European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday \ ind stripes Maga in prom night there a music in the air and butterflies in the stomach for a High school rite of Spring Luke Britt staff writer if Quot t s prom night he a running late and Antic 1 Ohnmeiss wonders How anyone can be expected to tie a Quarter Inch wide ribbon weighted by a Corsage the size of a softball to the thin wrist of an 18-year-old girl. To make matters worse he is shaking As it he d been stripped of his clothes and dropped into the English Channel during the dead of Winter. Jamie 17, is determined to fulfil the ritual of adorning his Date Betsy Brown with Flowers but he gives up after five grueling minutes of awkward Effort. Betsy smother bails him out. It is the sum of All High school dreams a boy a girl her parents and the prom. A scene generations old is being played out by Lakenheath High school juniors and seniors albeit with striking differences to the Happy Days images of proms gone by. A Selfe. Continued it it a Cage j Luiken health High school s Jamie Ohnmeiss struggles with a Corsage for his Date Betsy Crown. Sits i us Fotr f
