Places

events

• 1925 The Daily News of New York runs the headline 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' — 1,000 DeWitt Clinton High School students plus 'every policeman in the city' are deployed to locate the missing Jeannopoulos brothers from their home at 130 W 26th St. (The paper names them as 'John, 15, and his brother Peter' — 'Peter' almost certainly Takis/Panagiotis.)
• 1931 Lazaros Jeannopoulos naturalized in New York City — Certificate #3421529 (the date referenced in his 1937 sworn affidavit; document image now on file). His [Petition for Citizenship](/family/documents/lazaros-petition-for-citizenship-1931/) was filed May 1930 and signed January 9, 1931. His minor children — including Constantine at 14 — became US citizens automatically. (An earlier draft of this record placed his naturalization at 1928; that date was incorrect.)
• 1962 **Peter Econom ('Didi') dies at approximately five years old** — only son of Rhea Econom and Leonidas Econom; only grandchild of Eftyhia and Lazaros to die as a small child. The approximate year is computed working backward from the family's 1964 California move; the actual date is open. Buried at Mt Olivet Cemetery, Queens — alongside his maternal grandparents Lazaros and Eftyhia. Likely the 'toddler grandson' Eftyhia grieved in Aline Pepe's 2026 portrait.
• 1948 Alina Jeannopoulos naturalized as a US citizen at the US District Court, New York City — Petition No. 570871, Certificate No. 6869928. Her US residence: 370 Fort Washington Avenue, Washington Heights, Manhattan.
• 1937 Lazaros Jeannopoulos files a sworn affidavit in NYC — less than two years before his death.
• 1943 Peter Jeannopoulos born in New York City — Constantine and Sophie's first child.
• 1947 Sophie Jeannopoulos naturalized in NYC — Certificate No. 6705767, issued in her married name.
• 1960 Marie Jeannopoulos born in New York City, seventeen years after Peter — Constantine and Sophie's third child.
• 1940 Takis Jeannopoulos registers for the WWII draft in NYC — self-employed at the family's 28 W 69th Street address.
• 1941 Achilles Jeannopoulos registers for the WWII draft in NYC — a medical student living with his brother Takis at 28 West 69th Street. The card carries the later annotation **"Name changed to Alfred A. Johnson, 12/13/46"**, pinpointing his anglicization to six weeks after V-J Day.

documents

document Apr 21, 1925

ATLANTIS Greek-American newspaper — "The Double-Dealing of Venizelos in the Asia Minor Campaign"

document Oct 11, 1925

Daily News — 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' (DeWitt Clinton High School)

document Oct 23, 1925

Greek Consulate General of New York — Certificate of Indigence and Identity for Lazaros

document 1926

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC City Directory (Summer 1926)

letter Oct 23, 1926

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — handwritten letter draft from New York

birth cert Aug 28, 1931

Archimandrite Kontogeorgos — John Lazare birth certificate (Soma 1911, certified NYC 1931)

document Sep 15, 1932

Aletheia newspaper — Volume I, Number 7 (September 15, 1932)

document Dec 1933

"The Truth" Greek bi-weekly newspaper — clergy signatures page (NYC, December 1933)

document Dec 2, 1933

Aletheia Protocol — founding charter of the dissident Greek-American clerical faction (December 2, 1933)

document Aug 1935

ALETHEIA newspaper — Lazaros as Director, Saint George Philadelphia closure

document Nov 29, 1937

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Sworn Affidavit

document 1940

Takis Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (NYC, 1940)

document 1941

Achilles Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (NYC, 1941)

events

• 1924 Lazaros Jeannopoulos files his Declaration of Intention in New York — the first formal step of naturalization.
• 1925 An opportunist sends Lazaros Jeannopoulos and Eftyhia a ransom note demanding payment for the boys' return — a piece of the runaway-year correspondence the family kept.
• 1925 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, Takis Jeannopoulos, and John Jeannopoulos arrive in New York on the **SS Byron** from Piraeus, Greece — all three names on the same manifest. **The mother went to Greece to retrieve her runaway teenage sons herself**, then brought them home together. (Earlier drafts had the boys returning on their own; the 2026-05-22 Ancestry pull of the actual manifest shows the three-person arrival.)
• 1925 The Greek Consulate of New York issues identification certificate No. 3640 to Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos in the wake of their forged-passport return, plus a separate family card.
• 1927 Rhea Econom born in New York — the family's first US-born child.
• 1930 John Jeannopoulos returns to the US — a mid-medical-school crossing during his University of Paris years.
• 1933 Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos arrive in New York together aboard the **SS Bremen**, last European residence Bordeaux, France. Both brothers manifested US settlement after their University of Paris medical-school years.
• 1957 Constantine Jeannopoulos arrives back in New York on **PanAm** — a second 1957 international trip, destination open.
• 1938 Mary Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Normandie.
• 1941 Constantine Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Excalibur from Lisbon. He takes up a post at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital.
• 1942 Sophie Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Serpa Pinto from Lisbon, last residence Évian-les-Bains. She rejoins Constantine.
• 1942 Constantine Jeannopoulos is granted NY State medical license No. 041039.
• 1951 Ines Jeannopoulos and her 18-month-old biological daughter Claudine Boyhan arrive in New York on the SS Constitution from Cannes — John Jeannopoulos's family completes the Tunisia-to-US crossing. The infant is manifested as 'Eftichia C. Jeannopoulos' — her Greek baptismal name; her everyday American name is Claudine. (An earlier draft of this record misattributed this voyage to Mya Durso, who joined the family separately by adoption.)
• 1953 John Jeannopoulos born — Constantine and Sophie's second child, the future attorney.
• 1976 Takis Jeannopoulos dies at age 65 of **cancer** — two days after his birthday — predeceasing his younger brother Constantine by four years. The first of the six Anatolia-born siblings to die. In his final chemo-nauseated weeks he had asked his niece Aline Pepe to find him **butterscotch candies** — the kind their grandmother Eftyhia had quietly kept in her drawstring bra-bag for decades, for him. Aline wrote: *“I finally knew who those Butterscotch candies were for.”* Buried at **Mt Olivet Cemetery, Queens**, with his parents Lazaros and Eftyhia.
• 1962 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos photographed with her youngest daughter Rhea Econom ("Lula") — the only one of her seven children born in America, the only one to be photographed beside her like this. Two years before Rhea and Leonidas moved the family to California.
• 1970 Mya Durso marries Dominick Durso — the wedding portrait from the family archive. They will go on to raise Anthony and Aline Durso on Staten Island. (Exact date open; styling places it ~1970.)
• 1924 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos files her own Declaration of Intention in New York — alongside Lazaros's the same day. The family began its US-citizenship paperwork as a household, not just through the husband.
• 1925 The four Jeannopoulos brothers — Takis, John Lazare, Constantine, and Achilles — pose on the beach in an acrobatic-shoulder-stand, the older two each holding a younger brother aloft. Long Island Sound or Coney Island, in their earliest NY years. John, per Aline, is bottom right.

documents

document ~1924

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — handwritten curriculum vitae (education + medical training)

naturalization Apr 23, 1924

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Declaration of Intention (Naturalization)

document Nov 16, 1942

Constantine Jeannopoulos — NY State Medical License No. 041039

document Jun 22, 1960

Sophie Jeannopoulos — Biographical Data (Joint Medical Authority, 1960)

document 1969

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Columbia Record (1969 listing)

document Apr 24, 1969

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Columbia Record / VA Hospital Orthopedics

events

• 1924 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, Takis Jeannopoulos, John Jeannopoulos, Mary Jeannopoulos, Constantine Jeannopoulos, and Achilles Jeannopoulos arrive in New York on the SS Themistocles. Eftyhia is recorded as 'Eftimia' on the inspection cards; John Lazare is card #18 under the Greek name 'Ioannis'. Constantine is 7; Achilles is 4.
• 1946 Alina Jeannopoulos, born 1919 in Łuck (Volhynia, then Poland; now Lutsk, Ukraine), arrives in New York aboard the **USAT *George W. Goethals*** sailing from **Le Havre, France** — rejoining her husband Takis Jeannopoulos after years separated by WWII. The most plausible window for their marriage is Takis's University of Paris medical school period (1931-37). They had no children. Confirmed 2026-05-22 via Alex's Ancestry research.

documents

immigration Mar 18, 1924

Jeannopoulos family — SS Themistocles Inspection Cards (Eftimia + Ioannis)

immigration 1925

Panagiotis Jeannopoulos — SS Byron Arrival 1925 (FamilySearch Summary)

immigration 1930

John Jeannopoulos (b. 1899) — SS Saturnia Arrival 1930

immigration Jul 26, 1933

Takis Jeannopoulos — SS Bremen Third-Class Arrival Manifest

document 1936

Research clue — 1936 NY arrival, friend "J. Jeannopoulos" of 24 rue Tournefort, Paris

immigration 1938

Mary Jeannopoulos — SS Normandie Arrival Manifest

immigration Aug 25, 1941

Constantine's arrival on the SS Excalibur from Lisbon — Port of New York (August 25, 1941)

immigration Jun 5, 1942

Sophie Jeannopoulos — SS Serpa Pinto Arrival Manifest

immigration Nov 30, 1951

Ines and infant Claudine — SS Constitution arrival from Cannes to New York (November 30, 1951)

immigration Nov 30, 1951

Ines Valda & Eftichia Jeannopoulos — SS Constitution Arrival Manifest

immigration Mar 25, 1957

Constantine returns to New York aboard SS Olympia from Havana (March 25, 1957)

events

• 1977 Sophie Jeannopoulos and Constantine Jeannopoulos retire together to Santo Domingo. (Earlier drafts had Sophie moving first; corrected May 2026 by their daughter Penny, who recorded that the move was joint.)
• 1980 Constantine Jeannopoulos dies in Santo Domingo, age 64. Chronic renal failure / uremic cardiac insufficiency; certifying physician Dr. Vinicio Calventi, a Dominican surgeon (and a relative of Sophie's longtime scientific collaborator Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi).
• 2005 Sophie Jeannopoulos dies in a hospital in Santo Domingo, age 83, of an aneurism — the day after her grandson Alex's wedding in St. Martin. Until her final illness she had been living with her daughter Penny and son-in-law Juan Medina in the Zona Colonial.
• 2001 Sophie Jeannopoulos, 79 and in chronic pain, publishes *Conflictos ambientales — luchas sin vencedores* in *Ciencia y Sociedad* 26(1): 103–106. Her last preserved publication — the **bioethics-of-environment voice** the Dominican government will commemorate six years later as *Precursora de la Bioética*.
• 1979 Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes ***Amigos del Cocodrilo*** through the **Dirección Nacional de Parques** of the Dominican Republic — an official state-sponsored environmental publication, 140 pages, prologue by **Merilio G. Morell**, dedicated to *las niñas dominicanas de las comunidades fronterizas norteñas* in the UN's International Year of the Child. Two years after her late-1970s move to Santo Domingo, the Dominican conservation establishment was already issuing her under its own imprint. Twenty-eight years later the *Crocodylus acutus* of this book would be the species on her commemorative RD$15 stamp.
• 1999 Sophie Jeannopoulos, age 77, writes by hand from her Arz. Meriño 154 apartment in Santo Domingo to **Dr. Dyrce Lacombe** at Fiocruz / Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro — asking Dyrce to host a young Dominican parks-architect colleague on a Brazilian environmental-science trip. The letter survives in Fiocruz's archives. Sophie was still actively bridging Dominican and Brazilian environmental networks six years before her death.
• 2007 **Instituto Postal Dominicano** issues a five-stamp commemorative postal series in Sophie Jeannopoulos's name — *Precursora de la Bioética* — two years after her death. Four of the stamps depict Dominican wildlife species she championed (manatee, hawksbill sea turtle, Hispaniolan parrot, American crocodile); the fifth carries her photograph. Authorized by Decreto 333-06 of August 8, 2006.

documents

death cert Nov 8, 1980

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Acta de Defunción No. 31759

death cert Nov 8, 1980

Constantine's death certificate — Junta Central Electoral, Dominican Republic (November 8, 1980)

letter Sep 6, 1999

Sophie's 1999 letter to Dyrce Lacombe at Fiocruz — Brazilian environmental connection

document Dec 7, 2007

Instituto Postal Dominicano — Sophie Jakowska commemorative stamp issue (December 7, 2007)

events

• 1950 The 1950 US Census records Constantine Jeannopoulos, Sophie Jeannopoulos, and seven-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos as a household in the Bronx.
• 1950 Peter Jeannopoulos, age 7, photographed at **Mount Saint Michael Academy** — the Marist Catholic grade school in the Bronx the Jeannopoulos boys attended.
• 1951 Peter Jeannopoulos, age 8, in a second Mount Saint Michael Academy portrait — same school, one year on.

documents

census 1930

Achilles Jeannopoulos — 1930 Census (Bronx, FamilySearch Summary)

census 1930

Rhea Jeannopoulos — 1930 Census (Bronx, FamilySearch Summary)

document Oct 24, 1932

Saints Constantine and Helen Bronx parish — General Assembly minutes (building acquisition)

census 1950

Jeannopoulos household — 1950 US Census (Bronx)

census 1950

Sophie Jeannopoulos — 1950 Census (FamilySearch Summary)

documents

document Sep 5, 1941

Constantine's WWII draft registration card — Local Board No. 24, NYC, 11 days after SS Excalibur arrival (September 5, 1941)

photo Sep 4, 1943

Constantine's US Army Signal Corps ID card — 1st Lt, Medical Corps (1943)

naturalization Jan 22, 1947

Constantine's US Certificate of Citizenship No. A-165551 (derivative via Lazaros, 1947)

document 1950

Constantine's Social Security card + business card — 44 West 77th Street UWS practice (c. 1949-50)

document Jan 1, 1951

New York State Registered Physician certificate — 20 East 74th Street, Upper East Side practice (1951-1952)

document Jan 27, 1951

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery — Constantine's board certification (January 27, 1951)

document 1970

Constantine's curriculum vitae — Cornell BA Phi Beta Kappa, Rome MD, NYU faculty, nine publications (c. 1970s)

document 1972

Peter G. Jeannopoulos — Master's thesis on the Anatolian Greeks and Smyrna (Hunter College CUNY, 1972)

events

• 1915 Lazaros Jeannopoulos publishes **Η Εθνική Τραγωδία Θράκης και Μικράς Ασίας** in Athens — a 35-page polemic denouncing the Greek state's abandonment of the Anatolian Greeks. His title page signs him as *Ιατρός, Εξορίστου Μικρασιάτου* — 'Doctor, Exiled Asia-Minor-Greek.' By 1915, in print, he is already a refugee.

documents

document 1915

Lazaros's published polemic — Η Εθνική Τραγωδία Θράκης και Μικράς Ασίας (Athens, 1915)

document Jan 18, 1924

Ecumenical Patriarchate testimonial for Lazaros — signed by Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Ephesus

document Mar 12, 1924

Vryoula Refugees Association + Protosynkellos of Ephesus — declaration on Lazaros

document Mar 13, 1924

Smyrna Metropolitanate (Locum Tenens, in exile) — testimonial to Lazaros

letter 1978

US Embassy Athens — letter to Constantine in Santo Domingo regarding the 1955 Mitroon Arrenon deletion (1978)

letter Jul 31, 1978

Athens Association of Pergamenes "Attalos" — Monument of the Martyrs of Pergamon (Circular No. 2)

documents

letter Jun 25, 1931

Greek Archdiocese — response to Saint Constantine Bronx trustees on parish boundaries

letter Jan 29, 1932

Greek Archdiocese — Bronx parish merger attempt (January 1932)

letter Jun 16, 1932

Greek Archdiocese — Bronx parish matter referred to Mixed Council

letter Jul 15, 1932

Greek Archdiocese — appointment of Father Michael Andreadis to Saints Constantine and Helen Bronx

letter Dec 29, 1932

Greek Archdiocese — temporary priest after Father Andreadis's departure

letter Aug 22, 1933

Greek Archdiocese of N&S America — letter to "Saint Constantine" Bronx parish on press strategy

events

• 1941 Constantine Jeannopoulos and Sophie Jeannopoulos marry in Rome, on the eve of his crossing. They met as students at the University of Rome.

documents

document May 5, 1938

Constantine's Università di Roma medical student ID — nato a Mitelyne, Grecia (May 5, 1938)

document 1941

Constantine's Università di Roma student ID — back side annual enrollment stamps (1937-1941)

document Jul 9, 1941

Constantine's Università di Roma medical diploma — 110/110, July 9, 1941

document Jul 9, 1941

Constantine's full Università di Roma medical transcript — 1937-1941, every course and exam grade (issued July 9, 1941)

document Jul 18, 1941

US Embassy Rome — Gilson G. Blake certification of Italian Foreign Ministry signature on Constantine's documents (July 18, 1941)

events

• 1939 Lazaros Jeannopoulos dies in Manhattan, age 68.

documents

death cert Jun 28, 1939

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC Death Certificate No. 14380

death cert Jun 28, 1939

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC Municipal Death Record

marriage 1968

Peter Jeannopoulos & Mireille Lebrun — NYC Marriage Record

documents

document May 1923

Takis Jeannopoulos — refugee-year school notebook (Mytilene 1922-1923)

letter Dec 10, 1925

Mytilene attorney Chondronikis — Pergamon Assessment Committee circular to "the Pergamenes in America"

birth cert Aug 24, 1937

Metropolitan of Mytilene Iakovos — Constantine baptismal re-certification (Protocol 1575)

letter Aug 28, 1937

Mytilene law-office letter — procurement of Constantine's Greek certificates

events

• 1878 Josef Jakowski born in Poland — Sophie's father, the Warsaw obstetrician.
• 1890 Maria Jakowska born in Poland — Sophie's mother.
• 1959 Maria Jakowska dies in Poland just before her planned emigration to America — the last close relative on Sophie's Polish side.

documents

events

• 1911 John Jeannopoulos born in Soma. (Eftyhia later falsified records to 1913 to keep him a younger age.)
• 1911 Takis Jeannopoulos born in Soma.

events

• 1871 Lazaros Jeannopoulos born in Anatolia.

events

• 1943 Constantine Jeannopoulos is accepted into the US Army Medical Corps — his wartime service track begins.
• 1931 John Jeannopoulos, age 20, sits for his college yearbook portrait. He is six years past the runaway-to-Greece episode, on his way to his Paris medical-school years.

documents

foia

Sophie Jeannopoulos — FBI FOIA File NY140-18428

document Sep 2, 1943

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Army Medical Corps Acceptance Card (INS)

events

• 1952 Eight-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos appears in a Bronx Zoo photograph that runs in regional dailies across the country (Richmond Times-Dispatch Apr 27, Des Moines Tribune May 1).

documents

photo Apr 27, 1952

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Zoo (Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 1952)

photo May 1, 1952

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Zoo (Des Moines Tribune, May 1952)

documents

birth cert Nov 23, 1923

Constantine's Mytilene baptismal certificate — Parish of Άγιος Θεράπων refugee settlement (1923)

document Dec 26, 1923

Lazaros's Soma Refugees Association ID booklet with photograph — Mytilene December 1923

document Aug 24, 1957

Mytilene Δημαρχείον — Μητρώο Αρρένων re-issuance

events

• 1964 Mya Durso — listed in school records under her baptismal name **Myriam** — completes her junior year at **Mother Cabrini High School** in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The yearbook shows her across multiple pages: French IV class, Room 206 homeroom, the school's French-language Nativity play, and the drum-corps appreciation ceremony where she presents a plaque to a US Army Chief Warrant Officer on behalf of the school.
• 1965 Mya Durso graduates from **Mother Cabrini High School** — listed under her baptismal name **Myriam Jeannopoulos** on the senior-year scholarship/honors page.
• 1964 Claudine Boyhan (Eftichia) — John Lazare and Ines's biological daughter, born in Tunis 1950 — pictured at **Mother Cabrini High School** in Washington Heights, the same Catholic girls' school her adopted sister Mya was attending the same year.

events

• 1988 Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes *The Emerging Conservation Mystique in the Dominican Republic* as a chapter in *New Ideas in Environmental Education* (Briceño & Pitt, eds., Routledge). The piece frames the IUCN-inspired Dominican LAURELES conservation clubs, Church-linked Dominican environmentalism, and **Haitian desertification as the cautionary border tale** — the academic articulation of the 1979 *Amigos del Cocodrilo* dedication to Dominican girls of the northern border communities.
• 1986 Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes ***La Quiero Libre*** — her Spanish-language Dominican environmental/bioethics work, dedicated to the next generation of Caribbean conservationists.

events

• 1931 Takis Jeannopoulos graduates from the **University of Florida at Gainesville** — the only Jeannopoulos sibling whose undergraduate years took him to the American South. He leaves immediately afterward for medical school at the University of Paris (Lazaros's 1937 affidavit records the departure). The Florida-UF connection runs through the **Greek-American community at Tarpon Springs**, on the Gulf coast — a 2026-05-27 photograph of him and John Jeannopoulos at the Tarpon Springs sponge docks places both brothers in that network as young men.
• 1931 Takis Jeannopoulos sits for his **University of Florida at Gainesville senior yearbook portrait** — *Panagiotis L. Jeannopoulos, B.S.* The yearbook image is the literal artifact of his American South undergraduate years, paired here with the Tarpon Springs sponge-docks photograph that explains how a Bronx Greek-immigrant family came to send him to UF in the first place.

events

• 1925 Lazaros Jeannopoulos obtains a US reentry certificate in Havana, Cuba — the late-1925 leg of the year's complicated travel for the family.

documents

immigration Oct 1925

Havana — US Reentry Certificate (October 1925)

documents

passport 1923

Lazaros family — Mytilene passport-control stamps (1923–1924)

passport Dec 29, 1923

Greek family passport No. 2555 — Lazaros, Eftyhia, and all five children at Mytilene (December 29, 1923)

events

• 1951 Sophie Jeannopoulos, with **R.F. Nigrelli** and **Myron Gordon** of the NY Aquarium, NY Zoological Society, and College of Mount Saint Vincent, publishes *The Invasion and Cell Replacement of One Pigmented Neoplastic Growth by a Second, and More Malignant Type in Experimental Fishes* in the **British Journal of Cancer**. One of her earliest preserved publications — bridging the 1947 plant-tumor PhD into fish-cancer cytology.
• 1953 Sophie Jeannopoulos and Nigrelli publish *The pathology of myxosporidiosis in the electric eel, Electrophorus electricus*, describing **two new species** of *Henneguya* parasite (*H. visceralis* and *H. electrica spp. nov.*). Sophie and Nigrelli are now the type authors for two species in the formal zoological record.

documents

document Oct 23, 1925

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate No. 3640

document Oct 23, 1925

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate (v2, family card)

documents

document

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Università di Perugia Foreigners' Enrollment Card

document 1937

Constantine's Perugia foreigners' enrollment card — nazionalità greco (Tessera Personale No. 749, 1937)

documents

letter Jun 30, 1928

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Eftyhia's compensation payout (first Sofianos letter)

letter Sep 18, 1928

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Karamitrou compensation finances and family news

events

• 1920 Achilles Jeannopoulos born in Smyrna.

events

• 1922 Lazaros Jeannopoulos and family are issued laissez-passer No. 5412 from Soma — the document that gets them out of Anatolia three weeks after the Smyrna fire.

documents

passport ~1920

Jeannopoulos family — Laissez-passer from Soma

events

• 2002 Mya Durso dies on Staten Island, age 51, of breast cancer — the adopted eldest of John Lazare and Ines Valda's three daughters, predeceasing both parents by two years.

documents

obituary Mar 30, 2002

Mya (Eftichia) Durso — Obituary

documents

document Oct 2, 1925

Assessment Committee of Soma — Lazaros's lost-property itemization (Diocese of Ephesus)

letter Jul 4, 1927

Soma Refugees Association of Thessaloniki — thanks to Lazaros for NYC fundraising

events

• 1922 Sophie Jeannopoulos born in Warsaw.

events

• 2010 Alina Jeannopoulos (née **Bacho**) dies at the family bungalow at **104 Asharoken Avenue, Northport, NY** in her 90th year — the same Long Island Sound house where her mother-in-law Eftyhia had died 41 years earlier. She had outlived her husband Takis by 33 years, kept the bungalow alone through all of them, and died at its address. The family sold the bungalow only after her death — closing the Asharoken chapter with her. Her obituary line: *JEANNOPOULOS — Alina, (née Bacho) of Asharoken-Northport on February 16, 2010, in her 90th year. Loving wife of the late Dr. Takis Jeannopoulos.*

documents

letter Aug 29, 1933

Father John Aslanides (Brockton, MA) — Aletheia subscription complaint

documents

photo Apr 27, 1952

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Children's Zoo — syndicated Wide World Photos newspaper feature (1952)

events

• 1960 John Jeannopoulos, then a Medical Officer at the **Brooklyn Navy Yard**, leads the medical response to the **fire aboard the USS *Constellation*** during fitting-out — a major shipyard disaster that killed 50 workers. He was decorated for heroic actions. (Date per the historical *Constellation* fire; specifics of his role per his 2004 obituary.)

documents

document May 20, 1943

Medical Field Service School Certificate — Carlisle Barracks, Twenty-Sixth Officers' Course (April 12 – May 20, 1943)

documents

document Nov 8, 1933

Criminal complaint — Archimandrite Christopher Kontogeorgos vs Archbishop Athenagoras Spyrou — Chicago Municipal Court (November 8, 1933)

events

• 1969 **The Columbia Record** and **The State** (Columbia, SC) announce Constantine Jeannopoulos's appointment as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at the VA Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. He appears to have declined the move — neither his son Peter (an adult in 1969) nor his daughter Penny (then a child in the household) recall any move south, and his documented later address remained 27 West 96th Street, Manhattan. The 1969 press confirms his orthopedic sub-specialty even as the appointment itself never seems to have taken effect.

events

• 1940 John Jeannopoulos registers for the WWII draft from **CCC Camp S-95, Company 1722, Effie, Itasca County, Minnesota** — the Civilian Conservation Corps chapter where, per his 2004 obituary, he sent his entire camp-physician salary home to put his three younger brothers through medical school.

events

• 1968 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos dies at age 87 at the family's **bungalow beach house**, with her sons Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos at her side. (An earlier draft put her death at ~1950; that estimate was 18 years off.) Buried at **Mt Olivet Cemetery, Queens** — with her husband Lazaros, and later her son Takis. The portrait her granddaughter Aline wrote of her — *“I had all the proof I needed of amazing Amazonian strength and beauty, the night I saw my grandmother in her bedroom”* — is the closest single document to Eftyhia's day-to-day self.

events

• 1947 Sophie Jeannopoulos earns her PhD from Fordham University with the dissertation *A Study of Abnormal Growth Responses in Allium Cepa* under faculty advisor **Dr. E.R. Witkus** — a plant-tumor study using *Agrobacterium tumefaciens*-infected onions, bridging into the fish-cancer work she would do at the NY Aquarium three years later. Five years off the boat from Lisbon.

documents

document Mar 20, 1946

Constantine's WWII Military Record and Report of Separation (Fort Dix, March 20, 1946)

documents

document Mar 20, 1946

Army Certificate of Service — Honorable Discharge, Fort Dix NJ (March 20, 1946)

documents

document 1974

Research clue — Peter G. Jeannopoulos, MA thesis at EKKE (1974)

documents

document ~1924

Eftyhia Yannopoulou — refugee registration declaration (Soma + Pergamos property)

events

• 1968 Serge Lebrun emigrates to the United States from Haiti, eventually working at Mellon Bank in Manhattan until retirement.

events

• 1971 Serge Lebrun and Marie Therese Chassaing buy a house at 34-38 92nd Street, Jackson Heights, jointly with Mireille Jeannopoulos and Peter Jeannopoulos — the multigenerational Lebrun-Jeannopoulos household.

documents

events

• 2002 Aline Pepe, John Lazare's youngest daughter, publishes the **Bungalow Column** newspaper essay — *"What place do I miss most? Without a doubt: My father's shoulders…"* — her prose memoir of a single summer evening at the family beach house with three generations in the kitchen. The full column lives on [the Bungalow story page](/family/stories/the-bungalow/).

events

• 1957 Constantine Jeannopoulos travels to **Liberia, March 14-27, 1957** — almost certainly a medical mission for the NYU orthopedic surgeon. He returned to NY on March 27.

events

• 1965 Aline Pepe (front-right) with her older sister Mya and her cousins **Peter and Cathy Econom** — California-based summer visitors from Rhea Econom's family — in a small wooden boat off the bungalow's bulkhead at 104 Asharoken Avenue. The Long Island Sound, mid- to late-1960s.

events

• 1943 Josef Jakowski is killed at the Majdanek concentration camp for trying to help Jewish people during the German occupation of Poland. (Year approximate within the WWII window.)

events

• 1970 John Jeannopoulos, age 17 — the Constantine + Sophie middle child — photographed at the **Rhodes School**, the private Manhattan secondary school he attended before law.

events

• 1943 Mary Jeannopoulos marries **Dr. Spyridon H. Kritzalis** in **Manhattan** — the eldest sister of the Soma-born Jeannopoulos children weds a Greek-American physician five years after her own 1938 arrival in New York. Marriage record from the NYC marriage index, surfaced 2026-05-22 via Ancestry.

documents

immigration Aug 15, 1941

Constantine Jeannopoulos — SS Excalibur Passenger Souvenir List

documents

document 1940

John Lazare Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (Minnesota, 1940)

events

• 1968 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos dies in **Murray Hill, Manhattan**, at age 87 — outliving her husband Lazaros by twenty-nine years and seeing her grandchildren grow up. (An earlier draft of this record approximated her death at ~1950; the 1968 date surfaced via Ancestry on 2026-05-22.)

events

• 1916 Constantine Jeannopoulos born in Mytilene / Smyrna.

documents

document ~1925-1926

Handwritten open letter to General Th. Pangalos, President of the Greek Government

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• 1944 John Jeannopoulos **goes ashore on D-Day** as a US Army Medical Corps Major. Over the following eleven months he will earn the Bronze Star and the American Campaign Medal with **five battle stars** — Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes (the Bulge), and Central Europe. From Omaha Beach to the Elbe.

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letter Jul 26, 1923

Université de Paris Faculté de Médecine — Lazaros's MD diploma duplicate authorization (1923)

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• 2025 Mia Jeannopoulos, junior at American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida — current profile portrait, age 16.

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• 1968 Peter Jeannopoulos and Mireille Jeannopoulos marry in Queens — the Jeannopoulos and Lebrun lines join.

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letter Dec 26, 1923

Handwritten letter from Soma (December 1923)

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document Feb 22, 1925

Hellenic Republic Ministry of Agriculture — Lazaros's refugee compensation declaration (Act No. 296, February 22, 1925)

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• 1923 A handwritten letter is sent from Soma to the family on their refuge year in Mytilene — one of the few surviving Anatolian-era pieces of correspondence.

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• 1948 John Jeannopoulos and Ines Jeannopoulos run a regional field hospital together in Sousse, Tunisia — North Africa, 1948–1951. Their daughter Mya (baptized Eftichia) is born in Tunis around 1949–50.

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• 1968 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos at the bungalow with three of John Lazare's daughters — almost certainly Mya, Claudine, and Aline, in faded color. Her summer dress is the one Aline's 2026 memoir describes. The last full year of her life.

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document Dec 25, 1943

304th Station Hospital Officers + Nurses Roster — Christmas 1943, United Kingdom

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letter 1925

Eftyhia's own-hand letter about her children — Παναγιώτης, Γιάννος, Κώστας, Αχιλλέας, Μαρία (undated, ~1924-1928)

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• 1955 Takis Jeannopoulos and his wife Alina Jeannopoulos (née **Bacho**) settled in Washington Heights, NYC, in the postwar years — Takis a private-practice GP, Alina (a Polish woman born 1919 in Łuck, Volhynia) the household anchor. They shared an apartment building with John Lazare's family and with Takis's mother Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, who lived with them year-round. Color portrait, mid-1950s.

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document Jun 28, 1947

Constantine's Presidential Commission as Captain, Medical Corps — signed Truman administration (effective Dec 1 1943, issued June 28 1947)

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letter 1943

War Department envelope to Mrs. Sofia Jakowska Jeannopoulos at 490 E. 189th St., Bronx (1943)

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• 1945 Ines Jeannopoulos, age 20, is **liberated by Soviet forces from the Wiener Neustadt subcamp of Mauthausen** in Austria — the women's slave-labor facility tied to the Messerschmitt aircraft works. She had survived a Nazi firing squad and the camp; her French repatriation papers, retained by her daughter Aline, name the specific camp and the Soviet liberation. She makes her way west across the chaos of central Europe, joins the French Red Cross as a nurse, and lands in Strasbourg, where she meets John Jeannopoulos.