at Locust Hill.

"I think it's just wonderful," said Whitworth, as she checked out the uth hole, a par-4 baffler that seems to be carved out of rocks. Rotary officials said the minia- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bowman was one of about 40 SYRACUSE A 41-year-old construction worker returning from his lunch break fell through a seam of the Carrier Dome roof yesterday and was killed. The accident happened about 12:40 p.m. as Bryan Bowman, of Phoenix, Oswego County, made his way along the fabric roof. Police said Bowman fell 60 feet onto lower-level seating and received massive: internal injuries.

He was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m. at University Hospital. There's more to our $999 Business GP6-400c Processor 400MHz with 128K Cache 64MB SDRAM EV500 15" Monitor (13.9" viewable) 8MB AGP Graphics Accelerator 4.3GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive Ethernet Network Card Business Audio with Speakers Office 2000 and 98 $999 or Tech Refresh lease for Limited Time Offer developer, who covered the $10,000 cost for materials. There is, however, no way to assess the effect on Rudd's career. His resume remains incomplete until the pieces are actually installed.

"I can't say they're finished," Rudd explained. When and if the city approves the project, Rudd said he would need only nine days and some elbow grease to cart the trees by truck, to the Pinnacle Hill precipice overlooking Highland Avenue. The site has special meaning to Rudd; a midnight walk led him there his first night in Rochester four years ago. Rudd came here from Washington, the Evergreen State, with an inherent reverence for trees, he said. His copper trees, disparaged by neighbors who prefer real ones, were inspired by a rambling silver maple in front of his former Rosedale Street apartment.

"The base of it is like a VW bug without the bumpers," Rudd said, "and eight stories tall. It has done its time survived the ice storm, you name it." Rudd can only wait and hope he has that kind of staying power, in the face of disapproval from the city and the neighbors. a ture course one of the few fully accessible courses in the country could be valued at $50,000. Some of that figure was raised through contributions each of the holes has a sponsor but some of it came through gifts in kind, contributions of labor and materials. Among the workers were employees from Wegmans Food Markets Inc.

and Chase Pitkin, as well as employees from the Heritage Christian Home. "And the (Sunshine) campus staff was just an enormous help in designing and laying out the course," said Al Davis of Rochester, who helped raise funds. "I don't know could have afforded this without their help." a 1953. The couple moved to Geneseo in 1967, where Norman Bauer taught education at the State University College there. Mrs.

Bauer performed as the pianist in many musicals produced at the college and was organist at the Central Presbyterian Church in Geneseo 1 for many years. She was also a member of the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts and the Rochester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She studied organ more than 18 years at the Eastman School of Music. "Music was her life. She was entirely dedicated to music," said her husband.

"She was a person with a tremendous musical understanding, more so than any other person I have known." In addition to her husband of 45 years, Mrs. Bauer is survived by a son, Michael of Lawrence, a daughter, Barbara Deay of Baldwinsville, Onondaga County; two brothers, Warren Zwicky of Washington, D.C., and Gary Zwicky of Martha's Vineyard, and two. grandchildren. A memorial service was held and burial was in Oshkosh. Contributions in her name may be made to the Betty Bauer Organ Scholarship Fund, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Rochester, NY 14604; or to the Central Presbyterian Church organ fund, 31 Center Geneseo, NY 14454.0 0 -GREG LIVADAS 64MB.

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