The White Falcon - 10.03.1967, Blaðsíða 3

Friday, March 10, 1967
WHITE FALCON
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PLEDGING THEIR SUPPORT—Karl Masters (left) and Brandy Al-
len give their Overseas Combined Federal Campaign pledge cards to
William Berger, industrial relations manager and Campaign liaison
officer for the department. The 1967 Campaign will end on the NATO
Base, April 15. (WHITE FALCON STAFF PHOTO)
THE PAINTING PILOT—Captain Robert E. Peters, pilot, 57th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron, stands with his finished product, a mural which
now hangs in the 57th headquarters building. (WHITE FALCON
STAFF PHOTO)
Air Force CaptainPilots
Brush As Well As Plane
by A2C Gene Heppler
Entertainment Included
At PM Meeting Set
For Thursday, March 16
The Alfred T. Mahan School
will hold its next Parent-Teacher
Association (PTA) meeting next
Thursday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m.
in the elementary school cafe-
torium.
The program will be varied
beginning with the election
of officers for the next school
year followed by the announce-
ment of an essay contest.
Many elementary and high
school students will participate in
the student portion of the prog-
ram beginning with the formal
initiation of the high school
Honor Society members for this
school year with Albert Reid as
sponsor. The Spanish classes,
under the leadership of Sue Ann
Worley, will present a short play
entitled “At the Market Place.”
This will be followed by the ele-
mentary students who will present
a varied program of plays, music
and dancing which will include the
following numbers:
“Highland Fling” which is a
dance to be done by Emily Patch’s
fifth grade class.
“Icelandic Folk Dance” which
will be performed by Margaret
Cornelius’ fourth grade class.
“The Old Woman and the Fly”
which is a choral reading by
James Rail’s sixth grade class.
“The Bunny Hop” a dance per-
formed by Ruth McDaniel’s fifth
grade class.
“Caps for Sale” is a play which
will be done by Margaret Nelson’s
second grade class.
Margaret Erickson’s first grade
class will perform for the parents
by presenting a choral reading
“Mud” and a performance of the
classes rhythm band.
Elvis Odom’s second grade class
will present a choral reading and
poems.
The parents of the students in
grades five and eight will pro-
vide refreshments for the meeting.
Record numbers of Naval Sup-
port Activity personnel, Da Nang,
Vietnam, have extended their one-
year tours of duty by six months
or more. Since Nov 1966, 273 men
have extended their tour. Public
law 89735 allows each extendee 30
days of non-chargeable leave.
Ifleet A High
School Senior
“My senior year has been very
rewarding.” With these words,
the WHITE FALCON begins re-
cognizing 13 seniors who will be
graduating from Alfred T. Ma-
han in May.
Continuing with Molly Olm-
stead’s impression of Mahan, she
expressed praise for her teachers
and Gladys Zabilka, school super-
intendent, for helping the mem-
bers of the senior class attain one
of their goals—graduation.
The daughter of a military
man, Molly has traveled from
Florida to California where she
attended elementary schools. Af-
ter her father’s tour was com-
pleted, the family returned to the
Molly Olmstead
east coast. All total, Molly has
been enrolled in eight elementary
and two high schools.
Ever since she has been a
junior in high school, the 17 year-
old lass has been active in extra-
curricula activities. She is a
former cheerleader, has been
class secretary for two consecu-
tive years, works on the news-
paper and yearbook staffs and is
a member of the National Honor
Society.
After graduation, Molly plans
to attend Stetson University in
Florida and after, looks forward
to being an airline stewardess.
Her parents are Lieutenant
Commander and Mrs. David W.
Olmstead. Commander Olmstead
is in charge of the Naval Station
Comptroller’s Office.
‘Teacher %
If he Spotlight
“The small size of A. T. Ma-
han’s student body offers teachers
an excellent opportunity to teach
a variety of subjects,” stated
Betsy Heemstra when asked how
she liked teaching in a smaller
school.
This first year commercial
teacher at the station school is a
native of Yankton, S. D. and after
graduating from high school re-
mained in her home state to re-
ceive her bachelor of arts degree
from the state university at Ver-
million. Having no intention in
going into the teaching field dur-
ing her undergraduate days she
stayed out of a straight teacher
curriculum and emphasized for-
eign languages as she majored
in Spanish and minored in
French, sociology and business
administration. Upon her gradua-
Betsy Heemstra
tion she took a position in Min-
neapolis, as a secretary where
she remained one year. It was
while there that she decided to
return to school and pick up the
necessary education courses for
her secondary teaching creden-
tial.
Her first teaching assignment
was in Rochester, Minn, where she
taught from 1962 to 1965 and
while there first heard about the
overseas teaching program.
Moving from the Minnesota
school she accepted a position in
the Dubuque, Iowa educational
system where she taught for one
year. It was while on summer
vacation in Washington D. C.
that she heard about the teaching
vacancy at A. T. Mahan and de-
cided to try her hand at teaching
in an overseas location.
Miss Heemstra commented that
one of the most interesting fa-
cets of her job here is her varied
teaching duties. She teaches clas-
ses in bookeeping, typing and
shorthand. Besides this rather
extensive teaching load she is the
schools bookeeper.
A. T. Mahan’s business teacher
is fond of traveling and prior to
her arrival in Iceland made se-
veral trips to Mexico where she
continued her study of Spanish.
Since arriving here she has tra-
veled about the Icelandic country-
side indepedently and with teacher
friends at the station school. Also
on her traveling agenda has been
several R&R flights to different
European countries such as Co-
penhagen, Denmark, Germany and
Zurich, Switzerland.
When asked which country she
enjoyed the most, Denmark was
her choice, because of the wide
variety of things to see and do.
“The people seem to radiate a
certain enjoyment of life,” she
commented about this Hans Chris-
tian Andersen fantasy land. Dur-
ing the Easter recess she plans
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When not painting streaks
across the sky as a pilot for the
57th Fighter Interceptor Squad-
ron, Captain Robert E. Peters is
painting life into a canvas with
a brush.
Since he began his Air Force
career in 1959, Captain Peters
has contributed a mural to the
decor of all the squadrons to which
he has been assigned. In July
1966 he completed a painting for
the 57th and it is displayed in the
squadrons headquarters building.
Like most of this 35-year-old
Captain’s artistic displays, the
theme of the painting is the air-
craft flown by the squadron.
Still another of this Casper,
Wyo., born Air Force officer’s
bobbies centers around aircraft-
Captain Peters has the unusual
hobby of rebuilding and flying
old airplanes. He presently owns
a rare old WACO bi-plane and
part of two other bi-planes from
which he is building his second
flyable machine.
Captain Peters started his
military career as an enlisted
man in the Navy in 1950. Upon
separation from the Navy in
1954 he enrolled in the University
of Illinois where he majored in
Art and History. Since the Uni-
versity did not offer a Navy
Resei've Officers Training Corps
(ROTC) program, Captain Peters
joined the Air Force ROTC and
completed the program as a dis-
tinguished graduate. After
graduation he accepted an Air
Force commission and went into
flight training, leading to his life
as an Air Force pilot and assign-
ment at Keflavik.
Completing his tour of duty in
Iceland in May, Captain Peters
will return to his wife, Sandra,
and their five children in the
States. His next assignment will
be in Washington D. C., where he
will study Advanced Management
at George Washington University
under the Armed Forces Institute
of Technology program.
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MOVIE CALL
A Band of Angels*—Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo.
127 min. Drama.
The Spirit of St. Louis*—James Stewart, Murray Hamilton.
135 min. Historical Drama.
23 Paces To Baker Street—Van Johnson, Vera Miles.
103 min. Drama.
A Covenant With Death—George Maharis, Laura Devon.
97 min. Drama.
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff—Curt Jurgens, Capucine.
118 min. Drama.
Duel At Diablo—James Garner, Sidney Poitier.
104 min. Western.
Disorderly Orderly—Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver.
89 min. Comedy.
Only one showing at Andrews starting at 7 p.m.
ANDREWS POLAR NCO CPO ‘O’ ROCKV. GRV
THEATER CLUB CLUB CLUB CLUB
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TUESDAY E C B D A
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