European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Firs Day feelings continued from Page 13 be late or go to the wrong i did the teachers were All very Many elementary school students also ended the Day with a sigh of including Annemarie of Munich elementary she said we wont get any Homework unless we really fall behind in Cirone getting that teacher was a big break for students newly arrived in Europe from the states needed All the Breaks they could new schools Are just one of Many changes awaiting and they found the transitions what do i do now asked Michelle an eight grader at osterholz Schrambeck american who arrived in Germany in mid july from fort other students had different problems to worry those who live in Remote areas far from schools stay in dormitories during the separation from their families can be a wrenching in nervous about the dorm and said Heather a ninth grader at osterholz As she stepped off the bus that brought her and her Luggage from located several hours drive away from the Kimberli a dorm resident and senior at Torrejon a High school in want looking Forward to being away from her parents Home at Moron some kids enjoy being away from their parents she but i miss this is the first year for had plenty of company in the confusion teachers scurried pinning name tags and bus numbers on their youngest taking lost or crying children under their wings and trying to control the turmoil around can anyone remember what is the number of our Page Hilgers of osterholz Schrambeck asked the flock of children who had just become her new third Grade already Wise to the ways of they responded other students blossomed at the Chance to Start school and leave behind a summer that dragged on a Little too some had planned for the first Day weeks in carefully selecting notebooks and pencils and rulers and and carrying them proudly into Stephanie a second grader at Naples elementary was ready to i am very Happy today because i moved into a higher she said i have fun in what i do at school and this year i promised myself not to tease my younger High schools like Brett of Lakenheath High school in had the most to look Forward in looking Forward to this last he his Bryan also a said All seniors feel the exhilaration of the last High school some people think its a time to goof Gallant i look at it As a time to but the younger generation int interested in for starting school is the most important time in their Young excitement mingles with and parents recognize All the Cheryl and Lawrence Rosenberger of Pitburg a in Germany didst get much sleep the night before their 6yearold daughter started first we put Jessica to bed an hour she was up trying to get ready to Rosenberger but for school including second grader Donald Rogers of Pitburg the first Day of school already is with mom playing a leading i got up and made said Donalds Lesley the first moms always makes from then its contributing to this Story were Anna Maria Naples Bureau Dan Stuttgart Bureau Dave Bureau Jean Pitburg Bureau Joe Bremerhaven Bureau Chuck Munich Bureau and staff writers Tracey Tanner and Mary ninth grader Melissa Massey below pauses outside High school students at Johann Kalb Elemen tary school in let Loose balloons right to celebrate the first photo by Gus Schuettler photo by Tony Nauroth school staff members help a first grader at Rhei main a find his photo by Emmell Lewis youngsters find the first Day is photo by Peter Jaeger c Irvi photo by Tony Neuroth Nicole Soto of Forth listens As her first Grade teacher explains classroom photos by Tony Emmett Lewis Nicole Stroman left Oxfurth listens and Scott Stachelski of Rhei main a seeks Page 14 the stars and stripes busing to bit Bun by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau no one wanted to make the first it might be the first Day of but eight Chilly youngsters boarding Pitburg bus 6 at monday were cautious about attempting the first two passengers from villages Northwest of the base chose seats an appropriate distance apart and looked out their own Kristine going on want about to try bridging the age Gap with a 6 year old who Rode in silence two seats bit burgs Middle and High schools remained closed until so Kristine older brother David had slept like it that id rather do this by in All she patting new clothes and a new haircut and then patting them once i didst sleep at All and when the alarm clock went i didst know what it said daughter of Susan and Phil conversation picked up when the older crowd boarded the Teny Earold daughter of Jeannie and Phil boarded with her brother and saw some familiar faces from last years fourth Grade she sat near the front and started talking with a Friend in the Back about the pressing issues of the Are you excited she whose room Are you in do you think the Middle school kids should have to make up the two Days she was Happy to be among friends she she has no English speaking neighbors her her 12yearold was one of the those with two More Days at Hes mad about the two extra she id have been disappointed if wed had to this summer was Wiesbaden High where Elvis dated Priscilla by Beverly Bundy Magazine editor most things Are larger in our memories than in the houses we grew up our grandmothers our neighbourhoods and our for anyone who graduated from Arnold High school in Wiesbaden in the Early the school is a microcosm of the and it is not the memory Wiesbaden High school has almost 900 students enrolled far from its High of pupils in the 1970s when Safe was headquartered in the school was so crowded then that classes were held in two shifts there was a dormitory housing Hahn students who commuted from Home every some classes were held in the basement of the neighbouring stairwells to accommodate All of the All of those students have graduated and their parents and their successors have moved on to this newer generation has equipment and facilities that would have made us envious if we could have figured out what it students learning to Type no longer have to Pound on upright standards that the typing i class learns on ism selectric a computer class is required of All students and there Are enough Micro computers that Only two students must share a machine during each and fitting in with americas fitness body building equipment has been football and soccer always played on the Field at Lindsay air will for the first time be played on Arnolds own newly outfitted Field at the school this schools evolve with their students and this one is no curriculum has been modified with the needs and goals of those attending principal Roger with the Dodds system for 17 years about 50 percent of our students go on to that Down from 10 years but in seeing a move Back towards More College parents Are starting to expect More of their they know the military requires continuing education for promotion and that translates into the importance they put on schooling for their the cosmetics May have changed the teenage Core remains the girls in the class of 72 wore hot the girls in the class of 86 look More like Molly the women room still has Toile paper balls adhered to the High ceilings and Grafitti appears to have remained the most popular teen Art students still remember that Elvis dated Priscilla Presley while she was a student at Arnold High August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15