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INSIDE
ARTS & CULTURE
FOOD
SPORTS
News ..................................... 2
News Briefs .......................... 2
Across America .................... 3
Commentary & Opinion ...... 5
Calendar ............................... 6
Arts, Culture & Education ....... 7
Faith & Religion ................... 9
Food ................................... 10
Obituaries ........................... 11
Sports ................................. 13
‘The Promise of Tomorrow’, Pg. 8
At the Greek Table, Pg. 10
Marathon celebrates, Pg. 13
The largest and most widely accepted English weekly dedicated to Hellenic Americans
VOL. X No. 14
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010
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EU offers
$41 billion
to Greece
BRUSSELS (AP) – Desperate to halt the
Greek debt crisis that has hammered the
euro, fellow eurozone governments tossed
it a financial lifeline April 11, saying they
would make euro30 billion ($41 billion) in
loans available this year alone – if Athens
asks for the money.
The International Monetary Fund stands
ready to chip in another euro10 billion, said
Olli Rehn, the EU monetary affairs chief.
The promise – filling in details of a
March 25 pledge of joint eurozone-IMF
help – was another attempt to calm markets
that have been selling off Greek bonds in
recent days. Markets viewed the March
pledge as too vague and carrying such
tough restrictions that made it difficult for
Greece to access any money.
As a result, investors demanded high
rates to loan to the government as it struggles to avoid default and pay some euro54
billion in debt coming due this year – rates
the government says it can’t go on paying.
In an emergency video conference, the
Stockton College students rehearse a scene from “Stones From God,” a play based on oral histories of Greek Orthodox
Christians forced to leave their villages in central Turkey after the 1924 Treaty of Lausanne.
Stories from Anatolia
Stockton College play gives voice to Greeks in Turkey before 1924
By STEVE CROWE
The Hellenic Voice
Just 12 years before the atrocities at Smyrna, Greek Orthodox
Christians were still building new
churches in villages of central
Turkey.
“A dozen years later these people are not going to be there, but at
this moment they are still looking
to have rich, full lives and to be
able to worship freely,” says Tom
Papademetriou, professor of history at Stockton College.
Papademetriou, 43, has co-produced a play called “Stones from
God: True Human Stories of a
Thriving
Greek
Christian
Community in Ottoman Turkey,”
which will be perHe and a colleague in
formed April 14-18 at
the theater department,
the
college’s
Professor
Pam
Performing Arts Center
Hendrick, then pulled
in Pomona, N.J., and
out the best stories and
later this summer in
observations,
and
Turkey.
Hendrick wrote a script
In the play, eight
for the play. Except for
actors portray more
the introduction and
than two dozen characending, and a few tranters from Cappadocian
sitions, the script uses
villages, using their Prof. Thomas
actual words of the vilactual words from Papademetriou
lagers. Many of the
transcripts of their stocharacters in the play,
ries, collected by the Center for however, are amalgams of several
Asia Minor Studies in Athens. people’s voices.
Papademetriou gathered the mateThe stage features a painting
rial, primarily about Christian reli- that looks like a photo of a village,
gious life in the villages, as part of and there are a few props, but the
a research project on Ottoman play relies mostly on the actors to
period churches in Cappadocia.
convey, through posture and
movements, the age and personalities of the characters.
Life before Lausanne
The tragic story of Greeks in
Turkey from 1919-1924 is well
known: an estimated 1 million
deaths, 1.5 million refugees, and
the exile of at least 150,000 Greek
men to labor battalions after the
Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
And the most horrific of all
tragedies, the Smyrna Catastrophe
(1922), when young revolutionaries backed by the Turkish army
seized and burned the largely
Greek city and killed hundreds of
thousands of citizens and refugees.
Under the Treaty of Lausanne
(1923), Greece and Turkey agreed
>> Please see PLAY, page 14
>> Please see EU, page 2
Six charged with
left-wing terrorism
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece – A Greek prosecutor
on April 12 charged six people with membership in the country’s most active far-left
terrorist group, which has claimed a string of
bombings and a rocket attack on the US
Embassy in Athens.
The five men and one woman, aged
between 30 and 41, were also charged with
multiple counts of attempted homicide,
causing explosions, and arms offenses
linked with the Revolutionary Struggle
organization.
Each faces a maximum 25-year sentence
if found guilty on the main charges.
The suspects were arrested in and around
Athens Saturday. Police said they found
Revolutionary Struggle proclamations and
plans for future attacks in one of the
>> Please see TERRORISTS, page 2
American photographer captured 1950s Greece
A photographic exhibit
poverty. He did not sentiof 1950s Greece is on dismentalize or stereotyped his
play April 17 through May
subjects. The individuals in
12 at the Citronne Gallery
McCabe’s photographs are
in Poros, Greece. An opendignified individuals in the
ing reception will be held
center of the photographic
April 17.
images often in a frontal
American photographer
pose, looking eye to eye at
Robert McCabe took the
the photographer and thus at
black and white photothe viewer.
graphs primarily during
McCabe was born in
trips to Greece in 1955 and
Chicago in 1934 and grew
1957 when he was an
up in the New York City
undergraduate at Princeton
area. His first photographs
University.
of Europe were taken in a
The photos resulted in a
trip in 1954 to France, Italy,
personal visual diary that
and Greece while he was an
captured the land and its
undergraduate. He returned
people, from portraits to
to Greece in 1955 and 1957.
scenes of everyday life and An exhibit of 1950s Greece by American In 1957, he took a series of
from architecture to land- photographer Robert McCabe is on exhib- color photographs in the
scapes.
Greek Islands for the
it April 17-May 12 in Poros, Greece.
His artistic interpretation
National
Geographic
also probed the physical, Pictured: In the tender, Thera, 1955.
Society.
social and cultural environment of scapes and his photographs of the
Today, McCabe divides his time
Greece of the time. In his work, built environment – being either between New York, Paris and
the documentary and the aesthetic ancient ruins or folk architecture.
Athens, where his wife was born.
Socio-economically Greece was
become one. His images are char>> Please see ENCHANTED
acterized by classicism and clarity, very different in the 1950’s than
GREECE, page 7
strong elements in both his land- today. McCabe saw a nobility of
The Aegaion in port below Fira, Thera, 1955
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Briefs..
Orthodox archbishop dies
KATYN, Russia – Orthodox Archbishop
Miron was among several Polish clergy
members and government officials, including the country’s president, Lech
Kacyzynski, killed in a plane crash April
10 while en route to Russia.
A Catholic bishop and an Evangelical
pastor also died in the fiery crash.
Archbishop Miron served as the Orthodox
army chaplain for Poland.
Pope’s trip to Cyprus set
VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican
says Pope Benedict XVI will meet with
Cyprus’ Orthodox archbishop and local
politicians and address foreign diplomats
during his June 4-6 visit to the island.
The Cyprus trip will be the second of
five planned papal trips this year.
Among highlights of the schedule,
announced April 10, are an ecumenical
Catholic-Orthodox prayer service, talks
with the Cypriot Orthodox archbishop,
Chrysostomos II, and a Mass in the
Nicosia sports palace.
Archbishop at
Easter breakfast
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Archbishop
Demetrios was among 70 Christian leaders
who attended an Easter prayer breakfast at
the White House.
The Archbishop said that the president’s
opening remarks constituted “a strong declaration of this faith in the Resurrection of
Christ in its healing consequences for the
world of today.”
Contraband cigarette
bust made
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) – Police
in northern Greece said they seized 1.86
million packs of contraband cigarettes, the
biggest haul in 10 years, and arrested three
suspected smugglers.
The cigarettes were found during a raid
in a warehouse outside the port city of
Thessaloniki on April 5. The suspects were
identified as Greek men of Russian and
Kazak origin, ages 29, 31 and 58.
Police said April 6 the unpaid taxes on
the cigarettes were worth euro3 million ($4
million). The raid followed a similar operation south of Thessaloniki in March, in
which 175,000 packs were seized.
EU repeats bailout pledge
BRUSSELS (AP) – The European
Union’s president, Herman Van Rompuy,
has repeated EU governments’ promise of
financial help for heavily indebted Greece
if it can’t raise money from bond markets.
He told the European Parliament in a
speech April 7 that other countries “stand
ready” to give bilateral loans.
Van Rompuy also said “it would be
strange not to make use” of the
International Monetary Fund in any bailout
loans for Greece since it is heavily
financed by European money.
Eurozone governments have agreed on a
bailout plan for Greece, but said loans
would only be available as a last resort and
above average eurozone interest rates. The
plan has not relieved financial market pressure on Greek debt or ended speculation
about a default.
Ambassador marks start
of visa waiver
ATHENS, Greece – US Ambassador
Daniel V. Speckhard visited Athens
Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport
April 7 to observe the progress of the new
Visa Waiver Program.
He spoke with Greek travelers, airport
officials and representatives of Delta
Airlines, and learned that the first three
days of Greece’s entry into the Visa Waiver
Program have gone well.
The Visa Waiver Program officially
began on April 5. For more information
about the Visa Waiver Program, visit the
US
Embassy’s
website:
http://athens.usembassy.gov.
Migrant repatriation
ATHENS, Greece (ANA) – A project
funded by the European Union for the voluntary repatriation of undocumented immigrants in Greece has begun, with 213
applicants returning to their countries of
origin in March alone – including
Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Nigeria and
Bangladesh – according to the Citizens’
Protection Ministry.
Another 13 Pakistani nationals flew back
to their homeland on April 1. The voluntary repatriation program is being financed
by about euro600,000 ($801,000) by the
EU.
news
Eurpoean Union plan not helping Greece yet
By ELENA BECATOROS
Associated Press Writer
ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s
borrowing costs spiked to a record
high April 8, intensifying the
country’s debt crisis and suggesting a euro-zone and International
Monetary Fund rescue plan is providing little support for Athens’
struggle to avoid default.
The higher interest rates
demanded by bond investors are
potential poison for the Greek
budget; unless they fall, the government will pay a massive premium to borrow and face a vicious
cycle where higher borrowing
costs fuel fresh default fears.
A Greek default would be a further blow to confidence in the
shared euro currency, which has
already fallen against the dollar as
the crisis has escalated.
But Finance Minister George
Papaconstantinou said Greece’s
program to pull out of a crisis that
has markets speculating the country may default would work, and
European Central Bank president
Jean-Claude Trichet insisted that
default was “not an issue” for the
country.
The Socialist government,
elected in October, has announced
a harsh austerity program that
includes cuts in civil servants’ pay,
pension freezes and higher taxes,
and insists it will bring its deficit
down to 8.7 percent of gross
domestic product by the end of the
year, from a revised projection of
12.9 percent at the end of 2009.
However, the high interest rate
gap, or spread, between Greek 10year government bonds and the
German equivalent, considered a
benchmark of stability, show markets are unconvinced that Greece
can pull it off.
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finance ministers of the 16-eurozone nations agreed on a complex three-year financing formula that generates an interest rate
of “around 5 percent.”
This is less than commercial
market rates – which have
soared above 7 percent on Greek
10-year borrowing in recent
weeks as the debt crisis dragged
on – but more than beneficiaries
of IMF usually pay. European
Central Bank president JeanClaude Trichet and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel have
insisted that Greece not get
below-market interest rates
amounting to an EU subsidy for
its past bad behavior.
“This is certainly no subsidy”
to Greece, Rehn told a news conference.
The test of the April 11
announcement will be whether it
restores confidence that Greece
will not default and gives it a
chance to borrow normally at
lower rates. Under last week’s
rates, Greece would have had to
pay more than twice what
Germany pays.
The danger is that interest payments themselves begin to sink
the budget despite severe cutbacks imposed in recent days. A
Spreads that began the day at
the already high figure of 401
basis points – which translates into
an interest rate of 4.01 percentage
points higher than German bonds
– spiked to 448 basis points in the
early afternoon, the highest level
since Greece joined the euro in
2001.
Still, Trichet expressed confidence that Greece’s plan would
work, and said the euro-zone and
IMF support plan announced last
month in Brussels was “a workable framework” and “a very, very
serious commitment.”
“I would say that taking all the
information I have, default is not
an issue for Greece,” he told a
news conference in Frankfurt.
In Athens, Papaconstantinou
said Greece’s first quarter budget
deficit figures were on target, with
the January-March shortfall
declining by 40 percent to euro4.3
billion ($5.72 billion) from
euro7.1 billion in the first quarter
last year.
Speaking in Parliament, the
minister said the fall came before
additional austerity measures
announced March 3 took full
effect.
“I reiterate emphatically that the
country continues and will continue to borrow normally,” he said.
“We have a plan and the budget is
being implemented properly and
remains within its targets.”
Papaconstantinou met April 7
with a delegation of IMF inspectors to seek advice on how to
speed up fiscal reforms.
But the massive spike in interest
rates shows markets are still concerned and some analysts are saying a bailout or default is a matter
of time.
“There can now be little doubt
that Greece will have to turn to the
IMF for help,” said UBS currency
strategist Beat Siegenthaler. With
bond yields high and reports of
depositors moving money out of
Greek banks, “time could quickly
run out,” he said.
Bank of Greece figures show
that in January and February,
Greek corporations and households withdrew some euro8.46
billion ($11.25 billion) in deposits,
leaving the total at euro229.5 billion ($305.14 billion) – slightly
more than in February 2009.
But a central bank official said
the trend was changing.
“In the past two or three weeks
this tendency has been reversed ...
and deposits have not been withdrawn,” the official said, speaking
on condition of anonymity in line
with bank policy.
Under the vaguely worded rescue plan, euro-zone leaders
pledged to provide support with
bilateral loans and IMF funds to
prevent a default and protect the
euro. The loans came with unanimous approval of all 16 euro-zone
members – including Germany,
which has been reluctant to bail
out Greece – and only as a last
resort.
European officials are reluctant
to give much detail on the bailout
loans. The euro-zone nations also
have made no decision on what
interest rate they would charge
Greece for individual loans from
each country, saying that they will
calculate the rate only when
Greece requests aid.
In a March statement, euro-zone
leaders said interest rates could
not be a form of subsidy and
would have to be higher than the
average charged for all euro
nations “to set incentives to return
to market financing as soon as
possible.”
Athens has repeatedly said it
hopes never to have to use the
“I am convinced that it will help Greece to
continue vigorously to correct public
finances imbalances and to deliver
the necessary structural reforms.”
European Commission President
Jose Manuel Barroso
Greek default would be a serious
blow to the euro, rattle markets
and inflict losses on European
banks that have bought Greek
government bonds.
Greek Prime Minister George
Papandreou said Greece made
no immediate request to activate
the EU bailout plan. Finance
minister
George
Papaconstantinou said Greece
aims to continue commercial
borrowing, presumably counting
on a drop in those rates when
markets reopened April 12.
“The government has not
asked for the activation” of the
bailout plan, Papaconstantinou
told reporters in Athens.
Officials, speaking privately,
told The Associated Press they
first wanted to see how markets
reacted on April 12.
European
Commission
President Jose Manuel Barroso
said the pledge of cash for
Greece showed the 16 euro-zone
nations will defend Europe’s single currency and help a partner
in trouble.
“It shows that the euro area is
serious in doing what is necessary to secure financial stability,” Barroso said in a statement.
“I am convinced that it will
help Greece to continue vigorously correct public finances
imbalances and to deliver the
necessary structural reforms.”
Rehn said the loan deal will be
“the clarification that the markets are waiting for.”
Those markets, however,
have so far ignored repeated
EU claims of support for
Greece causing commercial
lending rates for Athens to go
to 7 percent and more in recent
weeks.
At two summit meetings – one
plan, saying its existence should
help restore market confidence
and so reduce borrowing costs.
“We do not require the activation or further detailing of any
mechanism,”
government
spokesman Giorgos Petalotis said.
“We wanted and still want this
mechanism for one specific reason: to act as a guarantee to normalize borrowing conditions. So
there is no reason to take any initiative at this point.”
Deputy Finance Minister
Philipos Sachinidis said the interest rate gap between Greek and
German bonds would remain high
“for as long as Greece continues to
suffer from a credibility deficit.”
But he expressed confidence
that markets would respond well
as the country met its targets.
“As we get results ... and meet
our commitments to bring the
deficit down to at least 8.7 percent
in the first year and below 3 percent within the three-year period,
then I assure you the markets will
respond to these results,” he said
on Vima FM radio.
The government’s austerity program, together with planned tax
and social security reforms, has
angered labor unions, which
staged a series of general strikes.
Late on April 8, more than
2,000 people took part in two separate, peaceful demonstrations in
central Athens called by left-wing
groups against a draft law intended to crack down on widespread
tax evasion.
The country’s umbrella civil
servant union has said it will hold
a new general strike later this
month.
Associated Press writers Derek
Gatopoulos and Nicholas Paphitis
in Athens, and Aoife White in
Brussels contributed to this report.
in February and one in March –
the EU leaders made determined
noises about their readiness to
end the Greek debt crisis.
But the terms were tough, with
Greece needing approval of all
15 other eurozone governments
and only if it could not borrow
any other way. German fears a
bailout with soft loans will only
rile German public opinion
which already takes a dim view
of Greece’s financial housekeeping.
EU and IMF officials were to
meet April 12 to work out
details of IMF and EU lending
for 2011 and 2012, especially on
amounts and loan conditions.
Officials estimated that over a
three-year period Greece was
being offered a total of euro80
billion in financial aid by the EU
and the IMF.
Greece has been spending
beyond its means for years, leaving it with a 2009 budget deficit
of 12.9 percent of economic output. The revelation of its statistics fudging has slammed the
euro and gutted market confidence, fueling higher borrowing
costs.
Athens plans to cut its deficit
to 8.7 percent this year and has
launched a euro4.8 billion austerity program cutting public
sector wages, freezing pensions
and hiking taxes.
Terrorists
detainees’ homes, but have located no
weapons or explosives.
Revolutionary Struggle first appeared in
2003, a year after authorities eradicated
Greece’s deadliest left-wing group,
November 17, and has bombed banks, government buildings and the Athens Stock
Exchange, in three cases causing minor
injuries to bystanders. Its most spectacular
hit was the 2007 rocket-propelled grenade
attack on the heavily guarded US Embassy,
which caused minor damage but no injuries.
The US government subsequently offered
a $1 million reward for information leading
to the capture of Revolutionary Struggle
members.
The group also shot and severely wounded
a riot policeman last year. That attack came
during a spike in anarchist and far-left violence that followed the fatal police shooting
of an Athens teenager in December 2008 and
days of rioting in Greek cities.
The six suspects arrived at the main
Athens court complex escorted by anti-terrorist police, and were whisked into the prosecutor’s office. When they exited, dozens of
people who had gathered to chant slogans in
support of the detainees threw plastic bottles
and scuffled with police, who responded
with pepper spray. Two people were arrested
for the disturbance, which followed anarchist groups’ calls for a show of solidarity.
Police said the suspects included Nikos
Maziotis, 39, a self-described anarchist
jailed for three-and-a-half years for planting
a small bomb – which did not explode – outside a ministry building in 1997. According
to court documents, authorities believe
Maziotis played a leading role in the group.
Maziotis’ pregnant partner, Panayiota
Roupa, 41, was also arrested.
Domestic far-left terrorism waned after
the eradication of November 17, during a
security crackdown ahead of the 2004
Olympic Games in Athens. Since then,
Revolutionary Struggle have been the most
prominent militants, although since the
December 2008 riots two new groups have
carried out a string of bomb and gun attacks
on symbols of wealth and authority, killing a
policeman.
Associated
Press
Writer
Derek
Gatopoulos contributed to this report.
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High
Perfect Score
school sophomore Tyler “TJ”
Laurisch recently earned a perfect score on the
National Latin Exam.
Laurisch, 15, of Dyer, Ind., was among 41
students who earned a perfect score out of
149,000 who took the test, the Northwest
Indiana Times reported.
He has been studying languages, including
Greek, since he was in the first grade. He is an
honors student at Mount Carmel High School
in Chicago and is a member of Sts.
Constantine and Helen Cathedral in
Merrillville, Ind.
He is the son of Katherine PanagakisLaurisch and Anthony Laurisch and the
grandson of Sophia and the late Jim
Panagakis.
Academic honors
The following students won academic honors at UMass Amherst: Christopher
Dimitrakopoulos, Anne E. Papacostas and
Meghan E. Pappas were named to the spring
2009 dean’s list.
Stephen M. Zolotas graduated from the
New England School of Law, receiving his
Juris Doctorate. He was an editor of the New
England Journal of International and
Comparative law and made it to the dean’s list
his second and third years at school.
Resolution
commemorates DOP
On March 26, the US Senate passed a resolution commemorating the 80th anniversary of
the Daughters of Penelope (DOP). Grand
President Elaine M. Sampanis said the DOP
was “deeply honored and humbled” by the
Senate’s action and expressed thanks to US
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and her staff
for sponsoring the resolution. US Sen. Robert
Menendez (D-N.J.) was a co-sponsor.
Church holds Oratorical Sunday
The 22nd Annual St. John Chrysostom
Oratorical Sights and Sounds Youth Festival
was held March 14 at Sts. Constantine and
Helen Church. The winners from the festival
will attend the Metropolis of Chicago Oratorical
Arts Festival April 10 at Holy Trinity Church in
Chicago.
Protomagia in Medford
Springstep center for multicultural dance and
music in Medford, Mass., will celebrate
Protomagia (May Day) with an evening of Greek
dance and music, featuring rare handmade instruments from all over Greece. Wine, beer, and Greek
food will be available. Panayotis (Paddy)
League and his band, Galaxavra (Chris Veilleux
and Dimitri Tashie) will perform, along with the
Metropolis of Boston Youth Dance Group (led by
choreographer John Pappas). Springstep is located at 98 George P. Hassett Drive, Medford. For
tickets, call (781) 395-0402 or visit
www.springstep.org.
AHEPA hosts
Capitol Hill Day
Forty members of the AHEPA family from
across the United States attended the organization’s annual Capitol Hill Day on March 24.
AHEPA members were able to meet with
several legislators who support Greek
American issues and were briefed on the US
policy in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
The organization also recognized US Sens.
George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) and Richard
Lugar (R-Ind.) with the AHEPA-Paul E.
Tsongas Public Service Award.
Several members of Brooklyn AHEPA
Chapter 41 also were in attendance on Capitol
Hill Day and were able to meet with the New
York delegation.
The members
of the Hellenic Women’s
Club, Inc.
invite you to an evening of fun,
fashion and fundraising to benefit
The Demetra
Fund for
Breast Cancer
Research.
SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2010
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Boston Harbor Hotel
Atlantic Room
Science fair competitors
Several 7th and 8th grade students from
Koraes Elementary School, which is affiliated
with Sts. Constantine and Helen Church in
Palos Hills, Ill., participated in the Illinois
Junior Academy of Science Regional Science
Fair on March 13.
Students who participated are Nikolaos
Paul
Davenport,
Alesia
Atkinson,
Karuntzos, Athanasios Makris, Nicolette
Chialdikas, Natalia Cvetkovic and Athena
Xanos. They were among more than 550 other
students from the Southern Cook County and
DuPage County area.
Chialdikas’ project, “Recycle Kitchen Waste
into Organic Compounds,” received an outstanding score, qualifying her to attend the
State Science Fair competition in May.
Atkinson and Cvetkovic also received outstanding ribbons for their projects.
Pictured above is 8th grade student
Nicolette Chialdikas.
The winners are speech: Nicolette
Chialdikas, junior level, and Anthony Jonas,
senior level; essay: Nick Atkinson, junior level;
and Evan Theodoropoulos, senior level; poetry:
Nicolette Chialdikas, junior level, and
Katherine Katsivalis, senior level.
Pictured with the winners are Tom De
Preview an exclusive informal
fashion presentation of the
ESCADA Pre-Fall
2010 Collection
Program to follow with
special guests
Dr. Judy Garber
Denise Dameris Hazen
Champagne and Hors d’oeuvres
Prize drawings
Contact information:
Stacey Kacoyanis at 978-468-4845
or Club Website at:
www.hellenicwomensclub.org
Medeiros, pastoral assistant; Fr. Byron
Papanikolaou; Metropolitan Iakovos; Fr.
Nicholas Jonas; Fr. Panteleimon Dalianis; Ted
Argiris, Parish Council chairman; Janet
Koliopoulos, Philoptochos president; and John
Arvanetes, Parish Council president.
Spring soiree for cancer research
BOSTON – A Spring Soiree to benefit
the Hellenic Women’s Club of Boston’s
Demetra Fund for Breast Cancer Research
will be held from 5-7:30 p.m. April 25 at
the Boston Harbor Hotel.
The fund was originally created with a
gift from club member Dr. Helen O’Leary,
in memory of her sister and fellow member, Demetra “Toulie” Samellas, who died
from cancer in June 2001.
Guest speakers at the soiree include
Garger and author Denise Dameris Hazen,
who also has battled breast cancer.
The evening also
will feature a presentation of the
ESCADA Pre-Fall
2010 Collection,
and raffle prizes
will be drawn.
RSVP is required
by
April
22.
Contact
Allys
Spilios at (857)
222-0832 or allys.spilios @gmail.com or
visit www.hellenicwomens club.org.
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AHI celebrates 35th anniversary
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Ernie Anastos
Philip
Christopher
Col. Matthew
Bogdanos
New York parade
set for Sunday
NEW YORK – The 2010
Greek Independence Day
Parade in New York City
will be held Sunday, April
18.
This is the 72nd annual
celebration that commemorates the Greek declaration
of independence on March
25, 1821.
The parade is the culmination of a monthlong celebration of Greek heritage hosted by the Federation of
Hellenic Society of Greater
New York.
This year’s grand marshals include FOX network
TV-My9’s Ernie Anastos,
Pan-Cypriot President Philip
Christopher
and
Col.
Matthew Bogdanos, who is
also assistant district attorney in Manhattan and author
of “Thieves of Baghdad.”
Also selected to serve as
grand marshals are represen-
tatives of the Boy Scouts
and Girl Scouts of America.
The co-chairs of the
parade are Dr. George
Tsioulias of the Hellenic
Medical Society and Mamie
Stathatos-Fulgieri of the
Hellenic
Lawyers
Association.
John Catsimatidis, parade
chairman emeritus said that
last year’s parade drew a
crowd of more than 250,000
spectators and organizers
hope to exceed that number
this year.
Anastosm,
Nicole
Petallides of Fox Business
Network and weatherman
Nick Gregory all will deliver commentary during a
broadcast of the parade at 2
p.m. April 18 on Channel 9.
For more information or
to participate, contact the
federation at (718) 2046500.
Poetry reading and art exhibit
The Enosis Philoptochos
Society is hosting a poetry
reading, art exhibit and
reception from 6-8 p.m.,
April 29 at the St. Sophia
Church Hellenic Center in
New London, Conn.
The evening will feature
the published works of local
poets Mary Vallas Posner,
Nikoletta Nousiopoulos and
Lana Orphanides and art by
local
artists
Artimi
Korkides, Themis Kudrin,
Yannis Maltezos and Lou
Posner.
The suggested donation is
$5 and includes Greek hors
d’oeuvres, wine and coffee.
All proceeds will benefit the
Philoptochos charities.
For reservations or more
information, contact Emily
Mitchell at (860) 739-5003
or Penny Maistros at (860)
848-3665.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The
American Hellenic Institute honored
several Greek Americans at its 35th
Hellenic Heritage and National Public
Service Awards Dinner March 13 at the
Capitol Hilton.
The honorees were John Aniston,
award-winning actor; Peter Karmanos
Jr., Compuware Corp. chairman and
CEO, NHL Carolina Hurricanes owner,
and philanthropist; Niki Leondakis,
Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants chief
operating officer; Emanuel L. “Manny”
Rouvelas, K&L Gates LLP partner; and
US Congressman John Sarbanes (DMd.).
Thalia Assuras, former CBS News
anchor and a communications consultant, was the master of ceremonies.
Performing the American and Greek
national anthems was Elena Stavrakas.
The band Apollonia provided the musical entertainment.
Aniston, Leondakis and Karmanos
were awarded the Hellenic Achievement
Award. Sarbanes and Rouvelas each
received a Hellenic Heritage National
Public Service Award.
Several dignitaries were in attendance,
including Greek Ambassador Vassilis
Kaskarelis,
Cypriot
Ambassador
Andreas Kakouris, and American
College of Greece President David
Horner.
Former AHI honorees at the dinner
included Dr. George Tsetsekos, dean,
NEW YORK – Several
Greek organizations held the
second annual commemoration of the Hellenic Genocide
in Thrace, Asia Minor and
Pontos on April 6 outside the
United Nations.
Hundreds of thousands
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and Anatolian Greeks were
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Methodios urges
parade participation
Metropolitan released the following statement
urging the faithful of New England to participate
in the Greek Independence Day Parade in Boston
on April 25.
You are reminded that the Annual Greek
Independence Day Parade is scheduled for
Sunday, April 25. I strongly urge you to organize
your parish’s representation during the parade.
Please inform the president of the
Omospondeia, Eleni Vidalis, of your participation. I especially encourage you to reach out to
the young people in the parish and encourage
them to participate in this yearly commemoration
in the city of Boston. No parish should be absent.
You will be receiving via email a flier which I
ask that you reproduce and distribute during the
ensuing two Sundays, April 11 and 18. I also
request that you encourage the congregations
during the next two Sundays to participate in the
parade. I look forward to seeing you on April 25.
Major put ‘GO’
on battalion’s tags
To the Editor:
RE: Article entitled “Worcester Cathedral honors WWII veteran”
The above referenced article published in the
Hellenic Voice dated March 24, 2010, written by
Peter Leasca reported that during WWII, Greek
American soldiers had to make a choice to have
either a “P,” “C” or “J” on their dog-tags.
Your readers may be interested to know that
during WWII, in Camp Carson, Colo., Maj. Peter
Clainos had “GO” (reference to Greek Orthodox)
put on all the dog tags of the 1,200 members of
the “Greek Battalion,” contrary to Army regulations.
When I left the Greek Battalion in November
1944, I had “GO” on my dog-tags. Later, when I
joined the 80th Infantry Division, I had to continually explain why my dog-tags had “GO,”
instead of either a “C,” “P” or “R” – but I never
had my dog-tags reissued.
Very truly yours,
Dempsey J. Prappas
Houston, Texas
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By BRIAN RIEDL
The Heritage Foundation
Greece and the forked
German tongue
By ALEXANDER BILLINIS
Germany’s outrage against Greece’s
cooked books is understandable and genuine, but the con precipitated in Athens had
willing and engaged partners in Berlin,
Brussels, London and New York. That the
German taxpayer is furious at the thought
of bailing out the southern tier of Europe is
quite fair, but they should look to their own
politicians and industrialists as complicit in
what is a sovereign (and far more dangerous) version of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
Until very recently Germany was the
world’s largest exporter, eclipsed late last
year by (of course) China. German products are first class, but the strong Euro
made them expensive outside the
Eurozone, particularly for a struggling
America and the dollarized economies of
Asia and the oil exporting countries. Euro
membership for Greece, Italy, Spain and
Portugal effectively expanded Germany’s
external market and made German products immune from devaluation of these
weaker countries’ currencies, as occurred
in the past.
The euro, with low interest rates and the
inability to devalue inter-eurozone guaranteed that nations like Greece would be in
perpetual current account deficit. Low
interest rates provided the Greeks, the
Spaniards and the Irish with the means to
fuel a housing and consumption binge in a
way the Germans never would. This, of
course, fueled the “credit card nations’”
demand for more German goods, and in a
euro environment the Germans could sell
to a plastic-rich Greek or Italian far more
than a credit-crunched American with a
weak dollar.
The rot in Greece was well-known. I
have been a banker for 12 years, and I have
been a banker in Greece for some of those
years. Much of our work in Greece, even in
the golden years from 2002-2007, was discounting invoices and factoring, measures
of business and economic weakness rather
than strength. Pharmaceutical companies
asked for solutions to get their money from
Greek state hospitals, often three of four
years in arrears. Corporate balance sheet
dressing was more than matched by the
Greek state, which engaged New York
investment banks to put a Potemkin dressing on Greece’s finances (our Italian
Germany will come out
just fine, even if German
taxpayers have to
bail out the Greeks.
friends did some similar financial engineering) to join the euro. Everyone knew,
or should have known, the real state of the
Greek state. German indignation is a bit
hollow.
Finally, the euro is overvalued, and
German exporters, while professing a disgust at the thoroughly profligate behavior
of those southerners, no doubt view the
depreciation of the euro with glee. While
their Greek and Spanish markets may
(rightfully) shrink, a recovering America
and consuming China presents a far juicier
prize. Germany will come out just fine,
even if German taxpayers have to bail out
the Greeks.
It is manifestly in Germany’s interest to
help Greece, because her banks and pension funds have been big participants in the
sovereign credit game, and hold far too
much Greek debt to let it just sink like a
stone in the Aegean.
Having said that, Greece must change.
The culture of corruption and a public sector both bloated and rated as the worst in
the developed world must reform. Greece
will be rescued, but the political cost will
be huge. Greece’s national interests,
whether in the Aegean, the Balkans or
Cyprus, will suffer a severe blow. That
Germany, and others, was complicit and
profited by the profligacy in Greece will
not save her next time. The very public
nature of this crisis may finally provide an
opportunity for transparency. We Greeks,
whether in Greece or abroad, should press
for nothing less.
Alexander Billinis has spent the last 12
years in international banking, most
recently in London and Athens. He writes
extensively on Balkan cultural, economic
and historical topics.
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Taxpayers filing their 1040s are likely wondering just where all their hard-earned tax dollars are going, anyway.
Washington will spend $31,406 per household in 2010 — the highest level in American
history (adjusted for inflation). It will collect
$18,276 per household in taxes. The remaining
$13,130 represents this year’s staggering
budget deficit per household, which, along
with all prior government debt, will be dumped
in the laps of our children.
Government spending has increased by
$5,000 per household since 2008, and nearly
$10,000 per household over the past decade.
Yet there is no free lunch: If spending is not
reined in, then eventually taxes must also rise
by $10,000 per household.
Washington will spend this $31,406 per
household as follows:
Social Security/Medicare: $9,949. The 15.3
percent payroll tax, split evenly between the
employer and employee, covers most of these
costs. This system can remain sustainable only
if there are enough workers to support all
retirees, which is why it risks collapsing under
the weight of 77 million retiring baby
boomers. Unless these programs are reformed,
paying all promised benefits would eventually
require doubling all income tax rates.
Defense: $6,071. The defense budget covers
everything from military paychecks to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to the research,
development and acquisition of new technologies and equipment. Lawmakers drastically
reduced military spending after the collapse of
communism in the early 1990s. The 9/11
attacks reversed this trend, and the inflationadjusted $2,472 per household increase since
2000 has returned military spending closer to
its historical levels (but still lower than during
previous wars).
Anti-poverty programs: $5,466. Nearly half
of this spending subsidizes state Medicaid programs that provide health services to poor families. Other low-income spending includes:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,
food stamps, housing subsidies, child-care
subsidies, Supplemental Security Income and
low-income tax credits. President George W.
Bush increased anti-poverty spending to
record levels, and it has grown an additional
32 percent since the end of 2008 under
President Barack Obama.
Unemployment
benefits:
$1,640.
Unemployment costs have surged by 411 percent during the recession.
Interest on the federal debt: $1,585. The
federal government is $13 trillion in debt. It
owes $9 trillion to public bond owners, and the
rest to other federal agencies (mostly to repay
the Social Security trust fund, which lawmakers raided annually before the program went
into deficit in 2010). Record-low interest rates
have recently held down these costs. However,
the national debt is set to double by 2020,
which will combine with higher interest rates
to raise annual interest costs to nearly $6,000
per household.
Veterans’ benefits: $1,052. The federal
government provides income and health benefits to war veterans. Spending is up 83 percent
since 2000.
Federal employee retirement benefits:
$1,018. This spending funds the retirement and
disability benefits of federal employees,
including the military.
Education: $914. Education spending is primarily a state and local function; 9 percent of
the total comes from Washington. The federal
education budget has leaped 125 percent since
2000. Most federal dollars are spent on lowincome school districts, special education and
college student financial aid.
Highways/mass transit: $613. Most highway and mass-transit spending is financed by
the 18.4 cent per-gallon federal gas tax.
Washington subtracts an administrative cost
and sends this money back to the states with
numerous strings attached.
Health research/regulation: $550. This
spending is up 50 percent since 2001, and
much of this growth is concentrated in the
National Institute of Health. The category also
includes the Food and Drug Administration
and dozens of grant programs for health
providers.
Mortgage Credit: $470. While most of the
bank bailouts occurred last year, the bailouts of
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the rest of the
housing market continue.
The programs listed above cover $29,328
per household. The remaining $2,078 is allocated to all other federal programs, including
justice, international affairs, natural resources,
the environment, regional development, farm
subsidies, social services, space exploration,
air transportation and energy.
Taxpayers — and the next generation that
will be paying nearly half of the bill — must
decide for themselves if they’re getting their
money’s worth.
Brian Riedl is the Grover M. Hermann fellow in federal budgetary affairs at The
Heritage Foundation. (c) 2010, The Heritage
Foundation. Distributed by McClatchyTribune Information Services.
calendar
Conferences,
Lectures & Exhibits
The Politics of Beauty
“Female
Threads
of
Salvation: The Mother of God,
the veil of the Incarnation and
the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in
12th century Constantinople,”
lecture by Maria Evangelatou,
5-6 p.m., April 14, Sackler
Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.
Consecration celebration,
April 21-April 24, St. George
Church,
Downey,
Calif.
www.stgeorgedowney.org/co
nsecration
“Diabetes
and
Cardiovascular Diseases” by
Dr. Maria Koulmanda and Dr.
Spyros Akrivakis, New England
Cathedral Lecture Series, 7
p.m., April 16, Cathedral
Center, Brookline, Mass.
“Windows to the Aegean,”
an exhibition of new bronze
sculptures and paintings by
Peter Calaboyias, through April
17, National Hellenic Museum,
Chicago.
“On the Road and Home
Again” art exhibit by Bill Giavis,
through May 15, Members
Room, Parker Gallery, Whistler
House Museum of Art, Lowell,
Mass. Reception, 2-4 p.m., April
17.
“Religion and National
Identity in the Greek Diaspora:
A Comparison between Europe
and the United States” presented by Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis, 7
p.m., April 19, The Greek
Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
“Humans and Animals, or
the Instability of Species and
Gender in Ancient Greece” lecture by Annetta Alexandridis, 68 p.m., April 21, Sackler
Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.
“Islam at the EU Border:
Explaining the policies of
Greece and Bulgaria toward
Muslims in the past three
decades,” lecture by Harris
Mylonas, 12:30 p.m., April 22,
The Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Cabot Intercultural
Center,
Tufts
University,
Medford, Mass.
19th
Hermes
Expo
International, 3-8 p.m. April
22, New York, April 24-25,
Tropicana, Atlantic City, N.J.
“The Creation of the word
Genocide and those who
deny the Armenian Genocide”
lecture by Apo Torosyan at
Armenian
Genocide
Commemoration, 11 a.m.,
April 22, City Hall, Peabody,
Mass. (978) 538-5702 or
www.peabody-ma.gov.
“My Story, Every Body’s
Story”
exhibit
by
Apo
Torosyan, April 22, City Hall,
Peabody, Mass.
“The
New
Acropolis
Museum: Its Exhibits and
Architecture” by museum director Demetrios Pandermalis, 6
p.m.,
April
23,
Fong
Auditorium, Boylston Hall,
Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass. Free admission.
Hellenic Business Network
Networking after Work, 5:308:30 p.m., April 22, The Bar
Lounge, Four Seasons Hotel,
New York.
No Limit Texas Hold’em
Scholarship Fundraiser for
AHEPA, Hellas Chapter 102,
Lowell, 5:30 p.m., April 24,
ACACIA Club, Dracut, Mass.
(978) 649-7800 or (978) 8869437
Ada Cohen, an associate professor at Dartmouth College, will lecture on “The
Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art” April 28 at the Sackler Museum at
Harvard University. (Herakles and Athena depicted on a kylix, circa 480-470
BC.)
The Art of Icon Writing
demonstration by the Rev.
Donat Lamothe of Assumption
College, April 25, Museum of
Russian Icons, Clinton, Mass.
“Introduction to HellenicAmerican Genealogy,” lecture by Mary Papoutsy, 6:30
p.m., April 28, Copley Square
Orientation Room, Boston
Public Library, Boston.
“The Politics of Beauty in
Ancient Greek Art” lecture by
Ada Cohen, 6-8 p.m., April 28,
Sackler Museum, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass.
Poetry reading, art exhibit
and reception hosted by the
Enosis Philoptochos Society, 68 p.m., April 29, St. Sophia
Hellenic Center, New London,
Conn. Suggested donation: $5.
(860) 739-5003 or (860) 8483665.
“The Greek Crisis of 2009
and the Future of the EMU: A
Panel Discussion" by Francesco
Giavazzi and Yannis Ioannides,
April 30, 4:15-6 p.m., Tufts
University, Medford, Mass.
“All
Sides
of
the
Parthenon” exhibit, May 6August 21, Coral Springs
Museum, Coral Springs, Fla.
“’Presidents Come and
President Go’: Observing
History through the Cartoons
of Bill Pappas,” May 6-August
29, National Hellenic Museum,
Chicago. Opening reception,
6-8 p.m., May 6.
“Dedication to the Pontian
Heritage”
by
Demetrios
Kosmidis,
New
England
p.m., May 23, Cathedral
"Bread Series" artwork by
Apo Torosyan, May 28-July 10,
New Arts Program, Kutztown,
Pa.
Cambridge, Mass.
Annual
Conference of
Metropolis
of
Boston
Federation of Greek Orthodox
Church Musicians, Nov. 5-7, St.
Athanasius Church, Arlington,
Mass.
”Ancient
Cyprus:
The
Cesnola Collection at the
Semitic Museum.” Ongoing
exhibit, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.
Concerts & Shows
Light of Greece Concert
with Mario Frangoulis and
George Perris, presented by the
Greek Institute, 7 p.m., April 18,
Northshore Center for the
Performing Arts, Skokie, Ill., 8
p.m., May 7, Sanders Theatre,
Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.
Concert
of
Greek
Rembetiki Music, 4 p.m., April
18, Paine Hall, Harvard
Tickets: $20 general, $10 students; [email protected],
[email protected]
or
[email protected].
Pandelis Karayorgis Trio, 8
p.m., April 25, Outpost 186,
Cambridge, Mass.
Protomagia: Songs of Spring
and Summer featuring the
Panayotis League, Galaxavra
and Metropolitan of Boston
Youth Dance Group, 8 p.m.,
May 1, Springstep, Medford,
Mass. Tickets: $10-22 advance,
$10 kids 16 and under and $25
at the door. (781) 395-0402 or
www.springstep.org
Greek singer Antonis Remos
performs, May 2, Club Nokia,
Los Angeles. (877) 674 7335.
88th
AHEPA
Family
Supreme Convention, July 1118, Delta Centre-Ville Hotel,
Montreal, Quebec.
Aphrodite Daniel, Panos
Chrysovergis
and
the
Syn...phonia Band perform, 6
p.m., May 8, Annunciation
Church Hall, Stamford, Conn.
Entrance fee: $35, proceeds
benefit
Stamford
AHEPA
Scholarship Fund. (203) 5545570 or [email protected].
“Home Land Security and
Terrorism” by Bette Novicki and
Simone Dodge, New England
p.m., September 23, Cathedral
Celtic Pops: A Feast of Irish
Music conducted by Steven
Karidoyanes, 8 p.m., May 8,
Memorial Hall, Plymouth, Mass.
Tickets: (508) 746-8008 or
www.plymouthphil.org.
“Musical Odyssey Concert”
by Dr. Marica Arvanites and
Annette Kaselis, New England
p.m., October 23, Cathedral
Masterworks Chorale’s 70th
season
with
Steven
Karidoyanes conducting, 3
p.m., May 16, Sanders Theatre,
Dances & Dinners
NEOLEA Hellenic Dancers
Annual Fundraising Glendi, 7
p.m.-midnight, April 17, St.
Spyridon
Church,
Palos
Heights, Ill. Admission $20.
(815) 280-9072, (219) 7181221, or (708) 949-8830.
OPA! Charity Fundraiser
with Greek food, music and
dancing, by Daughters of
Penelope EROS 356, 6:3011:30 p.m., April 17, Spartan
Manor, New Port Richey, Fla..
Tickets
$40
Reservations
required: (727) 842-6821.
Wine and Hors d’oeuvre
party by District 13 Daughters
of Penelope and Chicago
Hellenic Museum, 5-9 p.m.,
April 17, Chicago Hellenic
Museum, Chicago. Tickets $35.
(847) 962-5536 or (630) 7898314.
American Hellenic Council
of California’s Annual Honors
Dinner Dance, 6 p.m., April 17,
Omni Hotel, Los Angeles. RSVP
by April 10; (323) 651-3507 or
[email protected].
Hellenic
Intercollegiate
Dance, 8 p.m., April 23,
Radisson
Hotel,
Boston.
Advance tickets $28, online
$30, at the door $35. Proceeds
benefit Philoxenia House.
AHEPA Tri-State Banquet,
6:30 p.m., May 1, Westin
O’Hare, Chicago. Tickets $100
per person. (414) 271-5400,
[email protected] or (708) 7494527, [email protected].
Beverly
Bootstraps
Community Services hosts
Greek-theme dinner and dance
fundraiser, 5-10 p.m., May 2,
Angelica’s
Restaurant,
Middleton, Mass. Tickets $40
per person. (978) 927-1561 or
www.beverlybootstraps.org.
Free Greek folk dance
classes, 7-9 p.m., Thursdays,
Dormition of the Virgin Mary
Church, Somerville, Mass. (617)
265-2222
or
[email protected]
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A Spring Soiree to benefit
The Demetra Fund for Breast
Cancer Research, hosted by
The Hellenic Women’s Club
EOK, 7:30 p.m., April 25,
Boston Harbor Hotel. RSVP by
April 22. (857) 222-0832 or
[email protected].
Theophany School Benefit
Evening and Auction, 6:30
p.m., May 1, Apollo Functions,
Norwood,
Mass.
www.theophanyschool.org
Wine tasting to benefit
Hellenic Society Paideia of Cape
Cod and the Islands, 6-8 p.m.,
May 1, St. George Church,
Centerville, Mass. RSVP by April
26.
Community meetings for
Boston Greek Independence
Parade, 7:30 p.m., April 14,
Maliotis
Cultural
Center,
Brookline, Mass.
Parade, 3 p.m., April 18,
Detroit.
Parade, April 18, New York.
commemoration, 12:30 p.m.3:30
p.m.,
April
23,
Massachusetts State House,
Boston.
Greek
Independence
Dinner Gala and Miss Greek
Independence, 6:30 p.m., April
24, Radisson Hotel, Boston.
Parade followed by celebration
on Boston Common, 1 p.m.,
April 25, Boston.
Parade, 2:30 p.m., April 25,
Chicago.
“The Story of Greek
Independence”
exhibition,
through May 1, National
Hellenic Museum, Chicago.
Greek Festivals
April 23-25, Orlando, Fla.,
Holy Trinity Church
April 30-May 2, Durham,
N.C., St. Barbara Church
April 30-May 2, Clifton, N.J.,
St. George Church
May 1-2, Cranston,
Annunciation Church
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Annunciation Church
Bishop
Demetrios
of
Mokissos honored at Niagara
Peace and Dialogue Awards
2010, May 4, Ritz Carlton,
Chicago.
May 7-9, Webster, Texas, St.
John the Theologian Church
Sts. Constantine and Helen
Golf Tournament, May 17,
Andover
Country
Club,
Andover, Mass. (978) 470-0919
or andoverorthodox.org
May 13-16, Houston, St. Basil
the Great
Philoptochos
Society’s
Artisan and Craft Fair, 10 a.m.5 p.m., May 1, St. Luke Church,
East Longmeadow, Mass. Free
admission.
May 14-16, Randolph, N.J.,
St. Andrew Church
Wine tasting to benefit
Annunciation of the Virgin
Mary
Church
Ladies
Philoptochos Scholarship Fund,
6-9 p.m., May 1, Religious
Cultural Center, Woburn, Mass.
Tickets
$25,
[email protected].
May 13-16, Greenville, S.C.,
St. George Church
May 14-16, Easton, Pa.,
Annunciation Church
May 14-16, 21-23, Upper
Darby, Pa., St. Demetrios
Church
May 27-30, Vineland, N.J., St.
Anthony Church
June 3-5, Westfield, N.J., Holy
Trinity Church
June 4-6, Ann Arbor, Mich.,
St. Nicholas Church
The Greek Golf Classic, 11
a.m., June 14, Golf Club of
Cape Cod, Falmouth, Mass.
[email protected]
June 5-6, Downey, Calif., St.
George Church
St. Stephen’s Camp, Session
1: July 11-17; Session 2: July
18-24; Session 3: July 25-31;
Session 4: August 1-7, Diakonia
Center,
Salem,
S.C.
www.diakoniacenter.org
June 10-13, Baltimore, St.
Nicholas Church
June 5-6, San Luis Obispo,
Calif., St. Andrew Church
June 11-13, Danbury, Conn.,
Assumption Church
Spiritual Pilgrimage to the
Faithfully serving the community since 1894
Greek dancing for adults.
Basics, regional and traditional
dances. First Monday of each
month,
Hellenic
Cultural
Center, Watertown, Mass.
Pro Rehab, Inc.
Serving New England Since 1917
Greek
Independence Day
Celebrating
2,500th
anniversary of Battle of
Marathon, 7 p.m., April 18, St.
Catherine Church, Braintree,
Mass.
“Greece: A Journey Home”
art exhibit by Christos Calivas,
through
April 16, McCoy
Gallery, Merrimack College,
North Andover, Mass.
Panepirotic Young Adult
One-Day Conference, 10:30
a.m.-3
p.m.,
April
17,
Epirotic/Anagennisis House,
Astoria, N.Y. (508) 317-6478,
(718) 274-4743 or [email protected].
AHEPA’s Monthe Kofos
Memorial Tournament, April
14-17, Innisbrook Golf Resort,
Innisbrook, Fla.
Presentation
of
olive
wreaths for Boston Marathon,
5-6 p.m., April 15, Greek
Consulate,
Boston.
RSVP
required:
[email protected] or (617)
523-0163.
“Coins and Cultures in
Western Sicily” with focus on
the Elymians, Phoenicians and
Greeks, lecture by N. Keith
Rutter, 6-8 p.m., April 15,
Sackler Museum, Harvard
“Artist Series: Sculptures &
Casting” with artist Peter
Calaboyias, 6-8 p.m., April 16,
National Hellenic Museum,
Chicago. Admission: $7, $10
non-members, $5 students.
Etcetera
Ancient Sees of Sts. Peter and
Andrew with Metropolitan
Methodios and Roman Catholic
Bishop Robert J. McManus,
September 15-26. (508) 7696538.
tration, regular: April 30; late:
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Enchanted Greece
Sunset from Fira, Thera, 1955
Young restaurant hand, Alonissos, 1963
An exhibit of 1950s Greece by American photographer Robert McCabe is on exhibit April 17-May 12 in Poros, Greece.
Pictured: At the temple of Poseidon, Sounion, 1955.
Deck Class aboard the Despina, the
Aegean, 1955
His work has been exhibited at the
Firestone Library at Princeton, the Olympic
Tower in New York, the Queen Sofia Spanish
Institute in New York; the Galerie Sit Down
in Paris and in numerous exhibitions in
Greece, in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras,
Santorini and Monodendri.
His books include: Greece: Images of an
Enchanted Land 1954-1965, Grèce: les
années d'innocence, and On the Road with a
Rollei in the ‘50s. He is currently working on
a book about Mycenae.
The exhibit’s curator is Dr. Tatiana Spinari,
Professor of Art History at Boston College
and director of the Citronne Gallery.
For
more
information,
www.citronne.com
or
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By SELCAN HACAOGLU
ANKARA, Turkey –
Turkey and Greece on April
8 announced a series of
measures to build confidence between the rival
neighbors, including joint
military training designed in
part to ease years of tension
over airspace and sea boundaries and a local arms race.
Turkey’s Foreign minister
Ahmet Davutoglu said the
new moves ultimately could
help limit arms spending.
As well, 10 key ministers,
including those in charge of
foreign and European Union
affairs as well as energy and
economy would meet at least
twice a year, Davutoglu and
Greece’s Deputy Foreign
Minister Dimitris Droutsas
announced.
The ministers said their
armies would increase cooperation through joint training and conferences. The
move is designed to encourage Turkish and Greek officers, who have for decades
regarded each other as
potential enemies, to work
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with each other.
The countries have been at
odds for years over flight
procedures over the Aegean
Sea border. For decades,
their warplanes have often
engaged in mock dogfights.
“The measures will boost
confidence between the two
peoples
and
armies,”
Droutsas told a joint news
conference with Davutoglu.
Greece is suffering from a
severe economic crisis and
plans to cut defense spending in 2011 and 2012.
Responding to a question
over whether Turkey would
follow
Greece’s
lead,
Davutoglu said that there
would be no need for arms
spending if the neighbors
could build a “common
future.”
“We have a vision and it is
not based on mutual threat
but on mutual interests,”
Davutoglu said. “If we manage to build a common
future, there will be no need
for defense spending.”
Davutoglu pointed out that
his government has already
reduced military spending,
saying the government has
spent more on education
than arms in recent years.
EU-member Greece supports Turkey’s membership
bid in the European Union,
hoping that it will help solve
territorial issues. The largest
snag is the divided island of
Cyprus where Turkey keeps
about 40,000 troops.
Turkey began EU membership talks in 2005, but
negotiations on some policy
have been frozen over
Turkey’s refusal to allow
ships and planes from
Cyprus to enter its ports and
airspace, and the EU says
Ankara must open its air-
space to the EU member if it
wants to get closer to membership itself.
In return, Turkey insists
on the lifting of what it says
is the unofficial trade embargo on the breakaway Turkish
Cypriot state in the north of
the island, which was divided into a Greek Cypriot
south and a Turkish Cypriot
north following Turkey’s
1974 invasion.
Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed to this report.
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arts, culture & education
Film Review: ‘The Promise of Tomorrow’
By HELENE LIATSOS-TSIMAHIDES
Documentaries introduce you to
the most interesting people. Some
you never knew existed, some you
heard of but didn’t really know and
some you knew but had no idea that
a whole other side existed. And that
is what the documentary “The
Promise of Tomorrow: 1940-1960,”
written and directed by Anna
Gianniotis for The Greek Heritage
Society of Southern California does.
We know these people as Papou and
Yiayia, as Yorgo the grocer, as
Katerina at the bakery, Niko at the
diner, and as Dr. Jim at the clinic. By
capturing these people on film and
hearing their stories we see the depth
and fullness of their lives.
I recognized several people in this
film. I know them as members of the
Greek community but I didn’t know
their life story. I met a woman whom
I often see in church; we nod and
say, “Hello.” What I didn’t know
was that she was a nurse during
World War II and saw combat duty. I
know Tony, a long time member of
St. Sophia Cathedral in L.A. and
very active in the community, but
what I didn’t know was that he was
a captain in World War II and was
one of the three soldiers who survived a battle. I learned that a man
named Nicholas, whom I met as a
young woman freshly arrived in LA,
fought for nine years to make Greek
Orthodoxy a recognized religion by
the armed forces so that the men and
women who served in the military
could be represented by clergy.
The man who touched me the
most was the one who made the
promise of putting $10 in the tray at
church if he came back from the war
alive. At the end of his tour he found
himself in a small church in New
York City and he faithfully dropped
in the $10. He also mentioned that
the priest came down the aisle to
meet and thank him personally. As
this old man was speaking, you see
how he is clearly reliving those
moments of thanking God that he
survived combat. I thought at first
that the film was out of focus during
this segment, but then I realized that
the tears in my eyes matched the
Camp Carson Greek Battalion photo with
Greek flag and American flag
Tasulis wedding
tears in his.
This documentary is the second
film of a trilogy about the Greeks
who settled and flourished in
Southern California. The first film,
“The Pioneers: 1900-1942,” focused
on the first wave of immigrants
arriving at the turn of the 20th century. They came with nothing, but
they got everything they needed.
They created families and built a
community. They established businesses and schools. They gave rise
to a Greek Orthodox church in
thanks for the all the new found
prosperity in their lives.
“The Promise of Tomorrow” is
about the children of those Pioneers.
This first generation struggled with
the Greek at home vs. American outside the home. They spoke of having
to translate for their mom at the grocers or at the bank; they spoke about
how different they felt from the
other kids in the neighborhood; they
spoke about all the typical feelings
children of immigrants speak of.
And yet, the common thread of their
recollections was the strength and
stamina of their parents’ determination to not only survive, but to thrive
and excel. And they did this the only
way they knew how – hard work,
strong families and always, always
an acknowledgement of God’s blessings.
The audiences at the first screenings of this film were filled with
people of all ages. Throughout the
viewing people would call out or
gasp at the recognition of an old
store owed by their uncle or of an
event such as wedding where more
than 1,000 people attended – the
daughter of the bride is a good friend
of mine and we laughed together as
we heard the story of how her
father’s father arranged the marriage
with her mother’s father. We saw the
building of the magnificent St.
Sophia Cathedral, which grew out of
the humble beginnings of the church
on St. Julian Street. We were shown
how the Greek dance movement was
started by Athan Karas and how his
studio, The Intersection, was the
mecca of gatherings for Greek dance
and fellowship. We heard of the sac-
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rifices the immigrant parents made
to educate their children who
became doctors, teachers, bankers,
professors, lawyers and business
owners. And we heard the thanks
and acknowledgement these “children” gave back to their parents.
This generational progression will
continue in the third documentary of
this trilogy. It will begin in 1960 and
bring us up to date with the growth
and advancement of the Greek community. And this evolution is huge –
the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the pioneers have
achieved the highest levels of success in all fields; they are now superstars – athletes, judges, film stars,
governors, Fortune 500 company
CEO’s, presidential candidates,
Wall Street movers and shakers.
Work on this film has already begun.
The Greek immigrant story is no
different from any other ethnic
immigrant story – it simply tells the
tale of a group of people who moved
away from their original homeland
for reasons of persecution, of starvation and of poverty. Everyone’s story
must be told – there is value and
honor in preserving the lives of our
ancestors. The Greek Heritage
Society of Southern California has
preserved the history of the Hellenic
people who left Greece but did not
leave their roots. Their story is a
microcosm of Greek communities
everywhere throughout America. We
are linked together through common
traits of determination and purpose:
we work hard to live a full, rich life
in this land of abundance.
A must-see documentary for all
those interested in history and in the
evolution of Greeks in the United
States of America.
“The Promise of Tomorrow” has
been selected by the Boston
International Film Festival and will
be screened at 8:30 p.m. April 21 at
the AMC Loews move theater in
Boston.
Helene Liatsos-Tsimahides was
born in Greece, raised in New York
and now lives in Los Angeles. She
serves on the Greek Hellenic
Society’s advisory board.
Reflections: Spring and flowers
Many flowers have histories
that are based on Greek myths.
The following are a just a few
examples.
FLOWER
OF
THE
ALMOND TREE: Princess
Phyllis was the daughter of a
Thracian king. Though she was
betrothed to Demophon, son of
Theseus, he left her waiting for
many years. After Phyllis died
of a broken heart, the gods transformed her into an almond tree,
which became a symbol of
hope.
When
Demophon
returned, he embraced the
almond tree and the tree suddenly burst into beautiful blooms.
ANEMONE
(WIND
FLOWER): While the goddess
Aphrodite carried on an affair
with the handsome mortal
Adonis, her ex-lover Ares, the
god of war, grew jealous.
Ares disguised himself as a
boar and attacked Adonis with
the tusks, causing him fatal
injuries. Aphrodite sprinkled
nectar on the wounds of Adonis
and carried him out of the
woods. As she bore the body
away, crimson anemones sprang
up where each drop of blood
and nectar fell onto the earth.
Tradition says that the wind
blows the blossoms of the
anemone open and later the
wind blows the petals away.
DAPHNE
(LAUREL
TREE): The daughter of the
river god Peneus, Daphne was a
very pretty but elusive nymph
who refused to marry. Apollo
pursued her through the woods,
but she rejected his advances.
Peneus protected Daphne by
turning her into a laurel tree on
the bank of his river.
In Daphne’s memory, Apollo
made the laurel his sacred tree.
The laurel wreath – or
“Daphne” in Greek – became
the prize of champions at the
Olympic Games and the prize of
all those who strived for excellence.
NARCISSUS: Narcissus was
an unusually handsome young
man. He had many admirers but
heartlessly rejected all of them.
Some of these admirers took
their own lives as a result of the
rejection.
One day when Narcissus sat
next to a spring and saw his
reflection in a pool of water, he
was so enamored with himself
that he stayed next to the water
admiring himself until he died.
The flower narcissus later grew
at that very spot.
ROSE: The goddess of flowers, Chloris, turned the lifeless
body of a nymph into a flower.
Chloris called upon her fellow
gods to help. Aphrodite gave
this flower beauty, Dionysus
added nectar to give it a sweet
fragrance and Apollo shone the
sun upon it to make it bloom.
The queen of flowers had been
created. The rose was considered sacred to the goddess
Aphrodite.
Compiled by Harriette
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faith
&
Remembering
Archbishop
Iakovos
Christ is risen from the dead, by
death trampling down death, and
to those in the tombs bestowing life
Dearly Beloved,
Christ is Risen!
Saturday, April 10, marks the close of a
blessed chapter in the history of the Holy
Archdiocese of America, for
it is the 5th Anniversary of
the falling asleep of our
revered and beloved predecessor, the late Archbishop
Iakovos.
From the moment he
arrived on the shores of this
Archbishop nation in the spring of 1939,
Iakovos
His Eminence labored long
and hard, leading our community from its immigrant roots into the
mainstream of American society. A champion of civil and religious rights throughout the years, he faithfully served with distinction and exemplary dedication as
Primate of North and South America for
over 37 years and, truly, in the words of St.
Paul, he “fought the good fight, he finished
the race, he kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).
In recognition of this anniversary, I
would kindly ask that all of the parishes of
our Holy Archdiocese of America offer a
five-year Memorial Service at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, April
18, beseeching the Almighty to grant eternal rest to the soul of this tireless worker in
the Vineyard of our Lord.
Let this be not only an opportunity to
pray for his eternal repose but also an occasion to thank God for blessing our Church
with such a distinguished clergyman who
touched the lives of countless individuals.
May his memory be eternal!
With love and esteem
in the Risen Lord,
+ DEMETRIOS
Archbishop of America
Modern
proverbs
for living
By REV. DR. C.N. DOMBALIS
Until we see God clearly, face to His
blessed face, we will not
know what we have been
searching for far and wide.
For in that precious sight it
will be such a union that our
breathing and our thinking
and talking will be “God.”
Eternity will be tasted and
savored.
* **
When we are too young to have any religion of our own, the important thing is not to
think much but to love much.
* **
Christian faith is preference for life over
against death. It is faith in the goodness and
blessedness of creation.
* **
By learning to walk upright, we also learn
how to kneel. We cannot kneel without
learning how to walk upright.
* **
God has set before us life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and
your descendants may live (Deut. 30:19).
* **
One drunk on wine is more tolerable than
one drunk on hateful love.
* **
The end of prayer is to be snatched away
to God.
* **
Sin is a religious word, for it is a word that
makes sense when we know ourselves to be
in relation with God.
* **
Greek Orthodoxy holds to the belief of the
Real Presence of God during the celebration
of the Liturgy as well as in the Eucharist.
The Real Presence of God in the Liturgy
helps those who come with unsettled emotions and destructive feelings.
* **
Love does not go looking for evil. When
love does come upon evil, love looks the
other way and excuses those who commit it.
This is to be our attitude.
The Rev. Dr. C.N. Dombalis is dean emeritus of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of
Richmond, Va. He served as a as a delegate
to the United Nations, where he helped
author the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
religion
Divine Grace Part 2:
Guarding the Heart in Love
The Fathers of the Church say
that in the beginning one avoids
sin out of fear of
the consequences.
HOLY LIGHT A little further on,
OF SINAI
because of hope in
the reward. And at
a yet more perfect
stage, purely from
love for God.
Many
people
would say that life
began for them as
they realized how
Sister Joanna to love Christ with
their very existence, to connect with Him, and
feel His grace. As has been said
many times, Orthodoxy is not
about God; it is the experience of
God.
After all, the triumph of the
authentic Christian way of life is
the means it affords to love God in
practice, not just imagination. “If
you love Me, you will keep My
commandments,” Christ says.
In the Ladder of Divine Ascent,
St. John Climacus, the great 6th
century Sinai ascetic, writes that a
Christian is one who imitates
Christ in word and deed and in
thought. “In every way of life,” he
says, “ask yourself: ‘Am I really
doing this in accordance with
God’s will?’”
Thoughts give birth to words
and deeds. Therefore, one must
“hit sin at the beginning,” Geronta
Pavlos of Sinai says, by guarding
the heart from thoughts unwelcome to Christ.
For, once admitted, such
thoughts easily lead to sins that
become bad habits, or “passions,”
difficult to uproot – driving out the
Divine Grace which is the source
of every blessing.
Geronta, you said the experience of Divine Grace is won by
driving out bad thoughts with
good (The Hellenic Voice, March
31, 2010). But thoughts move at
the speed of light. What about
when we fail?
Above all, Sr. Joanna, know that
God is love! He doesn’t look at
things with a human eye, because
He is God. It is good for a person
at every moment of his life to do
the will of God, but if he doesn’t
manage it totally, in every instance
God does not cease loving him –
note this! The love of God is a
mystery; it is not like our love.
But when we don’t do the will
of God, we ourselves lose.
You see a dream and believe it.
Now that dream can be from the
evil one, from the devil. That’s
why the great author St. John
Climacus says we must not
believe in dreams – even when
they seem good to us. One must be
careful, because while it might be
from God it can also be from the
evil one. So the saints tell us not to
believe in our dreams.
St. John has a whole chapter
on “Remembrance of Wrong.”
Indeed, when someone has
done us an injustice, it creates
bitter thoughts particularly hard
to drive out. …
We will try to tell ourselves, that
person did not know what he did,
he didn’t do it with his heart, you
see. … That is the “righthand”
thought, the good one. We will say
that he did it by mistake, without
realizing what he was doing. Or,
that he didn’t know any better. ...
And so we make allowances.
Jealous thoughts?
Photo by Bruce M. White Photography
The famous Sinai icon of the Ladder of Divine Ascent shows
monks approaching closer to God as they ascend the ladder
of the virtues, by struggling for freedom from the sinful passions.
As St. Catherine’s elected Dikaios, Geronta
Pavlos has been responsible for the spiritual
life of the monastery for four decades. He represents the Archbishop during his frequent
unavoidable absences, and oversees the daily
worship services and large monastery garden.
The hesychast geronta, devoted to ceaseless
“prayer of the heart,” also responds to the
spiritual needs of countless Orthodox pilgrims, both within the
monastery and throughout Gree and Cyprus. His insightful spiritual guidance is in constant demand.
Sr. Joanna has been associated with St.
Catherine’s Monastery since 1990 through its
dependent monasteries in Greece and Sinai,
most recently the historic Red Sea hermitage
of Hamman Mousa (Springs of Moses), where
the Hebrew people camped during the Exodus
after the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea.
What do we lose?
We lose the peace of our soul.
Within us we don’t have happiness, peace. A difficult, bitter condition takes their place. … But
when we do the will of God, we
are peaceful; we have much love
inside us, hope, and also a happiness which is real, heavenly happiness. This is what we must focus
on above all.
Then what can we do when a
bad thought just won’t go away
– returns persistently, like a fly?
We repeat the Prayer. We have
that great weapon for our use, the
Prayer of the Lord: Lord Jesus
Christ, have mercy on me.
And if they still persist…?
… We still insist. With the
Prayer. …We will not desist.
LIVES
In the monastic environment,
we get relief in this matter by
confessing
distressing
thoughts.
That is good outside the
monastery too.
We are frequently cautioned
in the monastery not to believe
all our thoughts, to “keep a
doubt.”
OF THE
We’ll fight jealousy another
way. You can easily cry with the
misfortune of another, but as the
holy Chrysostomos says, it is
more difficult to rejoice in his
good fortune. We will try to make
the other’s happiness our own – by
saying, “He is my brother, therefore this good fortune is mine as
well. If they honor him, they
honor me.” We make his happiness our own happiness. In this
way jealousy departs. Whereas if
we say, “Why are they honoring
him more than me?” that is a bad,
a jealous, thought.
It requires force, struggle, to
rejoice with those rejoicing, even
though, as the holy Chrysostomos
says, easily you make his sorrow
your own and cry together with
him.
Hopelessness? Thoughts of
despair attack at times. ...
That is absolutely the worst
thing. There is nothing worse. It is
the greatest sin. We Christians
who are faithful and want to imitate our Christ in His life, must
never – not only never open the
door to hopelessness, but not even
touch the door to hopelessness!
All evil begins there. A great evil.
We must never despair – God will
be there for us. Hope is what holds
us in life.
The Apostle Peter denied Christ.
But he repented. He didn’t despair.
Judas himself didn’t do something
worse; he betrayed Christ, from
avarice. But he despaired and
went and hung himself. He didn’t
grasp onto hope. If he had reached
for hope, Christ would have forgiven him for what he did.
Whereas in the case of Peter, who
returned holding on to hope,
Christ honored him and restored to
him all his former apostolic state.
We must bear these things in
mind always. ...
SAINTS
Demetrios the Neomartyr – April 14
The rugged Peloponnesus Mountains, with a
terrain barren for human sustenance, has been
occupied for centuries by Greeks even more
rugged than their surroundings. The paucity of
arable soil allowed for a scant population, most of
whom lived in tiny villages such as Ligoudista and
Arkadia, the home of Demetrios the Neomartyr.
The uninviting terrain discouraged the less
hardy from settlement in this area, but because of
the proximity of Demetrios' village to the city of
Tripolis, the conquering Turks had by the early
19th century firmly controlled the area, choosing
not to pursue the Greeks who took to the remote
regions of the mountains.
Demetrios grew up in the village where more
than three centuries of Turkish domination had
developed a society divided in religion but forced
to live together for the common good in an
atmosphere that was a scant quarter-century
away from revolution in the childhood days of a
man who was to become a martyr for Christ, not
out of circumstance but out of choice. He was
another of the uninitiated and untrained who
were mediocrities until called upon to show their
devotion to Jesus Christ.
Apprenticed to a Turkish contractor, Demetrios
was still a teenager toiling for a meager subsistence when he came to a fork in the road of his
life, at which point he made an unfortunate
choice. Born and bred a Christian, the naïve youth
was beguiled by his Muslim employer into a dis-
avowal of Christ with the assurance that his conversion to Islam was his only hope for the good life
reserved only for those whose ranks he joined.
Thus brainwashed, the lad remained in good
stead with the ruling class, satisfied to be a Muslim
so long as he really meant to offend no one. He
even accepted the name of Mehmet as a token of
his good intentions.
Demetrios was not long in finding out that the
road to hell was paved with good intentions.
Screened from his Christian friends, he was one
day reached by his overwrought father who managed to draw the boy away from the miasma that
clouded his thinking and was drawn into the clear
sunlight of Christianity once again. His several
months of spiritual captivity ended with a loving
father's care which once again unleashed the
erring son's true feeling. He reached out for Jesus
Christ in supplication and prayer for forgiveness,
after which he wept in contrition. Turning his
back on Tripolis, he made his way to Smyrna, from
where he boarded a ship bound for the island of
Chios where he hoped to show his sincere repentance and once again bask in the glory of
Christianity.
At Chios, he was admitted to a monastery in
which he was determined to cleanse himself of his
shameful act, thereafter to serve the Savior with all
his heart. His confessions were heard by sympathetic monks who were deeply moved by the
young man's profound remorse which convinced
them he was qualified to remain among them,
eventually to be tonsured a monk after the proper period of training. Demetrios was convinced
that he could find forgiveness after hearing the
abbot tell him of Peter's denial of Christ, after
which Peter repented and became the sainted
man who preached to the end of his days for the
Savior.
The days at the monastery were filled with
earnest prayer and devotion by Demetrios who
bore himself in a manner of the highest ascetic traditions, but he was troubled by an unfulfilled wish
to commit an act which would completely expiate
his long forgiven act. He felt that the only way to
achieve complete absolution was to return to the
scene of his wrongdoing and there to reassert his
belief in Christ before those who had taken advantage of his foolish innocence. The abbot tried to
dispel this notion by citing the decision of David to
preach the word of God for all his days rather
than sacrifice himself in untimely death.
Demetrios knew in his heart he could not rest
unless he faced the Turks of Tripolis. He returned
to openly avow his devotion to Jesus and for this
he was executed. The remains of this brave lad
who willingly gave his life for Christ on April 14 lie
in St. Demetrios Church in Tripolis, Greece.
(Reprinted with permission from Orthodox
Saints, Vol. 2 by Fr. George Poulos.)
food
Real pizza wine
hits a home run
At the Greek Table
This is a simple salad that I like by
itself, as a side dish or as a condiment.
In the summer we grill quite a bit
and I put it on gyros with plain
yoghurt, in place of tzatziki, or serve
as it a salad with pork
and chicken souvlaki,
or grilled shrimp.
I would also suggest some ovenbaked giant white
beans or Greek fries
Paul Delios to go with this combination of flavors.
Lahanosalata
By BILL DALEY
Chicago Tribune
INGREDIENTS
Salad
1 head of shredded cabbage or 6
cups
1 cup of shredded carrot
1/2 cup of sliced radishes
1/4 cup chopped pickled hot red
peppers
1/4 cup chopped sweet dill pickle
Dressing
4 tablespoons white vinegar
1/4 cup lemon juice
3 tablespoons Greek honey
Salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste
1/4 cup mayonnaise
DIRECTIONS
Mix everything together in a large
bowl and refrigerate for at least one
hour before using.
Paul Delios is the resident chef of
GreekBoston.com.
Creamy Feta Cheese Dressing
Top your salad with creamy
and chunky Feta cheese dressing. It’s all Greek and it’s delicious
minced
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
salt and freshly ground
black pepper
Ingredients
4 ounces feta cheese
4 tablespoons buttermilk (
or 2 tablespoons milk and 2
tablespoons yoghurt)
4 tablespoons sour cream
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
3 teaspoons white wine
vinegar
1/2 teaspoon honey
1 small garlic clove finely
Directions
In a small bowl, mash feta
cheese and buttermilk together
with a fork until mixture
resembles large-curd cottage
cheese. Stir in sour cream,
mayonnaise, vinegar, honey,
garlic and oregano until well
blended. Season to taste with
salt and pepper.
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“Pizza wine” has long been an
euphemism for wines ranging in
quality from average to plonk. But
now the term is taking on a different meaning as an iconic Chicagoarea pizza company introduces its
own House Red and House White.
Woodridge, Ill.-based Home
Run Inn has joined forces with
Stanger Vineyards of California’s
Paso Robles region to market a
non-vintage chardonnay and nonvintage cabernet sauvignon in the
Chicago area. Jewel-Osco is
exclusively selling the wine in 175
of its Illinois stores for about $10
a bottle.
Stanger is owned by Roger
Janakus, who lived in Lemont, Ill.,
in 1977 and tried to make wine
from a single row of grape vines
on the property. This quixotic
quest eventually led him to buy
property in Paso Robles in 2000 to
create his own winery, according
to the vineyards’ Web site.
Janakus was a frequent customer at the Home Run Inn in
Darien, Ill., before moving to
California. He walked into the
restaurant one day in 2007 and
struck up a conversation, recalled
Joe Perrino, Home Run Inn’s chief
executive officer.
“He said, ‘How about making
wines called Vino Perrino?’ That’s
what we did,” Perrino said. The
wine was sold at the inn’s six sitdown locations and proved a success. “In the meantime, Jewel
executives tried the wine and
asked if they could get it into
Jewel. They didn’t want to call it
Vino Perrino so we changed it to
Home Run Inn.”
The wine bottles tell the Home
Run story. The label sports a 1947
photograph of matriarch Mary
Grittani and her son-in-law, Nick
Perrino, Joe’s dad, making pizza
with employees in the kitchen of
the original Home Run Inn in
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Chicago Tribune
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history of the inn and the collaboration with Stanger.
An informal tasting showed
both wines to be simple yet pleasant. These are not wines with real
complexity or power; they are
what they are — food wine, pizza
wine.
The chardonnay was pale yellow with golden highlights and
brilliantly clear. The nose was
classically and unmistakably
chardonnay. The flavor started tart
and ended with a citrusy flash.
There wasn’t as much in-between,
maybe a slight sweet-tart pineapple note. Consider Home Run’s
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There was a touch of ripe berry
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offered fleeting touches of chocolate, leather and earth. A slice of
Home Run’s sausage pizza, the
company’s most popular frozen
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———
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no out-of-state honey, and it is
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obituaries
Death Notices
CRUZ, Bessie B. – Springfield, Mass.
HAMILAKIS, Edward M. – Springfield, Mass.
KYSLOWSKY, Helen A. – Danvers, Mass.
LAKOS, Paul P. – Salem, N.H.
MACHIROS, Angelo S. – Newbury, Mass.
PANARITES, Carol G. – East Syracuse, N.Y.
PSOMIADES, Demetrios J. – Port St. John, Fla.
SCARMOUTSOS, Emanuel P. – Memphis, Tenn.
TOURKANTONIS Sr., Charles N. – Woburn, Mass.
ZAROULIS, Martha G. – Lowell, Mass.
May their memories be eternal
OBITUARY POLICY
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including editing for spelling, grammar and style.
Obituaries are published free of charge.
BESSIE B. CRUZ
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. –
Bessie (Bonatakis) Cruz, 85,
died March 26, 2010. She
was the wife of the late
Salvatore Cruz.
Born in West Virginia, she
was the daughter of the late
Michael and Sophie (Papas)
Bonatakis.
Mrs. Cruz worked as a
seamstress for Gemini Corp.
for 32 years. She was a member of St. George Cathedral in
Springfield.
She is survived by her
brother, Kasti Bonatakis and
his wife Helen of Chicopee; a
sister, Jacqueline Geralis and
her husband George of
Fairfield, Pa.; and many
nieces and nephews.
She also was predeceased
by a son, Victor Malendrakis,
two
brothers,
Harry
Bonatakis
and
John
Bonatakis, and a sister,
Georgia Klinakis.
Funeral services were held
at St George Cathedral, with
burial in Fairview Cemetery.
EDWARD M.
HAMILAKIS
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. –
Edward Hamilakis, 75, of
Springfield died March 31,
2010. He was the husband of
Marika Hamilakis.
Born in Xania, Crete, he was
the son of the late Menelaos and
Eleni Hamilakis.
Mr. Hamilakis was an
employee of Westvaco US
Envelope Co. for 28 years in
Springfield.
He was a member of St.
George Cathedral and the
Minos-Crete Association of
Springfield.
Besides his wife of 50 years,
he is survived by his son,
George Hamilakis and his wife
Argero of Southbury, Conn.; his
daughter, Elaine Duffy and her
husband Jason of Granby,
Conn.; four grandchildren,
Teddy, Christos, Julia and Troy;
two brothers, Aristidi and Basili
Hamilakis of Xania, Crete; two
sisters, Georgia Yioryakakis of
Kolibari, Crete, and Antonia
Fantakis of Springfield; a brother-in-law, Christos Kartakis of
Athens, Greece; and two sistersin-law, Ellie Karantzis of
Pireaus, Greece, and Irini
Hondrakis of Xania, Greece.
Funeral services were held at
St.
George
Cathedral,
Springfield, with burial in Oak
Grove Cemetery, Springfield.
Memorial donations may be
made to the Mercy Hospice, PO
Box 9012, Springfield, MA
01102-9012; to the Sr. Caritas
Cancer Center Patient Services
Fund, 271 Carew St.,
Springfield, MA 01104; or to
the St. George Cathedral
Building Fund, 8 Plainfield St.,
Springfield, MA 01107.
ANGELO MACHIROS
NEWBURY, Mass. – Angelo
S. “Angie” Machiros, 70, of
Newbury died
March 27, 2010,
at home, after a
lengthy illness.
He was the husband of Joyce
(Whitworth)
Machiros.
Born in Peabody, he was the
son of Socrates and Maria
(Malamos) Machiros and was
educated in the Peabody school
system.
He owned Angies Service
Station on Plum Island for several years. He also was a selectman for the town of Newbury
for 21 years, including several
years as chairman.
Besides his wife of 51 years,
he is survived by his son, Gary
Machiros and his wife Leslie of
Rowley; two grandchildren,
Matthew
and
Samuel
Machiros;
three
sisters,
Chrysanthe Machiros of
Newburyport, Helen Owens of
Danvers and Eva Alexis of
Peabody; his sister-in-law,
Judith Ferraro of Salem; six
nephews, Christos Patrinos of
Newburyport, Brian Ferraro of
Salem, Joseph Ferraro of
Germany, Scott Kramnick of
Florida and Lee and Stephan
Alexis of Nevada; and one
niece, Elena Kramnick of New
York.
He was predeceased by a
son, Angelo S. Machiros.
Funeral services were held at
Annunciation
Church,
Newburyport. Burial services
were private.
made to Philoxenia House
“Children’s Play Room Fund,”
c/o Green Orthodox Metropolis
of Boston, 162 Goddard Ave.,
Brookline, MA 02445; or to the
Newbury Fire Department,
Protection Company No. 2,
Three Morgan Ave., Newbury,
MA 01951.
CAROL G. PANARITES
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. –
Carol G. Panarites, 91, of
East Syracuse,
died March 1,
2010. She was
the wife of the
late John G.
Panarites.
She and her
h u s b a n d
owned and operated Cosmo
Restaurant from 1948-1963
and New Cosmo Restaurant
from 1963-1973. She was a
member of St. Sophia’s
Church and its Philoptochos
Society.
She is survived by her
sons, George Panarites of
Geddes, James Panarites and
his
wife
Linda
of
Chittenango, Dean and his
wife Barbara Panarites of
East Syracuse; her daughter,
Katherine and her husband
Benny
LaRocca
of
Liverpool; her brother,
Angelo Scangas of Danville,
Calif.; her sisters, Sally
Ritsos of Peabody, Mass.,
and Joann Mandragouras of
Lynnfield, Mass.; her granddaughters, Alyxandra and
Ava Rose Panarites; her
great-granddaughter, Denise
Lancette; and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were held.
at St. Sophia’s Church, with
burial
in
Morningside
Cemetery.
Memorial donations may
be made to the St. Sophia’s
Elevator Fund.
CHARLES N.
TOURKANTONIS SR.
WOBURN,
Mass.
–
Charles N. Tourkantonis Sr.,
85, of Woburn
died March 5,
2010,
at
Winchester
Hospital. He
was the husband
of
Margaret
T.
“Peggy”
(White)
Tourkantonis.
Born in Somerville, he was
the son of the late Nicholas
and
Vasiliki
(Roka)
Tourkantonis. He graduated
from Somerville Vocational
High School.
Mr. Tourkantonis served
with the US Navy during
World War II. He was awarded medals for the American
Theatre, the Asiatic-Pacific
Theatre and the European
African Middle Eastern
Theatre.
For more than 40 years, he
worked as a truck driver. He
drove for the Swift Co. for 17
years and for a liquor distributor, C. Pappas Co.
He was a member of Local
25 and the Dimosthenes
G r e e k
American
Club
in
Somerville.
Besides his
wife of more than 62 years, he
is survived by his sons,
Robert C. Tourkantonis and
his wife Ioanna of Somerville,
Arthur C. Tourkantonis and
his wife Nancy of Woburn,
and Charles N. Tourkantonis
and his wife Patricia of
Marstons Mills; his grandchildren, Arthur Jr., Jason,
Irene and Chaz Tourkantonis;
and four great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by several sisters and brothers.
at Annunciation of the Virgin
Marcy Church, Woburn, with
burial
in
Woodbrook
Cemetery, Woburn.
made Annunciation of the
Virgin Mary Church, 70
Montvale Ave., Woburn, MA
01801.
HELEN A. KYSLOWSKY
DANVERS, Mass. – Helen
(Argetes) Kyslowsky, 89, died
March
27,
2010, at the
Kaplan Family
Hospice House
in
Danvers,
after a brief illness. She was
the wife of the
late Michael Kyslowsky Sr.
Born in Peabody, she was
the daughter of the late
George and Bessie (Margelis)
Argetes. She was a graduate
of Peabody High School.
She was a realtor for the
Greater Salem Board of
Realtors and also worked for
the social service department
at the Salem Council on
Aging.
She was a member of the
Ladies Philoptochos Society,
the Daughters of Penelope and
the ABC Bridge Club.
She is survived by her sons,
John and his wife Sharon
Kyslowsky of Georgetown,
Texas, Daniel Kyslowsky of
Sanford, Fla., and Michael
Kyslowsky and his wife
Deborah Cobb of Peabody;
seven grandchildren; her
adopted
granddaughter,
Lorena Hamze of Peabody;
eight great-grandchildren; and
many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her
sisters, Mary Geanakos,
Eugena
Malonis,
Tina
Tremblay, Kathryn Vlasuk,
and her brothers, James
Argetes, Charles Argetes and
William Argetes.
at St. Vasilios Church,
Peabody, with burial in Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Peabody.
made to a charity of one’s
choice.
MARTHA ZAROULIS
LOWELL, Mass. – Martha
(Gianaris) Zaroulis, 90, died
March 29, 2010, at Lowell
General Hospital. She was
the wife of the late John K.
Zaroulis.
Born in Lowell, she was
the daughter of the late
Demetrios and Haidula
(Patrakou) Gianaris. She
graduated from Lowell High
School in 1938 and from
Lowell Commerce Business
School in 1940.
Mrs. Zaroulis owned and
operated Sweetland Gardens
Restaurant in Lowell for
more than 24 years. Later,
she worked at Sears and
Kmart.
She was a member of Holy
Trinity Church in Lowell, the
Ladies Philoptochos Society
and the church choir.
She is survived by her son,
James John Zaroulis and his
wife
Claire
Louise
McKenney of Ipswich; her
grandchildren, Leah Lynch
Zaroulis and Aaron John
Zaroulis, both of Ipswich; a
sister-in-law, Helen G. Little
of New Jersey; her friend,
Janet Joyce of North
Tewksbury; and many nieces,
nephews and their families.
She also was predeceased
by a brother, George
Gianaris.
at Holy Trinity Church,
Lowell, with burial in St.
Mary’s
Cemetery,
Tewksbury.
be made to the American
Cancer Society, 9 Riverside
Road, Weston, MA 02493.
EMANUEL P.
SCARMOUTSOS
MEMPHIS,
Tenn.
–
Emanuel “Manny” Peter
Scarmoutsos,
81, died April
4, 2010. He
was the husband
of
G e o r g i a
A v g e r i s
Scarmoutsos.
Born in Corning, N.Y., his
family operated Crystal
Confectionary until 1951. He
attended
Georgetown
University Law School and
graduated in 1957 from
Southern Law University.
Mr. Scarmoutsos served
with the US Marines during
the Korean War and was a
liaison officer for the Greek
battalion while in Korea.
He practiced law in
Memphis for 49 years and
taught business law classes as
an adjunct professor at
Memphis University.
He was a member of
Annunciation Church in
Memphis and the AHEPA
Supreme Council, chairman
of National GOYA, and president of the Memphis Trial
Lawyers and the Tennessee
Bar Association.
He was inducted into the
AHEPA Hall of Fame. He also
authored the
b o o k
Unfrocked
a
n
d
Unashamed,
which featured true courtroom
stories from his professional
career which also displayed
the comic side of his personality.
Besides his wife of 54
years, he is survived by his
son, Peter; daughter, Eve; two
grandsons, Manuel and John;
sisters, Matina Chigounis of
Cherry Hill, N.J., and Katina
Bashakes of Royal Oak,
Mich.; his brother-in-law and
friend, John Avgeris.
He also was predeceased by
a son, Andrew.
at Annunciation Church, with
burial with military honors in
West Tennessee Veterans
Cemetery.
made
to
the Andrew
Scarmoutsos
Scholarship
Fund, c/o Charles Patton,
Attorney at Law, 5100 Poplar
Ave., Suite 2723, Memphis,
TN 38137.
DEMETRIOS J.
PSOMIADES
PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. –
Demetrios John Psomiades,
84, of Port St. John and formerly of Lowell died at the
Wuestoff
Hospital
in
Rockledge. He was the husband of the late Helen
(Daileanes) Psomiades.
Born in Drama, Greece, he
was the son of the late John
Psomiades
and
Koula
(Yalmanides) Psomiades. He
was educated in the Boston
school system.
Mr. Demetrios served in the
military during World War II
and the Korean War. He was
the
recipient
of
the
Occupational
Medal
(Germany).
He worked with Honeywell
and then spent 12 years working at Avco.
Surviving him are his
daughters, Elaine Kyro and
her husband Jonathan of Port
St. John and Joanne Brady
and her husband Joe of
Falmouth, Mass.; nine grandchildren,
J a m e s
Psomiades,
M e l i s s a
Psomiades,
Diane Psomiades, Charles
Brady, Christine Brady, Niki
Kyro, George Kyro, Eleni
Kyro and Jaymi Kyro; four
great-grandchildren; a sister,
Maika Puro of Falmouth,
Mass.; and a brother, Harry
Psomiades of New York; and
many friends.
He also was predeceased by
a son, John Psomiades, and a
sister, Efthemia Psomiades.
at Holy Trinity Church, with
burial in Westlawn Cemetery.
made to St. Katherine Church,
Attn: Fr. Demetri Tsigas, 5965
North
Wickham
Road,
Melbourne, FL 32940.
PAUL P. LAKOS
SALEM, N.H. – Paul P.
Lakos (Apostolakos), 63, of
Salem and formerly of
Lowell, Mass., died March
24, 2010, at Parkland
Medical Center in Derry. He
was the husband of Patty
(Morin) Lakos.
Born in Lowell, he was the
son of the late Peter C. and
Antoinette
(Martakos)
Apostolakos. He graduated
from Lowell High School.
Mr. Lakos served with the
US Army during the
Vietnam War. He was the
recipient of the National
Defense Service Medal, the
Vietnam Service Medal and
the Vietnam Campaign
Medal.
He was an auto broker at
Beacon Chevrolet in Lynn,
Mass., for many years, and
later was self-employed in
property management.
He was a member of the
Walker Rogers Post VFW
662 in Lowell.
Besides his wife of 26
years, he is
survived by
a daughter,
Jessica A.
Nazarian
and her husband Scott of
Hampstead; a sister, Patricia
A. Mahoney and her husband Jack of Westford,
Mass.; a brother, Christos P.
Apostolakos and his wife
Carole of East Falmouth,
Mass.; and two grandchildren, Isabella G. Nazarian
and Alexander S. Nazarian;
and several nieces and
nephews.
at Transfiguration Church,
Lowell, Mass., with burial in
Westlawn Cemetery.
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Valley Hospice House, 36
North Ave., Haverhill, MA
01830.
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Running towards History
IN BRIEF
League protests
sponsorship freeze
Hopkinton and Boston Marathon celebrate 2,500 years
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greece is suspending 40 million euros ($54 million) in state-controlled sponsorship for professional soccer
leagues in response to crowd violence, a move
league officials called blackmail.
General Secretary for Sport Panayiotis
Bitsaxis said the funding will resume once
organizers guarantee a crackdown on unrest.
Fans fought at three league matches March 28,
and hundreds clashed on the field and outside
the stadium before a Greek Cup semifinal
recently in the northern town of Kavala. In
March, a steward at a game between league leaders Panathinaikos and Olympiakos was mutilated when a flare exploded in her hands.
Greece’s OPAP betting monopoly, in which
the state holds a minority stake, has sponsorship
deals with the league and the football federation.
“OPAP has no reason to advertise itself
through a violent and utterly vile product,”
Bitsaxis said. He described soccer as dominated
by “the law of the jungle, violence and fanaticism.”
The government has banned fans from traveling to away matches, threatened to close stadiums that don’t meet security standards and pressured the soccer federation to relegate or ban
clubs that fail to control their fans.
The Super league said Bitsaxis’ “irregular”
decision amounted to “financial blackmail,” and
urged him to reconsider.
Bitsaxis said Greece’s national team still will
receive OPAP sponsorship funds.
Panathinaikos wins
3-0 at Atromitos
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Goals from Dimitris
Salpingidis, Djibril Cisse and Sebastian Leto
gave Panathinaikos a 3-0 win at Atromitos in the
Greek league on March 28.
Salpingidis scored in the 18th minute from a
rebound after a free kick by Cisse was saved by
goalkeeper Chrisostomos Michailidis.
Giorgos Karagounis was fouled in the box in
the 74th, and Cisse converted the penalty for his
league-leading 22nd goal of the season.
Leto scored from a close-range shot in the
87th.
With two rounds left, Panathinaikos leads with
64 points, six ahead of Olympiakos.
Also on March 28, it was: Olympiakos 0,
Xanthi 0; Larissa 2, PAOK 1; Iraklis 2,
Giannena 0; AEK 1, Panionios 1; Aris 1,
Levadiakos 0; Asteras 3, Panthrakikos 1 and
Kavala 1, Ergotelis 3.
For freedom, Sons of Greece,
Freedom for country, children
wives,
Freedom for worship, for our
fathers’ graves
Aeschylus,
SPORTS
who was there,
UPDATE says the Greeks
shouted the above
words as they
charged
the
Persians at the
Battle
of
Marathon in 490
BC. According to
Nick Tsiotos legend, a soldiermessenger named
Pheidippides carried the news
from Marathon to Athens:
“Nenikikamen” (“We are victorious”). Pheidippides then collapsed
and died in the agora.
Tim Kilduff , president of the
Hopkinton Athletic Association,
understands the importance of the
battle: “The Greeks saved western
civilization, and if there were no
battle, there would be no
marathon.”
Kilduff, along with Marathon
Mayor Spyros Zagaris and Dimitri
Kyriakides, the son of 1946
Boston
Marathon
winner
Stylianos Kyriakides, want a
worldwide celebration of the battle’s 2,500-year anniversary.
Last November Kilduff hopped
on a plane to Greece and spoke to
50 race directors. Since his return
he has contacted many North
American race directors. He also
invited 71 marathon runners from
Greece to this year’s Boston
Marathon.
“I understood marathoning
intellectually, but it wasn’t until
2007 when I stepped on the
ground in Marathon, Greece, that I
got an emotional connection,” he
said. “I can’t explain why, I felt
that I had been there before. It all
made sense to me.”
Kilduff has the support of Guy
Morse, executive director of the
Boston Athletic Association,
Dimitri Kyriakides, son of 1946 Boston
Marathon winner, Tim Kilduff of Hopkinton,
Mass., Thomas Countryman, deputy chief of
mission, US Embassy, and Marathon Mayor
Zagaras in Greece.
sister-city relationship. Identical statues of Kyriakides
and Spiros Louis,
the first Modern
Olympic marathon
Tim Kilduff, founder of the Hopkinton winner in 1896,
Athletic Association and former Boston were unveiled sevMarathon race director, stands beside a eral years ago in
marker at the start of the Athens Marathon
and
Classic Marathon in Marathon, Greece. Hopkinton.
A
Marathon
which organizes the Boston flame was also established in 2007
Marathon. Greek Consulate on the eve of the Athens Classic
General Constantinos Orphanides Marathon and brought to Xiamen,
has also given his support.
China, in 2008 and then to
In January 2010 Kyriakides and Hopkinton.
Mayor Zagaris attended China’s
Hopkinton has also launched a
Xiamen International Marathon to Marathon Reading Program that
promote the 2,500-year anniver- encourages every citizen to read.
sary.
Elementary school-age children
Mayor Zagaris and Dimitri through senior citizens are reading
Kyriakides are bringing four 2,500 hours to celebrate the
wreaths made of olive branches 2,500th anniversary of the Battle
from trees at the grounds of the of Marathon. The library kicked of
tombs of the Athenian heroes. The the Hopkinton Reading Marathon
wreaths will be dipped in molten with its signature book, Running
gold and given to Consulate with Pheidippides, which details
General Orphanides, who will the life of legendary Greek Boston
then present them to Boston Marathon winner Stylianos
Athletic Association President Kyriakides.
Tom Grilk. For the first time the
“Reading this book cemented
winners of the Boston Marathon for me the spirit of the Hellenic
will be crowned with these world,” said Kilduff.
wreaths.
The energetic Kilduff will welHopkinton and Marathon have a come the 71 runners to Hopkinton
next week and has worked with
Guy Morse to get a number for
every runner. The hospitable residents of Hopkinton have opened
their homes for the runners. The
Girl Scouts of Hopkinton will host
the 71 marathoners at the State
House. State Sens. Steve
Panagiotakos, Bruce Tarr and
Karen Spilka will honor the visitors.
Kilduff is working closely with
the Boston Marathon 2010 and is
planning a gala celebration of the
battle’s anniversary and an exhibit
at the John Hancock.
Mayor Zagaris and his wife,
Dina, are promoting the Battle of
Marathon in Hellas. Mayor
Zagaris is planning several events
leading up to the Athens Classic
Marathon on October 31. A record
number of more than 15,000 runners have signed up to run.
“The Marathon is unique,” said
Philhellene Kilduff. “Just like the
battle you need strategy, pure passion, planning, training and implementation.”
Associate Sports Editor Nick
Tsiotos is a co-author of “Harry
Agganis: The Golden Greek” and
“Running with Pheidippides:
Stylianos Kyriakides, the Miracle
Marathoner.”
Team reaches Greek Cup final
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Panathinaikos
reached the final of the Greek Cup after drawing 0-0 at Giannena in the second leg of their
last-four match on April 7.
The Athens club clinched a 3-1 aggregate
victory and will play Aris Thessaloniki in the
final on April 24 as it bids to win the cup for
the first time since 2004.
Panathinaikos remains on course for the
domestic double – it needs just one point from
its two remaining games to win the league.
Aris has not won the Greek Cup since 1970.
Four hurt in clashes at Greek Cup match
KAVALA, Greece (AP) – Police say four
people have been injured and eight arrested
after clashes between Kavala and Aris fans
before a Greek Cup semifinal.
Hundreds of supporters clashed on the field
and outside the stadium before the March 25
game in Kavala.
Aris held Kavala to a 1-1 tie to win 4-2 on
aggregate and advance to the April 24 final
against either Giannena or Panathinaikos.
American Eddie Johnson played the final six
minutes of the game but missed a chance to
score for Aris in the 86th minute.
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Cultural Evening
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Joining us will be the Mayor of Marathon, The Honorable Spyros Zagaris and Marathon Runners from Greece.
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010 – 12:30– 4:00 PM
Greek Independence Day Commemoration
Massachusetts State House
House of Representative’s Chamber
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Harvard University
"The New Acropolis Museum: Its Exhibits and Architecture"
10 Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Lecture by Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis, Director of The New Acropolis Museum.
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 – 6:30 PM
Carver Ballroom, Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart Street, Boston
Boston Greek Independence Day Parade Annual Dinner Gala
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THE HELLENIC VOICE
Stories from
‘Stones’
Plays
to a population exchange that forced
the ethnic Greeks who had not
already fled from central Anatolia
and Pontus and Muslims from
Greece.
Much has been researched and
written on these topics, but
Papademetriou’s area of research,
funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, is the period just
prior to the “rupture” of the Greek
Christian culture in Turkey.
“It’s about life under Turkish
occupation,” he says. “But in some
villages there were friendships,
respect – especially in Cappadocia.
... It doesn’t mean it was all harmonious – we’re not trying to be politically correct – but there’s an understanding that they do have to live
together.”
This comes through in the oral
histories of the people, as told by the
actors in “Stones From God.”
“There are always moments of
challenge when larger political
things impinge on life locally,” he
said, “for example when Christians
ask permission to build a church or
use fireworks and guns on Easter. In
one instance, when the Greek
Orthodox try to use the same stones
from ruins, the Armenians challenge
them in court claiming it was one of
their buildings. The case ends up in
Istanbul and the Sultan sides with
the Greeks.”
Mostly the play captures a sense
of normal life.
“They know about the tensions
and conflict elsewhere,” said
Papademetriou, “but in their areas
they still feel secure and want what
families everywhere want.”
Chamber theater style
The play is written for chamber
theater, a style that takes texts that
have not been written for stage and
turns them into dramatic dialogue,
said Hendrick, who received her
Master of Fine Arts in directing at
Northwestern University, where the
style was developed.
In selecting material for the
script, Hendrick said she was looking for interesting anecdotes, told by
people whose personalities came
through, and for stories that could
translate into physical action on
Here are some of the stories portrayed
in “Stones From God.”
Theologos
A man named Theologos, from the village of Agirnas, recounts his wedding
day, when his bride and her father were
blocked from leaving their village by
some Turkish men until they paid a bribe.
At the wedding, the Christians decide
they will not let that stand. The bishop
talks to the Turkish mayor, who then
forces the men to pay back the money
and ask forgiveness.
Papa Chrysantos
Thomas Papademetriou, professor of history at Stockton
College, explores the interior
of the Church of the Holy
Trinity in Androniki-Endürlük,
Turkey.
The dome of Taxiarches Monastery in Darsiyak, Turkey.
stage. The stories range in length
from a minute and a half to 10 minutes. The play runs 90 minutes total.
Hendrick said the lives of the
characters made a deep impression
on her.
“The richness of their spiritual
life permeated every aspect of their
existence,” she said. “Ritual imbued
everything they did … and everything was sacred to them – the water
was guarded by one saint, a hillside
by another. … Each day they prayed
for their daily needs, especially for
rain in that area.”
The biggest challenge for the
eight actors, age 18 to 24, is in
changing characters and stories so
quickly, Hendrick said.
The people whose stories are told
came from several villages in the
Cappadocia
region,
where
Papademetriou has visited a couple
dozen times. He has been inside
some of the churches the Greek villagers left behind when they were
uprooted. Many have fallen into
ruin; others have been turned into a
prison, movie theater or warehouse.
The best preserved are now
mosques.
This summer, Papademetriou will
host an international symposium
sponsored by the AFGLCInterdisciplinary Center for Hellenic
Studies at Stockton College for art
historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, archivists in the field of
post-Byzantine/Ottoman (14531923) period studies. About 20
scholars and a dozen students will
gather at a hotel on Halki Island, site
of the now shuttered theological
school. The play will be performed
for an expected audience of about
50 people, including expatriots living there. Papademetriou is looking
for a second venue in Istanbul as
well as more sponsors.
Tom Papademetriou and his wife,
Dorrie, have two sons, George and
Roman. He is the son of the Rev. Dr.
George Papademetriou, professor
and librarian at Hellenic College/
Holy Cross, and Presbytera
Athanasia Papademetriou.
In another village, the groom and his
entourage go to a Turkish barber
(because the Christian barber is sick) for
a traditional shaving ceremony. The barber, looking through a door, notices the
Greek women and later tells his Turkish
friends how beautiful they were. When
the priest, Papa Chrysanthos, learns that
the women’s virtue has been compromised he orders all the women to be covered and the men to boycott the Turkish
barber. The barber, realizing he has lost
customers, goes to the priest and begs
forgiveness. The priest tells him to buy 80
jars of oil and give it to the church. And he
did it.
Darsiyak village
People in the village of Darsiyak tell the
legendary story of the building of the
Taxiarche Monastery in honor of the Holy
Archangels. They plan to build down by
the river, but each night the tools, boards
and stones are moved to the top of a hill.
The villagers decide that the Archangel
Michael has moved them to where he
wants the monastery built. While digging
the foundation there the people uncover a
fiery red stone, which some believe came
from God, and use it in the monastery.
(Note: After the 1924 “population
exchange,” the mayor knocked down the
dome and no one knows if the red stone
lies under the rubble.)
Help of St. George
A mother and son get lost while on a
walk and climb a hill in hopes of seeing
their village. As it starts to get dark, the
son says, “St. George will help us,” but
the mother dismisses his faith as superstition. A man on a horse rides by and
tells them to follow a stream and it will
lead them to their village. The son thanks
St. George but the mother laughs. That
night she dreams she is being squeezed
between two rocks and St. George rescues her and then asks her, “Why are you
making fun of me?” The next day the
mother goes to a church to pray at the
icon of St. George.

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