European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes Taurus District s Community service is rated tops by John Krueger staff writer Frankfurt is Theta Nus District army Community service Center Here i shooting for the overseas title after being judged Best of 48comz centers. The Center has been enter Din the All overseas showdown by Usa eur. The final includes 125 entries from both european and Pacific areas. Results Are to be announce Din july. Chief of the Frankfurt acs is it. Col. Curtiss e. Knighton from Detroit. Working with Knighton are43 volunteers american Mili tary wives and dependent teen agers. Offering guidance is a 13-member Council made up of Community leaders and com new volunteers Are Given Caps Sembach Germany Spe Cial eleven new volunteers joined the Sembach red Cross Volunteer program last week. Receiving their Caps were mesdames Willie e. Borges Howard Colon Robert c. Dean Claude Evans m. A. Fitz Gerald Ronald w. Herrick Walter g. Reeves Frank a. Rogala Walter a. Williams Bud g. Beard and g. E. Bur roughs. Eleven other red Cross work ers received service awards. They were mesdames Jerry Butler Larry White John e. Wright p. B. Almengor Ronald. Cheli George b. Cortelyou Glenn e. Sutton w. A. Camp Bell Marvin l. Childress nor Man l. Godbey and r. J. White head. Maj. Patricia Ellsworth chief nurse of the 603d Usan dispensary capped the new vol ulcers. Sixth graders to visit Bonn Kaiserslautern g e a Many is the sixth Grade class of Kaiserslautern Ameri can elementary school no. 2 will not Only visit the West Ger Man parliament monday but will have a discussion wit members of the foreign relations committee some 90 students will go by bus to Bonn where they willbe met by or. Werner afar of Kaiserslautern a member of the bundesrat who will Lead the discussion. Looking Over a brochure Are mrs. Ralph c. Rosenberg leftist. Col. Curtis e. Knighton and mrs. Ronnie Milligan of the award winning Taurus District acs. Mittee chairmen. Mrs. Eugene Herrmann is the coordinator. Her committees number six and their efforts include for warding Taurus District b r o Chures and other information to incoming families assisting families in locating Economy housing meeting and escorting emergency cases providing emergency child care transportation and shopping Clearing army emergency Relief Loans assisting incoming families at the rail transportation office providing personal and family counselling maintaining a reference Library with information on . Posts furnishing House a o 1 d items to incoming families recruiting sponsors for seven Day dorm students at Frankfurt High school and operating a handicapped children program. Committee chairmen Are mrs. Ronnie Milligin , mrs. Knighton mrs. W. P. Ireland mrs. Ralph , and mrs. Ronald j. Pancner. Knighton s full time staff members Are spec. 4 Delbert c. Choate or. And Kate Froehlich Secretary. Offices Are in Annex a of the Farben build ing. The acs Center Here was established in january 1967. The army wide program patterned is photos by Merle Hunter after the air Force s family services was started in j u 1 y 1965. Highlights of local project shave included the frosty Frankfurt Host family scheme whereby 115 families Here volunteered to let their Homes serve As Homes away from Home for seven Day Frankfurt High school Dormi tory students. They also provided a similar help for Handi capped children attending classes Here. Knighton who la be retiring in july from the array after 25 years service outlined plan for citizenship programs to pre pare alien wives for life in the United states and a Central Wel coming committee for new arrivals in the District. While the volunteers credit the colonel with making every thing Click he Points to themore than 5,000 hours put in by the volunteers regular 6-week intervals their outstanding efforts Are recognized at award coffees when service pins and certificates Are handed out. Complete with matchmaker club gives turkish wedding members of the wedding Bride s Mother Perriman Topsy left and Groom s Mother Nahide Zey Beker right Chat with Geri Bayless the matchmaker. Ankara Turkey special members of the turkish american women s cultural society Here recently staged an old fashioned turkish wedding. Rauf Erbay state director of the Ankara Ballet and opera company who is very interested in preserving the folklore of the Region was technical adviser. The wedding which copied customs of 100 years ago in Ankara was held in the Home of mrs. William Burdett wife of the Deputy chief of the Mission. All the actors were members of the club. The Bride was played by Mina Basaran. Her Mother was Peri Man Topcu. The Groom s Mother was Nahide Zay Beker. Geri Bay less took the part of the match maker and Ester Coleman acted As the Bride s father mrs. Curtis Knighton. She and the other committee members Are proud of Job they re doing students plan school Exchange Kaiserslautern g e r Many is several fourth graders from Kaiserslautern american elementary school no. 2 Are exchanging places this week May 20-25 with a like number from the Roehm Schule a Loc in German Elemen tary school. The american boys will study language arts geography and arithmetic in the German a Nooi while the girls will join classes in sewing and needlework. Since classes at the pan Snopl will close at noon the ame i cans will return to their own school for afternoon sessions. Chosen for this Pilot program were Bettina Jones Susan uni Ner Kenneth Emerick and Roger Keiper. Summer school Mannheim l i Jas Cial the Mannheim aide can Niu sey school her a teacher supervised Sui menu school for children from thue to five years. The six week session a take place july my of 9 at Benjamin Frank in to mrs. Sally Adkins head of the project. Applications for to school will he accepted May 29
