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United Press International
RTH YARMOUTH,
— It’s easy sailing these
r Bill Dunlop, a former
driver who crossed the
lie in 78 days in a 9-foot
t — a feat that etched his
in the Guiness Book of
Records.
, , M ce then, he has been paid
jpear in magazine ads and
in tnel Br s j lows> shake hands
/as name iat f or a f ee 0 {' ^ j qqo
ter apt
‘‘I S : 1 picks up $100 a day from a
rink company to visit
s and tell kids about his
itures.
|travel around the world,
ses paid, first class,” Dun-
id after showing slides of
toric ocean crossing to stu-
its at North Yarmouth
[orial School.
nlop, 41, likes the public-
nd the money. But he says
ill hing to get back into his
- iilboat, Wind’s Will, to be-
I ft new conquest: a trip
J I \jund the world.
^vlO’Six months of this stuff is ab-
gl I can take. I want to get
It’s going to take me years
iwoppciyears, and I’m not getting
r, gowuftninger,” said Dunlop, who
all andftn Mechanic Falls, Maine,
al-dear fteis planning to leave July 31
Portland on a 29,000-mile
;e that will take him the bet-
rt of three years,
je will glide down the east
jof the United States, mak-
its for
ihance
lucts.
show
iiinding!
Edwaria few stops along the way to
ote the release of a forth-
g book about his history-
g trip last year,
en it’s on to the Panama
, where fellow sailors have
d him that authorities
ntribuffifijt not let his tiny boat
lutomolftugh the massive locks. But
:dedineftvon’t faze Dunlop,
the stabJl’ll tell them what they can do
here are
ies and
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f money
heir canal atid go the other
- around Cape Horn,” he
then plans to sail up to Los
les, across the Pacific,
Ocean and around the tip
uth Africa, then across the
ttic to the Caribbean, and
ly back to Portland and
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to natutf o gave up truck driving for
1 the eiji lire of sailing adventure will
ssion,wL a string of new sailing re
nd intherds— the most outstanding
ole in e:nig the smallest craft to cir-
etween finavigate the globe.
, local “I d rather die trying than not
)it at all,” said the stout, soft-
spoken sailor. “If I had to go and
get a regular job and do the
same old thing all the time —
cripes. I’d rather die out there.”
He nearly did die last summer
when he set a world record for
the smallest craft ever to cross
the Atlantic from west to east —
a 78-day, 3,000-mile voyage
from Portland to Falmouth, En
gland.
Wayne Dickinson of Florida
made the same crossing this year
in a boat two inches shorter than
Dunlop’s 9-foot, 7 /8-inch Wind’s
Will. Dickinson’s vessel crashed
along the Irish Coast, however,
and sank. It was unclear if Gui
ness would recognize the re
cord.
The overall record for the
shortest craft to sail across the
Atlantic was set in 1968 by
American Hugo Vihlen, who pi
loted a 6-foot craft east to west
from Africa to Florida.
During Dunlop’s oddessy, he
suffered from painful seawater
sores on his back and buttocks
while sailing through storms of
near hurricane force that cap
sized his boat at least 15 times.
Fog so thick he couldn’t see 10
feet in front of him kept Dunlop
in a dark, eerie solitude for 33
days that had him hallucinating
that the pulleys on the mast were
talking to him.
“It takes a long stretch of the
imagination to call it fun,” Dun
lop said.
His Atlantic voyage took
three years to plan and cost ab
out $ 15,000, about half of it was
paid by sponsors. With the same
sailboat and sponsors, he ex
pects it will cost more than
$15,000 for the round-the-
world trek.
For his feat, Dunlop was
made a lifetime member of the
International Explorers Club,
putting him in a class with Sir
Edmund Hillary, the first man
to conquer Mt. Everest, and
John Glenn, the first American
to orbit the earth.
Such hero recognition makes
Dunlop a popular speaker at
schools, especially in his native
Maine.
“We don’t have many heroes
today, and I personally regard
(Dunlop) as a hero,” said Merle
Davis, a Memorial School
teacher who arranged Dunlop’s
visit.
Dunlop doesn’t see it that
way.
“I’m the furthest thing from
what you call a hero — I’m not
super anything. I’m not super
smart, I’m not super-strong,” he
said. “I’m just a regular person
that does some amazing things.”
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Criticism may spark reforms
School leaders applaud report
United Press International
Boys and girls may not go
along with reform ideas from
the National Commission on
Excellence in Education —
especially those calling for an
11-month school year, a
seven-hour school day and
more homework.
But leaders of the nation’s
public schools — 16,000 inde
pendent school districts — are
applauding, a sampling of re
sponses shows.
The report by the commis
sion, created 18 months ago
by Secretary of Education
Terrel H. Bell, was issued
April 26. It flunked the
schools, saying:
“If an unfriendly foreign
power had attempted to im
pose on America the
mediocre educational per
formance that exists today, we
might well have viewed it as an
act of war.”
Signs of mediocrity include
a skid in Scholastic Aptitude
Test scores and declines in
reading, science and mathe
matics performance.
Other deficiencies — in
math, science, foreign lan
guage education and compu
ters — threaten to blunt the
nation’s edge in high tech
nology.
Scott Thomson, executive
director of the National Asso
ciation of Secondary School
Principals, reacting to the re
port, said:
“Schools can improve, and
that is a fact that principals,
other administrators and
teachers must realize. But we
can’t wave a magic wand to
create improvement.
“Society must undertand
that education is an invest
ment in America, and that
everyone has a role to play.”
Thomson made note of the
numerous comparisons in the
report between U.S. schools
and those in Japan.
“If people believe that the
Japanese get greater produc
tivity from their educational
system than we do, the simple
fact is that they contribute
greater support to their
schools.”
In the 1978-79 Japanese
fiscal year about 7.1 percent
of the national income was
spent on elementary and
secondary education, accord
ing to the Ministry of Educa
tion, Science and Culture.
By comparison, in 1981-82,
about 4 percent of the U.S.
gross national product was
spent on schools.
The commission’s report
came out during the annual
“If an unfriendly fore
ign power had attemp
ted to impose on
America the mediocre
educational perform
ance that exists today,
we might well have
viewed it as an act of
war. ”
convention of the National
School Boards Association in
San Francisco.
A series of resolutions fol
lowed and recommended loc
al school boards:
— Review high school gra
duation requirements and
course offerings to bolster
programs in English, mathe
matics, science, social studies,
computer science and foreign
languages.
— Develop written school
board policies that call for
“more rigorous and measur
able standards and higher ex
pectations for academic per
formance and student con
duct.”
— Explore ways to add
more instructional time,
either by lengthening the
school day and year or by us
ing currently available time
more efficiently.
— Design and implement
plans to gain public support
for educational reform and a
commitment to provide
money needed.
Dr. Paul Salmon, executive
director of the American
Association of School Admi
nistrators, hopes the commis
sion’s report is an indication
that President Reagan has fin
ally realized the nation has a
stake in education.
The association frequently
has expressed concerns about
White House proposals to re
duce funds for public schools.
The administration proposals
include tuition tax credits for
a portion of money spent on
tuition paid to private schools
— plus the voucher plan.
The latter, favored by pri
vate schools, would provide a
voucher good for “X” number
of dollars for education per
student every year. The stu
dent or his parents would de
cide whether to put the money
into public or private educa
tion.
Willard McGuire, presi
dent of the National Educa
tion Association, the teacher’s
union, said the commission’s
report is exciting.
“It calls for far greater na
tional leadership in educa
tion,” he said. “It urges local-
state-national partnership.
Implementing commission
recommendations will cost bil
lions, McGuire said.
He said the public school
bill now is something over
$100 billion a year and in
cludes $50 billion from the
states, $7 billion from the fed
eral government and $43 bil
lion from local sources.
The federal contribution
will go to $22.7 billion a year if
commision recommendations
are carried out, he said.
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