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| The Time For Thinkers
I Has Come...*
I You are invited to attend a
| lec ture by
Dorothy Maubane, C.S.
of AtteridgevUle, South Africa
titled
A Book That Can
j Transform Your Life
introducing
Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
7:30 p.m., April 29
in the Ben Linder Room
Sponsored by the Christian Science Orgariizcition
• Science and Health
Young scholar excels in college
BRKMERTON, Waah CAP) —
Whan Wendy and Dennis
Sailor's baby began speaking in
complete sentences 17 years ago
at the age of f> months, they fig
ured he had a bright future
ahead When he read at the
eighth grade level at age 2. the
Bremerton couple knew they
had a genius on their hands
Now, at 1H, Dylan Paul Sailor
is a senior at the University of
Washington majoring in classic s
and history.
Me was awarded the presti
gious Faculty Medal last year,
signifying his standing ns the
top junior student in his ( lass of
7,0r)fi at Washington Medalist
honors are based on many i rite
ria, including grade point over
age. number of c redits taken per
quarter and difficulty of courses
A member of the Golden gey
and Phi Beta Kappa, Sailor
plans to get a doctorate and
teach at n university after gradu
ating in 1985 lie's s|xmding this
quarter in Rome. Italy, where
he's exploring am ient ruins, eat
ing sun-ripened market vegeta
bles and living in a small dorm
with old son er-ball marks on
the walls
"Pin having a pretty good
time This is not something
many people get to do." said
Sailor
Me has a ru h appreciation for
Greek and laitin literature writ
ten centuries ago
"There were some ama/irig
writers that you can't approc mte
in the translations You have to
read the languages," the young
sc holar said
Sailor got n head Mart on hi*
education when, at age 4. he
entered UVV* Child Develop
ment Pres< hool for gifted chil
dren At 5, he enrolled at The
Evergreen School in Seattle.
It was » long ferry commute,
hut hi* mother wa* always then'
with him His father works at
Boeing os n head design drafter
Both attended Star of the Sea
school in Bremerton and were
told os children that they were
gifted students Dylan is their
only child.
At 1 1. Sailor was admitted to
tin UW Early Entrance program,
whi< h gave him an accelerated
academic preparation to ease his
transition to col lege A year Int
er, he was admitted as a regular
full-time UVV student
He's won several scholar
ships. including the 1991-1993
University Merit Scholarship.
An impressive record for 1H
years But Sailor, with complete
sinc erity, says if he could do it
over again, "I just wish I hadn't
wasted so much time spend
ing time in front of the TV and
just goofing around.”
Sailor's mother says she can't
recall him ever wasting his time
Instead, he was making lists,
plans and schedules.
"You don't push Dylan, you're
dragged.” his mother said.
It was young Sailor's decision
to skip high s< hool and enter the
accelerated program It was a
tough first year, but Sailor seems
to thrive on that, his mother
said
"He made decisions most peo
ple wouldn't attempt out of fear
of failure." she said
Sailor would be a college
freshman today if he had chosen
the normal educ ational route
Still, he doesn't like to trumpet
his Doogie Dowser qualities
"He never talks about how old
he is." his mother said.
.Six feet tall, with long blond
hair and an athletic build devel
oped after many hours at the
Bremerton YM(iA weight room.
Sailor can easily pass for twen
tysomething.
When he's not studying, he
enjoys working out. and summer
league and pick-up basketball
And he likes the music of Pearl
Jam.
He's come a long way from
the time when he was •} months
old and would purr at the cats, a
prelude to speaking two months
later.
"It was really scary It was like
having an alien. He didn't even
have teeth.'* nis mother said.
Sailor's advice to parents of
gifted children is not to push too
hard.
"I attribute a lot of my success
to parent support." he said
"They never pushed mo into
anything."
And how do you encourage a
gifted child?
"I think the most important
thing is when they're young, you
have to read to them a lot. You
have to talk to them. I see a lot of
parents who just give their chil
dren twby talk. They need to hear
real sentences and real thought
I i an't overestimate the impor
tance of parents spending time
with their children.” Sailor said
Commander to have Arlington burial
(AIM Twenty-six years
after hts plains was shot down
over l-aus during a mission in
the unauthorized war against
I-uos , Navy Crndr Glen
Miller Hayden will be laid to
rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Washing
ton. DC.
Hayden, who grew up in Toledo, will share a
grave with the other eight members of his i rew
alter as inui h of their remains as t.ould be found
were shipped from southeast Asia
Mary lane Hayden, the commander's widow ,
says she and her daughter. Gail, will attend the
ceremony Friday.
"I’m pleased they did something," she said. "It
took over 25 years to do it. hut they finally did it
I don't know why it took so long I can see it w hile
they were still warring, that 1 can understand, but
after that..."
On Feb. 17, 1908, the plane piloted by Hayden
made a pass over the Savanuakhet Province of
Laos.
The plane, with the radio call sign "l.indy 12."
w as assigned to drop electronit sensors that would
detect the approai h of North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong troops along that segment of the Ho Chi
Mmh trail
Hayden, who was 40 at the time, joined the
Navy right out of Toledo High School in 1045 He
was stationed in Japan at the end of World War II
He left the serv ice to attend Oregon State Univer
sity, then re-entered the Navy with an officer's
commission.
At 6-foot-3, he found the Navy's carrier-based
g*ts too cramped, and was more at ease in the twin
engine, propeller-driven reconnaissance plane.
He wasn't wearing his wedding ring when he
was shot down. His widow suspects he and the
other eight members of the crew weren't wearing
identification tags, either, because their mission
was part of thu unauthorized war in laos
The plane was hit by small arms fire and one of
its engines caught fire.
The radio crackled again and the pilots of the
fighter jets nearby heard Hayden's last words
"We're beat up pretty bad."
Three minutes later, the other pi lots saw smoke
and two burned areas on the side of a hill. Rescue
helicopters spotted the wreckage It was apparent
no one survived.
Although relatives were notified that the crew
had been killed in a< lion and their bodies could
not be recovered. Mrs Hayden had a hard time
txdieving the new s.
"I think they held a memorial service in San
Trane isco a long time ago. but I didn't go because
I still didn't think he was gone." she said
Tor the next 25 years, the green jungle cradled
the remains of the plane's crew.
Ai cording to documents in the Library of Con
gress, Lao villagers discovered the crash site in
1'17H and began scavenging sheets of aluminum
Villagers reportedly found boots, a handgu** wnri
arm and leg bones , *
U S officials passed information and negotia
tions folders to l.ao representatives a half dozen
times between June 1 <188 and May 1991
f inally, in February 1992. a joint American-Lao
team surveyed the crash site They recovered sev
eral hundred bone fragments, eight teeth, a hand
ful of American coins, a high school ( lass ring and
hundreds of other items.
A villager had Frank Dawson’s original Geneva
Convention card
Mary Jane Hayden wishes her husband's body
could have been buried in California, where she
now lives Bui she accepts the necessity of putting
all the remains in a common box and burying it at
Arlington.
"It's the least they can do, I guess." she said
"Now it puts a final end to it."
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