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Message from the President Hellenic Women’S Club, Inc., EOK Greetings, Officers 2017-2018 I Am Pleased to Send You the Fifth Felicia Kiehm The Newsletter of The Hellenic Women’s Club, Inc., EOK Spring 2017 Message from the President Hellenic Women’s Club, Inc., EOK Greetings, Officers 2017-2018 I am pleased to send you the fifth Felicia Kiehm ................................President annual Hellenic Women’s Club, Dorothy Sophocles ........................ Vice President Janice Panagako ............................. Treasurer EOK newsletter. It has been a busy Stacey Tsairis Kacoyanis ................ Assistant Treasurer year for the EOK as it continues Eva Markos......................Corresponding Secretary its fundraising efforts. To better Despina Koules Anton................. Recording Secretary communicate our exciting fundraising Stephanie C. Andrews** .....................Budget Chair Kathleen Hamilton .......................Charity Review events, scholarship opportunities and Pamela Lazares* ..........................Demetra Fund news, we recently launched our Facebook page and Bobi Koukounaris-Lelon ..................Scholarship Fund updated our website. Please visit www.facebook.com/ Heidi Tourkistas ...................... Sustaining Sponsor HellenicWomensClubIncEOK as well as our website Members www.hellenicwomensclub.org for updated information. Joan Aliapoulios* Daphne Georas Meredith Through your continued support and generosity, Renee Argyris Andrea Argeros Mihos Christa Ayoub Jamie Monovoukas the Hellenic Women’s Club has distributed over Jean Canellos* Elaine Pantazopoulos $2,000,000, in the last seventeen years alone, to many Carolyn DelGizzi Athena Papas* worthy charities from Boston to across the Atlantic. Patricia L. Dukakis* Mary Papastavros This past fall, we were very pleased to donate $5,000 to Yiota Katsarakes Mary Lynn Pergantis* Christine Kondoleon Julie A. Pernokas the Ionian Village Rebuilding Fund that was established Jane P. Kourtis Allys Spilios to rebuild the campsite that suffered heavy damage Tamara Lingos Jennifer Trakas-Acerra from a tornado that hit the area in Greece in September. Tania Lingos-Webb Diane Speare Triant* Jackie Gigantes McCabe Zacharie Haseotes Vinios This edition of INK, has articles that we hope you will find interesting including a spotlight on the famed Associate Members marathon runner from Greece, Stylianos Kyriakides Olga Bassett Alexis Lelon* who won in the Boston Marathon in 1946, the year of Maria Behrakis Valentine Mason* the EOK’s first Mistletoe Ball. Crystal Condakes* Joanne Nikitas You should have received a colorful invitation to Angelyn Konugres Coupounas Maria Karagianis O’Neill Louise Damascus* Connie Papageorge* BLOOMING PINK, a fashion show to benefit the Harriet Kotsilimbas Davis Maria Papageorge Demetra Fund for Breast Cancer Research and Patient Carolyn Pappas Diamandis* Thalia Papageorgiou Assistance. This evening of couture and cocktails on Carol Drake* Mary Philopoulos* Wednesday May 3rd will be held at Bloomingdales, Constance Georgaklis* Cathy Papoulias Sakellaris Chestnut Hill. We hope that you will also find time to Mary Gomatos Matia Sculos* attend and enjoy the warmth of this special community. Sandra Gomatos Janis Otis Semine Linda Hasiotis* Diana Tsomides Please accept our heartfelt thank you for all that you Katherine Karagianis* Alexis Hasiotis Wintersteen have done to help the Hellenic Women’s Club EOK Liz Karagianis Clotilde Zannetos continue to support an array of worthy efforts. Thank *Former President you and happy reading! Felicia Kiehm THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF INK President, Hellenic Women’s Club, Inc., EOK Stephanie Andrews, Jane Kourtis, Pamela Lazares, Mary Lynn Pergantis, Diane Speare Triant 179948 HWC Ink.indd 1 3/21/17 11:19 AM Through the Past Supporting Our Faith During the club’s early years in in Boston’s flagship Greek Orthodox the late 1930s and 1940s, EOK Cathedral of the Annunciation. members devoted their efforts to the When St. Nicholas Church at the Greek War Relief in support of a World Trade Center was destroyed motherland ravaged by WWII and on 9/11, the ladies of the EOK were the ensuing civil war. But their Greek among the first to donate towards Orthodox faith was never far from to receive a 1980s letter of thanks its reconstruction at ground zero. their thoughts. In the late 1940s, – mailed from Turkey to the club The Hellenic Women’s Club has they proudly sponsored a reception president – from His All Holiness also been pleased to participate in at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios. for Archbishop Athenagoras of the several Boston Metropolis projects Americas. He would soon be elected As the millennium turned, HC/ during the ministry of His Eminence Ecumenical Patriarch, to be notably HC completed construction of a Metropolitan Methodios. Close to flown to Constantinople in President handsome library to be named his heart is Philoxenia House, which Harry Truman’s airplane! in honor of Archbishop Iakovos. offers hospitality and lodging to The Hellenic Women’s Club voted Greek patients and families who a major monetary gift during the come to Boston for treatment. Club library’s fundraising drive, and members adopted a “bedroom” members were invited to inspect there, personally selecting and the magnificent new edifice. Inside, overseeing its furnishing of bed they admired liturgical objects from linens, towels, curtains, rugs, and the archbishop’s personal effects, other items. In addition, EOKers on permanent display as part of the have delivered Christmas sundries Archbishop Iakovos Collection. during many a holiday season to Philoxenia House residents. And in a recent Major Gift to the St. Methodios Faith By 1961, thoughts turned to Hellenic and Heritage College/Holy Cross (HC/HC), and Center in New the club was pleased to offer its first Hampshire, the scholarship to a theological student. club provided An unbroken line of recipients has the twelve-foot followed, stretching for 56 year to the mosaic cross for present day. In the 1970s, with EOK the fireplace wall president Ellie Bounakes looking on, Support for the Greek Orthodox of the Retreat Archbishop Iakovos of the Americas faith gave rise to other initiatives Center. as well. These included outreach to personally awarded the scholarships. His Eminence, in turn, has college students through donations honored the EOK by his presence HC/HC was also the recipient of to the National Orthodox Campus at the annual Mistletoe Ball. In other Major Gifts from the club: Ministry; financial support towards 2016, he offered the evening’s rebuilding the Greek Annunciation blessings to the guests gathered to Church in Newburyport after celebrate a remarkable milestone it was demolished by fire; and of philanthropy and service: the underwriting the restoration and Hellenic Women’s Club’s 80th cleaning of the massive chandeliers anniversary. student computers, a Dean’s Chair, and monies for chapel repairs. In recognition of four decades of philanthropy both in the U.S. and in Greece, EOK members were honored Ink Page 2 • The Newsletter of the Hellenic Women’s Club Inc., EOK [email protected] • www.hellenicwomensclub.org 179948 HWC Ink.indd 2 3/21/17 11:19 AM EOK’s Steadfast Philanthropy to its Hellenic Roots Marathon. For the first 24 miles, he ran neck and neck with the renowned two-time Boston marathoner champion Johnny Kelley. But at Kenmore Square, with less than two miles left in the race, Kyriakides, drawing on his sense of purpose, sprinted ahead and won, calling out “For Greece!” as he crossed the finish line. Following this tremendous victory, with his new-found fame, Kyriakides traveled across New England to plead for assistance for his country. It cannot be a coincidence that the Hellenic Women’s Club, already active in the Greek War Relief effort, undertook a new initiative that same year. That fall, on a Saturday evening in November of 1946, the Hellenic Women’s Club held its first dinner dance fundraiser at True to its mission, the Hellenic Women’s Club has the Hotel Vendome in Boston, the proceeds of which generously provided aid to the country of its origin, were to be donated to the Greek War Relief effort. not only in the early years of the organization, during Over time this dinner dance evolved into the annual the Greek War Relief effort, but also to the present day, “Mistletoe Ball,” which continues today, and is the during Greece’s economic and refugee crises. In 2016, major fundraising vehicle of the EOK. EOK donated $10,000 through its Major Gift Fund, to International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) in support of Project Greek Economic Crisis and Project Greek Refugee Aid. Mission Statement Founded in 1936 in Boston, the Hellenic Women’s Club, Inc., Through the years, the Hellenic Women’s Club has also known as Epsilon Omicron Kappa, promotes fellowship proudly offered its steadfast philanthropy to the people among its members and engages in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Limited to a membership of forty-five and meeting of Greece in their times of need. Shortly after the monthly, EOK is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) founding of EOK in 1936, the devastation of World War organization characterized by a close, hard-working group of II began. By 1946, World War II had ended, but had uniquely dedicated women who offer their talents, energies and left the small but proud and valiant country of Greece spirit to the mission of charity. impoverished, in famine, and in the grips of a civil war. For more than eight decades, the Hellenic Women’s Club The women of the EOK responded, wrapping bandages activities have embodied the values of selflessness and for Greek soldiers and collecting warm bedding and achievement for the benefit of others. Made possible through the generous and continued support of its patrons, the Club clothing to send to the war orphans. sponsors two major charitable events each year: the Mistletoe Ball in November and a benefit in the spring. These fundraisers The Greek War Relief effort was catapulted into the enable the Hellenic Women’s Club to support a variety of spotlight with an unlikely, and little known victory, worthy causes. in the 1946 Boston Marathon. A 36-year-old long- distance runner from Greece, Stylianos Kyriakides, won the Boston Marathon.
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