European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes february 1981 Bruce Gale of hell Nikon air with some of Bis 35 adopted children from the Home of affection photos by Stephanie James no lends helping hand to his family by Brad Durfee staff writer hell Nikon Greece in just 14 years an air Force sergeant Here became a father to 40 children five of his own and 35 i have been working with the Home of affection located about three Miles from on and off for the past 14 said Bruce assigned to the 922nd strategic so the orphanage was started when father a greek orthodox found five boys living in a Church Gale shortly the population of unwanted children Rose to 10 in the it was he said the Community Here became interested in the plight of the children through air Force now Theo Dore a and George a civilian the children moved out of the Steeple and into a vacated private and construction began on the present building in i give credit to everyone stationed present and with helping the right now the number one supporter is the noncommissioned offi cers said he was there for the groundbreaking and the base Here was Well represented with Volunteer heavy equipment and donated building All outside help the orphanage receives is and the priest wont accept any help from the Church or the Gale Hes told me that he Doest want the Church to step in because there too strict and would exercise too much religious con he says that this has a tendency to drive the children away from the on his third tour pointed out that the priest is actually More what roman catholics would Call a there Are now 35 children at the including 13 who live in a separate the older girls look after the younger ones with the help of a retired who also does the the according to the Sac ser is a including a farm was left to the orphanage and that where the father is he raises vegetables and livestock that end up on the dining room table for the Hes even made the Flo Kati rugs you see on All the Gale he sums up his respect for the priest by calling him just amazing and tells of his carpentry and masonry he even drove a Bulldozer when we first built this Gale hell do anything for the children and he always finds a Way of getting me in 1969 and 1970 the and three other Guys became garbage wed get up at 4 and pick up garbage and the priest would go around once a week and collect the Gale said that the orphanage is always in need of after we Are Rais ing a Large the electric Light Bill for the past two months came to and heating Oil is out of the question at a the children attend Public schools and they All have chores to do when they get Gale Calls his spoken greek the Lan Guage of the Young Street after i Learned most of it from the he i taught them How to play american baseball and i  give them any tips without communicating in their Gale entered his orphanage rookies in the Little league on the we were terrible at but their persistency paid he the orphanage baseball team won two base championships and in three of the greek boys made the base Allstar team for the first the orphanage team also plays soccer in the base league with Gale coaching and the orphanage has other Success Yannis John one of the original is now 20 and one step away from becoming an ordained greek orthodox another is a lawyer who devotes All his extra time to helping the orphanage in Legal its not All said one of the original boys is serving a jail sentence for stealing the priest i Felt so sorry for he was the one the priest did the most for he was sort of his Gale of his favorite Hes like a but Hes really gentle As a when we work on or Dis cuss what should be done for the we fight like cats and dogs but we get the Job Gak is greeted at the Home of affection orphanage by some of its at one of the Homes residents reacts to the camera with a solemn another h i