{"id":9415,"date":"2016-06-14T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9415"},"modified":"2016-06-29T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:36:31","slug":"birk-77-meets-up-with-miller-64-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/06\/14\/birk-77-meets-up-with-miller-64-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Birk \u201977 meets up with Miller \u201964 in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9416\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/06\/14\/birk-77-meets-up-with-miller-64-in-greece\/greg-birk-and-steve-miller-in-nemea\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9416\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9416\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Greg-Birk-and-Steve-Miller-in-Nemea.jpeg\" alt=\"Greg Birk and Steve Miller in Nimea.\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Greg-Birk-and-Steve-Miller-in-Nemea.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Greg-Birk-and-Steve-Miller-in-Nemea-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Greg-Birk-and-Steve-Miller-in-Nemea-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Greg Birk (left) and Dr. Steve Miller in Nimea<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Greg Birk \u201977<\/strong> participated in the Nemean Games last week in Greece, where he ran into <strong>Dr. Stephen G. Miller \u201964<\/strong>.\u00a0 Steve is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at UC Berkeley, from which he retired after 25 years as the director of the Nemea Excavations.\u00a0 In 1995, Steve founded the Society for the Revival of the Nemean Games, and is currently President of the Board of Directors.\u00a0 A Greek major at Wabash, Steve earned his A.M. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p>Greg reported:\u00a0 \u201cDr. Miller is a huge deal in Nimea. There was always a queue of people waiting to talk with him. They have even named a street after him.\u00a0 Some Little Giant!\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nemeangames.org\/\">Click here<\/a> to read about Nemea and the Games.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9417\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/06\/14\/birk-77-meets-up-with-miller-64-in-greece\/greg-birk-running-in-greece-on-right\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9417\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9417\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Greg-Birk-running-in-Greece-on-right.jpg\" alt=\"Greg (far right) at the start of the race.\" width=\"304\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Greg-Birk-running-in-Greece-on-right.jpg 595w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Greg-Birk-running-in-Greece-on-right-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Greg (far right) at the start of the race.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Greg is the Director of College Counseling at TASIS, the American School in Switzerland.\u00a0 His love of running takes him to races throughout the world.\u00a0 Thanks for the news and photos, Greg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Birk \u201977 participated in the Nemean Games last week in Greece, where he ran into Dr. Stephen G. 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