Bartolomeo Alberto Martello

1930 - 2020

BORN

1930

DIED

2020

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Bartolomeo Martello Obituary

Bartolomeo Alberto Martello

Athens

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Published by Lansing State Journal from Apr. 6 to Apr. 7, 2020.

Memories and Condolences
for Bartolomeo Martello

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9 Entries

Carole Parisi

June 23, 2023

I was one of Mr. Martello’s students. After returning from Spain in 1973, I took Mr Martello’s Italian classes. We had so much fun ! Mr Martello also stopped by to chat with the Spanish majors in the cafeteria. I finished in March of 1974 and then went on to Ann Arbor to study Romance linguistics at the University of Michigan. I regret not keeping in contact with him. If I had kept in touch with him, I’m sure he would have liked to have been an outside reader of my dissertation.

I’m a retired Spanish teacher now. I will never forget his smile, and how happy he was to be teaching Italian to us.

Carole Parisi

Glenn Evanish

May 18, 2020

I was one of Mr. Martello's Italian students at Ohio University in the 1970s. We all loved him! He really interested me in the Italian language. I am so sorry to hear of his passing, and I want to express my sincere condolences to his family. I have only good memories of Sr. Martello.

Stephen Trotta

April 9, 2020

Professor Martell was one of my favorites. I was fortunate to have taken his course(s) my senior year at OU 1978-79. I can still remember him saying (Im paraphrasing) in a hundred years who is going to care? Though he may have used a bit more spicy language. He was the reason I was able to propose to my wife in Italian. RIP sir.

Jeff Schneider

April 8, 2020

I had the great pleasure of having il signor Martello for a professor in 1979-1980. He was my favorite professor. Besides being a fine teacher, he was very entertaining from the moment he entered the classroom ("Buon giorno") until the end of class.

I have a lot of memories of his unique teaching style. I also remember his hosting weekly wine nights as Richard Syracuse played the piano at a bar.

I still to this day tell stories about professor Martello and there are many. I am so happy to have had the privilege to know him.

Jeff Schneider

April 8, 2020

I had the great pleasure of having il signor Martello for Italian in 1979-1980. He was my favorite professor in all my college years. Besides being a fine teacher, he was very entertaining from the moment he entered the classroom ("Buon giorno") until the end of class.

I have a lot of memories of his unique teaching style. I also remember his hosting weekly wine nights as Richard Syracuse played the piano at a bar.

I still to this day tell stories about professor Martello and there are many. I'm so happy to have had the privilege to know him.

Nicci Hodge

April 8, 2020

Oh Bart, you were my favorite. I was looking forward to learning more Italian from you. My heart broke the night you told me thank you for taking care of me. You are dearly missed by all your nurses even though you were with us for such a short time. I will never forget you.

Emilia Alonso-Sameño

April 7, 2020

I met Bart in 1996 when I came to Athens to join the Department of Modern Languages at Ohio University. He was such a vivacious person, so full of joy. I loved his spirit, the way he looked at life, how he never took himself too seriously. His smile, which was typically followed by his laughter, was contagious. We used to laugh together so much - about anecdotes from the time he started teaching or traveling through Spain in the 60s and 70s, or Italian people he had known and loved. People would flock to him to listen to his stories. Bart was a wonderful colleague and such a dedicated language instructor. In addition to English, he spoke Italian and Spanish fluently. He was an inspiration for generation after generation of students and future teachers while he was at Ohio University. He built the curriculum offerings in Italian, which led to the start of the development of the Italian Certificate Program. Bart was an amazing human being, bright, creative, joyful and caring. He will be greatly missed by colleagues and friends in Athens. May he rest in peace. May his family find the strength and the comfort they need in the loving embrace of friends at this difficult time.

Steve Mowrey

April 6, 2020

Bart was a great man, kind, funny, loving. He'll be missed tremendously.

Nancy Whalen

April 4, 2020

I was one of his first students back in 1965 and took four semesters of Italian, dropping out in the fifth semester because I was the only student not from an Italian family and unable to speak the language fluently.

What made his classes special were the ways he immersed us in both the language and the culture, not just with music and modern Italian newspapers and magazines but with after-hours wine parties and operas.

I had the pleasure of meeting his daughter Mary who stayed with me for a few days for reasons I've since forgotten. And when I was in Michigan, I met his mother, who promptly put the pasta on to cook as she welcomed me to her home.

In the years after I graduated, I would often meet him for a cup of coffee and conversation. He was one of my most memorable teachers. He always told me that he had kept my class notebook to use as an example for other classes. I copied my notes from each class into that notebook with a fountain pen, trying to drill the conjugations and other lessons into my brain.

He knew me as Signorina Simpkins, the student who could never learn to trill her R's.

May he rest in peace. My condolences to his family.

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