The Helen Zotos papers, 1947-1967, are arranged into five categories: biography, general correspondence, articles, and files on her work for the Associated Press and for Radio Free Europe. The bulk of the collection pertains to her articles, especially to a five part series, “Europe's Teenagers” for American Weekly magazine in 1958. The material on her work in Greece is contained in the Associated Press file.
In the general correspondence is a 1967 letter about her work for the U.S. Department of Commerce publication and a 1957 letter concerning her participation as an OPC delegate to the International Biennial Information Congress.
The articles section, 1956-1966, contains research materials, drafts, and printed articles for her series “Europe's Teenagers,” as well as seven mimeographed articles she wrote for Sunday Feature (13 July 1965-12 August 1966) for the Department of Commerce. For “Europe's Teenagers” she travelled through nine countries and to twenty-two cities to interview children, parents, and educators. Zotos' arrangement of the article material has been retained.
The Associated Press File, 1947-1949, contains news reports, dispatches, and research material. The news reports are typed and are obviously drafts which were whittled down for the dispatches. The dispatches concerns such topics as the actual fighting in Greece, the plight of the Greek children, the activities of prominent Greeks, Russia's support of the guerrillas, U. S. military aid to the royal government, and the reconstruction program of the American Mission for Aid to Greece. The research materials include mimeographed materials, clippings, and a series of remarkable journals of the news of the war and developments in the investigation of the George Polk murder; in these journals Zotos made almost daily entries, 1947-1949 (box 4, folder 6).
The Radio Free Europe file, 1955-1957, contains interviews, dispatches, teletypes, reports, research material, and bulletins concerning her work on the Daily Information Bulletin. This publication covered political and economic developments around the world and was intended as supplementary special area information available to foreign desk news chiefs and commentators.
