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THE GREEKS IN AMERICA 101National Chemical Aniline Company at New YorkLaboratory. Dr. J. G. Stateropoulos, graduate ofYale University, is the research chemist of a prominentfirm, Brooklyn, N. Y. Both are graduates ofAnatolia College, Marsovan. The late Prof. Sophocles,Professor of Greek at Harvard, and author of aGreek English Lexicon, and Michael Anagnos, Directorof Perkins Listitute, Boston, Mass., wereGreeks. Mr. M. Dorizzas, a graduate of the Universityof Pennsylvania, and Dr. V. Moysides, of MichiganUniversity, besides distinction in their studies,have a high record in athletics and won much reputationas wrestlers. They represent a group ofGreek student athletes who shine in athletics as wellas scholarship.It was a Greek, Trivoulides by name, who won theMarathon race at Boston, Mass., in 1920.Mr. Nicolay of Greece is a successful tenor in theChicago Opera, and several others are getting reputationsas singers. So there are dentists, engineers,lawyers, artists, actors, doing great credit to theGreek name.The record of almost every Greek student inAmerica would be a matter of great credit and muchinterest as an achievement in culture and attainmentthrough self-help and thrift.Political Relations.—At first Greeks came toAmerica with the intention to make money as fastas they could, and to return enriched to their nativeland as soon as possible. Consequently they keptaloof from American politics, neither taking anyinterest or part in them. It is only lately that theybegan to appreciate the value of citizenship andnaturalization. Some have already taken out theirsecond papers, and a far greater number their firstpapers. It may not be far from the truth that onefifthof the Greeks are already citizens and the numberis growing daily.