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THE OWL THE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER OF COLLEGE YEAR IN ATHENS Spring 2021 Spring '21 students enjoying the sunset on top of Mount Lycabettus Photo by Sophia Chaltas (Spring ’21) 5 PLATEIA STADIOU, ATHENS, GREECE LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES K. Chris Todd Elias Samaras Alan Shapiro (CYA '69) he Bicentennial of the Greek War of seeing the prospect of Greek annihilation, Chairman, Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; Founder, President and Managing Director, Digital W.H.Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, The Independence was celebrated all over eventually changed their position in favor Partner, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick, Security Technologies S.A. John Hopkins University; Whitehead Professor at T PLLC the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the world this past March with a series of of the Greeks and in 1827 destroyed the Endy Zemenides (CYA '95) 1992-93, 2012-13 cultural, educational, and festive events. It Ottoman and Egyptian fleets in the naval Alexis G. Phylactopoulos Executive Director, Hellenic American Leadership Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, College Year in Council (HALC) Voula Tsouna was a time for remembrance and reflection battle of Navarino, thereby sealing the Athens; President, College Year in Athens Professor of Philosophy/Chair, UC-Santa Barbara Cornelia Mayer Herzfeld (CYA ’66) on the past and future of this new nation, independence of the young nation. Peter Sutton Allen (CYA ’65) Recording Secretary, Board of Trustees and Special the first nation-state after the Napoleonic Treasurer, Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; Consultant to the President, College Year in Athens At CYA, the historic occasion of the ADVISORS EMERITI wars. Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Rhode Island beginning of the Revolution was commem- College Christos Doumas orated in March with remarkable virtual TRUSTEES EMERITI The role of the Greeks of the diaspora in Daphne Hatsopoulos Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, University of lectures given by two important historians Athens; Director, Excavations at Akrotiri, Thera Moldavia and Wallachia, inspired by the Secretary, Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; John McK. Camp II of modern Greece, Columbia University Trustee Emerita, Boston Museum of Science Director of the Agora Excavations, American School of Peter Green values of American independence in 1776 Classical Studies at Athens professor Mark Mazower and Haverford Evita Arapoglou James R. Dougherty Jr. Centennial Professor of and the French Revolution in 1789, by the Director of the Leventis Art Gallery at Nicosia, Cyprus Classics Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin; College professor Alexander Kitroeff. Both George A. David Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of Iowa ideas of the enlightenment, and the words Director, Leventis Group events were co-hosted by the Consulate Michail Bletsas of diaspora Greeks like Rigas and Koraes Research Scientist and Director of Computing, Martha Sharp Joukowsky General of Greece in Boston and offered Joan Caraganis Jakobson (CYA ‘65) Professor Emerita of Old World Archaeology and Art, synthesized the intellectual background of MIT Media Lab Free-Lance Writer; Advisory Board, Wesleyan Writers under the auspices of the Embassy of Brown University; Director, Petra Southern Temple a revolution. The influence of classicism in- Conference; Trustee, New York Historical Society Greece in Washington, drawing thousands Andrea Hannon Brown (CYA ’73) Excavations; Former President of the Archaeological duced a philhellenic movement in Western School Psychologist Edmund Keeley Institute of America of viewers thanks to modern technology Straut Professor of English Emeritus and Director of Europe fueled by the romantic poetry of Anastassis G. David Gerald Lalonde and social media.Recordings of both are Hellenic Studies Emeritus, Princeton University Byron, Shelley, and Keats inspiring people Chairman of the Board, Coca Cola HBC AG Professor Emeritus of Classics, Grinnell College available at Mark Mazower or Alexander Mary R. Lefkowitz to become sympathetic to the Greek cause. Dimitri Gondicas Lily Macrakis Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Kitroeff. Apart from offering to our alumni Director, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Special Counselor to the President of Hellenic In America, the poetry of Fitz Greene Emerita, Wellesley College and friends a deeper understanding of the Princeton University College-Holy Cross Halleck and the fiery sermons of people CYA was born only 130 years after the end Raphael Moissis complexity of the Greek Revolution, both Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos (CYA '83) Stephen G. Miller like Edward Everett and Thomas Winthrop of the Greek Revolution. Although dedi- Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees, College lectures underlined the enormous influ- Professor of Neuroscience, University of Chicago Professor of Classical Archaeology Emeritus, in Boston and Nicholas Biddle and George cated to making our students intercultur- Year in Athens; Chair Emeritus, Foundation for University of California at Berkeley; Former Director, ence that philhellenism played in the 19th Julia Hotz (CYA ‘14) Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) - Greece; Beddel in Philadelphia mobilized political ally competent, there is no doubt that the Excavations at Nemea century, mobilizing public opinion in the Community Manager, Solutions Journalism Network Honorary Chairman, AB Vassilopoulos S.A. and economic support. Quite likely the deeper impetus for CYA’s creation was the Stephen V. Tracy US and Europe, radically transforming the Yannis Ioannides Alexander Nehamas Former Director, American School of Classical Studies abolitionist movement played a positive study and cultivation of the art, language, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the political scene and tipping the scale not just Max & Herta Neubauer Chair and Professor of at Athens; Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University role as well. and history of ancient and modern Greece, Economics, Tufts University Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative in favor of the embattled Greeks but also in Literature, Princeton University Charles Kaufman Williams II in essence promoting classicism and Greek George Komodikis What is also remarkable is that the uprising Director Emeritus, Corinth Excavations, American favor of the ideals of liberty, independence, studies, the same elements that shaped Member-Advisory Board, Ipswich Investment Anne Rothenberg (CYA '66) School of Classical Studies of the Greeks in 1821 happened at a time human rights, and constitutional gover- Management Co., Inc. Trustee, The Huntington Library Art Collections and public opinion in the 19th century to give when the Powers of the day, Austro-Hun- Botanical Gardens nance. Greece its freedom, elements which have Christine Kondoleon gary, Russia, Prussia, England, and France, George and Margo Behrakis Chair of Greek and Thanos Veremis ACADEMIC ADVISORY ROUNDTABLE Reflecting on the past, one can say that a provided her soft power ever since. Byron’s Roman Art, Department of Art of Ancient Greece and Professor of Political History Emeritus, University of had all joined together in the Holy Alliance Michael Arnush lot was accomplished in these two hundred “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” and Shel- Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Athens; Vice Chairman, ELIAMEP at the Congress of Vienna to keep a world Chair, Department of Classics, Skidmore College years and a lot remains to be done. The ley’s “Hellas” have influenced generations Zoë Sophia Kontes (CYA ’95) Polyvios Vintiadis order that was totally intolerant to na- Kendall Brostuen young nation enlarged itself with the toward the same ideals. Byron writes in the Associate Professor and Chair of Classics, Kenyon Director, Morgens Waterfall Vintiadis & Co. tionalistic uprisings. It is in this forbidding College Director of International Programs/Associate Dean of Balkan Wars, suffered the Catastrophe on “Isles of Greece”, the College, Brown University context that the Friendly Society in Odessa Ulysses Kyriacopoulos its centennial having to absorb 1.5 million BOARD OF ADVISORS Jennifer Ewald was planning the Revolution. Its leader, The mountains look on Marathon – Fmr Chairman, Hellenic Foundation of Greek fellow Greeks from Asia Minor, endured Enterprises (SEV); fmr Chairman, Foundation for Director, Office of Study Abroad, Fairfield University Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek officer in the And Marathon looks on the sea; P. Nikiforos Diamandouros the Nazi occupation and the civil war but Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE); Member of Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Hal Haskell Russian army and aid de camp to the Tzar, And musing there an hour alone, the Board of Imerys Industrial Minerals Greece S.A., always remained on the right side of histo- Athens; Former Greek Ombudsman Professor of Classics, Southwestern University in his impetuous way preempted the revo- I dream’d that Greece might still be free; ASK Chemicals, Lamda Development ry. All this and the present circumstances Jack Davis Pam Haskell lution and started military action in Walla- Laetitia La Follette (CYA ’75) Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, of the world pandemic, severely impacting Greece has indeed remained free. The Professor of Classics, Southwestern University chia by collecting a small army of students Professor of History of Art & Architecture, University of Cincinnati; Former Director of the Greece after nine years of economic