European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes schools update Germany students achieve top honors at conference Frankfurt business students from throughout Germany captured top honors in contests ranging from electronic calculator to entrepreneurship at the future business leaders of America Spring leadership conference. About 200 students attended the three Day conference. First place winners Are eligible to attend the Fla National leadership conference in Washington june 22-30. Categories and first place winners Are computer business applications Archie Aland Frankfurt High con Sumer economics Sarah Graham Frankfurt High accounting i Sarah Graham Frankfurt High accounting ii Stephanie Wealch Kaiserslautern High electronic calculator Bobbi Royer Munich High clerk typist Mike Marcellin Baum older High clerk typist ii Suzanne Wosten Dieck Giessen High. Shorthand i Denise Dieppa Frankfurt High machine transcription Sherri Gaillard Frankfurt High Junior High typing Amy Wolf Kaiserslautern High business Law Kimberly Bollon Frankfurt High office procedures Hanna Campbell Frankfurt High spelling Bee Becky Roush Baum older High word processing Heidi Kennedy Kaiserslautern High Fla Creed Radcliffe decane Karlsruhe High business English i Tarnov Haylett Karlsruhe High. Business English ii Nicole Burnham Mannheim High data process ing Mark Haldeman Mannheim High computer literacy Cynthia Cecil Karlsruhe High entrepreneurship i Michael Price Frankfurt Junior High entrepreneurship ii Stacey Williams Ramstein High Job inter View Richard Bouher Bamberg High Impromptu speaking Andrew Hadd Frankfurt High Public speaking Jessica Voss Stuttgart High business math i Janice Moseley Wiesbaden High record keeping Freddie Offut Munich High. Office decision making Ovnice Benton Munich High business graphics Roberto Gonzales and Laura Roberts Frankfurt High parliamentary procedure team event Gerri Deveney Daniela Giernat Doug Deveney Suzanne Fleming Joelle Truman Stuttgart High or. Fla David Owen Patch High is. Fla Kim Preuss Frankfurt High. 2 from Frankfurt High school win in research Competition monchengladbach Germany two Frank Furt High school students have captured top honors in the 12th annual european Junior science and humanities symposium. Tori Hoehler and Briand Sanderson won the Competition with their research study of the formation of acids in the atmosphere. Sanderson received a $500 scholarship from the facade my of applied science and a one half tuition award from the University of Maryland s Munich Campus. Finalists included Antionette Wannebo of Bahrain High school Alex Crawford of Munich High school Lynne Tiede of Vilseck High school and Robert Saundby and Mark Brooks of the British Queen s school. Eva Owens a teacher at Augsburg High school received the army research office s faculty award for excellence in science teaching. About 125 students participated in the symposium. Junior High math leaders will be competing in contest Heidelberg Dodds Germany s top Junior High school math students will participate in a math counts Competition april 12 at Heidelberg Middle school. About 80 students from 20 schools who have won top honors in local competitions will compete in the contest. Winners May be invited to participate in National finals in Washington in May. Mat counts is a cooperative project of the National society of professional engineers the National Council of teachers of mathematics the Cna insurance companies the National aeronautics and space administration and the . Department of education. It is de signed to Challenge gifted mathematics students and spark interest in mathematics and math careers. Symposium speakers to discuss the future of deterrence Heidelberg the University of Southern califor Nia s school of International relations will hold a Spring symposium to discuss the future of deterrence april 17-19. Speakers from the United states France Britain and Germany will address problems with the West s Reliance on deterrence based strategies including the limits of Stra. Telic command and control the difficulties of convention Nal izing deterrence the uncertainties of a greater role for Europe s nuclear Powers and the prospects for redefining the moral and political foundations of deterrence. The symposium will be held at the hotel Molkenbur  31. The conference fee is $60, or 140 Marks for students and $80, or 200 Marks for non Stu dents. The fee includes thursday night dinner and lunch Friday and saturday. Participants must arrange their own accommodations. Registration deadline is april 10. Further information is available from the us Munich office civilian 089 690-2420 or military 6078, or the Frankfurt office civilian 069-597-0375 or military 320-6282. Thursday april 3,1986 Organ transplant expert asks Dod Europe donation program by Judy Sarasohn realize that the organs Are a True gift of  medical writer Frankfurt the army s chief Organ transplant specialist wants to develop an Organ donation program in Europe for service members and their families. Fifty people Are waiting at any one time for new kidneys at the Walter Reed army medical Center in Washington said or. Maj Carlos Fernandez Bueno chief of the Center s army Navy transplant program. Fernandez Organ transplant consultant to the army surgeon general has been in Germany for about three weeks promoting the program to military doctors Hospital staffers and military Airlift come personnel. A lot of people Don t know we exist he said wednes Day at the army Hospital in Frankfurt. It s become a big Issue in the United states. People want the right to  when an air Force family last september offered the kidneys of their daughter who had died from a burst blood vessel in her brain a German doctor performed the opera Tion at the army Hospital at Lan Stuhl. Military personnel did not have the experience to perform the delicate opera Tion. However Fernandez said they Are capable of doing it. While visiting the Hospital on his current tour he worked with the medical staff on the technique using a Laboratory animal. The donation program would focus on Lan Stuhl be cause the Hospital has the military s neurosurgery capability in Europe. Most serious head trauma cases Are sent there. Fernandez said a surgical team from Lan Stuhl would Fly if necessary to another military Hospital to perform the operation. Arrangements Are being made with German doctors to perform the operation for organs other than kidneys he said. The surgery to remove the organs is handled with the same seriousness and respect of other operations Fernandez said. There is no disfigurement he said. Fernandez said it s important for doctors and families to if you look at this As a gift he said it gives some sense of purpose to an otherwise senseless  Fernandez said the kidneys donated in september by 13-year-old Katie Wulf have provided great Relief to a retired Soldier and a retired Sailor. Both men Are in their 30s and Are married. One has three children. And one of the men is Back working full time. Defense department personnel officials have agreed in formally to a proposal by or. William Mayer assistant defense Secretary for health affairs to include Organ trans Plant information on the new military identification card being developed. Fernandez also would like a new Usa eur Driver s License to include Organ donation information similar to Many state licenses. Those two initiatives however would be one to two years in coming he said. Meanwhile Fernandez will be sending donor cards to Lan Stuhl for distribution to interested service members and their families. Fernandez said donor cards Are a Good opening to a sensitive subject. Even if someone fills out a card directing that his organs be taken in the event of his death consent still is sought from the next of Kin he said. The card opens the door. Initially a lot of people Are apprehensive he said. The wishes of the next of Kin Are always  consent May not be Given Over the Telephone it must be done in person Fernandez said. In the Case of service members whose Only family is in the United states the military can offer invitational travel orders to bring the next of Kin to Germany he said. Those travel orders would not be contingent on the family s agreement to the donation. As Long As the body of a person who suffered brain death is kept stable by machine the kidneys would not be damaged by a delay for relatives to travel from the United states Fernandez said. Staff writer Chuck Vince in Washington contributed to this Story. Katya ends . Peace Mission Anaheim Calif. A the soviet schoolgirl who spent two weeks on a peace Mission to the United states flew to Mexico Early wednesday after wrapping up her whirlwind tour with a visit to Disneyland. Katerina Locheva 11, left los Angeles on a Mexicana airlines flight before Dawn said an airline ticket agent who refused to give her name. The girl s 12-Day . Visit was patterned on a highly publicized 1983 trip to the soviet Union by another schoolgirl peace envoy the late Samantha Smith of Maine. Katerina who goes by the nickname Katya visited the magic kingdom on tuesday kissed Mickey and Minnie mouse and Rode Down main Street .a" on a Hook and ladder fire truck. It s that Little girl from Russia several pointing and camera clicking tourists commented As she rolled by waving and smiling Back at them. Katya signed the Park guest Book inscribed with Best wishes from such notables As former presidents Nixon and Carter and Jordan s King Hussein. She wrote in russian with Best wishes for peace and Friendship in the whole world. Katerina  Katya also visited the haunted mansion and really liked the ghosts was delighted on the it s a Small world attraction and her eyes got real big at seeing pirates of the Caribbean said Barbara Warren a Disneyland spokeswoman. Meanwhile a bulgarian couple who defected while on vacation three years ago appealed to the girl for help in getting Back the two daughters they left behind. Darina Zenkova 33, and her husband delivered a letter to the girl s hotel asking Katya to give it to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. She said she hoped Gorbachev would urge the soviet bloc nation to release the youngsters. Earlier tuesday Katya met the los Angeles City Council and received an la s the place hat and to shirt. I certainly Hope my trip will not be in vain she told the Council members. The most important thing of All is the message of Friendship and  she said she was tired but Happy about her trip which included visits to Chicago new York Houston and Washington d.c., where she met president Reagan. All of it has been fascinating she said but the most memorable thing of All has been meeting the children. I have Many friends now. Now i m going Back to Moscow with Many messages and letters from american kids. I m leaving the country with a profound sense of  she said she was unimpressed by some displays of hol Lywood entertainment particularly the film Rocky in which she saw on television at her hotel. There was not a word in that film that was True she said. She said she would not like to live in America and added so far i Haven t seen a single thing that my friends Don t  Katya s visit was sponsored by children As the peace makers a private san Francisco group that has arranged other student exchanges. The . Tour was similar to a trip to the soviet Union by american schoolgirl Samantha Smith 10, in 1983. Samantha died in a plane crash last year. 2 soldiers die in collision near Pitburg Pitburg a Germany two soldiers were killed in a four vehicle Accident Here wednesday a base spokeswoman said. They were assigned to Btry a 2nd in 62nd air de sense arty in Lutzweiler Germany. The wife of one of the soldiers and a German Man were injured said staff sgt. Anita Bailey Pitburg a spokeswoman. The americans were attempting to pass several vehicles in a fog when their vehicle collided head on with a Van and was struck by two other cars on Highway b51 South of the air base Bailey said. The soldiers were pronounced dead at the scene by a German doctor. The wife was in Good condition in the air Force Hospital at Pitburg a. The German driving the Van was taken to a German Hospital in nearby Pitburg. The soldiers names were withheld pending notification of relatives