European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes monday March 26,1990 Dodd Roundup 14 students head for spelling final Mannheim West Germany a amps a fourteen students representing 14 department of defense dependents schools in Europe will be in Mannheim on saturday for the final round of the Europe wide spelling Bee. The european Congress of parents. Teachers and students spelling Bee final will begin at 10 30 . At the Mannheim elementary school. The Winner will go to the Scripps Howard National spelling Bee in Washington in late May and will receive a set of world Book encyclopedias. Judy Bottiggi a fifth Grade teacher at Mannheim elementary school will be word caller. Judges arc Jen. Crostic Saint the usar Eier commander col. Ronald m. Joe assigned to usage urn a Deputy chief of staff for personnel and Anne Rainey a Parent at Mannheim elementary school. Spelling Bee finalists arc Maybel Barcelona is Gonella elementary High school Italy Ryan Bellows. Aviano elementary school Italy Jason Burgert Oslo american school Norway Jonas Lemoyne Blank Iii Lakenheath elementary school. Raf Lakin Heath England Noah Carlson Krecu Zberg elementary school Wei Brincken West Germany Andrew . Head Patch elementary school Stuttgart West Germany Jessica May Jeffrey bad Tolz elementary school West Germany Jeffrey Lovsky Heidelberg Middle school West Germany Amber Mitchell. Argon or elementary school. Hanau West Germany Joshua Nannestad accent International school Belgium Peter Robison Niernberg elementary school. West Germany Jeffrey d. Sellers Geilen Kirchon elementary school. West Germany Cheryl Stout. Ankara elementary High school Turkey and Edward Tarn Iso Spang Dahlum elementary school West Germany. 2 seniors named to scholars list Washington a amps a two american High school seniors living in Europe were among the 1,500 semifinalists in the 1990 presidential scholars program. If selected As one of the 141 scholars they will visit Washington june 16-20 for National recognition week. Eileen Gordon who attends the International school in Hamburg West Germany and Rebecca d. Clear who attends school in the Hague Netherlands were chosen. Clear was incorrectly identified last week As a department of defense dependents schools student. Feedback facilitates learning study says Cambridge mass. Apr College students prefer periodic tests or term papers to big final exams and learn More from teachers who give them substantial immediate feedback a Harvard University study has found. For example a a one minute Low tech no Cost technique is to ask students at the end of each class for a Quick one paragraph summary of what they Learned said Richard j. Light author of the three year study. Education Kaiserslautern sixth graders take dare and learn to say no by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Kaiserslautern West Germany a Black balloons with a serious message decorated the auditorium for the graduation ceremony. A dare to keep kids off drugs a they said. And the 138 sixth graders filing into the room knew what it meant. They had just completed a 17-week drug abuse resistance education program at Kaiserslautern elementary school. The program sponsored by the department of defense dependents schools and the 377th Security police group at Ramstein a ended this month with skits and statements of personal commitment by the Young people. Five pupils representing each of the sixth Grade classes stood in front of their classmates and families to Promise to avoid drugs. A if i want to do something fun i can have a big drug free party a said Gregory Stout from teacher Sharon Martins class. A if i see it on to i can just ignore  Sarah Doan from Martha Alvarez a class said a if someone offers me drugs. I can just say no thanks i already feel  a principal Margaret Hoffman Otto said the programs Success at the school can be traced to senior airman Diane Webb the project officer for the school. Quot airman Webb has such enthusiasm. The kids know she a a caring person Quot Hoffman Otto said. Col. Brian r. Fullerton the Deputy commander of the Kaiserslautern military Community urged the children to remember the dangers of drugs. A i see a far different View of the world of drugs than you see on television a Fullerton said at the ceremony. A i see what happens to people when their minds and their bodies Are under the influence of drugs. I get to see the accidents the deaths the damaged property the poor school performance and the brushes with the Law. A a in a Here to Tell you that drugs Arentt Cool and that users Are basically bums. Drugs Are scary. Drugs can kill  the dare program began in los Angeles in 1983 and expanded rapidly across the country. Dodds adopted the senior airman Diane Webb receives a hug the dare program. Program in 1986, and los Angeles police officers Are training military police in Europe to run the program. Webb a Security policewoman said she attended the 80-hour course to learn Quot things like teaching skills in the classroom How to discipline the children and different types of drugs that Are in the area and in the United  during her 17 weeks at Kaiserslautern elementary Webb taught each sixth Grade class once a week and visited classes from kindergarten through fifth Grade three or four times each. Lessons included personal safety drug use and misuse consequences of drug use techniques of saying no and role models from High school. The program is aimed at sixth graders a amps Lynda Davidson from Eva Maria Mahnken a graduate of to prepare them for Junior and senior High school. That so where there arc More drugs and More peer  Webb said. In the Kaiserslautern schools. Webb said the biggest problems Are alcohol cigarettes and inhalants. Inhalants include butane lighter fluid aerosol products gasoline Nail polish and polish remover correction fluid rubber Cement and Model glue. Though she a never been confronted with drugs Eva Maria Mahnken. Ii. Said she knows exactly what Shell say to any Friend who a been offered drugs. A a in la Tell them just say no. Make up an excuse or just walk away a she said. And the sixth graders around her nodded in  amps Lynda Davidson sixth graders from Kaiserslautern elementary school perform a skit on drugs at their graduation from the dare program