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VIPs, Scholars, Archaeologists, Politicians
President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias
President of the Hellenic (Greece) Republic, Karolos Papoulias, meets CelebrateGreece.com Founder Dr. James Stathis and his wife Cynthia Daddona-Stathis recently in the city of Heraklion on the Greek island of Crete. President Papoulias thanked us for founding CelebrateGreece.com and for creating an historical and cultural video archive for Greece and its future.
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Former Governor and Democratic U.S. Presidential Nominee Michael Dukakis
Michael Dukakis (r), former Governor of Massachusetts, Democratic Nominee (1988) for President of the United States and Visiting Professor of Public Policy at UCLA; wife Kitty (r) and CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona.
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Ambassador Loucas Tsilas
Loucas Tsilas, Hellenic Republic's (Greece) former Ambassador to the United States and presently Executive Director of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) Loucas Tsilas (L); Mrs. Tsilas (Penelope) and CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona.
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Dr. Yiannis Sakellarakis, Archaeologist
Archaeologist, the late Dr. Yiannis Sakellarakis, and Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona of CelebrateGreece.com are pictured at Dr. Sakellarakis', and his wife Efi's, current excavation site of Zominthos, Crete. In Minoan times the sacred road from the Palace of Knossos to the sacred Idaion Andron Cave (where Zeus was raised on Mt. Ida) passed through Zominthos.
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Floyd McCoy, Geologist/Volcanologist
Professor of Geology and Volcanology, Floyd McCoy, of the University of Hawaii, and Dr. James Stathis of CelebrateGreece.com, meet recently at the American Institute of Archaeology meeting. Prof. McCoy is the leading authority on the volcano of Santorini and its geological history.
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Professor Emeritus of Classics Apostolos Athanassakis
Professor Emeritus Apostolos Athanassakis, Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies, University of California, Department of Classics, Santa Barbara. Author of: The Homeric Hymns; The Orphic Hymns; and Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield. Professor Athanassakis was seen on the History Channel's 2002 presentation of The Rise and Fall of the Spartans. He was also a contributing scholar to the IMAX Greece: Secrets of the Past.
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Underwater Archaeologist Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M)
Assoc. Professor Deborah Carlson of the Nautical Archaeology progam at Texas A&M University is pictured (left to right) with archaeologist Bryce Erickson (UCSB), Prof. & Chair of Anthropology Stuart Tyson Smith (UCSB), and CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona.
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Professor Christos Doumas, Archaeologist
Archaeologist/Professor Christos Doumas (former director of excavation at Akrotiri, Santorini) and CelebrateGreece.com founder Dr. James Stathis (left). Akrotiri and the island of Santorini are considered by many scholars, archaeologists and vulcanologist to be the most likely location of Plato's legendary Atlantis.
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Costas Alexakis, Financier
Costas Alexakis (L), financier, with CelebrateGreece.com's Cynthia Daddona and Dr. James Stathis.
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Aris Melissaratos, financier and former CEO Westinghouse, Senior Advisor President John Hopkins University
Aris Melissaratos (c), financier, former CEO of Westinghouse and Senior Advisor to the President of John Hopkins University for Enterprise Development with CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona.
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Alexandros Mallias, Former Greek Ambassador to the United States
Former Greek Ambassador to the United States of America, Alexandros Mallias (left). CelebrateGreece.com was honored when Founder Dr. James Stathis and On-Camera Host & Marketing Director Cynthia Daddona were invited to a private lunch with (former) Greek Ambassador to the United States, Alexandros P. Mallias, during his visit to the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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Former Greek Trade Office Consul in New York Dr. Nicholas Belias
Dr. Nicholas Belias (right), former Greek Trade Office Consul in New York with CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis meet at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel in NYC. Dr. Belias invited CelebrateGreece.com on a press trip tour of Athens and Crete in the summer of 2009. It was a most impressive and informative trip.
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Dimitrios Caramitsos-Tziras, former Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles
Dimitrios Caramitsos-Tziras, former Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles and former deputy ambassador for the Hellenic (Greece) Republic to the United Nations, Dimitrios Caramitsos-Tziras and CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis.
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Elisabeth Fotiadou Former Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles
Elisabeth Fotiadou Former Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles
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Helen Morales Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Helen Morales Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (center) with CelebrateGreece.com Founder Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona.
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Dimitris Platis Former Consul General of Greece in New York
Dimitris Platis (L), Consul General of Greece in New York, with CelebrateGreece.com's Cynthia Daddona and Dr. James Stathis.
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Cyprus Consul General Andreas Kyprianides
Cyprus Consul General Andreas Kyprianides with Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona of CelebrateGreece.com.
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Panos Levadas, former Greek General Secretary of Information Helen Vrynioti Retired Press Counselor of Greece in Los Angeles)
Panos Levadas, former Greek General Secretary of Information, with Cynthia Daddona of CelebrateGreece.com and Helen Vrynioti, retired Press Counselor of Greece in Los Angeles.
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Markos Holevas, Director of the Hellenic Film Commission
Markos Holevas, Director of the Hellenic Film Commission (r), and Cynthia Daddona and Dr. James Stathis meet with at the recent Los Angeles Greek Film Festival.
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Denny Rigas, Greek Senior National Golf Champion
Denny Rigas (r), Greek Senior National Golf Champion (3rd in Europe) pictured with Mrs. Rigas (Cindy, left), Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona. Denny and James recently played golf in Santa Barbara, California all the while Denny showed James how the game is supposed to be played.
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George Katakalidis, CEO of Daphne's Greek Cafes USA
George Katakalidis, CEO of Daphne's Greek Cafes USA (c) with CelebrateGreece.com's Cynthia Daddona & Dr. James Stathis. They attended the premiere of the documentary The Promise of Tomorrow: 1940-1960, the second installment in a trilogy of documentaries documenting the Greek-Americans of Southern California. The premiere was held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) in Beverly Hills. Daphne's Greek Cafe was the major donor for the documentary.
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Zoye Marino Fidler, Former President of the Greek Heritage Society of Southern California's (GHS)
Zoye Marino Fidler (r), Former President of the Greek Heritage Society of Southern California's (GHS), with CelebrateGreece.com's Cynthia Daddona & Dr. James Stathis. The GHS produced the documentary The Promise of Tomorrow: 1940-1960, the second installment in a trilogy of documentaries documenting the Greek-Americans of Southern California.
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Dr. David Karpeles of the Karpeles Manuscript Museums and Libraries
Dr. David Karpeles of the Karpeles Manuscript Museums and Libraries (left), Mrs. Karpeles (Marsha) attend the wedding of CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona (aka, the Goddess and the Greek®) in Santa Barbara, California. The Karpeles Museums across the USA hold the world's largest private collection of original manuscripts (over 1 million), including the original draft of the US Bill of Rights, Einstein's handwritten Theory of Relativity and many more items including an impressive collection of antiquities.
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Yiannis Economou, Galaxy Hotel Owner and Politician
Yiannis Economou, Galaxy Hotel Owner and Politician. Yiannis provided hotel and exquisite food accomodations at his upscale, city Galaxy Hotel in Herakleion Crete, Greece. Yiannis, the Galaxy hotel and its Executive Chef, Kyriakos Lyras, all appear in CelebrateGreece.com's Crete: Under the Grecian Sun, which won "Best Documentary" at the London Greek Film Festival and was nominated for "Audience Award" at the Los Angeles Taste Awards in Beverly Hills, California.
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Bryce Erickson, Archaeologist
Bryce Erickson, archaeologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara and his wife, and (left to right) Assoc. Professor Deborah Carlson of the Nautical Archaeology progam at Texas A&M University, Prof. & Chair of Anthropology Stuart Tyson Smith (UCSB), and CelebrateGreece.com's Dr. James Stathis and Cynthia Daddona.
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