CREEK STUDENT TO STUDY ENGINEERING
Aii attractive young Greek .student, (liminutiK'e and dark-liaired, arrived in New Zealand liv Ihe Taniaroa. Rlie is 23-year-old kliss Tlieauo An'astasiadou, vvbo completed licr two vears' stiulv for a diploma in engineering while tlie Germftns were in Greece, attending.lectu'res and sitting examinations wliicli, because the University of Athems was closed, were held in the liomes of lecturers and other people. Classes were not largo, slie said, because the weary and often fruitless search for food oecupied the attention of most people to the exclusion of all else. Ti 11 1924, Miss Anastasiadou 's fatlier, a Protestant minister, was English lecturer at the American Anatolia Golleg; in Turkey, the family returnirig to Greece oii his retiremeiit. His daughter speaks several languagps. Eor their part in.assisting thji'teen Allied seBvieemrni, incfuding ,'New Zealanders and Australians, to escape froiii Greece, slie and her sister botli received personal letters of thanks from General Rir Harold Alexander. Aliss Anastasiadou became friends with a number of New Zealand Waac's during her stav at Maadi on her journey to the Dominion and thev have supplied her with a list of New Zealand addresses. Rlie expects to live in Wellington, and hopes that in time she may continue her engineering studies.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 March 1946, Page 8
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207CREEK STUDENT TO STUDY ENGINEERING Chronicle (Levin), 29 March 1946, Page 8
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