European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday september 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9�?~cookies-for-troops�?T excites 3rd-graders by Jimi Jones education writer Rhein main a West Germany a Little Brian Wiggins Day was ruined. He discovered he would have to give his entire tray of cookies to just one person. And to make matters worse a classmate beat him to his target recipient. He had wanted to hand them out one at a time so a More men could get cookies a the 8-year-old said. A then i wanted to give this other Man some cookies but i had to give them to a different Man because someone in my class already took Brian was one of 22 cookie carrying third graders who formed a line along the sidewalk where air Force men in route to saudi Arabia sat and waited to process. With a bit of urging from their teacher Mary Linz Meier the shy youngsters moved toward the airmen and handed them their plastic covered plates each filled with homemade cookies and topped with a homemade greeting card. The cookies were gifts to the men headed for operation desert shield the . Defense Force sent in response to iraqis invasion of Kuwait. It was the first of monthly Community projects the class will tackle this school year and especially appropriate because two of the students have parents in saudi Arabia. Linzmeier a husband a c-130 navigator with the 37th tac Airlift so also is serving in the desert operation. The third graders from Halvorsen elementary school know All about operation desert shield. And they know that each Day about 1,600 troops pass through desert shield North or the a tent City erected about a mile from their classroom on Rhein main a. They get their news flashes from an 8-year-old reporter who airs his reports daily from a homemade television screen in their classroom. A we do the news in our room every morning a said Linzmeier. A and they have been highlighting saudi Arabia a the five minute news show she said a keeps us highlighted on what a going on in the the reporters a one each for news weather and sports a change weekly. They prepare by Reading newspapers in the evening for presentation the following morning. A a it a been a very Good learning experience for the kids a Linzmeier said. A they Are quite the cookie project was educational As Well she said. A amps Jim Jones Brian Wiggins above stacks books donated for troops joining operation desert shield while Patrick Wall a Mot right passes out a bag of cookies to a service member at Rhein main a. Both boys Are third graders at Halvorsen elementary school. A we baked the cookies in class. We did measurements and things of that nature. The kids liked this idea because it involved their families and things right around student Christina Vega Baxter said she was excited about the whole affair. A i Felt really Happy that we were going to Start finding out All kinds of things about saudi Arabia from the newspaper. When i heard that we were going to make cookies for this i thought it was real Christina said some of the mothers helped bake the Caramel and chocolate Chip cookies and then gave her classmate a nudge when she admitted the a nut ones were already the third graders distributed cookies to the weary airmen at the 21st replacement in who had arrived an hour earlier from Mcclellan fab Calif. Then the children walked across the Street to the huge recreation tent where they donated books and left the remaining cookies. They got a Brief tour and explanation of the City where service members sleep eat and Shower before continuing their journey to saudi Arabia. Airman 1st class Steven Tucker from Mcclellan told 8-year-old Jason Jones a that was great. People have really been Nice to us. Its a Good assurances from Linzmeier helped to soothe Briana a disappointment at having to give All his cookies to one Man. A a that Sok a she told him. A they will learn to share. They will be in the sharing Mode when they get Down education roundup2 Dodds students will be eligible for scholarships Alexandria a. A the United states Senate youth program gives High school students in military overseas schools a Chance to compete for a $2,000 College scholarship and a close up look at the Federal government. Two students will be selected from department of defense dependents schools along with two from each state and the District of Columbia. The program is sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst foundation. The 1991 program will be feb. 2-9 in Washington. It includes an intensive we Klong study of the Federal government and the . Senate in particular. The fast paced schedule will include a Day with students respective senators leading Cabinet members and a supreme court Justice. Also scheduled Are a mock joint session of Congress on the floor of the House of representatives a visit to the White House and possibly a meeting with president Bush. The program offers each of the 104 delegates a $2,000 scholarship for further study of american government and related subjects. The selection process is based on a written examination and an interview. Each of the five regions will be represented by two candidates to Dodds Washington where a panel of educators will select the Dodds delegates. Names will be sent to the Senate youth program office in san Francisco and delegates will be announced dec. 3. Students interested in participating should Contact their social studies teachers for new principals added to Nimberg District for term Wiesbaden West Germany a the Nimberg District of the department of defense dependents schools has two new principals this school term. Paul k. Finkbeiner is the principal of the Nimberg Middle school and Charles Lockwood is principal of the Johann Kalb elementary school. Finkbeiner a five year Dodds employee began his overseas teaching career in Korea in 1983. He served As a special education coordinator and As an administrator in the Dodds Pacific Region. Stateside he held the position of consultant and administrator in special education and teacher education in Sacramento Calif. He directed bilingual diagnostic placement programs for the Santa Ana unified school District and he taught and coordinated teacher education at Point Loma College and the University of Southern California. Finkbeiner earned his doctorate degree from the University of Southern California in 1973. He has been on leave without pay from Dodds for the past two school years. Lockwood with Dodds for 21 years started teaching overseas in puerto Rico. He has served As a teacher and As an administrator in puerto Rico Japan Spain and Frankfurt. He holds masters degrees from Westfield state University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He moved to the Nimberg District from the David g. Farragut High school in Rota Spain where he was principal. Lockwood is married to a Dodds educator and has four children. Their current Home of record is Bass River mass. A Limburg Middle school is a new school that serves about 1,200 students. Johann Kalb elementary school serves about 760.�?� a Small talk igjllin1susan Deatherage keeps a Dairy in her Darmstadt elementary school classroom to Jot Down the More amusing anecdotes involving her third graders. Here Are a few Marcus liked to look at the child Craft guide for parents. The Section about common childhood ailments showed a boy with gaiters. Upon discovering the picture Marcus rushed to his teacher and exclaimed a look this boy swallowed quarters a Jenny wrote a composition titled a the a the Turkey is thanksgiving to Dishon. When thanksgiving came they figure out what to do with All those turkeys so they shot them and ate them. When we eat turkeys today we Datum with Pilgeram or indians. We eat them with family. The Pilgeram where afeard the Turkey would eat All the set out food. So they did what they did. So the furst thanksgiving was a real around oct. 12, one student declared a King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain had a Prince named Christopher on this the class studied the history of Arlington Texas. Caddo indians lived there. They pierced their noses. Rusty said his a neighbor does and when he defined keel during the study of ships he wrote a they keel cow for Handburger but Deatherager a favorite from admirer Robbie still makes her laugh. A roses Are red violets Are Blue suger is sweat and so Are you a
