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Dear Brown Alumni and Friends,
Happy New Year! As I write this message, our first Brown Travelers trip of 2007 is underway. This time of year is always exciting for us, as we are able to see the programs on which we've worked so hard literally "take off." To get the 2007 travel season off on the right foot, many of our tour providers are offering special incentives. Here is a sampling:
Martha Sharp Joukowsky '58, Professor Emerita in the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Department of Anthropology, is leading our April/May Wonders of the Ancient World: A Springtime Voyage in the Mediterranean. If you book this trip ASAP (the original deadline for the special offer has been extended), you will receive a complimentary night in Athens and a tour of the Acropolis.
Turkey has been a crossroad between Asia and Europe for centuries. This fascinating trip is filling quickly, but the travel company that is operating it offers a savings of $150 per person to you and to any of your friends who join you on the trip, even if they register at a later date. Please note that the friends must reside at a different address.
And for our very popular Alumni College in Chianti, the deadline to receive the "early booking discount" of $200 per couple has been extended to March 6. Only a few rooms remain on this, one of our most successful and highly-rated trips, so if you are interested I urge you to register soon.
Finally, I'm pleased to announce that we recently added two trips to the Brown Travelers 2007 schedule. We will Cruise the Passage of Peter the Great (from Moscow to St. Petersburg) with Professor Patricia Herlihy in August, and we will travel to Poland (Krakow and Warsaw) with Professor Duncan Smith in September/October. Both trips are great values, and Professors Herlihy and Smith are both profiled below.
As always, you can find more information on the above or any of our trips on our Web site. Best wishes for a healthy and happy 2007!
Beth Goldman Galer '88
Director of the Alumni Travel Program
Faculty Profiles
For this issue we decided to profile two of the Brown Travelers' favorite faculty lecturers, both of whom will accompany trips for us in 2007. We are so fortunate at Brown to have such wonderful faculty members who are willing to share their time and expertise with our passengers. If you have an experience, story or photo from a past Brown Travelers trip that you would like to share with us, please feel free to contact us at Brown_Travelers@alumni.brown.edu.
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 Patricia Herlihy
Emerita Professor of History and Research Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies
Pat was bitten by the "travel bug" early in life. At the age of six, she was wishing friends a "Bon Voyage" for their trip around the world by boat. She remembers waving the serpentine flags, turning to her mother and exclaiming, "Mother, I've never been around the world. Not once!" She figured out then that being left behind bothered her a lot.
Since then she has realized the joy of being on the road and this year she will accompany her 11th Brown Travelers trip. It was very hard for Pat to decide which of these trips was her favorite because each trip has its own character, but when pressed she decided that the "Alumni College in Sorrento" she accompanied in 2001 was her favorite. On that trip she saw parts of Southern Italy that she had never seen before and she also had the chance to travel with her daughter.
Pat also has fond memories of an early-1990s Ukrainian trip, on which there was a dance contest one night aboard the boat. "It was women's choice night. I had noticed an Iranian man who was a terrific dancer, so I tapped him and we won the rock 'n' roll dance contest! I received a bouquet of roses and a bottle of banana-flavored (ugh) Ukrainian champagne."
Pat's next Brown Travelers trip will be one with which she is well familiar, going to Russia in August of this year. And in 2008 she will finally fulfill her lifelong dream of traveling around the world when she accompanies the Brown Travelers as they venture Around the World by Private Jet.
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 Duncan Smith ’61, AM ’63, PHD ’67, P ’84
Emeritus Professor of German Studies and Modern Culture and Media
Being a Brown alumnus as well as a Brown faculty member, Duncan has an interesting perspective on the Brown Travelers. He has observed that even if the passengers didn't know one another while at Brown, they might have had the same faculty or similar experiences. Therefore, they have an instant rapport. "It's as if they're renewing their undergraduate days years later," he stated. He feels that being around one another on tours, at receptions and at meals lends itself to getting to know the "good-natured Brunonians."
Of his 12 previous trips with the Brown Travelers, Duncan's favorite was to Poland in 2005. The trip offered an unusual combination of different things and he felt that the passengers on the trip made a difference too. He firmly believes that Brown Travelers make the best audiences (over his undergraduate and graduate students) because they are aware and alert!
Anyone who has traveled with Duncan knows that he has a wonderful sense of humor, and he loves to tell the story of a "standard joke" that he told on many trips. On one particular trip, one of the passengers who had traveled with him before was ready and waiting with the punch line (a list of the Kings of Israel)!
Duncan will return to Poland with the Brown Travelers in September/October of this year.
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Language Lesson
Match the translation with the appropriate language.
Example: Happy New Year |
English |
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1. 新年快乐 |
a. Russian |
2. Nouvelle année heureuse |
b. Spanish |
3. Glückliches neues Jahr |
c. Icelandic |
4. Nuovo anno felice |
d. Gaelic |
5. 明けましておめでとう |
e. Chinese |
6. С Новым Годом |
f. Japanese |
7. Feliz Año Nuevo |
g. French |
8. Hamingjusamur Nýár |
h. Italian |
9. Glade Nytt år |
i. German |
10. Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit |
j. Norwegian |
Answers: 1e, 2g, 3i, 4h, 5f, 6a, 7b, 8c, 9j, 10d
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