Selected columns by Allan R. Andrews, Former Editor
of Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, Japan.
Now at Annapolis Area Christian School, Annapolis, MD **see disclaimer

Andrews' column appeared weekly in "Pacific Sunday Magazine," the Sunday magazine section of Pacific Stars and Stripes, the daily, First Amendment newspaper published in Japan for U.S. military personnel and Department of Defense employees, diplomatic personnel, dependents and other Americans in the Far East. Columns appeared in print between September, 1993, and February, 1998.

Andrews, former editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, now teaches high school in Annapolis, Maryland.

Additional freelance columns by Andrews, posted at the online newspaper The American Reporter, can be found at Online Meanderings.

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• Opinion voiced as a cartoon [For the April 17, 1997, daily newspaper]

People:

• The 'trite thinking' of Jimmy Carter (July 13, 1997)
• The honorable nickname Jack [Jackie Robinson ] (April 27, 1997)
• Ernie Pyle and an unknown (April 13, 1997)
• A Boone for heavy metal music [Pat Boone ] (February 23, 1996)
• Memorizing Miller Williams (February 16, 1997)
• 'High lonesome' sadly gone [Bill Monroe ] (October 6, 1996)
• Here's Joe Bob Briggs (July 7, 1996)
• Reinhold Niebuhr -- journalist (June 23, 1966)
• Charles Kuralt and television (February 11, 1996)
• It's wise to recall Ernie Pyle's words (April 16, 1995)

Places:

• Success sours an island paradise (January, 1998)
• Boycotting the Disney kingdom (July 20, 1997)
• The high cost of democracy [Bulgaria ] (April 20, 1997)
• Stopping to smell the garden (October 27, 1996)
• A fan's-eye view of a ballgame (August 18, 1996)
• George and me at Valley Forge (August 11, 1996)
• The best (and worst) place to live (August 4, 1996)
• On playing the tourist at home (June 2, 1996)
• Coming out of the Canada closet (July 10, 1994)
• No cab meter for human dignity (September 26. 1993)

Journalism:

• The season for editors to choose again (December, 1997)
• Read all about it! On the Internet (November 16, 1997)
• A spiritual awakening in the press corps (November 9, 1997)
• The modern face of 'new' journalism (October 26, 1997)
• Readings for student journalists (October 5, 1997)
• We've met the dark side of journalism (September 7, 1997)
• Does the X-generation read newspapers? (August 31, 1997)
• Even our attention is biased (June 1, 1997)
• Censored news: 10 best of '96 (May 11, 1997)
• Journalism's top web sites (March 16, 1997)
• Just what is a journalist? (February 9, 1997)
• News is not a black-and-white issue (January 5, 1997)
• How yellow is today's journalism? (December 22, 1996)
• We forgot all about Jimmy (October 13, 1996)
• Royko errs in getting too cute (September 15, 1996)
• About journalists as movie stars (July 21, 1996)
• Honoring the news gatherers (June 30, 1996)
• How Americans get their news (December 31, 1995)
• Reporting the details of dying (October 22, 1995)
• The notion of what is 'a good story' (April 2, 1995)
• Cartoonists don't get no respect (October 2, 1994)

Memories:

• Repairs, shop class and ferrules (July 6, 1997)
• The Presumption of Brooklyn (April 14, 1996)
• Tea time in New York (October 15, 1995)
• In centerfield in New York (September 10, 1995)
• A summer memoir: Stickball in the city (February 27, 1994)

Reflections:

• Strikes, spares and human mortality (December, 1997)
• Gizmos, gadgets and bobbypins (June 22, 1997)
• Will 2000 be different from 1997? (June 8, 1997)
• A fool remembers foolishness (March 30, 1997)
• Confession of a columnist's voice (January 12, 1997)
• The shadowy words of Christmas (December 22, 1996)
• Making a little space for poetry (November 24, 1996)
• Coming to root for the Yankees (November 17, 1996)
• Mars makes me think small (September 8, 1996)
• All the focus on youth blurs life (August 25, 1996)
• What Americans should sing (May 19, 1996)
• A closing word on openings (May 5, 1996)
• Human intangibles vs. machine (March 10, 1996)
• Prayer in the end zone (September 24, 1995)
• Have you heard any good books lately? (November 13, 1994)

Fatherhood and parenting:

• Run, run, run for distance, my son (September 28, 1997)
• American siesta without guilt (June 29, 1997)
• Dad among the saints (June 15, 1997) [Father's Day]
• Some will do anything for a laugh (January 19, 1997)
• Home from the airplane base (November 3, 1996)
• To sleep, to dream, to wonder (February 4, 1996)

Reviews:

• Would-be poets and scam artists (December 21, 1997)
• May I have a word from you? (May 18, 1997)
• The heroic selections of life (May 4, 1997)
• Gimme that old popular culture (April 6, 1997)
• Read any dictionaries lately? (March 23, 1997)
• The free flow of U.S. Statistics (December 22, 1996)
• By George, God-talks are in (December 15, 1996)
• Four-star flicks for kids (November 11, 1996)
• Parsing shows anthem is of note (April 7, 1996)
  
• Baseball documentary gets thumbs up (December 18, 1994)

Gomer Guthrie's Galaxy:

• The 'Whyzit' world of Gomer Guthrie (October 12, 1997)
• The goo-goo cluster crowd (June 9, 1996)
• The voice of the anchorperson (September 17, 1995)
  

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Allan R. Andrews can be contacted at arandrews@toadmail.com

Gomer A. Guthrie, (initials, GAG) is a fictional alter ego of the columnist and can be reached at the same e-mail address.

Andrews is a former member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and winner of the Society's 1997 First-Place Award for General Columns in newspapers circulating under 100,000.

DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed here are my own. Nothing in these writings should be construed as representing the viewpoint of Stars and Stripes newspapers, the American Forces Information Service, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the faculty, staff or directors of the Annapolis Area Christian School.