European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 2, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 s8.s photo by Tony Nauroth top tankers once a perfect 10 was the Symbol of the Best. No longer. These men represent a perfect 1,000. The first to score the very Best in table 8 gunnery arc from left the tank commander Sec. Douglas fagg loader spec. 4 Robert Denunzio Driver pfc. Pat Rick Virrill and gunner sgt. Teddy Harlow. Tankers Here s your Challenge from the Best by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau Amberg Germany they Call themselves the 1,000 club and they re inviting tankers from All Over Germany to join their ranks. Two my Abrams tank Crews from com 3rd so 2nd army Cav regt turned in perfect scores in their tank table 8 gunnery tests last week at the Grafe Woehr training area. Table 8 the tank Crews annual qualification test is a test of How Well the four soldiers inside their steel Hull work As a unit. Seventh army training come officials said monday it is the first time an my Crew in Europe scored a perfect 1,000 on a first run downrange under current standards. Perfect that feels real Good tank commander Sec. Douglas fagg said saturday. Fagg 33, of Beaumont Texas commanded the first tank number m-65 from the combat sup port pit to get a perfect score but he insisted tank number m-24 from the 2nd pit get equal Bil Ling. It s the Luck of the draw said the second tank s gunner sgt. Harold Higgs. Fagg s Crew included the gunner sgt. Teddy Harlow 24, from Louisville by. The Driver pfc. Patrick Virrill 19, from Goshen ind. And the loader spec. 4 Robert Denunzio 22, from fort Lauder Dale Fla. Higgs said maintenance is important to Success Ful tank gunnery. Also crucial is How Well the Crew men get along he said. The 28-year-old gunner from South Glens Falls n.y., was filling in for tank commander staff sgt. Steven Phaup who was on leave in the states. The other members of Higgs winning Crew on m-24 were Driver spec. 4 Kenneth Bonham 19, from Dayton Ohio and loader pfc. Jody Brooks 21,from Long View Wash. Soviet girl loves French Fries tacos but hates Rocky in los Angeles a a waving giggling soviet schoolgirl put her head in King Kong s Mouth monday at Universal studios and Frankenstein s monster kissed her hand As she neared the end of her whirlwind . Tour. The studio visit came after a homesick Katerina Lyche a visited a playground Assembly at an elementary school and shared a Buffet breakfast with the International Chil Dren s choir. At the breakfast she received the Puppy of her dreams and berated the movie Rocky in for what she called its distortion of soviet life. There was not a word in that film that was True 11 year old Katya said of the film which she had seen on television at her hotel. Rocky in pairs off the redoubtable Rocky Balboa against a hulking soviet bionic Man. Soviet people have Friendly open faces the girl said at a question and answer session at a breakfast. I was frightened. I did t know that kind of distortion was Possi  Stallone and Mem contend the film is not anti soviet As it features a reconciliation of sorts at the end. The Sandy haired Green eyed Katya wearing a Calico print dress Black Patent pumps and White socks told re porters she s tired on the 11th Day of her . Tour and i m  she was serenaded at breakfast by 63 Young members of the International children s choir. Later monday an obviously tired Katya was greeted at Universal by Woody Woodpecker and a scantily Clad Conan the barbarian As Well As a baby Frankenstein and the Frankenstein monster who kissed her hand. Before a private 40-Minutc tour of the studio amuse ment Park Katya posed for pictures standing inside the clenched fist of King Kong touching the fake Gorilla s giant Teeth and Tongue. The head alone is 10 feet High. She met with co stars Jameson Parker and Gerald Mcraney of the Simon and Simon television series the Only show filming at the studio monday. Asked about the tour the Little girl answered i liked everything. It was fascinating. 1 have acted in five films but mostly on location. I did t know what a studio was really like  at breakfast Katya was asked about her White House visit with president Reagan and replied i Only saw or. Reagan for about four minutes so i cannot really pronounce any judgment on  she said she passed along a message calling for the abolishment of All nuclear weapons before i grow up. Or. Reagan said he would do his Best toward that  before leaving Moscow Katya had said i dream of peace and having a  half the dream came True monday when she was Given a 3-month-old Cocker Spaniel Puppy with a red ribbon by Pat Montandon founder of children As the peacemakers the private san Francisco based group that has sponsored this trip and other student exchanges in its four years. Receiving the Puppy made me so Happy Katya said. Visiting the Commonwealth school she said she likes american food including pizza and tacos and she singled out Mcdonald s for Praise especially the Clown and the French  teachers find Shaf music can make Lively learning a piece of cake by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Sermersheim Germany Only a child would listen to a song called kiss a  that s Why Dan Crow wrote it. You la get no tunes about cheating lovers or cities built on Rock and Roll from this self described  instead Crow fashions silly lyrics with a serious Pur pose teaching children about language. Wayne Dean an artist and Crow s colleague for the last six weeks also uses music As a teaching tool. Dean believes soothing music enhances almost anyone s ability to draw. Crow and Dean have been sharpening Young american minds All Over Southern Germany on a tour of 15 Small schools in the department of defense dependents schools system. They ended the tour with a two Day visit at Sermersheim elementary school entertaining Sermersheim and Pforzheim students. It has been a great Way to see Germany and to see smaller groups of children who Don t live in metropolitan areas Dean said. He was the san Diego school system s Art education coordinator until he retired six months ago. The military school system recruited the two through the performing tree a non profit California Agency that screens artists and performers for such assignments said Barbara Elter a Dodds music coordinator. We re not Only getting talented artists but we re also getting the guarantee that these people have worked wit children Elter said. Crow said reduced Federal funding of the arts has Cre ated a Strong demand for itinerant artists and performers so he and Dean find themselves busier than Ever. We both have been teachers. It s hard to get it out of your blood said Crow who also has worked As a staff songwriter for two Disney Channel children s shows an has recorded five albums for Young people. In the classroom he uses dramatics storytelling and songs full of alliteration and nonsense words to familiarize children with the Range of sounds heard in English speech and to expand their vocabulary. He also studied a bit of German to prepare for his tour incorporating what he Learned into some of his songs. One of the justifications for what i do is that it s tied in with Basic educational skills Crow said. For Dean the tour was a Chance to practice what he had been preaching in a Book he wrote the incredible spreadable magic drawing  Dean said research has shown that the right brain Hemi sphere controls visual concepts but people Seldom know How to tap its potential. So he uses techniques to get students to drop their defences. For example children often find Standard line drawings difficult especially if they involve complicated poses s8.s photo by Joseph Owen Dan Crow mimics a television game show Host As Sermersheim elementary school second grader Kathy Brown ponders his last question. Dean said. So he asks for tone drawings Shady images made with the Side of a Pencil. Most children can produce a Good tone drawing likeness in 15 minutes he said. Music is As integral to his work As it is to crows although it it used More subtly. While teaching Dean plays cassette tapes of classical music or jazz to dissolve classroom pressure and convince students that drawing i supposed to be fun. If you can sufficiently relax an adult or a child and take the threat of failure away you can give them complicated things to draw and they can do astounding things he said