The enthusiasm, work, learning, and friend-making continue at the 99th Anniversary AHEPA Supreme Convention in Athens Greece. The all-important networking component of the conventions also has an additional emotional element this year – it’s the first time in many months that some people have seen their AHEPA brothers and sisters due to the pandemic – and the first time they have been together in the Hellenic homeland.
With warm memories of the socializing and award ceremony of the AHEPA 99th Anniversary Event at the Greek War Museum the evening before, the Ahepans on July 27 awoke to a full slate of meetings and panel discussions while looking forward to what promises to be a most enjoyable AHEPA Greek Night at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Athens’ southern coast on Tuesday night.
In the morning, parallel with general sessions for AHEPA and Daughter of Penelope internal business, there were special presentations on a variety of interesting topics. Dr. Peter Stavrianides, based on his extensive research and Greek-American community experience, spoke about `The Evolution of Greek America in the 20th Century and its Struggle for Survival.’ Andreas Zapounides spoke about exchange programs, Elias Pappas spoke on the Odyssey Charter Schools, and George Protopapas addressed the delegates about the philanthropic work of the S.O.S Children’s Villages.
The AHEPA Family Awards Luncheon, which was held Tuesday in the Ballroom of the Grande Bretagne, featured speeches by Greece’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Hellenes Abroad Konstantinos Vlasis and Presidential Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus Photis Photiou, who was presented the AHEPA Public Service Award.
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