[net.columbia] Teacher Selected

alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (07/20/85)

VIce President Bush today announced that Sharon Christa McAuliffe
from Concord High School, Concord, NH, would fly aboard the
January, 1986, mission of the shuttle Challenger.  The backup
selection was Barbara R. Morgan of McCall Connelly Elementary
School, McCall, Idaho.  Filling in for Mrs. McAuliffe on her
first day out of class will be education secretary William
J. Bennett.