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The Brat Chronicles 28 June 2007 The author of the newly released book "The Brat Chronicles" by Michael Ritter '73 Kaiserslautern recently did a presentation with Donna Musil at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas and will be the "entertainment" on Friday 3 August 2007 at the Overseas Brats Homecoming in Dallas, Texas. Autographed books will be available for purchase. "The Brat Chronicles" had me laughing out loud from the first chapter. The Griswold Family has nothing on the Ritters. From falling in French toilets to feeding seven on a Master Sergeant's salary, "it's all just part of the adventure". Michael Ritter may well be the Jeff Foxworthy of Brats! Donna Musil, writer-director, "BRATS: Our Journey Home Click here for more Books by, for and about Brats. BERLIN Letter Jacket shows up on stage 6 June 2007A '95 BERLIN letter jacket was noticed on stage at Ratutu Collaborative. Click here to view their archives. It seems the Managing Director is a BERLIN Brat. Here's Rebecca Trent '95 as a 7th grader and as a Freshman. Rebecca, is that your jacket? Caps & Visors 16 May 2007 Did you receive your White Baseball Cap or Sun Visor from the 2006 Reunion? If not, please contact us at BERLINBrats@gmail.com and we'll mail you one. The Welcome Desk in BERLIN thought they had passed them all out (a gift from our Hotel) but after the Reunion discovered 2 small boxes still in the Hotel's storage room. Both are white with "BERLIN Brats, the Bear and Homecoming 2006" in maroon print on the front. We'd like you to have this souvenir so drop us a line. Coach Smith
Coach Brown has passed away
BERLIN Brats in Reunions Magazine
BRATS Film Tour 29 January 2007 From February to June, 2007, "BRATS Film Tour: Our Journey Home!" will be screening the film at select locations around the country, and writer-director Donna Musil will be attending almost all of these screenings. They'll kick off the tour in San Francisco, cross the country from Phoenix to Ft. Hood to Virginia Beach, then finish with their big "BRATstock" blowout in Washington, DC! There's nothing like seeing this film with a theater full of BRAT NATION, all laughing and crying in unison. So grab a friend and join in! Because sometimes... you actually can go home again. They will also be sponsoring their BRATS Without Borders MENTOR PROGRAM at various locations throughout the tour - bringing together Vietnam-era brats with Iraq-era brats to talk, share experiences, and let each other know they're not alone. If this is something you might be interested in sponsoring or attending, please let them know. Click here for schedule details. BRATS featured in AOSHS Quarterly Winter 2007 Maggie (Ellithorpe) Stafsnes '63 wrote an article "BERLIN Brats celebrate Homecoming" which was featured in the Winter edition of the AOSHS Quarterly. Click here for a .pdf copy of the article. BERLIN Brats on TV
Frau Dr. Schirmer
BERLIN Brats in the Press! 27-30 July 2006
BERLIN Brat Stamp 1 June 2006After obtaining the BERLIN Wall, (yes, a 14,000 pound Section) the BERLIN Brats thought they indeed had everything! Then a mysterious padded package showed on their doorstep recently. Inside, their very own BERLIN Brat "Postage Stamp." The stamp depicts this year's reunion logo and was produced by longtime, parent-supporter Mr. Curtis Carter. (Mr. Carter's daughter Betty is from the class of '72). Every 3 years at Reunion time the BB design a new Reunion Logo to incorporate their school mascot and their reunion location. This July with the group's 1st ever return to their roots, BB graphic artist Susan Sams '85, modified the BERLIN City Flag w/Bear and added the text "Homecoming 2006" to convey the sentimental journey. If others are interested in designing their own stamp you can do so at www.zazzle.com/stamps. They are sanctioned by the USPS. Special Endorsement from the Check Point Charlie Foundation! 27 March 2006 The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation was founded in 1994 by the BERLIN State Legislature and is a legal foundation with political rights in the BERLIN State and within its laws. The purpose of the Foundation is to foster German-American relations with special consideration for the role that the U.S. played in BERLIN between the years of 1945 and 1994. This year, after learning of our "Homecoming Reunion" and our "Allied Museum Special Exhibition" the BERLIN Brats have just learned we will be the recipient of a 1,000 Euro Donation to underwrite the expense of our luncheon at the Allied Museum, on Friday, July 28th at our upcoming Reunion. We are indeed grateful for this donation and the recognition bestowed on us by the Foundation. Our heartfelt thanks to Herr Alexander Longolius, BAHS Faculty member from '58 to '67, and Chairman of the Executive Board. For more information on the Foundation please visit our Links Page or www.cc-stiftung.de/en/. Wikipedia 9 March 2006 Click here for information on "us" at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Rebecca Pidgeon sings "Army Brat" 7 March 2006 Rebecca Pidgeon released the CD "Tough on Crime" in Oct 2005. The bonus track "Army Brat" is currently featured on United Airlines in-flight audio programming. Click here to listen to a sampler on amazon.com. Julia Starbuck '76 featured on Milwaukee Billboard 16 February 2006 Julia Starbuck '76 has been featured on Milwaukee billboards, TV, the newspaper, and radio for her annual donation of 500 pounds of tomatoes to the community. Brats: Our Journey Home 17 December 2005 Dear BERLIN BRATS, After six long years, I am proud to announce that the first documentary about growing up military - BRATS: OUR JOURNEY HOME - will be released on DVD the second week of January, 2006! We may have to cut a shorter version for television, but I decided to release the 90-minute "director's cut" to you early because you're the people for whom I made the film - my fellow brats. For six long years, you donated your time, your money, your thoughts and feelings. You encouraged me when I needed it... supported me when I had nowhere else to turn... and never, ever gave up on me or the project - even when all logic seemed to dictate otherwise. Thank you. I hope the film means as much to you as it does to me, because we were certainly all in this together. As you might expect, the past few months have been rather hectic. We previewed the film at a couple film festivals and reunions last summer, as well as the Families in Global Transition Conference in Houston in September. All were overwhelming successes. I spent October and November finishing the film, then over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was invited to attend the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam and made some excellent inroads into releasing the film internationally. We'll see what happens. In the meantime, if you'd like to order a copy of the film, click here, fill out the order form and follow the instructions. Your copy will be mailed to you hot off the press around the second week of January! Thanks again, everyone, for all your help. We did it! Love, Donna "American Education Experience Exhibit" at The Allied Museum in BERLIN Click here to learn more about the Artifacts needed.The Allied Museum in BERLIN (formerly our old Outpost Theatre) has decided to do an
"American Education Experience Exhibit" at the Museum to open the week of our Reunion in
2006. Larry Speer '83 wins USAFE Idol Contest! 25 April 05Stars and Stripes European edition, by Scott Schonauer RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - Move over, Ruben. Make room, Kelly and Fantasia. The Air Force has its own "idol" in Europe. Maj. Larry Speer, who got a rousing ovation from his home base crowd for singing Neil Diamond's "America," won the U.S. Air Forces in Europe singing contest on Saturday at the Ramstein Officers' Club. Speer, a C-20 pilot with the Ramstein-based 76th Airlift Squadron, never thought he had a chance when he first heard the other seven singers. "Vocally, they are amazing," he said, clutching his first place trophy. "I just had no clue what was going to happen." About 900 people attended the first-ever talent show that brought together the best Air Force singers from around the region. Pop singing couple Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson, who put on a star-studded variety show on base Friday, gave out awards to the finalists. Click here for a videoclip of "Walking in Memphis." (watch for Nolan's {Larry's son} thumb) Click here for a videoclip of "Coming to America." Click here for a VERY shaky videoclip of the Awards Presentation. AFN Europe: 60th Anniversary 2-CD Set It's all here! From the World War II years to 2003. A double CD set. Over 2 hours of great radio moments. From AFN BERLIN, Frankfurt, Munich, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Soesterberg, Würzburg, Nürnberg, Bremerhaven, Orleanas, Poitiers, SHAPE, Bosnia, and the Balkans. JINGLES Remember those tones at the top of every hour? "It's 16 hundred hours..Central European Time.. This is the American Forces Network Europe". "Z-FM" "Z88-FM BERLIN" "Z-100.2 Kaiserslautern" "Z-98FM Frankfurt" MUSIC PROGRAMS Some of America's best known announcers were heard on AFN, like: Garry Moore, Shadoe Stevens, Wolfman Jack, Don Imus, Charlie Tuna, Casey Kasem with Casey's Cavern and American Top 40. Great music programs from country artists Jeannie Seely, Bobbi Gentry, Johnny Bond, Jimmy Wakely. Jazz with Bobby Troop and Duke Ellington. Mystery programs like Adventure Theatre, Midnight Mysteries, CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, and Theatre Five. The great western that began on radio, Gunsmoke with William Conrad as Matt Dillon. Interviews with Louis Armstrong, Bill Haley, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis. THE NEWS PROGRAMS Historical moments: GEN Eisenhower's farewell, GEN Lucius Clay's Freedom House Award, the Nürnburg Trials, the BERLIN Airlift, the building and the falling of the BERLIN Wall, the Iran Hostage Crisis. AFN's most memorable programs like: American Music Hall, Bavarian Bandstand, Town & Country, Classics in Pop, Music in the Air, This is Germany, 16 OH 5 TO Nashville, On the Scene, AFN Tonight, Weekend World, C&W Hit Parade, The Golden Days of Radio and Nightside. Click here to order from our Brat Store. Cost: $17 for the 2-CD set with includes a 27-page CD booklet chronicling the 60-year history with text and photos. Postage is included. Push for schools museum reignites 22 February 2005 15 Years After the Fall of the Wall 9 November 200415 Years After the Fall of the Wall Looking Back and Looking Ahead The opening of the border between East and West Germany - with the sudden opening of checkpoints across BERLIN on November 9, 1989 - was more than just one moment in history. It was the beginning of an exciting and sometimes difficult chapter for Germany, a chapter that is still being written. The United States played a vital part on the path to German unification. No one can forget US President Ronald Reagan standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in 1987 and making his famous appeal to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." After the fall of the Wall, President George H. W. Bush decisively supported German unification. Without this US resoluteness, voiced by Reagan and Bush and displayed over decades throughout the Cold War, German unification might have remained merely a dream for some time. On this 15th anniversary of the fall of the wall, German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger has recorded a special message of thanks to America. The German Embassy is celebrating the anniversary by taking part in a rededication of the display of BERLIN Wall segments in the Newseum's Freedom Park and by spreading the message of German and American friendship across the Nation's Capital with a specially decorated Metro Bus. This InFocus takes a look at the unforgettable moment in history in November 1989, as well as the developments in Germany in the 15 years since. Expressing Germany's Appreciation to Our Friends in America Click here for the video of a special message to the American people, German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger remembers the unprecedented and rapid chain of events surrounding the fall of the BERLIN Wall and the key role played by the United States. "Without America's belief in German democracy, German unification might not have taken place in my lifetime." 15 Years After the Fall of the Wall 9 November 2004In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Fall of the BERLIN Wall and in honor of the close friendship between Germany and America, the German Embassy has had a Metro Bus decorated in this theme of friendship. This Metro Bus, featuring work by artist James Yang, will crisscross the city for two months, spreading the message of friendship between Germany and America, not just on a political level but also on an individual level. Wilma Rudolph honored on stamp 7 July 2004BAHS is now the Wilma-Rudolph Oberschule. A 23-cent stamp in the Distinguished American Series has been issued for Wilma Rudolph. At 16, Rudolph participated in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and helped her team win the bronze medal in the 400-meter relay. Four years later, at the Rome Olympics, she won the gold in the 10-meter and the 200-meter sprints and anchored the 400-meter relay team. After retiring from running in 1962, Rudolph was a teacher and coach. She set up the Wilma Rudolph Foundation to develop young athletes. She was inducted to the Black Sports Hall of Fame in 1973, the Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1980, and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983. She died of brain cancer at 54. Summer 2003 Click the picture for an article from the German magazine "International Community" 18 December 2003 Rich Beem '88 wins 2002 PGA Championship 18 Aug 2002Congratulations to Rich Beem '88 who won the 2002 PGA Championship. Way to go Rich! BERLINers Elected to AOSHS Board July 2001 In addition, Diane was surprised by the Board when they awarded her the "MOST VALUABLE MEMBER of AOSHS!" a well deserved award for all of her hard work. Diane presently chairs the Architectural Committee for AOSHS and has served the Board in numerous other capacities. And for those of you who don't know... Diane also designed the BAHS school flag. She is a woman of many achievements and talents and we are thrilled that she is playing such a major role in the design and development of our archives, museum and visitor's center to be built in Wichita, Kansas. BERLIN Airlift Commemorative Stamp 27 Jun 1998With the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the BERLIN Airlift, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring the Airlift. The BERLIN Brats placed a special order with the Post Office. All members of the "BERLIN BRATS" received their newsletters with this special stamp on their envelope. |
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