former instructor Effie Geanakoplos
A service of remembrance will be held on Saturday, April 21, for Effie Geanakoplos, a former researcher at the Yale Depression Unit and clinical instructor in social work at the Child Study Center, who died March 3 after a long struggle with breast cancer. She was 79.
The service will begin at 2 p.m. at the Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Drive, in Hamden.
Ms. Geanakoplos was a clinical instructor in social work at the Child Study Center from 1970 to 1979, and was a member of the research team at the Yale Depression Unit from 1968 to 1970, when the first clinical trials were started in the use of antidepressant drugs. She later worked for many years as a psychiatric social worker in private practice, providing individual therapy and marriage counseling.
Born in Boston in 1921, she was among the first three women to graduate from Clark University in 1943, and received her master's degree in social work from Boston University in 1946. In 1949, she was in the initial group of Fulbright appointees to Greece, where she helped set up the first school of social work in Athens.
She is survived by her husband, Deno J. Geanakoplos, the Bradford Durfee Professor Emiterus of Byzantine Renaissance and Orthodox Church History at Yale; a son, John Geanakoplos, the James Tobin Professor of Economics and director of the Cowles Foundation at Yale; and a daughter, Constance Geanakoplos, a concert pianist in New York who is a graduate of Yale College and associate fellow of Silliman College.
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