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Barker, Molly 2004, Girls on Track PDF Print E-mail
Written by Julia Brown, MA   

Barker, Molly 2004, Girls on Track

Molly Barker is founder of the program called, “Girls on the Run”.  She began the non-profit organization in Charlotte, North Carolina while she was a coach at Charlotte Country Day School.  Molly started the program in 1996 and today it is in thirty-six cities and forty-one states across the country.

 

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“Demetrios Is Now Jimmy:” Greek Immigrants in the Southern United States, 1895 to 1965 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andrew Christakos   

Book Review:  Andrew Christakos, NC State University

Lazar “Larry” Odzak completed his studies in US History at the University of Florida.  Concentrating on the twin topics of Immigration and Ethnicity, Odzak wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Greek immigrant group, as it arrived in the US in the early 1900s and specifically on its relatively small segment that settled in the southern United States.

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Book Review: Boys and Girls Learn Differently PDF Print E-mail
Written by Julia Brown   

Boys and Girls Learn Differently

A guide for teachers and parents: Author Michael Gurian

In Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian examines brain based research over a ten year period, focusing on preschool through high school aged boys and girls.
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Olympic Wandering PDF Print E-mail
Written by Julia Brown   
In David Lundberg’s well written book entitled, Olympic Wandering, Time Travel Through Greece, he writes of his many travels through the numerous Greek islands that dot the Mediterranean landscape.
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