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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                First step to stems and Chris ties Volli Tarwi by Leah Larkin features editor be by one they got out of line and followed the teacher trying hard to turn she skis just As she did up and Down the slopes Over and Over again they listened watched followed and improved. To is a very Good instructor very diligent. She seems to enjoy what she is doing said beginner Bob Kulton and she put in extra Lime. Our two hour lessons often sketched into  to marts does enjoy helping others learn to ski a s something you do because you want to. H s satisfying it s fun she said Marks and her husband Sam have been teaching song on weekend trips Tor the Heidelberg in Lei National ski club Lor two years. So have seven Ole members of he club. Theirs Are not he come on i a show you How Type of lesson that friends Olen Oiler other friends who Are new to skis and slopes this is first class professional ski instruction. The Markes and the other instructors with the Heidelberg club Are registered with the professional .5k instructors of America Psia. Virginia Jay the club s ski school director and Dick Reppard Avalanche adviser for the National ski patrol s european division initiated the program several years ago. It Slas Lod As a dream of ours. We were both with the Valiona so patrol Tor Many years but we could t do that much we saw a need to provide., instruction on weekend trips said Jay. They wanted to form a recognized ski school and Oiler poless Iothial instruction to american skier 5 in Europe at reasonable rates. Because of the language Barrier with european ski schools they contacted Psia in the states and arranged for the organization to Send an instructor to conduct a ski instructor s training course in Europe. Eleven passed the course two years ago Anco became registered Psia instructors. Last november they offered the course again this time at Zermatt Switzerland. Jay Evans a member of the Psia demonstration team Tell his Job As supervisor of the so school in Vail colo., for a Lew Days to come and teach he course to 17 future instructors 10 from the Heidelberg club and seven from other american communities throughout Europe Pula registered instructors  Lor the Falcon so club in Halm West Germany the kaisers Autem ski club and at arc resorts in Bavaria. To be a Good ski instructor does not always depend on How Well you ski but How interested you. Are in the Well being of those you Are working with Evans said. He found his students in Zerr Natt All had the Basic ingredient to be a Good instructor a desire to share the sport they love and an enjoyment in helping others achieve an objective becoming registered with Psia is just the first step for ski instructors. Certification is the ultimate goal but this comes Only after a minimum of about 150 hours of ski leaching. None of the ski instructors in the Heidelberg group has reached that level yet but they re working on ii. They be Lough hard to become recognized As a legitimate ski school. Mow they want to upgrade heir instructors said Bob unclean a certified Psia instructor now living in West Germany he taught a refresher clinic at Zermatt Force instructors who became registered last season. It will Lake years to move up to the next level bul i want to become certified Jay said. The Heidelberg club tries to put or of its instructors on each of its trips. Our goal is to offer weekend ski instruction or beginners. We Don l want to 1aka away from the one week ski school programs. We always recommend  Jay said. The club had hoped to Oiler Oneida learn to ski trips to the Black Forest this season but a Lack of Snow forced them to cancel these outings. While beginner lessons Are the major concern lessons for intermediates and even advanced skiers can to arranged on some trips. Hall Day lessons through the club Cost 20 Marks about $11 per person Lor groups of four or More. 30 Marks about $16.50 per person for groups of two or three persons and 40 Marks about $22.50 Lor private lessons. Compare thai with �360 for an All Day private lesson at Vail and you be got a real bargain. Allol the ski fees go to the instructors Good skiers who obviously like to ski. Often on weekend tips they spend most of their time teaching with Little Lime Lell to enjoy the sport. Some of us Are bored with hard Core skiing said Jay. We re also hardcore extroverts. We love to have people listen to us. Teaching is a  Maclean likes the feedback trom ski  a s Quick. You get big smites. You Petlo see you be made a significant difference. That s not the same with classroom  one satisfied customer with big smiles is Mary Pineo she s been on Lour club trips this season and taken a least two lessons per trip. I keep taking lessons because my skiing is gelling better she said. It s really  for information about Psia instruction Contact cd App pin to Tanninen ikan 06224-s3h4 Attr 6 p 1 Erma Bumbeck every time i see the motto at the Post office neither Snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the Swift Corn Pelion of their appointed rounds i am reminded  Brave souls Lor whom it was obviously written women who go to the Beauly shop offhand i know of no group As. Dedicated to making Good Theu  As women with unwashed so Nagy hair nothing can Deler them. Disasters Are nothing More than challenges they will commandeer rowboats during a flood to drop them Oil Lor their standing they will Grope and stumble in the darkness of brownouts they have been known to arrive at their Apppino meals during earthquakes with instruction so held the manicure Doris until the Shock Waves pass you honestly Don l Lor a minute believe that the salons of Nome Alaska closed their doors this Winter do you these Brave women climbed into their cars with Square tires and solid fuel lines and inched their Way through blizzards of 30 degrees below Zero to get their hair shampooed and set. Don t have the statistics to prove that a haircut is the Antibiotic of the 80s, bul every woman who has the Llu and needs a haircut will never get Well. Thai s a fact. Mair that never grows takes Oil when you Are sick. Bangs can grow As much As 4 inches in one week Short half thai started Al the Nape of your Rieck Wii spill. Out Over your Pillow. And you Don t want to know what happens to  s Why a woman who is too sick to go to the doctor will crawl into a Beauty shop Hall dead an hour later Whon Sha has been Cut shampooed rinsed blown Njus cd and curled she throws away her nose Spray and pronounces i be been cured Joan Rivers used to Tell a Story about a woman being wheeled into the delivery room shouting please you be got to give me something Tor the  when the doctor told her to breathe and Bear Down she said it s not the baby you foot it s the rollers in my Var there Are certain things a woman cannot do with dirty stringy hair. She cannot give birth be married go to a funeral drop a child Oil at school stay at the scene of an  answer the phone Yvo Ithmer husband s old Girlfriend on the line. Unlike women men do not consider hair As one of the a or religions. They say i need a haircut in the same tone As they say i need change Tor the Coffee macfifne.", the passion and the urgency just Aren t there. Women on theother hand will not Bede erred by a dead car Battery inclement weather an empty Gas tank a Sitter who did t show up or a direct hit by a bomb on the shop a person has been known to come Between a Mother and child and live but Don t try it Wilh a woman and her Hairdresser Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday March 1,1689  
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