European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday. February 28.1990 faces n places Haf s if like being on a Penny or. Lincoln from wire reports a program to raise youngsters in Crest in history by querying Abraham Lincoln prompted one to ask. What was it like being on a Penny officials for the letter writing program enlisted attn int Perez a teacher at the Illinois Sute univer sity child care Center in Bloom Englon. To play Lin Coln s ghostwriter and answer the queries from Stu dents in kindergarten through second Grade. Perez had Little trouble addressing some of the More popular questions such As How docs it feel to live in a log House but when one youngster asked. Did you have electricity or radios or Nintendo or computers per a s Lincoln had to ask them questions about Nintendo and  youngster asked Lincoln. Were you friends with Martin Luther King jr.?" Pyrc s Lincoln replied. I did t Ever meet mar tin Luther King but i would imagine that we would have a Tot to talk  first grader asked. Were you afraid when you started first Grade Perez told the student about Lincoln s school which had schoolmasters who used a switch if the students misbehaved. Stand up and be counted Singer Marian Anderson whose concert before Eleanor Roosevelt in 1939 was a landmark in the fight against segregation is asking Black americans to stand up and be counted in the 1990 census after roughly 5 percent were missed in 1980."if they Don t know now. They la learn a Little bit later that it really pays to stand up and be  said Anderson who retired 25 years ago. On april 9. 1939. The now 88-year-old Anderson Sang in Washington before an audience including mrs. Roosevelt at the Lincoln memorial after she was barred from appearing in Constitution Hall by the daughters of the american revolution. Ing he census Bureau issued a poster monday show ing Anderson performing on the Steps of the Lincoln memorial. The poster urges Blacks to lift up your voice stand up for who you arc. Answer the census on april i. 1990." thanks but no thanks Rocky the Bronze sculpture of Sylvester Stallone As Rocky was removed from outside the Philadelphia museum of Art on monday after the completion of filming of Rocky  is being returned to the spectrum sports Arena where it was moved once before when the museum decided it did not want to be graced by the sculpture. The museum s president. Robert Montgomer Scoll. Said he had feared the statue would be abandoned by the film company. Mem uni cd artists which completed filming last  by a. Thomas Schomberg of Denver and donated to the City by Stallone the statue was first put in front of the museum for the filming of Rocky Iii and left there after the movie opened in 1982. Museum officials said that Stallone failed to remove it. And the museum paid $12.000 to trans port the 800-Pound. 8 fool figure to the spectrum sports  hired a lawyer to lobby City officials to keep it in front of the museum. So when the museum workers Man Euver the Bronze statue of film character Rocky onto a flatbed truck after removing it from its base on the Steps of the Philadelphia museum of Art on monday. Was first asked about putting it Back for Rocky a it insisted that the film company agree beforehand to remove the statue after the filming. New sound of new Orleans grammy winners Mac Rebennack and Art Aaron and Charles Neville say the world is finally waking up to the new Orleans sound. I Don t think we re doing anything differently. I think the world is just catching up to  said re Bannack better known As or. John at an awards ceremony in new Orleans honouring the prize win Ning  won a grammy last week with Rekic Lee Jones for a jazz duet version of Makin who  Neville of the Neville Brothers winners for Best pop instrumental with the song Healing  said National and world recognition of new Orleans music with its jazz. Caribbean and african influences was Long overdue. Young fakes of the pulpit Andrew Young who is trying to become Georgia s first Black governor took to the pulpit at a Rural Baptist Church where the Whites were the sunday regulars and the Blacks were the guests. The service at the first Baptist Church in Cedar town was a twist on the decades of White politicians preaching at Black churches with White visitors sit Ting in the pews. Young a former ambassador to the United nations and a former mayor of Atlanta is a congregationalist  the Sermon. Young spoke of the transformation of our politics that has worn out the metaphor of America As a melting  we re All in the same pot. But it is not so much like a least common denominator soup. It is More like a Stew our differences Only enhance and enrich he said. Chaffee defends furry ski Wear former olympic skier Suzy Chaffee. Who for the past three years has helped design and promote a collection of fur lined ski Wear called Suzy Chaffee sport furs is touring the United states to speak out against animal rights activists who want to ban the Sale of fur  spoke in Aspen Colo., before the recent defeat of a proposed ordinance that would have banned the Sale of furs in that resort Community and has been appearing on talk shows All Over the  credibility is very important to me. And i feel i am really being responsible to the animals and to nature and to the environment because trapping them is better than letting them die the Dis Casc and starvation  she said. Vereen Speaks ouf on drugs actor dancer Ben Vereen cited his own past involvement with drugs in telling sonic 600 students Ata Milwaukee inner City school not to waste time and Talent by using  have Genius inside of you. Don l believe everything on television telling you that you can t do anything. You can said Vereen founder of celebrities for a drug free . 49. Appearing through sunday with the Milwaukee symphony orchestra said he spent Al most 20 years under the influence of drugs. I regret that. Most of All i regret the wasted time he said at Fulton Middle school. I never had enough time with my  said he gave up drugs shortly after the death of his daughter Naja at the age of 16 in a 1987 traffic Accident. Honorary degree for Reagan former president Reagan received an honorary degree from Israel s Tel Aviv University one of Sev eral jewish honors Given him so far this year. The presentation sunday at a Star studded dinner at a los Angeles hotel cited Reagan s steadfast Friendship for the jewish people and vehement rejection of  recent weeks. Reagan has been honoured by the american jewish committee and hebrew univer sity. In a few weeks he will be honoured by the United jewish Appeal drive. Dear Abby last november. I lost my Only daughter when a Friend called from College to Tell me that my daughter is a lesbian i called my daughter to ask if it was True and without a word of remorse she said. Yes.  Abby. Here it is months later and i still can t accept it. When she left for College she was very much in love with her childhood sweetheart at least i thought she was. They always said they d get married after graduation. This College she went to changed All that. Abby. Please advise parents to Check out the College their children want to go to. I Learned too late that this College is nicknamed lesbian a because so Many girls become bonded to each other there. 1 understand that the College is aware of this but looks the other  s where you come in. Abby. The Gays have rights there arc organizations everywhere for  about parents Don t we have rights or must dear Abby we live our lives with broken hearts longing for the grandchildren we will never have since most of us must remain Anonymous your column could help us. Everyone reads dear Abby. Maybe you could Start a support group and unite us. Perhaps dear sad Young women do not become lesbians As a result of bonding at College or elsewhere. The seeds of sexuality Are planted much earlier and there arc multiple roots. You need to know much More than 1 can Tell you in a letter. There is a support group for parents in situations similar to your own with chapters throughout the coun try. It s called parents and friends of lesbians and Gays parents Flag for Short. Write to it and you will be sent literature that will be both helpful and comforting. You will also be told when and where the Chap Ter nearest you meets. The address is federation of parents and friends of lesbians and Gays family chapter support office . Box 20308, Denver Colo. 80220. Enclose a Long self addressed stamped 45-cent envelope and because it is a non profit organization please enclose a Dollar to cover the Cost of the literature that will be sent to you. This earing group of parents exists for the purpose of helping friends and parents of lesbians and Gays who have heavy hearts and numerous unanswered questions. Please remember that god made Gays just As surely As he made  they Loo Are god s children and deserve to be understood and  to wants to be a teacher congratulations a Noble Choice. Author and teacher ilium Ginott wrote concerning a teacher s influence i have come to the frightening conclusion that i am the decisive element in he class room. It s my personal approach that creates he Cli mate. It s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher 1 possess a tremendous Power to make a child s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor Hurt or heal. In All situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de Esca lated and a child humanized or dehumanized