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Angelo Katopodis, Vice President of The Manhasset Hellenic Club, Dr. Thanos Catsambas and Evangelia Frankis, President of the Manhasset Hellenic Club.
The Manhasset High School Hellenic Club hosted recently guest speaker, Dr. Thanos Catsambas, former alternate Executive Director of the IMF Board of Directors.
President, and co-founder, Evangelia Frankis, a junior in Manhasset High School, saw the need to understand the Greek economic crisis after her family visit to Greece this past summer.
“I felt an obligation to gain a deeper perspective into this issue”, Evangelia said. After contacting Dr. Thanos Catsambas, and inviting him to Manhasset H.S., he accepted. “We were very fortunate to have such an insightful and qualified presenter on this topic. Dr. Catsambas truly inspired me, as well as the audience in attendance. He was able to take a complicated situation and have us understand it,” said Frankis.
Mr. Christopher Keen, Manhasset H.S. Hellenic Club advisor, Evangelia Frankis, Angelo Katopodis, Dr. Thanos Catsambas, Dr. Dean Schlanger, Principal, and Mara Steindam, District Coordinator for Social Studies.
The Manhasset Hellenic Club aims to promote an understanding of the principles of the Hellenic culture to the community of Manhasset. These principles include a commitment to humanity, freedom and democracy.
Over 75 people were in attendance, including students, parents and Manhasset High School faculty.
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