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Lise Bang-Jensen
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Barbara Tsairis is US director of Odyssey in Athens, a semester-abroad program for college students in Greece. She has recently begun working with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to develop a Greek-language learning program on the Internet. A New Hampshire delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Boston last fall, she recalls when John Kerry testified before Congress 30 years ago as a vet against the Vietnam War, and she said to her father, “Why can’t we have a president like that?”

Back in 1994 Josey Twombly ’70 invited a group of friends—including Vicary Clark Thomas ’70, Sherry Bostwick Bishko ’70—and me, to her home to discuss Margaret Atwood’s Robber Bride. So began a 10-year journey with 75 books, ranging from Anna Karenina to Harry Potter, biographies, and nonfiction. We discovered that some classics (Emma, The Great Gatsby) improve with age (ours), while others don’t (The Fountainhead, The Ambassadors). Read any good books lately? Send me a title or two, and I’ll compile the list and send it to classmates on my e-mail list.