1. Michael Anagnos was a trustee and later second director of the Perkins School for the Blind.
34 Facts About Michael Anagnos
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Michael Anagnos was an author, educator, and human rights activist.
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Michael Anagnos's father was Demetrios A Theodore and his mother was Kallina Panayiotes.
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Michael Anagnos's father was a farmer and shepherd and placed a high value on educating his son.
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Michael Anagnos went to high school in Ioannina and attended the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at age nineteen.
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Michael Anagnos then studied law for three years with the intention of becoming a political scientist and journalist.
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Michael Anagnos took an active role in opposition to King Otto and his government and was active in his dethronement.
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Michael Anagnos introduced Freemasonry to Greece to agitate for dethronement with the aid of Giuseppe Garibaldi and one of his sons.
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King George succeeded King Otto and Michael Anagnos left the paper because of a disagreement regarding the revolt of Crete in 1866.
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Doctor Samuel Gridley Howe met Michael Anagnos and hired him as his secretary.
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Michael Anagnos organized relief for the war effort and was in charge of the Cretan Committee's affairs in Athens.
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Michael Anagnos arrived in the United States at 31 years old.
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Michael Anagnos was a private tutor to the Howe family; Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind.
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Michael Anagnos began to teach Latin and Greek to several blind children.
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Michael Anagnos married Howe's daughter, Julia Romana Howe, in December 1870.
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When Howe was absent Michael Anagnos was Director of the Perkins School for the Blind; he became very familiar with the system of teaching the blind and deaf.
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Michael Anagnos studied the success of Laura Bridgman, a former student of the Perkins School for the Blind.
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Howe died in January 1876; upon his death, Michael Anagnos became the second director of the Perkins School for the Blind.
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Michael Anagnos forfeited compensation and labored tirelessly to finish the project.
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Around this time Michael Anagnos sent former Perkins student Anne Sullivan to teach Helen Keller.
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Michael Anagnos traveled to Greece and other parts of Europe for 15 months around 1889.
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Michael Anagnos's interest was so intense that she kept several of the letters and the nine-year-old blind girl was highly regarded in the queen's court.
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Michael Anagnos published the story in The Mentor, the Perkins alumni magazine.
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Michael Anagnos's story became one of the most popular in American history.
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Michael Anagnos frequently spent time with notable Harvard professor Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles.
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In 1892, Michael Anagnos received an honorary AM degree from Harvard University.
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Michael Anagnos was sent to represent both the United States and the Perkins School.
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Michael Anagnos made large financial contributions to Greek education and established schools in Papingo, Greece.
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Michael Anagnos was president and founder of the National Union of Greeks in the United States.
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Michael Anagnos founded the Plato Society, the Panhellenic Union, and the Alexander the Great Organization.
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Michael Anagnos was vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Gymnastic Association.
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Michael Anagnos was instrumental in starting local Orthodox Churches in the Boston area and helping local Greek immigrants.
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Michael Anagnos died on June 29,1906, while traveling in Romania.
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Michael Anagnos's body was taken to Epirus and buried there.