American Hellenic Professional Society Past Presentations

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 HELLENISM AND ORTHODOXY - EXHIBIT AND LECTURE SERIES
JANUARY 23 - MARCH 2, 2008
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Dr. Thomas J. Adams
Professor Emeritus, Business and Economics
Sacramento City College
Speaking on:
The Greek War of Independence, Yankee Opium and American Foreign Policy
Saturday, November 3, 2007 

Dr. Thomas J. Adams was born in Akron, Ohio to Asia Minor parents.  He graduated from Kent University (BA, Political Science); Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (FBT); San Francisco State University (MS, International Economics); and University of California, Berkley (Ph.D., Education Economics).  In 1965, he began his teaching career at Sacramento City College where he introduced new courses in Marketing, Management, and the Black Studies Program.  As a rare Ph.D. teaching at the community college level, he was urged by publishers to write for the community-college market.  His first textbook, The Business of Business, was published in 1973.  he went on to publish textbooks, study guides, test banks,, and instructor's manuals in Marketing and Macro and Micro Economics - 41 in all - over the next 30 years. 

In 2005, he was accepted in the Liberal Arts Masters' program at California State University Sacramento, and on May 26, 2007, he received his second master's degree, this time an MA.  The presentation is taken from his thesis, American Foreign Policy and the Ottoman State, 1774-1837, As revealed in United States Documents.  Professors Jeffrey Brodd, Katerina Lagos-Tsakopoulos, and Speros Vryonis, Jr. served on his thesis committee.

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Timm Rolek
Artistic Director of the Sacramento Opera
 and the Lake Tahoe Musical Festival
Opera and its Connection to Ancient Greece
Sunday, September 30, 2007

 Timm Rolek is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Sacramento Opera and the Lake Tahoe Musical Festival.  A former member of the conducting staff of the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Rolek is a busy guest Conductor on the concert and operatic stages.  His repertoire ranges from Strauss to Puccini, Sondheim to Musgrave.  Mr. Rolek spoke about opera and its connection to ancient Greece as well as previewing the new Sacramento Opera Session.

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FATHER’S DAY
PANEGYRI

On Father’s Day
June 17, 2007, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Arden Community Park
1000 La Sierra Drive, Sacramento, California

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Consul General of Greece, Xenia Stefanidou
"Olympics and Beyond"
Friday, April 27, 2007 at The Dante Club

About Ms. Stefanidou:  A native Athenian, Mrs. Stefanidou is a BA graduate of the School of Archeology and History of the University of Athens.  In 2005, she completed her Masters in Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

A nine-year stint in archeology led to an interest in diplomacy.  After completing her studies in the Diplomatic Academy in 1984, she served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens whereupon she was assigned to Bonn, Germany to serve as Secretary of Embassy, then to Plovidiv, Bulgaria where she served as Consul General at the Consulate General of Greece.  Returning to Athens, she served in several political departments at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  In 2004, Mrs. Stefanidou was detached to the Consulate General of Greece in Boston, and in September of 2005, she assumed her duties as the Consul General of Greece in San Francisco.

In 1995, she was decorated with the “Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany” by the German Ambassador in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Fluent in six languages—Greek, English, German, French, Spanish and Italian—she is the wife of Vice Admiral Konstantinos Kanavariotis.  Their daughter is studying economics at the University of Athens.