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HISTORY
 On June
9, 1900, five classicists founded the
"New York Latin Club" in order to
provide a forum for individuals
interested in classical antiquity to
gather, exchange ideas, and sponsor
lectures by distinguished classicists.
Later christened the New York Classical
Club, the organization gradually
expanded its mission to include the
promotion of Greek and Latin study in
schools and colleges, using the
resources of an endowment fund granted
tax-exempt status in 1959 as the "New
York Classical Club Greek and Latin
Scholars Fund". One of the ways that the
Club reached many young New Yorkers was
by providing area schools with medals
that could be awarded to students for
excellence in Latin and Greek. In 1997,
the Club became a 501 c3 registered
non-profit corporation whose purposes,
according to the by-laws, are the
following:
- to promote the development and
maintain the well-being of classical
studies
to provide opportunities for exchange
of ideas and free discussion among
lovers of classical learning
- to provide learning opportunities
both to members and to the general
public
- to improve teaching on the
elementary, secondary, post-secondary
and graduate levels in the classical
fields
- to establish and administer
scholarships, fellowships and prizes
in the classical disciplines.
General
Information
OFFICERS
President: Dr. Matthew McGowan, Fordham
University
Immediate Past-President: Dr. Lawrence
Kowerski, Hunter College, CUNY
Vice-President: Kathleen Durkin, Maspeth High School
Secretary-Treasurer: Dr. Susanna
McFadden, Fordham University
Censor: Elizabeth Stevens, The Hewitt
School
Custodian of Funds: Dr. Panayotes
Dakouras, The Nightingale-Bamford School
Historian: Dr. Barbara McManus
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
College Sight Translation Contest: Dr.
David Sider, New York University
High School Sight Translation Contest: Kathleen Durkin, Maspeth High School
Oral Reading Contest: Dr. Katharina
Volk, Columbia University
Rome/Athens Scholarship Committee Chair:
Dr. Matthew McGowan, Fordham University
High School Theater Contest: Dr. Matthew
McGowan, Fordham University
Webmaster: Dr. Matthew McGowan, Fordham
University
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