by Nick
Arkansas students’ balloon lands in N.C.
March 22, 2007 in Education & Training by Nick
Twenty-two years ago, Mahlon Webb Jr. wrote a note, put it in a bottle and tossed it into the ocean at a North Carolina Beach. Five years ago, he got a call from a woman on Grand Cayman Island saying she’d found the bottle.
Last week, Webb made the same type of call, this time to an Arkansas school where children sent a balloon aloft with a note attached.
Webb, 34, is a golf course superintendent in Tarboro and found the balloon March 12 as he rode around the course checking on its condition.
The yellow balloon had a tag showing it was set free by Dana Johnson’s class at Wynne Primary School Kindergarten in Wynne, Ark.
Webb’s fiance, Susan Watson, 29, called Johnson’s classroom. Johnson said the class had released balloons for several years but no one had ever called back.
The balloon was released Jan. 31 as students celebrated the 100th day of the school year.
“It was right cool to call the kids,” said Webb. “It is amazing the balloon made the trip.”
