Richard Garner, Dean of the Honors College, has a talent for languages and finding himself in interesting situations.
Richard Garner, Dean of the Honors College, has a talent for languages and finding himself in interesting situations.听
As an undergraduate at Princeton, majoring in Russian at the height of the Cold War, he got a job speaking Russian with Stalin鈥檚 daughter, Svetlana Aleluyeva, who had defected to the West in 1967 and feared losing her language. He also found himself translating for 鈥渇aithful Communists鈥� on visits to the U.S.
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“I took them through schools and explained our system to them 鈥� and couldn鈥檛 make them believe the students writing with their left hands weren鈥檛 being trained for some secret job,鈥� he says.
Excerpted from A Look Back, Adelphi Magazine, Fall 2009 by Abby Ptachik and Lauren Kalish.
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