Oral history interview with Calliope T. Phoutrides, 1991 October 10

This oral history interview with Calliope T. Phoutrides was conducted by Deborah Newman at Phoutrides's home in Portland, Oregon, on October 10, 1991, as part of the Portland Matriarchs oral history project, a series of interviews conducted in October 1991 with older women involved in Portland organizations. The project was conducted as part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library's oral history program.

In this interview, Phoutrides describes how she and her husband, the Reverend Stephen E. Phoutrides, came to Seattle, Washington, in 1924. She discusses her family background and early life in Athens, Greece. She talks about her father, Theodore Yampanis, and about his career as a painter. She speaks at length about her marriage to Stephanos E. Phoutrides, who served as priest at Greek Orthodox churches in Seattle. She shares her reasons for immigrating to the United States in 1912. She tells several stories about her childhood in Athens, and speaks about her lifelong involvement in the Greek Orthodox Church. She closes the interview by discussing her role as presbytera, a priest's wife.