Nicholas Peppas during his first summer internship in a well known Greek food company. Along with chemists Elias Stroumbos and Dimitrios Mavropoulis he is seen at the BESO Winery in Patras, Greece as the first grapes arrive for fermentation. BESO was a major food products company. Working there was a good way for an intern to learn a number of processes from fermentation to distillation and chemical reactions such as saponification… Note the tie worn by NAP in the plant. BESO was a major producer of wines, soaps, and other products. Peppas was an assistant in the chemistry laboratories. (August 1969)

Classmates at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (class of 1971) in an excursion to Aegina. Clockwise from top left: Antonis Makaronides, Maria Mandaraka, Costas Cavalieratos (with a portable 45 rpm player!), Artemis Bamiha, C. Karkasinas, Demetra Zerva, Anna Blatsi, Zerva’s sister, Costas Theologos, Mihalis Kapellas, Costas Kavetzopoulus (whom we lost tragically in 2007) and Costas Lamnatos (compare to June 2005 picture above) (May 11, 1969)

Peppas as a freshman in the Analytical Chemistry laboratory at NTU Athens. The white bench covers were pure asbestos (for fire prevention as the students were told). Nobody had indicated the health danger from asbestos particles! (May 1967)

A young Nikos Peppas in a summer camp at the Villa Bethany (Έπαυλις Βηθανία) in the island of Aegina (Αίγινα) at age seven (June 1955).