:: JUNE 2009 $2.95 NEO Exclusive Nia Vardalos AHEPA in San Francisco New Acropolis Museum L100 Leader Stefanie Gail Roumeliotes Advertising Maverick George Lois James M. Orphanides honored 6 12 33 It s just another 08 20 23 32 ordinary Friday… 19 The New Generation of Leaders 10 26 AKTINA’s Concert Scholarships and AHEPA’s Cigar Smoker with Melina Travel Fellowships Benefit A Churchil-size Aslanidou by Faith success a Huge Success 16 21 34 37 George Lois The AHEPA Family Key US Policymakers Prepares to “Leave Its show support for Heart” in San Francisco Cyprus and Greece Beyond Borders 18 22 28 38 33 Obama’s speech Leadership 100 to James M. Orphanides The New Acropolis in Cairo Continue Grants honored by HABA Museum The New Leaders The L100/NEO New Generation leader profiled in :: magazine this issue is Stefanie Gail Roumeliotes who had a pioneering grandfather who was an immigrant but managed to graduate Brown in the 1930s, and the strong women in her family, most noticeably her Editor in Chief: mother, who gave her the courage to follow her Dimitri C. Michalakis
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[email protected] strength and grace under fire,” she says. Stefanie’s :: dream turned out to be politics, which she learned at the home of another Lifestyle Editor seminal influence, her godfather. “From congressional internships starting at the Maria Athanasopoulos age of 15 to serving as high school student body president, I have always had the
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