This episode of Voyage of Rediscovery features Catherine (Cat) Wilson.

Cat attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and grew up on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

In our conversation, Cat shares of her travels before Semester at Sea, and how her ability to speak French turned things around for her in one particular port. Also, do you know what holiday falls on November 10? Find out in this episode.

Hop on board everyone, the ship is leaving.

Conversation with Catherine Wilson

Additional notes

Please excuse the quality of the footage of Catherine. The technology we used to record our conversation compressed the final product. We attempted to improve the output in post-production as best we could. Portions featuring Alexander Kotler were recorded locally, via webcam, which resulted in a higher resolution recording.

This program also includes limited scenes from the original Fall 1998 participant video, photographed and edited by Skye Fitzgerald and executive produced by Marlin Darrah.

Catherine Wilson


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