European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 24, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 fund Raiser sums up career for Szuc ends by no . A us cation writer Bonn Genie Sedil Hail Liml in Bonn thex months when thoughts in the Job she it la behind tame hooding Back. The deluge came with nil the Force ask a Cia cd Wilh major to networks As election night coverage dominated the airwaves the democrats Usk the Senate and Here 1 was in Bonn Spehl said. I missed the mom Mil being there in action night because i have Noi missed an election night that 1 can  election nights have mean More to pc Cal than the Mere end to ant her round of political campaigning. I a Specht the balloting has capped her performance at a political fund Raiser. Specht Fil a did questions about her fund raising Alfuns earlier this Manili As part of Bonn High school s Murna Tinnil career Day. She said she was Happy 10 speak Ghoul her i Xeric in e1. Although i m Sci n months pregnant and retired the next two Sears her husband s assignment to the . Embassy in August As an attache look pc Cal from multimillion Dollar political campaigns to a Bonn housing area. She has no complain is. When you work High pressure jobs. Snihir family  Spei lil said. _ my Hosl important work i do Al  vet it was t Long ago thai her most important work called for raising Muney lots of Money. Political campaigning is a vory expensive proposition speght said. It s unrealistic to think that a candidate with no Money Tan get elected to of  speght should know. As a political fund Raiser and consultant she has helped raise millions of dollars for democratic Sens. Daniel Patrick Moy Nihan of new York and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. There Are tremendous costs in  said Specht. Mom of the con Gressional races Are s2 h a and up. Senate races can Cost millions. 1 Don t think we re doing anything differently. It s just thai things like to. Radio and travel Cost so much Icse  finding ways to meet those costs formed the basis of Specht s Job Lite past eight years. A direct mail approach usually worked on Small donors. Direct appeals usually worked on larger Contri buyers. You have to be a persuasive person an organi de  she said. Some times you have events where you have 1,000 people coming in. You have to keep track of who s paid and who s not who you be phoned and who you Haven t. You have to be a Good writer sometimes the Only Way a person s heard from you is what you be written in a letter. You have to be an aggressive per son. Sometimes you re faced Wilh a task of raising a million dollars. You can t say where s it going to come from you have to plod along and and get  Specht Learned the Trade from the Bottom at age id. Us a Volunteer Campaign worker fur Robert Kennedy s i9h8 Campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. Doing her schoolwork on the Road up Coli made a decision that would later Lead to jobs As political consultant Capitol Hill special assistant and fund Raiser. "1 decided one Day that was t going to spend the rest of my life in Corona . There s got to he More to life lacking a College education Specht used a direct Appeal approach to land her first paying jobs As receptionist and Secretary. " was so naive in those Days about How difficult it is to gel a Job in poli tics she said. I thought you just called up and  the years 1 did everything from stuffing envelopes to walking precincts. In any profession you begin to establish a base and get Good at what you  s first fund raising Effort was in behalf of sen. Henry scoop Jack son of Washington in the 1975 demo cratic primary in new York. When Jackson s presidential bid failed she went to work for Moynihan s Senate  later worked for the Jimmy Carter Walter mandate presidential Campaign and the democratic National committee. She stood on the podium when Carter gave his acceptance speech Al the 1980 democratic convention when i was up there i was i honking about my Mother. Sometimes life s a struggle and there Are Little moments that make it All worthwhile. It s a High when anybody achieves something that you be worked hard for. You re just a very Small pan of  Community youngsters sold on dads club by Joseph Owen Stull Kurt Bureau . Germany if lie were in the United slates Daniel Wwlborn might mow lawns or shovel Snow to earn  Odd jobs Don t exist in most european military communities however so the 15-year-old Stuttgart High school Sophomore would be out of Luck if it weren t for dedicated adults for dedicated service the dads club. Under club sponsorship Well non stocks shelves and bags groceries at the Robinson Harracks Shoppelle in Stuttgart. He also monitors younger dub members doing similar tasks. Customer tips feed the club Treasu-1 _. Money Welborn on smar by which provides wages to working member1. I figured ill is would be a Good Way to earn in until i m old enough to Start Al Burger King we the 2 i year old dads club based in the ludwigs Burg Korn Weisheim military sub Community near Stuttgart also sponsors 10 to in year Olds who do Light work at the Robinson Barracks Post Exchange and other locations including a Craft shop and a club oper ated miniature coif course at the Pattonville housing area in ludwigs Burg. Other Young club members work at libraries Day care centers and  object of the club is to give Young people an Opportunity to involve themselves in activities which arc positive instead of negative said dads president see Franz Holm the noncommissioned officer in charge Al an s Stuttgart  try to get the youngsters to understand thai this is not really a business kind of relationship he said. We re not trying to give them a Job we re trying to provide them with a function in the  Holzer said the club teaches Young members the importance of efficiency proper behaviour and a neat appearance at work As Well As budgeting skills. The club also tries to involve Parent members with their children and to give other adults in the. Community Good impressions of adolescent club members. We have a kind of utopian image of what our children can become if we teach them to take on the kinds of responsibilities we had to Lake on at that age each child and sponsoring adult must do 10 and 20 hours of Volunteer work respectively before the child eels a paid position. Even then the club encourages More Volunteer work club rules limit youngsters to 40 hours of paid work monthly. Monitors gel $2,60 per hour younger workers $2 per hour or a share of the monthly profits whichever is less. Holzer said the club tries to set wages High enough to encourage Long Range 0 Anning but Low enough so they neither compete with other jobs nor allow Young workers to spend lots of Money  Only to the military sub Community s workers and residents the dads club usually has about 200 members but enrolment fluctuates wildly. Vice presi Dent curl elder said a Lack of adults causes that not tack of interest among the children. Rochelle mines rvs unidentified customer left photo and Daniel Welborn stocks shelves Al the local shop Pette. A lot of parents Don t want to join because they think it s too much work. Bui the kid is willing she said adding that the club acronym dads should t discourage women. This is a bedroom comr Nunnly and the dads arc gone a lot she said referring to the fact that Many soldiers work elsewhere in the Stuttgart area. The moms Are with the dads club More than the  Holder said any adult can sponsor any child Al though some sponsors Don t understand the club s purpose. For Many people on occasion it becomes a babysitting service Holycr said. That s a real Short sighted Way of looking at in. Most people Don t do so i  despite those problems the Young members seem to adapt to the working environments. When they re in Here the Monitor takes care of them pretty  said Cathy Solomon shift super visor Al the Robinson Barracks shop Etle. They really help us out on the weekends and monday which is our busiest  the experience fulfils the expectations of Al least iwo club members. "1 wanted to get to know More people. I wanted to gel some Money for Christmas presents. I was going id Slop after Christmas bul i liked ii said Diana Hedgpeth ii of affable reach. Rochelle Hines 11, of a Dingen said she sought the work because i thought in would be fun and i wanted to earn some Money to buy my mom and dad a Nice Christmas