Born: Ronald Alexander Pavellas, 7 January 1937, San Francisco, California.
Parents: Artemis Helen Pagonis (1918-2008); Conrad Harpending Pavellas (1913-2000).
Sibling: Diane Helen Pavellas (b. 1942, San Francisco)
Education: public schools in San Francisco, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Berkeley (California); master’s degree in public health (MPH), with an emphasis in hospital management (1965).
Military: US Navy, 1954-1958; electronics technician aboard the Essex Class aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard, CVA-31, 1956-1957.
Marriages: Patricia, 1959-1971; Mary, 1973-1994; Eva, 2002.
Children: Andrea, 1963; Gregory, 1967; Matthew, 1976; Alexander, 1981; Analiese, 1983.
Employment: many entry level and a few semi-skilled jobs from 1951-1963; medical groups, hospitals and related organizations, 1964-2002.
Consulting and teaching: occasionally, from around 1975 and continuing.
Professional: officer of non-profit boards, trade groups (hospital associations, medical group advocacy organization). Presented papers to the National Commission on Public General Hospitals, 1977-78. Testimony to government bodies in California and Alaska, and a member of state commissions. Expert testimony in court and in legal hearings. Teacher of management at two California universities, and to private and community organizations. Founding Chairman of the County Hospital Committee of the California Hospital Association, 1978. Founding president of the English speaking Rotary Club in Stockholm, 2003.
Current focus: Writing. Since April, 2007 I have published a weekly article in a web log (“blog”) named “The Pavellas Perspective,” the same name I use for my now dormant management consulting company in Stockholm. I have written poetry, short stories, an incomplete family history and memoir of my early years, and am currently writing a novel with action based in San Francisco–a semi-’hardboiled’ story.
I have lived in Stockholm since 2002.
April 6, 2009 at 12:40 am
Interesting stuff, Ron. A Greek purser told me Euxine (which is what the Black Sea is called on the old, old maps) means Fertile; which describes the sea and area. Black is from the meaning of very fertile, or black, soil.
So there you go.
Best,
Dee
April 6, 2009 at 4:30 am
Dee-
Interesting about the name. This version was not included, I believe, in the book which did dwell upon the origin of the name. The word ‘Euxine’ was mentioned briefly in the beginning, but I didn’t see a strict definition of this ancient word. Thanks.
Ron