YOU LOVED INTERIM, NOW HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO DISCOVER DISCOVERY TERM

Next January, alumni, parents and friends of the college can join students to experience firsthand, in the words of Edgar Allen Poe, “The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.”

Art professor Jim Olsen ’61 will lead a Discovery Term travel course to those countries. Tentative dates for the three-week trip are Jan. 6–26, with Greece the first destination.

In Greece, tour members will visit Athens, Corinth, Mycenae, Epidaurus, Nafplion, Olympus, Mount Parnassus and Delphi. They’ll also take a one-day cruise to the islands of Aegina, Hydra and Poros.

Travel to Italy will be by ferry from Patras, Greece, to Brindisi. Destinations in Italy include Pompeii, Naples, Rome, Assisi, Florence and Venice.

Olsen describes the trip as “moderately vigorous” because participants will sometimes need to walk long distances and climb hillside paths.

The web site art.dana.edu/jolsen lists the places tour members will visit in Athens, Rome, Assisi, Florence and Venice. It also describes the focus of the course and includes photographs and a map.

Olsen hopes to keep the cost at $3,000 or less. That amount includes round-trip airfare from Omaha, all surface transportation, lodging, breakfasts and dinners, and admission to the sites and museums included in the course.

Readers interested in joining the tour should send a $150 per person deposit, payable to Dana College, for the Greece and Italy Discovery Tour travel account, to the Dana College Business Office, 2848 College Dr., Blair, NE 68008, as soon as possible. Deposits are refundable until Oct. 15.

The number of participants will be limited to 16, Olsen says. If participation is oversubscribed, early depositors will have priority.

Those planning to participate or needing additional information should call Olsen at Dana (402-426-7206) or at home (402-426-2765). He can also be reached by e-mail at jolsen@acad2.dana.edu.

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