European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Dedication personified byte Boivin. Stall writer education coaches Pooh Ricald Onil players strive for Moi or in Berlin lives in through the rain on flip duty brain. Ratting on the icum bus Down on autobahn. Carolyn. is Are Tinli Licois in inc a High school sports world filled Wilri Pushy parents. So of Lon to hear nulls say to Young people you re not doing a Good Job. We Aren t pleased Wilh whal you re ought Long doing something else,1 " she say they Donl Hoar enough of the Posi Livo from us As Advilla Heel Hoy need ihal."-. " the Berlin High and basketball learns got Hal positive Leeling Iron Carolyn James she is Iho run Lucr of Junior Pat Jerries who plays bears line Iri goofball and in Iho Forecourt in basketball. Ait atm a cold vol november Nghil tie kind West Berlin knows so Writt Carolyn James begins hoi Odyssey at the Mam Tram station Iho duly train Frankfurt an 8 it hour trip and a one hour train next morning to bad Kreuz Nach Verete the bests Hyve a tool tilt Gatimu against the a carats. Tits flu Slaty in Bud Kret Tanach James looks for a /a.n. Lii none i Spond to her Hail she walks in the ram three mocks to the bits Slop but the bus does so the so year of grandmother starts trudging i Hough. Miick Andrt told the school finally a taxi answers hoi Hail she climbers in and. The Driver lakes her Lolohe Iron Gate the football Field she says is another mile past the Iron Gate butt she. Makes it makes it Lor her bears. You pc a Caird of to frequent Llyord. James should got a total traveler Gold card As a Reward Lor her journeys. Across Europe to watch Berlin teams play. The bad Kreuz Nach game is one of Many trips she made o Walch Berlin Playpen the Rood this school year. She massed one Basic Bull game but made Allol the too Ball games thai s no an easy feat for any Parent Especial by a working single Parent. But dedication gets the school nurse at Thomas a Roberl elementary school to the games. Many limes she is the Only Parent on the Road trips. -.-. Ido i l know in you Call it dedication or what. Feel the child needs the Patent s presence they need the presence olo is parents she says. If other a Sil Back and wait nobody will go. I love pal. I want Pat to know that because of that i go wherever. It s Ono thing to say you love someone. It s another to show it. Sixteen an age Ulieriu Many children Don t like to be. Seen parents. t Cool. Pat James is an All conference tackle in football a in basketball. Those Are the Macho positions not the Type you d expect to i 0 filled by a sensitive kid. Bui he comes Oil the court at the end of the third place game at the Small schools basketball tournament and i front Ota gym Lull of tans most of them his age he goes arse to whore his Mother sits Between the shows Pablo and Berlin Bench. He gives her a hug and a kiss. Guess when you Are younger you go through that phase where you Don t want your parents around Pat . But As i gel older i like to have my mom around. Acct really Lucky to have a mom Lihe i do.". Her son is not Iho Only one to hug her As they come off he cowl near the end of she game. Ear Mcdonald and pc Mainc Garden come Over to give hoi hugs sealed my so kind and so Well i could t Foci awkward about hugging tier Mcdonald says she a such a warm person. You would t be embarrassed to hug a Good aunt a close Friend anything like Hal. Lean always hear her on Iho court arid nothing slops me rom playing Ihen. Wien i hear her i want to play More. She gives me sometimes when you re Down by 15 you need something to encourage you and she s always there Garden adds. Down by 15, up by so i Doorn l matter. Carolyn Jamos docs not Rani or rave. You will not hear her questioning a referee s Call. You will not hear her cutting Down her son or any other player. Keep your hands up on Colenso gel the rebound1" sure Shell yell thai. But put Down a kid a coach or a referee Wover. Whal i try to do is understand the game she says. I Hove a workable knowledge of the game and try to use that knowledge positive Way. It the referee makes a bad Call you won t catch me booing because i Leel there is not a person in the gym who is perfect and Hal referee is doing the Best he can at he time. When they Are doing if Weir Best that is All i can Carolyn James knows her basketball. When i m on the court i just hear All the Good things she her son says. She watches College and pro games and knows what s going on she has a knowledge of the plays formations How they re set up. She has had two sons play sports and i think she honed in and picked up she also honed in playing High , girls six so six i Roe players on the offensive end of the court three on the defensive end. It s a different game but the rules Are basically the same she says. What she knows she shares and sometimes to Pat James Chagrin she shares a Little too freely. The Lunny thing 1o me is when she gives the other1 players on the other team hints and it helps. She tells the Olner team they re supposed to Bend their Knees at the tree throw line put More arc on the Ball and it ends up working he sighs. What she thinks Means everything to her boys on the Berlin basketball team. She May took Rialto Only Wilh hat Granny glasses and knitting but with miss James around in makes you want to play hard Darden says. We look right a few when we re on the court. Ii we mess up before we look at lha coach we look at miss James because you can Lei by the expression on her lace what she is going to say the Gressen girls coach Colls time near the end of a sniff ing put contraband at Juk ,. Tys Peppa doing his thing protecting America s agriculture Al Juk International Airport in new York Page 14 the stars and stripes. and photo by Mike Penalo new York bureaus e chances amidst the hand earned Luggage and shopping bags Tail pointing straight up As it in were an Antenna on some sensitive homing device in this instance a homing device , whal his nose is Jackpot the 7-year-old Dean of the Beagle brigade a John f. Kennedy International Airport in new York is in action. On this Day. Jackpot with his handler Hal Fingerman. Is working the customs Aiea of the International arrivals building. Meanwhile Jackpot s Young counterpart Peppa. With his handler Deborah Ferraira is Busy Al work in the Twa terminal. The dogs Are diligent in their tasks. At limes their Heads disappear deep into shopping bags. Mow and then they have to net up on i hair Hind legs and stretch to inspect Luggage placed cd of i hair reach atop baggage carts. Tho dogs arc members of the canine corps of the u s department of agriculture s animal & Plant to ally inspection service Aphis they Are trained to Sil when they detect the smell 61 restricted Odd products in.a., passenger s Luggage. And Sil they do Peppa has t had the Opportunity to Sil Loo often this Day when he locates a scent in someone s Luggage Perreira rewards him with a real a Titbit Iron a Tan of pounce teals for the dogs love in says Fingerman Tho dogs most of Ihm saved irom a cruel late at animal shelters throughout America Are Given a 12-week training course plus never ending training while in the Field in learning to Israfl out various agricultural and meat products surprisingly on the list of forbidden products Are also Hunting trophies As Woll As some articles made d Straw. 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