Claudine — listed in the yearbook under her baptismal name Effie C. — at Mother Cabrini High School, the Catholic girls’ school in Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1964. She was fourteen.
Two names, one woman. Eftichia on the Greek baptismal record her parents kept in Tunisia, Claudine in everyday American life — both names belong to John Lazare and Ines Valda’s eldest biological daughter. She was born around mid-1950 in Tunis, French Tunisia, while her parents were running a regional US-affiliated field hospital in Sousse, North Africa. The baptismal name honors her paternal grandmother Eftyhia Karamitrou, in the Greek tradition of naming the eldest granddaughter after her father’s mother. She traveled with her mother across the Mediterranean on the SS Constitution from Cannes to New York on November 30, 1951, eighteen months old, appearing on the manifest as “Eftichia C. Jeannopoulos, age 1½” — the “C.” standing for the American name she would grow up using: Claudine.
Her sister Aline confirmed in May 2026 that Eftichia and Claudine are the same person — Greek baptismal name on the early documents, American name in adult life. She married Patrick Boyhan.
She is one of John and Ines’s three daughters, alongside her sister Mya Durso (adopted, d. 2002) and Aline Pepe.
