S INSIDE: Please See Bringing the news W Our Annual to generations of E Easter Insert The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A WEEKLY GREEK-AMERICAN PUBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 16, ISSUE 812 May 4-10, 2013 $1.50 Astoria St. Constantine Maroulis Demetrios Dazzles in Broadway Priest: on Musical Jekyll & Hyde

Pascha By Penelope Karageorge “It is fun to be Hyde,” Maroulis Special to The National Herald admits. “I think everyone has that fantasy within themselves Father Nektarios Constantine Maroulis rocked – to be able to break out from TV’s American Idol in 2005, our shell, to discover of all of Papazafiropoulos turning us on with his person - this power and drive and pas - ality, his singing, and the look: sion.” Explains Holy Week lowing curly locks that en - Maroulis, 37, determined in hanced rather than detracted childhood to make his career on TNH Staff from his sinuous masculinity. the stage. He attributes a great This Greek-American star had deal of his success to his older ASTORIA – Orthodoxy is not arrived. After winning a Tony brother Athan, a recording part of typical daily life in Amer - nomination for leading actor in artist, record producer and role ica, and Pascha is not in the air a musical in Rock of Ages, he is model. The other big boost this week as it is in Greece – conquering Broadway again came from American Idol where though there are moments in with the lead roles in Jekyll & he placed sixth and made a dra - Astoria when one can feel it. Hyde, a darkly thrilling musical matic impression. Archimandrite Fr. Nektarios Pa - drama that probes the mystery “American Idol was my MFA pazafiropoulos has been the of good and evil. “Maroulis’ per - program, like graduate studies Dean of St. Demetrios Cathedral formance is a triumph of verbal in life, in the arts. What a won - since last August, and he grew pyrotechnics,” Entertainment derful experience! Before it hap - up in the world’s most famous Weekly praised. The part has al - pened, I had graduated from the Greek Neighborhood. He spoke ready earned him a Drama Boston Conservatory. Then I was to TNH about Holy Week and League nomination for distin - off to Williamstown Theatre Fes - Pascha in America. guished performer. tival and toured in a production “Holy Week does become the As the constrained Dr. Jekyll, of Rent. I had built my credits main focus of the community, Maroulis moves through Lon - up, and I had a lot of experi - but not necessarily of people’s A Patriarch’s Paschal Pilgrimmage don fog in bowler hat, his hair ence, but not with the kind of lives. Holy Week is an opportu - pulled tightly back. As Hyde, fan base that Idol brings. Imag - nity for priests to deepen and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew takes a poignant stroll during Holy Week through the fields Maroulis struts, leaps, flings that ine some of those young kids strengthen the congregation’s of the island of Imbros, his beloved birthplace, where ethnic cleansing by Turkey has reduced trademark hair and hits the glo - experience of Orthodoxy.” the Greek Orthodox population to from 7000 in the 1960s to 200 people today. rious high notes with aplomb. Continued on page 10 The dense schedule of ser - vices and fasting intensifies spir - itual life for clergy and laity. “All those things remind priests that our purpose is spiritual, that in New Wave of Greeks Flock to Astoria the midst of the administrative work, we must not forget that we are here for the spiritual ful - By Kristina Bogos Danae Vasiliadou immi - dent visas. fillment of our parishioners.” N.Y. Daily News grated to Queens from Thessa - “Now, it’s mainly profession - He said, “Holy Week is the loniki just three months ago. als. Either they are doctors, pinnacle of the year’s ecclesias - Dimitris Pinos has been the While she struggled to find a teachers, people who have some tical celebrations. It brings our manager of Mediterranean job, she found solace within As - kind of degree already in purpose as priests into focus and Foods, a Greek supermarket in toria’s Greek community. Greece,” Alexiou said. “Here reminds all of us why Christ Astoria, Queens, N.Y. for 33 “It doesn’t really feel like I (immigrants) are willing to take came, to die for our sins and by years. In recent months, about moved to the States. It’s like I any job to support their family that means, to save us, if we 10 Greek immigrants come into moved to a village in Greece,” and themselves.” chose… if we want to be saved.” the store every day asking for said Vasiliadou, 25. “Everybody Others, like George Hat - He agreed that Holy Week job applications, Pinos said. is Greek, the places are Greek.” zopoulos, 22, from the suburbs “removes us from our daily rou - “Everyday I see new people With the economic crisis of Athens, moved to Astoria tine and focuses our attention coming, which is a surprising deepening, about 5,000 Greeks three years ago to live with his on the Church and creates more thing for us,” Pinos told the New fled their homeland for Astoria grandparents and attend college times for prayer…People who York Daily News. in the past year, compared to in the U.S. He is a part-time stu - don’t fast throughout the year Astoria is once again living about 2,000 a year in the previ - dent at Queensborough Com - are making an effort to fast dur - up to its reputation as a home ous half decade, according to munity College, juggles two jobs ing Holy Week.” away from home for Greeks as Nicholas Alexiou, professor of and interns at a music studio in “It is our responsibility to it embraces a new influx of im - sociology at Queens College. Long Island City. take that time that we have with migrants fleeing economic tur - Alexiou has studied Greek im - “I’ve been doing things I them, to reach out and make moil in the Mediterranean coun - migration to Astoria for over 20. could never possibly think to do them realize it should be a long try. But the new emigres also Many are under the Visa in Greece,” Hatzopoulos said re - term commitment, rather than face an uncertain future in the Waiver Program and come to cently while on break at his job a temporary one,” He said. United States as they try to nav - test the waters with a temporary at Oveila restaurant on 30th Ave. TNH/COSTAS BEJ Papazafiropoulos was born in igate complex immigration three-month long visa, while Dimitris Pinos, who has been the manager of Mediterranean the United States and attended rules. others arrive with tourist or stu - 1Continued on page 4 Foods in Astoria for 33 years, seen above with two employees. St. Demetrios’ schools through the eighth grade. He studied electrical engineering at Poly - technic University and earned a master’s degree in engineering Dendias Discusses Security and Golden Dawn Archbishop for communication networks. After working as an engineer to ten years, he earned a master By Eleni Kalogeras “Citizen Security and The Rule tice in an international acade - which are the results of the Demetrios in degree in Theology at St. TNH Staff Writer of Law” at the event sponsored mic setting at CUNY, an institu - Greek crisis. The ministry is re - Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological by the Office of the President of tion with 50,000 students from sponsible for defending the hu - Seminary, while he was work - NEW YORK – During his pre - the College and the Center for all over the world. man right of refugees, minori - Pastoral Visit ing. sentation at the John Jay Col - International Human Rights. A Since 2007, that includes stu - ties, and immigrants and His father is from Pelopon - lege of Criminal Justice, the re - reception followed in the Anya dents from Greece, who partici - fighting against racism, in addi - nesos and his mother grew up ply of Nikos Dendias was and Andrew Shiva Art Gallery. pate in programs with which tion to working for the protec - By Eleni Kalogeras in Athens with roots near Naf - immediate to questions – direct "Respect for human dignity Dendias’ ministry cooperates, tion of the citizen. TNH Staff Writer and indirect – that implied and tolerance of diversity are especially the Center for Secu - Travis introduced political Continued on page 3 Greek police departments are fundamental elements of Greek rity Studies (KEMEA), as was science professor George An - NEW YORK – The attention of sheltering members of the and European culture. We all acknowledged by the minister dreopoulos, the director of the the passersby near the front Golden Dawn Party. owe those principles our re - and Jeremy Travis, John Jay’s college’s Center for Interna - steps of the Church of the Trans - “The Greek government is spect, especially the political President, who introduced and tional Human Rights. He is also figuration in Corona wasn’t obligated to oppose the violent parties and the elected repre - thanked the former for his Professor of Political Science at drawn by the cluster of photog - Greece Gets behavior and activity of extrem - sentatives in Parliament, who speech. the CUNY Graduate Center. raphers, or by the parishioners ist, Neo-Nazi organizations,” the have sworn to obey the Consti - Travis noted the significance Andreopoulos is working inside who were impatiently Minister of Public order and Cit - tution and the laws.” of the visit to the College of a with the Ministry and KEMEA checking the time on their cell Loans, More izen Protection declared, while He seized the attention of the minister with a "Strategic on the College’s conference on phone. They were captivated by also strongly defending the hard audience, many of whom are agenda" in the face of major Security that will take place in the quartet of young children, work of the Greek police. studying human rights, racism, challenges, including budgetary led by little Vasiliki and Dionys - Cuts Ahead Dendias spoke on the topic citizen safety, and criminal jus - constraints and social unrest, 1Continued on page 10 ios, who held a bouquet of flow - ers and were ready to offer them to Archbishop Demetrios of By Andy Dabilis America. TNH Staff Writer Soon the archbishop arrived Archbishop and the children won his notice. ATHENS – The expected ap - His Eminence drew near them proval by Parliament of a multi- and bent down to greet them. bill set of reforms, including the Ieronymos to He appeared to cherish the time firing of 15,000 public workers he drew from his busy schedule over the next two year, has to be with them, thanking them paved the way for release of 8.8 Visit the U.S. for the flowers, asking each one billion euros ($11.62 billion) in her name, and wishing them rescue aid from international chronia polla – many years, and lenders, but at the cost of more By Theodore Kalmoukos Happy Easter. hard reforms. TNH Staff Writer The archbishop was then Labor unions representing welcomed by the Pastor, Father public and private workers ATHENS – Archbishop Ierony - George Anastasiou, and other joined for a May Day protest to mos of Athens and All Greece parish leaders and members, demonstrate against the new was invited to visit the United whom he blessed. He then en - measures but the crowds were States from May 15-21 by Arch - tered the narthex, and like all far less than those who had bishop Demetrios of America. the other faithful, made his of - gathered outside the Parliament It is the first time in more fering and obtained his candle. over the past three years as than 50 years that a Primate of The presence of Demetrios, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras the Church of Greece will visit who was invited to officiate by said he’s moving on to trying to the Greek-American community. Anastasiou at what the Ortho - secure more foreign investment. His Beatitude will begin his dox Church calls the Bride - visit in Boston, MA where the groom Service, was comple - Continued on page 13 Holy Cross Greek Orthodox mented by simplicity and School of Theology will honor directness of parishioners. There him with an honorary degree. were not many, but they were On May 17, he will officiate praying fervently. For subscription: at the Vespers Service at the Earlier in the day, Anastasiou 718.784.5255 Holy Cross chapel and the next explained to TNH that in the [email protected] A Beacon Of Hope For Greeks During Holy Week morning he will officiate at the past the church was always Divine Liturgy and preach to the crowded. How could it be oth - On Holy Tuesday the HRF provided food parcels for 480 families at the Meropeio Philanthropic Theology students. erwise since it is oldest parish Center, including items necessary to celebrate a traditional and proper Pascha. Greek-American Ieronymos will celebrate the in Queens, established in 1926? Kostas Zachariadis, disheartened by the starvation prevalent in his homeland, traveled to his homeland to provide help firsthand. Continued on page 4 Continued on page 4 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 4-11, 2013 Pascha Shopping is Booming between Easters GOINGS ON... n APRIL 11 – JULY 5 n MAY 17 By Demetrios Tsakas and picked up after Palm Sunday but TARPON SPRINGS, FL – The City ASTORIA –The Carnival of Love Constantine S. Sirigos it’s not as brisk as she expected, of Tarpon Springs/Center for Foundation presents the 6th An - TNH Staff Writers “but thank God, the people will Gulf Coast Folklife is proud to nual Carnival of Love® Benefit celebrate Pascha and they host the travelling exhibition for Children with Cancer: AMA - NEW YORK – The proprietors prefers Greek products. " Chrys - Journey Stories at the City of Tar - ZONIA A Sublime Evening in an of the community’s food stores talla, who is from Cyprus, and pon Springs’ Cultural Center Enchanted Forest. Friday, May have been busy helping Greek- her husband was born in from Apr. 11 through Jul. 5. 17 at 9 PM $50 in advance, $60 Americans prepare for “Greek Alexandria, Egypt and was Hours are Monday through Fri - at the door Join us for a night Easter,” but this year’s month- raised in Athens, know well the day, 9 AM to 4 PM. Admission to amidst a spectacular Rainforest long separation between the gamut of Greek cooking tradi - the exhibit is free. Special events complete with themed décor, Easter dates of Eastern and tions and what they require. include Friday, May 31 – Xenitia: costumed performers, live enter - Western Christianity means Chrystalla also said business Journey Songs of the Greek Di - tainment, special musical guests, there were two bursts of activity. is better in years like this when aspora. Local and national mu - tropical animals and delightful Costas and Roula Mastoras, there is a gap between the two sicians and vocalists will take surprises -- including festive ac - the owners of the Greek super - Easters, but he also noted that part. Saturday, Jun. 22 –Journey tivities, snacks and favors market Titan in Astoria, are ex - is generally the case when the Films. We will present, interpret, throughout the night. Ticket in - cited by the second round of wife in mixed marriages is the and discuss films that deal with cludes entry into the Carnival shopping by their Greek cus - Greek partner. locally significant groups. What’s Playground, 1 complimentary tomers this week. Even the Bill Papavgeris, the owner of your journey story? For further drink ticket, party favor, and all weather has been accommodat - the Plaza Meat Market in Agora information, please call Helene activites and Treats Inside. For ing to the Greeks – or is it that Plaza Plaza, said business is bet - MacNeil at 727-942-5605 or information about the Founda - it is not really Spring until Greek ter than last year. “There is no Tina Bucuvalas at 727-937-1130. tion visit www.carnivalof Easter has arrived? comparison,” he said. “This love.org/. Tickets can be pur - Mastoras told TNH that year Easter is on May 5. Spring n MAY 8 chased at http://carnival - Greeks and Cypriots “from has finally arrived and everyone MANHATTAN – A group of lead - oflovebenefit.eventbrite.com. many neighborhoods through - PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ ers of the Hellenic American out the tristate area come to As - Now that Spring has arrived, professional community invite n MAY 30 toria because they know they members of the community you to meet and greet mayoral MANHATTAN – The Officers and can find everything the festive have filled its stores with ea - candidate John Catsimatidis, Directors of The Hellenic Ameri - table requires there. The ger Pascha shoppers at who will share his vision for New can Bankers Association Invite weather is always a key factor Mediterranean Foods (above) York City. Come and learn about you to save the date for our 2013 and this year it is our ally." and Titan Foods (below) in his candidacy and, most impor - Executive of the Year Award Din - He said that "this year we Astoria. Both venues offer tantly, meet him personally on ner In honor of Mr. Brent Call - have brought in many new local quality ingredients as well as Wednesday, May 8, 6:00-7:30 inicos Vice President, Treasurer products such as flomari from fully-cooked and baked items. PM, at the Cathedral of the Holy & Chief Accountant, Google Inc. Lemnos, bottled water from Trinity (319 E 74th St, between Thursday, May 30. 6PM Recep - Epirus, and cheeses from Naxos. The Bakery has his cus - 1st & 2nd Avenues). This is not tion, 7PM Dinner at the Union We want to support the small tomers’ Pascha tsourekia and a Fund Raiser and no funds will League Club of New York at 38 producers of our homeland. I dessert needs covered, and he be solicited. In Order to attend East 37th Street in Manhattan. think this is the best way to help is ready for the Greek wedding you must RSVP. Please do so Greece. There is an abundance season with the magnificent ASAP at: [email protected] n JUNE 2 of goods at last year’s prices.” cakes he has created for ASTORIA – The Athens Square A bit further down 31st decades. n MAY 10 Committee Presents: AN AN - Street under the elevated tracks Steve Frangoulopoulos ASTORIA – The parish of THOLOGY OF GREEK SONG, a of the N and Q subway lines is opened his Athens Market in Archangel Michael of Port Wash - unique sing along concert with one of Astoria’s two Mediter - Bay Ridge two years ago. He ington invites the community to the best selections of Greek mu - ranean Foods stores. It is one of provides all the varieties of them for their annual “GREEK sic and songs that have endured the anchors of Astoria’s Athens meats and cheeses a Greek cook NIGHT OUT” at Ammos of Cen - the test of time from the Asia Mi - Plaza Mini Mall and owner Vas - requires, and his bakery opera - tral in Astoria on Friday, May 10. nor tunes to the musical cre - silis Tentolouris has been in the tion produces spanakopites, There will be live music by Pow - ations of our contemporary com - business of helping Greek tiropites, kourabiedes, and erstation Entertainment and all posers. Featuring Grigoris households with their culinary melomakarona. He also has a proceeds to benefit The Arch- Maninakis and the Mikrokosmos needs since 1974. is ready to roast lamb in their toria is the main place to go for catering service with made to angel Michael Church, the Greek Ensemble and young guests Tentolouris also has a greater front and backyards, so orders delicious Greek food – the fin - order items like pastichio and Language Institute PTA and the artist from the community. Sun - variety of goods this year as he are way up.” ished products at its restaurants moussaka. The coffee he roasts AMC Preschool. Admission: $75 day, June 2, 5:30 PM at the reported to TNH. Asked about the meat and bakeries, and for fresh and and grinds on premises is an - advance reservations; $85 at the Stathakion Cultural Center. All Τhe positive news is that pro - choices of Greek- and Cypriot- high quality raw materials, but other popular item. door. Open bar & food Raffles & proceed will go towards the ducers all over Greece have re - Americans, he said they prefer that is not the only place in New George Skoufis, co-owner of prizes. RSVP by: May 6 by con - funding of the statue of Sopho - sponded to the economic crisis lambs over goats by a three to York where the Pascha table and groceries A & S Deli and Meats tacting: Helen Bapis cles, the newest addition to by reaching out for more export one ratio. He too noted the year round Greek cravings can in Bay Ridge, said business is [email protected], 917-445- Athens Square. For more info call markets. Business at his two “supply and prices are very good be satisfied. much better this year than last 446; Mahi Vasiliades mahikv1@ George Kitsios at 646-263-0773. stores is much better than last this year.” Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neigh - year."We have a lot of orders for aol.com, 917- 295-1970. year and he and his staff are ea - His kokoretsi products satisfy borhood boasts the great Ver - lamb more importantly there is n JUNE 6 ger to serve both their new and all tastes. "Half of our customers razano Bridge and some won - an ample supply of goods. Al - n MAY 11 MANHATTAN – Aktina Produc - their longstanding customers buy the ready-made kokoretsi, derful Greek establishments, though there is a lot of competi - MANHATTAN – The Hellenic tions, celebrating 20 years of ex - with their last-minute holiday the rest buy the ingredients and including the Bay Ridge Bakery. tion we're going very well and I Times Scholarship Fund will cellence, presents Greek Music needs. prepare it according to their tra - John Nikolopoulos has been cre - can say with certainty that we honor Businessman and Philan - Journey 2013, a benefit concert George and Chrystalla Miglis ditional recipes,“ he said. ating everything from Greek spe - will do better than last year. This thropist George Sakellaris, Chair - for Aktina FM featuring Melina the owner of the New Bakaliko PASCHA IS SWEET IN cialties according to traditional year Easter is late, the weather man and CEO of AMERESCO, Aslanidou and bouzouki soloist grocery in Hicksville on Long Is - BROOKLYN, TOO recipes to the latest American will be good and people will be Inc., at its 22nd Anniversary Gala Andreas Karantinis at the Kaye land, pointed out business New Yorkers know that As - and European sweets since 1972. out shopping," he said. at the New York Marriott Mar - Playhouse at Hunter College quis Hotel on Saturday, May 11. (68th Street between Park and A concert will also be headlined Lexington Avenues) on Thurs - by JT Taylor, The Voice formerly day, June 6 at 8 PM. For infor - of Kool & The Gang. Greek music mation contact Aktina: 718-545- will be performed by the band 1151 or nexus at 718-606-9225. ALPHA, who will be joined by Charge your tickets by calling: Greek recording artist Katerina 718-545-1151. Tickets will be Topazi. This year the HTSF is sold exclusively by AKTINA and also going green! In order to will not be available at the The - present more scholarships to ater. Doors open 7:30 PM, Per - worthy students, the HTSF will formance: 8 PM. Tickets: $75, not be sending invitations and $60, $50, $25 & $40 for handi - instead direct guests to purchase capped. tickets on-line at www.htsf.org or by calling 212-986- n JUNE 8 6881.Ticket prices are as follows: FLUSHING – The Pancyprian As - General admission tickets are sociation of New York Presents from $250 per person; Youth The Pancyprian Choir: Music of tickets are $185 (35 and under Hellenes. Saturday, June 8 at if purchased by Apr. 29; $195 7:30 PM. Terrace on the Park, thereafter) and Student Tickets Flushing Meadows, New York. are also available for $155 with For tickets and information call a valid student ID. 917-821-0281.

TARPON SPRINGS, FL - On Sat - n JUNE 15 urday, May 11, from 6-11 PM the FLORAL PARK – The Pancyprian City of Tarpon Springs presents Association, Inc. Dance Division Night in the Islands – a free event – New York, cordially invites you on the Sponge Docks. Enjoy to a Cypriot Night” on Saturday, Greek music, dancing, and din - Jun. 15 at Towers on the Green, ing! An hour of free Greek dance 272-48 Grand Central Parkway lessons will be offered by the in Floral Park. There will be Live Levendia Dance Troupe from 6- Music and Traditional Folk Danc - 7 PM. It will also be offered Sat - ing from our Dance Groups. urdays, Jun. 1, Jul. 13, Aug. 3, Sept. 7, Oct. 5, and Nov. 2. n JUNE 15 (DEADLINE) NEW YORK - Kyrenia Opera is n MAY 12 proud to announce the first an - ASTORIA – The community is nual Cyprus Vocal Scholarship invited to a “Concert Of Solidar - Competition. The organization ity” in support of the Greek Chil - offers a one-time no-fee applica - dren’s Fund: " Τραγούδια της tion until June 15. Visit website Ψυχής...Και του Έρωτα - Time - at www.kyreniaopera.org. less Songs Of the Soul... And Love,” with Grigoris Maninakis n NOTE TO OUR READERS and the Mikrokosmos Ensemble This calendar of events section with Special Guest Vocalist: is a complimentary service to the Makaria Psilliteli-Kazakos. Make Greek American community. All it a special Mother’s day gift for parishes, organizations and in - your mom. The concert is a trib - stitutions are encouraged to e- ute to the mothers and children mail their information regarding of the world. Tickets: $40. 5PM the event 3-4 weeks ahead of at the Chian House, 44-01 time, and no later than Monday Broadway in Astoria. For infor - of the week before the event, to mation call: 718-932-4097 or english.edition@thenationalher - 646-263-0773. ald.com

QUESTION OF THE WEEK Vote on our website! You have the chance to express your opinion on our website on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - lished in our printed edition next week along with the question for that week. The question this week is: Do you think that at least half of the Liturgy in Greek Orthodox Churches in the U.S. should be conducted in Greek? o Yes o No o Maybe The results for last week’s question: Do you think Turkey Will Listen to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Reopen the Halki Seminary? 16 % voted "Yes" 23 % voted "No" 41 % voted "Maybe" Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 4-11, 2013 COMMUNITY 3 Employees are Not given Full Pay for Taking off Orthodox Good Friday

TNH Staff and approached our public offi - suspending alternate side of the cials, this wouldn’t be neces - street parking is suspended. NEW YORK – Despite the sub - sary…this should have come There is at least one online stantial Orthodox Christian pop - from the top a long time ago petition on this matter. Stephany ulation in New York City, public and it affects thousands of Or - Margarones told TNH that when school teachers are not permit - thodox. she learned that Greek Orthodox ted to take Good Friday off with He said about 25 percent of priests on Long Island have con - full pay, as is the case for Roman the teachers at his school are tacted local officials but “they Catholics, and for Jewish citi - Greek Orthodox. got nowhere,” she wanted to do zens who can do so on their hol - The teacher has reached out something about it. When she idays. An Orthodox Christian to local politicians and Costas saw how easy it was to start an teacher of Greek descent Constantinides, a Democratic online petition, she created one brought this matter to TNH’s at - District Leader in Astoria who herself: signon.org/sign/christ - tention. He said he was made a is running for the City Council, ian-children- formal request to take Good Fri - who told TNH he and his col - deserve?source=s.em.mt&r_by day off. In some years it is not leagues “will work for a positive =7658758. The introduction an issue because it corresponds solution.” says “My children must miss to Passover and Holy Week for The teacher told TNH he also their studies every year as I did Western Christians, but this year receives notes from parents that on Good Friday because, our Orthodox Pascha occurs more are upset that although their schools do not recognize it as a than a month later. children are granted excused religious day of observance. I be - The Department of Educa - absences ion Good Friday, they lieve, as an Orthodox Christian, tion accommodates the former are missing valuable school that we deserve a place on the groups through spring break. time. They believe that in New public school calendar.” Their The United Federation of Teach - York City, and especially in target is 2000 signatures and ers (UFT) lists the following on TNH ARCHIVES Queens, where up to 20 percent they had 1314 as of April 26. it website’s school calendar: On Good Friday Evening, Greek Orthodox parishes display their faith to their neighbors through of the population is - the schools Interested parties may con - “Spring Recess (includes Good processions, but despite the area’s substantial Orthodox population, teachers in New York should be closed on Orthodox tact schools chancellor Dennis Friday, Easter and City’s public schools do not receive full pay if they take the day off. Good Friday. Brooklyn also has M. Walcott at Passover)(schools closed, stu - large Greek, Russian and Arab [email protected] dents return to school on approved, but he was later in - He ended up having to use a to 20 percent of the population Orthodox communities. and Michael Mulgrew, Presi - Wednesday, April 3.)” formed that his pay would be personal day, but he felt that may be Orthodox Christians. He He noted that the City of dent, of the United Federation When the teacher formally cut, however, to cover the costs policy “is like a slap in our face.” added “if our community lead - New York acknowledge the sub - of Teachers (UFT) at mmul - applied for the day off, it was of a substitute teacher. In the borough of Queens, up ers and the Church took the lead stantial Orthodox population by [email protected]. Father Nektarios Papazafiropoulos In Astoria, Talks about Holy Week

Continued from page 1 their spiritual needs. In the capacities, and his wife Betsy, United States, people also par - who has been the Asst. Principal paktos. Papazafiropoulos has a ticipate in parish life for social of the school at the sister parish brother that is also studying to and cultural reasons, and the St. Catherine’s, and countless become a priest and a sister that priest best serves his community others. is an accountant. His family by paying attention to all those Since he became Dean, he was always close to the church matters. also took a hands-on approach and he was active in the parish, He added, however, that the to the School’s challenges and but at some point he felt he other areas, especially youth ac - opportunities, including culti - needed to do more. He loves tivities such as sports, present vating the relationship with the helping people to get closer to golden opportunities to reach staff, through special liturgies God and to better know their out to people spiritually as well. for the students, and by teach - faith. Papazafiropoulos obviously ing and speaking to children in After seminary he served as knows the community well and the classroom. a priest for seven years in is proud of its schools and that “It is especially important for Greece and has been to Mount St. Demetrios is a beacon of the pre-schoolers, because it Athos many times. Greek language and culture. He makes them more comfortable He conveyed to TNH that in deeply appreciates the role with and more interested in Greek language and culture and instills the Orthodox Faith in them...It needs to start at a young age… and the families who bring their children appre - ciate the work the work our Father Nektarios Papazafiropoulos distributes the bread that has been blessed in the Service of schools are doing,” he said. the Five Loaves to some of the students of the St. Demetrios Day School. “This year we have had an increase of 60 students coming not reaching out to them in Astoria who would come everyone who is interested in to our lower grades, which is enough,” he said, and he also more often with more English. finding out about our faith. My amazing. It shows there is a lot noted that there are many Papazafiropoulos concluded responsibility as a priest is to of life in our area and they are young Orthodox professionals saying, “I’m here as a priest for reach out to the whole family.” entrusting the children to our schools because they are doing a good job,” he said. Imported from Greece for the First Time! But the parishes of the Arch - diocese are multidimensional. Papazafiropoulos has been telling people that more English must be incorporated into the services. There has been some opposition, but he said the parish council has understood its importance. “In my generation, I know Archimandrite Father Nektarios Papazafiropoulos senses an from seeing friends with their icon during Holy Week at the Cathedral of St. Demetrios in As - families and their children that toria, where he was appointed Dean on August 1. they want more English. The older generations,” even Greece, the priests are more fo - played through the years by those who were fluent in Mod - cused on spiritual and pastoral leaders and benefactors like ern Greek, “did not feel the need matters, church services, confes - Nick Andriotis, who is “very to understand the ancient Greek sions, etc. – although he also hands-on and loves his commu - of the church services. They had administrative responsibili - nity,” and the other parishioners knew why they were there.” ties as an assistant to the bishop “who are doing tremendous But the younger generations, Made from traditional recipes with natural ingredients ONLY: of Kozani. work.” “want to understand what the In America, there are addi - “Those people who are priest is saying.” fruit , sugar and lemon! tional pastoral and administra - putting their time and life into “We have to reach out more. tive elements, like numerous the community deserve to be ac - We have lost big sections of the No preservatives! parish organizations, and work - knowledged,” and he also cited younger generations because of ing with the parish council. the current parish council pres - the language issue, especially He noted that in Greece the ident, Gary Sideris, who has because our children are mar - people go to church to meet served for many years in various rying non-Greeks and we are

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Continued from page 1 Permanent Mission to the meal for His Eminence," Kakat - United Nations, and the con - sos told TNH. She is a sub - He explained, however, that sular harbormaster Nicholas scriber, and she expressed her people "Moving to the suburbs Armpouniotis. wish that the paper "write more deprived the church of parish - In his sermon, Demetrios about the elderly who live in ioners and the school, which, said that on Holy Monday the nursing homes." opened in 1967, of students. Church begins its commemora - One of those institutions, the “We continue our work, how - tion of the passion of Christ, but Archdiocese’s St. Michael’s ever, which is focused on the he emphasized that Christ’s pas - Home for the elderly, will be vis - needs of parishioners and neigh - sion did not begin the Monday ited by the archbishop on Good bors through religious, charita - before his Crucifixion; rather, it Friday as part of his schedule of ble, cultural, and social endeav - began the moment he was born, Holy Week visits. ors,” he said. The latter is which anticipated His Resurrec - focused on the Hispanic com - tion. munity in the area, a contribu - The archbishop also re - tion to the parish’s neighbor - quested the passing of a special hood that has been lauded by collection tray for the benefit of the City of New York. the people of Cyprus and urged Archbishop "And everyone who wants the congregation to be gener - to learn Greek is welcome to at - ous. tend the new charter school At the conclusion of the ser - Ieronymos to which is slated to open in Sep - vice Anastasiou and the parish tember 2014” and which will hosted a dinner in honor of the Visit the U.S. supplement the parish’s after - archbishop. Among those who noon Greek School, which op - were thanked for its preparation erates on Saturdays 10-1 PM. were Voula Ganos, Andrew Continued from page 1 The service was also at - Archbishop Demetrios, standing with Socratis Fourtounis and Aristides Lourdas, receives flowers Dontas, Mary Fafouti, George tended by Lt. Col Panagiotis from children of the parish: Dionysios Lourdas, Vasiliki Kaliontzis, Konstantina Kaliontzis, and Ganos, and Dina Kakatsos. Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral Geroglis, military attaché at the Andrew Giakoumis. "It is our pleasure to offer a in New York on May 19. Later in the evening, a special concert by the Archdiocesan Byzantine Choir and the Archdiocesan Youth Choir will be offered to American Dream: New Greek Immigrants Flocking to Astoria honor Archbishop him. He will visit the Archdioce - san headquarters on May 20 Continued from page 1 and the Schools of St. Demetrios in Astoria. “I can afford to have an apart - Ieronymos and Demetrios ment, I can afford to have a car, will concelebrate the Divine I can afford to pay tuition.” Liturgy on in the Cathedral of Hatzopoulos, a U.S. citizen Sts. Constantine and Helen in who moved to Greece at the age Brooklyn on its feast day, May of 5, was no stranger to finan - 21. The parish is celebrating its cially instability while he was 100th anniversary. there. For the past three years Ieronymos has offered he has been sending money Church land to prospective back home to his immediate farmers during Greece’s ongoing family. economic crisis, and the Church Like Vasiliadou, Hatzopoulos of Greece has also set up soup belongs to a new wave of Greek kitchens to feed the growing immigrants that are fleeing the numbers of homeless and other country because of hard eco - people who cannot afford to nomic times. The first wave ar - feed themselves or their fami - rived in the 1920s, and the sec - lies. ond between 1965 and 1980. And as Greece witnesses a While Greece enjoyed eco - surge in racist attacks, particu - nomic prosperity after joining larly against immigrants, he the European Union in 1981, spoke out. “The church loves all many moved back to their people, including those who are homeland, Alexiou said, but are Dimitris Pinos, the manager of Mediterranean Foods for 33 businesses before they migrate, while others get themselves to black, white or non-Christians,” now returning to Astoria hoping years, seen above with two employees. Some people call Greek Astoria, first, which is still a beacon of hope. he said, adding that, “The for a better future. Church has its path to follow Some Greeks are seeking torneys said. within U.S. immigration laws. which would grant conditional Greek immigrants. and does not need anyone to jobs by calling diners from over - Spyros Karidis, Astoria-based Like millions of immigrants permanent residency for undoc - “Because these times are re - protect it.” seas before they migrate, while immigration lawyer who before them, recent Greek ar - umented immigrants who ar - ally hard like this, once you hear Among the hierarchs who others already in Astoria make opened shop 2 1/2 years ago, rivals find out they have to rived as minors and graduate ‘Greek just moved’ you kind of will accompany Archbishop daily trips to local stores. said he frequently receives stand in the back of a long line from a high school in the U.S. tend to stick together and help Ierotheos will be Metropolitan As job applications continue phone calls from Greece about awaiting permanent residency But as their homeland con - out each other (with) whatever Chrysostomos of Messinia, and to soar, inquiries about gaining gaining permanent residency. status. tinues to navigate rough eco - anyone needs,” Hatzopoulos Bishop Gabriel of Diayleia, Chief permanent residency in the U.S. But many Greeks, he said, are That line may get shorter for nomic waters, Astoria continues said. We “try to figure some - Secretary of the Holy Synod of have also been on the rise, at - unaware of the difficulties some with the DREAM Act, to be a beacon of hope for many thing out to help each other.” the Church of Greece. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 4-11, 2013 5

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By Theodore Kalmoukos of the Greek American commu - other comments about how I use of the parks throughout the a city? nity that his door of his office at dress and how I speak and that year. We ended up having all Murphy: I think we are doing LOWELL – Patrick Murphy, the the City Hall was open and they short of thing to try to discredit kinds of events throughout the well as a city and it is because mayor of historic city of Lowell, could go and meet with him any me. The response to that, I ad - neighborhoods anything you we have so many different MA personally apologized to time. They replied and asked mit, was inappropriate, but it can think off baseball, basket - groups here, they have put their Lowell’s Greek-American com - him to meet them at the Greek- wasn’t aimed at the Greek Com - ball, things that are Olympic own imprint in the city which munity and via an interview American Legion Post 1 of Low - munity. It wasn’t aimed at Peri - events and to get people partic - makes us unique and certainly with TNH to the Greek-Ameri - ell, which he did on April 25. cles, or that tradition. It was ipating and competing with one a lot of our finances are in good can Community nationwide be - Murphy initially attempted aimed really at the Lowell Sun another so you work out from shape. cause he had offended them to blame the incident on the lo - and its mistreatment of facts. the neighborhood to the city - TNH: What do you treasure with some if his actions. cal American newspaper Lowell THN: Our newspaper is na - wide competition. most from your mayorship thus As TNH had revealed on Sun because it had criticized tional, it isn’t local, and it isn’t TNH: Are you going to name far?” April 4, Murphy took a bust of him for certain actions as mayor. Lowell only. Would you apolo - it the Olympics of Lowell? Murphy: It’s really getting to Pericles from the Mayor’s Room From the mayor’s interview gize to the Greek-American Murphy: You can’t actually meet so many different people. at City Hall to a bar, placed a with TNH: community at large about what use the name Olympic because TNH: Do you have any com - hat on his head, scarf around TNH: Why you did this? Why you did? Would you say I am it is trademarked, but the idea ment of what happened in his neck, and a glass of beer in did you take Pericles out for a sorry for it? is to have a citywide competi - Boston last week with the ter - front of him, and he pretended beer, please explain to us your Murphy: I have already said tion. rorist bombing at the Marathon? to drink beer with Pericles, ridi - logic behind it. that before, that if people took TNH: How is the Greek- Murphy: I had family mem - culing the wise man of Ancient Murphy: Over a year ago it offense to what I have done it American community doing in bers that run at the Marathon Hellenism. The bust of Pericles was reported by a local paper wasn’t my intent, I am sorry. Lowell? and we didn’t have contact with was a gift of the Greek-Ameri - that I had moved the bust of TNH: Are you planning Murphy: They have done them for some time, it was a can community of Lowell to the Pericles from the mayors recep - Olympic Games for the City of well here in businesses, in poli - worrisome time. We are having City Hall. tion room into to my office, Lowell? What do you have in tics; all you have to do is walk a fundraising [on May 4] for all The City Council in a unani - which hadn’t been the case, I mind? Patrick Murphy, the mayor of around the neighborhood and the victims in the Lowell area mous decision had demanded never touched it in my life and Murphy: The idea of Lowell, MA apologized to the see the number of memorial for those with problems. It will from the mayor to meet in per - I didn’t know when it was Olympics is to get a lot of young city’s Greek-Americans for de - signs, see how many people give be at the Conference Center of son with the Greek-American placed there or what had hap - people and even people of all meaning their heritage by so much to the country as vet - University of Massachusetts in community and apologize. The pened to it. But that was used ages for active and fit in the dragging their gift of a bust of erans. Lowell at 6PM and it is open to mayor told the representatives in the paper along with some community, but also get more Pericles to a bar. TNH: How are you doing as public. East Meadow Diner Owners Plead Guilty to Intentionally Underpaying their Workers

MINEOLA, NY – Nassau County overtime of $337,780 and liq - set of books with the true pay the way to do business. We con - District Attorney Kathleen Rice uidated damages of $163,742 rate and hours worked by the gratulate District Attorney Rice announced today that her of - to 72 employees, as well as diner’s employees. Records in - and her staff on this successful fice’s Labor Unit has secured a $48,681 in unemployment in - dicated that the diner claimed effort and look forward to future top-count guilty plea from two surance to the NYSDOL. on tax returns that only between collaborations on behalf of cousins who own an East Rice said that the Labor 11 and 15 people worked at the workers.” Meadow diner for failing to pay Unit’s investigation into the diner. In reality, they employed “We have wage laws in New 72 employees more than Colony Diner in East Meadow between 35 and 40 people in York State for a reason – they’re $500,000 in wages. began when the office was con - any given week. to protect the most vulnerable The plea is the result of a tacted by the USDOL in March “Labor laws exist to ensure workers against injustices by joint investigation between the 2011. The USDOL had begun a that hard-working employees predatory employers so they can DA’s Office’s Labor Unit, the wage investigation into the are paid every penny of their feed their families,” said State United States Department of La - diner in late 2010. It was re - wages, as well as hold account - Labor Commissioner Peter M. bor, Wage & Hour Division, and able unscrupulous bosses who Rivera. “I am proud of the Labor the New York State Department steal from their workers,” Rice Department’s role in bringing of Labor, Unemployment Insur - said. “I thank the federal and these two individuals to justice ance Division (NYSDOL). New York State Departments of for purposefully stealing from George Strifas, 46, of East Labor for their invaluable assis - their employees and am thank - Hills, Thomas Strifas, 41, of tance on this case and we will ful for the Nassau DA’s work to Merrick, and their company, continue to work together to put an end to these kinds of Stardust Diners, Inc., pleaded protect the workforce from ex - hurtful and illegal practices.” guilty yesterday to felony counts George Strifas, pictured above, and his cousin Thomas, co- ploitation.” Labor Unit Chief Richard Bal - of Offering a False Instrument owners of the Colony Diner, pled guilty to various violations “This investigation repre - letta is prosecuting the case for for Filing in the First Degree and of New York State Labor Law. sents our first collaboration with the DA’s Office. George and Falsifying Business Records in a local prosecutor’s office involv - Thomas Strifas and Stardust the First Degree, and one mis - cash tips, and that kitchen staff The investigation also re - ing New York State’s Wage Theft Diners, Inc. are represented by demeanor count of Failing to was not being paid overtime de - vealed that Colony was paying Act,” said Irv Miljoner, Long Is - Collins, McDonald & Gann, P.C. Pay Wages in Accordance With spite working 50 to 60 hours the majority of its employees off land District Director of the U.S. and Milman Labuda Law Group, the New York State Labor Law. vealed through employee inter - per week. the books, resulting in under - Department of Labor’s Wage PLLC. George and Thomas Strifas face views that between January State and federal law at the payments of its Unemployment and Hour Division. “The results Since its inception in 2006, up to four years in prison at 2009 and November 2011, the time of the violations mandated Insurance obligations to New send a clear message to employ - the DA’s Labor Unit has a 100% their July 17 sentencing. diner’s wait staff was being paid minimum wages of $4.65 for York State. A search warrant ex - ers that there are real conse - conviction rate. Any employee As a condition of the plea, about $2 or less an hour, the wait staff, $7.25 for bussing and ecuted at the diner in November quences to wage theft and cash who thinks they may have been the diner owners agreed to pay bussing staff was being paid off- kitchen staff, and $10.875 per 2011 revealed falsified payroll off-the-books payments, that un - victimized can contact the Labor underpaid minimum wage and the-book from the wait staff’s overtime hour worked. and time records and a second derpaying your workers is not Unit at (516) 571-1300.

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By Constantine S. Sirigos Joseph Estevez, the business TNH Staff Writer agent of local 1004 of the IUPAT District Council 711, who se - SPRINGFIELD, NJ – The friends cured and set up the hall – at and family of Peter Markou that no charge. “The union bought held a fundraiser in support of 140 tickets and donated $500 his battle against cancer sent a right away,” he said. number of beautiful and pow - He and his colleagues are the erful messages on a sunny Sun - ones that paint some of the ma - day afternoon when they could jor public and private facilities, have been elsewhere. One was including bridges, in the New their love for him and their sol - York Metropolitan area. idarity with his wife Margie and There were many other spon - his daughter Maria, and with sors and donors. They offered the Markou and Emporellis restaurant gift certificates, tick - Families. ets to Yankee games and rock The other is that with some concerts, T-shirts autographed thought, and planning, and sac - by New York Giants stars, ther - rifice, people can make a big dif - apeutic massages and many ference in the world. more. There were also popular The blue and white balloons 50/50 raffles. that filled the union hall of local The financial strain can be as 1004 of the IUPAT, District painful as the illness, and that Council 711 in Springfield, NJ, is why the family appreciates could have represented the Hel - everyone who donated time, tal - lenic homeland of the families, ent, and treasure, including the but on April 21 the balloons Philoptochos of the Metropolis with the dark blue ribbons ones A LOT OF LOVE IN THE ROOM: Peter Markou (standing 5th Pasta for Pete fundraiser, in support of his battle against cancer, of New Jersey, and the National stood for the fight against colon from left) behind his wife Margie and sister-in-law Tara and is a shining example of human love and compassion at its Philoptochos, office, who pro - cancer. flanked by his Brother Teddy and his daughter Maria. The finest. vided grants that are helping The hundreds of people that with the family’s mortgage pay - turned out and the dozens of Peter’s brother Teddy, who Markou was also strength - She also expressed apprecia - and donors are connected with ments. gift baskets and other prizes for organized the event, told TNH ened by the prayers of his tion for the generosity of her the Colonia High School softball They also offered invaluable the tricky tray raffles symbolized “You can’t put a price on what mother Maria and sister Tina, parents, Maria and Manoli Em - team of her first cousin Tierney advice and referrals, through love for friends and neighbors they do. Anyone can reach into who live in Greece but were not porellis, and her uncle Jimmy – who went on to graduate from Paulette Giannakopoulos of the that filled the room and also their pocket, but what they do able to attend, and of his friends Emporellis and his family. Iona College, where she starred Department of Social Work of proved that one need not be rich comes from the heart,” he said and family on the beautiful is - Maria said “I could not have as an outfielder. National Philoptochos, and to be a philanthropist. as he pounded the left side of land of Siphnos, and by the asked for a better outcome.” She Teddy Markou told TNH that Eleni Constantinidis, Second Markou’s family could not say his chest. toughness he learned from his told TNH that her father is re - people approached him about Vice President of the Philopto - enough to thank the many The beautifully-decorated late father John, who also sponding well to chemotherapy. doing something for his brother chos of the Metropolis of New donors, or the men and women hall, the energy of the cooks and taught him all about automobile The spots on his lungs and liver Peter as soon as they learned of Jersey and Social Services who cooked all day long, includ - the warmth of the guests engines. are in remission and they are his diagnosis. The waited for Chairperson. ing the families O’Donnnel, Kara - brought some heartwarming Margie’s parents come from awaiting the results of a cat scan good weather – and a breather Margie’s first cousin Vene - bin, Coppa, Capodice, Matty, Ko - smiles to Peter, who was also Mitiline, where she was also of the colon. from the other three fundraisers toula Zamarra told TNH that towskui, Seanlow, Dumbrowski, busy making sure his guests born, said she was “over - Her cousin Tina, daughter of he recently helped coordinate. under such circumstances, “peo - Hanlon, and Anner. were taken care of, often dash - whelmed by the love and sup - her uncle Teddy and aunt Tara, God smiled on them with a blue ple show their true colors, and The event lasted from 2 to 7 ing off the refill the coffee ma - port from family and friends is a hair stylist and she was sky. who you see who is a true PM and was called “Pasta for chine. and family we don’t even know. happy to work her magic on a The friends and family gath - friend. They either show up or Pete.” George Coppa summed it He has worked hard all his I can’t find the words but I want Sunday, offering haircuts – buzz ered in the hall of Teddy they don’t show up.” all up: “Friends are treasures. life as an auto mechanic and he to express my deepest gratitude, cuts for the young boys, includ - Markou’s union, which was also To make a donation send an Good friends are like good fam - was in no mood to let the others especially for my brother-in-law ing her brother T.J. a major ally of their effort. He email to Maria Markou at: ily.” do all the work at Pasta for Pete. Teddy.” The core group of volunteers expressed his deep thanks to [email protected]. Saginaw Township’s St. Demetrios Church, in MI, Reinstalls its Iconic Art

By Sue White vived a fire there in 1950 hangs that the women insisted on hav - art during guided tours of the could have the screen back, and reflect on Christ’s sufferings, mlive.com again in the church at Macki - ing a church.” church, Kastros said. the ladies there said if we everything in the Greek Ortho - naw and McCarty. The parishioners first met in “We had given all the old wanted it, we could take it,” Cox dox church is flavored with the SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, MI – “The church officially started the Vlassis Hall, above the Vlas - icons to the Ukrainian church said. resurrection,” he said, adding For 32 years, St. Demetrios meeting in 1937,” said Nick sis family’s restaurant on Court on Stephens,” Makrianis said, As with many churches, the that they will celebrate Easter Greek Orthodox Church has cel - Makrianis, a first-generation near Michigan, “on the third after a new screen was commis - size of the congregation at St. on May 5 this year, aligned with ebrated the traditions of the old Greek-American like many in to - story, a big climb for our mem - sioned in 1986 by Byzantine Demetrios has declined since its the traditional Passover. “It’s world, worshiping at an east- day’s congregation, the sons and bers,” Makrianis said. artist George S. Papastamatiou. peak in 1970, Cox said. But it positive and upbeat; we look at facing altar in a church of daughters of St. Demetrios’ im - It was a growing congrega - “Then, when the church didn’t has started drawing converts to everything through the light of domes and arches and sharing migrant founders. tion that finally moved into the have enough of a membership the Eastern Orthodox faith, as the resurrection. its food and culture at its annual “Several men came to Sagi - former Lutheran church in anymore, it closed.” he converted himself. “As a convert, that’s refresh - Greek Festival every June. naw from Greece in the late 1940. “I asked the archbishop if we “While the western churches ing to me.” But in its 75th anniversary 1920s, and by 1934, they had “The old-timers are all gone year, the congregation serving 26 Greek businesses down - now,” said Kosmas G. Kastros, many across the state reached town,” most of them restaurants though walking through the into its roots in Saginaw. The such as the Best Ever, the Star church’s hallway is like stepping iconography, or religious art, Lunch and the Washington, said into the past as Kastros, Anag - that once screened the altar in Christ A. Anagnost. nost, Makrianis and the Rev. Ire - the renovated St. Paul Lutheran “It was when the men went naeus Cox share the history of Church at Fifth and Lapeer on back to Greece to marry and the newly framed iconography Saginaw’s East Side and sur - brought their wives to Saginaw hanging on its walls. Vivid renditions of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, John the Baptist, archangels Michael and Gabriel and the church’s patron saint are there, the benefactors noted in Greek at the bottom of the eight paintings. Wishing the entire Inside the sanctuary hangs the three crystal chandeliers that came in pieces from Greece Greek-American community in 1940, along with the remain - ing two panels from the original screen and the 12 smaller icons that ran across the top tier of the screen. Rather than used to HAPPY EASTER hide the altar from the congre - gation, Cox said, the panels his - torically show what is invisibly CHRIST IS RISEN present at the services. Visitors to this summer’s Greek Festival, held Friday through Sunday, June 14-16, on ΚΑΛΟ ΠΑΣΧΑ The sanctuary at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church features the grounds at McCarty and ornate artwork. The Michigan church is 75 years old. Mackinaw, can see the retrieved και ΚΑΛΗ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ

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BOOK REVIEW The Clover House: a Novel by Greek-American Henriette Lazaridis Power

By Karen Campbell lie) Notaris Brown, who lives between the two. However, the out some of her mother’s stories constructed for the Notaris chil - Boston Globe with her fiance in Boston, and unraveling of that mystery is not didn’t happen the way she had dren. Callie’s long-suffering mother, particularly suspenseful and is been led to believe. As she sifts The tone of “The Clover Publisher: Ballantine Clio, who comes most vividly to less compelling than the day-to- through Uncle Nestor’s belong - House” is a bit uneven, and Number of pages: 397 pp. life in recollections from 1940s day action and shifting dynam - ings, she starts to sense that most of the relationships are Book price: $15 Greece. At the crux of the ics among all the people in Cal - there is something there her un - frustratingly dysfunctional, novel’s plot is a family secret lie’s life — from her fiance and cle hoped she would discover, without clear motivation and First-generation Greek-Amer - that threatens to shed some extended family to a ragtag something that might help un - resolution. What resonates most ican novelist Henriette Lazaridis light on the emotional distance group of Greek revelers who be - tangle the threads of memories strongly is Power’s insightful ex - Power remembers happy child - friend Callie during a bus trip. not just frayed by time, but cor - amination of memory and the hood summers in the Pelopon - The catalyst in “The Clover rupted by self-preservation into stories that hold us together — nesian city of Patras. She heard House” is the death of Uncle a calculated reimagining. or perhaps tear us apart. As Cal - lively family stories of the past Nestor. Just past her 35th birth - Founding editor of The Drum lie’s cousin Aliki, one of the woven by her mother, aunts, day, Callie gets a call that her literary magazine, and a former book’s most vibrant and sympa - and uncle. From her father, she mother’s younger brother has teacher and academic dean at thetic characters, maintains, gathered seminal experiences of died, leaving all the contents of Harvard, Power lives in the “Most of us don’t even have occupied Athens. In her debut his house to her. This necessi - Boston area. But it’s clear that clear lives in the present. How novel, “The Clover House,” tates a hurried trip to Patras in the powerful pull of Greece’s much more confused do our sto - Power draws from all those order to sift through her uncle’s warm climate and lively culture ries get when a few years go by? tales, synthesizing family expe - vast bequest, a Pandora’s box of is deeply ingrained. Or when we hand the stories riences into a compelling fic - books, newspaper clippings, She gives colorful descrip - down? . . . They’ve been told so tional portrait that illuminates recordings, and mementos. In tions of present-day Carnival in First-generation Greek-Amer - many times it’s a wonder they and contrasts the Greece of to - the process, she reconnects with Patras, with its long days of ican novelist Henriette can still hold together. You use day with the country during the her mother, who returned from chaos and merriment, parades Lazaridis Power. something that much, it’s bound troubled era of the early 1940s, the United States after Callie’s and masked Bourbouli dances. to wear thin.” under Italian occupation and father died, setting up a 10-year Even more captivating is her The book’s title comes from “The Clover House” elo - burgeoning fascism. estrangement that made Callie evocation of the family farm “a small village of four child- quently questions the wisdom Shifting between two gener - question the very essence of where Clio and her siblings size houses out of shoulder-high of relying too much on memo - ations, the central voices of “The their relationship. grew up, before it was taken forage grasses of clover and rye” ries of the past as a guide for Clover House” are Calliope (Cal - Once in Greece, Callie finds over during the war. that one of the vineyard workers understanding the present. Honey Olives, Octopus: about Growing, Cooking, and Enjoying Greek Food

By David Mason economic hardship. When I first liberating contempt for the clock: the bundle and pushes back there's no boss to answer to. I take Wall Street Journal lived in Greece 30 years ago, "From the moment I arrive in against the seafloor to right him - my dog out to the vineyard in the most food was still local and Greece, I must do like the dough: self. Then, to our amazement, morning and boil myself a coffee most people still knew how to rise and recline and rise again at we see that he hasn't been strug - under a wild olive tree and ad - Honey, Olives, Octopus live off the land. Joining the Eu - a pace dictated by the heat and gling at all. When he stands up mire what I've accomplished with By Christopher Bakken ropean Union in 1981 (and its my own improvisations." Though again, he's gripping a large octo - these old hands. I'm a lucky man, California, 238 pages, $34.95 new currency in 2001) broad - winters can be fierce, the climate pus, which he tosses to us before finishing out my life this way. ened the middle class and gave may well be the best on earth; wading the rest of the way in. Mr. Bakken's chapters are Early in this delightful paean it international tastes and aspi - the landscape of sea and moun - It's with Tasos and another punctuated by a regretful leave- to Greek food, Christopher rations. We know well what be - tains and the stark light are mir - friend, George, that Mr. Bakken taking, his return to America and Bakken finds himself harvesting fell them, and Greece has en - acles; the literary history of the climbs Mount Olympus in a his own responsibilities as a pro - olives on the northern Aegean tered yet another of its long language is as old and rich as howling storm. The drinking fessor and family man. At home island of Thasos. With a history of privations, from Ot - any; and the people, despite their conversation of these friends is in Pennsylvania, he tries to re - tsougrana—"a little plastic rake toman domination to World War tribulations, celebrate life and especially fine: produce the food of Greece, with mounted on a foot-long wooden II and the civil war of 1946-49. death with fervor. The culture of "We live in a sphere, not on a mixed success. A dish of revithia, broom handle"—he has to What's left is the food of poverty. philoxenia, or friendliness to line," George tells me, while stewed chickpeas, is disappoint - "rake—or comb—the olive trees, Mr. Bakken shows us how won - strangers, is alive and well. hoisting an invisible orb toward ing. "There's nothing missing using choppy downward derful such food can be as well Though it contains depend - the ceiling, "and we must find a from the dish, and yet there's strokes." It is hard work for those as how much labor it requires. able recipes, Mr. Bakken's book way to fill it. Only fools worry something not quite there." unused to physical labor, and ex - slaves. Let's behave like free men The book is broken into es - is more an appreciation of about what's coming. We are Some flavors can only be tasted cept for the recent introduction and quit before we drown." says on the eight foundations of Greece itself. We learn not only here, after all, swirling back wine in the land that gives birth to of a mechanical tool for combing "Honey, Olives, Octopus" is the Greek table—olives, bread, about the throumbes, the deli - in our glasses like a couple of them; they are untranslatable. olives from the trees, the harvest about the oldest kinds of work— fish, cheese, meat, beans, wine cious olives of Thasos, but also emperors." Talking with a man about has not changed in thousands of how food is grown, caught or and honey. Mr. Bakken, a poet about the prozymi, or dough years. Nor, arguably, has the in - gathered; how it is prepared and and translator, travels from Tha - starter of Crete, the ways of fish - dependent spirit of the people eaten; how it tastes and what it sos through the Cyclades to Crete ing for red mullet and octopus, who engage in it. Mr. Bakken's reveals about a remarkable peo - and back, reflecting on an old the myriad "stinky cheeses" of friend Stamatis reacts to the ple. Mr. Bakken is not unaware life continuously made new. Like Naxos, the killing and cooking steady drizzle becoming a down - of the irony in celebrating Greek so many others before him, one of goats on Chios (site of a terri - pour by shouting, "We're not cuisine at a time of shattering of the first things he notices is a ble massacre of Greeks by Ot - toman troops in 1822, Mr. Bakken reminds us), the peren - nial importance of chickpeas, the making and drinking of wine, the honey of Kythera (the birthplace of Aphrodite). The book abounds with arcane lore: "Having har - pooned a large octopus and re - moved its beak, as well as the organs and innards inside its ASHLEY COOPER/CORBIS hood, you must find a good flat Grecian Delight Octopus hung up at a restuarant in Skala Ere - stone to whack it against." You'll sou on the northern Aegean island of Lesbos. need to "smash" it "as hard as you can forty times" and then Greeks talk the world into be - honey, Mr. Bakken notes that "he rub it on the rock in "vigorous ing. Language is life. Even the might as well be talking about circles" if you want the muscle land never stops talking. Nothing alchemy"—a word often associ - to break down and the cooked in Greece exists only in the pre - ated with poetry, which is a sort octopus to be tender. sent tense, but is always there to of transmutation of earth into The best passages are about be read historically and mytho - song. "I believe thyme honey is work: fishing or harvesting or logically. Serifos, Mr. Bakken re - the essence of honey in its preparing foods. In one scene, minds us, is the island of the Cy - purest, most rarefied state, so for helping Stamatis haul his boat clops: "At Koutalas, one of the me ereki honey [made from a ashore for winter, he watches an - best beaches on the island, you type of island heather that other friend, the marvelous Tasos can swim in the glorious blooms in the winter] is delight - of Thasos ("restaurateur, farmer, turquoise lagoon where an in - fully eccentric. I'd liken it to shepherd, octopus fisherman, dignant Polyphemus heaved that Laphroaig, which is about as far rabbit hunter, traditional dancer, boulder at Odysseus and his as you can take single malt and wedding singer," as well as men." On Kythera, he meets an Scotch in the direction of medi - a former member of the Greek Australian-Greek named cine while retaining some beauty Special Forces), unloading heavy Michalis who has returned to and subtlety." nets and wading ashore: end his days in the old country: The aesthetics of food, like He staggers a little across the "My dream was to trade the long the poetics of work, are among slick, algae-covered rocks and hours of work in Australia for the things that lend life its char - then stops, trying to reposition even longer hours here on acter, that remove it from the the net on his shoulder. There's Kythera," he jokes. "To be hon - daily grind and lift it toward re - an awkward moment when he est," he continues with a furrow - ality like an imagined sphere. nearly tips forward, and several ing of his brow, "Honey, Olives, Octopus" is a of us are about to jump in to I work harder now than I ever book of life lessons, small mo - help, since we know that the net have, but this is the kind of work ments and full flavors brought will be even heavier if wet. But that makes you live forever. back to the other life. The one Tasos gets one hand loose from There's no time card to punch and we call ordinary.

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By Stavros Stavridis Special to The National Herald and Greco-Turkish reparations over the Karagatch proposal. He were totally unconnected. Rum - even threatened to return to An - bold thought if the French and gora if this proposal was not ac - During the second phase of Italians waived their reparations cepted. On May 24, Reouf Bey the Lausanne Conference, held against Turkey, then this would informed Ismet that the claim between April 24 and July 24 remove an impediment in find - for reparations could not be re - 1923, the issue of Greco-Turkish ing a solution to the issue. nounced in return for Kara - reparations jeopardized peace On May 24, Venizelos and gatch. Angora sought compen - negotiations and even raised the Alexandris told Rumbold that sation “partly in cash, partly by scepter of war between the two they would leave Lausanne in surrender of Greek property in former combatants. two days’ time, if the indemnity Constantinople and partly in On April 19 the British issue was not settled by then. merchant ships.” In reply, Ismet Charge d’Affaires in Athens, Rumbold told the Greek dele - urged acceptance of the Kara - C.H. Bentinck informed Lord gates that if the Turks put up gatch solution as the only viable Curzon, the British Foreign Sec - unreasonable demands, then remedy. Mustapha Kemal sup - retary, of Eleftherios Venizelos' the Allies would seek an ad - ported Ismet's position so long firm determination to resist journment. That put Venizelos as the important issues of the Turkish demands for the pay - ment of war reparations. That characterized the Greek resolve on the reparations issue over the next five weeks, where the Greek Army in Western Thrace stood ready to advance at short notice. Neville Henderson, the Act - ing British High Commissioner in Constantinople, reported in early May that Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish Nationalist leader and first President of the Turkish Republic October 1923-1938, NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION “ELEFTHERIOS K. VENIZELOS” wanted peace at any price, as ABOVE: Eleftherios Venizelos meets with Mustapha Kemal during his trip to Turkey in 1930 . the condition of the Turkish RIGHT: Venizelos with Ismet, the chief Turkish negotiator in Lausanne. army had deteriorated and ex - ternally Turkey “faced insecurity issue. gested by Venizelos. This was as the reparations issue was settled on four fronts [in] Syria, Kur - In order to placate the Turks, far as the Greek government quickly. Such a decision meant distan, the Caucasus and Venizelos proposed to cede was prepared to go on this is - the Greek government might re - Thrace.” There was growing dis - Karagatch and a small triangle sue. nounce the armistice and com - satisfaction by the intellectual of territory between the Maritza The concentration of Greek mence hostilities. elite and laboring class in Con - and Arda rivers in return for forces in Western Thrace By May 25, the Greco-Turk - stantinople and the peasants in Turkey waiving her demands for alarmed the Allied Generals at ish reparations issue reached a Anatolia due to the dramatic in - reparations against Greece. Constantinople to the point of dangerous point where Ismet crease in the cost of living. Venizelos thought this proposal preparing contingency plans to still had not received an answer Venizelos, the chief Greek “would give best means of per - evacuate Allied forces to the for the Karagatch proposal from delegate at Lausanne, was in - sonal satisfaction to Ismet.” On Straits in the advent of Greek Angora. Rumbold, the British structed by the Greek govern - the other hand, Venizelos was advance on Eastern Thrace and delegate at Lausanne, saw it was ment to press for a quick solu - prepared to refer it to arbitra - Constantinople. They even con - impossible to separate the two tion to the reparation question, tion should Ismet reject his pro - sidered evacuating their own questions of Allied demands for otherwise the armistice would posal. However this concession nationals in the advent of re - compensation from Turkey and be terminated. The Greek Cabi - had to be approved by the Greek newal of hostilities between Greco-Turkish reparations. The net sent its Foreign Minister government. Greece and Turkey. Curzon in - British wanted to speed up the Alexandris to Lausanne for the Venizelos met Ismet on May formed Bentinck on May 15 to conference and finalize the purpose of speeding up the 14 to explain his nation's inca - warn the Greek government of peace treaty with Turkey. reparations settlement. The bad pacity to pay an indemnity and the folly of launching a military General Pelle, the French del - treatment meted out to Greek recognized Greek responsibility attack. What concerned Politis, egate at Lausanne, received a in a difficult position and he Ottoman Public Debt, the early prisoners of war, seizure of for damages done to Turkish the Head of the Political Bureau telephone message on May 25 telegraphed Athens for further evacuation of Turkey by the Al - Greek bank safes at Smyrna and property during the recent war. of the Greek Foreign Ministry, from French Premier, Raymond instructions. The Greek govern - lies and judicial formula were Constantinople and “continual In return, he requested Ismet to was that Curzon's demarche Poincaré who agreed to re - ment consented to a postpone - settled in Turkey's favor. expulsion of Greeks from Asia ask Angora (now Ankara, the would encourage Ismet to adopt nounce French reparations ment of the indemnity question Finally on May 26, a private Minor” only served to inflame capital of Turkey) to waive its an uncompromising attitude on against Turkey. Nonetheless for a few more days so that Is - meeting attended by Allied del - Greek public opinion against demands for reparations from the indemnity question and Montagna, the Italian delegate met could hear from Angora. egates, Venizelos and Ismet wit - Turkey. On that score, the Greek Greece. Ismet told Rumbold that weaken the Greek bluff against at Lausanne, did not receive his The Greeks believed that An - nessed the settlement of the government considered sending Venizelos's proposal was unac - the Turks. Politis assured instructions from Rome until gora was withholding its reply reparations issue allowing the an ultimatum to Turkey to re - ceptable, but he would consider Bentinck that the Greek army May 26. A few days earlier, Is - in order to prolong the discus - Allies to settle their outstanding frain from such measures but an alternative plan that pro - would not attack without the met had asked Pelle whether the sions. A Greek army of 150,000 questions with Turkey. The Lau - Venizelos advised against it, as vided “something in lieu of authority of the Cabinet and the Allies would drop their repara - men with 300 field and moun - sanne Treaty was finally signed he desired to meet Ismet, the cash.” By May 18, the Greek Allies. The Greeks became im - tions against Turkey. Pelle tain guns was ready to advance on July 24, 1923 thus establish - chief Turkish negotiator in Lau - government approved the Kara - patient and even threatened to replied that the two questions of at 24 hours’ notice. ing peace between Greece and sanne, to settle the reparations gatch proposal on the lines sug - withdraw from Lausanne unless Allied reparations against Turkey Ismet experienced difficulties Turkey.

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Transformed from constrained Dr. Jekyll to the impassioned Mr. Hyde, Constantine Maroulis lets his hair down with prostitute Lucy, brilliantly played by co-star Deborah Cox in the musical. Constantine Maroulis Stars and Dazzles in Broadway’s Jekyll & Hyde

Continued from page 1 But my brother’s far more intel - deliver. I love all that. But I as - all off to play some role. And lectual. There’s no sibling rivalry. pire to do other great stuff as then it grew back again. There who have just been plucked out We’re both so very different. I well. I’ve never tried to be a rock were so many roles in regional of the farms and the malls of sing high notes and my brother star or a superstar. It’s always or community theater. I did America going right into Amer - sings avant garde goth and jazz. been about the work. I’d like to every show. And sometimes I cut ican Idol. It could be daunting. “I never worked in a Greek continue to do this. I’d also like the hair. And it grew back.” He “But for me, American Idol diner but my family was in the to get more into producing other laughs. “It’s funny, but my was a tremendous opportunity. restaurant business. When my things. mother never really let me grow I saw it as a chance to build and grandparents came here, they “Broadway’s big business – a my hair very long when I was to allow it to get me where I got involved in the food busi - billion-dollar business. It’s no younger. Now my mother – she wanted to be. I’ve been a young ness. They started off with a joke. You get your hands on can’t do without the hair. The businessman as well as a musi - diner cart and worked that into something like Wicked or Jersey other night for the opening, I cian from a very young age. My a sandwich shop and then into Boys or Book of Mormon and put my hair back and she said, parents are relatively a blue col - two or three. They had a lot of you and everyone else and all of leave it down. Leave it down. lar family and I’ve grown up children and bought homes in their children will be set for life. It’s interesting how everyone with entrepreneurial skills. I al - upstate New York, in the So I think that it’s something to comes around. ways set goals for myself like Catskills. We would go up there play with, the idea of getting in - “The hair for me has defi - five years, ten years. I had told with a lot of Greeks. It was a volved with producing and being nitely been a trademark. But I’m myself that five years after grad - great part of growing up.” behind the scenes in this beauti - pretty much done with it now. uating from Boston Conserva - Being Greek-American con - ful business of ours. It’s a gam - Of course I would cut it off. I’d tory, I will have moved to New tinues to be a big part of ble, certainly. But it’s exciting. I like to take on a dramatic role, York. I will start a band and get Maroulis’ identity. “Absolutely. have a small production com - whether on film or television or an agent. I’ll do a Rent tour and I’ve had agents who wanted me pany and we’ve been doing a lot stage that would demand my that will get me to the next pro - to change my name early on, of little things. Down the road transforming physically. I’d risk ject, and that’s exactly what and I was just never going to do I’d like to develop more stage people not knowing who the happened. I’m very lucky, but I that. People still mispronounce productions. whether it’s Broad - heck I am to get back to being a also try to set myself up for suc - it. But for me, that’s my father, way or off-Broadway, and I blank slate as an actor – not cess. I built the brand.” that’s my blood line. So I’m very would like to get more involved walking into a room with pro - We met Maroulis in his dress - Constantine Maroulis, as the good Dr. Henry Jekyll, shares a proud of who I am and I don’t with film and TV as an actor. ducers or casting people expect - ing room backstage at the Mar - special moment with his fiancée Emma, played by Teal Wicks care who knows it. Greek power, This is hard work, what I’m do - ing to see the long hair, the quis Theatre. He’s 6 feet 3 ½ man! ing! They’ve got it easy on TV. leather jacket, the boots and all inches and extremely slender, from a huge community of “My father is a computer en - “Listen, the Greeks started all “I was on The Bold and the of that – and just potentially get - with a delightfully animated Greek people and all my cousins gineer. He worked on the first of this art business. We really Beautiful. I played Constantine ting a chance to work with them face, and warm, expressive black and everything, we were a little big computers for IBM and did. And I feel that connection Paros – he was a young, hot just for my sheer artistic ability. eyes. The avid sports fan was bit of outsiders when we came Citibank. He’s a really smart to our way of life, our culture, record producer pursuing one of “ disturbed because the TV in his to the suburbs.” He gives a rue - man. He was born here and so and the influences they’ve had the gals there. So that was fun. Jekyll & Hyde continues for dressing room was not working. ful laugh. “I started school there. was my mother, Constance. Her all over the world. I think there’s And the soap world is cool. And another ten weeks. “I’m very de - Otherwise, he was relaxed and I was five. My brother was start - family’s from Cephalonia, and something very special about be - they have great fans. But I’d like voted to Jekyll & Hyde and hav - gracious, dressed in jeans, boots, ing high school. We were like my father’s side is from Ithaca. ing Greek. Especially in New to get involved with more gritty ing a great summer with it and and white hat. He offered me this Arab family moving into I’ve been to Greece and I love it. York City and the pride that and artistic projects as well. So then maybe getting a little rest. the good chair and then “Let me your neighborhood right after I speak Greek but not great. I there is here.” I’m very content. But of course After that, I’ll see what happens. just send this last little tweet 9/11. It was very white-bread. did go to Greek school. My Family is even more impor - I’d like to continue to develop On Easter I’ll be at the theater here. Thank you so much.” He An affluent area. Good people brother and sister are consider - tant to Maroulis since he’s be - and expand my horizons.” because I have two shows that sat down one long leg crossed and a wonderful place to grow ably older than me, and speak it come a father. The dressing And how about that hair? “I day. Sundays in May are a big over the other. up. But there were some tough better. But I grew up very Amer - room was distinguished by a think that a lot of Greeks are deal. So I won’t be able to head “Honestly, what a ride this times, definitely. So I do relate icanized, very suburban. Be - miniature arm chair for his blessed with strong locks. My fa - out to the family. But I plan on has been,” he exclaimed. “What to that and I start the Jekyll & cause we moved out of Brooklyn daughter, two-year-old Malena, ther always had a great head of being at the Anastasi at the most people don’t realize is that Hyde story with the layered feel - when I was very young. There a frequent visitor. “I wish she hair. I kept it quite short up until Cathedral the night before and we toured with the show for ing in my heart.” was a big Greek church in Wyck - were here right now,” Maroulis my teenage years, and then celebrating with my friends on seven months before Broadway. The show’s physically de - off. I was even the president of said. “That’s her chair. She sits started to grow it out big, and it the street with my candle. And I It all started when Nick Scan - manding. “Before a perfor - GOYA (Greek Orthodox Youth of with me. She knows that this is had grown long by maybe 19 really do love being a part of dalios, executive vice president mance, I do a bit of yoga and America). Daddy’s work. She listens to me years old. I remember cutting it that moment.” of Nederlander, called. He’s a fel - get some bodywork done. The “I was an altar boy including sing on the loud speaker. She low Greek, just a great executive whole day is like a ritual from for Archbishop Iakovos. When I knows all the cast. She’s actually in this business, a caring and the moment I wake up leading was young, he would visit the with Yiayia now. But she’s com - passionate man as well as a up to the show. I’m always think - Wyckoff church often. My ing back tonight. Being a father great producer. I was the first ing about it. It stays with me all mother sang – she would sing has made a tremendous differ - person cast in the show’s revival. the time. I have back pains and in church.” He breaks into song. ence in my life. It’s been a huge It was an awesome journey for stomach pains and bruises to re - “She had this beautiful alto. That enlightenment on many levels.” me to come off Rock of Ages and mind me. I’m always trying to was an influential sound to me Although not married, to have such a contrasting op - better the experience for the au - growing up. My brother and sis - Maroulis maintains a special re - portunity as an actor.” dience. To further myself every ter both performed. My sister lationship with Malena’s mother, For Maroulis, his current role night. The show can be sort of Anastasia, born on Easter Sun - actress/dancer Angel Reed, is all-consuming and requires campy and hammy and over the day, is an educator. whom he met on Rock of Ages. most of his energy, with eight top but I think we’ve brought a “My brother Athan is ten “We get along very well. She re - performances a week. “To stay very grounded dimension to it. years older, and he’s a very es - cently had a big event, and I in shape, there’s no drinking and “Playing Jekyll & Hyde does tablished artist. He sings and went to cheer her on. We have a very little caffeine. I’m having a evoke the tragic Greek in me. I produces in the world of inde - bit of a different relationship little boost today because I was definitely draw on my roots as a pendent music. My brother was than people are used to in the up very early. And I played Greek. I think that so much of a huge influence in everything Greek world, but things are less sports all day. We have a Jekyll the power that I’m able to lay from music to getting me inter - rigid than they used to be. I & Hyde softball team. It’s serious out there on stage comes from ested in the Yankees, as well as think God accepts everyone.” As stuff, the Broadway Show my heritage. From the millions old cars and antiques. We’re for marriage, “Maybe. Maybe League. It’s been around for of people who backed me as a both Virgos. We’re very alike – someday. Right now I’m focused sixty years. We lost by one point. still rising up and coming Greek- very close. I was born on the on work. I’m blessed to be part It was rough. I came here today, American performer. I went to 17th of September and he on of these great opportunities.” got a little work done, took a lit - church growing up and so much the 22nd. He had long hair. He What’s next on his agenda? tle nap, and I’m ready to do the of my influence artistically sang in really interesting and “I love being part of these pro - Constantine Maroulis, his trademark hair pulled tightly back show.” comes from that beautiful art - cool bands in the 80’s and 90’s, ductions and originating these as Dr. Henry Jekyll, begins a dangerous experiment – hoping “This is probably the biggest work from the Greek Orthodox and he played in high school. roles. I love touring as well. I go to save his father’s life – that will transform him into the mad - house on Broadway, the Mar - Church – from the drama of the We’re both a lot like our father. out there. People know me. I I man Mr. Hyde. quis, but we played theatres services – and the Classic Greek twice as big on the road – huge language. And I loved the stories – big barns – everywhere, Dallas, of Agamemnon and Orestes and Houston, Chicago, LA, Tulsa. So Clytemnestra, all of that im - this actually feels more intimate. agery. It’s great to take all of that At John Jay, Dendias Talks about Security and Golden Dawn The orchestra and the vibe and into my performance,” Maroulis the stakes are so high. We’ve got - says with intensity. He looks up ten some amazing notices. The with a smile. “But you also have Continued from page 1 audiences have been wonderful. to just forget it all as well and “This is a piece that is unlike just rock.” Greece for the first time in June anything on Broadway right Growing up, Maroulis’ par - 2014. now. It’s something so epic, and ents had the typical Greek-Amer - Andreopoulos introduced the dangerous and sexy, thought ican ambition for their youngest Consul General of Greece, Geor - provoking. You have tour de child that he might become a gios Iliopoulos, who helped pro - force performances. It’s great doctor or a lawyer. ‘Of course mote the event, and who along stuff. Pippin is opening next they wanted all that for me. I al - with Travis thanked the Niarchos door tonight. I’ve been told that ways tested well but I’ve wanted Foundation for sponsoring it. it’s beautiful and I’m happy that to be on stage since I was very The first part of Dendias’ it’s opening. But this is a differ - young. It’s just what I was going speech had an academic tone ent thing. This is powerful, edgy, to do. At first I think I had to and compared the “law of the dramatic genre theatre. It’s like earn their respect for what I was jungle” with the responsibility Downtown Abbey meets a Tim doing. They always want what’s of the state to protect its citizens Burton film. best for me.” in a rapidly changing world. “I think it starts with Dr. For Maroulis, this particular He then focused on the situ - Henry Jekyll – the isolation he role holds personal significance. ation in Greece and described feels from everyone else in soci - As Jekyll & Hyde opens, we see the reorganization of the Greek ety, the relationship with his fa - the sick father, inspiration for security forces with the aim of ther, seeing his father on his Jekyll’s seeking a cure. Maroulis’ moving beyond the structures deathbed – knowing how pres - own father James suffers from that existed since the 1980s Nikos Dendias, the Minister of Public order and Citizen Protection at the podium (L) and Pro - tigious his father once was, how Parkinson’s disease and stenosis. when, as he said, “Citizens were fessor George Andreopoulos of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. prominent he was in society. But “Of course he couldn’t see the able to go to sleep with their knowing also that they were out - show. We’re still able to have doors unlocked.” He cited international terror - 2012 to improve security in the life of citizens and visitors by siders. I related to that. good conversations about sports They are adjusting to the ism and organized crime as center of the Greek capital and fighting against illegal immi - “When we moved from and what I do. He responds. He’s new economic reality moving to threats and emphasized initia - in other major cities, and gen - gration, the black market, and Brooklyn to Wyckoff, NJ, away excited about what I’m doing.” utilize modern technology. tives undertaken since August erally to improve the quality of the drug trade. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 4-11, 2013 COMMUNITY 11

ALL HISTORY Glamorous Entertainer Jeffries: Still “Fran-tastic” after All These Years

By Steve Frangos TNH Staff Writer her applause. She is one of a top-line supper clubs and resort pany by cutting an album she special kind, The Performer spots, cut a few records, been says “went nowhere.” That flop PART FIVE (July 14 1964).” in a handful of movies, ap - naturally didn’t help her repu - Tracking Jeffries’ work peared on the big network TV tation with record companies CHICAGO- All available evi - record during that period is fur - shows, been featured in Playboy and she hasn’t been willing to dence depicts that Fran Jeffries ther complicated by her many magazine spread and in general compromise her super selective was a focused hard-working appearances on television. Jef - spent nearly half of her 32-year- taste in material which runs to performer who was never afraid fries appeared on television dur - old life working hard at becom - such seldom sung tunes as of criticism or too proud to seek ing what is known today as the ing an overnight success. ‘Spring Can Hang You Up the professional instruction. Jeffries “Golden Age of Television” and “‘What I would really like is Most,’ ‘I Fall in Love Too Easy,’ traveled with her own musical documentation on that period to have some fans,’ she says and ‘Moment of Truth.’ director Mike Melvoin and was is not always available. With Jef - with a slight sign of frustration, “‘I’ve always liked songs that equally serious about her acting fries, however, we could cite ‘I would like to have some peo - are different, songs that may be and so took lessons from acting pages of appearances since she ple who would give me a little difficult to sing but have sensi - coach Wynne Handman. News her performances were not re - respect and recognition as a tive lyrics,” she says, “That’s the reports abound of Jeffries stricted to being a vocalist but singer, who would buy my only kind of thing I can really watching other performers, with also included her work as an ac - records and who come to see get into.’ the intent of learning from tress and then appearances of Fran Jeffries, not to see how she “Her film appearances have them. Still, the endless travel - her simply as a noted celebrity. looks or what she is wearing or contributed to the singer-sexpot ing, and the running back and Jeffries did appear on programs if she is sexy but listen to me schizophrenia and it was A Tal - forth between club acts, televi - such as “Stars of Jazz” on the sing.’ ent for Loving [a film that was sion performances, and film evening of October 28, 1957, “She is a singer of consider - completed but never released] work only increased as Jeffries where her performance was able and versatile talent whose that led to her to pose for the became ever more popular. The meant “to illustrate the influ - style falls somewhere in the mu - Playboy spread…’They had logical question is, why, did Jef - ence of classical music on mod - sical twilight zone between pop asked me to pose a few times fries actively seek to increase the ern jazz.” Or when she per - and jazz. But her dark eyes and before but I had said, I don’t pressure on her daily life? formed on the Gary Moore lithe body trapped her into the need that.’ Then I saw other In 1964, Look Magazine ran Show, June 24, 1961, where she sexpot syndrome, which has led people had done it and gotten a an article on Jeffries titled, “The sang a duet of “Hernando’s her to inject modified go-go lot of publicity I thought that Performer.” Hideaway” with Carol Burnett. dancing into her act, almost but the movie would be coming out Here is how she is simulta - And there is The Red Skeleton not quite in spite of herself… at the same time as the maga - neously introduced and re - Show (1967) or the Spotlight “‘I like to think I can do a lot zine so I would be helped that vealed: “Sweeter than honey - television program (February of things and dancing is one of way. And I cleared all the pic - dew melon or April mornings or 17, 1968) where she sang to them,” she says. “But sometime tures they used. even love is the sound of ap - great acclaim. As an actress, Jef - I would like to just walk out “But then the movie was plause. A thin, high, instanta - fries, appeared on various tele - there and stand quietly and never released—why I don’t neous sizzle followed by a solid vision programs such as the Jeffries was a focused hard-working performer who was never sing…I’ve gone through know. And at the first show I thwack that jars you to the heels episode of Police Woman (1976) afraid of criticism or too proud to seek professional instruction. stretches where I wore hiphug - did after the magazine came out – once you’ve had that, you will where she portrayed Tracy, the ging outfits and then lowcut almost the whole crowd was never be the same. Frances tennis bum. A single example of during an extended interview: country for the next three outfits and then backless outfits men who had obviously come Makris had it young; at 12, she Jefferies on television as a “I’d be a kind of Dr. Doolittle. months. and sometimes I’ve felt that as to look, not to listen. I began to got up on a San Jose, Calif., celebrity, where she seems to be Yes! A female vet and I’d sing Novak’s account, in even the soon as I walk out on the stage feel a little disgusted about the stage, sang Fine Brown Frame having fun – if nothing else, can lots of songs and wear very high brief snippets herein, provides all the women in the audience whole thing… and won, of course, the amateur be seen aptly enough on fashion clothes…” Then, noth - a sense of what critics and jour - hate me.”… ‘I would love to have a hit night. On a sunny afternoon Celebrity Bowling. Most of these ing, but the celebrity buzz, sur - nalists of the early 1970s “Being sexy has in fact been record,’ she says. First I have to some years later, now Miss Fran specific episodes are available rounding Jeffries, was already thought of Jeffries work and a combination meal ticket-hand - find someone who believes in Jeffries (“tall luscious,” says the on DVD. in the air. In early February their questions concerning her icap-addition…Her image prob - me as a singer enough to fi - press release), she rehearsed at All of this media exposure 1972, syndicated columnist, career: “Fran Jeffries has been lem has not been her only nance it but I’m not interested the San Jose Auditorium with led by 1972 to at least conver - Ralph Novak, wrote a long re - prancing around the fringes of source of frustration… in anything else, really, and I the Count Basie Band. The years sations about Jeffries having her view of Jeffries’ career: “More stardom for 15 years, singing, “She hasn’t made a record in will never give up until it hap - have seen her shift from night own television program. Jeffries Than a Starlet Less Than a Star.” dancing, acting and being de - five years, since she ended a pens.” club singer to movie actress. spoke to reporter David Cuth - That syndicated piece appeared scribed as ‘sultry.’ She has brief and unhappy relationship But she has always been true to bert about this turn of events in newspapers all across the played most of the country’s with a Nashville record com - [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES All Hands on Deck

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos sure.” George, who didn’t like Special to The National Herald being sentenced to hard labor, said, “Not my expertise!” John, coffee in hand, an - Turning away, he asked the nounced to the others that he others, “We’d help our good wanted a deck built behind his friend here to build a simple postage-sized, back yard in As - deck, right? What could be eas - toria. “Why?” asked George, be - ier?” Vague nods and muffled lieving one should be satisfied responses were muttered over with what he has got. “Because the wild clinking of spoons de - I’d like to drink my coffees out - signed to cover their real re - doors…like they do in Greece… sponses. John, warming to the under a blue sky…among pot - idea of being able to say he’d ted plants with flowers in done it all, himself, asked Yian - them,” John explained with se - nis what one orders for such a rious reflection, adding, “The project. Leaning back, posing trouble with you, George, is like Frank Lloyd Wright, Yiannis you’re not romantic.” “That’s ticked off on his fingers what right!” approved Yiannis. “Have equipment was needed, “Ham - you started?” mers, nails, 2X4s, beams, “I have!” said he, taking out thrusters, posts and footers.” It a paper with an estimate from all sounded so simple, thought about the project. But, Yiannis squares and circles and triangles like the ‘we’ part and said; “Now “Mosquito bites. Coffee on the a construction firm and an ar - John, seriously. “How much to persuaded him that they’d never in the air, “you…mark a square you call that architect and con - deck isn’t such a good idea. Bird chitect’s proposal – both with you think I’d save, Yiannis?” seen the do-it-yourself programs and put up posts - lay all those struction company.” poop, bees and wasps… kids exorbitant fees and extravagant Tilting his head, huge numerical on TV. “Those guys aren’t other things down and…make Two weeks into summer, next door play their boom boxes plans. figures whizzing round his smarter than us. I say you can a deck.” Jotting a look at his John, patches of cream on face and the neighbor’s lawn “Good references, too!” Yian - brain, he quoted, “A lot!” do it!” watch he said, “Call me when and arms, was, especially silent, mower…” another sigh. “What nis took one look at both figures “Where do I get all that Unable to cancel the order, it’s done. Gotta go!” Bewildered, sipping his coffee. “Allergies, do they do in Greece?” Grin - and his eyes bulged, astounded equipment?” John’s back yard was soon piled John asked the others, “What John?” asked Dimos. ning, George told him, “They go at his friend’s stupidity. “WHAT! “A warehouse - where you’ll with everything needed to build do we do, now?” George didn’t “No!” heaving in a deep sigh, inside.” You’re not really going to pay get everything cheaper and… a deck. Dimos, Kipreos, George those shysters your hard-earned you’re all set.” Dimos, being and Yiannis stood beside a per - money for something that can more practical informed John plexed John as they surveyed be done yourself, are you?” that George is a mechanic – not the mountain of paraphernalia John looked up, struck by the a builder; he ran a diner and that had covered where once acuteness of his statement. Kipreos made pastries. “We’re tomatoes grew. “Well, it’s all “But, I can’t build a deck my - all busy with our own jobs and here. Now! Where do we begin, self, Yiannis. I wouldn’t know can’t help you build that deck. Yiannis?” what to order or how to lay Don’t feel bad, John, but you Looking nonplussed, Yiannis down the wood or nail the may not like the results if you looked up at John as if asked to boards. Only a professional can decide to take that project on.” build the George Washington do that.” John, slowly conceding to his Bridge. But, not wishing to ap - “George, here, is a mechanic. friend’s wise and practical logic, pear ignorant or a know-noth - 325 West 42 Street, New York, NY 10036 He can come and help us, I’m was having second thoughts ing, he lifted his arms, making Tel: 212-315.1010 • Fax: 212-315.2410 www.dafnitaverna.com A dining experience reminiscent of a small village in Greece SERVING AUTHENTIC GREEK CUISINE Using the freshest and purest ingredients Open every day for Lunch and Dinner Καλ ό Πάσχα Καλή Ανάσταση

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DEATH NOTICES n ANTONELOS, CHARLES 154-156 Winter Street, Haver - His article describing this work razed in 1972 as part of Worces - – Spyridoula J. Brellos, 80, of of humor, dressing up as The SPRINGFIELD, MA (From The hill. Although a longtime resi - appeared in The American Phi - ter's urban renewal program. Harrisburg, passed away on Sat - Tooth Fairy one Halloween and Republican, published on Apr. dent of Springfield, Charles will latelist in 1985 and won the John then moved to Amherst, urday Apr. 6 at Manor Care passing out tooth brushes to sur - 10) – Charles J. Antonelos be laid to rest in Linwood Ceme - Apfelbaum Award for the best ar - where he and brother-in-law Health Center, Camp Hill. prised trick-or-treaters. Tamara SPRINGFIELD - Charles (Costa) tery, Haverhill, next to his ticle published in that journal in James Yotides took over Bells She was born June 9, 1932 in loved people, parties, and a good James Antonelos, 79 years old, brother Alex Anthony and near 1985. He published three com - Pizza House from brother Chris, Neohori, Greece, she immigrated adventure. She was fluent in of Springfield, MA passed away his beloved mother Melveena prehensive books on the Large who had opened it five years ear - to Harrisburg with her family in Greek and spent most of her life after a long illness on Tuesday, Antonelos. Visitation will pre - Hermes Heads of Greece. Louis lier. After James retired in 1987, 1970. She was a proud member traveling the world, often spend - Apr. 9. He is predeceased by his cede the funeral service on Sat - continued his stamp collecting ef - Effie joined John in running the of the Holy Trinity Greek Ortho - ing entire summers with her wife of 45 years Joanna D. An - urday morning from 10:30 to forts, corresponding with friends business until their retirement in dox Cathedral, the St. Cather - family in Greece, Ireland, tonelos, ne Adamopoulos origi - 11:30 AM in the Driscoll Funeral around the world, and was very 1997. John was frequently asked ine's Philoptochos Society and Hawaii, and other exotic and dis - nally of Haverhill. Charles was Home, 309 So. Main Street, (Rte. active right up to the weeks be - after retiring if he missed Bells the Syllogos Neohoriton. She is tant locales. A voracious speed born on the island of Kefalonia 125), Bradford. fore his death. Louis was prede - Pizza, to which he'd reply, "I miss survived by her husband of 55 reader, Tamara would emerge in Greece on July 26, 1933, son ceased by his sister Elizabeth Gi - my customers but not working years, John Brellos, of Harris - from the local library with a gro - of the late Dimitrios and n BASEL, LOUIS amalis of Glastonbury nine days a week!" He truly en - burg; three daughters, Jane cery bag full of books, only to Melveena Antonelos. A child dur - STAMFORD, CT (From the Stam - Connecticut and his brother-in- joyed all the young people who Mallios, of Carlisle, Athena Brel - return the following week for ing WWII, times were extremely ford Advocate, published on Mar. law Nicholas Giatrelis of Hamden worked for him, acting as a men - los-Jiras, of Camp Hill, Angela more. Her love of animals knew difficult. The island was at first 24) – Louis Basel of Stamford Connecticut. He is survived by tor and father figure to many of Megoulas and her husband no bounds, counting a bottle pig, occupied by Italian troops and CT, 86, passed away with his lov - his loving wife Penelope of 62 them. He was seen as a stern Christ, of Palmyra; four grand - two massive Irish Wolfhounds, then by Germans. Poverty was ing family by his side on the years, his sister Sophie Caloutas, boss under pressure, but could children, Vasiliki Truong and her and an adopted skunk among rampant and Charles, at the age morning of Mar. 22 at Yale New his sons Peter, John and his wife lighten the mood instantly with husband Hao, Peter and Evan her many pets. She spent the of 18, boarded a Greek Haven hospital. He was born on Ki, and his grandchildren Louis, his high jinx and infectious per - Megoulas, and Jonas Jiras; four later 40 years of her life with her shipowner's vessel as a cook and June 28, 1926 in New Haven, Paul, and Peter Jr. He is also sur - sonality. With barely two years siblings, John T. Mallios, Athana - beloved second husband Richard left for America. Settling first in Connecticut to the late John and vived by many loving cousins, of high school under his belt, he sia Lingas, Demetrios T. Mallios A. Brown, a retired military offi - New York, then Haverhill, he Aspasia Basel. Louis attended friends and nieces and nephews. was extremely well read and and Anastasia Kalathas. Funeral cer. Tamara and Richard contin - would ultimately settle in Spring - Hillhouse High School in New The family will receive friends at very knowledgeable on the sub - services will be held at 1:30 PM ued to travel the world, meeting field where he resided for over Haven and went on to obtain a the Church of the Archangels, jects of politics, science and on Wednesday Apr. 10 at Holy new friends all along the way. 50 years. He bought his first Master of Science Degree in 1527 Bedford Street, Stamford, world history. After retiring, he Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathe - Tamara's gift was people, making home shortly after, opened his Chemical Engineering from the CT on Mar. 25, from 5:00 to 8:00 could often be found at Barnes dral, 1000 Yverdon Dr., Camp even strangers feel welcome and first pizzeria in Enfield, CT and Massachusetts Institute of Tech - PM with a Trisagion service at 7 and Noble; either reading or Hill. A viewing will be held in special. Professionally she alter - another in Somers, CT. After sell - nology in 1950. He served in the PM. The funeral service will be sneaking in a nap. Apart from the Cathedral on Wednesday nated time between market re - ing the pizza places, he became United States Navy as an Aviation held on Tuesday Mar. 23 at 11:00 reading, John was known as an from 12:00 P.M. - 1: 30 P.M. Bur - search and travel consulting and a distributor of Greek food prod - Electronics Technician from 1944 AM, at The Church of The avid soccer fan and would watch ial will be held immediately fol - excelled at both. Tamara was en - ucts to stores and restaurants to 1946. Louis married his lovely Archangels, 1527 Bedford Street, as many games as he could. He lowing the service at the East thusiastically active for decades around Massachusetts and Con - wife Penelope and they moved Stamford CT. Memorial dona - kept active in his golden years, Harrisburg Cemetery. In lieu of in the local Beta Sigma Phi necticut. He was friendly, gregar - to Tennessee where his profes - tions may be made to Veterans enjoying daily two-mile walks flowers the family requests Sorority and, along with Richard, ious and was the life of the party sional career began at Oak Ridge and Medical charities. To leave and socializing with passers-by. memorial contributions to be socially as part of the Francis with his smile and salty sense of National Laboratory working on an online condolence please vis - He loved reminiscing with made to her beloved Syllogos Drake Masonic Lodge 376. humor. He loved company and liquid metal heat transfer for nu - itwww.leopgallagherstamford.co Amherst residents about his Neohoriton, PO Box 2147, Har - Tamara is survived by her hus - driving anywhere, at any time. clear reactors. He moved on to m years at Bells, often joking that risburg, PA 17105. Myers-Harner band Richard, her children Nick - He would work all day and then United Engineers & Constructors he'd have their pizza and Funeral Home, 1903 Market St, oletta, Royal, Lisa, Stephanie, take his wife and drive to New in Philadelphia where he worked n BELL, JOHN grinders ready for pick up when - Camp Hill, is handling funeral Michael, Philip, and Theresa, Hampshire to spend time with on the design of chemical plants AMHERST, MA (From the Daily ever they wanted. Most of all, he arrangements. Online condo - son-in-law David and daughter- his brother's family. Or, he would and then to Crawford & Russell Hampshire Gazette, published enjoyed joining his family and lences will be received at myers- in-law Laurie, grandchildren Ja - close the store late at night and in Stamford, Connecticut where on Mar. 21) – A beloved mem - friends over a good meal, some harner.com son, Joshua, Katherine, and Elle, hop in the car with his wife and he was President until he retired ber of the Amherst community, red wine and lively conversation. her brother Nicky and sister-in- drive to New York City to spend in 1984. Louis and Penelope are John Beloyiannis Bell, 89, passed John was predeceased by his par - n BROWN, TAMARA ANN law Irmgard and their children time with his daughter and her long time residents of Stamford away Saturday, Mar. 9. A self- ents, brother Peter Bell of SAN FRANCISCO, CA (From the Alexander and Valerie, her little family. He was always full of en - CT. He volunteered his sharp en - proclaimed "pizza engineer," he Worcester, sister Basiliki Paparo - San Francisco Chronicle, pub - white terrier Dakota, and, at 78, ergy and was always there to gineering and analytical skills to died at Cooley Dickinson Hospi - dis of Greece, sister Sofia Ntelis lished on Mar. 29) – Tamar a many close friends and cherished help family and friends in need. the Stamford WPCA helping to tal, surrounded by friends and of Greece, sister Georgia Mas - Anne Brown South San Fran - friendships spanning a full and He will be missed by many. save the tax payers many millions family. He had lived in Amherst saras of Amherst, brother-in-law cisco, California: Tamara Anne rich lifetime. Her eldest child Charles is survived by his daugh - of dollars. Louis was an avid since 1972. John was born in the James Yotides of Worcester and Brown was born on Feb. 16, Anastasia (Doodie), taken by di - ter, Dr. Effie M. Mitsis and her stamp collector starting in the small village of Tsipiana to par - beloved son-in-law Steve Snover 1935 and passed quietly on Mar. abetes at an early age, remained husband Christos Mitsis; two mid 1970's. He soon joined the ents Leonidas and Christina. He of Sunderland. He leaves his wife 18. Born in Chicago and raised in her heart until her last breath. grandchildren whom he loved Hellenic Philatelic Society of lived in occupied Greece during of 54 years, Effie Economou Bell in New Orleans, Tamara moved Services will be held at All Souls deeply and was so very proud of America in New York city where World War II and acted as a of Amherst; daughter Tina Bell to San Francisco in the 1950's, Church in South San Francisco Konstantina Calabro and Christo - he was advised to purchase a courier for his village, delivering Snover of Sunderland; grandson married, and had four children. on Tuesday, Apr. 2 at 12 PM. Be - pher Mitsis; grandson-in-law copy of the Etude of Tryphon information and supplies while Ian Snover of Sunderland; Tamara was very active in the cause of Tamara's great love for Nick Calabro; as well as by nu - Constantindes. This book, pub - dodging German soldiers. He brother Chris Bell of East Lans - community, being a member of animals, donations can be sent merous nieces, nephews, other lished in 1933 in Greek and then endured the Greek Civil ing, Mich.; and many nieces, the Auxiliary to the Deaf, Deaf to the local SPCA in lieu of flow - relatives and friends. Relatives French, had never been trans - War that sprouted from the tur - nephews, cousins, in-laws and and Hard of Hearing Children, ers. and friends are respectfully in - lated into English. Louis took on moil. John came to the United friends that he adored. As edu - the League of Women Voters, vited to attend his Funeral Ser - the task and published his trans - States at age 30 with his younger cation was of utmost importance and the Woman's Club of San This is a service vice on Apr. 13, at 12:00 noon lation in 1978. This started a 25 brother Chris. They were re - to John, contributions to the Ian Francisco. She was also very ac - to the community. in Holy Apostles, Sts. Peter & year period of research in the united with their older brother Snover Scholarship Fund may be tive in local charities, raising Announcements of deaths Paul Greek Orthodox Church, Large Hermes Head stamps of Peter. They came, as most immi - made in John's memory. To sign funds for KQED and All Souls may be telephoned to the Greece with many publications grants do, in hopes of a better a Guest Book, express condo - Church, where she often ran the Classified Department of in Hellenic philatelic journals in life. He found residence in lences, share memories and read parish annual fashion show. She The National Herald at Days and dates of funerals, the United States, Greece, Great Worcester, where he would meet other obituaries, go to placed a strong emphasis on ed - (718) 784-5255, memorials, and other events di - Britain, Germany and The the love of his life Effie www.gazettenet.com/obituaries. ucation and achievement, with Monday through Friday, rectly correspond to the original Netherlands. Louis designed and Economou, at a Greek Dance. Af - all of her children attending col - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST publication date, which appears wrote an advanced computer ter they married, John took over n BRELLOS, SPYRIDOULA lege, including one at Pepperdine or e-mailed to: at the beginning of each notice. program for the plating of the 20 his father-in-laws luncheonette, CAMP HILL, PA (From the Pa - and two at Stanford University. [email protected] lepta Large Hermes Head stamps. Economy Sweets, until it was triot-News, published on Apr. 9) Tamara had a mischievous sense THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 4-11, 2013 GREECE CYPRUS 13 Cyprus Approves Bailout by a Tight Margin, Seeks More Transparency

By Andy Dabilis manded, just as restoring the it was taken as evidence of the TNH Staff Writer public’s trust in institutions and failings of their politicians, who more so in politicians is de - are perceived as either too feeble The Cypriot Parliament, by a manded,” Anastasiades said in a to stand up to international pres - razor thin 29-27 margin, has ap - nationally televised address. sure, in cahoots with bankers, or proved the terms of an interna - More government officials, in - more interested in protecting tional bailout that required big cluding presidential appointees their own interests than those of confiscations of bank accounts such as advisers and commis - the public. and austerity measures that the sioners as well as judges and par - Cypriots’ confidence in their government said was needed to liamentary leaders, will have to leaders had already been drained prevent bankruptcy and chaos. declare their financial assets. after the July, 2011 explosion of But with fury remaining over Presidential terms will be lim - Iranian munitions left exposed bank mismanagement that cre - ited to two consecutive five-year to the elements after being con - ated the crisis that led to the periods. However, a former pres - fiscated two years earlier. Many need for a bailout, and with ident can again seek reelection chalked up the explosion, which anger also directed at the coun - after a hiatus of at least one killed 13 people and nearly com - try’s leaders, the government has term. There is currently no limit pletely destroyed the country’s moved to curb political immunity to the terms a president can largest power station, to govern - and bolster accountability. serve. MP’s will be restricted to ment officials’ ineptitude. The bailout approval was nar - serving three consecutive terms. Among the other measures row because President Nicos Anastasiades is trying to re - Anastasiades announced is mak - Anastasiades’ center-right Demo - habilitate the image of the coun - ing all state tenders public and cratic Rally Party and its ally, the try’s political elite after it took a bolstering the powers of the om - Democratic Party, had only 28 of severe bruising from the finan - budsman’s office to compel gov - the 56 seats in the Parliament, cial crisis — the worst the coun - ernment departments to conform which earlier in April had voted try has faced in decades — and to its recommendations. 39-0 to reject an initial plan de - the chaotic negotiations over a Citizens will be granted free manded by Eurozone officials bailout program. and unfettered access to all gov - who were putting up 10 billion Cyprus, with a population of ernment documents apart from euros ($13 billion) to help save AP PHOTO/PETROS KARADJIAS around 860,000 and economic those involving national security, the country’s economy. Protesters, right, push through barricades to the police officers during an anti-bailout protest output that only contributes 0.2 defense and international rela - Casting the deciding vote was outside of the Cyprus' parliament in Nicosia, Tuesday, April 30 percent to the economy of the tions. rightwing European Party leader 17-country Eurozone, last month Government employees will Demetris Syllouris. the country’s sovereignty and problems we’re facing amid this dishonesty or moral turpitude” negotiated a 23 billion euro ($30 be hired based on the strength There was anger aplenty would lead to social hardships. crisis,” Anastasiades told re - or becomes permanently inca - billion) financial rescue package of their marks in a written exam though as Cyprus has to find an - “Our vote cannot be positive porters. pacitated physically or mentally. with its euro partners and the as well as their academic and other 13 billion euros ($17 bil - to the prospect of national, state The country was brought to Anastasiades said that a pro - IMF. The deal involved deposi - professional achievements rather lion) in spending cuts and rev - and economic subjugation,” said the edge of ruin when state posed Constitutional amend - tors with over 100,000 euros sit - than their performance in an oral enue-raisers because the Troika Parliamentary Speaker and banks gave bad loans to Greek ment will “expand and specify” ting in Cyprus’ two largest banks interview. of the European Union-Interna - EDEK leader Yiannakis Omirou. businesses that went belly-up in the offences under which the losing up to 80 percent of their New administrative courts tional Monetary Fund-European The government had warned that country’s economic crisis President could be criminally money to bail out the banks for will be set up to alleviate a huge Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) was the agreement’s rejection will and with their heavy exposure prosecuted. their mismanagement. backlog of cases weighing down unwilling to pay for the full cost mean the country’s economic to Greek bonds that were deval - He said ministers and top civil That was a key condition un - the country’s legal system. An - of saving the country from reck - collapse and possible exit from ued by 74 percent as Greece servants will face tougher legal der which creditors would agree other proposed bill would enable less decisions made by its banks. the euro, which is used by 17 frantically tried to reduce its standards, with new criminal to loan Cyprus 10 billion to keep citizens to propose their own leg - “If there was another realistic European Union countries. staggering debt. and civil liabilities to be en - the near-bankrupt government islation provided that it has the alternative, our decision would Anastasiades had earlier ap - KEEPING THEM HONEST shrined in law. Members of Par - going and to keep the financial support of 10,000 people. Also, surely be different. Unfortu - pealed to lawmakers to act with The reforms being put forth liament, who have immunity sector — deeply hurt from losses voting in any election will no nately, we have no other choice,” the national interest in mind. by Anastasiades would make it from prosecution on some types it took on bad Greek debt and longer be obligatory and those said Democratic party leader “What we’re called upon today easier for even the President to of offences, will lose all such le - loans — from imploding. not casting ballots won’t be crim - Marios Garoyian. to do is to adopt a loan agree - be removed for wrongdoing. gal protection. Many Cypriots saw the deal inally prosecuted. The Communist AKEL and So - ment that will allow our country Currently, the President can lose “Today ... I find that not only as a betrayal of Europe’s com - cialist EDEK parties voted against to breathe and to give us the his job if convicted of high trea - is the state’s reformation and mitment to support its troubled [Material from the Associated the deal they said undermines chance to overcome whichever son or any offenses “involving modernization needed but is de - members. But more importantly, Press was used in this report] Greece Gets Loans, Plans More Austerity, Hopes for More Foreign Investors

Continued from page 1 There were some contentious choice. nesses have closed in an econ - amendments though, including “Greece is still cut off from omy that works on internal de - Eurozone officials swiftly ap - one that will let the government the markets,” he told lawmak - mand,” she said, adding that proved the release of 2.8 billion seize bank accounts of tax ers, adding that the govern - Greece’s widely praised exports euros ($3.7 billion) in loans that debtors who haven’t paid what ment’s chief aim was to achieve rebound had been grossly exag - had been delayed since March they owe the state and another a primary surplus before seeking gerated. and they are expected to dis - to let local authorities hire a further “drastic” reduction of The decline in the real econ - burse another 6 billion euros young Greeks for less than the its debt, which at the end of last omy – and on the shop floor – ($7.92 billion) in May. minimum wage of 586 euros year was 160 percent of gross reflects the huge drop in dispos - Samaras stressed that the ($774.20) per month before domestic product. able income – as much as 46 civil servants who will be let go taxes. Greece has been locked out percent according to some esti - will be replaced by younger Samaras’ coalition partners, of borrowing markets since mates - suffered by ordinary workers who will be paid less, PASOK leader Evangelos Venize - Venizelos also imposed a so- Greeks since the outbreak of the and among those dismissed will los and Democratic Left (DI - called Private Sector Involve - crisis. It’s likely to get worse for be disciplinary problems, includ - MAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, have ment (PSI) scheme that put 74 storeowners as this Easter was ing for faked credentials, who railed about firings and pay cuts percent losses on bondholders the first time that public work - don’t show up to work or have but always relented in the end and investors, destroying ers and pensioners wouldn’t be committed felonies, including and they gave in again when Cyprus’ banking sector and getting an annual bonus, which murder, but are still being paid. Samaras offered a 15 percent pushing Greek bands to the had also been given for the sum - The incoming loans are part reduction in a property tax that edge of insolvency. mer holidays and at Christmas, of a second bailout of $173 bil - had been doubled by Venizelos HARD TIMES REMAIN two months total. lion. Greece has spent a first se - when he was finance minister The austerity measures have THE TAXMAN COMETH ries of $152 billion that began in a previous government. also created a record 27.2 per - With Greeks unable to pay in 2010 and Samaras said the The legislation, which opens cent unemployment, which their taxes – a bill that rose by new monies insure Greece will up some closed professions that some analysts said could hit 30 800 million euros ($1.04 bil - not be forced out of the Euro - have enjoyed near monopolies, percent, and put almost 60 per - lion) in March - the bill includes zone and that he believes the also extends the property tax cent of those under 25 out of a an installment plan allowing economy, which has shrunk by surcharge for at least a third job, many fleeing to other coun - AP PHOTO/NIKOLAS GIAKOUMIDIS taxpayers a series of payments nearly 25 percent in the last five year. It was supposed to be only tries in search of work and a An elderly man with an old helmet gestures during a protest over time to meet their obliga - years, will start to recover in for one year when implemented new life. in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Wednesday, tions. 2014. in 2011 but now looks to be per - The new aid announcement May 1. The country’s main labor unions are protesting soaring Companies which owe be - To meet a goal of reducing manent. came only a day before the unemployment, which is the highest in the European Union. tween 50,000-75,000 euros workforce – bloated by four Finance Minister, Yannis country’s statistics agency, EL - ($65,418-$98,12) will be al - decades of alternating New Stournaras, echoing the mantra STAT, said that austerity has also and even offers of up to 80 per - Not since the second world war lowed to pay off their debts in Democracy and PASOK Socialist of other officials over the past shrunk retail sales by more than cent off hasn’t lured customers has the situation been as bad,” 12 installments. Those owing administrations packing payrolls three years since Greece im - 30 percent over the last three watching every euro. Prof Valia Saranitou of the Na - more than 75,000 euros will be with hundreds of thousands of posed pay cuts, tax hikes, and years, during which more than Sales have fallen markedly tional Confederation of Greek able to pay in 48 tranches. needless workers in return for slashed pensions on orders of 68,000 businesses shut their as well in supermarkets and Commerce (ESEE) told the Individuals owing up to votes – the government will hire the Troika of the European doors. stores were offering big bargains British newspaper The 5,000 euros ($6,540) will be al - only a fraction of the workers Union-Internatoinal Monetary Sales dropped by 14.4% ahead of the May 5 Easter holi - Guardian. lowed 48 installments as well, who leave through retirement Fund-European Central Bank year-on-year in February, follow - day. “An unprecedented 150,000 while in some cases they could and attrition. (EU-IMF-ECB) said there was no ing a slump of 16.8% in January “The economy is in freefall. small and medium-sized busi - be given 100 monthly tranches. To qualify, however, applicants will have to submit paperwork that includes bank data. If tax inspectors find that firms or individuals have the money to pay off their debt to Stella Catechis the state, that amount will be 214-25 42 Ave, 4FL seized from their accounts all at once and they won’t be allowed Bayside, NY 11361 to use the installment plan. After Cyprus began confiscat - #(718)423-6000, x 243 ing bank accounts to qualify for [email protected] bailouts, some EU officials said it could be used as a model for governments to take whatever money they needed to pay for If and when you get sick or injured, economic crises, although oth - ers insisted Cyprus was a special are you and your family prepared to take care of your expenses? case. Greece, however, has opened the door for bank account con - Aflac will pay you cash in the event you get cancer, stroke, heart attack, renal failure, fiscations, although Samaras and Stournaras said previously personal sickness, injured or disabled. You can use the cash to pay medical expenses, mortgage, rent, it wouldn’t happen. car payments, child care, or any other expense you and your family deem necessary. 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Do you tational errors and contrary con - GEORGE SARAFOGLOU / SPECIAL TO THE NATIONAL HERALD not see how good life is in Greece?” clusions to the “bible” of the That is probably why there is now a significant time gap between the reality of the new immigration and its recognition by us. Most Greek-Americans would be happy with a new wave of im - migration. We enjoy the warmth of the presence of Greeks in the AGORA – THE ORIGINAL MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS neighborhoods and cities in which we live because the new immi - grants tend to be young in age and will thus guarantee the continuity of our institutions. By Dan Georgakas and the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, Rest assured, anything we write here are We are happy for the newcomers, who after the initial problems, Constantinos E. Scaros and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire our sincere, heartfelt thoughts. will find their way. They will establish careers and families, and they to continue that tradition. We will share them with you every two will live with dignity. And they also, in turn, will help Greece and From time to time, an issue emerges and We respect one another’s opinion very much, weeks. We hope you enjoy them, and we look Cyprus for decades, as did the previous waves of immigrants. inspires various minds to converge, often at but often times we will disagree on particular forward to your taking part in the discussion The earlier waves experienced all of the difficulties of migration: odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, issues. We would never fabricate a difference as well – by contributing letters to the editor in the uprooting, the different language, the different culture of the collective enlightenment will result from such of opinion for the sake of writing an interesting response, and/or commenting on our website: new country. But today’s immigrants will face fewer problems. conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in column. www.thenationalherald.com First, because they know a lot about the United States – unlike, we, who had no idea. Second, because they speak English – unlike most of us who did not know a word. So where will the newcomers struggle? Their mentality. Yes or No To Same Sex Marriage? And Polygamy Too? The majority of the new generation of Greeks has the mentality that someone else, their parents, the state, etc. will take care of them. They are the ones that will be hit hard by the American reality, the 1. GEORGAKAS SHARES HIS place present government-sanc - should be used as the basis for consider homosexuality to be a unrelenting and often-cutthroat competitiveness, a society that says POINT OF VIEW tioned marriage. This means secular law. The problem is fur - disorder. Therefore, by defini - take care of yourself, and where the spirit of independence and per - Dino, I wish to begin our Americans need to decide ther complicated by the diver - tion, homosexuals possess the sonal responsibility reigns. conversation by taking issue whether government should of - sity of Christian views. A num - capacity to consent and, once They will be hit hard in the beginning, but their survival instincts with your views presented a few ficially recognize homosexual ber of Christian churches they have attained the age of will act as catalysts and lead them to high achievement, as high as weeks ago on same sex mar - marriage. If we look to the his - sanction homosexual marriage. majority, they are consenting their ambitions, luck, and abilities permit. They will attain the heights riage with your provocative but torical record, we will find that Of course, the dominant trend adults, just like heterosexual of success, after the initial adjustment period, because they are smart thoroughly legitimate question: homosexual relationships have of most Christian thought is that adults. and because they have acquired many skills. why not polygamy? been part of virtually all soci - marriage should be limited to Next, is it possible that there As for the wider community, its future largely will depend on the The major objection to same eties since the beginning of one man-one woman unions. To are certain innate male and fe - way in which we welcome these young people, because they will sex marriage is that traditionally recorded history. What this insist that that religious view male characteristics that, when carry the taste of their early days here with them throughout their marriage has always been a rite means is that in the United must be governmental policy is combined, created a stronger entire lives. involving a male and female. States is there are millions of not unlike the demands of Mus - parental union than that of two While this is true of most of citizens that are homosexual. lim extremists that contend that males or two females? I am nei - western civilization, in due The most basic principle of religious law (their version, of ther a psychologist nor an an - Golden Disgrace course I will discuss how other democracy is that government course) should supersede civil thropologist, and so I cannot say cultures may differ. But staying guarantees a system of equal law. The basic challenge for one way or the other for sure. with Western societies, the mar - rights. Certainly the legal right Christians in democratic soci - But we do not necessarily have The results of the latest public opinion poll in Greece are dis - riage ritual is more about prop - to marry and enjoy whatever le - eties that believe that hetero - to answer that question. In - turbing. Not only does SYRIZA have a substantial lead, but Golden erty rights than romance. The gal privileges that relationship sexual monogamy is the only stead, we can conclude that, be - Dawn has risen to the staggering level of the support of 13 percent economic/political considera - entails is a basic right. For gov - moral option is to win others to cause the law does not neces - of Greek voters. tions of marriages of aristocrats ernment to deny those rights to their belief through various sarily permit marriage (and the This is not only proof of the disdain that Greeks feel for their during the age of monarchy is millions of its citizens, who are evangelic efforts. The use of raising of children) only in ideal country's political institutions, and not just a shame, but dangerous indisputable. That same pattern otherwise law-abiding and quite secular power to make others situations, there are countless to Greece’s national interests and domestic tranquility. extended throughout all the often community and cultural hew to religious views is like the examples of homosexual cou - Are we standing, therefore, at the gateway to the Weimar Re - classes. Greeks, of course, will leaders, is an abuse of power. forced conversions demanded in ples that are more fit to be par - public, or is Golden Dawn a temporary phenomenon? In any case, immediately think of the role of That marriage always in - other times and places. I oppose ents than heterosexual ones. how should democracies face such political extremism? the traditional dowry system in volves one male and one female all such abuses of power. What Bonnie and Clyde, for example, Golden Dawn cannot be confronted merely by verbal methods. Greece. In contemporary Amer - is a false assumption. Various do you think? would not have been better par - The demonization of that group is not working. The only thing to ica, a marriage contract contin - forms of polygamy and are now ents than a loving, law-abiding do is to take action regarding the weaknesses the Republic is facing: ues to have enormous economic and have been sanctioned by 2. SCAROS RESPONDS homosexual couple. Neither fight corruption, combat crime, and address economic hardships. consequences. These include different religions and nations. Welcome to the AGORA, would millions of heterosexual Only by improving the situation in those areas will the vulnerable rates of taxation, inheritance Many traditional Native Ameri - Dan! It seems as if we launching couples whose marriages are citizenry turn their backs on such political cancers, which are an rights, child-rearing responsibil - can societies, for example, had our initial point/counterpoint based on physical or verbal anathema to every thinking man. It will be disgraceful for Greece, ities, and medical service. All of polygamy as a norm and today, on a rather agreeable note. I, abuse between themselves and a country that boasts that it is one of the brightest star among na - these materialistic rights involve different sects of Buddhism and too, believe that an argument extended to their children. If tions, to present itself as a country where SYRIZA and Golden legitimate concerns of an or - Islam, two of the world’s largest based on religion cannot pass they are allowed to marry and Dawn are its leading parties. derly society. They have little to religious movements, allow constitutional muster, and the raise kids, then, why not homo - This should, of course, first of all trouble the Greek people. But do with the sexual preference polygamy. With the massive argument against same-sex mar - sexuals? it should also be troubling to the people of Germany unless they of the parties. movements of people being the riage loses the compelling por - Polygamy is an entirely dif - want to use the rise of these two parties as a wonderful excuse for Given that reality, I have long new global norm, an increas - tion of its force when religion is ferent matter. Is a man with six expelling Greece from the European Union. Maybe Germany thinks thought that government should ingly multicultural United removed from the equation. I wives able to love each of them that is how it could limit the problem Greece poses for the EU, but get out of the marriage business States will be faced with more also think civil unions by any equally? Can he give each of it is not a solution. entirely and limit itself to regu - citizens whose religion sanctions two consenting adults, called them the necessary attention lating economic unions, polygamy. Domestic Partners (it could be that she would need, not only presently called civil unions. That is another reason to get completely non-romantic, be - as his wife but as the mother of Oh, Delicate Democracy! Such economic unions could be government out of the marriage tween two siblings, for in - one or more of his children? homosexual, heterosexual, or business. Otherwise, it is predi - stance), would be appropriate, Again, children are a necessary asexual. The contract would be cable that our political and ju - though unlikely to happen any - part of this equation as, unlike That democracy is being tested in Europe is more than obvious. as rigorous as a marriage agree - dicial system will eventually be time soon. the married persons in question, External forces are imposing unelected head of governments, re - ment and just as difficult to ter - challenged by efforts to estab - The two non-religious argu - they are not adults and thereby placing elected governments that are either unable or unwilling to minate. A great advantage of lish polygamy not simply as an ments I address have to do with are entitled to special protection implement dictated programs. such an arrangement is that re - acceptable religious objection whether homosexuals in general under the law. Accordingly, Neo-Nazi parties such as Golden Dawn, which were believed to ligious institutions getting gov - but as a constitutional right pro - have the capacity to consent more experts need to weigh in have been tossed into the “dustbin of history” now appear more ernmental aid or performing tected by the first and four - (i.e., are they “consenting on this one. menacing than ever. public services would be ac - teenth amendments to the con - adults?”), and whether children For those reasons, Dan, Donald Kagan, the renowned octogenarian scholar of Ancient knowledging an economic unit, stitutional. (non-adults) raised by a homo - though I agree with much of Greece, whose four volumes of the Peloponnesian War are for many not a marriage. The marriage I have avoided speaking of sexual couple, or by a number what you wrote, I think that the the definitive study of the great war that divided Ancient Hellas, is ritual itself would be a matter moral issues, personalizing the of parents and stepparents, are notions to consider about what retiring from Yale University, where he taught and wrote for decades. for religious bodies to decide discussion, or using eu - at a disadvantage as compared type of marriage to allow extend In his farewell, he expresses pessimism about the future of democ - and they could set whatever phemisms. Returning to the dis - to their counterparts raised by beyond just property rights ver - racy: “Democracy,” wrote Mr. Kagan in Pericles of Athens, is “one of standards they wished. cussion of same sex marriage, one man and one woman. sus religion. the rarest, most delicate and fragile flowers in the jungle of human I don’t think there is much the underlining issue is whether To the first point: widely, the experience.” It relies on “free, autonomous and self-reliant” citizens chance for civil unions to re - specific a Christian doctrine medical community does not 3. WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? and “extraordinary leadership” to flourish, even survive.” It is sur - prising perhaps, to most, that Plato and Aristotle believed democracy leads inevitably to tyranny. Democracy is indeed fragile. 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The Curious Case of PASOK’s The Resurrection of Christ is The Church as - resurrected in his urrection Christ overcomes all the greatest event in history. It sists the faithful to heart, putting to human problems. is the fact that differentiates participate in the death his passion - Nobody should lament about Missing $149 Million Christianity from other reli - mystery of the Res - ate thoughts and poverty and generally over the gions. Other religions have lead - urrection with vari - sinful passions. privation characteristic of mate - ers that are mortals, while the ous practices: Fast - This St. Gregory rial goods and life, because the Spared of hav - records being kept, head of the Church is the Risen ing throughout the recommends that heavenly Kingdom is at hand. ing a conscience has gone. Lord Jesus Christ. entire period of we not celebrate Nobody should lament for and more ruthless Here’s what In the Church we speak con - Lent, and in general Pascha in a worldly the sins he has committed, be - in collecting they’ll find: nothing. stantly about the Resurrection the ascetical strug - way but after a di - cause repentance brings forgive - money than a leg There’s no records, of Christ, which has great im - gle through, prayer, vine fashion, with ness in the dawn of the Resur - breaker for Tony no paper trail be - portance for the life of the be - confession, repen - reverence. rection at the Tomb of Christ. Soprano, PASOK cause political par - liever. Our Church celebrates tance, forgiveness. by ARCHIMANDRITE The Resurrec - Nobody should be afraid of Socialist leader ties in Greece, who the Resurrection every Sunday. To achieve this re - IEROTHEOS tion of Christ con - death, because Christ has liber - Evangelos Venize - are funded by tax - Thus, apart from the annual quires both physical stitutes the resur - ated us from death through his los is probably the payers, don’t have Easter service, Pascha is cele - and spiritual Special to rection and death. perfect person to to report how they brated every week, on light- cleansing, as all the The National Herald deification of hu - It is my profound wish that find out what hap - spend their money. filled Sunday, the divinely se - Church Fathers say. man nature, it is we come to Great and Holy pened to 114.5 by ANDY That includes the lected Holy Day, the one Saint John Damascene teaches: the hope for the resurrection Week with pure hearts and de - million euros, DABILIS 250 million euros Sabbath, the day of our Heav - "Let us purify our senses, and and deification of nature. votion and that we be worthy some $149.2 mil - ($327.2 million) in enly King and Lord, the feast of in the unapproachable light of Through the resurrection of to glorify the Risen Lord on His lion, that is miss - Special to free slush funds feasts and celebration of cele - the Resurrection we shall see Christ, life and death acquire holy and brilliant of Resurrec - ing from the The National Herald they got from Greek brations. He worship the Risen Christ shining forth," and Gre - new meanings. tion. party’s coffers. banks, helping push Lord bless Him unto the ages of gory the Theologian says: " In the renowned catechetical Maybe he’s just upset he the institutions to the edge of ages. “Let us first cleanse our - sermon of St. John Chrysostom Archimandrite Ierotheos, couldn’t get his hands on it first, ruin because neither party is Christ, by his Resurrection, selves, and afterward we can ap - that is read throughout the Or - Abbot. Sacred Patriarchal and but once he discovered the paying them back. conquered death - "trampling proach the pure.” thodox world after the Pascha Stavropegial Orthodox money vanished without a trace Just to make sure they’ll have down death by death, and to The purpose of the spiritual service, he says that through the Monastery of St. Irene Chryso - – except that the party’s previ - more free money at the same those in the tombs granting life." life is to unite man with the Res - valantou, under the ous leader, the failed former time that banks are hounding The Resurrection of Christ is the Risen Christ, to enable Jurisdiction of the Ecumenical prime minister George Papan - besieged customers who are en - renewal of human nature, the man to see Him in Patriarchate of Constan - dreou – signed off on it, Venize - during harsh austerity mea - resurrection of the human race, his heart. tinople. los went on the hunt. He can sures, to repay their loans, mort - and the experience of eschato - Christ is smell cash like a dog smells fear. gages and credit cards in full, logical reality. Don’t ask Papandreou where the Parliament that Samaras When we speak of the resur - it went because he’ll do what he and Venizelos (along with an - rection of Christ, we do not sep - did when asked why he didn’t other leftist traitor, Democratic arate it from the Cross. The check a list of 2,062 Greeks with Left chief Fotis “Uncle” Kouvelis) Cross and Resurrection are the $1.95 billion in secret Swiss control passed an amendment two poles of the redemptive ex - banks accounts when was the giving immunity to corrupt bank perience, as we pray in the country’s non-leader: I know officials who granted the loans Church: "... through the Cross nothing! without collateral. there is joy throughout the It’s the perfect defense, espe - That means no one will be world. They bless the Lord cially for a rich man hiding out prosecuted for fraudulent loans and hymn the resurrection in New York and being paid and the money won’t have to be forever," or, as we also $30,000 from Columbia to give paid back, but maybe Venizelos sing: "We venerate your seven lectures on failed gover - can assign the big accounting cross, O Lord, and glorify nance, for which he’s well qual - firms to find out where that Your holy resurrection." ified and unashamed as well. went because he’s had his hands The Apostle Paul de - That’s while he’s drawing on some of it since last year. clares: "If Christ be not down $10,000 a month as a PASOK’s political council is risen, our faith is vain." Member of Parliament, where set to meet this week to discuss The truth and the he slinked into a back bench af - the mystery of where the money power of faith are due ter resigning in the face of re - went, although political parties to the fact of the Resur - lentless protests, strikes and ri - in Greece, who are routinely rection of Christ. The ots against pay cuts, tax hikes granted huge loans without col - Resurrection of Christ is and slashed pensions he im - lateral and don’t pay them back, the cornerstone on posed on workers, pensioners don’t have to account for how which rests the edifice and the poor on the orders of they spend it or money they of the Church. the international lenders he take from the state treasury as This great fact of the served. well. Resurrection should not be celebrated as a merely historical fact, but as an existential Truth, that is to say we must become partici - pants in the grace of the Resurrection. Are We about to Witness the End of Syrian Christianity?

The Orthodox Church has Muslim urban inant voice among fight to the bitter end. A very been for 2000 years a fixed part neighborhoods. a very fragmented large outside military interven - of the Middle East. At the be - The Syrian dictator - opposition. The ji - tion with enough troops to bring ginning of the 20th century ship had effectively hadists are masters the civil war to a speedy end EUROKINISSI Greek Orthodox Christians were crushed or co-opted of the PR game. and then to occupy the country Papandreou (R) and Venizelos (L) are mortal political enemies part and parcel of every political moderate dissi - They want this to long enough to establish a sec - although from the same party, sharing only the same remorse - faction in what was then known dents leaving the become a sectarian ular tolerant regime is a pipe less ability to betray Socialist principles for personal gain. as Greater Syria. Greek Ortho - Syrian Muslim civil war and they dream. The American public dox political thinkers created Brotherhood (MB) seem to be getting will not stand for it and the Papandreou and Venizelos - PASOK did not confirm the the Arab secular, modernizing as the only effective their wish. The rest American military lacks the ca - who had failed to unseat him as report of the missing funds as political parties, including the political group. of the Syrian oppo - pacity to it. the PASOK leader after Papan - first noted in the newspaper Ba’ath Party that later ruled The MB ex - sition front does Without a political settle - dreou twice lost the prime min - Efimerida ton Syntakton, but Syria and Iraq and Greek Ortho - ploited long-stand - by AMB. PATRICK N. not have a clue on ment that forces elements of the ister’s race - are mortal political did say that an audit had been dox Christians fought for Arab ing Sunni resent - THEROS how to deal with current regime into coexistence enemies although from the carried out on financial records nationalist causes. ment against the an image of jihadist with both moderate and extrem - same party, sharing only the between 2004 and 2010. It said The Syrian civil war threat - ruling Alawites to Special to leadership that ter - ist rebels the fighting cannot same remorseless ability to be - that the accountants’ findings ens the very existence of Chris - give it a stronger The National Herald rifies the minori - stop. The principal obstacle to tray Socialist principles for per - would be discussed by the ap - tianity in the region., Christians role in the revolt. ties. The regime ap - a political settlement lies out - sonal gain. propriate party bodies. in Syria (as in Iraq) tended to More extreme jihadist groups pears delighted to let the outside side Syria: the rivalry between When he uttered the uncon - The newspaper claims that support the secular, leftist Ba’ath from other countries have now world believe that the rebels are the United States and Russia. scionable lie, “The money is accountants found the spending Party created by a Greek Ortho - joined the fight. The U.S. Gov - all jihadist terrorists. Russia provides a military and there,” which won him the 2009 was approved by Papandreou, dox Syrian Christian, Michel ernment declared one of those The Alawites, generally, have political lifeline to the Assad elections, Papandreou and PA - as well as ex-secretary Nikos Aflaq in 1952. Better educated, groups, known as the Jabhat al- already convinced themselves regime and harbors deep dis - SOK were riding high with 44 Athanasakis and General Secre - Christians filled positions in the Nusra, to be a terrorist organi - that rebel victory will lead to trust of American intentions. percent of the vote and thinking tary Rovertos Spyropoulos, but bureaucracy, armed forces, and zation. Proud of the designation, their extermination and appear Moscow believes that the US un - they’d last longer than the Third there was no paperwork and no security services. The Ba’ath Jabhat al-Nusra has pronounced to have convinced the Christians dermined Russian interests and Reich. one knows where it went. came to power through control itself an al-Qaeda affiliate. Un - and other minorities that they during the Libyan crisis will not But after his abbreviated Spyropoulos issued a state - of the Syrian Armed Forces by like mainstream Islam with its will suffer the same fate. In let it happen again. When we two-year run – putting the party ment that the claims bore “no another minority, the Alawites, long history of tolerance to - short, the jihadists have made talk to the Russians now about in Venizelos’ hands - PASOK is relation to the truth,” but of - a religious sect that was neither wards Christians and especially this into a zero-sum game for Syria it is all about telling them hovering around 5-7 percent fered no explanation where the Muslim nor Christian. Rural the Greek Orthodox, the ji - the minorities. what to do. This does not fly. support, the kind of territory money was. Christians often identified with hadists lump all non-Sunni Mus - Somewhere between 20% Saving the Christians of Syria where you find crackpot parties This is what happens when their Alawite neighbors having lims into a single category of en - and 40% of the population now requires a political settlement who think aliens have secret you never have a real job in together suffered from the ra - mity. fear they have no choice but to that guarantees their survival. meetings with world leaders. your life and just take what you paciousness of their Sunni Mus - The Greek Orthodox gener - support the regime. Without a That cannot be achieved with How bad is it for PASOK? want from the public coffers and lim landlords. ally identified themselves with large scale outside military in - joint Russo-American coopera - They’re essentially tied with the use banks like personal ATM’s Unfortunately, the Ba’ath, patriotic Syrian nationalist tervention the rebels cannot tion. Both countries share a likes of the KKE Communists, to satisfy a lavish lifestyle of the once in power, evolved into a causes, which often equated to win. Absent some game- strong desire to protect the and Venizelos has hitched his rich and infamous. brutal authoritarian dictatorship support for whatever Syrian changer, Syria appears doomed Christians of the region; without big red wagon to New Democ - It’s apparent they don’t know whose economic policies, more Government was in power, in - to a long, bloody civil war that cooperation they cannot achieve racy Conservative leader, Prime math, although they’re good at mafia-like than socialist, impov - cluding the Ba’ath regime. The ultimately lead to a large-scale this. Minister Antonis Samaras, just hiding money, but you’d think erished what should have been jihadists, who dream a fantasy Christian exodus. The panic so he can be on TV and have a that Venizelos, who likes to the richest country in the Arab of creating a universal entity en - could spread to Christians in The Hon. Ambassador Theros is place in politics in a coalition show off his presumed intelli - World. Inspired by uprisings in compassing the entire Muslim neighboring countries. president of the U.S.-Qatar government. gence, and Papandreou would Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian citi - World have no sympathy for Syr - What can the outside world Business Council. He served in But you still need money to at least know some Greek his - zens (including many Christians ian nationalist causes. As Syria do? Giving weapons to a frag - the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 run a political group so Venize - tory and philosophy. Maybe they in the towns and cities) took the sinks deeper into civil war, the mented opposition runs the real years, mostly in the Middle los appointed five accounting even studied Sophocles and streets in 2011 mostly demand - jihadists have exploited a strong risk that the well-organized ji - East, and was American Ambas - firms (Grant Thornton, Ernst & might remember he said some - ing jobs rather than political network of sympathizers across hadists will end up in charge. sador to Qatar from 1995 to Young, KPMG, Deloitte & thing they should know but freedom. The regime responded the globe and receive far more Air strikes and no-fly zones 1998. He also directed the State Touche and PWC Greece) to never will: “Rather fail with with brutality and the peaceful outside assistance in arms, sound seductively safe and an - Department’s Counter- conduct an audit to find out honor than succeed by fraud.” protests evolved into an armed money and volunteers than any tiseptic but change nothing on Terrorism Office, and holds nu - where the missing money, spent uprising among the mostly poor of the other rebel groups. This the ground. The minorities will merous U.S. Government deco - between 2007-10 without [email protected] and lower middle class Sunni gives them stature and the dom - still rally around the regime and rations. 16 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 4-11, 2013

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