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Vol. 61 No. 49
online at www.nctskef.navy.mil
December 13, 2002
Airmen collect
Toys for Tots’
By J02 Travis D. Eisele
Senior Airman Sara Williams and Senior Airman Ernest McMillan
both of the 85th Maintenance Squadron pack a box full of toys.
More than $500 worth of toys were collected here to be distributed
in the U.S. (Photo by J02 Travis D. Eisele)
Last year more than 6.1 million needy children
were given a brighter holiday season thanks to the
Toys for Tots program. This year at Naval Air
Station Keflavik, Iceland, volunteers from the 85th
Group Maintenance Squadron chipped in their time
to help further this program.
“This just seemed like a good opportunity to help
out,” said Master Sgt. Freddie Love, the chief of the
munitions section for the 85th Maintenance
Squadron. “It’s a great program and when you stop
and think about who really benefits from this it real-
ly hits home.”
Ken Rogers, the coordinator for the Toys for Tots
program here added, “I was very impressed by how
good people are. Not only those who volunteered
their time to help out, but also those anonymous
people who made donations.”
Rogers was also impressed by how smoothly the
program ran this year.
“This was the first year we’ve done anything like
this and it all ran smoothly,” said Rogers. “From the
assistance we got from the program in the states, to
See Tots pg. 15-------------------------------
DoDEA Director visits NAS Keflavik Schools
By J02 Travis Eisele
Dr. Joe Tafoya, Ed.D., the Director of the
Department of Defense Education
Activities recently visited the A.T. Mahan
Elementary and High School to evaluate
both of the schools’ educational programs
and to get a feel for what the school is like.
“I think it’s important that I understand
all of the schools. To see their peculiarities
and what makes them special,” said
Tafoya. “Now when an issue comes up,
I’ve been here, I’ve seen it.
Tafoya makes it a point to go into every
classroom and meet every teacher during
his visits.
“When I’m going through all of the
classrooms, I’m looking for things like
today when I went through the elementary
school I noticed the kids were very intent-
ly involved in reading,” said Tafoya.
He also added, “(while I was) at the
High School this afternoon I saw some
excellent examples of teachers both giving
inspiring lectures and also in one of the
classes I went to, there was a group of mid-
dle school history students talking with
depth and knowledge about the American
Revolution. I was just really impressed
with the answers the kids were giving.”
Tafoya was very impressed with the
reading programs instituted at the elemen-
tary school.
“At the elementary school I saw a lot of
excellent reading programs,” said Tafoya.
“I also met with a group of third grade
teachers and they were discussing with me
how they were evaluating how well their
students can read to find out where there
are gaps in some of the students decoding
and comprehension skills. I was very
impressed with that because it looks like
the school is looking toward using our
data, and putting our test information to
good use.”
Tafoya said that in all of the educational
See DoDEA, pg. 4 ----------------
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