Nana Biography

Well, we got to know him when we knew we were going away, someone told us about Andreas, and he had been – Andy I should call him. He was in the head of the department of economics at the University of California. So it was somebody here at Stanford that we went up there and we met him and he invited us to a party, and we also met another friend of his. John Jon, facetiously sort of said at one of the parties, “well, you have that Institute for economic development that you are running here in Athens, and it’s fine that you invite economists. “That’s what he did, he invited other people, very important ones, from all over the world to come there and spend a certain amount of time studying ways to improve the economy of Greece. 

John said, “that’s just great, but you’re going to need a lawyer someday to untangle the mess. “ Sort of kidding.  Andrea said, “will you come next summer? “And so it all worked out, and we went over that summer, and it was sort of like heaven, we rented a house right on the seashore, and the arrows were there that year, and they were two houses down.

So you knew them before?

Yes, and we became very good friends, we shared so many things that summer. Two of our boys came – this was 1964, I believe, because Leonard was also invited to come, and he wrote to us, sometime in April, and said he would like very much to come, but that he had been going to the university of Chicago law school, and he had decided to go to Mississippi instead. We were proud of him, for what he was going to do, a little nervous. He went to some sort of a training school. I understand to learn how to protect himself and other things you have to know. He was a friend and was in the same group, one of the three boys that were murdered, and when we were in Greece, it was on the air.

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