Teachers agree Spence 

 in a class by herself 



Photo by Allen Weiss 



Lundie Spence 



In class or out in the 

 field, Lundie Spence 

 plays the Pied Piper 

 of marine science. 



SARAH FRIDAY 



Lundie Spence stood at the front 

 of the classroom giving instruc- 

 tions for the day's activities. The 

 students Ustened intently, writing 

 down the important points. 

 Somebody raised a hand and asked 

 a question. It was like any other 

 day at school. But it wasn't. 



The students were teachers, half 

 from Puerto Rico and half from 

 North Carolina. And the class was 

 on the Caribbean island, getting 

 prepped on the various corals 

 they'd see during the afternoon's 

 snorkeling trip. 



The beauty and variety of the 

 tropical environments lured Lun- 

 die, Juan Gonzalez and the rest of 

 the class to take the plunge and 

 bring the classroom to life in 

 Puerto Rico. For a week, the 

 teachers watched the pictures in 

 their science books back home 

 come alive and added a few new 

 pages of their own. 



To Lundie, learning through in- 

 volvement is the key to spurring 

 educators' interest in marine 

 science. She, Gonzalez and Manuel 

 Hernandez, the Puerto Rico Sea 

 Grant director, organized the 

 Puerto Rico workshop with this in 

 mind. 



"I wanted to design a program 

 in which teachers become im- 

 mersed in the environment," says 



