From collection New Albany Public Library News Collection
Letters from 'Indy'
Georgetown students get to know their pen-pal, a sailor in the U.S. Merchant Marine fleet. Photograph of Kevin Kukurugya, an engineer from Crown Point, Ind. on the oil tanker Arco Independence ... with his sixth-grade pen-pals. Brought together through the merchant marine's Adopt-a-Ship program, sixth-grade teacher Alan Roederer has had his kids writing to sailors in the merchant marine since 1982