Rossidis, Gene

Born on October 23, 1927 in Brooklyn ( New York , USA ) in the family of the Greeks Thielemachos Rossidis and Anna Maravelias ^[3] . Eugenios's father immigrated to the United States from the city of Kyrenia ( Cyprus ) in 1920, and was the first doctor of Greek descent in Brooklyn. Mother immigrated to the United States from the Mani Peninsula ( Peloponnese , Greece ) in 1910 ^[15] .

As a high school student, he was a quarterback on the Dutchmen football team. Gained fame by participating in the NFL Championship. He left the sport, enrolling at Columbia University , where he was also a quarterback in the Lions team (1945-1948) ^[1] .

He received bachelor's degrees in humanities from Columbia College (1949) and a doctorate in law from Columbia School of Law (1952) ^{[3] [17] [9]} . After graduation, he worked in the Office of the Federal Attorney for the Southern District of New York ^[15] .

In 1952 he became a member of the law firm Rogers & Wells (today Clifford Chance ) ^[3] , which was headed by former US Attorney General and future US Secretary of State William P. Rogers , as well as corporate lawyer John A. Wells.

In 1952-1953 he served in the US Air Force Logistics Command with the rank of officer of the military legal service ( military lawyer ) ^[9] .

In 1954-1956 - a member of Rogers & Wells.

In 1956-1958 - an employee of the Office of the Attorney General of New York ^[15] .

In 1958-1961, he was an assistant to the US Under Secretary of the Treasury ^[9] .

In 1961-1969 he was a member (1961-1966) and a partner (1966-1969) in Rogers & Wells.

In 1968, he led the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in New York ^[13] .

In 1969-1973 - Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. During this period, among other things, he supervised several US federal agencies , including the Secret Service and the ATF , and also served as vice president of Interpol ^[17] .

In 1973–2000 - partner (1973–1992) and senior lawyer (1992–2000) at Rogers & Wells (in 1999 merged with transnational law firm Clifford Chance ) ^[3] .

In 1974, after the Turkish military invasion of Cyprus , he established the American-Greek Institute (AHI) in order to draw the attention of the American public to this situation and lobby the US Congress against this fait accompli ^{[9] [16]} .

In 1975, he established the AHI Foundation (AHIF) ^[17] .

In 1976-1979 - the publisher of the Greek version of the newspaper " The National Herald " ^[18] .

In 1979-1980 he took part in the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan .

In 1982-1984, he was a member of the Presidential Cost Assessment Committee in the federal government, better known as the Grace Commission ^[9] .

He is a co-founder of the Eisenhower Institute ^[17] .

• founder, former president and board member of the American-Greek Institute;
• member of AHEPA ^{[8] [9]} ;
• member of the American Bar Association ;
• Member of the New York State Bar Association
• member of the Federal Bar Association ;
• a member of the Leadership 100 charity foundation of the Greek Orthodox Archbishopric of America , which supports the institutions of the American Archbishopric in the promotion and development of Greek Orthodoxy and Hellenism in the United States ^{[9] [19]} ;
• Trustee of the Anatolian College ( Thessaloniki , Greece ) (former);
• member of the Greek Orthodox Church ^{[3] [9]} .
• 2002 - Member of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew (with the appropriation of Officia );
• 2006 - Guest member of the Athens Academy of Sciences ^[9] ;
• and etc.

• 1972 - Medal "For Outstanding Achievements" from Columbia University ^[9] ;
• 1972 - Award for a young lawyer from the Columbia School of Law Alumni Association;
• 1989 - Member of the AHEPA Sports Hall of Fame ^{[2] [20]} ;
• 1994 - John Jay Award from Columbia College ^[9] ;
• 2000 - Humanitarian Award of Archbishop Jacob from AHEPA ^{[2] [9]} ;
• 2000 - Honorary Medal of Ellis Island ^[10] ;
• 2002 - the official ( title ) of the archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ^[9] ;
• 2004 - Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece) ^{[7] [11]} ;
• 2005 - Honorary Doctor of Law, American College of Greece ^{[9] [21]} ;
• 2008 - Member of the Columbia University Sports Hall of Fame ^[1] ;
• 2009 - AHEPA Peter N. Dersis Prize for Contribution to the Development of Hellenism ^{[6] [22]} ;
• 2014 - Award of the Stamos family for life achievements from AHEPA (first laureate) ^{[2] [23]} ;
• 2014 - the highest award of the House of Representatives of Cyprus ^{[9] [24]} ;
• 2015 - Award from the organization Cyprus Children's Fund for contribution to supporting Cyprus since 1974 ^{[25] [26]} ;
• 2015 - Theodore Salutos Award from the American-Greek Council (AHC) for contribution to the resolution of the Cyprus conflict at the political level ^{[17] [9]} ;
• 2016 - Presidential Medal “For Exceptional Merit” (Cyprus) ^[19] ;
• and etc.

He lives in Washington , DC with his wife Aphrodite Makotsin ^[27] . He was previously married to Eleanor Burcham. Has four children ^[9] .

He is fond of tennis and photography ^[3] .

• Kissinger wanted to divide Cyprus between Turkey and Greece, he wanted to get rid of Cyprus as a separate country, he pursued his personal goals for peace. Not only with regard to Cyprus, which is of great importance to the United States in terms of foreign policy, but do you realize that Kissinger mainly influenced Nixon’s decision to continue the war in Vietnam for four years? ^[13]

• American Hellenic: Who's Who in Business and the Professions (1989) ^[28] ;
• The Truman Doctrine of Aid to Greece: A Fifty-Year Retrospective (1998) ^[29] ;
• Doing Business in Greece (1999) ^[30] ;
• Greece's Pivotal Role in World War II and its Importance to the US Today (2005) ^[31] ;
• The United States and Cyprus: Double Standards and the Rule of Law (2005) ^[32] ;
• Kissinger and Cyprus: A Study in Lawlessness (2014) ^[33] ;
• et al. ^{[3] [34]}

• A Conversation with Gene Rossides
• Ο Αμερικανός Πατριώτης Ευγένιος Ρωσσίδης