European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. December 20, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 9 education teacher s juggling act benefits kids parents by Dave walc7.ak education Filer Mes Stetten. West German first Arteacher baby the Smith knows thai the school Day is going just right when her classroom s 12 children arc working in five different directions. Smith s educational juggling a l is critical to  school located far from the mainstream of department of defense dependents schools Educa Tion. As the school s Only teacher. Smith s i jail lesson plans include up to 25 texts spanning math Reading science and social studies for grades one. Three five six and seven. It s  she said if i m organi de. Then they move. If i m nol. Then they Don  officially. Mess Stolten is a satellite school linked to the main facility at bib Lingen elementary 50 Miles away. In practical terms. Smith said the school orbits on a unique daily educational Axis. It s like being on your own she said. Boblink can school officials did provide a computer copying machine and dozens of schoolbooks for themes Swetten children. Decisions on How Best to use them Are left to Smith her aide. Fran Romanowicz and the children. They help each  said Smith referring to the mass Stettin children. They always like talking to a student belter. We have to work together and they understand  school and military officials decided to open the pcs Stetten classroom in August As a result of an in flux of school age children into the Community in the past year. We thought about the distance the kids would have to travel said Martin Kinney. A Kiblingen Elemen tary assistant principal and Smith s supervisor. It just too far. And the weather conditions in Winter would have been a horrendous  col. Jim Cox. The ranking american military official in  said Community officials weren t cer Tain until Early August that the school would open in time to begin the 1989-90 school year. The major problem was a classroom. But that prob Lem was overcome when . Officials accepted an offer by  mayor Willi Fischer to provide room in a West German school. The German school serves about 155 German Chil Dren Ages 10 to 16. About 25 americans and 1.000 germans arc As signed to mass Stettin. A nato facility that monitors military air traffic throughout Southern West Ger Many. Smith s husband. Chuck is an air Force Cap Tain assigned to the nato command. Only five of the americans assigned to mess stat ten have school age children enrolled at the school making Smith s classroom a family affair. Of the 12 s4s Dav Dan Babette Smith gives some help to Laura Humblen 7, a first grader who s the daughter of Jenny and Danny Hamblin. In near background is Jonathan Graham 12, a 7h-grader. He s the son of Kent and Lyn Graham. Children assigned to the school. 11 have at least one brother or sister silting behind a desk just a few feet away. Kinda  said seventh grader Jonathan Gra Ham the oldest of the children. Parents said they were pleased with the school de spite its size. The children gel a lot of positive reinforcement from their friends said Mary Neyland who has two children enrolled at Mes Stetten. They Don t have alot of negative peer pressure. About inc Only thing i worry about is after three years when they go to a Normal size school. They might be a Little  Jenny Hamblin also has iwo children learning under classroom close up Aimalefoa Maga daughter of Nia and Tuuling Maga jr., strums her autoharp during a practice session pre paring for a Christmas pageant at the sport Flold elementary school in Hanau West Germany. Smith. She taught Brian 8, and Laura 7, last year at Home and was relieved to hand that Job Over to Smith. I know sometimes that children Aren t nearly As Good for parents As they arc for other  Hamb Fin said. That was the Case frequently. Fit was t one it was the other who was deciding that this was t the Day for school so let s give mom a hard  Smith said the mass Stettin children arc Good kids who get along with each other. We have not had a crisis. Because of that. Smith said she and Romanowicz can devote their efforts toward the children and t be school. These kids have to keep moving like a Normal classroom she raid. The Quality of education should be the  Dodds Roundup workshop for school nurses opens Jan. 24 in Ober Wesel Wiesbaden West Germany three stateside medical consultants will provide instruction at a three Day workshop for school nurses at the youth Hostel in Ober Wesel. Aboul 130 full and part Lime school nurses Are expected to attend the conference beginning Jan. 24. The workshop will focus on asthma and allergies. Guillermo Mendoza a professor of paediatrics at Urcla Nancy Santulli. A nurse practitioner at Florida state s school of nursing and Mary Kay Garcia nurse educator at Texas woman s University in hous ton will instruct the workshop. Counselor at Ramstein High takes vitamins to orphanage Ramstein a West Germany a Ramstein High school Counselor lev to India this week with 2,000 bottles of vitamins destined for an orphanage. Wayne Connaway planned to donate the vitamins to an orphanage in Agra which shelters mentally and physically handicapped children. He later planned to visit Nepal As pan of a nine Day vacation. Marc Champagne the school s student Council president said students and teachers donated the Vita mins most of which were purchased at the base commissary. He said the Council decided to Start the project after hearing about the orphans plight