EOK SCHOLARSHIPS
Check back in March 2025 for details on how to apply for an EOK Scholarship!
In 2011, the EOK Scholarship Fund was established in recognition of The Hellenic Women's Club's 75th anniversary. Each year, scholarships of $5,000 are awarded at The Mistletoe Ball based on academic merit, community service and leadership efforts. To date, the EOK has given over $405,000 to women of Greek descent who are dedicated to pursuing their higher education goals.
Meet our 2024 scholars
Angelica Anousis
Angelica Anousis is from Quincy, Massachusetts. She just graduated from Nobles where she achieved straight A’s for four years, and is attending Boston College where she will study pre-health. In high school she developed a novel feminine care product aimed at providing access to underserved communities. She was also head of her school’s Environmental Action Committee, a tutor with the Immigrant Family Services Institute and led the Metropolis of Boston Dance Group. Angelica's cousin was a former recipient of the EOK Scholarship.
Anastasia Coclin
Anastasia Coclin is currently attending Boston College where she has a 3.9 GPA in her major, Applied Psychology and Human Development. At BC, she attended the CrossRoad Institute, a ten day transformational educational experience which she says deepened her faith and sense of purpose. She has served as a Millennium Fellow through the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network, mentoring local Boston public school students who are applying to college, and also serves as an officer in the BC honor society. Anastasia spent this past summer as a staff member at Ionian Village. She’s also attended the Mistletoe Ball in the past.
Marika Hollister
Marika Hollister just graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin with a 4.0 and is attending Bowdoin College. She was Captain of the Varsity Girls’ Crew team, President of the Best Buddies program aimed at helping students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Class Representative of the Title IX Aurelia Advocacy Group (formed to ensure the school district adhered to Title IX regulations) and a shift leader at a homeless shelter in Harvard Square.
Theodosia Kourtelidis
Theodosia Kourtelidis is from Peabody, Massachusetts. She graduated as Valedictorian at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School and just started as a freshman at Harvard where she plans to study Economics. She was raised going to St. Vasilios where she has been very involved, leading the GOYA, mentoring students through the Transitional Partners Program and Best Buddies, and working for an Orthodox summer camp. She revitalized her high school Community Service Club and played Varsity Tennis in High School.
Eleni Marcasciano
Eleni Marcasciano is a graduate student originally from Wellesley. She graduated from Cornell and is attending Stanford Medical School pursuing a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies. She rowed crew both in high school and for four years at Cornell. After college she worked at Boston Children’s Hospital where she took on a significant role in the hospital’s upcoming transition to a new electronic medical system. She has also served as a crisis counselor for Crisis Text Line, where she’s spent hundreds of hours counseling individuals through all types of hardships.
Scholarship Fund Committee Members
Jackie Gigantes McCabe, Chair
Kathleen Hamilton, Ex-Officio
Elaine Zouzas Thibault, Ex-Officio
Mary Lynn Pergantis, Ex-Officio
Stephanie Andrews
Felicia Kiehm
Tania Lingos-Webb
Eva Markos
Matina Pappas
Susan Anton Pasanen