"The good Lord had been kind enough to bury quantities of
beautiful bluish Macedonia marble in the soil within two miles
of our campus and higher up, making a "down haul" for our
building stone. Several different villages with their groups
of stone masons, small capitalists or contractors, and officials
were interested in quarrying and delivering our building stone,
but were all at odds among themselves, until one day they came
to Mr. Myer and said, "Mr. Myer, won't you please take this
quarry business and run it? We can't agree among themselves,
but we can all agree with you. If you'll take charge, we'll
all work with you, and we'll all be happy". Myer quietly
did so and really splendid marble stone was furnished on our
campus, rough-cut, for about one dollar per cubic meter.
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Arrived again in Thessaloniki, I went to see our able and
friendly Governor General with my son as my companion and
interpreter, for I had not learned colloquial Greek. His
Excellency received us standing and we did not sit down
during the interview. My son, on my behalf, made statement
of our purpose to build and desire for permission. The
Governor touched a bell and before this brief statement
was fairly finished another man was standing near. The
Governor said a few words to him and then turning to us
again, remarked, "This is our chief engineer. He officially
handles for us such matters as you have brought to my
attention. I have just told him that we all know of the
land which you own and where you want to build your College
plant. We will be grateful if, for the sake of good and
full understanding, you will keep us informed of what
you are doing, but as for permission, I tell the engineer
that I have given it to you. If that is satisfactory,
you may proceed".
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During the summer the children of the Charilaos community
were granted the use of our athletic field as a play
ground, supervised by a young Russian athlete employed
for the purpose. The many children had a great time that
summer enjoying our large field and we hoped to make that
the beginning of social service in our neighborhood, but
the time for that was not quite ripe yet. Some of us
often dreamed of turning the Quadrangle into a Social
Settlement or Neighborhood House, but the reach of
dreamers often exceeds their grasp."