She was born in Athens in 1936 and grew up in Mazeika of Kalavryta and later in Patras, where she finished her studies with honours.
He studied English, French, Classical Violin and Accordion, which he taught.
She began her political service with the great Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, who called her “my child”.
After examinations, she was among the first to enter the Higher Telecommunications School of Athens, where she was hosted at the home of her uncle Ioannis Bay, Attorney General of Athens, father of the later Mayor of Athens, Dimitris Bay. Coming to Patras, she worked at OTE, where she met and married her young colleague and later life partner, Nikolaos Rogdakis, with the then young lawyer and friend of Nikos, Kostis Stephanopoulos, as his best man.
The happiness was completed by three children, Manolis, Theodoros and Anna-Maria. Although she was always close to her family, she was interested in the community, especially in the context of social contribution. She was the first and only woman president of the Association of the Cletoroleucasians of Patras, a pioneer in issues that could highlight her homeland, as was the case with the Caves of Kastria, the Ancient Cletoras, etc.
In 1991 she founded the Patras Women’s Union, which in a very short period of time became the most multi-human Association in Southwestern Greece. She was in charge of Public Relations at the biggest TV stations in our region. Under the banner of “struggles for social justice” in 1996, after a personal invitation by Miltiadis Evert, she held a position on the ballot paper for the parliamentary elections of the Prefecture of Achaia. The same was done in 2000 at the invitation of Kostas Karamanlis, later Prime Minister of Greece.
Koula Rogdaki never became a Member of Parliament!!!!
But she managed to get into people’s hearts as the “Great Lady” of politics.
Through her health adventure and her deadly battle with cancer, Koula Rogdaki did not lose herself. Even when she “passed away”, she had won the hearts of thousands of people by giving of herself to society.
