European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday september 17, 1985 faces n places loss of Mother Tongue widens generation Gap from pros dispatcher ten years after the fall of  refugees in Southern Cali fornia arc facing a new problem How to communicate with their children an educator says. Many vietnamese adults who came to the United Stales in 1975 could barely speak English and had trouble learn ing a new Tongue. A decade later in Glish has become inc dominant language among Young refugees. The children who were born in America or have been Here since 1975 seem in have forgotten their native  said Minh to a bilingual Edu cation teacher. They express them selves better in English than  to spoke at a graduation ceremony for about 45 students who had Bee studying vietnamese at the vietnamese Community Center. The students 5-16 years old presented skits about prob lems Between them and their parents Sang Folk songs and danced in tradition Al costumes. Some like 14-year-old Nguyen Dai attended the class because they found they were forgetting the meaning of simple vietnamese words. L came to the United states when i was 4 years old Dai said. I never really Learned How to read and write vietnamese. My Mother brought me to the classes because she said i was for getting  alien thai a Huntington Beach machinist with three Youna children said his family came to the United states in 1981. The children have studied English the past four years thai said. Now it is time for them to study  when the vietnamese first came Here they had to learn about the Amer ican Way of life youth Counselor Hangan Hoang said. Now they have to learn about the vietnamese Way of life so they Don t forget our customs Nguyen dung a seventh grader said he could t afford to forget any Viet namese. My parents still live in Viet Nam said dung who lives with his Uncle. I want to be Able to speak with them when i Sec them  not in if for the Bucks Jake Butcher the one Lime Tennessee banking Mogul who admitted embezzling $17 million is now making no More than 11 cents an hour in his Job at a fail nil prison Camp in Atlanta. Hutch or who orpani7cd the 19s2 world s fair in Knox Ille and twice ran for Pov Cranor is serving 20 years for fraud. Dearie wows pm new York nightclub Singer Blossom Dearie has won the first cabaret per former of the year award Given by the Mabel Mercer foundation. Dearie received $1,500 and an Auto graphed picture of the late Mercer in a dinner dance at the is. Regis hotel where Mercer Sang for a number of years. Columnist Liz Smith dinner chairwoman said the foundation is to encourage to Ujj cabaret performers whose work is intimate intelligent Small and Sassy in the Pursuit of their  among those also performing were Dorothy London singing a Medley of Saloon songs Margaret Whiting who Sang you better love me and last night when we were Young and pianist Don Shirley who said his Choice ill be around was composed for Mercer by Alec Wilder. Others included Paula Laurence who Sang most gentlemen Don t like love metropolitan opera Soprano minis Martin who Sang All the things you arc and  and Lee Roy reams with from this moment  anti apartheid record Bruce Springsteen will join his former e Street band guitarist Ste Evan Zandol and at least three dozen other artists in an anti apartheid record titled Sun City due for release in october. The record will be distributed by Manhattan records with profits turned Over to the new York City based Africa fund a non profit tax exempt organization founded in 1966 by the american committee on Africa. Just As Many of us Sang out on be half of victims of Africa s famine Wear singing out also for those hungry for Freedom Van Zandt said in a recent statement. Van Zandt wrote Sun City after a monthlong tour of South Africa to collect material for an album. Africa fund spokesman Paul Irish said in a Telephone interview that the organization is a Means for americans to support the african struggle for free Dom and  it s a record for the books Hideo Takeuchi it Mart than a freshman in Good standing at the unit arty of text Dollar Caput. The 84-year-old japanese Man it the Schoot t oldest Exchange student. Here he disc Iset an economics Attign ment with fellow freshman John Potey. Kudos Tor Turner St. Bonaventura University in is. To Jmc Turc . Will Honor Cable news network chief Ted Turner with its Bob c Considine award. The award presented annually in memory of Considine a reporter and broadcaster who died in 1975, will be Given to Turner during a luncheon Cere Mony in new York City oct. 4, univer sity officials Sard. Turner recently was thwarted in his bid to Lake Over lbs inc. Ferraro s Story a hit Geraldine Ferraro s Book. Ferraro my Story in t even in bookstores yet but it has entered its second printing and has been designated a Book of the month selection. Stuart Applebaum vice president and director of publicity at Bantam books inc., said 200,000 copies of the Book were to be shipped next month. He said the former new York congresswoman had focused her Book on last year when she was the democratic vice presidential candidate. The Book is co written by Linda Bird Francke. Usually Only 15,000 to 20,000 copies of a hardcover Book Are printed initially and very few have initial printings in the six figures he said. Her cheetah heart former gun smoke co Star Amanda Blake says her love of animals and conservation began when she was a child and caused her a problem because she fretted about every endangered animal. I had to change my thinking. It was totally impossible for me to save every thing in the world she said. Blake was among 1.400 delegates to the annual conference of the american association of zoological Parks and aquariums meeting in Columbus Ohio. Among other things the meeting gave Blake a Chance to Sec some of the cheetahs she raised in Arizona. The Columbus zoo has been Success Ful in Breeding the endangered big cats and its collection of 19, largest in the country includes some raised by Blake. I had to pick out one animal and i have been absolutely mad about cheetahs All my life she said. Blake who lives in los Angeles and her sex husband Frank Gilbert have a Center in Phoenix where they Breed cheetahs. They have 18