European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 12, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 education Art helps students sculpt their lives if we removed All the Art in the lives of Nur children there is no Way that adding More math increasing More Reading re airing More science mandating More foreign language or scheduling More computer courses could replace what they would have lost. J a source unknown by Jimi Jones education writer Lan Stuhl West Germany a when 14-year-old Thomas King or. Walks into Art class his imagination shifts into overdrive. A every Day i come in Here 1 try to think of something new a the Lan Stuhl Middle school eighth grader said. Sometimes he Isnit quite sure what he has created and when asked a i say i done to know a i just made it up. Later ill try to figure out a name for but some of his work does have names and other pieces Are easily identifiable. Some of those Are on exhibit in the Kaiserslautern area this month As department of defense dependents schools throughout Europe celebrate National youth Art month. The event begun in 1961, is sponsored by the Crayon and Watercolour Institute the National Art education association and the National Parent teacher association. The purpose is to promote Art education said terse Sarno an Art teacher at the elementary and Middle school in Lan Stuhl. Sarno is Volunteer chairwoman for the event for Dodds. The event provides some special time to a make people realize that Art is an important part of education a Sarno said. Although the program focuses on the visual arts she introduces her class to All the creative disciplines a literature poetry drama music dance. Three of her students John Coley Lance Simms and King say that Art always will play a role in their lives. King said he May be a Little Young to decide his future but one thing is certain a this will always be a Coley 13, son of 1st sgt. John or. And Henrietta Coley said he Hopes to attend Art school focusing on portraits. And Simms is looking to further develop his Talent. The three work Well together Sarno said. They be developed several projects that will be displayed this month. Coley started by a drawing the political columnist now he prefers a amps Lynda Davidson John Coley left digs out linoleum to form a Relief picture while classmate Thomas King Center examines his linoleum Block printing. Lance Simms right carefully carves a Clay sculpture. The three Lan Stuhl Middle school artists Are among students at department of defense dependents schools throughout Europe displaying works during National youth Art month. Sketching such famous figures As Chicago bulls guard Michael Jordan and drawing Graffiti such As the huge Banner the three students created to hang in the school cafeteria. A we just mess around but it comes out pretty a Coley said. They be produced paintings Art posters and sculptures. King the son of warrant officer Thomas and Linda King picked up drawing at age 6 from his father. His favorite project is a making up my own comic strips and comic some of his sculptures and drawings were featured at last year s exhibit at the Kaiserslautern City Hall and lie also has had work shown on one of his favorite television shows a secret the Young artist said a Lack of supplies limits his painting at Home. A a that a Why 1 love this class so one Art lesson that King picked up quickly involved four famous artists from the Renaissance period. It seems Many youngsters already know the names Michelangelo Donatello Leonardo and Raphael a not As artists but As the popular ninja turtles. King likes the classical works but is disappointed that it a Only became expensive when they Simms son of sgt. 1st class Earl and Louise Simms prefers to draw because a a that a my better but a a in a trying to develop other talents he said while working on a Clay sculpture that forms the word events featuring these Young artists and others around Dodds schools Are planned throughout March. Participating schools include Kaiserslautern Middle and High schools Ramstein elementary and High schools Pir Masens Frankfurt and Mannheim Junior High schools and Tunner Junior High at Rhein main a. In addition the activities will include displays in Community and downtown Banks study trips and classroom visits featuring a guest Watercolour wins . Essay on hostages plight says her life was a shallow until moving to Germany by Effie Bathen Niernberg Bureau z1rndorf, West Germany a Erica Olsen wanted to do something that would make a difference in the world. Something important like smuggling bibles into Russia. A professor of soviet studies told her she could be put in jail for that. So the 15-year-old turned her attention to an essay contest sponsored y the journalists committee to free Eny Anderson the associated press i0q8rssp, seized in Lebanon in he is the longest held Western hostage there. Hip pc Lyp cd a Tavvo Page entry using Ine Ianuly computer and won first Todie a a a contest the required a hostage Cape with being she won $1,000. Ovon so a corned that it was too painful n1ng�?� Erica said of her �p�se�?zprs0n a a a to 1"1 of entrie7rmv iud6ed Best of 860 a started writ St to Csc Erica said she thought if ?8 ask it despair it but i we uld just dec a had they she wry fes of the jglet0 overcome hopelessness sorbet hint t0,urn nothing into g 0 take the Little things and make them big. Turn hell into heaven. The Little things i see now i used to take for granted a a i have written it if we did no to live Here a said the teen Ager who lives with her family in the Countryside just West of Niernberg. Their Home is a cozy attic apartment attached to a franconian farmhouse where the sound of the Farmers tractor is heard nearby. Her father Howard Olsen was a Reno nev., businessman when he decided to uproot his three children from their All american lifestyle and move them to Germany where he is on the University of Maryland faculty. Olsen and his wife Nancy decided to enrol Erica and her Brothers in the schools. The first year was the toughest said Erica who along with Ryan 13, and Brett 10, had to learn German from the first Der die and Das. A it was like being deaf a she said not being Able to understand anything. Nancy Olsen believes that rough adjustment gave her daughter insight about what it must be like for a hostage to miss his Home and All that is familiar. Erica a father thinks it was her interest in acting that allowed her to put herself in the place of a hostage. Erica has a different theory. A a it a because we done to have television a she said. The loth year student has time to read half a dozen books each month. She cited two in particular that helped her write the essay. One is Quot the diary of Anne Frank a the Story of a jewish girl about Erica Sage who hid from the nazis with her family in secret attic rooms in Amsterdam Netherlands. The other is a called to die by Steve Estes the Story of Chatt Bitterman a Bible translator held captive in South America during the Early 1980s. Erica who Speaks fluent German and spends four to six hours a Day on Homework and Reading said her new lifestyle also helps her writing. And a recent trip Back to the states made her realize that life there is a shallow a she said. A the mall was Boring to me because it was the mall. You can Only go to so Many movies. And you can Only go to so Many parties. A it was All i did. Just that and talk on the she compares the skateboard and video teen scene with the excursions with her family to East european countries such As Hungary Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Living overseas she has seen firsthand How some people Battle daily with circumstances they cannot control. Erica is not sure what contribution her essay might make to Lessen Terry Andersons ordeal but she Hopes a the Erica Olsen people who would Sec it would be More interested. And that the people who Are holding him would Sec that we Are interested and not just leaving him there. A i would Hope that or. Anderson would see it too and know that we Are interested in him and we re trying to do something to get him
