Class Agents

Class Agent Volunteers are one of our greatest assets and they are a critical link between alumni and CYA. If you are interested in keeping up with the latest at CYA and in serving as the connecting hub between your classmates contact Erica Huffman, CYA ‘93 alumni@cyathens.org Director of Alumni Relations

Joel Green CYA '93

Class Agents

Favorite class you took at CYA? Bronze Age to Classical How did your study abroad experience with CYA contribute to your personal, academics and professional development? It allowed me to open my way of thinking to acknowledge that there are multi ways of thinking. This intern propelled my academic career. What is your favorite memory of Athens? The food at the plaka and meeting the President of Egypt while on spring break

Ryan Tipps CYA '99

Class Agents

Favorite class you took at CYA? Ancient Greek Sculpture with Anne Stewart! She is an amazing instructor, and the dexiosis (handshake) symbolism I learned about in her class laid the foundation for my senior thesis on that topic back at my home college. Mr. Ryan Tipps, how did your study abroad experience with CYA contribute to your personal, academics and professional development? My time at CYA did more to nurture my curiosity in the world and the people around me than anything else I've experienced. Every outing brought a new and amazing sense of wonder to my life - it helped me gain more perspectives of the cultures and communities I have interacted with ever since. What is your favorite memory of Athens? The first time my Acropolis architecture class got to walk inside the Parthenon and stand next to the columns and marble blocks that make up such an iconic building. It's something most people never get to experience, and the historical sense of place has never felt so real as it did at that moment.
Mr. Peter Allen, favorite class you took at CYA? I came to CYA to study archaeology (my college, Middlebury, had none), but I was an anthropology major at the time and took Anne Fuller's anthropology course.  That turned out to be my favorite and changed my life forever (see #2 below).  An archaeology course I took was the runner up favorite. Mrs. Phyl dubbed it the 'all-star' course as it was team taught (consecutively, not simultaneously) by such luminaries as Nicholas Yalouris, Alan Boegehold, and others. How did your study abroad experience with CYA contribute to your personal, academics, and professional development? CYA changed my life. After graduating from college, I went on to graduate school where I did research in Greece for my doctoral dissertation and have been researching and writing and teaching about Greece ever since. I serve on the CYA board and the board of Anatolia College/American College of Greece and thus travel to Greece at least twice a year for board meetings. I have served on the board of the Modern Greek Studies Association and been an officer of same. What is your favorite memory of Athens? My favorite memories of Athens were getting out of it to visit islands and other parts of Greece. Perhaps the most impressive trip I ever took was seven years after CYA when I spent ten days at the holy precinct of Mt. Athos.

Ethan Baron, CYA '10

Class Agents, Ohio Wesleyan University

Dear Ethan Baron, what was your favorite class took at CYA? I loved my classes with Professor Cudsi and Professor Gandolfo. How did your study abroad experience with CYA contribute to your personal, academics, and professional development? I was fortunate enough to meet my wife during my time with CYA and being in Greece in the Spring of 2010, I learned a lot academically and gained a new perspective on the global economy. What is your favorite memory of Athens? Shopping at the markets and Olympiacos football games.