European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 30, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9educationdodds teachers to get 5.76% raise by Jimi Jones education writer teachers and other professionals in the military a overseas schools will receive pay raises of 5.76 percent for this school year. The new salaries will take effect for the pay period ending april 21 and will be reflected in teachers May 3 paychecks. The pay hike is retroactive to aug. 22. However 266th theater finance come officials say processing retroactive pay takes longer. Lump sum checks for the Back pay raise due teachers will be dated june 7. Under the new schedule the average department of defense dependents schools teachers salary in West Germany is $30,388, officials at regional Headquarters said. With the raise a starting teacher with a bachelors degree will be paid $21,395 per year. A starting teacher with a masters degree will be paid $23,570. The top salary for a teacher with a masters degree and credits toward a doctorate is $37,970. Teachers with doctorates get $25,745 in their first year with a top salary of $42,545. A new Dodds teacher can receive credit for a maximum of 10 years of full time experience at other schools. The pay raises also affect administrators Counselor school psychologists social workers and education specialists. In Germany that s a total of about 5,800 employees in Dodds Atlantic about 1,600 and in the Mediterranean Region about 1,000 employees. Social workers will earn from $23,665 to $42,455 based on degrees held and longevity. Salaries for guidance Counselor Range from $23,475 with a masters degree to $42,885 with a doctorate while pay for school psychologists ranges from $26,865 to $43,995. An education specialist earns from $23,600 to $44,750. Three factors determine administrators salaries school level the principal s educational level and longevity. Principals earn a minimum of $41,060 and the highest paid would be a High school principal with a doctorate at $60,175. Dodds teachers arc paid salaries comparable to the average pay for similar positions in stateside school districts with a population of 100,000 or More. Pay raises Are delayed each year until a salary Survey is conducted in districts in the United states that meet the population requirement. This year 171 districts were surveyed. The pay raise announcement follows consultations Between the overseas education association and the department of defense wage fixing  ambassadors touring soviet Union by Jimi Jones education writer Frankfurt West Germany a when Hilary Reyes found out she was an alternate she cried. A i know that a kind of selfish. I should have been Happy that i was recommended but i really wanted to _ _ n go. Where the Heidelberg High school senior wanted to go was the soviet Union. Her Luck changed in february when she got a Call saying she could go. Reyes was one of More than 100 choral students who auditioned in october to lift her voice in the Dodds Germany select choir a a choir that is historic because its the regions first organized touring choir and it was created especially to take american music to the soviet Union. Forty eight High school students from 16 department of defense dependents schools in Germany make up the group. A week before the trip 18-year-old Reyes said a everyone is excited. In a really hyper and All ready to go. Its even More special for me because i Wasny to selected the first  the Young voices that blend so Well boarded a flight saturday from Berlin to the soviet Union. They will spend seven Days touring Moscow Tbilisi and Yalta. They will perform scheduled and spontaneous concerts at tour Sites. They will also visit schools in the georgian and ukrainian republics and spend two nights in Homes of georgian High school students. The group returns May 5. The choir had Little time together to perfect their sound before they left. A a we be had Only four rehearsals a said Lelia Smalley assistant choir director. They met in january at the Frankfurt High school for the first practice then twice in March during one weekend and finally on april 22. Smalley said the students worked mostly from music and cassette tapes prepared by the directors. Having directors in several regions a some of whom Are serving As chaperones on the trip a helped to prepare the teens she said but it was the students Talent that prevailed. A the Best Way for me to describe the kids Talent is a overwhelming a a Smalley said while the choir rehearsed for a one hour concert on the final Day. The Chapel at Abrams Complex was full of parents educators friends and passers by for the concert of traditional american choral music. The group performed spirituals Folk songs and even Elvis Presley so fall Shook  the finale was the clincher. As they Sang a love in any language a six members two at a time came to the front and did sign language to the words a love in any language straight from the heart pulls us All together never apart. And once we learn to speak it All the world will hear love in any language fluently spoken  the idea for the trip was planted when choir director Gary Kelb visited the soviet Union in 1988. A this seed had plenty of water thrown on it when i talked to a soviet visitor that we had at our school a Kelb said. The visitor who came expecting to see drugs gang warfare and no valid education in . Schools was a absolutely amazed at How Well behaved students were and at their Success in life Kelb said. Kelb believes the choir trip will help to a tear Down some of the years of anxiety built up on the part of americans and the misconceptions fed to soviet people by the tremendous amount of  s8.s Jimi Jonos Gary Kelb music director at Berlin american High school directs the choir now on a soviet Friendship tour. Andi Driggs a 17-year-old Junior from Wei Brincken Hopes to dispel her perception of a soviets being Means and also Clear up a some of the same perceptions about  the second Soprano was looking Forward to experiencing the culture finding out what the Black Market is and a what its like to sing in a big opera  Gabriela Vanderstoel from Bonn said that in january the choir members were a a group of strangers a but now they Are a bonded a group of friends with an Opportunity of a  they go she said As ambassadors of peace and that a something a we could never learn in a  other choir members Are Tracee Rachel Baum older Thoa Jung Sarah Coggins Kevin Steinman Daniel Weitzel and Kris Stewart Berlin Colone Belisle Pitburg Christa Craven Young Leo Sonya Schoeppl Kathorine Zion Ler Natascha Schmemann Karl Schumann Lydia gios Amy Rodriguez and Darren Beach Bonn Lisa Cason Laurel Posey Shantel Mcgregor Doug Brown Tim Hines and Daniel Sherwood Frankfurt. Also Natasha Arnold Jeanna Dodd David Palmer Joel Kopocz Cindy Hatkoff Erika Mcneely and Denise Mcneely Heidelberg Felicia Tula and Jared Tula Nurnberg Joanna Reininger and Benjamin Lam Patch Stuttgart David Mccranley Christl Finch and Matt Porter Wei Brincken Jerry Hooks and Thom Zelenka Wiesbaden Kate Morris Fulda Jennifer Paul and Monica Nash. Hanau Alain Browning Kaiserslautern Stephanie Coffey Karlsruhe Anna Larson Mannheim and Amy Gerg Ramstein fair features piles of books by Amy Geiszler Jones . Bureau Lakenheath England a piles and piles of books were scattered on tables in two of the three rooms that make up part of Lakenheath elementary schools Library. Clusters of students gathered around red Cross Volunteer Dinah Foy As she paged through various pop up books for Sale. Six year Olds Natasha Williams and Brittany Parker were especially captured by the Garfield books and others with the pop up pictures. But the school Wasny to emptying its shelves. The Sale was a we Klong fair that has been held at Lakenheath for the past five years in conjunction with National Library week which was celebrated by . Libraries and schools around the world last week. Lakenheath librarian David Rodtfeldt said the fair is an excellent Way to familiarize american youngsters with British authors and the Type of books carried by bookstores off base. During the Book fair the Library also invited British authors of children a books for a Day of autograph sessions. The temporary Bookstore was run by Doreen and John Lewis owners of the bookshop in Godman hcs Ter near Huntingdon. Almost All of the books sold at the fair were written by British authors. Last year the lewites rang up 5,000 pounds or $8,350, Worth of Book sales during their five Day stay at the school. In Exchange the lewites give the school a 10 percent commission on the sales. However Lakenheath elementary takes the commission in books which helps Stock its Library with works published in England