European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october. 1936 the stars and stripes Page 9 -Tiiaimfmmmipmt9fmmtiiiii sea wants to represent med area by Dave Walczak de nation writer the overseas education association plans to Chal Lenge the overseas federation of teachers for representation rights in he school system s Mediterranean Region. The Challenge was outlined tuesday by Michael  s director for North Central and West Germany. Whal we re offering is the Opportunity for membership in a worldwide organization. We re a larger organization and we re better funded . Bauerfeind sea president Jack Rollins three sea Field attorneys and four sea staff members completed two week visits la the Mediterranean Region sunday in support of the drive to unseat the Oft Ashe bargaining organization for teachers there. The sea represents department of defense dependents schools teachers in the Germany Atlantic Panama and Pacific regions. The Oft has representation rights Only in the Mediterranean Region As a result of laureate Warren laments today s neglect of poetry Washington up1 Robert finn Warren America s re Lucia first poet laureate remembered monday that a Long generation ago students had to memorize , 81, is the a Hor of More than id boats of poetry fiction and criticism. He was named in february to a one year term As the United Stales fint official poet laureate. He met with reporters before giving his first Public Reading monday in the new Job at the Library of Congress. Memorisation does t exist Warren said wait asked about the stale of current interest in poetry. "1 remember a Long generation ago on a Friday afternoon reciting along  is the thing that counts. Hearing it in your head he  lamented thai schools today provide no general education in poetry and that students arc not exposed to poetry unless they have a special interest in asked if his new title of poet laureate would increase the american Public s interest in poetry. Warren Shorback i would t know. The thing to do is not to reduce , who has won three pulitzer prizes two for poetry and one for his most famous novel. All the King s men also wryly dismissed his own output. He said he is continuing to write and has written eight or nine poems since my last Book selected poems came Oul. Elections held in 1983 when Dodds was divided into five regions. Bauerfeind said the expiration of outs font race in 1988 determined the Liming of the sea Challenge. According to Federal statute every Lime you negotiate a contract you have a Nghil to Challenge. The contract s expiration provides a Small window period for into  the Challenge caught Oft executive director Ernie Lehmann by Surprise tuesday. They re starting that Well we re not too concerned Lehmann said. We have the support of in teachers in the Mediterranean Region. All they the sea people Are going to accomplish is to disrupt the work Force for three or four  the sea must get at least 30 percent of the Mediterranean Region s teachers to sign a petition asking for an election. The petition is then submitted to the Federal labor relations authority in Washington d.c., for verification. The labor relation panel would supervise the election. Bauernfiend said he Hopes the election could take place in the Spring. We re not worried about 30 percent Bauc Feind said. We re Basing thai on 750 teachers and even if there Are 850 teachers we have enough signatures to go  a Mediterranean Region spokesman said 578 teach Ere Are listed on the Region s Rolls. But he said other educational personnel such As physical education specialists music specialists and librarians would be Eligi ble to vote in the election bringing the total voting membership to at least 700. Lehmann said the sea has wasted Lime and Money unless it petition signing Campaign resulted in substantially More than 30 percent. We mounted a Challenge to the sea in the Atlantic Region. We had 30 percent but not 50 percent so we dropped it unless you can gel at least 50 percent you re just wasting your Lime. The sea thinks that there s a sleeping giant Down Here Lehman said. They think they can tap it on the shoulder and it will Rise up and support them. It s not going to  thanks for the vacation news of a unexpected vacation for schoolchildren in Reykjavik Iceland put smiles on these kids faces. Schools in Reykjavik will let out for a week during he Nutting Between soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and president Ragan. The superpower conference is to be held oct. 11 and ii. Striking teachers return to classrooms in Ohio City by United press International striking teachers went Back to their classrooms tuesday in Marietta Ohio while negotiators in three other states met in an Effort to end three of the nation s 13 remaining walkouts affecting More than 62,000 students. Strikes stymied instruction in five districts with 32,889 students in Pennsylva Nia six districts in Illinois with 27,901 students and one each in Ohio and Michigan affecting 1,100 and 975 Chil Dren respectively. Another 12,000 students remained locked out of classes by strikes at two Community colleges in Illinois and 31,000 students were affected by a strike at Temple University in Philadelphia. Marietta s 245 teachers gave final approval monday to a tentative contract agreement reached Over the weekend. The new three year contract includes average pay raises of 8.7 percent in the first year and 5 percent in each of this succeeding Yean officials said. Talks were scheduled in three districts in Illinois Pennsylvania and Michigan. In Illinois talks were set to resume tuesday in Decatur District 61, where a sept. 12 walkout has idled 14,126 Stu dents. The District s 950 teachers Are seeking an 18 percent wage hike Over two Yean. With no end in sight to a strike by 200teachers in Villa Park iii., administrators made plans to resume classes tues Day in one of the schools in the District with the Aid of substitutes. The strike began sept. 18. Talks also were scheduled tuesday in Dansville Mich and in the Chester Upland school District in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania teachers were Hope Ful that lowered salary demands would Speed an agreement with the administration. The strike began sept. 24. For the first time in its 102-year history professors and librarians at Temple University in Philadelphia called a strike monday after failing to reach an agreement on a new contract. Why Johnny can t read author Flesch Dies new York. Not or. Rudolf Flesch the authority on literacy and Clear writing who wrote Why Johnny can l  died at Hobbs ferry  hos Pital sunday night of congestive heart failure. He was tech a had suffered from coronary heart Dis ease for several years had lived in Dobbs ferry 35 years and also had a summer House in port Joli a Small town in Eastern Nova  contended that illiteracy and near illiteracy Are widespread in the United Stales because As rewrote lost year in the new York times our schools do a poor Job of leaching  he propounded hit View that the method used by most of the country s schools leaching children Iheme Aning of whole words rather than teaching them the sounds of letters was extremely  he advocated teaching Reading by phonics that ii by teaching the sounds of  alphabetic languages except English Are taught this Way he observed. Why do we do it differently about 1930, As he Pui it our schools switched from teaching Reading to teaching word guessing using the so called look and say method rather than systematic  our 60 million illiterates Are the victims of our own educational establishment he added Rudolf Frani Flesch was born May 8,1911, in Vienna Austria the son of Hugo Flesch and the former Helene Basch