Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11
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Miss Sandy Demon, Active Club Women,
Fovors Fit Sport for Greek Moiden
BY Harriet French

Imagine being able to see
Mount Olympus, the mythical
abode of the Greek gods. from
your own front door! That is ex-
actly what Miss Sandy X. Demou,
placement officer of the Inter-
national Monetary Fund, could
do when she was a child.
Her home was at the foot Of
Mount Olympus in the town Of
Katerine, Macedonia, Greece,
There she lived In an old stone
house, surrounded by a garden
which must have been lovely. In
it were fruit trees Of all sorts.
including apricots, plums and
pomegranates. There were also
red and white grapes and roses
and peoples growing in wild pro-
fusion.
when I was little" said Miss
Demou, I'VE had to depend on
older folks telling us stories
based on ancient Greek mythol-
ogy. There were various simple
games such as Jacks" but for
the most part, girls were con-
fined to playing with dolls, which
were at a premium. We learned
to dance as soon as we could
walk, but we did folk dancing
more as a pastime than as an
art. May Day is a holiday in
Greece, continued Miss Demon,
every one goes to the country.
Children are taken from school
to see nature, and to have pic
MICS and folk dancing.
I'm the summer, my parents
took my brother, two sisters and
me to the mountains. All rode
on horseback. A sort OF box was
hung on each side of the horses
and a child rode in each box.
There were no roads"
Miss Demeu's full name is
Xanthy Xanthippe Demon. Kan
thy means blond, or sandy
(which Miss Demou was as a
child; Xanthippe was the name
OF the wife of Socrates.
In the early 20s. after the
death of her father in the f1u
epidemic, Miss Demou came to
America with her mother. They
settled in New England, where
her uncles were living. Little
Sandy attended school at Haver-
hill,, Mass, and later at the Man
chester IN. H.) Institute OF Arts
and Sciences.
During the war, the family
came to Washington, and Miss
Demou continued her studies at
American University and the
Graduate School Of Agriculture.
She worked in the Washington
Office of Research and Develop
ment in the scientific personnel
Office before coming to the In
ternational Monetary Fund in
1916. Miss Demou knows not
only the staff members of the
fund, but also their families.
What could be cutter" she
asked, "than to see little boys
from China or India dressed up
as cowboys?" She finds young
fry OF all nationalities are keen
on baseball"
This spring, Miss Demou made
her second trip back to Greece.
She landed in Athens at three
o'clock in the morning. The
city was beautiful" she said.
with the streets, leading to the
temples on top of the hills. bril-
liantly lighted" The next day
she noticed an entirely different
atmosphere than that of two
years ago when she was there.
people seemed happier and
there was building and road
construction going on that I
had not seen before. The Amer
lean dollar buys more than it
did two years ago. There are
now thirty drachmas to a dol
lar: before devaluation there
were fifteen"
Miss Demou bought some
beautiful hand embroidered
blouses and hand-woven materi-
al to be made into skirts. The