“Bo … po … mo … fo,” my wide-eyed freshman classmates and I obediently repeated in a sing-song chorus to the woman at the head of our Chinese 101 class—small in stature, dressed in all black, and very, very serious. Again and again, we tried to mimic sounds we had never heard, much less spoken.
Janice Tanaka Tower ’84 and her brother, Matt Tanaka ’81, bike over the Alaska Range, across the subarctic interior, down the mighty frozen Yukon, and on to the Bering Sea during the 2025 Iditarod…
