European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Story and photos by Emmett Lewis staff writer the Competition was now it was just a matter of waiting for the names of the winners in Star voyage the Usa eur entertainment Competition held last weekend in nervous laughter and aimless conversation filled the combination corridor dressing room As 138 performers waited for the decisions of the three the 30minute wait stretched close to an a few people started singing a spiritual to break the More performers joined and soon the corridor rever berated with rhythmic singing and a Man wearing the badge of a contest official stepped to the end of the Hall and shouted instant absolute attention focused on the Man with the the judging was finished tears and laughter just a few minutes late evening turned into morning As awards were presented to contestants in 11 categories of compe including dance and specially its the biggest turnout weve had since the program was revived in said the shows John its almost double the participation from last the larger number of entries was due to the revival of the stateside army Road show formerly called rolling it was reborn last year As the Allamy sol Dier which toured cities on the East some of the winners of last years Usa eur Competition were nominated for the touring which uses top Soldier entertainers selected from throughout the last year we nominated 2530 and six people were chosen to go Forward to the Allamy Soldier he the larger numbers of competitors this year meant stiffer i knew it was going to be Tough but not this said Sandra a Singer from Davidson was one of the performers who won last year and was selected for the 44show tour of the 1985 Allamy Soldier her experience last year helped a she 1 feel More More comfortable performing she several of the performers said the we Klong series of rehearsals and Competition was much better organized than last the performers kept Busy the entire it afforded me a Chance to see a different end of show said 4 Gretchen an actress from i Learned a lot about How to put together a show Pasanen competed for the first time with her presented a dramatic scene from Neil is Mons the Good there was really a lot of tension Ive never encountered such stiff Competition but it was it was Good for me because i can show my unit that my talents Are appreciated outside of my said Pas who is a russian this program shows that the army appreciates our extra efforts sees them As being in spite of the stiff performers were very supportive of each according to Lavender and several j was afraid it would be like a Beauty pageant with everyone backstabbing or ignoring each Anen we were really living up to army standards this week a unified everyone was genuinely supportive of each Page 14 the stars and stripes percussionist David Scitney won third place in the instrumental soloist category a contestant congratulates a Norio 4s Frank Wright Catherine Greg Lunsford 4 Dianna Ray from Nurnberg in spotlight above left performs a vocal 4 Gretchen Pasanen far left gets ready for the grand Darlene Wescott and Teddy Singleton left wait for the grand the winners Here Are the second and third place winners of the Usa eur band contest show bands 1st place Norio Wurzburg 4 Frank Wright staff Clinton 4 Greg 1st class Frederick 5 Lee 4 Gregory staff Oscar Walters 4 Catherine Bell 2nd Mace Phoenix Augsburg staff Mark 4 William staff Ronald 4 Larry Jackson 3rd place South wind Baum older 4 Todd 4 Randy Jim pfc Thomas Sherman instrumental soloist 1st place Carllon Mannheim 2nd place staff Timothy Giessen 3rd place David Frankfurt individual specially act 1st place 4 Kimerlin Wurzburg 2nd place 4 Robert Italy 3rd place 4 Christina Heidelberg vocal soloist self accompanied 1st place Sherry Schwet Zingen 2nd place Jacinth Frankfurt 3rd place 4 Tomas Ansbach group specially act 1st place Cotton and Pasanen Augsburg 4 Gretchen staff Michael Cotton 2nd place scene from Scapino Wil Flecken William 4 Oliver Tull male vocal soloist 1st place Howard Plum Sens 2nd place 4 tee Stuttgart 3rd place 4 Patrick Heidelberg female vocal soloist 1st place 5 Lillie bad Kreuz Nach 2nd place Sandra Baum older 3rd place 4 Venessa Ansbach vocal group 1st place the gospel messengers Bamberg 4 Eric staff sgt Harold staff David sgt Percy Roberson 2nd place Deek and the bebop Giessen Marvin 4 Tony 4 Donald Gaines 3rd place Jenks and Lynch Wil Flecken 1st Stephen 1st John Jenks instrumental group 1st place jazz movement Wil Flecken 4 Myron 4 Richard pfc Tony 4 Edward washing 1st class Lawrence Way 2nd place fortified Flash Baum older 4 James Christopher 4 Rosalie Anchondo Charles Shearer 3rd place future Shock Nurnberg Duane 4 Julius Mathis 4 Ronald pfc Tyrone Hall dance group 1st place wave makers Ansbach 5 James pfc Reginald Dockery 4 Twain Womack 2nd place no parking on the dance floor Darmstadt Ira 4 Sandra Harris dance Solo 1st place pfc Jeffrey Babenhausen 2nd place spec 4 Anthony Kaiserslautern 3rd place pfc Kyle Aschaffenbur the Star voyage entertainment showcase variety show will be presented at the following locations Wil Flecken music 7 Wurzburg Emery Cavern movie theater june 8 Firth Monteith bks rec Center 9 Vilseck Post 10 Ansbach Hindenburg Cavern performance 11 bad Tolz Flint Cavern theater 12 15 Augsburg Reese Cavern theater Center june 16 Neu Ulm Nelson bks 17 Goppinger Cooke bks rec 18 Stuttgart Robinson bks Hilltop theater june 19 we Brucken Kreuzberg Cavern Delhauer 21 Heidelberg Patton 22 Kaiserslautern performing arts Center june 23 Baum older Mountaineer 24 Derheim rec Center 25 Mainz Mckelly bks stage 26 Gellhausen rec 27 the Star voyage show 2nd place winners performs at these locations Herborn Seelbach hartal 2 Frankfurt 3 Berlin site Tea 5 Bremerhaven Karl Schurz Cavern radio City rec 8 Carlsted osterholz Lucius Clay Cavern rec Center 9 binding in rec 10 Wertheim Peden bks rec Center 11 Wald Heide re leg dining 12 Schwabish Chamund Bismarck Cavern Rodman 13 Karlsruhe Gerszewski rec 15 Mannheim Coleman bks no 16 Kriegsfeld Northpoint no 17 Darmstadt Cambrai Fritsch Cavern performing arts 18 Wiesbaden theater 19 20 june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15