The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, May 9, 1996                  TAG: 9605090013
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A16  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

HAPPY NEWS

What an exciting story about the bottle that traveled from Oregon Inlet, N.C., to Iceland!

As a retired teacher of the age group of these young ladies, I can think of many projects that could develop from this story. How about a combined project using science, social studies, math, language arts, oceanography and other subjects?

More parents need to encourage young children to be more creative and imaginative. More important, however, they need to become a part of these efforts as the parents in the story did. That would solve many of our problems today.

MARGARET SMITHSON

Tyner, N.C., April 30, 1996 by CNB