“Our history”
In 1975 George Blytas, George Kalfoglou, Tassos Karabelas, Anthony Kouzounis, Periklis Ktonas, Gus Michalopoulos, Alkiviades Payatakes, and John Vogiatzis inspired by the spirit of Hellenism, created the Society with the following goals:
- To organize and sponsor social, cultural, educational, scientific, technical, and humanitarian activities for the benefit of the Society’s members and of the public, at the local, state, and national level.
- To encourage and promote the pursuit of education among people of Greek descent throughout the United States.
- To facilitate cooperation between professionals of Greek descent throughout the world.
- To promote Greek language and culture to interested groups at the local, state, and national level.
- During the past forty four years, the Society has pursued its goals with vigor and enthusiasm. HPST has organized and sponsored activities spanning many and diverse areas of interest such as: musical performances, film festivals, concerts, folk dancing shows, scientific lectures, archeological presentations, scholarship programs, formal and informal get-togethers, poetry evenings, etc.; it has also organized and participated in a multitude of philanthropic events and activities
The past presidents of the Society were:
| George Blytas Alkiviadis Payatakis George Kalfoglou Periklis Ktonas George Vroulis George Sarantopoulos Kannelos Charalampous George Loes Vassilios Evrenoglou Costas Caracostis Kostas Lambrakos Vasso Jacomides Anna Mavromatis Periklis Ktonas Lee Papayioti George Blytas Petro Yuanidis Alex Kalamarides Dimitrios Varvarezos Gina Katsaros William Crassas Petros Yuanidis Michael Nikolaou Manos Papadakis Costas Caracostis Valarie Minetos Gina Katsaros George Zombakis George Argyros Lena Patsidou Sarados Milios Costas Metaxas Dimitris Georgis Katerina Kourentzi Karolina Ioannou | (1975 – 1977) (1977 – 1978) (1978 – 1979) (1979 – 1980) (1980 – 1981) (1981 – 1983) (1983 – 1984) (1984 – 1986) (1986 – 1987) (1987 – 1988) (1988 – 1990) (1990 – 1991) (1991 – 1993) (1993 – 1995) (1995 – 1996) (1996 – 1997) (1997 – 1998) (1998 – 1999) (1999 – 2000) (2000 – 2001) (2001 – 2002) (2002 – 2003) (2003 – 2004) (2004 – 2005) (2005 – 2006) (2006 – 2007) (2007 – 2009) (2009 – 2011) (2011 – 2013) (2013 – 2015) (2015 – 2016) (2016 – 2017) (2017 – 2018) (2018 – 2021) (2022 – today) |