PARADIGM AWARDSetting the Example Our Awards Ceremony celebrates the academic brilliance and high aspirations of our scholarship recipients, but also the lifelong achievements of a distinguished Greek American whose career and accomplishments are a testimony to the Foundation�s mission and who serves as an example for our students to follow. This latter individual receives the Foundation's Paradigm Award, for exemplary service in his or her respective field, and for making the Hellenic community proud. PARADIGM AWARD RECIPIENTS2015 - DEAN KARNAZES, Athlete, Speaker, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur 2014 - JAMES D. SPEROS, Executive Vice President & Chief Creative Officer at Fidelity Investments 2012 - ALEXANDER PAYNE, Writer, Director, Producer 2010 - FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND, Former White House Homeland Security Advisor 2009 - DR. THANASIS ECONOMOU, NASA Senior Planetary Scientist 2008 - DR. PETER H. DIAMANDIS, Founder and Chairman of X-Prize Foundation 2007 - JOHN P. CALAMOS, SR., Chairman and CEO of Calamos Investments 2006 - DR. CONSTANTINE PAPADAKIS, Drexel University President 2005 - MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, U.S. Representative 2005 - PAUL SARBANES, U.S. Senator |
![]() "Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." JOHN F. KENNEDY
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