Darmstadt school has big plans for last day

Darmstadt school has big plans for last day
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, May 7, 2008

DARMSTADT, Germany — With a month to go before the end of the school year, students and teachers at the one school left in Darmstadt’s military community are torn.

Many can’t wait for summer break to begin, but they know that when the school year is over, so is their school.

“There’s been a school here in Darmstadt for 60 years, and we have a teacher here who’s been here for 40 years,” said Elizabeth Thornton-Bremer, who teaches both elementary and middle school students and is heavily involved in preparations for the school’s closing ceremony. “We’re really making a big deal out of it.”

All the students are taking part in the school’s May 29 closing ceremony in one way or another, said Danna Behne, who teaches music to elementary students. She had her students write down their fondest memories — one recalled hitting former principal Russ Claus with a whipped cream pie — to post around school for the closing.

Three students contributed to designing the logo that will adorn every student, teacher and — if there are enough to go around — visitor at the ceremony.


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