Under the BU banner, entrepeneur Mr. Shawn Dill and two others will sell a line of T-shirts at $17.50 each and donate the proceeds to young people who need monetary help in pursuing their post-secondary studies locally or abroad.

The T-shirts, which feature four different inspirational messages, can be purchased at a number of locations, including the Phoenix Centre, Fashions, Decked Out, Dub City Records and Chris Kross.

The charity will also oversee a "writers' club'' in which people with causes that meet the BU mission are encouraged to submit ideas for future lines of shirts.

Anyone who has a cause to promote or requires student assistance is requested to phone 232-0202.

*** The Friends of the Bermuda Library are sponsoring a book-a-thon this month to raise funds for the computerisation of the Bermuda Youth Library in Hamilton.

All Youth Library members who are in good standing and aged five or older are eligible to participate in the contest, which requires entrants to match 26 authors and titles and collect pledges of no less than ten cents for each correct answer.

Prizes include ten percent of the gross amount collected by the Friends for the person who brings in the greatest amount of pledged money, five percent of the gross amount for the second-highest collection and five additional prizes.

Contest forms and rules are available in the Youth Library at 74 Church Street. The contest runs during the month of May.

*** Mrs. Elise Outerbridge of the Masterworks Foundation is currently in New York City to complete an internship at the internationally renowned Whitney Museum of American Art.

Working under painting and sculpture curator Ms Barbara Haskell, Mrs.

Outerbridge will assist the museum with research and installations in the following weeks and return to New York in the fall for six more.

"It's like a scholarship to Harvard for me,'' the one-time fine arts student said of her time at the Whitney, where she hopes to acquire some "state-of-the-art museum skills''.

Established in 1987, Masterworks repatriates Bermuda-related art from overseas and has lately taken to promoting living artists.