Tura Campanella Cook:  

Hi Friends, I hope you are all well and that life has been kind to you. When in Austin, Texas, let me know! After Westport High, I went to Swarthmore College and graduated in 1975 with a major in Latin. Such was the influence of WHS Latin teacher Helen Biery and a dynamic classics faculty at Swarthmore. I spent the spring of 1974 at the Center for Classical Studies in Rome and had a fantastic time. The light is better, the food fantastic and the people wonderful, but then, I might be biased. Fired up to learn another language with modern relevance, I went to the University of Texas to study Arabic. Did I do these things for the travel? I was studying in Cairo at the time of the Camp David Accords when Egyptians would stop Americans in the street and exclaim, "America good! Carter good!" With a degree in Public A...Expand for more