BORN
Antigone A. Agris, December 20, 1925, to Apostolos and Anastasia (Kaltsas) Anagnostos, natives of Greece, in Manchester, NH

   EDUCATION
Manchester Central High School, Class of 1943

   EMPLOYMENT
Publisher, The Hellenic Chronicle, the largest weekly Greek American family newspaper, since 1989, upon the death of her husband, its founder, in 1950 and first publisher. Prior to that, she had worked with her husband as the managing editor/production director, since their marriage in 1951.

   Producer and host of Hellenic Rhythms, a half-hour Sunday morning radio program for Greek Americans over WFEA in New Hampshire, five years.

   Assistant to General Manager, Radio Station WFEA and office manager, Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co., Manchester.

   PERSONAL
Married December 9, 1951, to Peter Agris of Cambridge, MA, who died in February 1989. After earning a journalism degree, he founded The Hellenic Chronicle to keep Greek-Americans across the country informed of events in their community and in the Greek Orthodox Church. They are the parents of two children, Peter J. Agris, 45, who was in the printing business and now handles advertising for the newspaper; and Nancy Agris Savage, 40, who worked as an advisor to the House Foreign Affairs Committee for 13 years and has been editor of the newspaper since 1991. She is married to Robert Savage and they have one daughter, Lydia Antigone Savage, age 2.

   Member of the St. Demetrios Church in Weston, MA since 1965 and also served as a member of its Philoptohos Society, the women’s philanthropic organization. Member of the Hellenic Women’s Club EOK for almost 20 years, one of the country’s oldest women’s charitable organizations. Also has worked with local Greek radio media annually on Radiothons to support the Hellenic Cardiac Fund for Children at Children’s Hospital and the Hellenic Home for the Aged.

   Member of the Peter Agris Memorial Scholarship Committee, which gives two $5,000 awards annually to Greek American students of journalism in memory of her late husband. The committee also incudes her daughter and several members of the Alpha Omega Council, a group of New England’s leading Greek American professionals, which was founded by her late husband in the 1970s.

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