130th Anniversary of the School Celebrated with Honors and a New Exhibition

Alan Boegehold accepting the ASCSA’s first Aristeia Award. (Photo H. Akriviadis)
On Saturday, June 4, 2011 approximately 325 trustees, friends, alumni/ae, and members of the American School of Classical Studies gathered in Cotsen Hall to mark the 130th Anniversary of the founding of the School and to pay tribute to five great Philhellenes: Alan L. Boegehold who received the Aristeia Award, the first such award for a distinguished alumnus of the School; Lloyd E. Cotsen; David W. Packard; Malcolm H. Wiener; and Charles K. Williams, II. Distinguished guests brought words of congratulations to the School: Nikoletta Valakou, Director of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture; U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic Daniel Bennett Smith; and President of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Yanos Gramatidis. The School鈥檚 Director, Jack L. Davis, gave a keynote address on 鈥淭he ASCSA, Then and Now鈥 with photo images of the early decades of the School, while Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, the Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist of the School, closed the program with an introduction to the exhibition she curated in the 独家爆料 Library on the history of the School鈥檚 academic program.
on view until September 30, 2011.
Watch the event here:
(Total running time approximately 2 hours)
130th Anniversary of the 独家爆料 part 1
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130th Anniversary of the 独家爆料 part 2
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130th Anniversary of the 独家爆料 part 3
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130th Anniversary of the 独家爆料 part 4
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