Worcester, Massachusetts
George Athan Billias, 99Worcester - George Athan Billias, 99, Professor emeritus of American History at Clark University died on Thursday, August 16th at home. Born in Lynn, he was the son of Greek immigrants, Athan Billias and Grammatiki Papadakis. A prolific scholar, Billias was best known for...
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I bought a paperback book of George´s while on vacation in Wilmington, NC last week - "George Washington´s Generals" - and I can´t put it down. I´m amazed by the level of detail. I went online to learn more about George and was sorry to learn he had passed. Thank you, George, for this stunning and timeless work on American history. God bless.
Rick Colby
August 23, 2021 | Other
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Bruce Blaney
February 19, 2019 | Baton Rouge, LA | Friend
My life long mentor and inspiration.
Bruce Blaney
February 19, 2019 | Baton Rouge, LA
Dr. Billias greeted my Parents with me on my first day at Clark University, standing beside President Dr. Howard B. Jefferson. He served as my advisor across by A.B. studies, allowed me to attend his fabulous M.A. courses as an undergraduate. In my entire academic career, always I have thought of him, he was my inspiration. Most of his publications always are on my Syllabi, it was my immense privilege to have known Dr. Billias, to have been his advisee, to have come to an enlightened...
David A. Jones
October 13, 2018 | Warsaw, Poland
May your hearts soon be filled with wonderful memories of joyful times together as you celebrate a life well lived.
Aram Kalousdian
September 02, 2018 | Superior Township, MI
Fond memories of a lovely man, devoted scholar, exemplary human being.
Len & Priscilla Cirillo
August 31, 2018
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Leonard Cirillo
August 31, 2018 | Worcester, MA
Dear Margaret and all members of George's family, My heartfelt condolences on your loss. I first met George in the early 1950s when he was a civilian historian at the Eastern Air Defense Force in Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, NY, and I was an enlisted man serving as historian of the 32nd Air Division in Syracuse. He and his professional colleagues--Maj Norman Cawse-Morgan, John D R Platt and Milton Klein, among others--taught me the fundamentals of historical endeavor. George in...
Keith Berwick
August 28, 2018 | Santa Barbara, CA
I was fortunate to have Dr. Billias as my history professor at Clark University in 1976. His dignity in juggling a professor's challenging duties while his wife was succumbing to cancer was inspirational and touching -- a shining example of how a university experience can be far more than just a student's opportunity to benefit from pure academics.
I hear his accent as clearly today as I did 42 years ago. What a noble man, and a superb history lecturer! May his family be bolstered...
Matt Poole
August 28, 2018 | Silver Spring, MD
