Anne Atheling’s advice to other travelers can best be summed up as follows: “Go young, go often, and go long.” A Barnard graduate of the class of 1950, she studied abroad at Reid Hall in the Summer of 1949 with the Smith Junior Year Abroad program, one of the first post-WWII and in the same year as future First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier. As she puts it, this “kicked off a life-long love of everything French.” From May to October 1950 she hosteled alone throughout Europe. It then took her 50 years to return to France. On one of her now-regular trips to Paris since 2000, she tells us about the impact of study abroad on her life, her love of solo travel, and the importance of independent thinking.

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Host: Marie Doezema

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Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

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