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Sea Captain Guides Fifth Grade Mail Voyage
East School fifth graders spent a year learning about Mediterranean ports through correspondence with USS Export Challenger captain E M Leverenz. The project, run by The Propeller Club of America, fostered geography, math, science, and vocabulary as students exchanged letters, artwork, and a ship model.
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Barcelona
Izmir
Miraeus
Derince
Monroe
East School
Jerome Howe
USS Export Challenger
American Export
Ibrandtsen Lines
Hoboken
New Jersey
E. M. Leverenz
Propeller Club of America
Merchant Marine
Green County
Mike Newman
Nathan Burgy, Jr
Leverenz
Rutherford
Spain
Turkey
North Africa
New York
Piraeus
Greece
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Sea of
Marmara
Mediterranean
Solera