European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday May 2,1987 friends pick Ronnie Dewillers As class Angel Miami a schoolmates named Ronnie de Sillers their classroom Angel thursday and radio stations honoured the 7-year-old who died awaiting a fourth liver transplant with a moment of silence stressing he need for Organ donations. Instead of doling on the sadness what we tried to think about was How he s out of pain now and How he s up in heaven said Patricia Pittari one of Ronnie s teachers Al is. Anthony s roman Catholic school hours Afier he died wednesday night. A corporate Jet donated by industrialist Victor Posner brought Ronnie s body Home from Pitts Burgh late thursday accompanied by his Mother Maria Dewillers. A memorial mass was planned Fri Day at the Church near his for Lauderdale school. The Miami boy s death generated words of sym Pathy from president Reagan who had contributed j 1,000 to Ronnie s medical fund gov. Bob Marti Nez and everyday people who supported Ronnie Afler he gained National attention when his school s 14,000 medical fund was stolen in february. Ronnie s fund eventually reached $420,000. And he underwent Ihrcke unsuccessful transplants. He was on a waiting  when he died. At school the bespectacled first grader was remembered in class drawings and poignant notes some of which read the Day a j come for you of die and i Hope you re in  the school Flag new at half Sliff Bells tolled and staff members went from classroom to classroom to talk about the boy born with defective liver bile ducts. I think one Little first grader said it Busl said principal Elaine Patterson. He wrote i am mad and 1 asked Why. He said Ronnie was taken away and he would not see him anymore and that he was Only 7 years old. I asked him How do you think Ronnie feels and he said Ronnie is very Happy that he had been in great pain and that he s Happy. He s with god and he s in he Ven Patterson at limes broke to tears talking about Ronnie. It s been a very difficult thing to have been that close to this child and he was a very special child she said. Our emotions have been up and Down up and  their drawings done classmates talked about their feelings. We made him our Little classroom Angel and we talked about How hell always be in our classroom Pillari said. We discussed All the times tha he made us laugh in the classroom and there were Many of those  White House spokesman roman Popadiuk said the president and mrs. Reagan have kept him in their prayers. The White House is sad to hear of his death and extends its deepest sympathy to his Fame  in Tallahassee gov. Martinez his wife Mary Jane and Florida state football coach Bobby Bow Den signed Organ donor cards thursday As part of National Organ and tissue donor awareness week. I think in his death and his struggle he made this nation More aware of the donor program and the need for organs Martinez said. "1 wish it had a happier ending. A i can say is i Hope he is in a better place. He touched Dade county said metro Dade police officer Jerry Rivera who handed out fliers to raise Money for the boy. A shucks says Vang  what u i Gonna do with All those people staring at nut Nice and cuddly vip Andas make . Debut one at a time new York a a show expected 10 be one of he City s hottest tickets made its debut Friday with two Lazy stars who Don t even life each older. And All they do is sit around in Public eating and looking ador Able. Ling Ling and Yong Yong two giant pandas from China officially went on display at their special Panda minium at the Bronx zoo aft mayor de Waid Koch and Beijing Deputy mayor Feng Mingwei sounded a Gong o Mark the opening. Roly poly Yong Yong was the first to face the rapt audience and made a shy Bow crouching behind a Bush. Yong Yong have i go an Apple for you bellowed Koch As he leaned into the pen. Feng announced to applause that the exhibition a loan from the Beijing zoo As part of the Sisir City relationship Between new York and the chinese Capi Tal would be extended from three months i six. Only one Panda can be displayed Al a Lime because 6-year-old Yong Yong a female and the 1 year old male Don t get along. Proceeds from the inhibition arc to be used for the chinese govern ment i Rescue Mission for pandas an endangered species. About 100 children from a Bronx school crowded into the exhibition area for the opening Friday Wear ing paper Panda hats and waving puppets. There she is some of them shouted in glee when the Panda was let into the Grotto. I think they re cute Nice and cuddly said Sec Ond grader Cerise Hughes. 8. She said seals had been her favorite zoo animals but now she thinks pandas Are the  Yong Yong remained at the Back of the tree shaded exhibit pen rolling Over lying Down and scratching her Back on a tree. She was quiet although the zoo s general curator James Doherty said she tends to bleat almost like a  at feeding time. Yong Yong whose name Means forever and Ever was found As an abandoned inf i in the wild. Ling Ling whose name Means ringing  was born in Captivity Asa result omani finial insemination. Zoo of Akiak expect More than 1,000 people an hour to View the pandas during the exhibition. Zoo goers wanting to Sec the pandas will have to buy a special lick i is for adults 50 cents for children on lop of the regular 700 admission sj3.7j for adults $1.50 for children. Stateside girl Falls through Hole in car while it s moving Benton Harbor Mich. A a 1-year, old girl fell through a Hole in the floorboard of a moving car but suffered Only scrapes and bruises police say officer Dale Easton said Angel Caldwell the daughter of Anita Patton 28, of Benton town ship fell through a Hole Large enough for a grown adult to tall  he said the Mother and the Driver of the car apparently went several blocks before they realized what had happened. The child was Lucky not to have been run Over he said. Angel was released after Hospital treatment the Driver was issued a ticket for careless driving. Doctor who first spotted aids resigns Urcla Post los Angeles a the doctor credited with being the first to spot aids As a disease in 1981, has resigned his leaching Post at Urcla because he Saio he could not go tenure. Or. Michael s. Gottlieb in immunologist has gone into private practice seeing aids patients in Santa Monica the los Angeles times reported thursday. The climate at Urcla was not supportive of my academic advancement Gottlieb said. It gut too difficult to fight the disease and the sys tem Al the same  or. Roy Young acting chairman of the department of Medicine disputed Gottlieb s account of Why the researcher left. He said Gott Lieb had conflicts with some colleagues but refused to elaborate. St. Petersburg opens Sunshine Skyway Bridge St. Petersburg Flo. A the new $240 million Sunshine Skyway Bridge opened thursday with a procession of cars yellow bal loons and a memorial bouquet of 35 White car nations one for each person killed in a 1980 Accident on an adjacent Span. The 4.1 mile Bridge Arches Over Tampa Bay 1,000 feet East of the 33-year-old twin Span Structure crippled May 9, 1980, when a freighter rammed the Bridge collapsing a 1,400-foot Sec Tion of lie South Lound Roadway. On that Stormy morning 35 motorists plunged 150 feet to their deaths into the murky water of the Bay. Nearly seven years inter a gaping Hole in the old Bridge s midsection remains a haunting re minder to motorists sailors and Wesley Mac Iii re the Accident s sole survivor