European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Suppl Side education specialists out books at classes fingertips by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Dodds Supply specialists Are working on next year while still trying to make sure that the last of this years supplies arrive overseas before teachers reach for for most of this the army has been airlifting Many supplies that normally would have gone by said Terry Supply chief of the department of defense dependents textbooks and items such As kits for the updated science courses that begin this year Are among those that have received special he Dodds has bought new science materials after re examining the curriculum As part of its seven year curriculum review the kits contain test litmus chemicals and other by the end of the defense general Supply Center reported that million in fiscal 1985 funds had been committed for school and 92 percent of the contracts to buy the materials and Send them overseas had been last year at the same million had been committed and about 60 percent of it he to help Speed supplies to their the defense logistics Agency has been testing a new packing and shipping he Many Dodds supplies Are packed in containers and shipped to Europe from the defense personnel support Center depot in instead of the huge where Small shipments got Trepal said the computer system which created As Many headaches As smiles in its first year of operation ran smoothly enough last school year that Supply managers were asking regional offices to help identify potential problems so staff members could concentrate on eighty percent of the there were no Trepal he said the rest of the the problems were isolated and indicated no Trepal said Supply experts keep on Fin tuning the defense logistics Agency programmers Are trying to work out a method of forecasting Supply that not Only would help Cut the number of shipments that arrived it would enable the school system to buy in larger quantities at lower the system also could function As a continuing inventory Trepal we could use the computer data to see what the school he also in the works is a trial run this fall of an Effort to let regions and even schools look into the computer Supply Trepal the prototype will be run out of the Germany Region Headquarters in a computer terminal there will be Able to use the defense logistics Agency communications network to connect to the Supply data base in the United he it will enable direct input from the regional office of Supply requests from Wiesbaden area he if the test is schools would be Able to dial into the system from a computer terminal to Check the status of their he 26 first Day of k12 Winter recess for Mediterranean 3 Winter recess for Germany and Atlantic 7 instruction resumes for most instruction for schools in Portugal resumes april 2 labor Day Federal Holiday 14 Columbus Day Federal Holiday 1 end of first marking period 11 veterans Day Federal Holiday 2829 thanksgiving recess 6 instruction resumes 20 Martin Luther King Day Federal Holiday 23 end of second marking period 24 no school for students teacher work Day 27 second semester begins 17 presidents Day Federal Holiday 28 end of third marking period 6 Spring recess for Mediterranean but april 513 for schools in 4 Spring recess for Germany and Atlantic 26 memorial Day Holiday end of fourth marking end of school year this Calendar is applicable to All Dodds schools in Europe except those at Kleine and Page 16 the stars and stripes August 1985