European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 8 the stars and stripes june 1977 spirit Clare soothe Luce Boston graduating class America can surmount crises by of Rengh o by Barbara Fulenwider staff writer Heidelberg Sis a total of 479 students received graduate degrees Here from Boston University in ceremonies that also honoured Clare Boothe the woman for All As she was introduced to the audience Here by John University received an honorary doctor of Laws degree at commencement services at Patrick Henry Village officers club As graduation Day Luce told her audience All Over America this commencement speakers Are busily dumping into the laps of your generation the problems their generation Cre i will be she listed these problems Asun Urban the persistent Gap Between the haves and the the welfare and social Security mounting costs of Trade barriers and Defi nuclear arms control and the deeply indebted third of there is our foreign problem and the one which concerns you most intimately the spectacular and sin ister growth of soviet political influence and military said the newspaper Maga Zine former ambassador to Italy and former i propose today that we turn to the Les sons of history for a belter understanding of some of the causes of our present she she told her audience that the essential need of every society is physical and Spiri Tual then discussed the various types of physical Energy used throughout soviet Russia is the Only Industrial and military Power today which is Sel Suffi the significance of for both Prosperity and is history offers not one single example of a nation which has remained prosperous and pow Erful by Courtesy of its much less its she can the surmount its Energy which is today an economic but tomorrow will face if we do not solve with a military crisis she told the graduates that the most certainly provided we have the will As a people to do and that where history teaches that spiritual Energy is equally essential to the strength of a Socie she America today is the youngest and strongest member of our Jude Christian if we will not stand in defense of its great spiritual and humanitarian who in the West can now stand for the truth our ideological ene Mies at Home and abroad will not give As time to unravel the enormous gordian wife joins air Force Recruiter fails to dissuade enlisted photo by Floyd Harrington Kaiserslautern Bureau chief Germany Sis Lillian Sailer says Shes going to be the grandma of Basic her isl Ray a traffic control duly officer for Del 435lh tac Airlift Wing Mac thinks its a great he even con ducted the Swearingin while the couples 5yearold crouched Al his leg and their 7monlhold squirmed and the 27yearold wife and Mother said joining the air Force is something she has always wanted to do for a number of an cd Calion and a career Wilh advancement pot Colial Are iwo of originally she Wanold to join As a but i Complete my every time id the air Force would move she her complaint is Simi Lar for the jobs she has tired of sales floor Ive always worked in base Over time we moved i had to Start Over at the Bottom in going to work i might As Well work Al something that challenging and in tired of working on the sales her husband broke in and just because Shes a theres no reason Why she have a career of her the Only person who was against her enlistment was her Ralph she began visiting his Ramstein office last Bliven i asked her Why Why do you want to leave a Nice warm a stable life and go into turmoil like this her answers then were the same As thai Dindl Stop the Recruiter from trying to discourage cold water futile its through her Ducler Minalio Shes coming in nol said i tried to Lalk her Oul of in for various Rea sons because of her Small Chil Dren whal the jobs available in the air Force today Are Hal possibly her age was going to be a Factor she has a lot Shes going to be up Shes going to be the grandma of Basic training Shes going to be Al least 10 years older than the average girl living in the dormitories in afraid thales going to be a do cull thing to said neither of the sailers Are afraid of the Lillian has psyched herself up to tackle the Rigours of six weeks of Basic training Al Lackland Tex Ihen 12 weeks of schooling in Illinois to become a cryogenics fluid specialist a Field dealing Wilh liquid oxygen and Nitro while Shes her husband will babysit their iwo he weve conquered worse prob lems than after Lillian leaves in ill be by myself with the children for a week or so until grandma his Mother inlaw shows when she goes Back Shell Lake the baby Wilh by then the 5yearold will be in the parents dont feel the separation will bother the but it could bother the Sheris old enough to handle said then she looked Al her for the first some of the enthusiasm left hell be walking by the Lime i get Back hell have a few More but it wont be so his daddy will be around most of the she expects to return Here sometime in she is counting on the air forces policy of keeping married Mem Bers together plus theres an Ace up her located directly across from her husbands unit is a cryogenic Plant officials have told her there Short of cryogenic fuel ready to be Basic training grandma first Ray Sailer swears his into the air Force on the ramp of a is Galaxy transport at Ramstein air at left is her Ralph while Debbie Turner holds the sailers daughter Sheri peeks around Ber father at the knot of problems which now faces we must Cut it clean through with the sword of the she what you will need most is a value that is not part of a University you will need the courage possessed not Only by the heroes of old but by the leaders and men who created this great army of yours in for personal is the ladder by which All other Virtues so unsheathed the sword of the spirit which each of you living in Freedom has inherited from our Noble american it is the weapon by which you will help to win a nobler future for your country and Days far happier than these for your she ended to Long then Boston University graduates filed across the stage in their red Robes to col Lect masters degrees in inter National business counselling and human services and engineering solar Energy to Light army billets by Mary Adams staff writer Germany its appear Curtly the army has warmed up to the idea of solar heating or so says the Chan cellar of the american technological University in according to Luis Morton Texas will be the site of the first solar energized currently in the final stages of the 40acre Complex is exp cled to open the doors to its 19bar rack buildings sometime in he from design to the solar segment of it including actual construction of the buildings which will be handled by the military will probably run Aboul Morton Federal Grant operating on a Federal Grant from the Energy research and development the project began four years ago Al the research Institute for advanced technology added normally spends Aboul million on research a emphasizing the importance of what he called probably the largest solar project in the Morton explained How the reflector panels will generate raw electric not just the kind used for but also the kind thai operates who is also the founding presi Dent of Central Texas arrived Here last week from Texas to address the first formal graduation ceremony of the Etc overseas although fewer than 10 graduates were available to actually Cross the Etc has awarded nearly 400 diplomas including High school diplomas from the Affili ated american preparatory Institute to americans cites hard work discipline and hard Morton told the audience of Active duty military and Are things we owe our country every the age of advanced technology is descending upon us and the future belongs to those innovators who can perceive what is coming and make those said Morton in comparing technological schools to those institutions that Are strictly Aca the is where All dreams come True if you iry hard the 51year old texan this is your Opportunity to contribute to the things that make our cd ulry
