American Hellenic Professional Society Presents:

Barbara Jean Drushell, Ph.D.

Classical Scholar
with a presentation on
“The Humble Amphora Handle:  Why It Matters”
Sunday, September 27, 2009

About our Speaker:

Professor Drushell was educated at New Jersey's Douglass College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year.  Graduating with high honors, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and full scholarships enabled her to attend Harvard University where she received her M.A. in Classical Philology (1964), and her Ph.D. in Classical Philology (1971).  During the summer of 1966, she attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.  For the years 1965-1966 she was a teaching fellow in the classics at Harvard.  Her grant to work on archeological collections in Alexandria, Egypt, resulted in her dissertation: "Studies in Rhodian Amphora Handles."  Besides the amphora handles, in her lecture Barbara will discuss trading conditions in Rhodes and Alexandria from the Fourth to the First Century BC and explain her study of over 40,000 handles that she worked on for more than a year.  AHPS has had many presentations that that took the macrohistorical view of Classical Greek history.  With this event, we take a look through the other end of the telescope – the microhistorical view.  Studying a single humble artifact allows us to subsume an entire age.  Over the years Barbara and her late husband traveled to over thirty countries and lived for at least a year in Egypt, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam.  She spends some of her free time in Davis babysitting her son and daughter-in-law's two children, six and four, while she teaches courses in U.C. Davis' Extended Studies Department, which include courses on the ancient Greek dramatists and on the historians Herodotus and Thucydides.  Barbara also has a daughter who lives in Japan with her husband.

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George L. Chiagouris
Civil Engineer, Hellenic Historian
with a presentation on
“Unheralded Contributions Made by the Greeks during World War II”
Monday, June 29, 2009

George L. Chiagouris, P.E., was born in 1932 in the small village of Louka, located in central Arcadia in Peloponnesos.  During World War II, he was living in the village with his mother, older brother and younger sister, his father having emigrated from Greece to America in l933.  During the occupation of Greece, German officers took over most of the Chiagouris house and the whole family was relegated to one small room.  In 1948 the family came to America and was reunited with his father in Chicago.  As a teenager, George worked at his father’s produce store while attending school fulltime.   He was drafted into the U.S. Army for two years after graduating from high school, spending most of his service with the Allied occupation forces in Munich, Germany.  After discharge, he attended college, and received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.  During his career as an engineer, he began writing technical articles as a hobby.  He then branched out into writing about Hellenism and Hellenic causes, and became active in several Hellenic-American organizations such as AHEPA, Pan Arcadians, Society of Louka, and the St. John Church.  George stresses that he feels he is blessed to be living “the American dream.”  George will be in Sacramento on a stop to visit family while on his way to San Francisco where he is scheduled to deliver a speech at the AHEPA National Convention.

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William J. Douros
Marine Biologist, National Marine Sanctuary Program with a presentation on
“The Ocean, National Marine Sanctuaries, and You”
Sunday, May 3, 2009
About Our Speaker
 

For over two years William J. Douros has been West Coast Regional Director of the United States Commerce Department’s National Marine Sanctuary Program in Monterey, California, which he personally established in January 2006.  In that capacity he is responsible for the operation of five west coast national marine sanctuaries, which include over 12,000 square miles of coastal and marine waters protected by national marine sanctuaries statutes.  The five sanctuaries are as follows:  The Olympic Coast: Beginning at Cape Flattery at the tip of the Strait of Juan de Fuca (a Greek, by the way), south to Point Grenville; The Cordell Bank:  Off Point Reyes National Seashore; The Gulf of the Farallones:  From Point Reyes National Seashore to the Farallones; Monterey Bay:  From the Golden Gate to San Simeon; and The Channel Islands:  Off the coast of Santa Barbara County.

Bill Douros, a graduate of The University of California, Santa Barbara (BA, Environmental Biology and MA, Marine Biology), and his wife, Mariangela, have two sons.  Bill Douros’ dad, also named Bill Douros, addressed the Society some years ago.   With national discussions on global warming, over-fishing, the loss of whales and other oceanic mammals, this is a chance to hear from an oceanic expert, so bring your questions.

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Anthony Folcarelli, M. A.
Specialist in American Foreign Policy

Speaking on
Keeping America “White”—Stopping Greeks, Italians, and Other Immigrants from Entering the “Golden Door.”

Sunday, September 28, 2008

The Dante Club

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

Born of immigrant parents, Anthony’s father’s day job was as a “master textile weaver” in one of the many textile mills of New England. Weekends he was a professional opera singer well known in New England and New York where his company put on shows for Italians, mostly immigrants.

Anthony was educated in eastern schools. He attended Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island where he studied Classical Greek. He entered Boston College on a full athletic scholarship where he majored in Liberal Arts and Economics, and completed his formal education at the University of Rhode Island where he studied Political Science and received his M. A.

Anthony served in the armed forces as a Naval Officer for four years with a billet of Air intelligence that included a Top Secret clearance.

His professional career has included:
• President of the United Way of Fresno
• President of the United Way of California
• President of the California Writers Club
• Dale Carnegie instructor for 14 years
• Founder, developer, and educator about public policy legislative advocacy for the California Public Policy Council of the California Association of Nonprofits.

Anthony is now actively pursuing a degree at California State University, Sacramento. This time it is a Masters Degree in History and Historiography under the 60+ Program.

He and his wife, Diane, have three children and six grandchildren.

 

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On Sunday October 26, 2008

Stavros Stavridis
Research Scholar, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Will speak on
Greece and the Great Powers
1919-1923: The Catastrophe