Chian Federation Presents 30th Homeric Award

All dignitaries and media are invited to attend a dinner honoring Eugene Rossides, founder and director of American-Hellenic Institute, Inc. and recipient of the Chian Federation 30th Homeric Award.

Rossides received his B.A. degree from Columbia College in 1949 and his J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1952. As an undergraduate, he received All-American football honors.

Rossides served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department from 1969 to 1973, where, among other things, he supervised the U.S. Customs Service, Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Bureau of Engraving and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and had policy guidance for Internal Revenue Service law and enforcement activities.

He was the customs, trade and law enforcement policy advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury and handled Treasury's relations with Congress, the White House and the other Executive Departments on those matters. He had final authority for Treasury's decisions under the antidumping and countervailing duty laws and tariff classifications and valuations. He supervised U.S. relations with the Customs Cooperation Council (CCC), an international organization.

He is the author of "Cyprus and the Rule of Law", 17 Syracuse Journal of International Law & Commerce 21 (1991); and the editor of The Truman Doctrine of Aid to Greece: A Fifty-Year Retrospective (1998), jointly published by the Academy of Political Science and the American Hellenic Institute Foundation; Greece's Pivotal Role in World War II and Its Importance to the U.S. Today (2001); The United States & Cyprus: Double Standards & the Rule of Law (2002); the Handbook on U.S. Relations with Greece and Cyprus (1999), the American Hellenic Who's Who (5th ed., 1995), and co-editor of Doing Business in Greece (1999).

Rossides is a founding director of the Eisenhower Institute; the founder and a director of the American Hellenic Institute, Inc. (AHI) and the American Hellenic Institute Public Affairs Committee, Inc. (AHIPAC), the founder and president of the American Hellenic Institute Foundation (AHIF); and a director of the Sterling National Bank of New York.

The Chian Federation will host a press conference the evening of the dinner on Saturday December 1 at the Chian Federation Cultural Center, 44-01 Broadway, Astoria, at 7 p.m.

For more information regarding the Homeric Award, the press conference, the dinner, or the Chian Federation, call 718- 204-2550.