European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 12, 1990 the stars and stripes education briefs Odds official to retire because of ill health Wiesbaden Germany a amps a a longtime department of defense dependents schools administrator is retiring for medical reasons. Frank Alt superintendent of the Numberg District was medically evacuated nov. 6 to his Home of record Venice Fla. Alt who has been with the overseas school system since May 1960, has been seriously ill for the past few months. Alt has been the superintendent of the Nimberg District since 1982. Before Germany became one Region he served As the Deputy director for the South  tells parents How to Aid learning a osterholz Germany a staff members at the education resource Center have come up with some helpful hints for parents to help their children learn. They say parents also Are teachers and that children can learn both at school and at Home. The Center is offering a Booklet titled a fifty two ways to help your child  the Booklet contains numerous suggestions for parents to help their children in Reading math spelling science acid other academic areas. The concise easy to understand Booklet is free of charge. People interested in receiving the Booklet can Call the Center at civilian 0479158662.Book donations needed for romanian institutions Mannheim Germany a in response to Eleas from romanian universities the Boston University overseas program has donated hundreds of textbooks. Hundreds of institutions throughout Romania approached the american embassy in Bucharest and requested Book donations. In response Boston University donated Overstock and old edition textbooks in the Fields of computer science business management education and International relations. Officials say most any hardback Book is needed with the exception of the collected works of Nicolae Ceausescu. The Central University Library in Bucharest was destroyed in last december a fighting and lost some 500,000 books. According to Allen Docal director of Bibliotheca americana in the american embassy in Bucharest a the damage to the Library system throughout Romania a both University As Well As Public a is not limited to that Structure since for Many years under the Ceausescu regime books were not allowed to be imported from the West and the budgets were severely Cut for All institutions to Purchase even scholarly  regarding the Boston donation Docal said a judging from the reactions of the directors of these institutes your books have been some of the highest Quality Best received most welcomed and sought after of All the donations that we have distributed since the beginning of the  the University will continue sending books As they become available to help fill the vast need in Romania. Anyone interested in making personal donations should mail them to Allen Docal Acao cd american embassy a Bucharest Apo 09213-5260.Mannheim music teacher certified for excellence Reston a. A amps a a music teacher at Mannheim elementary school is one of 220 music educators who have been designated nationally registered music educators. Natalie a. Mentrup was chosen for the National level certification. She has been with department of defense dependents schools since 1984 and has taught at Mannheim elementary since 1988. Nationally registered music educators is the first level of the music educators National conferences newly established professional certification program. A a a Page 9 education company guides pupils in learning while earning by Luke Britt staff writer Pitburg Germany a Sharon Baird and Donald Trump May pass each other on the corporate ladder some Day if their business careers keep their present course. Baird is on the Way up As a member of the Board of directors for a company run by eighth graders at bit Burg Middle school. The company As its called in Pitburg is one of several created under the department of defense dependents schools business Enterprise program. A the company makes about $400 a week a Baird said. A a that a better than we Ever thought we would  Hie Money is being used to expand the company As Well As improve the school grounds she said. Dodds began the business Enterprise program four years Agoto teach pupils the basics of business said George Andrade faculty adviser to the company. A these kids do it All themselves a Andrade said a from ordering supplies to paying dividends. We taught them the ideas behind organizing a company and they have taken off with  the company has a Board of directors accounting and advertising departments and a Quality Assurance program. Every two weeks dividends Are paid to the 50 member employees. The class performed a Market Survey of the student body in september to find out what pupils would buy if they had the Chance. From that Survey came the company a product line. A we looked for things that we could make ourselves that would be useful and that could be sold at a Price most students could afford a said David Gemas a member of the Board of directors. The company is run from the schools Wood shop so most of what they sell Are woodcraft. They make plaques Butcher blocks clocks locker shelves and Wood letters which pupils arrange in names and phrases. They also sell pens pencils and notebooks. But their most popular venture is a lunchtime snack bar where hot dogs burritos Candy and sodas Are sold. A in our Survey a lot of students said they would like an alternative to the lunchroom a Baird said. A we checked into whether we were allowed to sell food and found out we could. Now its our biggest  at 12 20 . Each school Day hundreds of pupils Rush to the snack bar window. Orders for 50-cent hot dogs and sodas and 75-cent burritos pour in while the company works in Assembly line fashion to turn out the food. A the students like the food we like the business and even some teachers enjoy it a said Toby Humphreys another member of the Board of directors. Probably because we let the teachers come to the front of the  the Board of directors meets each week to discuss that weeks earnings Humphreys said. It determines what expenditures must be made and How much each member earned based on time invested that week. Board members said each Pupil earns about $4 a week. A one week we voted to pay each student half of their Normal dividends because a dance was planned for the next week a Board member David Gemas said. A we added that Money Back in when the dance came up so we All had More than  the pupils said they Are using some of the profits to invest in picnic tables which they think will improve the snack bars business by giving customers somewhere to sit. A and we re experimenting with a lunchtime delivery service a Baird said. A a we re always looking for ways to make the company  in january the company will be turned Over to another class which will be in charge through the end of the school year. The changeover is meant to give As Many pupils As possible the Chance to participate in the business Enterprise program. With each new group of pupils the program expands and improves and Andrade said jokingly that the Challenge is to keep the company Small enough that the internal Revenue service does no to demand an audit. Current events Force teachers to Shelve cold War textbooks re itt  Cun run it t n Aby Jimi Jones education writer Bill Mcgrath will begin a . History lesson by setting aside the thick textbook his Lith Grade class uses and flashing political cartoons on an overhead projector. Or he will hand out newspaper and Magazine clippings that summarize former president Reagan a accomplishments. Using the clippings teacher and students will discuss the a pros cons and middles of the Road of Reagan and the visuals will be Good attention getters Mcgrath said even if some of the juniors at Ramstein High school wont get the political message. For this lesson the teen agers also will ignore the huge textbook that is the basis for much of their curriculum. Neither teacher nor students will have a Choice their textbook was published in 1987 but was written when cold War mentality dominated International relations and Ronald Reagan was in his first term. Mikhail Gorbachev so  still was just a figment of his imagination. Experts say world shifts Are a major Issue for social studies teachers. Publishers say some editions of textbooks have run unchanged for five years or More. But even if publishers updated textbooks annually few school systems could afford to buy new books each year. The department of defense dependents schools for example purchases new textbooks every seven years said officials at the Germany Region  publishers normally come out with an updated version of a textbook every three years a said Bob Lykins a social studies Branch coordinator. But a a there a no Way we could afford to Purchase books each and every  there was a time when Dodds made its a big buy every five years Lykins said. Los Angeles Public schools acquire new social studies textbooks every five to eight years a new York times news service report said. Alongside outdated materials is concern about the tone of textbooks written in the cold War Era which most often reflect the United states is. Soviet Union attitude. A it was much More of a cold War mentality a said Elda White a to Nachef at osterholz High school for nearly a decade. A and thar obviously has made a big change in the last few  Whites current 600-Page american government textbook dates to 1984. And although a a you re not spending a lot of time with real current things you constantly refer to the current a she said. A a it a difficult particularly with things changing this quickly a she said using some filmstrips on the soviet Union As an example. A fall they talk about is communism and collective farms and that a just not the picture of the society today and that a a problem. We have a lot of material to update. But when the seven year Cycle finishes we re definitely going to need the new  to fill in the vast gaps in textbooks educators have turned to supplementary materials. Lykins said Dodds uses two sources a the publishers supplements to texts and general supplements that schools buy. He said he thinks academic publishers were caught off guard Over recent world changes. A there Hasni to been anything off the  Mcgrath a 20-year Dodds Veteran said he updates through materials clipped from the stars and stripes time and Newsweek magazines and other sources. Dodds is working to fill in the gaps in world history in other ways. Lykins said his social studies colleague is in Washington a meeting with Peers and teachers who Are putting together a curriculum for world history which includes those changes in the  White said she and other teachers take Region Spon # a it a a a sorted courses m which they do a world update and a regional update of geography government and history. For example last summer the teachers concentrated on Southeast Asia she said. A that helps to keep ourselves current and a component of those classes sometimes is working on lesson plans or just sharing How wed approach different  in addition Many educators attend seminars sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer foundation an affiliate of the Christian democratic Union which provides further education programs on such topics As the situation in Germany and the country a relations with its neighbors