European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday september 20,1989 xkjh3kw-1 i in Sam my first lady meets o Guinea pig named George Bush from wire reports first lady Barbara Bush dedicated the George ii.\v. Bush elementary school in Midland Texas the first school named after her husband then visited the 36 children in the school s two kindergarten classes where she met a Guinea pig named George Bush and a Hermit crab named Dan Quayle. It was mrs. Bush s first visit since the election to the City where she and the president spent 11 years in the 1950s and 1960s. What s his name mrs. Bush asked one of the kindergarten students As she pointed at a Brown and while Guinea pig in a Glass tank. A Little boy told her. Of she said raising her eyebrows in feigned Shock. Then she walked Over to another tank containing a Hermit crab and said. I m not going to ask who the crab s named  she was told anyway. Quay a left hanging Washington quarterback Mark Rypien was so Dis traught sunday night Over the redskins 42-37 de feat by the Philadelphia fugues that he skipped a dinner engagement with vice president Dan Quayle. I kind of left him  Rypien said. There was no Way to reach him. But physically i was sore and stiff and mentally f was t up to taking ques  four on the floor wheelchair bound Dennis Hoppner of Hillman mich., gets a push from his dog. Spike As he goes about his daily errands. Hoppner 37, who has been handicapped since he was 18, taught his pet How to push his chair to help him get around. Rypien s wife Annette called the vice president shome monday to apologize. You can f have if All television correspondent Barbara Walters says women cannot have it All career marriage and children and she pointed to herself As an exam ple. You can have a great marriage and great Chil Dren great marriage and great career great career and great children. But i think it is so hard to have great marriage a great career and great children wallers told the Virginia woman 90s" conference at Virginia Beach a. She advised the 2,100 women in the audience not to feel guilty if they have trouble meeting the de mands of career and family and admitted it has been so easy for her. I be been divorced. 1 have a daughter who thank god is 21 and out of her  said the 57-year-old Abc correspondent. She advised the women to have a life beyond getting up in the morning and going to work Al though that can be pretty wonderful and  jailed actor engaged actor Todd Bridges got engaged to his 23-year-old Girlfriend while in jail awaiting trial on a charge of attempted murder. Bridges 24, who played Gary Coltman s older brother on television s gift rent strokes propose marriage to Becky san Filipo according to his publicist. Bridges being held on $2 million bail is charge with shooting Kenneth Clay 25, on feb. 2 in a los Angeles Home authorities alleged was used As a Gath ering place for people to smoke crack cocaine. Clay survived the shooting and Bridges has pleaded innocent to the attempt cd murder charge. Koop named of Board surgeon general c. Everett Koop who is leaving his Post on oct. I has been elected to the Board of the non profit medic Alert foundation International. Koop who has been surgeon general for seven years has been outspoken on issues such As smok ing environmental hazards and aids. He did not attend the meeting. Medic Alert president Kenneth harms said that adding Koop to the Board was a great  medic Alert provides medical information to emergency personnel 24 hours a Day on its records hot line. Stars and stripes bookstores us do o stars and stripes bookstores cans the new currency i every Day an army of the homeless poor or addicted cull the trash bins dumpsters alleys and gutters of new York City searching for redeemable cans amid the City s z garbage. For almost All of them doing the cans is the difference Between destitution and a Little dignity. W with si00 million in Deposit cans and bottles discarded each year in Manhattan alone = cans can become a unit of currency among the City s poor. Indeed the business of cans has created a whole new subculture with its own ethics equipment and Economy. The / August Issue of life Magazine provides a rare insight into How an increasing number of have not eke out a living Nickel by Nickel. Also in this Issue Woodstock revisited two decades after the great hippie happening Diane Sawyer reveals How Abc lured her away from 60 minutes Chi Chi s children a puckish golfer is an old pro at helping kids in trouble and much More life is available for $2.95 at a stars and stripes Bookstore near you stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores of x �3j m