Seated happily on the bench are the four students of CYA’s first pioneering class: Linda (Courtney) Walters, Linda (Vigderman) Bamber, Katita Williams, and Ruth (Chute) Knapp. Standing behind them equally content are Mr. and Mrs. Phyl

At Dodona in 1964. Henry [Immerwahr] spoke… From Mr.s Phyl’s notes on the school’s trip to northern Greece. From left to right: Emily de Rham, Leslie Sharp, Jane Hill

Cornelia Herzfeld (class of ‘66) “commenced her long connection with CYA’s administration first as aide-de-camp to Ismene Phylactopoulou in the middle 1970s and, in time, came to head CYA’s North American Office and serve as the institutions’ Bursar.” Since her retirement in ???? she is the Recording Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Special Consultant to the President. This picture was taken during the year she studied at CYA

Invitation to the lecture “The Spark in the Fennel, Classical Influences on Modern English Poetry” by Dr. Peter Green, May 10, 1967

Invitation to the lecture “Apollo versus Dionysus: The Odyssean Heritage of George Seferis and Nikos Kazantzakis” by Kimon Friar, October 29, 1969

The cover page of CYA’s first catalog

Nicholas Yalouris in Olympia crowning Katherine Weld for winning the foot race (1967). No year passes when CYA students visiting the site will not opt to run the same race

Mr. and Mrs. Phyl with members of the class of ‘68

The members of CYA’s staff have always attended the school’s students with loving care. Shown in the picture is a CYA student in the capacious lap of Marina, a member of the staff in the 1960s-1970s

Ismene Phylactopoulou had come to Greece in 1922 as a refugee from Smyrna. After graduating from Wellesley College she recognized the tremendous historical and cultural importance of Greece to liberal arts students. Ismene’s innovative idea for the time – studies for foreign students in Greece taught in English, became a reality in 1962 when she established College Year in Athens

Mrs. Phyl was frequently visiting the students for tea at their apartments in Kolonaki

Raphael Demos. Upon his retirement from Harvard University as Alford Professor of Philosophy Emeritus he taught philosophy at CYA and served as its Academic Director in 1967-68

The Curriculum as it appears in CYA’s first catalog, 1962-1963.