European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 8, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Connelly Whigham Schwartz Curley Castner Yarnoff new Leader to express students concerns by Kevin Robinson staff writer sont Hofen Germany David Schwartz can easily identify with people whose communities have been ordered shut. As a technical sergeant at Hahn a Schwartz already knows that Hahn is scheduled to close next year. And Schwartz As newly elected president of the european Congress of parents teachers and students said wednesday that his experience with the draw Down will help him Lead the Congress in its pledge to be an Active voice for school children who attend depart ment of defense dependents schools. A i can feel the repercussions that Are coming Down As a result of the draw Down Quot said the St. Petersburg fla., native who turns 30 on May 16. A be cats wants to make sure that children Are considered before anything else when it comes to  Schwartz succeeds Linda Connelly an administrator at Gen. . Arnold High school in Wiesbaden Germany who served two consecutive one year terms As president. Schwartz won the presidential election despite a write in Campaign launched by Marty Yarnoff. No voting totals were available. Schwartz and his wife Susan have conducted training sessions for organization members aimed at increasing leadership skills and effectiveness. Both have been group members for the last five years. Schwartz has also worked As the organizations aids education coordinator. Schwartz said he can look at issues concerning organization members from two sides a As the Parent of a 3-year-old daughter Caitlin and As the husband of a second Grade teacher at Hahn elementary. Although the draw Down has left the organization with 5,000 fewer members Schwartz is optimistic about the future. Quot we still had a Good turnout for this years convention so i know Well have other Eca pts Board members elected wednesday at the convention a Jacky Whigham first vice president. A Mike Curley Secretary. A Julie Castner treasurer. Regional vice presidents Are Marian Quartermain Germany and John Stanton Mediterranean. The Atlantic Region position is  principal bound disrobed at student party utrecht Netherlands apr a High school principal was handcuffed and stripped of most of his clothes by students at a striptease party held to celebrate the end of their exams the Deputy principal confirmed thursday. Seniors at the . De Bruijn High school in utrecht hired a professional stripper for their party against the orders of principal Piet Hein Gilt according to his Deputy Jan Meijer. When Gilt put in an appearance at last weeks party held in the schools Assembly Hall students dragged him to the stage where the stripper was performing Meijer said. The principal was then handcuffed and stripped of All but his underpants. A things seem to have gotten a Little out of hand a Meijer said. A a in a not sure exactly How it happened but or. Gilt and the woman both ended up in their  Gilt was out of the country attending a conference and was unavailable for comment Meijer said. Boisterous end of exam festivities involving both students and teachers Are a dutch tradition. A but normally they involve students dressing up and serving the teachers breakfast or something innocent like that Quot he said. Meijer who did not attend the party could not say whether the principal had resisted the students Good natured onslaught. A the school Board of governors is investigating the incident and will decide what to do next Quot Meijer said. The governors wrote to the parents of the approximately 200 students involved to express regret about the incident he added. Jokester Anderson says Faith doggedness fuelled his survival convicted Tanker Captain to teach training course new York apr former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood who was convicted of negligence in the nations worst Oil spill has been hired to teach College students How to stand watch on a ship. The former Tanker Captain was hired monday by the state University of new Yorkus maritime College to teach during a two month cruise aboard a training ship. By Stephen k. Hindy new Day new York a Terry Anderson was sure that when he finally emerged from years of Captivity people would assume he had cracked. A one of my plans was to wait until somebody asked about my mental condition at which time i was going to say something like a in a Fine. In Mok a a Anderson said in an interview tuesday. The Burly former Marine then rapped the Hardwood conference table with his Knuckles lunged toward his interviewer and shouted maniacally a a in Mok. See in Mok a that he can joke about his 6-year ordeal As a hostage in Lebanon helps explain How Anderson 44, endured. His sense of humor intact he does indeed seem of if weary and a Little disoriented As he emerges from four months seclusion since his release. He seems in control of himself and his thoughts summing up the pillars of his remarkable endurance the companionship of his fellow hostages his native stubbornness and his Faith in god. A a there a a line in a poem i wrote a he said. A a a each moment endless unconnected to the swiftly passing  every minute every hour seems endless and then you realize its been a year three years four years. He has no bad dreams now. But he vividly recalls the nightmares he had during Captivity. A i used to dream about being free and knowing i had to go Back and not wanting to go Back Quot he said. A and i remember thinking i did no to want to Wake up with a Chain on my leg a and then waking up with a Chain on my  the former chief a correspondent in the Middle East clearly is uncomfortable with the Fame his Captivity has brought him and his Fiance Madeleine Bassil and their 7-year-old daughter Salome. A a it a funny and its disconcerting and sometimes it makes me quite uncomfortable a he said Bassil caressing his Arm. �?o1 suppose we have to get used to it for a while but it la fade. It s temporary. It la fade. Its not what 1 want to be. In a not going to be a former hostage  with seeming reluctance smoking cigarette after cigarette Anderson retells his tale How shiite Muslim gunmen seized him on a Beirut Lebanon Street a after a morning of Tennis on March 16,1985 a How he was beaten taped head to toe like a Mummy and transported beneath a truck bed and How he fashioned playing cards from pieces of paper chess sets from aluminium foil and crucifixes from lint. He also tells How he tapped out news to hostages in adjoining cells How he used sign language to communicate with those nearby and How he sometimes defied thousands of humiliations. A there were things that you simply  accept a he said. A i remember telling one of the Young men who had done something fairly offensive that a you  do this to your father. You  do this to any adult. Its not done particularly in islam. Why Are you doing it Tome a a a the stopped a said Anderson. Asked what the Young Man was doing Anderson said a Well it had to do with the  a some of the Guys used to throw the bread on the floor and i  eat it Quot he said. A i would Tell them in a not a dog and i  eat it. They stopped. They would take those kind of things if you did it right and insisted on  he tells How his Rock solid Faith a he read the Bible 50 times in Captivity a helped him maintain a moral Edge Over his jailers. A i Felt we were right and they were wrong a he said. A there was never any doubt about that. I never sympathized with their or Anderson a animation or their Aims or their tactics and i told them that Many  in a 45-minute interview with an old colleague he was a different Terry Anderson from the swashbuckling former Marine who volunteered to Transfer from Johannesburg South Africa to Beirut in 1982 to cover the israeli invasion of Lebanon. The Terry Anderson of 1982 was always at the Center of the action in Beirut always taking chances. He was fond of quoting Winston Churchill As saying a there is nothing quite so exhilarating As being shot at without  a i remember the feeling Quot Anderson said. A when you re in great physical danger when somebody is trying to kill you you get an adrenaline High. Your eyes get about four inches across your ears hear everything and your hearts going like mad and if you can still operate rationally under those conditions its a very exhilarating feeling. And we know a lot of people get hooked that Way. They become War  while he might want to be a foreign correspondent again he Isnit eager to cover another Battle. A aside from what happened to me in a 44 now a he said a in a a Little too old Tor the bang bang. In a a Little too old to be running up the Street watching people kill each