Minor's Diggings column, The Record [Stockton, CA], Aug 26 1967, P. 10, Cols. 1-2 (with photo)
"A former Stockton man, Harry Theocharides, brought me up to date here this week on activities of the American Farm School in Greece, subject of a Diggings column 2½ years ago.
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THE PRIVATE SCHOOL, founded in 1902, is governed by an American board of trustees. Some 43 per cent of its $400.000 yearly budget for its undergraduate program is raised in Greece, with the balance coming from government and private sources.
Besides training some 200 Greek farm boys a year, the school offers two to three-week refresher and specialized courses to some 1,500 to 2,000 adults a year, in co-operation with the Greek Ministry of Agriculture.
THEOCHARIDES, WHO IN 1950-60 was an engineer for the International Harvester farm equipment works here, heads the school's industrial department. In this role, he oversees training in such fields as machine operation, carpentry, plumbing and painting, construction methods such as masonry, electrical work, and drawing and drafting.
Theocharides also is in charge of the school's equipment repairs, and he directs the maintenance staff.
The school, which seven years ago brought in Greece's first mechanical cotton pickers. has amassed an impressive lineup of equipment through U.S. agency help, contributions of equipment manufacturers, and other private help. Included are seven tractors, three combines, and two balers.
FORTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD and of Greek ancestry. Theocharides was born in Turkey but was brought with his family to Greece after redistribution of peoples following World War II[sic].
His father taught English at the school in 1923-43, and Theocharides joined the faculty in 1960 for three years under a Fulbright grant, and after going to the U.S. for his last visit until this year, returned as a regular faculty member.
He is in the early years of a 20-year contract at the school, and looks upon it as his life work.
A GRADUATE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Theocharides was employed a year at a machine shop in Rio Vista before coming to Stockton."
[Note: The redistribution of peoples from Turkey to Greece followed World War I, not WW II. ]