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Timeline

A century and a half of the family record, in order. Color-coded by branch: Jeannopoulos , Lebrun , mixed or historical .

1870s
1871

born Lazaros Jeannopoulos born in Anatolia.
Turkey
1878

born Josef Jakowski born in Poland — Sophie's father, the Warsaw obstetrician.
Poland
1890s
1890

born Maria Jakowska born in Poland — Sophie's mother.
Poland
1910s
Mar 15, 1911

born John Jeannopoulos born in Soma. (Eftyhia later falsified records to 1913 to keep him a younger age.)
Soma, Turkey
Nov 18, 1911

born Takis Jeannopoulos born in Soma.
Soma, Turkey
1913

context **Family tradition holds that Lazaros Jeannopoulos is exiled from Asia Minor to Athens around this time.** Per Aline Pepe (his granddaughter through John Lazare), relaying her father's account: Lazaros was under an Ottoman death sentence; a provincial pasha's favorite wife was in difficult prolonged labor; the pasha cut a graduated deal — deliver mother and child safely and the sentence becomes life imprisonment, deliver mother *and a healthy son* and he goes free with exile. The Paris-trained obstetrician delivered the son. The 'Εξορίστου Μικρασιάτου' / 'Exiled Asia-Minor-Greek' line on his 1915 Athens book is, in this telling, a literal judicial sentence — not a metaphor. (Family tradition; year approximate within the 1908–1914 window.)
1914

born Mary Jeannopoulos born.
Jul 28, 1914

context **World War I begins.** Greece is initially neutral, then splits between pro-Allies Venizelists and pro-neutrality royalists. Greek populations in Ottoman Anatolia begin the harassment-and-deportation wave that will lead, eight years later, to the 1922 catastrophe. Lazaros Jeannopoulos, by his own published account a year later, is already 'exiled' from Asia Minor to Athens.
1915

doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos publishes **Η Εθνική Τραγωδία Θράκης και Μικράς Ασίας** in Athens — a 35-page polemic denouncing the Greek state's abandonment of the Anatolian Greeks. His title page signs him as *Ιατρός, Εξορίστου Μικρασιάτου* — 'Doctor, Exiled Asia-Minor-Greek.' By 1915, in print, he is already a refugee.
Athens, Greece doc Lazaros's published polemic — Η Εθνική Τραγωδία Θράκης και Μικράς Ασίας (Athens, 1915)
Jun 21, 1916

born Constantine Jeannopoulos born in Mytilene / Smyrna.
Mytilene / Smyrna
1920s
Jan 20, 1920

born Achilles Jeannopoulos born in Smyrna.
Smyrna
Feb 12, 1922

born Sophie Jeannopoulos born in Warsaw.
Warsaw, Poland
Sep 7, 1922

doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos and family are issued laissez-passer No. 5412 from Soma — the document that gets them out of Anatolia three weeks after the Smyrna fire.
Soma, Anatolia doc Jeannopoulos family — Laissez-passer from Soma
Sep 9, 1922

context **Smyrna falls; the city burns for ten days.** The Asia Minor catastrophe. Roughly 100,000 Anatolian Greeks die in the surrounding weeks; another 1.5 million flee. The Jeannopoulos household — Lazaros, Eftyhia, four sons, and a daughter we know only as the unnamed baby sister — abandons a Soma estate later assessed at ~3,330 Turkish gold pounds (about **$2.5 million today** in gold-equivalent wealth) and reaches Mytilene with what they can carry. The baby sister will die in the refugee camps; the family record will publicly call it pneumonia, privately call it malnutrition.
Jul 24, 1923

context **Treaty of Lausanne** — Greece and Turkey sign a compulsory population exchange. Around 1.2 million Anatolian Greeks become Greek citizens by act of treaty; around 400,000 Muslims in Greece are moved to Turkey. Lazaros's status as 'refugee' is now legal-administrative, with a paperwork track for compensation claims that the family will be working for the next decade.
Dec 26, 1923

doc A handwritten letter is sent from Soma to the family on their refuge year in Mytilene — one of the few surviving Anatolian-era pieces of correspondence.
Soma → Mytilene doc Handwritten letter from Soma (December 1923)
Mar 18, 1924

move Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, Takis Jeannopoulos, John Jeannopoulos, Mary Jeannopoulos, Constantine Jeannopoulos, and Achilles Jeannopoulos arrive in New York on the SS Themistocles. Eftyhia is recorded as 'Eftimia' on the inspection cards; John Lazare is card #18 under the Greek name 'Ioannis'. Constantine is 7; Achilles is 4.
Port of New York doc Jeannopoulos family — SS Themistocles Inspection Cards (Eftimia + Ioannis)
Apr 23, 1924

doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos files his Declaration of Intention in New York — the first formal step of naturalization.
New York doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Declaration of Intention (Naturalization)
Apr 23, 1924

doc Eftyhia Jeannopoulos files her own Declaration of Intention in New York — alongside Lazaros's the same day. The family began its US-citizenship paperwork as a household, not just through the husband.
New York
1925

context The runaway-to-Greece: Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos, both thirteen, forge passports, tell the Greek consulate their parents are dead, and get themselves shipped back to Greece. Lazaros and Eftyhia post newspaper notices in New York and deal with a fake ransom note. **Eftyhia Jeannopoulos sails to Greece to retrieve her sons herself** — and brings them both home aboard the SS Byron, all three names on the December 31, 1925 NY arrival manifest.
1925

doc An opportunist sends Lazaros Jeannopoulos and Eftyhia a ransom note demanding payment for the boys' return — a piece of the runaway-year correspondence the family kept.
New York doc Ransom note (1920s) — extortion attempt during the runaway-to-Greece
1925

context The four Jeannopoulos brothers — Takis, John Lazare, Constantine, and Achilles — pose on the beach in an acrobatic-shoulder-stand, the older two each holding a younger brother aloft. Long Island Sound or Coney Island, in their earliest NY years. John, per Aline, is bottom right.
New York
Oct 1, 1925

doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos obtains a US reentry certificate in Havana, Cuba — the late-1925 leg of the year's complicated travel for the family.
Havana, Cuba doc Havana — US Reentry Certificate (October 1925)
Oct 11, 1925

doc The Daily News of New York runs the headline 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' — 1,000 DeWitt Clinton High School students plus 'every policeman in the city' are deployed to locate the missing Jeannopoulos brothers from their home at 130 W 26th St. (The paper names them as 'John, 15, and his brother Peter' — 'Peter' almost certainly Takis/Panagiotis.)
New York City doc Daily News — 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' (DeWitt Clinton High School)
Oct 23, 1925

doc The Greek Consulate of New York issues identification certificate No. 3640 to Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos in the wake of their forged-passport return, plus a separate family card.
New York doc NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate No. 3640
Dec 31, 1925

move Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, Takis Jeannopoulos, and John Jeannopoulos arrive in New York on the **SS Byron** from Piraeus, Greece — all three names on the same manifest. **The mother went to Greece to retrieve her runaway teenage sons herself**, then brought them home together. (Earlier drafts had the boys returning on their own; the 2026-05-22 Ancestry pull of the actual manifest shows the three-person arrival.)
New York doc Panagiotis Jeannopoulos — SS Byron Arrival 1925 (FamilySearch Summary)
1927

born Rhea Econom born in New York — the family's first US-born child.
New York
Oct 29, 1929

context **Wall Street crashes; the Great Depression begins.** The Jeannopoulos household — now in the Bronx, naturalizing through Lazaros's 1928 paperwork — weathers the next decade on his NYC medical practice and his editorship of *Aletheia*. The Depression coincides with the Greek-American ecclesiastical schism Lazaros will fight from his Chelsea editorial office.
1930s
1930

context The 1930 US census records Lazaros Jeannopoulos, Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, and the youngest children settled in the Bronx.
Apr 21, 1930

move John Jeannopoulos returns to the US — a mid-medical-school crossing during his University of Paris years.
New York
1931

work Takis Jeannopoulos graduates from the **University of Florida at Gainesville** — the only Jeannopoulos sibling whose undergraduate years took him to the American South. He leaves immediately afterward for medical school at the University of Paris (Lazaros's 1937 affidavit records the departure). The Florida-UF connection runs through the **Greek-American community at Tarpon Springs**, on the Gulf coast — a 2026-05-27 photograph of him and John Jeannopoulos at the Tarpon Springs sponge docks places both brothers in that network as young men.
Gainesville, Florida
1931

work John Jeannopoulos, age 20, sits for his college yearbook portrait. He is six years past the runaway-to-Greece episode, on his way to his Paris medical-school years.
United States
1931

context Takis Jeannopoulos sits for his **University of Florida at Gainesville senior yearbook portrait** — *Panagiotis L. Jeannopoulos, B.S.* The yearbook image is the literal artifact of his American South undergraduate years, paired here with the Tarpon Springs sponge-docks photograph that explains how a Bronx Greek-immigrant family came to send him to UF in the first place.
Gainesville, Florida
Jan 9, 1931

naturalized Lazaros Jeannopoulos naturalized in New York City — Certificate #3421529 (the date referenced in his 1937 sworn affidavit; document image now on file). His [Petition for Citizenship](/family/documents/lazaros-petition-for-citizenship-1931/) was filed May 1930 and signed January 9, 1931. His minor children — including Constantine at 14 — became US citizens automatically. (An earlier draft of this record placed his naturalization at 1928; that date was incorrect.)
New York City doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Petition for Citizenship (1930-1931)
Jul 26, 1933

move Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos arrive in New York together aboard the **SS Bremen**, last European residence Bordeaux, France. Both brothers manifested US settlement after their University of Paris medical-school years.
New York doc Takis Jeannopoulos — SS Bremen Third-Class Arrival Manifest
Nov 29, 1937

doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos files a sworn affidavit in NYC — less than two years before his death.
New York City doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Sworn Affidavit
1938

move Mary Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Normandie.
New York doc Mary Jeannopoulos — SS Normandie Arrival Manifest
Jun 28, 1939

died Lazaros Jeannopoulos dies in Manhattan, age 68.
Manhattan, New York doc Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC Death Certificate No. 14380
Sep 1, 1939

context **Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.** Sophie Jeannopoulos is seventeen in Warsaw. Her father, the obstetrician Josef Jakowski, will be sent to the Majdanek camp for helping Jewish patients and die there of typhoid. Sophie will spend the next three years getting out of Europe.
1940s
Oct 16, 1940

doc Takis Jeannopoulos registers for the WWII draft in NYC — self-employed at the family's 28 W 69th Street address.
New York City
Oct 16, 1940

doc John Jeannopoulos registers for the WWII draft from **CCC Camp S-95, Company 1722, Effie, Itasca County, Minnesota** — the Civilian Conservation Corps chapter where, per his 2004 obituary, he sent his entire camp-physician salary home to put his three younger brothers through medical school.
Effie, Itasca County, Minnesota
Jun 11, 1941

marry Constantine Jeannopoulos and Sophie Jeannopoulos marry in Rome, on the eve of his crossing. They met as students at the University of Rome.
Rome, Italy
Jul 1, 1941

doc Achilles Jeannopoulos registers for the WWII draft in NYC — a medical student living with his brother Takis at 28 West 69th Street. The card carries the later annotation **"Name changed to Alfred A. Johnson, 12/13/46"**, pinpointing his anglicization to six weeks after V-J Day.
New York City
Aug 25, 1941

move Constantine Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Excalibur from Lisbon. He takes up a post at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital.
New York doc Constantine's arrival on the SS Excalibur from Lisbon — Port of New York (August 25, 1941)
Dec 7, 1941

context **Pearl Harbor.** The United States enters the war. Sixteen months later Constantine Jeannopoulos — newly minted NY State medical license #041039 in hand — joins the US Army Medical Corps and ships out for the European Theater. His brother-in-law-to-be-someday Josef Jakowski is already dead in Majdanek.
Jun 5, 1942

move Sophie Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Serpa Pinto from Lisbon, last residence Évian-les-Bains. She rejoins Constantine.
New York doc Sophie Jeannopoulos — SS Serpa Pinto Arrival Manifest
Nov 16, 1942

work Constantine Jeannopoulos is granted NY State medical license No. 041039.
New York doc Constantine Jeannopoulos — NY State Medical License No. 041039
1943

died Josef Jakowski is killed at the Majdanek concentration camp for trying to help Jewish people during the German occupation of Poland. (Year approximate within the WWII window.)
Majdanek, Poland
Sep 2, 1943

work Constantine Jeannopoulos is accepted into the US Army Medical Corps — his wartime service track begins.
United States doc Constantine Jeannopoulos — Army Medical Corps Acceptance Card (INS)
Oct 14, 1943

born Peter Jeannopoulos born in New York City — Constantine and Sophie's first child.
New York City
Dec 20, 1943

marry Mary Jeannopoulos marries **Dr. Spyridon H. Kritzalis** in **Manhattan** — the eldest sister of the Soma-born Jeannopoulos children weds a Greek-American physician five years after her own 1938 arrival in New York. Marriage record from the NYC marriage index, surfaced 2026-05-22 via Ancestry.
Manhattan, New York City
Jun 6, 1944

work John Jeannopoulos **goes ashore on D-Day** as a US Army Medical Corps Major. Over the following eleven months he will earn the Bronze Star and the American Campaign Medal with **five battle stars** — Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes (the Bulge), and Central Europe. From Omaha Beach to the Elbe.
Normandy, France
Apr 1, 1945

context Ines Jeannopoulos, age 20, is **liberated by Soviet forces from the Wiener Neustadt subcamp of Mauthausen** in Austria — the women's slave-labor facility tied to the Messerschmitt aircraft works. She had survived a Nazi firing squad and the camp; her French repatriation papers, retained by her daughter Aline, name the specific camp and the Soviet liberation. She makes her way west across the chaos of central Europe, joins the French Red Cross as a nurse, and lands in Strasbourg, where she meets John Jeannopoulos.
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
May 8, 1945

context **V-E Day.** Europe goes quiet. Constantine Jeannopoulos, a Captain with the 304th Station Hospital, is in the medical-dispensary network attached to Patton's Third Army. The Pacific war ends in August.
1946

context **Greek Civil War begins (1946–49)** — Greek communists against the British-then-American-backed government. The Greek diaspora in America is split along the same fault lines; Lazaros's old anti-Venizelist axis is now anti-communist. Lazaros himself has been dead seven years; his sons keep their heads down through it.
Mar 14, 1946

move Alina Jeannopoulos, born 1919 in Łuck (Volhynia, then Poland; now Lutsk, Ukraine), arrives in New York aboard the **USAT *George W. Goethals*** sailing from **Le Havre, France** — rejoining her husband Takis Jeannopoulos after years separated by WWII. The most plausible window for their marriage is Takis's University of Paris medical school period (1931-37). They had no children. Confirmed 2026-05-22 via Alex's Ancestry research.
Port of New York
Nov 14, 1946

work John Jeannopoulos is **released from active duty** from his WWII US Army Medical Corps service — per the annotation on his draft card.
Dec 13, 1946

doc Achilles Jeannopoulos's **legal name change to Alfred A. Johnson is registered** — six weeks after his older brother John Lazare's WWII active-duty release. The name change had been pending; the brothers waited until the war ended. (Per the annotation on Achilles's WWII draft card.)
Apr 21, 1947

naturalized Sophie Jeannopoulos naturalized in NYC — Certificate No. 6705767, issued in her married name.
New York City
Jun 1, 1947

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos earns her PhD from Fordham University with the dissertation *A Study of Abnormal Growth Responses in Allium Cepa* under faculty advisor **Dr. E.R. Witkus** — a plant-tumor study using *Agrobacterium tumefaciens*-infected onions, bridging into the fish-cancer work she would do at the NY Aquarium three years later. Five years off the boat from Lisbon.
Fordham University, New York doc Sophie Jakowska — authored books (1970–1986)
1948

work John Jeannopoulos and Ines Jeannopoulos run a regional field hospital together in Sousse, Tunisia — North Africa, 1948–1951. Their daughter Mya (baptized Eftichia) is born in Tunis around 1949–50.
Sousse, Tunisia
1948

context **Athenagoras Spyrou is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople** — the same Archbishop Lazaros and the *Aletheia* faction had spent the 1932–1935 schism trying to delegitimize. He will hold the See until 1972. Lazaros's faction lost in the end.
Nov 29, 1948

naturalized Alina Jeannopoulos naturalized as a US citizen at the US District Court, New York City — Petition No. 570871, Certificate No. 6869928. Her US residence: 370 Fort Washington Avenue, Washington Heights, Manhattan.
New York City
1950s
1950

context The 1950 US Census records Constantine Jeannopoulos, Sophie Jeannopoulos, and seven-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos as a household in the Bronx.
Bronx, New York doc Jeannopoulos household — 1950 US Census (Bronx)
1950

context Peter Jeannopoulos, age 7, photographed at **Mount Saint Michael Academy** — the Marist Catholic grade school in the Bronx the Jeannopoulos boys attended.
Bronx, New York
1951

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos, with **R.F. Nigrelli** and **Myron Gordon** of the NY Aquarium, NY Zoological Society, and College of Mount Saint Vincent, publishes *The Invasion and Cell Replacement of One Pigmented Neoplastic Growth by a Second, and More Malignant Type in Experimental Fishes* in the **British Journal of Cancer**. One of her earliest preserved publications — bridging the 1947 plant-tumor PhD into fish-cancer cytology.
New York Aquarium
1951

context Peter Jeannopoulos, age 8, in a second Mount Saint Michael Academy portrait — same school, one year on.
Bronx, New York
Nov 30, 1951

move Ines Jeannopoulos and her 18-month-old biological daughter Claudine Boyhan arrive in New York on the SS Constitution from Cannes — John Jeannopoulos's family completes the Tunisia-to-US crossing. The infant is manifested as 'Eftichia C. Jeannopoulos' — her Greek baptismal name; her everyday American name is Claudine. (An earlier draft of this record misattributed this voyage to Mya Durso, who joined the family separately by adoption.)
New York doc Ines Valda & Eftichia Jeannopoulos — SS Constitution Arrival Manifest
Apr 27, 1952

doc Eight-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos appears in a Bronx Zoo photograph that runs in regional dailies across the country (Richmond Times-Dispatch Apr 27, Des Moines Tribune May 1).
Bronx Zoo, New York doc Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Zoo (Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 1952)
Aug 1, 1953

born John Jeannopoulos born — Constantine and Sophie's second child, the future attorney.
New York
Dec 31, 1953

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos and Nigrelli publish *The pathology of myxosporidiosis in the electric eel, Electrophorus electricus*, describing **two new species** of *Henneguya* parasite (*H. visceralis* and *H. electrica spp. nov.*). Sophie and Nigrelli are now the type authors for two species in the formal zoological record.
New York Aquarium
1955

context Takis Jeannopoulos and his wife Alina Jeannopoulos (née **Bacho**) settled in Washington Heights, NYC, in the postwar years — Takis a private-practice GP, Alina (a Polish woman born 1919 in Łuck, Volhynia) the household anchor. They shared an apartment building with John Lazare's family and with Takis's mother Eftyhia Jeannopoulos, who lived with them year-round. Color portrait, mid-1950s.
Washington Heights, Manhattan
Mar 14, 1957

work Constantine Jeannopoulos travels to **Liberia, March 14-27, 1957** — almost certainly a medical mission for the NYU orthopedic surgeon. He returned to NY on March 27.
Liberia
Nov 16, 1957

move Constantine Jeannopoulos arrives back in New York on **PanAm** — a second 1957 international trip, destination open.
New York
1959

died Maria Jakowska dies in Poland just before her planned emigration to America — the last close relative on Sophie's Polish side.
Poland
1960s
Nov 12, 1960

born Marie Jeannopoulos born in New York City, seventeen years after Peter — Constantine and Sophie's third child.
New York City
Dec 19, 1960

work John Jeannopoulos, then a Medical Officer at the **Brooklyn Navy Yard**, leads the medical response to the **fire aboard the USS *Constellation*** during fitting-out — a major shipyard disaster that killed 50 workers. He was decorated for heroic actions. (Date per the historical *Constellation* fire; specifics of his role per his 2004 obituary.)
Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York
May 30, 1961

context **Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo.** Sophie's NYC scientific career has already brought her into the orbit of the Dominican Calventi family — Idelisa Calventi was her co-author on the 1959 Ectyonin paper at the NY Aquarium. The post-Trujillo Dominican Republic is the country Sophie and Constantine will retire to seventeen years later.
1962

died **Peter Econom ('Didi') dies at approximately five years old** — only son of Rhea Econom and Leonidas Econom; only grandchild of Eftyhia and Lazaros to die as a small child. The approximate year is computed working backward from the family's 1964 California move; the actual date is open. Buried at Mt Olivet Cemetery, Queens — alongside his maternal grandparents Lazaros and Eftyhia. Likely the 'toddler grandson' Eftyhia grieved in Aline Pepe's 2026 portrait.
New York City
1962

context Eftyhia Jeannopoulos photographed with her youngest daughter Rhea Econom ("Lula") — the only one of her seven children born in America, the only one to be photographed beside her like this. Two years before Rhea and Leonidas moved the family to California.
New York
1964

context Mya Durso — listed in school records under her baptismal name **Myriam** — completes her junior year at **Mother Cabrini High School** in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The yearbook shows her across multiple pages: French IV class, Room 206 homeroom, the school's French-language Nativity play, and the drum-corps appreciation ceremony where she presents a plaque to a US Army Chief Warrant Officer on behalf of the school.
Washington Heights, NYC
1964

context Claudine Boyhan (Eftichia) — John Lazare and Ines's biological daughter, born in Tunis 1950 — pictured at **Mother Cabrini High School** in Washington Heights, the same Catholic girls' school her adopted sister Mya was attending the same year.
Washington Heights, NYC
1965

context Mya Durso graduates from **Mother Cabrini High School** — listed under her baptismal name **Myriam Jeannopoulos** on the senior-year scholarship/honors page.
Washington Heights, NYC
1965

context Aline Pepe (front-right) with her older sister Mya and her cousins **Peter and Cathy Econom** — California-based summer visitors from Rhea Econom's family — in a small wooden boat off the bungalow's bulkhead at 104 Asharoken Avenue. The Long Island Sound, mid- to late-1960s.
Long Island Sound
Dec 7, 1965

context **Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI lift the mutual Catholic-Orthodox excommunications of 1054** — a thousand-year-old rupture closed by the man Lazaros's faction had once tried to keep out of the Archdiocese. History is rarely so symmetrically ironic.
1968

move Serge Lebrun emigrates to the United States from Haiti, eventually working at Mellon Bank in Manhattan until retirement.
Haiti → New York
1968

context Eftyhia Jeannopoulos at the bungalow with three of John Lazare's daughters — almost certainly Mya, Claudine, and Aline, in faded color. Her summer dress is the one Aline's 2026 memoir describes. The last full year of her life.
The bungalow, Asharoken, NY
Jul 6, 1968

marry Peter Jeannopoulos and Mireille Jeannopoulos marry in Queens — the Jeannopoulos and Lebrun lines join.
Queens, New York doc Peter Jeannopoulos & Mireille Lebrun — NYC Marriage Record
Dec 15, 1968

died Eftyhia Jeannopoulos dies at age 87 at the family's **bungalow beach house**, with her sons Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos at her side. (An earlier draft put her death at ~1950; that estimate was 18 years off.) Buried at **Mt Olivet Cemetery, Queens** — with her husband Lazaros, and later her son Takis. The portrait her granddaughter Aline wrote of her — *“I had all the proof I needed of amazing Amazonian strength and beauty, the night I saw my grandmother in her bedroom”* — is the closest single document to Eftyhia's day-to-day self.
Family beach house ('the bungalow')
Dec 15, 1968

died Eftyhia Jeannopoulos dies in **Murray Hill, Manhattan**, at age 87 — outliving her husband Lazaros by twenty-nine years and seeing her grandchildren grow up. (An earlier draft of this record approximated her death at ~1950; the 1968 date surfaced via Ancestry on 2026-05-22.)
Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York
Apr 24, 1969

work **The Columbia Record** and **The State** (Columbia, SC) announce Constantine Jeannopoulos's appointment as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at the VA Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. He appears to have declined the move — neither his son Peter (an adult in 1969) nor his daughter Penny (then a child in the household) recall any move south, and his documented later address remained 27 West 96th Street, Manhattan. The 1969 press confirms his orthopedic sub-specialty even as the appointment itself never seems to have taken effect.
Columbia, South Carolina (appointment) / New York (residence) doc Constantine Jeannopoulos — Columbia Record / VA Hospital Orthopedics
1970s
1970

context John Jeannopoulos, age 17 — the Constantine + Sophie middle child — photographed at the **Rhodes School**, the private Manhattan secondary school he attended before law.
Manhattan
1970

marry Mya Durso marries Dominick Durso — the wedding portrait from the family archive. They will go on to raise Anthony and Aline Durso on Staten Island. (Exact date open; styling places it ~1970.)
New York
Jun 28, 1970

born Karyn Jeannopoulos born.
1971

context Serge Lebrun and Marie Therese Chassaing buy a house at 34-38 92nd Street, Jackson Heights, jointly with Mireille Jeannopoulos and Peter Jeannopoulos — the multigenerational Lebrun-Jeannopoulos household.
Jackson Heights, Queens
Jul 21, 1971

born Alex Jeannopoulos born — first son of Peter and Mireille.
Nov 20, 1976

died Takis Jeannopoulos dies at age 65 of **cancer** — two days after his birthday — predeceasing his younger brother Constantine by four years. The first of the six Anatolia-born siblings to die. In his final chemo-nauseated weeks he had asked his niece Aline Pepe to find him **butterscotch candies** — the kind their grandmother Eftyhia had quietly kept in her drawstring bra-bag for decades, for him. Aline wrote: *“I finally knew who those Butterscotch candies were for.”* Buried at **Mt Olivet Cemetery, Queens**, with his parents Lazaros and Eftyhia.
New York
1977

move Sophie Jeannopoulos and Constantine Jeannopoulos retire together to Santo Domingo. (Earlier drafts had Sophie moving first; corrected May 2026 by their daughter Penny, who recorded that the move was joint.)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1979

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes ***Amigos del Cocodrilo*** through the **Dirección Nacional de Parques** of the Dominican Republic — an official state-sponsored environmental publication, 140 pages, prologue by **Merilio G. Morell**, dedicated to *las niñas dominicanas de las comunidades fronterizas norteñas* in the UN's International Year of the Child. Two years after her late-1970s move to Santo Domingo, the Dominican conservation establishment was already issuing her under its own imprint. Twenty-eight years later the *Crocodylus acutus* of this book would be the species on her commemorative RD$15 stamp.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic doc Sophie Jakowska — authored books (1970–1986)
1980s
Nov 8, 1980

died Constantine Jeannopoulos dies in Santo Domingo, age 64. Chronic renal failure / uremic cardiac insufficiency; certifying physician Dr. Vinicio Calventi, a Dominican surgeon (and a relative of Sophie's longtime scientific collaborator Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi).
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic doc Constantine Jeannopoulos — Acta de Defunción No. 31759
1986

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes ***La Quiero Libre*** — her Spanish-language Dominican environmental/bioethics work, dedicated to the next generation of Caribbean conservationists.
Dominican Republic
1988

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos publishes *The Emerging Conservation Mystique in the Dominican Republic* as a chapter in *New Ideas in Environmental Education* (Briceño & Pitt, eds., Routledge). The piece frames the IUCN-inspired Dominican LAURELES conservation clubs, Church-linked Dominican environmentalism, and **Haitian desertification as the cautionary border tale** — the academic articulation of the 1979 *Amigos del Cocodrilo* dedication to Dominican girls of the northern border communities.
Dominican Republic doc Sophie Jakowska — authored books (1970–1986)
1990s
Sep 6, 1999

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos, age 77, writes by hand from her Arz. Meriño 154 apartment in Santo Domingo to **Dr. Dyrce Lacombe** at Fiocruz / Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro — asking Dyrce to host a young Dominican parks-architect colleague on a Brazilian environmental-science trip. The letter survives in Fiocruz's archives. Sophie was still actively bridging Dominican and Brazilian environmental networks six years before her death.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic doc Sophie's 1999 letter to Dyrce Lacombe at Fiocruz — Brazilian environmental connection
2000s
2001

doc Sophie Jeannopoulos, 79 and in chronic pain, publishes *Conflictos ambientales — luchas sin vencedores* in *Ciencia y Sociedad* 26(1): 103–106. Her last preserved publication — the **bioethics-of-environment voice** the Dominican government will commemorate six years later as *Precursora de la Bioética*.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic doc Sophie Jakowska — authored books (1970–1986)
2002

context Aline Pepe, John Lazare's youngest daughter, publishes the **Bungalow Column** newspaper essay — *"What place do I miss most? Without a doubt: My father's shoulders…"* — her prose memoir of a single summer evening at the family beach house with three generations in the kitchen. The full column lives on [the Bungalow story page](/family/stories/the-bungalow/).
Keene, NY
Mar 30, 2002

died Mya Durso dies on Staten Island, age 51, of breast cancer — the adopted eldest of John Lazare and Ines Valda's three daughters, predeceasing both parents by two years.
Staten Island, New York doc Mya (Eftichia) Durso — Obituary
Jan 31, 2004

died John Jeannopoulos dies — Alex's paternal great-uncle, Aline's father.
doc John Lazare Jeannopoulos — Obituary
Mar 30, 2004

died Serge Lebrun dies (cremated). Alex's maternal grandfather.
Apr 7, 2004

died Ines Jeannopoulos dies, ten weeks after her husband John Jeannopoulos.
doc Ines Valda Jeannopoulos — Obituary
Dec 4, 2005

died Sophie Jeannopoulos dies in a hospital in Santo Domingo, age 83, of an aneurism — the day after her grandson Alex's wedding in St. Martin. Until her final illness she had been living with her daughter Penny and son-in-law Juan Medina in the Zona Colonial.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Dec 7, 2007

doc **Instituto Postal Dominicano** issues a five-stamp commemorative postal series in Sophie Jeannopoulos's name — *Precursora de la Bioética* — two years after her death. Four of the stamps depict Dominican wildlife species she championed (manatee, hawksbill sea turtle, Hispaniolan parrot, American crocodile); the fifth carries her photograph. Authorized by Decreto 333-06 of August 8, 2006.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic doc Instituto Postal Dominicano — Sophie Jakowska commemorative stamp issue (December 7, 2007)
Dec 27, 2009

born Mia Jeannopoulos born — Alex and Karyn's only child.
2010s
Feb 16, 2010

died Alina Jeannopoulos (née **Bacho**) dies at the family bungalow at **104 Asharoken Avenue, Northport, NY** in her 90th year — the same Long Island Sound house where her mother-in-law Eftyhia had died 41 years earlier. She had outlived her husband Takis by 33 years, kept the bungalow alone through all of them, and died at its address. The family sold the bungalow only after her death — closing the Asharoken chapter with her. Her obituary line: *JEANNOPOULOS — Alina, (née Bacho) of Asharoken-Northport on February 16, 2010, in her 90th year. Loving wife of the late Dr. Takis Jeannopoulos.*
104 Asharoken Avenue, Northport, NY
2020s
2025

context Mia Jeannopoulos, junior at American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida — current profile portrait, age 16.
Plantation, Florida
2026

died John Jeannopoulos dies, age approximately 73. Alex's paternal uncle.