Emily MacArthur MC'99 writes: It’s been ten years since I graduated from Monmouth. I was an economics major, but I minored in Classics and I went on the Classics trip to Turkey and Greece in May of 1999.  While much of what I learned in my classes on ancient Greece has remained vivid in my mind, my lessons in economics have long since faded from memory.  From time to time, I still sing Sappho’s poem about watching the path of the Pleiades while waiting for her lover.  And last week, I sat in my car long after my lunch break was over to finish listening to a conversation on NPR with the author of Black Athena.  I could not care less about Reaganomics!  Back in my Monmouth days, I was hell-bent on majoring in something my parents deemed practical, and that led me to 10 years of soul-crushing office jobs.  In my Classics classes, I learned to make connections between different cultures and ideas.  Psychology is a Greek word after all, is it not?  The themes we discussed in the Iliad and the Odyssey are as meaningful today as they were in Homer’s time.