A year ago, the Hellenic Post Office, as the 200th anniversary since the start of the Greek Revolution was approaching, started designing a special series of stamps spotlighting the great philhellenes who participated in the struggle of the Greek revolutionaries. The Hellenic Post’s Board of Directors accepted the proposal of Stratos Efthimiou, the Consul General of Boston, to include an American physician from Boston in the pantheon of great philhellenes: Samuel Gridley Howe who, after graduating from Brown and Harvard Universities, went to Greece to fight alongside the rebellious Greeks.
Howe organized camps, coordinated humanitarian aid, and provided assistance and education to children who were orphaned during the Revolution. He fought on the side of the Greeks and was the first Surgeon General of the Greek navy; he also supported the Cretan Revolution.
His contributions to mankind, however, extended even further. Howe was a notable figure in the movement to abolish slavery in the United States, aided national liberation movements in Europe and Latin America, and pioneered the education of blind children worldwide as the founder of the renowned Perkins School for the Blind.
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