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The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 62

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The Baltimore Suni
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Baltimore, Maryland
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62
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lApE2 1 THE MORNINQ WfoTrtfwJaW. 4th-graders adopt Pride of Baltimore as project By Mary Corddry Eastern Shore Bureau of The Sun Church Hill Ursula Mosley, fourth-grade teacher in this rural Eastern Shore town, was flipping the dial of her car radio on the way home from school when she chanced upon a Baltimore announcer interviewing the captain of the Pride of Baltimore. That was in October, 1982, and the Pride had just started her longest journey, a voyage through the Panama Canal and up the West Coast of North Amer- ica to Vancouver, British Columbia, and back. Mrs. Mosley at the time was beginning a social studies unit on "The World and Its People" which covered the same region.

Her mind whirled. Here was a way to bring the textbook to life, especially for children who live only about 15 miles from Chesapeake Bay. By the time the Pride returned home to Baltimore's Inner Harbor November 19, two of Mrs. Mosley's classes at Church Hill Elementary last year's and this were in the front line of welcomers at a ceremonial stage in front of the Maryland Science Center. They had followed every step of the voyage, learning to compute the ship's position by latitude and longitude and tracking her course with colored pins on a large nautical map on the classroom wall.

They had learned nautical terms and the history of Baltimore clippers. They learned about each port of call Kingston, Jamaica; Panama City, Panama; Acapulco and Mazatlan, Mexico; Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco and Sausali-to, Seattle; Victoria, British Columbia, and Vancouver. In math classes they computed speed and mileage. They followed twice-weekly interviews with the captain of the Pride broadcast by WBAL-AM radio by announcer Brian Mac-Donald. They wrote letters to the captain and crew and were rewarded at one point with a telephone call from Capt.

Armin El-saesser, who was in San Francisco. When Capt. Jan Miles took over command of the vessel and a new crew on April 27 for the remainder of the voyage, he con- II Ursula Mosley and assistant principal Joe Ollock assist as fourth-graders take part in a long-distance telephone chat with then-Capt. Armin Elsaesser, of the Pride of Baltimore. gle with headwinds before reaching the Florida Keys.

The reports from the Pride "coincided with their classwork," Mrs. Mosley said. "What they imagined came to life." On the last day of school before the Christmas holiday, Mrs. Mosley was taking down the nautical chart, clippings and displays that had kept two of her classes in See PRIDE, Page 4, Col. 3 tinued the relationship with the Queen Annes county fourth-graders.

This fall, Mrs. Mosley's students learned about currents and weather patterns by following the real-life adventures of the Pride in stormy seas. They followed with suspense such setbacks as the Pride's four-day layover on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal waiting for replacements for broken engine parts to arrive from the United States, and a strug jr. Vv The Sun The Pride under sail. Freud asked his famous question in exasperation.

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