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HPS Board visits CMA: Of Classics and Controversy
On May 14, 2025, the HPS Board gathered for their monthly meeting at the Cleveland Museum of Art for a private tour directed by Curatorial Advisor and CMA Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Seth Pevnick. Among the many treasures held by the CMA are the Philosopher, on temporary display before its return to Turkiye, and the Cleveland Apollo and its relation to the urns and pottery in the Dr. John and Helen Collis Family Gallery.
The tour included the famous Praxiteles Apollo Sauroktonos (lizard slayer), which may be the only relatively complete bronze by the artist. Dr. Pevnick showed how the pottery’s soldiers wore headgear similar to the recently acceded Corinthian helmet. Read more here
On November 2, 2024, HPS hosted Emmy-award winning author Yvette Manessis Corporon at Sts. Constantine and Helen Cathedral. See more about this wonderful event on our News page.
Miss the event? Hear Ms. Corporon’s inspiring address here: Yvette Manessis Corporon
HPS President Dean Peters was in Kastellorizo, Greece, and sent his greetings with this beautiful photo. See more photos from our contributors here , and submit your “What I did on My (Greek) Summer Vacation” photos on our facebook page here
See more photos in our new PHOTO GALLERY
August 24, 2025
August 23, 2025
GOMoPalooza 2025 Music and Arts Festival
INTERNATIONAL DAY EVENT
Willowick Public Library
263 E. 305th St.
Willowick, OH 44095
Presentation
Greek Myths and Heroes
Paula Kalamaras, VP Hellenic Preservation Society
1:00 pm
Message from Incoming HPS President, Dean Peters
February 2024
I thank my fellow Board members for their faith, trust and support in electing me to the Presidency of HPSNEO. I was humbled and flattered by my recent election to the Board of Trustees and now even more so now as its President. I would have thought these feelings to be mutually exclusive, but apparently, they are not.
This month I am celebrating my 50th year as a Clevelander. One extraordinary benefit of being here for fifty years is that I have had the privilege of knowing some of you for many of those decades. Regardless of longevity, I look forward to working with each of you and consider it my honor and privilege to do so.
One extraordinary benefit of being here for fifty years is that I have had the privilege of knowing some of you for many of those decades. Regardless of longevity, I look forward to working with each of you and consider it my honor and privilege to do so.
Back in the 1970s, when I met my wife-to-be, one of the things that attracted me to Cleveland was its amazing culture-per-capita ratio. On my first visit here, The Cleveland Orchestra and The Cleveland Museum of Art alone impressed me greatly for a city of this size. My native island of Manhattan may boast a myriad of world-class things, but I have visited no city that beats Cleveland in per capita culture. Full stop. For me this is a source of pride.
I have come to HPS in a time of change, the largest of which is the recent creation of the Greek Cultural Garden Association, a non-profit group that is now separated from HPS jurisdiction, though not from HPS affiliation. I believe it is in the Hellenic community’s best interest that both these groups thrive, each with the support of the other. It is human nature to resist, or maybe even fear, change. But with change most often comes opportunity, if we remain open to it.
In my time with HPS I have learned something about the challenges before the Society and I would summarize the most immediate issues in three M’s: Marketing, Membership, and Money, in alphabetical order. This does not represent any magical insight on my part. But attention to these M’s will pave the path and reinforce the foundation of our future growth. And they are definitely not mutually exclusive!
All evidence to the contrary, in my Board member application I said that I tended to listen more than to speak. So, it is now time to close. I see my role here as both Strategic and Tactical, depending on what’s before us. But I can do nothing by myself. I will need the help, collective experience, and wisdom of each Board and General member to succeed.
And with all this help and God’s good graces, I have no doubt that we will.
Thank you.
Dean Peters, President HPS
Lecture and Presentation by Dr. Pevnick on upcoming Byzantine exhibit at CMA, along with General Meeting. All are welcome.
Why HPS?
There is a handful of ancient cultures whose impact is so powerful that they cross millennia and affect global culture, even in the present. The culture of ancient Greece is one of them. None other than Albert Einstein once said, “How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.”
November 9, 2024
Fall Retreat “Finding Gratitude”
Sts. Constantine and Helen Cathedral, Cleveland Hts.
November 2, 2024
Author Event with Yvette Manessis Corporon
See more here: Author Event with Yvette Manessis Corporon – Hellenic Preservation Society of Northeastern Ohio (hpsneo.org)
September 29, 2024
Thanks to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Case Western Reserve University, and Dr. John K. Papadopoulos for presenting the Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture 2024. See more here
September 29, 2024
Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture at Case
See more here: The Art of Antiquity: Objects and Their Biographies from the Athenian Agora | Cleveland Museum of Art (clevelandart.org)
The Holy Family with Mary Magdalen, c. 1590–95. El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614) Oil on canvas; 130 x 100 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Friends of the Cleveland Museum of Art in memory of J. H. Wade, 1926.247
Read the article about this wonderful lecture!
September 29, 2024
The annual Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture brings nationally and internationally recognized experts in the field of art history and archeology to discuss new scholarship, museum exhibitions, and archaeological discoveries. Topics alternate between Ancient Greek and Byzantine art every other year.
The annual Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture is made possible through the Dr. John and Helen Collis Family Endowment. The endowment is the first of its kind at the museum, as it presents an annual lecture dedicated to a particular art historical emphasis. Additional support for this lecture comes from the Hellenic Preservation Society (HPS) of Northeastern Ohio. HPS is a non-profit organization whose focus is to preserve the Hellenic legacy that will promote the Greek experience through education, collection and preservation. Dr. John and Helen Collis are both members of the society.
To see all lectures in this series, click HERE
Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture OFF SITE at Tinkham Veale Center: September 29, 2024 FREE tickets here. Use promo code HPS for best seats: Collis Lecture 2024
September 15, 2024
Benefit Concert for St. Theodosius Cathedral, Cleveland
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