Lazaros wrote his own CV in 1924, by hand, in Greek and English side-by-side, in multi-column table form, on a recycled commercial letterhead from a fellow Greek-American merchant. The full educational trail — Asia Minor primary school, the Half-Gymnasium of Axar, the Evangelical School of Smyrna, the National University of Athens, three years of Paris postgraduate — is in his own ink and his own column structure. Dated by context to roughly 1924, post-arrival in New York, prepared as part of his US medical-licensure or refugee-credentials package.
The educational trail
| Period | School | Location | Years | Subjects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888–1893 | Public School of Axar (Δημοτικόν Σχολείον) | Akhisar / Axar, Asia Minor | 5 | Modern Greek, religion, geography, history, arithmetic, music, gymnastics |
| 1893–1896 | Half-Gymnasium of Axar (Σχολαρχείον) | Axar | 3 | Greek (modern + ancient), Latin, religion, arithmetic, geometry, geography, history, composition, French, Turkish, zoology, anthropology |
| 1896–1899 | Gymnasium of the Evangelical School of Smyrna (Γυμνάσιον Ευαγγελικής Σχολής Σμύρνης) | Smyrna | 3 | Ancient Greek, Latin, religion, history, geography, natural science, chemistry, botany, composition |
| 1899–1903 | School of Medicine, National University of Athens | Athens | 4 | Theoretic arithmetic, geometric algebra, trigonometry, history, geography, natural history, composition, cosmography, psychology |
| Paris postgraduate (3 years, dates not specified) | Hospitals of Paris | Paris | 3 | General medicine, obstetrics, urology, syphiliology |
All three of his pre-medical-school diplomas are marked “Has been burned” — destroyed in the 1922 Asia Minor catastrophe. Only his Athens medical degree survived as a duplicate from the University records. The note “the accompanying three certificates of Paris give in detail the title of studies and practice in the Hospitals of the above country” indicates his Paris-era credentials had been separately registered with the Greek Embassy.
A small detail in the medium
The CV is written on the reverse side of a recycled commercial letterhead — the letterhead of Nicholas E. Marcoglou, Import, Export & Commission Merchant, Singer Building, 149 Broadway, New York, with a branch office in Smyrna. The Marcoglou business specialized in Macedonian, Turkish, and Russian leaf tobacco. The fact that Lazaros had Marcoglou’s stationery to recycle in 1924 places him in the NY Greek-American business network from his earliest months in the city — a network that would later include the Soma Refugees Association NY fundraising he coordinated by 1927.
