The Society's guitar recital with Apostolos Paraskevas and his wife Erika on Nov. 9, was a big success. About 200 people attended this musical event and all seemed to enjoy the beautiful program of this highly gifted musician and his soprano wife. A reception followed the performance.

On November 21, 2001, the president of Anatolia College Mr. Richard Jackson was the guest of honor at a reception given by Alekos Mourmouras and his wife Eve. Alekos is a Prometheas board member and an Anatolia College graduate. Other alumni present were Dr. Ioannis Fourniades and Despina Skenderis who is also member of the Board of Trustees.

Anatolia College was first established in Merzifon, Turkey in 1886 by American philanthropy. There it shaped the lives and understanding of mostly Greek and Armenian students. During the Asia Minor Catastrophy Anatolia joined exiles fleeing from Asia Minor to Greece. Eleftherios Venizelos, recognizing Anatolia's importance, invited President George White to rebuild the school in Thessaloniki. Today, its campus with 22 buildings on 45 acres of mountain slope overlooks Mount Olympos and the Aegean Sea.

Anatolia College is a non-governmental, non profit and non-denominational organization, chartered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Gymnasium and Lykeion and the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), a four year fully accredited American institution, provide the best education that a combination of Greek and American systems can devise. Its success is attested by the records of its students always being the best entering higher educational institutions.

Showing of Greek Films by Prometheas commences again on November 28 with Peppermint and The Four Seasons of the Law. For more details click here. (http://www.prometheas.org/eventAnnouncements/fall2001films_ann1.pdf)

The Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage invites you to paticipate in an evening of discussion in the meaning of the theatre through the Ages. For more details click here. (http://www.prometheas.org/eventAnnouncements/Greek%20Drama%20Event%2012.01.pdf)

Greek dance classes for the 40, 50 and 60 year young group at RTO!

Day: every Wednesday
Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Rena Papapostolou's home studio at 11516 Deborah Dr., Potomac, MD
Telephone: 301- 983-5012

Mark Mazower, a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a former faculty at Princeton University, has written a short history of the Balkans which is remarkable for its academic objectivity and historic awareness. Mazower makes the point that the ethnic enmities are not that old; people in the region used to be identified more by relegion rather than by race or language. Nationalism found its way into the Balkans after the French Revolution and accelerated when the Balkan coutnries achieved independence from the Ottomans.

In general, Mazower has written a brief but valuable history of the Balkans, ideal for the general reader and beneficial to those who spend time thinking of what the foreign policy should be.