Four pages from a school exercise notebook in Greek cursive, signed throughout “Παναγιώτης Γιαννόπολος” — Takis’s full legal name Panagiotis Yannopoulos. The pages span:
- Page 1: 1922 — composition titled “Αναγραφή” (Account / Narrative). Takis was ten years old; this is the earliest preserved Jeannopoulos-family handwriting in the archive.
- Page 2: May 12–13, 1923, Mytilene — more compositions, age eleven.
- Page 3: May 14–17, 1923, Mytilene.
- Page 4: May 16–19, 1923, Mytilene.
The subject matter is a standard Greek-school curriculum of historical and classical narratives — exercises referencing Σύλαρχος (commander), Πρόξενος (consul), Πύργος (tower), βαρβαρικόν (barbarian), and βασιλεύς (king). What makes the notebook genealogically significant is not its content but its existence.
The 1922 page was written during the year of the Asia Minor Catastrophe — possibly before, during, or just after the family’s expulsion from Soma. The May 1923 pages place Takis in school in Mytilene during the family’s refugee year on Lesvos, pushing the documented refuge timeline back to at least spring 1923. (Previously the earliest Mytilene anchor was a passport-control stamp from September 26, 1923.)
That Lazaros and Eftyhia kept their displaced sons in school through 1923 — producing weekly history compositions on Aegean refuge soil six months after losing everything — is the most legible thing this notebook says about the family’s character under crisis. The educational continuity in this notebook is the same line that ten years later carried Takis to the University of Paris Faculté de Médecine, where he was certified as a Doctor of Medicine in November 1937.