European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday May 8,1987 schools Roundup overseas schools Post record High in transfers Washington . The military overseas school system had a record number of teacher transfers for the 1986-87 school year. The overseas education association which monitors the department of defense dependents schools program reported that 564 teach ers received offers after four rounds of transfers that enrol last week. Teachers on the move Amtomi vat Nam trint Feln Trion Faroul Auto to 13 u 15131 m9 162 41 b4 seminar on child abuse to be offered in Hanau Hanau German 1 argon or elementary school Wilt Host a child abuse seminar on May 18 from 8 . To 3 30 . The seminar is expected to attract 300 people. Although it s aimed at the Hanau military Community those outside the area May attend on a space available basis. Attendees will receive graduate level credit. Lunch will be available at the school for $3.50.marly Olson child abuse Counselor at Heil Bronn will direct the seminar. Call civilian 06181-55442 Tor More information. Germany Region director named med education chief Wiesbaden John Davis executive serv ices director of the Germany Region has been named the Mediterranean Region s education chief. Davis replaces Robert Manring who took Over at Mediterranean Region director Las month. Davis has Send As executive services director since 1983. He began his Dodds career in 1967. As a speech therapist. He was an assistant principal at Naples elementary Middle school in Italy from 1972-74.before taking Over As assistant principal at Mannheim elementary. Davis became principal of Wetzel elementary in Bau bolder in 1977, and was principal of Baum older High school from 1979 to 1981. Davis left Baum older in 1981 to become assistant chief of the North Germany Region s education division. 5 teachers in Germany selected for seminars Wiesbaden the Germany Region selected educators from five Fields to attend two women s seminars in St. Louis. Emma Siegel Zuzana Plesa. Jean Callaghan Kathleen Brown and Erma Schwebbach will at tend a Dodds wide seminar july 12-14, Fol Lowed by the federally employed women s National training program on july is-18. Brown a second Grade teacher at Wiesbaden s Haine Berg elementary was the Only teacher be  u assistant principal at fut a High school. Plesa directs the Stuttgart education re source Center. Callaghan is a  at Munich and Schwebbach is a management analyst at the Region s Headquarters. Med Region announces new Deputy director Madrid Spain Joseph Indresano has been named to succeed Lee Davis As Deputy director of the Mediterranean Region. Davis took Over As the Pacific Region s Deputy director last month. Indresano 52, assumed his new duties thurs  newly named director began his Dodds career As an Industrial arts teacher in i960. He was the Mediterranean Region s curriculum chief for the past seven years. He also was Industrial arts coordinator . Dependents schools european area in Karlsruhe Germany from 1967-71, and its chief of career development from 1973-79. Steeped in cultural rebirth kids in by their Renaissance by Dave Diehl . Burro Raf Croughton England eighth grader Ronald Johnson knows plenty about the Renaissance he s been learning about it at school. It s All about the rebirth of Art and literature in 14th-Century Florence and it spread through Europe the 14-year-old said in a scholarly Lone. He had to look that up in an encyclopedia said classmate Leon Hardy. Actually Johnson probably look that from one of Many classes Over the past six months at Croughton Middle school where students have been immersed in studies about 15th-, 16th-and 17lh-Cenlury Europe. Fourteen year old Hardy s explanation of the re Naissance was simpler. It s All about Kings. How they treated peas ants the eighth grader explained. They did t treat pm too Good. They treated pm like  seventh Grade English teacher Charlene Daly is the educator behind the project. She and other Croughton teachers have taken a practical approach by taking the kids on Field trips to places where elizabethan history was made. "1 think it might make an impression and they might learn a  Daly said. Math classes studied masters of the time such As Galileo. English classes Learned about Shakespeare some by Reading and acting and some by visiting the Bard s Home and theater not far away in Stratford upon Avon. Crude medical practices such As bloodletting and applying bloodsucking leeches made for inter Esting discussions in science classes. It really was a Rich time for these things to Hap pen Daly said. May i marked the culmination of their studies. The school held a Renaissance fayre. Kids dressed up in costumes of the Day and some performed in plays and Sis it by Civ i i pensive Brandy Bolce 13, ears Princess s most tote. Exhibits. The school look on a medieval flavor during the second half of the school year. Rooms were decorated with posters and student made display. Each room had its own pub sign modelled after he  Shine pc but sporting 20lh-Ccnluiy names such As the chatter Bon and the smelly sneaker one classroom displayed what May be the new Signor the limes at the school. A slogan pasted next to the playwright s to be or not to be. Read shake Speare rules  Peanut butter fuelled paddler ready for 4,000-mile adventure Chicago a fuelled by Peanut Butler and a lust for adventure 44-year-old Larry Capune says he a paddle his surfboard from Chicago to Washington to show Young people that life can be thrilling without using  m showing kids that life is an adventure so get away from that be Levison set Capune said As he pre pared for the 4,000-mile journey hell begin on Mon Day from Chicago s downtown lakefront. Be thankful you be got hands and legs and lots of Energy and go out and use them he said. You can go out and use your own talents without getting near  Capune who is from Newport Beach calif., said the trip through four of the five great lakes the St. Lawrence Seaway and Down the Atlantic coast to the nation s capital will be tougher than any of the six Long distance paddles he s done since 1963. U also May Lake longer than the six months he s planning Capune said. His longest paddle so tar 4,255miles from Portland Maine to Corpus Christ Texas look 319 Days when it was supposed to have taken 200. It la be cold Capune said tuesday night in a Tele phone interview from the suburban Highland Par Motel where he and his brother Marty have been staying since saturday. It s Starling out cold and it s going to gel colder up North Capune said the chill Factor is unbelievable. On land it s one thing but when you re v Al that accelerates  Capune said hell Wear a wetsuit for or election from the wind and estimated 44-degree it in Lake Mich Igan where his trip will bran. And he plans to keep his internal motor running with Peanut Butler lots of it a sponsor donated 465 pounds of Peanut Butler for the Tnp and Capune said hell probably eat it All straight from the Jar and in Peanut butter arts Jelly sandwiches while paddling his 18-foot surfboard i be had it Oil there for weeks and then i be eaten it and it can1 Hirt  he said. After the trip. Capune said he will return to califor Nia and incorporate the adventure into the school As Sembly programs he has been presenting to West coast students since 1912. The talks Wilt be accompanied by movies of the Jouney shot by his brother who will track Capune s Progress from the  trip will con the Brothers about $21,000, Ca Pune said. They have raised Only about $3,200, he said adding that t Jey Hope to spend some nights along the Way with charitable families. Kids Book was t so powerful bad Rutherfordton