Hello Everyone,<br><br>Though I could not attend the first meeting I plan to catch up via the podcast of the meeting. I hope to 'meet' everyone the next time around.<br><br>I am James Stathis, an American-Greek and award-winning ancient & modern Greece documentary filmmaker and I founded <a href="http://CelebrateGreece.com">CelebrateGreece.com</a>. I created the website to share with the world my passion for Greece’s history, culture, traditions, food and travel destinations. My lifelong passion for Greece was ignited like an Olympic torch when I first traveled to Greece with my family at age 13. I am presently producing <a href="http://www.celebrategreece.com/media.aspx?ID=50">Greece: Spirits of the Ancients</a>® (documentary) which showcases the amazing times, stories and accomplishments from ancient Greece that have touched so many individuals, societies and cultures of our world. Along with my wife Cynthia, I am also the director and co-producer of <a href="http://www.celebrategreece.com/media.aspx?ID=38">A Greek Islands Destination Cooking Class</a> (DVD), which was voted as the <a href="http://www.celebrategreece.com/images/NYTimesAboutdotcomGiftChoice.jpg">#1 New York Times’ About.com culinary-travel DVD gift</a>.<br>
<br>CelebrateGreece.com is a growing online, video collection of Greece, Greek culture and history. We will be launching an expanded, new version of the website in about a month. We independently produce, archive and offer video journeys exploring modern and ancient Greece. We reach, inform, educate and inspire worldwide audiences of all ages to celebrate Greece's everlasting ancient roots and modern historical and cultural traditions. Our mission is to continue providing original Greek-themed productions produced by CelebrateGreece.com as well as representing talented, independent filmmakers who are aligned with our mission.<br>
<br>I find I can never learn enough about the ancients and the wisdom they continue to feed to us all. I like to say that history and culture remembered allow us to know where we have been, who we are and where we are going.<br>
<br>Best, James<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Andre Stipanovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:astipanovic@mail.hockaday.org">astipanovic@mail.hockaday.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+0">Thanks for your participation and questions last night during our kickoff call. If you would like to listen to it, please go to:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+0">I am attaching some follow up information in response to your questions last night. I hope it will help you get started in Book I. I will be sending out more specific study guide questions, which we will use as discussion anchor points, in the next week or so. </font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+0">Glad to "meet" you all. If you would like to "introduce" yourself to the rest of the group, please 'reply to all' and say a few things about yourself. I will start the ball rolling:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+0">I am Andre Stipanovic from Plano, Texas. I teach high school Latin language and literature at the Hockaday School in Dallas. When I am not reading Roman or Greek literature, I love to ride bikes with my family, go camping/hiking, and play games (especially chess). Newest hobby: watching Jupiter these last few weeks through a telescope.</font></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. James Stathis<br>CelebrateGreece.com<br>3905 State Street, Bldg. 264<br>Santa Barbara, California 93105-3138 USA<br><br>T: 805.563.9741<br>J.Stathis@CelebrateGreece.com<br>
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