European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1977 the stars and Page 9 How they capture German hearts Sunn Ferguson stretched and his 9yenrqld Shannon demonstrate their dancing skills at a youth festival in Kecker Shau they Are the Only american in i 21member Village dance yank kids dance Over language bar w Germany dont let one american family in this town hear you complain atom nothing to the Ferguson family May live in this isolated Village some eight Miles from but despite the language har the two 12 and Shan have found plenty to Treyve danced their Way into the lives of he Village last March Shaun and Shannon were voted in As members of die Madchen Twu Gruppe auf a Village dancing according to Roberta their the kids were accepted immediately and treated inc same As All tin other who arc All German girls one Day our kids were outside show my off their acrobatic skills in of the neighbor children who were in the dance thais How they were asked to join the our Puls Hud taking danc ing lessons in Piid id no of Utica for it Over said Carl their they had both performed in the states so were pretty Well used to when they became part of the Gix up it re instilled Ihm bit of being a a Ham in my children like performing in front of an he the Only boy in he 21 Strong group trunks its great to be the Lane according to his if the group is doing a dance that requires a part Shaun teams up with his Ferguson he said the group has performed Al four tests in the area and helped raise Money for Unicof at a test in the dancers perform Folk dances As Well As Ballet arid Graf civic Modem they meet every tuesday and thursday eve Ning for i hours of instruction and prac Al Village youth Feil in june Hie Kergus son children were introduced As Fuex Ermshausen s link of Friendship with amers mrs Ferguson dancing May not be or Uil Are us Many ways to share Ine lifestyle1 of our Host if Only we Are willing to expose our selves to new thanks to the Village my children arc not Only dancing but arc learning to spank the language and really know the culture of she Ferguson said two teenage members of inc dance group decided to Tutor his Chil Dren in the intricacies of German to they would not Only know the words but also us them now every monday eve Ning he and his wife join the tutoring ses the dance group is fabulous for gelling to know germans and for them get Ling to know its the towns German american togetherness of Cru club donates some to charities by de in Stuttgart Bureau chief Stuttgart 58is the Stuttgart american wandering club has donated 000 Deutsche about to German charities tic presentation was it Mac by the presi Deal of the Navy a div Carl Giese during a ceremony at the Stull Garvai Hongen City Hall to mayor Waller the Money will be Lumen Over to several charitable org animations among the organi Lions receiving do nations were local schools for crippled and retarded children and a Home for the it addition to representatives of the recipient agencies were on hand to thank the of the Amer Tatj annual event a native of each year since its formation in 1973 our club has donated the proceeds of annual vol Smarch to local in his meager since the american wandering club Baa donated a total of German last inc total was the people who have from thaw do nations Are grateful or your gun crawly and you May be assured that this Money will be put to goad Titi club John o a flu More than people from the and All Over europ came in Lake port despite the weather rain and a hailstorm during the it was about More than we had last Meiger called the the donations and other German american events held Here truly representative of he Fine relationship we enjoy with our american now that August is Here dog Dayi Are on so urls Pooch eur cases the privilege West is Bonn of draping Tieu aver the Balcony rail of an apartment in the american housing area la Bonolo Cool ing i Catt Plutt tie Pau s4s photo by Grandy
