O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A wEEKly gREEK AmERIcAN PUblIcAtION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 13, ISSUE 677 October 2-8 , 2010 $1.50 Columbia Med School Neither Jew Nor Greek, A Memorial For All Gets a $50 Million Gift Athens Remembers The Holocaust – At from the Vagelos’ Long Last

By Constantine S. Sirigos He is now Chairman of the Board By Sylvia Klimaki TNH Staff Writer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, TNH Staff Writer Inc. as well as a member of the NEW YORK – Among the most Board of Directors of the Pruden - ATHENS - On a sunny Monday noted philanthropists in Greek tial Insurance Company. A 1955 morning a few months ago, American Society, Roy and Diana graduate of Barnard College, Di - Athens unveiled its first Holo - Vagelos have given their largesse ana Vagelos serves on the Board caust memorial, the last Euro - again, this time a $50 million do - of Trustees of Barnard as vice pean Union capital to commem - nation to Columbia University’s chair of the board and chair of orate its Jewish population that Medical School – his alma mater the Trustee Committee on Cam - was imprisoned and tortured, – to help the noted facility to pus Life. She and Dr. Vagelos and the 65,000 Greek Jews ex - keep producing highly schooled have made generous donations ecuted by the Third Reich. physicians and medical re - to Barnard College and Colum - Greece stood nearly alone in searchers for generations. The bia University Medical Center. condemning the actions of the gift will help the school as well They met at a party held by a Nazis, and trying to save its Jew - meet its own ambitions of fusing mutual friend while Vagelos was ish community during the dark leadership, vision and innova - attending P&S, and she was a times of World War II, but it tion. first-year student at Barnard. took 65 years before that defi - The contribution, among the THEIR COMMITMENT ance marked in the simple largest ever for a university, will The donation is aimed memorial, a shattered Star of support construction of a new squarely at the future. Dr. Dean David, split into seven large medical and graduate education Lee Goldman, said, “This new pieces of white marble pointing building, which will be built on education building will ensure in all directions, the names of the medical center campus and that Columbia continues to pro - regions of Greece where Jews named in their honor, according duce superior doctors and re - once lived inscribed there. The to a release by the university, searchers, trained in the latest country’s once vast and thriving which adds, “This project is part techniques, as medicine contin - Jewish community, a lingering of an overall medical center cam - ues to evolve rapidly throughout legacy of 2,000 years of living pus revitalization plan that will the 21st Century. The building A peaceful tree-lined herb garden in the Kerameikos neighborhood of Athens, not far from in Greece, is down to about add green space, create a new also will allow us to centralize where Greek Jews were lured into being captured in World War II, now hosts a Holocaust 6,000, according to Benjamin front door to the medical school, key activities in a state-of-the-art Memorial to those victims. The land was donated by the city, the memorial the design of Greek Albalas, President of the Athen - consolidate student services, and facility that reflects our commit - American artist DeAnna Maganias. ian Jewish Association, and only renovate several existing build - ment to world class education nine of 29 Jewish communities ings. The projected total cost for and the quality of student life.” that existed in Greece in 1942 the entire project is $185 mil - The Columbia release quoted Dr. were re-established after the lion,” a university statement Vagelos regarding his motivation war. added. Columbia’s President Lee for making this particular gift: Greek Heroes: at the Onassis Center The dead are at rest, but now C. Bollinger said, “It is clear that “When I first came to P&S 60 their memory lives in the memo - whatever the benefits Roy and years ago, the facilities were first- rial, located in a quiet, tree-sur - Diana Vagelos may have gained rate, as many of them had just By Stavros Marmarinos portunity to meet them, the including Greek Culture Minister rounded herb garden, beside a from attending Columbia and been recently built. Naturally, and Christopher Tripoulas chance of a lifetime, is now here. Pavlos Geroulanos - set to attend. cemetery, in the archaeologi - Barnard, (a college within Co - over time some of them have TNH Staff Writers On Oct. 5, the Onassis Cul - More than 200 ancient artifacts cally rich Kerameikos neighbor - lumbia) they have given even aged, and new technologies and tural Center in New York will from museums all over the hood of Athens, not far from more back to our university teaching resources are now re - NEW YORK - Ever admire the open its newest exhibition to the world, including Berlin, Boston, where Pericles gave his famous through decades of service and quired to provide the best mod - bravery of Achilles, the craftiness public, entitled Heroes: Mortals the Metropolitan Museum of funeral oration in 430 B.C., still support, and we are enormously ern education opportunities ... of Odysseus, or the incomparable and Myths in Ancient Greece. New York, Los Angeles, Ontario, perhaps the greatest speech ever grateful.” we are training the doctors who strength of Hercules? For more The official opening of the new Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, delivered. Albalas said it’s where Vagelos, former chairman and will deliver medical care, the sci - than 2,500 years, generation exhibition, which will be on dis - and of course Greece’s National his people wanted it to be. “The CEO of Pharmaceutical giant entists who will perform ground - upon generation of children have play at the Onassis Center’s mu - Museum of Archaeology will be location the Jewish community Merck & Co. Inc. was graduated breaking scientific research, and been reared on these myths by seum area located inside mid - on display. The exhibition has insisted the memorial to be built from the College of Physicians the teachers who will help train parents, grandparents, and town Manhattan’s Olympic been organized by the Walters upon was of high archeological and Surgeons (P&S) in 1954. He the future generation of physi - teachers who passed on their fa - Tower will be held on Oct. 12, Art Museum, Baltimore in coop - interest and therefore the now serves as chair of the cians and scientists. It is impor - vorite heroes’ glorious stories. with many officials and promi - eration with the Frist Center for protests of the archeologists school’s Board of Visitors and is tant that their educational facil - For those who ever wondered nent figures from the world of Visual Arts, Nashville, the San were intense,” he said. The site chair of the medical center’s which hero they fantasized about arts and academia from all across Defining the Future campaign. Continued on page 3 they resembled the most, an op - the United States and Greece - Continued on page 4 Continued on page 9 Hub’s Cathedral of the British Library Will Digitize Ancient Greek Texts

Annunciation Receives LONDON - Aided by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foun - dation, the British Library said $500,000 Donation it is going to make more than 280 items out of its world- renowned 1,000 volume collec - By Theodore Kalmoukos require that the Annunciation tion of ancient handwritten TNH Staff Writer Community match the donation Greek texts available online free by raising an additional of charge, a treasure trove to BOSTON - The Annunciation $500,000, resulting in total cam - scholars, historians, students of Cathedral of New England in paign fund of one million dollars. classical Greece and Philhel - Boston received a contribution The funds from this donation lenes around the world. The of $500,000 from an anonymous will be used exclusively for fi - manuscripts - highlights of donor. The terms of this grant nancing the renovation of the which include a famous collec - Cathedral’s upper hall and front tion of Aesopic fables discovered entry foyer, including the re - on Mount Athos in 1844 - have placement of the heating and long been available to scholars cooling systems. The donor will who made the trip to the British Kotsonaros, make the contribution payable Library’s reading rooms. Curator in three equal installments of Scot McKendrick said their post - $166,000 commencing in De - ing to the web was opening an - A Brute Who cember 2010. “Upon successful tiquity to the entire world, the matching the donor’s challenge Associated Press reported. grant, we will proceed with the McKendrick said that London Could Act renovation work. All work will could be an expensive place to be assigned to contractors fol - spend time poring over the lowing successful bidding,” the Greek texts’ tiny, faded script or By Steve Frangos Annunciation Cathedral notes in picking through hundreds of TNH Staff Writer a letter to its members. pages of parchment. “Not every This is the second major do - scholar can afford to come here AP PhOtO/SANg tAN PART II nation totaling $500,000 that the weeks and months on end,” he A late 12th Century illuminated gospels manuscript in Greek, which has been digitized, is seen CHICAGO - George Kotsonaros Annunciation Cathedral has re - at the British Library in London, Sept. 24, 2010. The library has digitized over a quarter of its was a Greek-born professional ceived in the past five months. Continued on page 8 Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online. wrestler and film actor. His As reported by TNH’s Greek sis - swarthy, menacing face, and ter edition Ethnikos Kirix on May pugilist's rearranged nose, got 5, 2010, “On March 9, 2010 the him many roles as a tough guy Annunciation Cathedral of New or a prizefighter at a time when England received an official no - The Arab World Calls on Greece For Business boxing movies were a flourish - tification from The Boston Foun - ing sub-genre due to the sport's dation (TBF) announcing the es - huge popularity. As wrestlers are tablishment of an endowment ATHENS - Just in time for the echelon, including ministers and economic crisis creates both op - often known by their nicknames fund, which is known as The Third Greek Arab Economic Fo - company heads, giving Greece portunities and dangers. He or unofficial titles such as the Pauline Toumpouras Fund. The rum, a showplace where Greece a chance to show its stuff and stressed that the respect and Sultan’s Lion, the Greek Demon fund was financed with the sum tries to lure business from the prove it’s still a good place in high esteem the Arab world has and the Strangler, so too was of $500,000. The income from Arab world, Qatar signed a deal which to invest, despite the stag - for Greece, pointing out that Kotsonaros awarded by journal - the fund has been designated by to invest as much as $5 billion gering economic blows that Greeks have to capitalize this in - ists with the various tongue-in- the late Pauline Toumpouras, in the Greek market, particu - have put it on the edge of bank - terest in the years to come. cheek titles of The Hollywood who was an active member of larly in real estate and tourism. ruptcy and default. Some in - “Arab countries are in need of Beauty, George Kotsonaros of the community throughout her But the pitch didn’t stop there, vestors see opportunity in that technical expertise and in return Hollywood, or simply Kots or life.” The announcement for this as Greece made entreaties for crisis, and the Arab world has a they have the capacity and will - Kotsy. latest donation was made at a more investment from Arabic plethora of cash-rich companies ingness to invest in our country,” As a recognized public figure, parish council meeting at Annun - countries, poised almost on its looking for ways to make money he said. Kotsonaros, from the mid-1920’s ciation Cathedral by the Dean V. doorstep and making the case too. Prime Minister George Pa - Lebanon’s Ambassador Ge - nearly until the time of his Rev. Dr. Cleopas Strongylis and that Greece is a gateway to the pandreou signed a memoran - bran Soufan designated three death, spent two to three Marika Arvanitis, Chairperson of European Union as well. dum of understanding with the pillars he said Greek Arab coop - months every year in Holly - the Renovation Committee. Both The forum focused on Qatar Investment Authority, the eration can build upon: an holis - individuals are acquainted with emerging opportunities in green stepping-off point for Greece’s tic approach on exchange of Continued on page 7 the donor and played a key role energy, tourism and real estate call to foreign investors and thoughts and technology, equal in making this gift possible. and was the effort of the Hel - business to help increase tax market opportunities and clear In a statement to The Na - lenic Chamber of Commerce revenues and opportunities in and flexible taxation policies. tional Herald, Rev. Strongylis and Development (SEV) and the the private market for the coun - Lebanon’s Minister of State Ad - For subscription: stated that, “I firmly believe that Arab Hellenic Chamber of Com - try’s workers, top-heavy in the nan Kassar complimented 718.784.5255 our blessed Theotokos inspired merce, attracted more than 600 public sector. Greece for making what he said [email protected] this pious donor who wishes to people to the Apollon Divani At the opening panel, were brave steps recently to im - remain anonymous to offer fi - Hotel in one of Athens’ best Athanase Lavidas, Head of In - prove the domestic economy. “I nancial support to the renovation neighborhoods, Vouliagmeni, EUROKINISSI ternational Affairs of SEV, urged am here to give Greece incen - project for the Cathedral’s upper along the sea coast. It was de - Pavlos Geroulanos, Greek the audience to create entrepre - tives on behalf of the Chambers signed to bring together political Minister of Culture and neurial environments of mutual Continued on page 4 and business leaders of the top Tourism. benefit, mentioning that the Continued on page 9 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010

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n THRU NOVEMBER 17 at the Saint George Greek Ortho - TARPON SPRINGS, Fl. – Dr. Mary dox Church. The service will be - Coros, director of the Levendia gin at 11:00 a.m. RSVP directly Dance Troupe, will be providing to the church office at: (773) Greek dance lessons divided into 525-1793. nine different sessions from Sep - tember 22 until November 17. n OCTOBER 8-10 Learn to dance popular Greek ST. AUGUSTINE, Fl. - The 13th dances and also learn about the Annual Greek Festival hosted by origin of and traditions surround - Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox ing each dance. Dances practices Church will be held October 8- will be held every Wednesday 10 at the Special Events Field, 25 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Tar - W. Castillo Dr. St. Augustine, FL, pon Springs Cultural Center. next to the downtown Visitor’s Prices for the dance classes are: Center Parking Garage. A deli - $75 for nine week session, $50 cious assortment of Greek foods, for any six classes and/or $10 pastries and beverages will be drop in rate. Register online at: served. Enjoy nonstop entertain - www.tarponarts.org or call: ment with live Greek music and (727) 942-5605. The Tarpon dancing by beautifully costumed tNh/ c. SIRIgOS Springs Cultural Center is located Greek dance troupes. Come join FOS Shines on Past Participants in Tribeca St. John the Baptist Parties in Gramercy at: Cultural Center, 101 S. Pinel - in the fun and experience St. Au - las Ave., Tarpon Springs, FL gustine’s Greek heritage. Admis - NY’s Cathedral of the Holy Trinity launched it’s new FOS (Fo - East 17th Street in Manhattan was closed to make way for the 34689. sion is only $2.00 and free for rum on Orthodox Spirituality) series with a reception at Tha - booths and food stands in front of the church of St. John the children 12 and under. For more lassa. Fr. Frank and Presbytera Marangos (3rd & 4th from L) Baptist. PC President Kenneth Volandes (3rd. from L) is seen n OCTOBER 1-3 information call (904) 829-0504 and FOS director Rodothea Poli (5th from L) appear above. above with some of the festival crew and a furry mascot. HOPEWELL, Va. – The St. Elpis or visit www.stauggreekfest.com. Greek Orthodox Church is host - ing their Greek Festival on Octo - n OCTOBER 23 ber 1-3. The festival will once CHICAGO, Ill. – The National again feature homemade Greek Hellenic Museum is hosting their In the Spotlight: Staz Tsiavos, His Own Man food, music and fun to the church annual fall gala on October 23 at and AHEPA Hall grounds. New the Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Cel - items this year will include rice ebrate “The Newest Thing in An - By Constantine S. Sirigos friend in the business said I’m a by the ones who came before pudding, almond cake and Greek cient History” with Chef Jimmy TNH Staff Writer fit because “You have true gen - me. It’s amazing how a Greek meatballs on a stick; there will Bannos, Jr., Hephaestus, VIPs uine concern for people, but are only needs his two hands and also be meat-free stuffed meat - from Chicago’s arts, culture and NEW YORK - His real name is also smart enough to know his mind in order to achieve. balls. The taverna, featuring political scene and many more. Anastasios Christos Tsiavos, but when to bring someone who And every time I see a Greek drinks and gyros, will return The black tie gala will be featur - everyone knows him simply as knows more than you do.” As in name I identify with it. I reach again this year. The 50 trays of ing cocktails, silent and live auc - Staz. He was born in Piraeus all businesses and endeavors, it’s out to it. I am very proud of an baklava - dozens of layers of philo tions, dinner and dancing. Chef and came to the States at seven. all about building and being event I put together last year af - dough, almonds and honey, Jimmy Bannos Jr. of, The Purple His name stood out in Washing - part of great teams. ter seeing the name of “Charles sliced and baked - are just the Pig, will create Mediterranean ton Heights, but his high school TNH: How did your educa - Calomiris”, a top economist at beginning. They'll make about 70 flavors for an extraordinary din - basketball jersey forced him to tion prepare you for your cur - Columbia in the Wall Street trays of other desserts, plus 1,800 ner; Tony Hernandez will dazzle chop it down to one syllable. His rent work? Journal. I got the idea to have dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), guests with performers from friends say Staz’s essence is his ST: I was the first to go to him speak about using faith to 600 servings of soutzoukakia Lookingglass Theatre’s Hephaes - ability to bring people together, college in my family and didn’t survive the economic crisis, how (meatballs in sauce) and other tus, giving the audience a which is rooted in his unique know what to study, but if I the Church help to combat de - dishes. A Greek band will per - glimpse at Greek Gods; and Pub - ability to reach out and connect could eat books I would. I stud - spair with hope and anxiety form and there will be plenty of lic I Band and the John Linar - with others. Greek Orthodox ied fashion design, psychology, with gratitude. When I learned traditional Greek dancing going dakis Orchestra will add melody clergy in particular have recog - design and advertising. I of his devotion to the faith and on. A selection of Greek goods to the night. The National Hel - nized those abilities and have worked many years in advertis - that he was a chanter, we knew will also be available from on- lenic Museum connects genera - recruited him to build or revive ing, specializing in branding and we were on the right track. He site vendors. St. Elpis Greek Or - tions through history, culture and organizations and craft events positioning and new business packed the Harvard Club with thodox Church and AHEPA Hall art. The gala will be held from for young professionals. After development. Much of what we his talk. I am glad Fr. James are located at 810 W. Poythress 6:30 – midnight. Tickets are $250 being drawn to a career in ad - can do for people involves cre - Moskovites lived to see it. That St., Hopewell, Virginia. The per person; special youth rate (25 vertising by his artistic side, he ative, outside the box thinking. event brought together a lot of church can be reached at (804) years and under) is $125 per per - now reaches out from the insur - My art and design background Anastasios “Staz” Tsiavos people and diffferent organiza - 458-9606 or visit the website at: son. Call (312) 655-1234 or visit ance industry to people who fed those parts of my brain. Psy - tions. It gave me the idea for www.the-elpitha.com. nationalhellenicmuseum.org for need assistance in planning chology helps in understanding ing people together and solving another endeavor, which I call more information. The Hilton their family’s future. people and building relation - problems before they happen. Greek Synergy, whose aim is n OCTOBER 1-3 Hotel is located at: 720 South TNH: How do you help the ships. The insurance business is TNH: Has your life path been uniting Greeks to work together. PORTLAND, OR - The Hellenic Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. people you work with? founded on relationships. The influenced by your Ancient TNH: What’s the greatest les - America Cultural Center in Port - ST: I work at a third genera - first piece of advice I received and/or Modern Greek and Or - son you've ever learned? land will be hosting their Greek n OCTOBER 23 – tion insurance, estate and finan - about clients was “They want thodox heritage? ST: There are so many, but festival on October 1-3. Their NOVEMBER 1 cial planning firm. I help people you to be their big brother.” As ST: I have to admit I wasn’t the big one is: “You can do more new museum exhibit will be the NEW YORK, NY - The New York get what they want, which in - an art director, I mastered plan - always so receptive to being with humility than with arro - recreation of a Kafenio, a Greek City Greek Film Festival will be cludes security for their families. ning. Everything begins with a Greek, but my interest grew gance.” And I now see that some Coffee Shop. Come see how their held on October 23 - November I understand money. I under - good plan. That is a lot of words stronger when I became in - difficult parts of my life have Kafenio culture has come to life 1 at various Manhattan and stand the tools around it and I for just being an idea guy, but volved in the Orthodox Church been a smelting process that the museum. Experience the Queens Venues. Look for hits like, use these to help people plan. A what I enjoy the most is bring - later in life. Now, I am inspired made me stronger. As a good feeling of a by-gone-era and learn "Plato's Academy," as well as short friend told me, “ how does iron of its relevance to our culture. films of Greek American teens (a become steel? … It has to be Festival hours are: 10 a.m. – 9 section sponsored by TNH). The tempered. It has to go through p.m. and admission is free. For festival is looking for box office fire!” further information, call: (503) volunteers. For more info/to vol - TNH: What’s your ultimate 858-8567. unteer, contact festival director goal in life? Jimmy DeMetro at (212) 988- ST: George Bernard Shaw n OCTOBER 5 – JANUARY 3 1929 or email at: said “Life is no brief candle to NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Onassis [email protected]. For me. It is a sort of splendid torch Cultural Center explores the role additional information, visit the which I’ve got a hold of for the of heroes in society in the exhi - festival website: www.nycgreek - moment ...I want it to be thor - bition, Heroes: Mortals and filmfestival.com. oughly used up when I die.” I Myths in Ancient Greece, on view relate to that. Also, to live, to in Manhattan from October 5, n NOVEMBER 6 be of use for something greater 2010 to January 3, 2011. The ex - PORTLAND, OR – The Hellenic than one’s self, to leave things hibition is supported by an in - American Cultural Center in better than how I found them. demnity from the Federal Council Portland is hosting their first And to continue to be a good on the Arts and Humanities. Tavli (Backgammon) Tourna - friend. People know I will pick Highlights of the exhibition in - ment on November 6. Every - up the phone in the middle of clude a bronze Corinthian helmet where you go in Greece you can the night. from 700-500 B.C.; a black-figure see men, women and children TNH: If you could change amphora depicting Achilles and playing the beloved game of something about yourself, what Ajax playing a board game out - Tavli. Known in the west as would it be? side Troy (late sixth century Backgammon, Tavli is played ST: I want my hair back. Se - B.C.); a black-figure column mostly for fun and sometimes for riously, I would like to strike a krater (c. 510 B.C.) depicting money. A Tavli workshop will be better balance between thinking Odysseus escaping from the cave held from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. and and feeling. I was told that we of the cyclops Polyphemos; and the tournament will begin at Greeks worship our intellect, a gold medallion with the bust 1:00 p.m. Participation fee is but that can blind us. On the of Alexander the Great (c. 218- $10.00 (for all ages). Lunch is other hand, I am still learning 235 A.D.; among many more. available for $5.00. There will to only say half of what I feel. Guided tours of the exhibition be prizes for expert, intermediate TNH: Do you have a role will be offered to the public every and beginners. To register, email: model? Tuesday and Thursday at 1:00 [email protected]. For fur - ST: Two come to mind. Fr. p.m. Tours can also be organized ther information, call: (503) Angelo Gavalas and Bruce Mina. upon request for school groups. 858-8567. They are dear to me. Fr. Angelo, A comprehensive brochure will I owe him lots, and he has also be offered free to visitors. n NOTE TO OUR READERS taught me about tough lessons For additional information, con - This calendar of events section is we must learn. He inspires me tact: Lillian Goldenthal at (212) a complimentary service to the to do better. He showed me how 593-6355 or email: golden - Greek American community. All to “cut with cotton”, meaning [email protected]. parishes, organizations and insti - loving those that are being tutions are encouraged to e-mail unlovable. Bruce is my oldest n OCTOBER 6 their information regarding the friend and my CPA. I have seen CHICAGO, Ill. – The Hellenic event 3-4 weeks ahead of time, him re-invent himself and he Foundation and St. George and no later than Monday of the has taught me not move Philoptochos invite seniors of the week before the event, to eng - straight, but forward. Greek community to a special [email protected] TNH: What are your most Paraklesis service and luncheon om enjoyable pastimes? ST: I enjoy spending time with my family. My passion is music. Any kind of music. And I QUESTION OF THE WEEK love to dance. TNH: Share with us some Vote on our website! words of wisdom. ST: I am still learning, but You have the chance to express your opinion on our website these are helpful: “Don’t take it on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - personally” – i.e. who knows lished in our printed edition next week along with the question what’s going on in the other for that week. guy’s head. Not to react, but re - The question this week is: Should large donations to spond. To: Stop. Think. Choose. churches designate half the funds for teaching the Greek lan - Do. We always have options. guage? Also, it is not about resources o Yes but resourcefulness, and if one o No is creative, playful and driven o Maybe enough, anything is possible. The results for last week’s question: Would Prime Minister And of course: Ola me to George Papandreou be a good choice to be Secretary-General Theo! of the United Nations next year? 48 % voted "Yes" [email protected] 39 % voted "No" 13 % voted "Maybe" Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com If you'd like to nominate a no - table member of the Greek American community for “In the Spotlight”, please e-mail us at english.edition@then - Expa nd your mind... ationalherald.com with your The National Herald Bookstore suggestions. (718) 784-5255 THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010 COMMUNITY 3 Portrait of a Philanthropist, John G. Rangos, Pittsburgh Benefactor

By Evan C. Lambrou investments very wisely. Most and I’m very happy to continue Special to The National Herald people know him as a hard - supporting this institution, nosed businessman, but let me which is now ranked among the PITTSBURGH – Children’s Hos - assure you that, around chil - top three to 10 in so many ar - pital of Pittsburgh has honored dren, he just melts. That big, eas,” he said. “If we stop to think Greek American magnate John tough guy mask falls right off, about it just a little, successfully G. Rangos for his philanthropy and the kindly grandpa face just treating an illness like diabetes and unwavering commitment to shines. We are filled with hope would help so many kids have the Hospital over the past three by your continued support, and another chance at life, but find - decades, unveiling a portrait of we hope you continue to chal - ing a cure would not only rid him done by master portrait lenge us in the years to come,” them of the disease, it would artist Benjamin McCready who, she said. make another very important among other famous and ac - Both Perlmutter and Dively impact on America. A cure could complished personalities, has cited Children’s steady increase increase our country’s GDP painted portraits of several U.S. in funding from the National In - (gross domestic product) by one Presidents. Held on Sept. 21 in stitutes of Health, which went percent. It costs us over $450 the auditorium of the new John from $7 million 10 years ago to billion a year to treat people G. Rangos Sr. Research Center, more than $30 million just last with diabetes. Curing it would more than 100 people attended year. eliminate all those costs,” he the event, which was also punc - Children’s Hospital of Pitts - added. tuated by the announcement burgh merged with the Univer - Massimo Trucco, one of the that Rangos is making a unitrust sity of Pittsburgh Medical Cen - world’s leading diabetes re - gift of $1 million to the Hospital ter in 2001. That $500 million searchers, was also among those for research, in addition to the transaction was the largest hos - in attendance that evening. The $8 million that Children’s has pital merger in Pittsburgh’s his - Rangos Foundation’s gift for the already received from the Ran - tory, with UPMC promising to original Rangos Building helped gos Family Charitable Founda - build a new $250 million hos - establish the Rangos/Trucco Di - tion for the new Rangos Build - pital for Children’s. The new abetes Center, a dedicated local ing, a state-of-the-art facility Children’s Hospital opened its resource used by scientists and which opened its doors in the doors on UPMC’s Montefiore medical professionals in their fall of 2008. chIlDREN’S hOSPItAl OF PIttSbURgh Campus in May of 2009. search for a cure to Type-1 dia - The McCready portrait of Greek American magnate and philanthropist John G. Rangos Sr. (2nd from left) stands next to Rangos, who played a key betes, commonly called juvenile Rangos is now mounted in the his portrait, painted by master portrait artist Benjamin McCready. Others (L-R) are Judge Jill role in helping the merger take diabetes. main hall of the new John G. Rangos, Nick Rangos and John G. Rangos Jr. place, said he felt very honored, Speaking with The National Rangos Sr. Research Center at and thanked his family for sup - Herald, Dr. Trucco said the Chil - Children’s, a stirring testament entific Director at Children’s, able, and your investment in our here. I knew right away that I porting his philanthropic efforts dren’s Hospital and UPMC com - to Mr. Rangos’ stalwart dedica - emphasized that Rangos’ vision research facility has enabled us was getting to know someone over the years. He also stressed munity is lucky to have Rangos’ tion to an institution which, was to transform Children’s by to assemble a formidable inves - special. He’s willing to take risks the need to continue supporting confidence. through his leadership, generos - helping the hospital attract top- tigative team to tackle some of because he knows taking risks medical and scientific research, “We need many more people ity and support, has become one notch scientists and researchers. the world’s most devastating ill - can lead to enormous dividends. which will help humanity in like John Rangos. With the type of world’s leading pediatric care “I really need to express my nesses. None of us can thank More importantly, he really both public health and eco - of funding he provides, you can centers. gratitude to John and his family you enough, but thank you from loves this country, and he really nomic terms. really attract the greatest talent At nine stories and 300,000 for their dedication and com - the bottom of my heart,” Perl - loves children,” Barrett said. “I’m extremely honored to be from all corners of the globe. square feet, the new Rangos mitment to this institution. mutter said. Mary Jo Dively, Vice Chair of the here this evening. I can only say We have the best doctors from Building, located in the Pitts - Since I first came here from St. MAN OF SCIENCE TOO Hospital’s Foundation, echoed thanks to my family, which has the United States, Canada, Italy, burgh suburb of Lawrenceville, Louis nine years ago, I’ve be - Greg Barrett, President of the Barrett’s statements, highlight - been so supportive of me in Russia, Spain, China and other has superseded the original one, come thoroughly impressed by Children’s Hospital Foundation, ing Rangos’ generosity and the every way. They deserve the best countries working here now,” he which is located in the city’s sub - your vision of clinical excel - noted Rangos’ willingness to soft spot in his heart for children of everything because they all said. Trucco also said he thinks urb of Oakland (at 100,000 lence. I came to realize that you take risks, his genuine concern suffering from debilitating dis - have a heart of gold. I also want a cure for diabetes is within square feet, the original build - not only understand the need for the wellbeing of children, eases. to thank my friends for support - reach: “I believe a cure is very ing, made possible through a $3 for consistent achievement, but and his love for America. “Like “John has spread his gen - ing the Free Care Fund, and I’d possible in my lifetime. A facility million donation from the Ran - that you really have a deep Mr. Rangos, I’m originally from erosity all over Pittsburgh, but like to thank the physicians and like this certainly makes it easier gos Foundation in 1990, is still sense of genuine commitment West Virginia. I had a chance to nowhere has he done so more scientists for the excellent work for us to get there,” he said. Es - fully operational.) David Perl - to that ideal. Your imprint on speak with him over the phone than here. He cares about the they do here every day. pecially with people like Rangos mutter, Chief Physician and Sci - this institution is simply remark - several times before I came kids deeply, and he directs his The world has taken notice, on his side. Charlie Baker Counts on Greek-American Voters in Massachusetts

By Theodore Kalmoukos to a Greek Festival, but now win ple and easy to understand. We rector for the Massachusetts number of key public health pro - the fall of 1992, and led the Ad - TNH Staff Writer or lose I am going to be coming also are going to freeze all High Technology Council. He grams. He became Secretary of ministration’s efforts to enact to Greek Festivals a lot in future salaries in the State House and decided to return to school in Health and Human Services in welfare reform. BOSTON - Charlie Baker, the because I think they are won - basically we are going to bal - 1984 and earned an MBA from Republican candidate for Gov - derful events, great people.” To ance the budget. We are going Kellogg Graduate School of ernor in Massachusetts, made a the question of why should to inherit a two billion dollar Management at Northwestern surprise appearance at the re - Greek-Americans vote for him, problem from the current gov - University in 1986. cent Greek Festival of the An - Baker said, “Most of the Greek- ernor and we are going to start In 1988, Baker helped start nunciation parish in Brockton, Americans that I know are small reducing taxes.” Asked if what the Pioneer Institute for Public George Delis, LLC accompanied by Greek-Ameri - business owners, they work he would tell the Greek-Ameri - Policy Research, an independent, can Christy Mihos a former can - hard, they pay their taxes, they can Community, he said: “My nonpartisan state think-tank. didate for the same office, seek - are deeply involved in their whole focus is going to be about Baker left Pioneer in January, Consultant, Public Relations ing votes in a bid to oust community, in their church and jobs, spending, reducing taxes, 1991 to join then newly-elected incumbent Demcratic Gov. De - they need a state government what I call the pocket book is - Administration of Gov. William Land Use val Patrick. In an interview with to play by the same rules that sues.” Baker said he has spent Weld as Undersecretary for The National Herald, Baker, play by.” He added that, “My his career bringing success and Health in the Executive Office of who recent polls showed him al - whole campaign is all about fis - strong management to both the Health and Human Services, most neck to neck with Patrick, cal discipline, cutting taxes, cre - private and public sectors in where he played pivotal roles in said: “I have been to about 10 ating a climate for jobs and Massachusetts. Raised in Need - Medicaid reform, facility consol - 1-917-696-0975 or 12 Greek festivals this sum - growth and economic opportu - ham, Massachusetts as the old - idation, and the expansion of a mer and I think literarally they nity and the Greek Community est of three sons, he was gradu - are the best events that I have and the Greeks that I know are ated from Needham High been to.” He added that, “The all about the things that I am School in 1975 as an All-League people are beautiful, the food is about.” basketball player. He attended terrific, the atmosphere is just As to steps for creating jobs Harvard College, lettering in wonderful, the music is great in Massachusetts, which was hit varsity basketball and graduat - and I think it is just a wonderful hard by economic crisis and un - ing with a degree in English in example of community, tradi - employment, Baker said, “Day 1979. Over the following five tion, and family.” one I am going to sign an Exec - years, he worked as Media Re - Baker said, “I am 53 years utive Order to do a complete lations Director for the New old and before I started running top-to-bottom review of all state England Council, and then as for Governor I had never been regulations and try to make sim - Corporate Communications Di -

Vagelos Gives Columbia $50 Million The Archangel Michael Church Social Services Foundation in association with Continued from page 1 the Frank Parlamis Hellenic Senior Citizen’s Center ities are as exciting as medical science is today.” of St. Demetrios Church, Jamaica, NY He added: “The new building and will have the best possible design that is attractive, comfortable, The Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation (LIAF) and appropriate for the intense kind of education that our stu - will sponsor dents receive. The formal learn - ing space will have state-of-the- a bilingual support program for individuals in the Greek-American art electronics that facilitate the delivery of information to stu - Community living with Alzheimer’s disease and related Dementias dents. In addition, there will be space where the students can in - LΙΑ F staff members... specially trained professionals... formally interact and work as teams – reflecting our new cur - will conduct a program exclusively riculum, which emphasizes team- for the Greek-American Community at two convenient locations based learning. And there will also be space to relax and have coffee... it will incorporate every Diana and Roy Vagelos Individuals are invited to attend an information session to: aspect of medical and graduate education – updated in a mod - institutions to receive such gifts, ment of Biological Chemistry at • Learn how this innovative program will benefit loved one, ern, environmentally responsible that philanthropists should target Washington University School of caregiver and family member way.” The Wall Street Journal less famous but equally worthy Medicine in St. Louis, and found - wrote that Dr. Vagelos, “A former entities. “Ideally,” he said, “Greek ing director of Washington Uni - • Learn about the services and resources available for aid scholarship recipient... (said) that money would go to support versity's Division of Biology and in coping and caring for someone with Dementia part of his mission is to reduce Greek research.” He has a dream Biochemical Sciences, which the the high cost of attending med - of establishing a Hellenic medical Journal of Biological Chemistry Guest speaker ical school.” Vagelos was quoted research fund to support the (JBC) noted, “became a model saying that “Graduating with work of scientists of Hellenic for other universities.” He left “Living with Alzheimer’s” $200,000 of debt from medical background doing work in the academia in 1975 to join Merck school is not a system that can U.S. and to help “propel well-de - as head of research. Dr. James Lolis, M.D. survive,” he says. “We also need served Greek scientists to promi - In 1984 he was appointed to build our endowment fund to nence,” which will also boost the CEO and chair of the Merck Division of Geriatrics support financial aid.” prestige of the Greek American Board of Directors, serving until North Shore LIJ Health System MORE BRIGHT GREEKS community as a whole. 1994. Columbia’s release stated Dr. George Tsioulias, Presi - Dr. Vagelos received his bach - that, “Under his leadership some Plan to attend one of two information sessions dent of the Hellenic Medical So - elor’s degree from the University of the most important drugs and ciety of New York, said he is of Pennsylvania in 1950 and his vaccines of that era were devel - October 5, 2010 7:00-9:00 p.m. proud when he hears of the phil - MD from P&S in 1954. After oped, including the statins for anthropic and charitable acts of completing an internship and control of blood cholesterol and Archangel Michael Church, 100 Fairway Drive, Port Wash., NY 11050 Greek Americans and said he residency at Massachusetts Gen - the vaccine that protects against October 6, 2010 7:00-9:00 p.m. hopes the gift of the Vagelos fam - eral Hospital in Boston, he joined infection by Hepatitis B virus ily to Columbia will set an exam - the National Institute of Health which causes liver cancer.” Vage - Parlamis Senior Citizen’s Center ple for other wealthy Greek “where he won scientific recog - los authored more than 100 sci - 83-12A Parsons Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432 Americans to contribute to noble nition as an authority on lipids entific papers and according to causes. He also told The National and enzymes,” according to the J.B.C. was the recipient of the FOR INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS, CALL: (516) 627-0580 Herald that while it is beneficial Columbia release. In 1966, he American Chemical Society’s En - for prestigious and well-known became Chairman of the Depart - zyme Chemistry Award in 1967. 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010 There Still Are Greek Heroes: at the Onassis Cultural Center

Continued from page 1 tual ritual sites provide historical caped from Polyphemus’ lair by context. hiding under the bellies of his Diego Museum of Art and the The Corinthian Helmet (700– sheep. Alexander S. Onassis Public Ben - 500 BCE) in this section is part Onassis Foundation USA Ex - efit Foundation (USA), New York, of a foot soldier’s armor. The ecutive Director Ambassador Lu - which has offered a major con - nose-guard and cheek pieces of cas Tsilas told The National Her - tribution to this endeavor the bronze helmet left only the ald that the four primary heroes Items on display include vases, eyes and mouth exposed. The featured in the exhibition will statues, memorial columns, in - armor signified the social status be Hercules, Achilles, Odysseus, scriptions, etc. originating mainly of its owner, who was required and Helen of Troy, but a broad from the classical era. All the to furnish his weapons at his range of others, from the na - items have been carefully pre - own expense. Helmets were tional and famous to the local served and remain in excellent prized possessions that were and anonymous, are also in - condition. The exhibition is di - sometimes placed in the grave cluded. A 328-page exhibition vided into three sections. Heroes of a fallen warrior and could also catalogue containing 10 infor - in Myth describes the triumphs be given by worshippers as of - mative essays, 106 entries, in ad - and pitfalls of Achilles, Hercules, ferings to heroes. dition to 145 color and 95 black- Odysseus and Helen, chronicling Hero as Role Model explains and-white images will be their lives. Visitors will learn how much warriors and athletes available for purchase to visitors about the heroes’ parentage, were admired in classical Greek at the Onassis Cultural Center’s birth, education, marriages, society while also focusing on Hellenic Museum Shop. deeds, anddeath. A major com - musicians and women. Although “There is a human need for ponent of the exhibition focuses they could not be heroes in the heroes; to commemorate, honor, on the triumphs and setbacks in Greek sense while alive, they and magnify all sorts of heroes,” each hero’s life, revealing both served as role models for society. Tsilas said. “The need for heroes their vulnerability and ability to Riders Competing in a Horse remains present in our era as overcome obstacles. There is even Race (ca. 500–480 BCE), for ex - well. For us, modern-day heroes tNh/cOStAS bEJ an interactive feature that allows am - are likely to be famous athletes, Dr. Anastasia Drandaki (L) and Ambassador Lucas Tsilas admire a late, Spanish-period work visitors to compare their person - major artists, renowned politi - by El Greco, The Coronation of the Virgin, on view in New York for the first time courtesy of the alities with those of eight Greek cians, etc.,” he said. The ex - collection of the Onassis Cultural Center’s parent institution, the Alexander S. Onassis Public heroes, gods and monstrous ad - hibition will remain on dis - Benefit Foundation, in November of 2009, during the Ambassador’s previous visit. versaries. (To see which hero play at the Onassis Center you best resemble, visit until early January ways try to put together a the - sized the meaning and impor - Crete. Founded around the 10th http://thewalters.org/ex - 2011. “This is an ex - matic exhibition,” Tsilas ex - tance of the exhibition, noting century as a dependency of the hibitions/heroes/quiz/) hibition of extremely plained. “That is why we found that it “links Byzantium to the monastery of the same name at POWER AND high quality,” Am - our newest exhibition very mov - West,” while adding that, “The Mount Sinai, the Church of St. GRACE bassador Tsilas ing and we developed an inter - Cretan School essentially brings Catherine in Heraklion sup - The highlighted added. “In various est in presenting it to a wider two worlds together. Although ported a large and learned heroine Helen repre - chapters of the ex - audience. The most important the first interaction is somewhat monastic community by the 16th sents the archetype of hibition catalogue, thing is for an exhibition to awkward, it ends up producing century and since 1967 has feminine grace, power we touch on the speak to the people. Of course, one of the greatest artists in the housed a highly important col - and beauty. She can be concept of a hero as visitors will have a chance to ad - world, El Greco.” The exhibition lection of Orthodox icons and seen on a large vessel a model of morality, mire the items on display, but was curated by Dr. Anastasia religious objects. The next ma - for mixing wine and strength, etc. Back in the exhibition must make a Drandaki, Curator of the Byzan - jor exhibition at the Onassis Cul - water in Helen and the ancient times, a statement. During the exhibition tine Collection at the Benaki Mu - tural Center is being planned for Menelaos at the Sack hero was a mortal on Alexander the Great we seum in Athens. At the core of next year, and will take place in of Troy (440–430 who died and was spoke about his leadership and the exhibition were 11 superb conjunction with the Byzantine BCE.) Menelaos, deified or turned the campaign that he organized icons from the Collection of Ec - Museum of Greece on the theme her husband, is into a hero. In involving all the Greek City clesiastical Art at Saint Catherine The Transition of Art from Idol - shown racing to - other words, States. The exhibition about of the Sinaites in Heraklion, atry to Christianity. wards her. Helen thanks to his ex - women in antiquity focused on flees with her clothes You can’t be a hero ceptional abilities, how women worshiped the gods enticingly loose about without a helmet, es - the hero was able to and how female deities were her. Menelaos changes any pecially in ancient overcome death and adored, in addition to taking a thoughts he had about mur - Greece remain enshrined in more in-depth look at women’s dering his willful wife and people’s memories for place in society.” The most re - moves towards her with a leer all eternity.” cent major exhibition that was on his face while dropping his ple, shows two young jockeys in There is no easy answer to held at the Onassis Cultural Cen - sword. Some heroes are defined the heat of the race. The focus what makes a hero - either in ter took place last December and by their adversaries, monsters or is clearly on the rider on the left, ancient Greece or in modern was entitled “The Origins of El warriors they kill in battle. The whose horse occupies the com - times. The reasons why some - Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Head of Polyphemos (Roman, position’s foreground, its head body became a hero or heroine Crete.” That exhibition was in - 1st or 2nd Century CE) repre - partially obscuring the other in ancient Greece were mani - augurated by Geroulanos, and sents the Cyclops with a single rider. The prominence of the fold. In general, before a person included prominent visitors such large eye extending across the horse and rider, captured at a could be considered a hero two as Onassis Foundation President bridge of the nose. Polyphemos decisive moment in the race, important characteristics had to Anthony Papadimitriou, the appears in Greek and Roman art may signal the contest’s victor. be met. “First, heroes had super - President of the Benaki Museum primarily as one of the major Visitors will be afforded the human powers but were mortals in Greece, Archbishop Eirinaios foes and many obstacles encoun - opportunity to see many worth - who were believed to have lived of Crete, and other high profile tered on Odysseus’ journey while pieces, including a very and died, and second, becoming guests. Forty-six exceptional home from Troy. Heroes in Cult rare miniature sculpture of the a hero in the Greek sense oc - paintings from museums and explores the worship of heroes. hero Hercules as an old man. curred only after death,” stated private collections in Greece, the After their death, heroes re - Another extremely rare article Sabine Albersmeier, associate U.S., and Canada were displayed ceived sacrifices and offerings on display is a memorial column curator of ancient art. during the exhibition. from worshippers in the hope dedicated to a young soldier, a PAST SUCCESSES “That exhibition was one of that their prayers would be medallion with a bust of Alexan - A previous exhibition orga - the most successful that we have heard. The gallery displays an der the Great, a sculpture of the nized by the Onassis Cultural put together, and the number of There’s been many an ode on a Grecian urn, but while some oversized reconstruction of a Cyclops Polyphemus, and a Center dedicated to Alexander visitors we received was in the depicted ordinary household chores others from the ancient heroic shrine, replete with typi - painted vase depicting how the Great echoed similar tens of thousands,” Tsilas said. times were used to portray the heroes - and their waiting cal offerings. Color images of ac - Odysseus and his friends es - thoughts, to a degree. “We al - At the time Geroulanos empha - loved ones. Annunciation Cathedral in Boston Gets Anonymous $500,000 Donation

Continued from page 1 fixed our elevator.” Photopoulos Davis, and Warren T. Bamford, noted that the funds would be who presented on how police de - hall and front entry foyer. I ex - used for the installation of an air partments and public safety na - press my deep gratitude to this conditioning system in the Fel - tionwide have changed since the donor for this generous dona - lowship Hall, along with a new terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, tion, and I hope that other Greek ceiling, flooring, and lighting, 2011. Edward F. Davis is the 40th Americans follow this example.” while the heating pipes would Police Commissioner of the City When asked if the Annunciation be restructured for more efficient of Boston. He was sworn in by Community would be able to and economical heat distribution Mayor Thomas Menino on De - raise the necessary $500,000 to in the upper hall and sanctuary. cember 4, 2006. Prior to becom - match the donation, to ensure “We are going to make the ing Commissioner of the Boston that the renovation fund would Cathedral very beautiful,” he Police Department, Davis was a reach the sum of $1 million, Rev. said. 28-year veteran of the Lowell Po - Strongylis replied that “I do not Following a question by TNH, lice Department serving as Su - have the slightest doubt that the Photopoulos replied that “the perintendent for the last 12 years. people will respond to this chal - Cathedral is doing pretty well, He rose through the ranks hold - lenge,” while also noting that and we are in a position to se - ing a variety of positions includ - “We have already raised cure its future for many years to ing Captain in charge of Commu - $175,000.” come.” He also noted that, “We nity Policing and Commander of WHAT A BLESSING have been undertaking many ef - a combined Federal, State and Parish Council President forts, and thank to Fr. Cleopas, Local Narcotics and Organized Demetris Photopoulos said, “first who is constantly working to The Annunciation Cathedral of New England in Boston received a contribution in the amount Crime Unit. He was appointed and foremost, we would like to help, we are seeing results.” of $500,000 from an anonymous donor. The terms of this grant require that the Annunciation Superintendent of Police in 1994. offer our deepest thanks to the Marika Arvanitis, who has dedi - Community match the donation by raising an additional $500,000, resulting in total campaign The Part One Crime Rate family that gave this donation, cated her entire life to the An - fund of one million dollars. Seen in this photo are Cathedral Dean V. Rev. Dr. Cleopas Strongylis dropped 60% during his tenure and furthermore, to tell the peo - nunciation Cathedral and served and committee members of the Annunciation Cathedral. in Lowell. Bamford has served in ple that this is a worthwhile as a past parish council president Washington, New Haven, and cause to contribute to so we can for seven years, stated that “we “the donor wishes to remain couraging.” Arvanitis’ parents Over the last year, the Annun - Baltimore Field Offices where he double the funds we received are very excited because this is anonymous,” and added “Father hail from Megalopolis, Arcadia ciation Cathedral has formed a worked extensively in the violent from this donation.” Photopoulos the start of a much needed ren - Cleopas and I helped in getting in the Peloponnese. An educator Cultural Events Committee for crime program. His experience expressed his certainty that “we ovation to the Cathedral, and I this donation.” Arvanitis added, herself, she says that she is proud cultural, social, and educational includes being a member of the will manage to match the funds,” see that the community is help - “The Cathedral is doing very well of her Greek heritage and points issues, which puts together a Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), a and stressed that, “We have seen ing us reach our goal of $1 mil - today. We have new families join - out “the next generation of chil - monthly event. Just recently, the SWAT team leader in New examples of this in the recent lion. These funds will be used ing, the number of parishioners dren in the Greek American Cathedral hosted a lecture on Se - Haven, and as a supervisor of a past. About three years ago we exclusively for the Annunciation attending Sunday services and Community is making strides ed - curity & Terrorism by Boston Po - Safe Streets Task Force in the raised around $350,000 and Cathedral.” She clarified that the events that take place is en - ucationally and professionally.” lice Commissioner Edward F. Washington D.C. area.

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By Paul Mattis spouse is perfect that is a good taxes to the enemy? One thing I Special to The National Herald self-deception, but if you think noticed here is that there are that you will become a million - discussions about civics in high The economic and structural aire by gambling that is a bad schools. I went to a Greek winds of change for the Greek one. People need to change their lykeon, with emphasis on math population which began like a attitudes, and when their behav - and physics. That was better summer meltimi threaten to ior occurs frequently they may than what the kids get here, but turn into a tsunami of misery. get new habits. People need to I never had any discussions The financial recession in the know who they are -gnothin about civics. The kids have to United States which began in seafton-and decide to change, learn that the government is late 2008 is a good example of the way that smokers decide to "us." the impact on a population. To - stop smoking. Many of the un - In a speech to the nation on day, almost two years later, un - desirable behaviors are like an May 2, 2010, George Papan - employment remains at 9.5%, addiction. They are very hard to dreou said the following: "We millions of Americans have change. But legislation can are shaping a truly new patrio - dropped out of the workforce, change attitudes. A high credi - tism, which means that we poverty is high, workers have bility source can do wonders. change practices and concep - seen their pensions funds cut in Lee Kuan Yew, who started Sin - tions. We are to highlight what - half, retirement is being post - gapore, was a benign dictator. ever best Greece and Hellenism poned, and there is widespread He made a collectivist culture has: meraki, filotimo, solidar - discontent. All of this notwith - free of corruption. I spent six ity, humaneness, hospitality, up - standing societal safety nets in - months there and it works like rightness, imagination, creativ - cluding unemployment compen - a clock! My research showed sation, food stamps, Medicare, that there is more corruption in private non-profit charitable AP PhOtO/PEtROS gIANNAKOURIS hierarchical collectivist cultures support foundations, and a A lottery vendor leans against a post during a five-hour work stoppage at Athens' main railway (also in hierarchical individual - mega government stimulus pro - station on Sept 23, 2010 as employees at the state-run National Railways protested government ist, but not as much.) But Sin - gram to spark the economy. Eco - plans to partially privatize the loss-making company. Strikes are a set routine in the Greek gapore is free of corruption, like nomic challenges such as these mentality. the Scandinavian countries. in the United States shake up a In my attitude book I discuss society and test the resolve of a analyzing different cultures and Is Greece changing from a $28,000/capita in 2009 dollars how the source, the message, nation's spirit and Greece is no how their behavior affects the collectivist to individualist cul - is sufficient. But expectations are the medium, and the type of au - exception. How a society copes common good. In your writings, ture? If so, in what way and is crucial. When pensions are cut dience influence attitude and adjusts to change is the life - you refer to the Greece of your it good or bad for Greece? by 40%, as they were in Greece change. Some elaborate mes - long research of Dr. Harry Trian - youth as being a traditional, col - -Greece has changed toward recently, people are unhappy, sages, repeated frequently, by dis, Professor Emeritus at the lectivist culture that is very sta - individualism, as reflected in the even if they earned one million credible sources, in face-to-face University of Illinois at Urbana- ble. Could you explain what way people I see (at least the and were cut to 600,000 they situations result in attitude Champaign. A leading expert in made it a collectivist culture? upper middle class), raise their would be unhappy. Political free - change. The self-deception in social psychology, he has au - -Greek villages and islands children. No more strict disci - dom is associated with happi - Greece is that progress can be thored many books including were collectivist. An important pline or emphasis on conformity. ness, that is okay in Greece. Jus - achieved by sitting in a café, his latest, Fooling Ourselves-Self aspect of collectivism is that Now the emphasis is on devel - tice is an important factor, but with one's "parea," criticizing Deception in Politics, Religion, some collective (family, country, oping the personality, people the Greeks think that these cuts the government. One needs ac - and Terrorism, which won the religion) defines who people should be "finding themselves." are unjust. They think the banks tion groups: associations, clubs, Paul Mattis William James Award of Divi - are. Behavior is doing what the I do not think that is good. I am should cover the deficit. Trust in and other political units, that sion 1 of the American Psycho - in-group (family, etc) wants a great believer in the middle fellow citizens is related to hap - can undertake specific tasks-fix ity, alacrity of wit needed for logical Association. The award done. When we (I worked with path-pan metron ariston. There piness, but that is low in collec - the traffic, the pollution, and the productivity. This is our Greece required that he also give a lec - Vasso Vassiliou ) asked large has also been a breakdown in tivist cultures. One trusts only taxmen. The culture values se - of values. New patriotism means ture about it in August, 2011, samples in Thessaloniki and respect. I go there every year the closest members of the in- curity more than is healthy. The that we do not only praise sym - at a meeting of the organization. Athens "What comes to your and it looks more like the USA. group, such as one's mother! ideal is to get a government job bols and history, but take care In his first book, Attitude and mind when you think about But, unlike here, people do not Brotherhood is important, but with a good salary and pension. of our fellow citizen, and the Attitude Change, he presents a yourself," the top quality that pay their taxes. I can under - that is low in Greece. People do The ideal should be to do what common interest, we take care way to understand why and was mentioned, was "filotimos." stand them. The tax collectors not volunteer to help, unless helps the common good. Also, of our environment, take care how people act the way they do My social science definition of do not respect the citizens and they are relatives. There are no - the ideal should be to leave the of Greece which belongs to all in specific situations. He goes this term is "doing what people conversely they are not re - table exemptions -people who country better than you found it of us. New patriotism means a on to explore how their behav - who are important to me want spected by the citizens. Respect gave money for the public good, Apologists for the Greek con - new collective Greek con - ior changes based on changes me to do." That is collectivism! requires a sense that the civil but most them made their dition speak of the effect of his - science." Is Papandreou fooling in a society's political and famil - However, this happened only servant is serving the public. In money in individualist countries. torical factors that have resulted himself or is he onto something? ial structures, methods and when the respondent came from Greece civil servants "have made Security is good for happiness, in Greece's present situation. -I agree with Papandreou. He amount of information they re - a village or island. On the other it;" they are the boss. If you but Greeks feel insecure because There seems to be some reason sets goals. He reminds Greeks ceive from outside sources, and hand when people were city know a member of their in- of the deficit, the Turks, and so for this argument in that the that they have good qualities. cultural changes in how people dwellers they did not give this group who introduced you to on. Social equality is good, but Greeks needed to live by their Greeks have to go back to filo - perceive the world based on the response. One way to measure them you may get service, oth - Greeks feel there is not enough wits for 400 years under Turkish timo, but when they do what amount of influence by their collectivism and individualism erwise you may or may not get of it. It helps also if nature is domination, they have for the the in-group wants them to do family and friends. (there are many ways) is to ask it. To change this attitude re - kind, but the common earth - most part of their modern his - they should think more broadly. Dr. Triandis was born in Pa - people to complete 20 sentences quires training their supervisors. quakes and fires are not good. tory been a client state of the Not just the family. Greece is tras, and raised in Athens. He that start with I am .... In col - If a boss tells the civil servant to Peace is good for happiness, but Great Powers up to the end of their family. came to the United States in lectivist cultures the responses shape up he will. The bureau - the press tends to sell papers by World War II, fought a civil war 1954 and completed his PhD in had social content (I am an un - cracy is stifling, because the su - telling the public that great dan - and then struggled through a Paul Mattis is president of the 1958 at Cornell University. His cle, I am a member of the X pervisors do not have the right gers are around the corner. ruling aristocracy and military Mattis Group and resides in unique perspective having been group). In individualist cultures attitude. In Fooling Ourselves you talk junta. What effect do you feel Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He raised in Greece, which he says the responses were centered on What steps can a society about self-deception. Could you this has had on present day at - holds a Masters degree from was a traditional, collectivist so - the individual (I am a musician, take, and in this case Greek so - explain what it is and if you feel titudes? The University of Pennsylvania ciety, and then spending his sub - I am a great walker.) Collec - ciety, to increase its collective Greek society has been social - -The apologists are largely and has developed and imple - sequent years in the United tivism comes from a simple, iso - sense of well being? ized into "self-deception"? correct. I suspect that the atti - mented strategic marketing States, an individualist culture, lated culture, where everything -I cover many factors that are All cultures, especially the tude of Greeks toward the gov - programs for national financial allows for a unique perspective you do is known to many other associated with happiness in the collectivists, use self-deception. ernment is due to the Turkish institutions and businesses over on modern day Greece. people. Behavior is strictly reg - book. One does not need to be Self-deception is both good and occupation. The government the past 25 years. You have spent many years ulated by social norms. rich to be happy. An income of bad. If you think that your then was the enemy. Why pay [email protected]. In Cyprus, Sometimes Remembering Just Enough Just Isn’t Enough

By Leah Barkoukis meeting at the U.S. Embassy in the pieces of history that con - to stronger powers like the Greece and Cyprus must take Special to The National Herald Nicosia that they (Greek-Cypri - tinue to affect the present situ - United States. Despite such im - advantage of the various exoge - ots) need to just forget about ation. Conversely, Greece seems pediments, Greece upholds in - nous political, economic and so - (This summer, seven Greek history and hurry up with a res - to struggle with a superabun - ternational law, supports cial factors that have the poten - American college students vis - olution. A gaffe by any normal dance of historical memory. If Turkey’s admittance into the EU tial to do so. A steadfast ited Greece and Cyprus as part standard, never mind the care - ancient architectural structures and continues to serve as a loyal determination to educate, lobby of an American Hellenic Insti - fully crafted State Department decorating Greece’s landscapes NATO ally. and at all costs, to reject the sta - tute Foundation program to give rhetoric, the comment left us are not enough, persistent re - These are the facets of tus quo must form the founda - them first-hand access to gov - shocked, our director vocally minders that Greece was the Greece’s foreign policy that tion for future action. Some - ernment officials and others and irate and alerted even the most birthplace of democracy are. ought to be remembered be - times we must forget, other see how domestic and foreign reposed officials. However, the With an understanding of the cause these are the significant times we must remember what policy is shaped. The National statement resonates with each Golden Age of Greece and now issues today. The extent to we would like to forget, but the Herald invited them to write individual, it does shed light on the recent debt issues of its which Greece and Cyprus’ cur - real challenge lies in finding about what they saw. In this the role of historical memory in economy, it is also important to rent regional and international harmony between the two. It is piece, Leah Barkoukis talks present Greek and Cypriot soci - recognize Greece’s foreign rela - relations are recollected globally my hope that Cyprus and about how she was influenced ety. tions. matter only as much as the sig - Greece rise to the occasion and by the visit to Cyprus) The degree to which histori - Though their current affairs nificance attributed to the issues invoke the proper degree of his - The shoreline in Famagusta cal memory figures in both may appear to play a minor role by both countries. I am confi - torical memory for the purpose was unlike any other I have seen countries’ current affairs must in global politics, to overlook dent that the problems vexing of bettering their today. in my life. More than a division be a constant balancing act. The them could prove to the detri - Cyprus and Greece will change of land and sea, it was a demar - officials’ remark lies at one end ment of diplomacy as overlook - but not easily. Without speaking Leah Barkoukis, originally from cation of freedom and occupa - of the spectrum regarding the ing their economy’s role did to up, acting and drawing atten - Cleveland, is currently a tion, and a paradox of beauty role the past should play in the global finance. The country tion to the issues, their problems research assistant and a Master’s and beast. Looking out at the present. Clearly, too much his - faces many regional challenges will linger and continue to be Degree candidate in Conflict torical memory can be toxic to with Turkey and struggles to forgotten by the masses. To Resolution at Georgetown Uni - a country’s future and hope of find the confidence to stand up Leah Barkoukis transform their situations, versity in Washington, D.C. “Our group … was told by reconciliation. Yet, by the same one official in a meeting token, too little throws justice at the U.S. Embassy in by the wayside in allowing crimes to be swept into the Nicosia that they (Greek- deepest corners of one’s mem - Cypriots) need to just ory. Consequently, such histori - "Let Food Be Thy Medicine" Socrates cal amnesia in Cyprus would ab - forget about history and solve Turkey of their violations hurry up with a resolution of human, cultural and religious rights, and international legal glistening ocean and across the conventions. A calling to forget landscape, Cyprus seemed a in order to move forward also place of bountiful splendor. trivializes the issues, such that Dozens of luxury hotels spanned the weaker party of the conflict the shore almost as far as the appears intransigent – an unfor - eye could see, indicative of a tunate characterization attrib - bustling tourist destination - a uted to the Greek-Cypriots by place of peace and refuge. Be - some. And lastly, forgetting the hind me though, a part of history as advocated by the of - Cyprus was taken hostage. A ficial would also conveniently closer look revealed an ugly exonerate the United States of truth regarding the country’s its role in the 1974 invasion, history and present situation. which helped Turkey claim one The seemingly luxurious hotels third of the country. were deserted and dilapidated, LEST WE FORGET and the light island breeze sud - It is true that scrutiny into denly carried a tense and the roots of the current conflict somber aura. The feeling of un - does not help matters much ease was compounded by the now because history illustrates presence of armed Turkish sol - that no party’s hands are clean. diers who watched our group When standing on that beach in like hawks as we stood just feet Famagusta, however, or at a away from the forbidden zone. desecrated church with Greek- Maybe Cyprus was peaceful, but Cypriot headstones overturned it was evident that peace was and thrown into a shed, it be - Healthy Eating is for Life! Enjoy our Delicious Organic Granola and Muesli! nowhere to be found. comes nearly impossible to ask Yet it was here in Cyprus that for the slightest bit of historical Order online [email protected] our group from the American amnesia for the sake of moving P: 718-491-1335 | F: 718-425-9932 Hellenic Institute Foundation on. 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DEATHS n ANDREWS, LUKAS dream, a fearless attitude and a eral nieces and nephews. Funeral of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox cated in Greece and later immi - and then he escaped to Egypt LAS CRUCES, NM - The Las strong work ethic, which led to services were held at Assumption Church in Jersey City and also grated to the United States in and served in the Free Greek Cruces Sun-Times reported that his extraordinary success in the Greek Orthodox Church. Visita - belonged to several Greek orga - 1973. She was employed at Navy in Alexandria. After the Lukas Christos Andrews, 57, restaurant business and with his tion and a Trisagion prayer ser - nizations and societies. She is American Family Crafts and at war he went to graduate school passed away peacefully on Sep - many real estate investments here vice were held at the Cornell survived by her beloved husband, the Danbury Hospital prior to in London, where he received his tember 15 after a courageous and in Greece. In 1969, he re - Memorial Home. Memorial con - Vasilios Kapsis; her children, Gus, her retirement. She was a mem - PhD from University College, battle with cancer. He was born turned to Corfu and married his tributions in her memory may be Nicholas and John Kapsis; her ber of the Assumption Greek Or - London. In 1954 he came to on May 17, 1953 to Christos and loving wife, Angela and returned made to the Assumption Greek cherished grandchildren, Sylvia, thodox Church of Danbury. Mrs. Brown University, where he was Eleutheria Andrews in Manhat - to America together. Spyros was Orthodox Church Building Fund, Billy, Nicholas, Joseph and Vasil - Margellos was predeceased by a professor in the Division of En - tan, New York. He was raised in a member of the St. George Greek 30 Clapboard Ridge Road, Dan - ios Kapsis; her loving great- her beloved husband, Spero gineering until his retirement. At Athens, Greece where he ac - Orthodox Church in Asbury Park. bury, CT 06811. grandchildren, Frederick and Margellos. She is survived by Brown, he conducted research quired his primary and sec - He spent many summers at his Vasilios Kapsis; and by her sib - her daughter, Helen (Steve) Fil - into the strengths of materials ondary education. He graduated villa in Corfu, in the company of n DENDRINOS, SPYROS lings in Greece. Visitation was ippakos; her grandchildren, and was very involved in devel - college in Athens. In 1978, he family and friends. Spyros spent NEWARK, N.J. - The Star-Ledger held at McLaughlin Funeral Christina and Konstantine; her oping and teaching the founda - obtained his graduate degree most of his time playing the violin reported that Spyros Dendrinos, Home. Funeral services were siblings, John Biniaris and Anas - tion course for engineering stu - from New Mexico State Univer - and exploring real estate. Spyros 90, passed away peacefully on held at St. Demetrios Greek Or - tasia Papazisi; and several nieces dents. His hobbies included sity and joined the military was predeceased by his parents, September 23. Spyros was born thodox Church. McLaughlin Fu - and nephews. Funeral services photography, marksmanship and forces. He was an honorable man Konstantinos and Parthenopy on July 10, 1920 in Alexandria, neral Home is in charge of were held at the Assumption writing computer programs. He who devoted his life to providing Bardis; and a sister-in-law, Katina Egypt to Helen and Gerasimos arrangements; 625 Pavonia Av - Greek Orthodox Church with the was a champion marksman with for his family. He loved philoso - Kontalipos. Spyros is survived by Dendrinos. He fought in World enue Jersey City, NJ 07306; Rev. Peter Karloutsos officiating. pistols, who represented Greece phy, sacred music and his Greek his beloved wife, Angela; his chil - War II in the Greek Army under (201) 798-8700. Contributions in Mrs. Margellos' in the 1947 World Shooting culture. He was a warm and no - dren, Constantine, Parthenopy the command of the British Army honor and memory may be Championships in Stockholm, bel man. He will be greatly and Alexander; his daughter-in- in North Africa in the desert of n KOKOTINIS, OLIVIA made to the Assumption Greek where he received a silver medal missed. He was predeceased by law, Monica; his granddaughter, Libya and the Middle East for NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Orthodox Church. and a bronze medal. He was also his parents. He is survived by Kaitlyn; his siblings, Magdalini five years. He immigrated to the Daily Press reported that Olivia a member of the Greek Olympic his wife, Romelia Andrews; his (Marinos) Kontalipos and George United States in 1951 and was A. Kokotinis, 85, passed away n MYLONAS, CONSTANTINE team, competing in the 1948 children, Christopher Andrews, (Marika); and his nieces and married to Catherine Xanthos on peacefully on September 23. A PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Provi - Oslo Olympics. Always looking Rachel Andrews, Carlos (Kerry) nephews, Parthenopy and Dim - August 22, 1954. Spyros was a native of Karpenisi, Greece, she dence Journal reported that Con - for ways to improve on how Montes, and Eric (Misty) itris, Andrea and Nikos Louvros, hydraulics engineer, working for was a Peninsula resident for stantine Mylonas, 94, passed things worked, he invented and Montes; his grandchildren, Konstantinos and Kalliopi, Olga many years at Johnson Machin - more than 40 years and worked away peacefully. He was a pro - patented a shell catcher for use Aubrey, Bailey, Castillo and Lar - and Kostas, Nikos and Konstanti - ery Co. in Newark and later for as a seamstress. She was prede - fessor emeritus of Brown Univer - with shotguns. He was prede - ren Montes; and his beloved nos Bardis, and Athena and Nikos S&S Machinery in Brooklyn. His ceased by her beloved husband, sity. He was born in Athens, ceased by his parents and his cousins, Dimitris and Lukas Tsili - Kontalipos. Visitation and a Tris - work took him all over the Andrew Kokotinis. She is sur - Greece, to the late Miltiades and brother, Paul M. Mylonas. He is phonis and Yannis and Roula agion prayer service were held at United States, Europe and South vived by her sister, Anna D. Par - Elli Mylonas. He received his de - survived by his beloved wife, De - from Athens, Greece. Visitation, the O'Brien Funeral Home. Fu - America. Spyros was an active rous; her nephews, James Par - gree in Engineering from the Na - spina; his children, Elli (David) a Trisagion prayer service and neral services will be held in member of Saint Nicholas Greek rous and Arthur Parrous; her tional Polytechnic University of Durand, Paul (Xenia); and his funeral services were held at La Afionas, Corfu, Greece. The Orthodox Church in Newark for nieces, Bessie Evanchyk and Vi - Athens, where he graduated first grandchildren, Despina Durand Paz - Graham's Funeral Home. O'Brien Funeral Home, Wall, is in many years and served as parish vian (David) Swanson; her in his class. During WWII he and Daphne and Constantine Services have been entrusted to charge of arrangements. For fur - president. He was also an active great-nieces and nephew, served in the Greek army until Mylonas. Funeral services were the care of La Paz - Graham's Fu - ther information or to send con - member of AHEPA. He was pre - Christina, Scott and Michelle the Nazi occupation of Greece held in Athens, Greece. neral Home, 555 West Amador, dolences to the family, please visit deceased by his wife, Catherine; Swanson; her niece and Las Cruces, NM 88005. www.obrienfuneralhome.com. his sister, Mary, and brother nephews in Greece, Connie Panagioti. Spyros is survived by Gemenis, Arthur Gemenis and CLASSIFIEDS n BARDIS, SPYROS n DAMAS, ATHANASIA his children, Eleni (Dino) Rou - Arthur Gemenis of Athens; and ASBURY PARK, N.J. – The Asbury DANBURY, Conn. - The News bos, Barbara (Michael) Lambert other family members and Park Press reported that Spyros Times reported that Athanasia and Gerald (Michele) Dendrinos; friends. A Trisagion prayer ser - FOR RENT and ask for Veta. Bardis, 74, passed away peace - Damas, 77, passed away peace - his grandchildren, Demetrios, vice and funeral services were fully after a courageous battle fully at Danbury Hospital on Sep - Spyro and Alexander Roubos, held at Sts. Constantine and He - LONG ISLAND CITY FUNERAL HOMES with cancer on September 18 sur - tember 23. She was born in Catherine, Cristin and Conor len Greek Orthodox Church with Beautiful second floor OFFICE rounded by his family at Robert Lambeti, Greece on October 8, Lambert, and Stephen Dendri - the Rev. George Chioros offici - SPACE. for rent from July 1st. Has CONSTANTINIDES Wood Johnson Hospital. Spyros 1932, daughter of the late nos; his brother, Nikola and ating. Memorials may be made 10 offices, 3 bathrooms, server room, lounge area, reception area FUNERAL PARLOR Co. life was the epitome of the Amer - Demitri and Vasiliki Kolokas. She many nieces and nephews. Visi - to Sts. Constantine and Helen etc. Spacious, modern, freshly 405 91st Street ican dream, which began when was a member of the Assumption tation and a Trisagion prayer ser - Greek Orthodox Church, 60 Tra - painted, close to all amenities. Bay Ridge - Brooklyn, he was born in the village of Greek Orthodox Church in Dan - vice were held at Paskas Funeral verse Road, Newport News, VA Some offices are already furnished NY 11209 Afionas, on the island of Corfu. bury. Mrs. Damas was a loving Service. Funeral services were 23601. with custom desks and matching (718) 745-1010 As a young man, Spyros attended homemaker who cherished her held at SS. Nicholas, Constantine cabinet files. Easy move in. Great Services in all localities - the Royal Hellenic Academy of family and was a talented seam - and Helen Greek Orthodox n KOUVAVAS, MICHAEL for Electrical contractors, Architects, Low cost shipping to Greece Carpentry on the island of Leros stress. She enjoyed being active Church. In lieu of flowers, do - AURORA, Ill. - The Beacon News Engineers, Lawyers, Accountants, etc. Call Demetrios at (646) 732- and then served in the Royal Hel - in the Danbury Senior Center nations to the SS. Nicholas, Con - reported that Michael Kouvavas, ANTONOPOULOS lenic Navy on the Greek de - and volunteered with the Retired stantine and Helen building fund 96, passed away peacefully on 9572 or email: controller@ekirikas. com for a walk through. We are FUNERAL HOME, INC. stroyer, Doxa II. Spyros later and Senior Volunteer Program are preferred. For further infor - September 23 at Provena Mercy offering a 1 to 5 year lease for the Konstantinos Antonopoulos - joined the Greek merchant through the American Red Cross, mation, visit: www.paskasfuner - Center. He was born on October premises, 2 month security deposit Funeral Director marines with hopes of reaching knitting items for those in need. alsvc.com. 6, 1913 in Levidi, Greece, to the required once lease is signed. Premi 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., America, but the journey was cut She also enjoyed gardening and late Constantine and Margo Kou - ses will be available July 1st 2010. Astoria, New York 11105 short when his freighter, the spending time with her many n KAPSIS, MARIA vavas. Before immigrating to the Asking $7,000 per month. (718) 728-8500 Glafkos, ran aground in stormy friends at Palace View. 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By Constantine S. Sirigos curves that suggest the eyes of a According to the gallery’s web TNH Staff Writer creature looking back at the site, exhibitions are organized viewer, and other bold curves throughout the year and are NEW YORK – The current ex - suggesting both forces of nature changed monthly. The motives hibit of the paintings of one must be careful of and the for the establishment of the Demetrios Manouselis at the tumultuous lives of the people gallery opening will sound famil - Kouros art gallery in Manhattan living and working in the build - iar to successful men and women is both a delight and a thought- ings seen through the windows around the world who found provoking experience. In the age behind. But even here, there are that retirement was not what of photography, one might forget regular shapes and lines in the they had envisioned for them - that a great painting is an background, reminding the selves. Angelo ran a brokerage achievement of great intellectual viewer of the other painting and house in Brazil’s Sao Paolo. His and physical effort. You can point the more orderly world it pre - plan was to move to the United and click with a camera at the sents. The paintings capture the States to enhance the education very scenes observed by the mas - tension between the rational opportunities for his children, to ters and walk away with the mind and the passions that amplify his art collection, and to canals of Venice in your pocket, sometimes snap the branches of breed rare Orchids (he owns or the fields of Christina’s World. reason like the mighty trees that 2000.) That was not enough. It Some viewers might ponder how didn’t stand a chance in New turned out that opening a gallery the reflections on the shimmer - York during the recent outbreak filled the void. The elegant town ing water and the myriad blades of tornadoes. But each disk con - house off Manhattan’s Fifth Av - of grass are created with brush tains hints of the realities of the enue has gallery space on two stokes and slashes of painters’ other, such as the Asian yin-yang levels and currently houses two knives, but they might not con - disks, and one can get the full shows, Manouselis’ painting, and template how the artist conjured effect by spinning around, like sculptures and paintings by Mar - up scenes the rest of us cannot, the earth itself. ianne Weil. The lobby spaces and thinking perhaps that, “He just Manouselis, who was born in his office are decorated by ex - looks at the world.” Manouselis Cretan-born Painter Demetrios Manouselis who lives and works in NY (Right) is seen above with Crete and lives and works in ceptional pieces both owned by can’t point and click because he Angleo Camillos, who owns the Kouros gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with his wife Charlotte. New York, began painting in the Camilloses and consigned to also sees what isn’t there. His ab - earnest 25 years ago, just after the gallery by artists. stract paintings are born of his of our physical reality. Some of it, can seize our attention in un - different, the mind needs to he finished He said he also does not be - imagination and the deft move - his paintings bring to mind the expected ways. Part of the beauty know how they are related. They his lieve that modern Greek artists ments of his brushes that a non- talk of Nobel Prize-winning and and power of abstract art objects are bounded by large circles of are judged in light of the achieve - artist cannot relate to. Or can aspiring physicists of the exis - is that they are receptacles for the same size. The one be - ments of their ancient forbears. he? tence of additional dimensions the ideas and feelings from in - tween two windows, la - No one looks at a modern “It all begins a line, his art is and multiple universes. side ourselves that we project beled Composition 2007, Greek’s work and relates it to rooted in line ... lines are the TNH asked Manouselis if onto them. looks out into the well- the sculptor Phidias, he said. foundation,” Michael Murray, the some of his pieces were inspired Abstract art challenges the defined geometry of the To the degree that the artists director of the Kouros Gallery, by The New Physics, but he said ideas of some philosophers who Manhattan street grid, themselves come under told The National Herald. All no. He does read widely and is say you can grasp the essence of and its skyscrapers ap - scrutiny, Camillos said that paintings are essentially draw - fluent in a number of languages, the artist through his work. The peals to the intellect critics and buyers are con - ings and almost everyone has but in his art he is concerned word “architectonic” appears in with its perpendicular cerned that a person’s evo - drawn or can draw something. with composition and the work - writings about Mansouselis, but lines and rectangles lution as an artist is au - Hence the powerful creative ing out of painterly ideas. Ab - buildings are suggested in his that form a surface for thentic, driven by his symbolism of the human hand, stract art, for those who are not paintings in subtle ways. One circles and spheres. experiences, artistic mas - whose quintessential image left cold piece, Composition, created in Very Platonic, but then tery and his deep thoughts might be Michaelangelo’s God by 2010, evokes the Brooklyn some anti-Platonic im - and emotions, rather than reaching out to give the spark of Bridge’s spider web steel cables, perfection intrudes. There responses to the question of life to Adam in the Sistine but has the artist ever been to are ellipses by themselves, what will sell on the current Chapel. The artist’s hands, like Brooklyn? Would a man from shapes which never appealed market. God’s, work in the universe’s Barcelona see something to the classical Greeks. But then He told The National Herald three dimensions, use hard else that the artist never one sees ellipses that clearly are that the crisis potentially impacts and soft matter. Sculpture intended and is com - simply the shadows of the his gallery because many of is also represented at the pletely unrelated to his perfect spheres, though in an 2006, opposite 2007, suggests his clients are from Greece, Kouros Gallery, and the being? unseen plane or dimension chaos, but a subtle order subsists. but he said that he is less con - world’s third dimension is HE KNOWS ART the artist has chosen not to cerned now than he was at manifested on the resume The biography seems display. architectural studies at Pratt In - first. Buyers who hesitated in of Manouselis by the fact not to matter – their When one notices the shark- stitute in Brooklyn (so he has May have recently made pur - that he is a practicing ar - work still grabs our at - like figure at the bottom of the seen the Brooklyn Bridge) and chases, he said. The Kouros chitect. tention. Two pieces in image, the viewer wants to spin he did establish an architectural Gallery also operates a Sculpture Some of Manouselis’s particular, perhaps by de - around to study the other disk practice which focuses on com - Center in Ridgefield, Connecti - works sneak into one’s at - sign, through their being that catches the eye earlier, Com - mercial and residential interiors. cut, “where the environmental tention after a few moments well-placed by the curators, position 2006. There is the mir - Five years ago he married Asli - work of the gallery's as well as of gazing, as if the living lines facing each other, seem to cap - ror image of the irrational ele - han (Asli) who is from Istanbul. other international sculptors is and the surfaces and volumes ture the viewer if she approaches ment that intruded on the MODERN GREEK THOUGHT on permanent exhibit,” accord - that are just outlined or hinted them through a path that brings viewer’s contemplation of the ra - Angelo and Charlotte Camil - ing to kourosgallery.com. at reveal the deconstructed Composition 2007 seems to repre - both to her attention in a tional shapes by the window. los are the owners of the gallery but usually unseen elements sent reason, but disorder lurks. rapid sequence. Similar but There are thick and colorful on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. [email protected]

LIVING HISTORY Kotsonaros, A Brute Who Could Act, and a Champion of the Mat

Continued from page 1 George goes right on training light-heavy-weight wrestling las and to give him two weeks’ grants in small cities and even for the day he hopes to wear the champion, who portrays a fero - pay to return at once, but in the most remote sections of wood, adding his own particular belt of the world’s champion,” cious ape-man. The dog is fight - Willoughby will not consent to the nation such as Ogden, Utah; brand of brutish, ugly menace the Bakersfield Californian re - ing to save his beloved mistress” release Kotsonaros from his con - Sioux City, Iowa; Mansfield, to nearly two dozen motion pic - ported on February 22, 1927. the ‘monk’ is fighting for her tract here unless Kotsonaros will Ohio; Flandreau and Estherville tures. The rest of the year Kot - Most of the films Kotsonaros possession, while she, weak put up a cash deposit of $2,000 Iowa and elsewhere. Constant sonaros toured the country as a appeared in, are today, consid - with horror, beholds the strug - to offset expenses of the match grueling travel was a fundamen - professional wrestler. While he ered lost, as is the case with gle which will decide her fate!” in case he fails to return, or tal element in the daily lives of garnered recognition as a Hol - most silent motion pictures. To Kotsonaros often made the meets a mishap in his plane trip. professional wrestlers in North lywood character actor he was date, Kotsonaros is known to outrageous (and false) claim Kotsonaros has wired the film America from 1865 until the ad - always clear that “his ambition have performed in 20 Holly - that he appeared in these vari - company, asking if he can return vent of television matches in the (is) to become heavyweight wood films including The Fight - ous films without make-up. next week after the match. Kilo - 1950’s-1960’s. Trains and cars wrestling champion of the ing Doctor, While London News accounts abound that re - nis is begging Willoughby not (with only the occasional air - world. He has wandered far Sleeps, Cupid's Knockout, Van - port something to the effect that to allow Kotsonaros to have an plane) were the means by which from his native Greece, and his ishing Millions, all in 1926; The “Kotsonaros’ battle-scarred alibi to offer after the match is professional wrestlers toured family, who for generations have Love Mart, The Private Life of physiognomy already has over,” the Dallas Morning News the nation. Once in the town been athletes famous all over Helen of Troy, The Wizard, King brought him considerable com - reported on November 7, 1929. that they were to compete in the Europe; but not far from his de - of the Jungle, Catch-As-Catch- ment for his work.” Have no LIFE IN AMERIKI average wrestler still had a very sire to continue his wrestling ca - Can, The Tender Hour, When a fear, you can still see Kotsonaros Like the vast majority of strict schedule: time for rigorous reer … nevertheless in spite of Man Loves, in 1927; We Faw as One-Round Kelly on DVD Greek immigrants to the United daily training, a special eating his cattle ranch in Montana, and Down, Beggars of Life, Street of restorations of the Laurel and George Kotsonaras also ap - States from 1880 to 1920, little regimen, business management his success in the movies, Sin, The Fifty-Fifty Girl, in 1928; Hardy silent-short film We Faw peared in a number of movies is really known about the pri - such as signing contracts for The Body Punch, The Shake - Down and even hear him in The and was scary looking indeed vate daily life of Kotsonaros. matches, speaking with re - down, Victory, in 1929, Danger - Shakedown. Fixed boxing in some of his roles, although Vague and passing references porters, sending in letters to the ous Paradise in 1930, and Hon - matches, unexpected love, and his detractors said he was so are made to his family in Amer - local press (or on to the local eymoon Lane in 1931. no holds-barred prizefighting ugly he didn’t need makeup ica. Kotsonaros’ brother, Nic Kot - press in the next town on the GREEK POETRY Kotsonaros’ movie career scenes make The Shakedown an sonaros, was in Montana help - tour. All this and other dreary spanned the silent to talking early talkie film of some note, one of the smartest exponents ing with business arrangements but required tasks left little time movies era. A VHS re-release of especially when hero Dave Hall of the limb-twisting as there is for local wrestling matches, the for a personal life. My Verses the 1927 silent film When A (played by James Murray) seeks in the mat game,” the Centralia Billings Gazette reported on It was the reality of a profes - Man Loves was made expres - to redeem himself in the cli - Daily Chronicle of Washington January 27, 1924. Kotsonaros’ sional wrestler’s life that ex - My verses, children of my blood. sively because it remains one of matic final bout with Battling reported on April 6, 1929).” Yet, cousin was A. D. Louis, who plained Kotsonaros’ tragic They speak, but I supply the John Barrymore’s more noted Roff, portrayed by the grim- it is this issue of “intelligence” owned the Alps Restaurant in death. On the evening of July words films. As far as available docu - faced Kotsonaros. that Hollywood overlooked, as Lancaster, Ohio. Not given to 13, 1933 Kotsonaros wrestled in like fragments of my heart, mentation reports Kotsonaros IT’S ALL AN ACT it is also the case that in Ameri - knowing much about small Nashville, Tennessee. Later that I offer them like tears from my has only a minor role in this While many might say, “But can film histories and encyclo - western towns, most news re - night Kotsonaros and fellow eyes. film. Viewing copies (or at least Kotsonaros was only a character pedias Kotsonaros is frequently ports simply recorded that Kot - wrestler John Paul Jones began film) exists for Dangerous Par - actor,” more is at play. As Hector cited for his remarkably sonaros was “an owner of a driving south to New Orleans They go with bitter smiles adise, made in 1930, but its in The Private Life of Helen of poignant portrayal of a down ranch out west,” as the Cleve - where Jones was scheduled to when I recount so much of life. viewing status is uncertain. Troy, Kotsonaros may be the first and out hobo in Beggars of Life, land Plain Dealer said on Feb. wrestle the next night. In I girdle them with sun and day THE APE MAN Greek immigrant to appear as a showing his range as an actor 2, 1925. Kotsonaros’ ranch was Greene County, Alabama some and sun Kotsonaros had an extensive classical Greek character in a went beyond being brutish. Kot - in Mildred, Montana. Nic Kot - eight miles outside of Eutaw, in for when I'm overtaken by the career as a beast-man, gorilla- Hollywood film, and it must be sonaros’ two careers became the sonaros, his wife Sophus and the early hours of July 14th, night. man or ape-man. Since the films noted that the concerns and subject of news stories around their three children Harry, their automobile overturned. in which Kotsonaros earned this considerations of Greek-Ameri - the country for years. George, and Antonia lived in Later in the morning, “A They fix the limits of the sky and dubious distinction – not really can historians don’t always “George Kotsonaros, the Mildred too. George Kotsonaros passing motorist discovered the earth. fame - are now lost, perhaps no agree with those of the Ameri - movie star-grappler who has was about to retire when the wreck and Kotsonaros, who was And yet my sons still wonder one alive has ever seen these can historian of film or immi - signed to tackle John Kilonis, stock market crash of 1929 took driving, was pinned beneath, what is missing movies. The cult notoriety of gration history. In The Fighting Boston Greek, next Monday most of his savings. dead. Jones was brought for always bored, worn down, these films is based on florid Doctor, Kotsonaros appears as night at the City Hall Audito - Prior to 1929, Kotsonaros treatment. While physicians said the only mother they have known movie reviews of the period and Scissors Lomski while Jack rium, is causing Promoter Bert was frequently cited in newspa - he would recover, his injuries is Grief. surviving photographic stills Pierce is the character Chug Wil - Willoughby lots of trouble this per accounts as one of the were serious enough to keep taken from these movies. While son and Peter Kanellos is cred - week. Last week Kilonis was wealthiest professional him out of the ring for several I pour out the laughter of the London Sleeps, The Wizard, The ited as the presenter. Pierce was causing Willoughby trouble wrestlers. months. Authorities expressed sweetest tune, Fifty-Fifty Girl, and King of the really Ioannis Picoulas, who when he insisted on wrestling In the stories Greek-Ameri - the belief that Kotsonaros, who the aimless passion of the flute; Jungle, which was a Tarzan se - went on to international fame after Willoughby had attempted cans tell each other there are had wrestled last night … feel to them I am an unsuspecting rial, have gathered the most at - as the makeup artist for to have him barred for using quite a few tales about betting asleep at the wheel, the Galve - king tention for Kotsonaros as a sav - Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolf - rough tactics, but Kilonis has a on Greek wrestlers. As these sto - ston Daily News reported on who's lost his people's love. age, and so nearly insane, man among many other charac - contract guaranteeing him three ries go, immigrant Greeks July 14, 1933. beast-man. In The Wizard, Kot - ters. Kanellos was another of the matches and Willoughby had to would place sizable side bets or Kotsonaros was scheduled to They waste away, they fade sonaros portrayed a human-go - early Greek immigrants working live up to it. This week, a con - otherwise back a particular wrestle his old nemesis, the fa - away, yet rilla half-bred set on destruc - in Hollywood. The Fighting Doc - tract has come to Willoughby’s Greek wrestler with single col - bled Jim Londos, in Atlanta, never cease their quiet lamenta - tion. tor was the first Hollywood pro - rescue. lective sum of money. This hap - Georgia, the biggest battle of tion. A fragment from one news - duction with three Greek immi - “The Famous Players-Lasky pened all over the United States, Greeks on the mat. Kotsonaros Pass by, Mortal, with averted paper review for While London grants in the same film. Film Company at Los Angeles and mainstream newspaper re - was an Olympian medal holder, gaze; Sleeps, which starred the first Unquestionably, Kotsonaros has wired to Kotsonaros asking porters were aware of these professional wrestler and silent Lethe, carry me in your boat to movie star dog, Rin Tin Tin, was is recalled for his frequent por - him to return to Hollywood as practices, the Aberdeen Ameri - movie actor, so why has this bathe. typical of what is available and trayal of menacing, brutal and soon as possible to retake scenes can reported on March 23, hardworking champion athlete demonstrated its genre. “Rinty even half-animal men. Kot - in their latest film, Victory, 1915. and creative Hellene fallen from (e.g. Rin Tin Tin, the dog) after sonaros “is said to be without which Kotsonaros finished last The early Greek wrestlers, the pages of Modern Greek his - Kostas Karyotakis (1896- an enmity lasting throughout fear of contradiction, the rough - Thursday. The film company is Kotsonaros among them, made tory? It’s a mystery as silent as 1928) the story, pits his ninety pounds est and toughest performing willing to pay Kotsonaros’ trav - friends (and sometimes when his movies. Translated by Peter J. King of flashing energy against grappler in Western America. eling expenses by air from Dal - the bets when bad, bitter ene - and Andrea Christofidou George Kotsonaros, the world’s Not only is he rough, but he is las to California and back to Dal - mies) with fellow Greek immi - [email protected] 8 GREECE CYPRUS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010 Scholars in Athens Try to Unravel the Genocide Dilemma’s Effect

By Nikolaos Hlamides far more fitting stance that it is fear of Greece’s Megali Idea lian/Asia Minor Greeks,” in con - dia of Genocide in which Much of this can be ascribed to Special to The National Herald founded on a vast and estab - caused the Young Turks to resort trast with the historical record Charny acted as Editor in Chief. the literature on the tragedy that lished corpus of credible litera - to genocide” and that “Greeks which affirms that Ottoman Prior to this conference, befell the Armenians. By focus - For three days, Sept. 17-19, ture. Indeed, by encouraging a were protected because (…) Greeks, not only in Pontus or Three Genocides, One Strategy ing exclusively on Armenian ex - the Old Parliament building in range of active scholars from Greece (…) cared for their well - even Anatolia/Asia Minor, but was first held in May 2008 in periences of genocide, scholars Athens hosted more than a Greece and abroad to partici - being and the ties between the communities throughout the en - Komotini, Thrace. On that occa - leave the impression that the dozen historians, genocide pate, the conference organizers German Kaiser and Greece’s tire territory of the Ottoman sion, speaker Halo commented fate of other Christians was not scholars, authors, senior politi - under the chairmanship of Dr. King Constantine I, helped pro - Empire were targeted; including that, “One of the most overriding integrally connected.” Hutten - cians, human rights activists and Antonis Pavlidis seem to have tect them.” The Assyrian expe - in eastern Thrace, European similarities of the decades- long bach calls it “denial by omis - others. The conference, whose fully embraced this philosophy. rience was dealt with by several Constantinople, the islands, endeavors to make the genocide sion.” However, an approach theme was the destruction of Istanbul publisher Ragp speakers including Ashour Gi - of the Armenians known to the many analysts consider more Greek and other Christian com - Zarakoglu discussed the Turkish wargis and Sabri Atman. world, is the almost complete progressive, historically accurate munities in the Ottoman Empire expropriation of properties be - NO GREEK GENOCIDE? “Silence from the failure of the academic and ac - and inclusive is gradually begin - between 1914 and 1923, was ti - longing to the Christian minori - The conference concluded academic community tivist communities to include ning to unfold. For instance, the tled Three Genocides, One ties. Dr. Theofanis Malkidis of - with Prof. Charny, a renowned played its part in this any mention of the genocide, International Association of Strategy, in reference to the fered a background on genocide specialist in the field of genocide during the same time and place, Genocide Scholars has extended physical annihilation of three in international law and its ap - studies, who spoke on The Psy - seeming erasure of these of up to one million Ottoman their affirmation of the Armen - Ottoman minority groups - Ar - plication to the case of Ottoman chology of Denying Other Vic - historic Christians Greeks and up to three-quarters ian Genocide to Greeks and As - menians, Assyrians and Greeks. Greeks. He also made reference tims: The Quest for Exclusivity of the Assyrian population.” She syrians; Armenian Genocide A united effort was urged as the to newspaper reports published and Superiority. He outlined of Anatolia.” added poignantly: “Silence from books include chapters on proper strategy when seeking in the 1940’s, the decade in what he called “The failure of the academic community played Greeks; Armenian Genocide his - affirmation of these genocides which the word genocide was just about every one of our peo - land east of the Euphrates and its part in this seeming erasure torians have presented confer - in the international arena. While coined by Lemkin, connecting ples to recognize other victims several south eastern provinces of these historic Christians of ence papers on Greeks; and the affirmation of the Genocide by the massacres of Greeks to the who were killed alongside our too. Further, he reminded the Anatolia. It is silence, therefore, two most prominent academic third parties would be far less term genocide. Mention was people,” and illustrated this audience that apart from that made their genocide com - genocide journals - Genocide necessary if it were not for made of the Treaty of Sevres theme by noting the degree to Greeks, Assyrians and Armeni - plete.” Comparative genocide Studies and Prevention and the brazen denial by Turkish offi - and several of its articles, which which non-Jewish victims of the ans, several other groups were scholars have voiced discontent Journal of Genocide Research - cialdom, the aims of our Dias - refer to the ill-treatment of the Holocaust - Roma, Soviet pris - also subject to the Ottoman with how narrow much contem - have published articles on the pora should perhaps be focused Empire’s minorities. Author oners of war, Jehovah's Wit - Turkish policy of ethnic cleans - porary research and analysis on Greek Genocide. This year’s suc - on more than recognition. It has Thea Halo’s talk challenged two nesses, homosexuals - have been ing and genocide, citing the case the late Ottoman Empire has cessful conference can be con - long been argued that more re - common arguments which have marginalized. To this end, of the Yezidi people. Signifi - been. Henry Huttenbach writes: sidered as another such mile - search and scholarship needs to been used to discredit the ve - Charny’s talk sent a poignant cantly, Charny took his oppor - “The insertion of ethnicity into stone. first be completed. Apart from racity of the Greek Genocide, message to a small minority of tunity at the speaker’s podium studies of the fate of all Chris - enhancing our collective under - which some critics viewed as conference participants who to issue an apology for the omis - tians of the Empire has frag - The writer is based in London, standing of the period, recogni - spurious. Halo effectively de - had referred to the victim group sion of the Ottoman Greek ex - mented comprehension of the and can be reached by email on tion effrots could then adopt the bunked suggestions that “the as “Pontic Greeks” or “Anato - perience from the Encyclopae - Turkish genocidal campaign. [email protected] British Library Will Digitize Ancient Greek Texts With Niarchos Foundation Grant

Continued from page 1 said. The big attraction of browsing the texts online “is the ability to do it at your own desk whenever you wish to do it — and do it for free as well.” They are available at The British Li - brary: http://www.bl.uk/man - uscripts. Although millions of books have been made available on - line in recent years, notably through Google Books’ mass scanning program, ancient texts have taken much longer to emerge from the archives. They don’t suffer from the copyright issues complicating efforts to post contemporary works to the AP PhOtO/SANg tAN Web, but their fragility makes A late 12th century illuminated gospels manuscript in Greek them tough to handle. (above), and a late 9th century Greek manuscript of the history They have to be carefully of the Byzantine Empire by Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constan - cracked open and photographed tinople (left), which have been digitized, are seen at the British one page at a time, a process Library in London. The British Library has digitized over a the British Library said typically quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first costs about one pound ($1.50) time and made them freely available online. per page. The library has moved ag - gressively to put large swathes batch of about 250 documents than 3,000 Greek papyri and a “This is exactly what we have world, for free.” rected by the great Byzantine of its collection online, from is due to be published online in comprehensive collection of all hoped for from new technol - Highlights of the digitized scholar Demetrius Triclinius. 19th-Century newspapers to the 2012. early Greek printing. They con - ogy, but so rarely get,” Mary manuscripts include the highly Other digital projects include a jewels of its collection — The Library officials said the col - tain information for scholars Beard, Professor of Classics at illustrated Theodore Psalter pro - 16th century notebook by Lindisfarne Gospels, a selection lection is one of the most im - working on the literature, his - the University of Cambridge told duced in Constantinople in Leonardo Da Vinci and the 4th of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches portant outside Greece for the tory, science, religion, philoso - Reuters news service. “It opens 1066 and Babrius’s fables, dis - century Codex Sinaiticus, con - and the Codex Sinaiticus, the study of more than 2,500 years phy and art of the Eastern up a precious resource to any - covered on Mount Athos in taining the earliest surviving oldest surviving complete copy of Hellenic culture. Mediterranean in the Classical one -- from the specialist to the 1842, which contains the 123 copy of the complete New Tes - of the Christian Bible. Another The library also holds more and Byzantine periods. curious -- anywhere in the Aesopic fables that were cor - tament. At Cyprus Gala, Christofias Makes Case for Reunification, Turkish Love

By Dimitris Tsakas better in the context of social jus - university of Athens, Greece and TNH Staff Writer tice. I love the Turkish Cypriots completed his residency in and that is not words.” He also surgery at the Methodist Hospital NEW YORK – While the Cyprus said he didn’t expect Turkey to of New York. His practice inter - Federation of America honored withdraw its troops before a deal ests include breast, hernia and businessman George Tsunis with was reached and said extremist laparoscopic surgery and is a its Justice For Cyprus Award and elements in Greece and Cyprus member of numerous philan - Dr. Panagiotis Manolas with the incited the Turkish invasion. thropic community organiza - Humanitarian and Philanthropic A GOOD TIME tions, including the Board of Award at its 2010 Annual But that was politics, and at “Sharing and Caring”, a support Awards Gala and Testimonial the gala, the room was packed group for breast cancer patients, Dinner on, September 24 at the with people wishing to acknowl - and is in charge of the American Terrace on the Park in Queens, edge the honorees, including an Cancer Society’s breast cancer New York, it was the presence of unprecedented appearance by screening program at Mount a special guest – Cypriot Presi - Christofias. Officers of Mount Sinai. Manolas is known to have dent Demetrios Christofias – that Sinai Hospital of Queens and treated numerous Cypriot pa - got everyone’s attention. Besides many patients and friends turned tients free of charge and has trav - reiterating natural ties with the out to honor and express love eled to Cyprus to train Cypriot Cypriot Diaspora, Christofias did and gratitude for the Chief of doctors in various surgical tech - a lot of political business while Surgery of Mount Sinai Dr. Pana - niques. In 2008, he was cited in in the United States, including a giotis Manolas. As he accepted the Congressional Record as an presentation to the prestigious the Justice for Cyprus Award, outstanding physician and in the Brookings Institute in Washing - Tsounis said there were many N.Y. Times Magazine as one of ton, D.C. where he talked about people in the room who also de - “New York’s Super Doctors” his frustration in trying to reach served the award and that he ac - FUNDRASING POWERHOUSE an agreement with Turkish cepted it as a challenge for him Tsunis is the founder, Chair - Cypriots to reunite the island to work every day for a settle - tNh/cOStAS bEJ man and CEO of Chartwell Ho - that’s been divided since being ment. Seen with President Christofias (4th from L) and other dignitaries are honorees Dr. Panagiotis tels. He is a member of the Arch - invaded by Turkey in 1974. Guests also included Cypriot Manolas (5th from R) & George Tsunis (4th from R) & Federation Pres. Papanicolaou (far R). diocesan Council, the Order of Christofias said after being Foreign Minister Markos Kypri - St. Andrew, the FAITH endow - elected in 2008 he had made anou; Greek Foreign Minister cused on the promotion of the by the actions of some on the rapid solution, because a solu - ment, and Leadership 100. He is progress in talks with former Dimitris Droutsas; Deputy For - cause of Cyprus and stressed that Greek side, citing the Greek tion must not end up justifying also one of the Greek American Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet eign Minister with Responsibility the Greek and Cypriot American Junta and the EOKA-B extremist the faits accomplis of the occu - community’s leading political Ali Talat but that talks have for Greeks in the Diaspora Dim - communities are united in sup - group, which he said provoked pation. They must not be per - fundraisers, Working to stalled since hardliner Dervis itris Dollis; Greek Foreign Min - porting the efforts of the the 1974 invasion.He declared, mitted to lead to two separate strengthen the voice of the Greek Eroglu was elected to lead Turk - istry Spokesman Gregory Christofias government. Drout - “We want international justice to states (a situation) that would American community regarding ish Cypriots living in the north - Delavekouras; Cypriot Govern - sas said, “I feel tonight that I am also triumph in Cyprus, we want dishonor human rights and basic its vital issues, he told TNH that ern one-third of the island, along ment spokesman Stephanos in my home, because I was born peace, human rights and the ba - liberties of all Cypriots without the recent confirmation hearings with Turkish troops. Even a con - Stephanou; the Ambassadors of in Lefkosia and lived there until sic liberties of our people. We are exception.” He thanked the for Francis J. Ricciardone the cession to let a Turk be the is - Greece and Cyprus, Vassilis I was five years old and I experi - not a second class nation, we Greek and Cypriot Americans for new U.S. Ambassador to Turkey land’s President on alternating Kaskaerlis and Pavlos Anastasi - enced the invasion of Cyprus. For have a civilization dating back their work in behalf of Cyprus. demonstrated progress for the terms, which infuriated Cypriot ades; the Permanent Represena - me the cry of ‘I will never forget’ thousands of years and have Sarbanes and Pallone also de - community as “five members of nationalists, hasn’t been enough tives of Greece and Cyprus to the is not mere words ... we will con - made contributions to the global clared their continued support the Senate Foreign Relations to make the Turks budge, and UN, Anastasios Mitsialis and Mi - tinue to fight our battles united. cultural heritage, and I believe for the struggle of Cypriot people Committee … asked detailed, Christofias said Eroglu also won’t nas Hatzimichael, the Consuls He said Greece supports Cyprus that should be taken into account and called for the withdrawal of penetrating and tough ques - agree to let Greek Cypriots dri - General in New York Aghi Balta not just in words but in deeds,” in formulating policies.” He said, the Turkish occupation forces, tions,” on the important Greek ven from their homes 36 years of Greece and Koula Sophianou conveying the assurances of PM “We expect President Obama, and thanked Cristofias for his ef - and Cypriot American issues. ago return to their homes or of Cyprus; Metropolitan Evange - George Papandreou. who has made bold statements forts to find a solution. Tsunis is also one of seven Greek have their property back, and the los of New Jersey, the Supreme DIFFERENCE OF OPINION regarding foreign and domestic EXTRAORDINARY PHYSICIAN Americans who are leaders in Cypriot leader said the Turkish President of AHEPA Nicholas Although Philip Christopher affairs, to take the appropriate Manolas elaborated on the their fields who met with Papan - leadership in Ankara isn’t ready Karacostas and U.S. Congress - pledged PSEKA’s support to actions with respect to Cyprus. meaning of the words charity dreou for a working breakfast for a solution yet, despite opti - men Frank Pallone and Greek Christofias, as it had to all his Regarding the latest develop - and philanthropy. He explained during the Greek leader’s visit to mism from United Nations Spe - American John Sarbanes and predecessors, he said he is op - ments in the negotiations he to the guests that he was hesitant New York. They discussed the cial Envoy Alexander Downer a other Greek American officials. posed to a Cyprus solution based said, “The situation is very diffi - when he was informed that he implementation of an Invest - deal could be reached by the end Philip Christopher, President on the bi-zonal, bi-communal cult. The faits accomplis of the would receive the award and ment Board that would dispense of the year (see story page 9.) “I of PSEKA lauded the contribu - federation formula. Christofias illegal (Turkish) occupation be - thanked Papanikolaou for the advice to the Greek government am ready for a solution. I was tions of the Cyprus Federation of responded that “These are the come ever more firmly rooted honor. Manolas is Chief of on necessary reforms and attract - elected to solve the Cyprus prob - America and the struggles of the conditions I found,” and noted with the (passage of time) and Surgery at the Mount Sinai Hos - ing investment. Tsunis told TNH lem,” he said. “This has been a community for the resolution of that prior Cypriot leaders going make the problem more difficult pital of Queens and Assistant he looks forward to doing what - life-long goal for me together the Cyprus conflict and Cyprus back to Ethnarch Archbishop to resolve. I fear that the current Clinical Professor of Surgery at ever he can to support Papan - with creating a fairer society. I Federation of America President Makarios were forced away from policy which (the Turkish Cypri - the Mount Sinai School of Med - dreou, who told audiences in want the poor to live better; I Panicos Papanicolaou stated that seeking a unitary state towards ots) are pursuing with the sup - icine. He was graduated from the New York that, “We are building want the wealth to be distributed he and the organization are fo - a bi-communal bi-zonal solution port of Turkey cannot lead to a Medical school of the National a new Greece.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010 GREECE CYPRUS 9 Neither Jew Nor Greek, A Memorial For All Comes 65 Years Later

Continued from page 1 being carried out by the Nazi up to his position. According to heads the Central Jewish Coun - regime. This letter, signed by the International Raoul Wallen - cil, told The Guardian. Albalas has certain particularities: it is many prominent Greeks at the berg Foundation – a non-gov - told TNH that Greek Jewish close to the synagogue where time, is unique in the annals of ernmental organization, which communities nowadays live in Greek Jews, under the ruse of occupied Europe since no other raises public awareness on the harmony without facing any se - food handouts by the Nazis country made a written denun - saviors of the Holocaust - rious form of anti-Semitism, but were rounded up on March 23, ciation of the holocaust. Damaskinos signed the only de - said when political conflicts oc - 1944. An estimated 1,000 Greece and Judaism go way claration which officially de - cur between Israel and Pales - Athenian Jews were packed off back. The first Jewish settlements manded that the Nazi regime tine, it has consequences. Al - to concentration camps in April in Greece date back in the 3rd stop the persecution of Jews. balas said that, “During these 1944 after thousands fled or Century B.C., which later flour - His letter, which was written by times the latent anti-Semitism went underground. Arriving ished considerably, especially the famous Greek poet Angelos that always exists, explodes.” there after a two- week train during the Roman and Byzantine Sikelianos, incited the rage of But, he said, there have been journey, they were met by Dr period. The Jews of Greece be - the Nazis who threatened the “no acts of personal violence or Josef Mengele. “He selected 320 came Hellenized in speech at a Archbishop. When Jurgen extremism but deliberate de - men and 328 women for his very early stage. During the 15th Stroop, the local German com - struction of synagogues, ceme - own ‘research,’” the historian Century, while Greece was under mander, threatened to execute teries and memorials. People Mark Mazower wrote in his ac - the occupation of the Ottoman him by firing squad, Damaski - tend to associate the Jewish re - claimed book Inside Hitler’s Turks, more Jews came into the nos’ famous response to him ligion with the acts of the Israeli Greece. “The others were imme - country and settled mainly in was: “Greek religious leaders State, which is erroneous. Israel diately gassed and burned in Ioannina and Thessaloniki. Dur - are not shot, they are hanged. I has its own interests and is re - crematoria.” Survivors cam - ing that period Thessaloniki be - request that you respect this sponsible of its own acts that paigned for the memorial but it came one of the most important custom.” The Nazi commander, should not be associated with wasn’t until last year, when the The design of Greek American artist DeAnna Maganias work cities of the Jewish Diaspora. Un - awed by the Archbishop’s brav - Jewish communities all over the city donated the land, that there was selected in 2008, chosen for it’s beauty and simplicity. til 1920 all Jewish communities ery spared his life. The Arch - world. We are Greek citizens, was a place for it. Although the in Greece were legally recognized bishop’s bold answer referred to we go the Greek army, and we idea of building the memorial the work’s pieces are triangular, memory.” Mary Michalidou, an and had a burgeoning and har - the hanging of Patriarch Gre - pay the Greek taxes we simply was supported by former ad - conjuring broken-off pieces of expert on monuments in monious life. They had a strong gory the 5th of Constantinople have a different religion than ministrations it was under the the star, the central piece, a Greece, said that Athens’ Holo - presence in the socio-economic by the Turks in 1821. The col - the prevailing one.” current Mayor, Nikitas Kaklama - massive hexagon block, remains caust memorial was long over - life of the area dominating the laborating Greek government Still, the community was nis, that the project was finally intact and is reminiscent of re - due. “But while it should have industries of international trade, was of no help. The German-ap - charged in some online blogs realized after decades of delay. juvenation and survival. “The happened earlier, its location medicine and law. pointed Greek Prime Minister with not paying taxes, which Al - “To get here has been difficult herbal garden is a symbol of aesthetically and symbolically When Italy invaded Greece Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, balas said was not true. The but now it is done the message healing and place,” said Maga - couldn’t be better. It will now in 1940 there were about later declared a traitor and im - blog writers didn’t respond to is simple. We have not forgotten nias. “The idea is that people rank among Europe’s best Holo - 100,000 Greek Jews, about prisoned, ignored Damaskinos’ requests for comments on their and we will not forget,” Albalas walk around the monument. caust monuments,” she said. 65,000 living in Thessaloniki. appeals. Athens’ Chief of Police, allegations, but it showed there told the British newspaper The Maganias told TNH in a phone A TRODDEN PATH With the arrival of the Axis oc - Aggelos Evert, issued fake iden - remains persecution of Greek Guardian. interview that her Anglo-Saxon Under the memorial lies the cupation forces, deportations tify papers to all Jews willing to Jews, decades after the Nazis A SIMPLE CHOICE education helped her create “a ancient Panathenaic Way, from cities occupied by the Ger - take Christian identities, while occupied the country and After a vigorous selection foundation to build ideas upon” Greece’s most renowned ancient mans proceeded rapidly. Anti- Damaskinos ordered all Greek pushed their purging of its Jew - process, the design of Greek but that being Greek American road that connected the Dipylon Jewish aggression started in Orthodox churches to distribute ish community. Albalas said the American artist DeAnna Maga - helped her enormously “to con - Gate to the Acropolis. Archae - 1942 when about 50,000 Jews Christian baptismal certificates Greek State is not promoting nias work was selected in 2008. ceive the construction.” ologist Effie Batziatopoulos, of from Thessaloniki were sent to to Jews, their combined bravery any form on anti-Semitism.” On Its ancient symbol of Judaism She said her Asia Minor her - the Prehistoric and Classical An - extermination camps, mainly saving thousands of lives. the contrary, in 2003, Nikos Bis - moved a selection committee, itage helped her to easily asso - tiquities Council, told The Na - Auschwitz in Poland. During HATE LIVES ON tis, the former Greek Deputy its compass-like beauty stark in ciate to the culture of Diaspora. tional Herald in a phone inter - that time the community lost Despite the memorial, there Minister of the Interior, declared its simplicity, pointing in the di - During the process of creating view “Archaeologists wanted to 97% of its population. The Final have been some recent anti-Se - January 27 to be Holocaust Re - rections where Greek Jews once the memorial, she said she was preserve the whole area as a Solution, the Nazi’s systematic mitic acts in Greece, such as a membrance Day in Greece and lived before being gathered and very keen to find “the elements place of ancient and not modern persecution of Jews, was de - firebombing of an historic syn - he pledged formation of a deported, their lives gone but between the Jewish religion and Greece’s recollection.” She said layed in the Italian occupied agogue in Greece, while a “coalition of Jews and non-Jews their cultural contributions re - Greece” that could be portrayed. the size of the monument was zones of Greece. After Italy’s prominent Greek neo-Nazi Greeks” to fight anti-Semitism. maining. The community said it She said her intention was to reduced so that it would not withdrawal, Athens came under Holocaust-denying lawyer, Con - Greece’s Jews have always co - was chosen on the basis of its show that the Greek Jewish damage the ancient remnants Nazi rule but managed to save stantine Plevris, who was con - existed in harmony with their simplicity and ingenious design, communities were scattered all that exist underneath, leading up to 77% of its Jewish popula - victed of inciting racial violence Orthodox brethren. As Arch - and is in a place where visitors over the country, a minimal de - the city’s Board of the Archeo - tion. The bewitching island of with a book glorifying Hitler, bishop Damaskinos protest to can have quiet reflection. “In sign that with its sharpness and logical Council and the Ministry Zakynthos is the only place in had the verdict overturned by a the Nazis said: ‘There is neither keeping with the Jewish tradi - sense of mobility makes a great of Civilization to give their ap - Europe that managed to save Greek appeals court, igniting an - Jew nor Greek … our common tion it symbolized death and the “emotional impact.” The orien - proval. There was a rich history the lives of all 257 Greek Jews gry international condemnation. fate both in days of glory and in memory of death in a quiet and tation of the star, engraved with to draw on. During the dark of the region. “Incidents of anti-Semitism periods of national misfortune calm way,” a committee member the names of cities and towns times of World War II, Arch - MORE GREEK RESISTANCE are definitely on the rise and forged inseparable bonds be - who oversaw an international from which victims were de - bishop Damaskinos signed a Being the spiritual leader of our fear is they will increase tween all Greek citizens, with - competition for the memorial ported and the smell from the document that openly con - the Greek Orthodox Church, with the economic crisis afflict - out exemption.” Now there’s told The Guardian. While six of herbs aim to act as a catalyst of demned the Jewish annihilation Damaskinos worked hard to live ing Greece,” David Saltiel, who proof. The Arab World Calls on Greece For Business Deals

Continued from page 1 United Arab Emirates, the sec - agency of Greece that tries to fa - Minister of Culture and Tourism ond largest foreign direct invest - cilitate private investment, re - said that exchanging cultural of Commerce of all Arab states, ment (FDI) recipient in the Arab ferred to Greece’s competitive ad - ideas creates a strong founda - my intention is to promote co - world, said that Greece needs vantages for FDI: the country’s tion on which we can build operation and (…) business to show the businesss opportu - strategic location, that Greece is upon. He said that legal barriers partnerships,” he concluded. nities that exist in the country. a leading economy in Southeast - are gradually lowered between THE LIQUID MARKETS “This is what we ask from our ern Europe because 20% of re - Greece and the Arab world. The Michalis Chryssochoidis, the Greek friends, show us the way,” gional investment activities go minister emphasized on the Greek Minister of Regional De - he stated. through the Greek banks; a new great growth potential in velopment and Competitiveness, Christos Folias, a former min - supportive investment climate, tourism saying: “Arabs loves us, noted the place where the event ister holding a number of posi - programs to spur development, a but don’t visit us. was happening, a showcase for tions in Greece, said that Greece new law for startups, and one- “As investor confidence in Athens. “We are at the Athenian and the Arab world are like “a stop-shopping to reduce the num - Greek dried up rapidly in the face Riviera,” he said, drawing some married couple who love each ber of agencies involved. Ioannis of the country’s overwhelming laughs. He continued by stating other very much but at night Mytilineos, Vice Chairman of problems – leading rating agen - Greece’s clear-cut priorities; a they live in separate houses so Mytilineos Group - one of the cies to downgrade Greek bonds healthier and more transparent they have no offspring. Well, we largest industrial Groups in to junk status and making bor - state, with less market regulation should change that!” Greek Greece, stressed the significance rowing costs prohibitive, Greece and drastic elimination of bu - Deputy Minister of Foreign Af - of investing in a way that he said had to turn to the European reaucracy to promote competi - fairs, Spyros Kouvelis, empha - is environmentally friendly but Union and International Mone - tiveness. Chryssochoidis pointed sized the significance of reviving also beneficial, while Harry tary Fund for a $146 billion pack - out that liquidity in the market is Greek Arab cooperation, noting David, Chairman of Frigoglass - age of emergency loans to stay the government’s priority to help his extensive travels in the Arab a leading player in the global bev - afloat, but this also frightened off the backbone of the Greek econ - world and contacts with Arab erage coolers market and the potential business with compa - omy: small and medium sized leaders and entrepreneurs. He largest glass bottle producer in nies fearful Greece couldn’t even businesses, which can represent stressed the importance of col - West Africa - presented his group pay its own debts. In May, Pa - as much as 99% of a country’s laborating and expanding into steps towards green innovation. pandreou went to Lebanon for a business revenues. “We are going other industries beyond con - All parties expressed the intent two-day Arab Economic Forum, through one of the most histori - struction, where he said there and willingness to transform the reaching out to countries that are tNh/cOStAS bEJ cal and critical moments as a na - already is a strong, established long friendship bond between traditionally friendly toward A meeting of minds tion, I am here to give an opti - cooperation. Greece and the Arab world into Greece and said the country was mistic note that we can and we WHY GREECE? business cooperation and find the investment friendly with a strong New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, whose district will achieve our goals,” he said. Paraskevi Boufounou Presi - mechanisms to strengthen the bi - private business environment. includes the heavily Greek American area of Astoria, had a Sultan bin Saeed Al Man - dent of Invest in Greece Agency, lateral relations. chance to meet Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou dur - souri, Minister of Economy for the official investment promotion Pavlos Geroulanos, Greek By Sylvia Klimaki ing the head of state’s visit to New York. UN Envoy Downer Hopes for Cyprus Deal, Christofias Not So Sure

While the United Nations the island divided since 1974 by mer Australian Foreign Minister Cypriots, told Reuters that he property issue was a matter of airport abandoned in fighting in Special Envoy for Cyprus said a Turkish invasion, Cyprus’ Pres - Alexander Downer, appointed to hoped there could be a deal by violation of human rights by 1974. Discussions on re-linking he has new hope there could be ident Dimitrias Christofias said try to help break the impasse the end of the year, although he Ankara, and it was the Greek Cyprus as a federation is a con - a solution that would reunited Ankara isn’t ready for one. For - between Greek and Turkish hedged his bets. He said he was Cypriot side’s policy is to secure voluted muddle involving ques - convinced that Christofias and human rights for all Greek tions of power sharing, the re- Turkish Cypriot counterpart Cypriot refugees, who had to mapping of boundaries and how Dervis Eroglu could reach an abandon their homes during the many of Cyprus’s thousands of agreement, but that they had to Turkish invasion. Ankara, he internally displaced can return compromise. Christofias has said, was not ready for a solu - to their homes. Downer said fotograffiti gotten nowhere since being tion now. Cyprus was split in a good progress had been made elected in 2008, first with mod - Turkish invasion in 1974, leav - on governance and power shar - erate Turkish Cypriot President ing the island’s northern third ing. Discussions were now fo - Mehmet Ali Talat, and has been illegally occupied by the Turkish cused on property. The U.N. is mostly rebuffed with his succes - army until today. Greek Cypriots planning to prepare a report of - sor, the hardliner Eroglu, and live in the south, and run an in - fering a “frank assessment” of there was no explanation from ternationally recognized govern - where negotiations stand next Downer on why he felt there ment, which represents the month. was reason for optimism. “It whole island in the EU. They “If they can reach basic con - would be good to get the bulk vow to block Turkish entry into vergences on the property chap - of the work done by the end of the EU as long as the island re - ter that would be an enormous the year,” Downer told Reuters mains divided. step forward,” he said. in an interview. “Just in terms Turkish Cypriots live in its But tension remains and the of the negotiations they can do north running a breakaway state conflicting views came as Turk - it, whether they will I don’t recognized only by Ankara. ish patrol boats fired warning know. But they can do it.” Downer, who oversees meetings shots at a Greek-Cypriot fishing Christofias, speaking at the between Eroglu and, has boat off the coast of northern prestigious Brookings Institute avoided statements on when Cyprus, the Cypriot Foreign in Washington, D.C. on Cyprus: talks could conclude. While say - Ministry said, adding that it had Current Developments and ing now that he hoped most informed the U.N. It was the Prospects for the Future, said work would be concluded this most serious incident of its kind that during his negotiations year, he said the U.N. had never in 10 years. Cyprus has been with Talat that significant laid out a specific timetable for part of the European Union progress had been made on gov - the conclusion of the talks. since 2004, although the north - AP PhOtO/NIKOlAS gIAKOUmIDIS ernance and power-sharing, but “It’s definitely doable. It’s not ern part occupied by Turks is Hang ‘em High he said that serious problems beyond the wit of man to solve not, although Turkey is seeking had arisen with Eroglu, who the Cyprus problem,” said admission to the E.U. although Fed up with protesters, Greece has started hanging them, but this man went down (or up) doesn’t want Greek Cypriots to Downer, whose complex of of - it will not admit ships and showing the flag in defiance. get back property now occupied fices in a U.N. compound sits planes from the Greek side of by Turks. Christofias said the within sight of an international Cyprus. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010

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Are would open, only finally realizing he had reached the Oval office from Greece a few days ago, there birthdays, colors the we equipped to deal these entitlements sustainable? when he was blinded by the flashes of the photographers' cameras was a medical emergency on the landscape (and air - with such chal - Couple the demographic shift sig - that recorded every visitor to the Oval Office. final leg of our flight. An elderly line routes,) are we lenges? And do we naled by the Senior Epoch, the President Carter, graciously, stood up from his desk, walked half gentleman was having difficulty willing and able to have the political onslaught of Baby Boomers (any way toward his visitor and welcomed him with the well-known breathing and because his wife respond to ageism will necessary to ad - effects of the Baby-Boomerangs wide, comforting smile. When they got down to business the Pres - indicated to the flight attendants and confront seri - dress the extended who refuse to retire, notwith - ident said: "If you support me, and the community supports me, I that he had a history of coronary ously and proac - aging process and standing,) and the benevolent promise you I will elevate the Cyprus issue to within the six top for - problems, the situation was taken tively the implica - profound impacts wave of longevity, and you have eign policy issues of my new administration." That sounded like a very seriously. Fortunately for this tions that come with likely to come with a perfect storm in the making. reasonable deal at the time but one that did not last long for long. man, as well as for the crew and it? it? Forget Medicare Frustrated pensioners in Greece The reason was that as he managed to make his way back out of passengers, there was a physician The American and Social Security listen up: Data show that six in the White House, he came face to face with a major issue: some of on board who quickly diagnosed Association of Re - by Dr. ALEX for a moment. What 10 American workers believe that the questions submitted were altered. Not only the "hard" ones such and attended to the situation. tired Persons PATTAKOS about the implica - they will get no Social Security as Greece’s re-admission to NATO but also very easy ones like the Since the patient happened to be (AARP) AARP is tions of “ageism,” a benefits when they retire. right of the Patriarchate to live, breathe and worship in freedom. a passenger sitting in the same now warning that Special to term coined by The Stanford study concludes: The next day a White House courier brought the photos to the aisle, I was able to witness first - we are at the dawn The National Herald Robert Butler, M.D., “As a society, we can no longer offices of the paper in New York. hand the entire episode which of the Senior Epoch, who was behind the afford to ignore the reality of the Not to tell his readers the truth, that some of our questions were had a positive ending. The elderly a demographic trend that will establishment of the National In - tremendous population shifts al - altered would have knowingly contributed to misleading of the man was treated in the most ef - have profound impacts on every stitute on Aging, on our families, ready underway—the opportuni - community. The decision was made to print in the daily paper and fective and humane way possible aspect of American life. And multiple generations under the ties and costs are simply too sig - also in our Greek Accent magazine –closed down more than a decade until we landed at our final des - while AARP is in the business of same roof? Is America ready to nificant to ignore.” Programs ago- both versions of the interview, the one with our questions and tination. He even appeared to be serving and advocating for older learn from the Greek model of rooted in 20th Century thinking the other with the altered questions. The White House was not very fully recovered by the time we Americans and has a vested in - bridging the intergenerational di - no longer meet 21st Century re - pleased. But we had no choice but to do what was right. landed, ahead of schedule no less, terest in policies and programs vide to deal with this issue? What alities. It’s time to plant and cul - These memories came to mind while reading "White House Di - and after throwing any embar - that underscore the importance about the implications of ageism tivate the seeds of transforma - ary", in which we counted 18 references by the former President rassment aside, demonstrated of and may result from such a on our health? It is estimated that tional thinking and pay serious to the community, Greece and Cyprus. that he was extremely grateful for significant shift in demography, the number of people afflicted by attention to what Dr. Butler re - The incident described above was not in the book and most the assistance that he received it is not alone in sounding the Alzheimer’s could double in 20 ferred to as “productive aging.” probably the President was not even aware of it. However, in the during his urgent time of need. alarm. An important new study years. Is America ready to deal It’s also time to learn from the short entries to his diary about the community, the former president But what if he had not been so by the Stanford University Center with the unintended conse - lessons of the past, to leverage reveals more than we are usually accustomed to. lucky? What if we had still been on Longevity reveals that Amer - quences of such a disease, let the best practices from places There are two main points that stand out: midway over the Atlantic Ocean ica will continue to “age up” for alone manage the disease process such as Greece that have a phi - One is that for the leaders of Greece and Turkey Cyprus was and no medical doctor had been decades and that the over-65 itself? And what about the impli - losophy of living worthy of adap - not a top priority and two, that both leaders of Cyprus are "puppets" aboard? Yes, the flight crew re - year-old sector will double from cations of ageism on our econ - tation if not adoption, and drive of Greece and Turkey. ceives some EMT training and the 13% of the population to 20% by omy? How can we capture the innovation at all levels and in all In former President Carter’s words: aircraft is equipped with some the year 2050. Medical advances productivity wasted by early or sectors in productive, meaningful February 15, 1977. We labored for my entire tenure to end the medical supplies in case of emer - will continue to extend our active forced retirement? The AARP es - ways. conflict between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus and to improve gencies. But, again, what if? Dur - lives even if we do not live longer timates that for every person over relations between the two countries. Thirty years later, however, ing this particular medical emer - in the same way and for the same 65 today, there are five people in Dr. Pattakos, author of the division in Cyprus is unresolved." gency my spouse, Elaine, posed a reasons natives of the Greek is - the workforce. In 40 years, there Prisoners of Our Thoughts, is Monday, May 9, 1977. "When I arrived back at the Heathrow challenging and potentially land of Ikaria do. On the contrary, will be only three workers. It co-founder of a business initia - Airport, Clark Clifford [a former defense secretary and Carter’s alarming question: as Americans, rather than demonstrating our doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to tive on how to live a happy, Cyprus presidential envoy] met me to give me a report on the Canadians, and other people for - health and longevity are directly figure out the financial underpin - healthy, meaningful life Greek-Turkish interrelationship - one of distrust, animosity, but re - tunate enough to live in the so- related to our living habits, Amer - ning of the nation’s entire retire - inspired by and based on Greek luctance to become involved in war over the Aegean Sea. They rel - called developed world live icans and other inhabitants of the ment “safety net” is at increasing culture. Readers may contact egate the Cyprus question, which is important in The United States, longer lives, can we expect to see post-modern world, unless some - risk under this scenario. him with questions, comments, to a position of secondary importance between them." more cases such as this? And as thing dramatically changes, will And what about Social Secu - and/or suggestions for topics May 10. I had a meeting with the Greeks early. Prime Minister the graying of America, evidenced live longer due primarily to in - rity, Medicare, and pensions for at: [email protected] or Konstantinos Karamanlis is completely convinced that the Greeks most dramatically by the boomer fluences outside of themselves current retirees, programs that visit his web site: www.theop - are angels, the Turks are devils and in giving me his completely generation which is beginning to and their living habits. rely on the taxes and contribu - away.com. objective analysis he tried to prove his point. He claimed great ret - icence in not responding to the constant Turkish provocation and still claimed a willingness to meet on a continuing basis with the COMMENTARY Turks to resolve the Aegean issue dispute over the continental shelf oil exploration, airline overflights and the illegal fortification of the Greeks of some of their islands. He admitted the latter but said it was the result of Turkish Yannaras’ Food For Thought Nourishes the Mind provocation. Then I met with Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel of Turkey who... relegated Cyprus to a position of inconsequence..." Whenever a personality such this modern-day would do well to or - citizens should punish traditional October 5 1977. I met with President Spyros Kyprianou of as renowned Greek philosopher herald of Ecumeni - ganize seminars and parties, responsible for Greece’s Cyprus and of course he presented the Greek Cypriot point of view and academician Christos Yan - cal Hellenism has to publish articles on current absence of democracy, by claiming to be quite flexible - that Denktash is the only recalcitrant naras comes to town, it’s always say is that he “pulls these issues, so we not voting in national elections. If one. The solution to the Cyprus situation obviously is not on Cyprus special. Those familiar with this no punches.” Yan - could pleasantly sur - these thoughts intrigue you, you itself but in Greece and Turkey. We have pressured on the Turks in thinker’s voluminous writings feel naras is one of the prise the professor should take the time to recognize that we’re holding up their general security agreement if they don’t like they are welcoming back an few speakers who on his next trip. An - and commend some of the groups do something on Cyprus. old friend, while those who are interact with the other example is his who made these speeches possi - November 4 1977. Clark Clifford came in to discuss the Cyprus not have an opportunity to Greek Diaspora and work on the Trinitar - ble: Neo Magazine, local associa - question-almost impossible because the Greeks and The Turks are broaden their horizons in a most have more than just ian nature of God. tions from Athens, Arcadia, Lem - maneuvering the puppet leaders of Cyprus and trying to pretend profound way. Prof. Yannaras gave lip service to offer. It’s not often that you nos, and the Federation of they are not. It is vital to NATO strength to bring Turkey and two lectures in New York, one at Unlike many politi - go into church and Hellenic Societies. Know full well Greece back into a strong and supportive way." the Federation of Hellenic Soci - cians, who heap by Christopher get to hear a sermon that often times, groups such as June 22. 1978. I met with a large number of Greek American eties of Greater New York in As - mountains of praise TRIPOULAS about the fact that these must appeal for donations leaders. I presented my case, and they publicly disagreed. Many of toria on Mon. Sep. 13 and one at on Greeks abroad, Special to God only exists be - from people who care about them, after it was over, gave me a standing ovation, pressed my St. Vladimir’s Seminary in Crest - then forget about The National Herald cause He wills it, and bringing voices such as Yannaras’ hand and said they were for me and understood my position. In the wood the following day. During them the second He does so in a mode to America to engage critically Arab arms sales, Jewish Americans worked to arouse the Congress. the first lecture he spoke about that they board their airplane, of loving communion (the Father thinking Greek Americans, a noble In this case it’s the other way around: a few members of Congress the moral problem associated Yannaras regularly writes about “begets” the Son and allows the act. Yannaras will be in the U.S. trying to arouse the Greek Americans community to oppose me with the economic crisis affecting the importance of the Greek Di - Spirit to “proceed” from Him. for most of September at the invi - when they have no real feelings on it. Obviously a few do." Greece, and in the second he ad - aspora and hails it as the strongest Note the relational existence. tation of the Serbian Orthodox Not very flattering.... dressed the concept of the Trini - asset Greece has today. Still, he is There can be no Father with out a Church in America, which will tarian of God as the causal princi - capable of practicing tough love Son, or vice-versa…) It’s not often take him on a tour of its parishes ple of existential freedom. There at times, which is why he criti - that someone makes you aware in California, Arizona, and Christofias off the cliff isn’t enough space here to recap - cized the functionality of today’s that Orthodoxy differs from Chicago. The Greek Community ture all he said which you can see Greek American Community in Catholicism or Protestantism be - owes them a debt of gratitude as and hear at from the Stathakion comparison to the Greek Commu - cause of essential questions such well, for making this trip possible We have just heard the President of Cyprus said that Greece Center in Astoria on the TNH nity of Alexandria. as whether God is forced to exist, and we might encourage the and Turkey are equally responsible for the Cyprus situation. website link (http://www.then - Yannaras’ speeches always or does so because He wishes to Greek Orthodox Archdiocese to While true that the 1974 coup d'etat of the brainless Greek ationalherald.com/video/1064), leave the listener with thought through the modality of love. Yan - follow the example of local Greek junta against President and Archbishop Makarios provided Turkey while his speech at St. Vladimir’s provoking questions and chal - naras makes one aware that organizations and the Serbian with a long sought excuse to invade the island, Greek soldiers died Seminary can be heard on Ancient lenges, such as Why is the Acrop - church is much more than pietistic Church, and organize something fighting to defend the megaloniso. And as soon as a legitimate Faith Radio, at (http://ancient - olis a more meaningful monu - preaching about being a good per - similar in the near future. Groups government came to power in Athens, Greece mortgaged its foreign faith.com/podcasts/svsvoices/hon ment that the Eiffel Tower? Or son, not lying, not stealing, etc. with far fewer resources have ac - policy over Cyprus – and rightly so - and stood ready to go to war orary_doctorate_for_professor_ch what makes reading Greek classic The same holds true about his complished this, so why not ours? against Turkey over Cyprus. ristos_yannaras.) What’s always authors like Plato and Aristotle so courageous calls for a new Con - Is he serious? remarkable about the things that important? Local academicians stitution for Greece, or belief that [email protected] THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010 VIEWPOINTS 11 LETTER FROM ATHENS The Evolution of Disaster Capitalism and Privatization

Kenteris and Thanou Can’t By Nikolaos A. Stavrou remain the exclusivity of the Special to The National Herald state such as: security, defense, intelligence gathering, and even Outrun Their Shame While Greece struggles to res - the administration of justice. urrect its financial edifice more Ironically, Instead of a smaller states have emerged as potential government we got a pervasive Ten years ago, at almost nothing is targets of disaster capitalism. This government, one that had fused the Sydney banned in Greece is a unique type of capitalism. It public power and private gain to Olympics, Kostas except ginger ale thrives on crises and miseries, ir - dangerous levels. Kenteris came out of and Root Beer pop - respective of whether they are A two-year investigative un - oblivion to win the sicles, which you caused by natural calamities such dertaking by the Washington 200 meter race with can’t find anywhere. as fires, earthquakes and Post revealed the existence of a mesmerizing mus - Kenteris and tsunamis or by governmental in - what it calls a “top secret Amer - cular finish, running Thanou reached an competence (often traceable to ica” thriving in “a parallel geog - into history as the out-of-court settle - philanthropic investors) and wars raphy” of the United States, or first Greek gold ment in 2006 with initiated by official lies. The ulti - state within the state. The Post’s medalist in track international ath - mate resolution of mega-crises is findings make George Orwell’s and field since 1912, letic officials, ac - routinely left to the whims of characters look like amateurs. and assuring himself by ANDY knowledging they what Adam Smith called “The in - Four items will -underscore the of a greater prize: DABILIS had missed the visible hand of market forces.” point that the state chases is own coming into the three tests (rather However their frequency is tail: Olympic Stadium in Special to hard to deny since hardly explainable with philo - • State after state in the Athens in 2004 to The National Herald it was a fact, even in sophical abstractions for obvious United States has privatized the light the Olympic Greece, where reasons: those who cause them prison system to save money, Ari - flame of his home country, a sin - myths still prevail,) but were not are not invisible. They are effi - zona being among the first. The gular honor no Olympian had charged with deliberately avoid - cient thieves who had the pru - logical question is: what kind of ever had. Instead, he besmirched ing the tests, so if you can figure dence to colonize the state appa - justice should one expect when, himself, his reputation, his legacy, that out audition for the role of a ratus, buy politicians to make theoretically, judges and police - his country, his past, his future lawyer on Boston Legal. So they theft legal, and even employ aca - men invest (as is their right) in and his place in history after be - admitted to missing tests they demics to make themselves re - the Corrections Corporations of ing charged with faking a motor - didn’t know they missed because spectable. The unfolding read - AP PhOtO/RIchARD DREw America, now traded in Wall cycle accident just before the they didn’t knew they missed justment of global economic life Fabrice Tourre, a 31-year-old trader at Goldman Sachs is Street? Obviously they have a Athens games began, a ruse in - them, which means they can skip has been long in the making. Its watched on a television monitor in the company’s booth on vested interest in keeping prison vestigators said was designed to going to law school in Greece or latest cycle is the culmination of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 27, 2010, dur - cells full. avoid being tested for drugs. Nice taking the bar exam. That settle - four trends that were set in mo - ing testimony in Washington. On Sept. 9, Britain's financial • Some 1,931 private organi - try. Sitting on the cycle with him ment technically allowed them to tion in the era of Thacherism and regulator hit the company with a $27 million fine for failing zations (as compared to 1,271 was another Greek Olympic hero, compete again but even the Reaganomics: privatization of re - to notify authorities about an investigation in the United States. government agencies), in 10,000 Katerina Thanou, who won the Greek athletics federation, who sources, outsourcing of govern - locations throughout the United silver medal in Sydney in the 100 proved they were incompetent mental services, downsizing the ing of government services and other depression) and replaced States provide “security” services meters, behind American Marion hacks by covering up the scandal, state and private work force, and selling of state assets free the it with self-regulation which left to the government Jones, herself later disgraced couldn’t abide that, so in 2008 devaluation of labor. Combined, government and public corpora - society to the tender mercies of • There are 854,000 citizens when found to have used steroids when Kenteris made some noise these trends define the age of in - tions from excessive manpower big business. holding top security clearances and lying about it. And to prove about wanting to compete in the formation. They have also trans - and from legally obligated ben - It was the Reagan-Thatcher and three major defense contrac - some people have no shame, 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where formed the role of the state and efits for workers, such as health crusade against government reg - tors boasting “more generals (al - Thanou asked for the gold medal, he wouldn’t even have qualified rendered its sovereignty a hallow insurance and pensions. In this ulations that culminated in the beit retired) per square yard than a request that probably left the because by then his gold medal concept. Instead of being the cannibalistic environment, little 2008 financial meltdown when the Pentagon. The potential International Olympic Committee winning time made him an also- guardians of public interest the attention is given to social-polit - $12 trillion dollars of wealth van - problem of privatization of gov - laughing and shaking their heads ran, the Greek officials declined, modern state has degenerated ical implications of transfer of ished into the coffers of hedge ernment functions has been rec - at the same time. Kenteris and citing his disgrace, forgetting their into guardian of finance capital public functions to financiers fund managers. Now the benefi - ognized by sober thinking lead - Thanou since their disgrace have own. and facilitator of its unhindered with a lot of money, low morality, ciaries of de-regulation sit on ers, among them Secretary of mostly waited for their trial on Kenteris and Thanou were flow across national borders in political connections, and unlim - their loot waiting for higher un - Defense Robert Gates perjury charges, for lying about Greece’s biggest medal hopes for pursuit of the highest profits with ited greed. employment and bottomed out The rationale for privatization the motorcycle accident and most the Athens Games but became the the cheapest labor. THEFT OF THE CENTURY economies to invest their loot. of these state functions was of their lives. biggest dopes (double entendre Privatization and outsourcing First and foremost, the pro - But first things first: they or their smaller, efficient government at But the wheels of injustice here) and instead of adulation are overlapping concepts. They moters of privatization (now in substitutes (International Mone - a lower cost. Neither material - grind slowly in Greece (check and lifelong fame got most of simply mean the transfer of pub - high gear in Greece) failed to ad - tary Fund, World Bank) must ized. Instead we now have an that, they don’t work at all) so what they deserved, the always lically owned enterprises or le - dress two critical questions: what pacify the natives by forcing Orwellian state with an obvious who was surprised when on Sept. publicity shy Kenteris, who had a gitimately established govern - do you privatize; and where do them to tighten their belts and dilemma: if private organizations 22 a Greek court postponed their ship named after him following mental functions to the enthusiasts of this fallacy treat potential investors as phil - can provide security and univer - trial for the sixth time, blaming a his gold medal performance, hypothetically more efficient pri - place the dividing line between anthropists. But as we know, the sities offer degrees in National backlog of cases. Neither showed slinking into the shadows, mostly vate business entities. The argu - public service and private gain? crusade against bigness consis - Security and can do that for up in court because they knew silent for the last six years, ment in support of this dubious A case can be made that the Ten - tently targeted big government profit they obviously need inse - they wouldn’t have to and that Thanou sticking her head up now theory is derived from an un - nessee Valley Authority, ΔΕΗ, but excluded big business. The curity to stay in business. their next scheduled appearance and then like the hedgehog you proven claim: i.e. that the private OTE, or Greek Railroads, all pub - results are frightening: six Amer - The State is now standing on on January 12th, 2011 will be want to bop in a carnival game sector, guided by the profit mo - lic corporations, can be better ican financial conglomerates, its own head and we hardly postponed again too because the and making some noises like she tive, could always provide the managed by hedge fund tycoons. (among them Goldman Sachs, know where the limits of its statute of limitations on the still wanted to compete. But in same or better services at a lower But these are not the only things Morgan Chase and Citigroup,) power are. And if former presi - charges against them run out in an age when young Greek cost. However, experience has the parents of privatization (Mar - now control 64% of the Ameri - dent Dwight D. Eisenhower were shown that the only way this garet Thatcher and Ronald Rea - can Gross Domestic Product still alive, he would have warned miracle can be achieved is by gan) had in mind when they (GDP) while the U.S. govern - us more emphatically about the compelling fewer workers to pro - started the ideological crusade ment operates with a $1.3 tril - threats to a free society posed by duce more goods and better ser - against the welfare state and big lion budget deficit and a stag - The Military-Industrial-Security- vices. This miracle can only be government. In a gross misinter - gering national debt of $13 Financiers-Complex. achieved, if the workers increase pretation of the concept free - trillion. their productivity and reduce dom, they advocated the disman - This perverse outcome of the Dr. Nikolaos A. Stavrou is pro - their wages, in short if they tling of the state regulatory de-regulation and privatization fessor of International cheapen the value of their labor. system (put in place by Franklin frenzy now engulfs services and Relations ad Political Theory In the short run, the outsourc - D. Roosevelt in response to an - functions that were and should (Emeritus) Howard University. I Look Out The Window, and See My Cyprus Dissolving

By Nic os A. Rolandis founder of the country at - our heads, a very rare material American-Canadian Plan of Special to The National Herald tempted to revise the constitu - in this country. 1978 was a tool of Imperialism, Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou. Those smiles are as fake tion, despite his affirmation of I look out of the window. I so your party rejected it and left as their muscles. Please don’t send them flowers anymore. I look out of the window. I “faith and respect” for the con - look at the sky. Out there in the Cyprus and the Varosha resi - can see the land of Cyprus, stitution. We also dismantled it abyss, there are in our own dents hanging in the air. That 2012, when all the charges will women distribute porno tapes of which carries within its particles by creating Greek and Turkish galaxy alone, 100 billion stars, was an opportunity which can - be dropped and Greece won’t themselves to gain fame and in - a history of 10,000 years. I keep Cypriot paramilitary organiza - like our own Sun, each one with not come back again – another have to face international humil - famy at the same time the stan - musing that 10,000 years is tions, headed by the supreme its own planets. And there are victim of Capitalism. I have one iation again. Kenteris and Thanou dard of shame has been lowered nothing by the standards of cos - leaders of the two communities, more than one trillion galaxies sole remark, dear Demetris, be - will show up in court the same below that of even being a politi - mology, a split of a second on who were acting in the back - in the universe! Dear Mother - fore I conclude: if you stay put day a Greek politician will be cian or reality TV participant. the clock of the universe. But in ground. Greek Cypriots were land, where do you belong in with your current “allies” and if charged with wrongdoing, and Kenteris hasn’t been the sharpest that time 400 generations of under the arrogant impression all this? Where is Christofias you really try to resolve the that’s now scheduled for the 12th blade in the set, as he proved after Cypriots were born and they that we were the rulers in our and Eroglou and the talks? Cyprus problem, so that you will of Never. If convicted, they faced winning in Sydney in a field lived and died here. Just in a part of the world. We ignored Where is the incredible stupidity “not be the last President before up to two years in jail, but they where he was the only white run - mere second of the time and the huge political, strategic, eco - with which we have handled partition,” as you correctly won’t be convicted because they ner. “From the moment I stepped space of the cosmos. I look out nomic and energy interests our lives and our country during stated, the solution you may won’t be tried. They can’t run but into this country, I realized the of the window. Poor land. which surrounded us, at a time the past 50 years, for which we achieve – after we rejected 15 will walk. others didn’t have anything better Scorched land. You have lived of a fierce cold war confronta - should cry instead of celebrat - better opportunities in the past They never understood that than me. I knew I had a chance, through storms, wars, and oc - tion. We lived in an area fully ing? And where is Albert Ein - – will be tantamount to high fame is a vapor, popularity an ac - especially as there were five black cupation but you have also ex - controlled by the West, Greece stein to remind us that “only treason in the eyes of most of cident and the shame didn’t end runners and I was the only perienced some very rare mo - and Turkey, which belonged to two things are infinite, the uni - your so-called allies. This is the there, for them or Greece. It white.” Maybe he was attempting ments of happiness during these NATO, Israel, the British Bases, verse and human stupidity and assessment of your “allies” even started even before they faked the a joke and something was lost in 10,000 years. But now, exactly the 6th US Fleet, the enormous I am not sure about the former.” now. These people do not accept motorcycle accident, allowing translation, along with his repu - when you started celebrating financial interests of the multi- Demetri Christofia, I can see even bizonality, they do not them to skip being tested for tation later. He’s 37 now and has the 50 years of existence of the national corporations. We were you from a distance trying hard have any sense of realism and, drugs. The missed test was their apparently disappeared. The only Republic of Cyprus, you lie there not astute players. We gave the to make the ends meet in the as you stated recently; “They third violation – that summer – time he spoke was in an interview divided in two parts, for the first wrong messages to the powerful jumble which surrounds you. I think that we are a superpower of required drug testing. Maybe with the Greek magazine Status time in your long history. It is a Machine of the West, which was know you from the old days and and that we shall impose our the first two should have been the a few years ago, saying he would - breakup, which occurred during the real dynasty in the area. I personally believe that you are terms”. tip-off they were chemical cre - n’t say anything, the prevailing the past 50 years. In commem - DOES IT MATTER sincere in your efforts for a so - How will they ever accept ations and not natural stars. Back - Greek logic. “What I know is that oration of these 50 years there ANYMORE? lution. I do not know though the very hard and difficult solu - filling faster than Richard Nixon’s I lost the opportunity to compete, is celebration and joy hovering So, during the difficult days what you propose to do with tion of the Cyprus problem, crew after Watergate, the Greek finding myself, instead, in a fire - in the air. of the coup d’etat and the inva - your famous political allies. I do which was also demonized, par athletics federation cleared Ken - ball,” “I will not talk about how I look out of the window. I sion nobody really cared. Greece not know how you have man - excellence, by your favorite, for - teris and Thanou – and, of course, and why.” Now that’s how you am searching for the golden- did not have the way, and if we aged to isolate yourself com - mer President Tassos Pa - themselves – of all charges, except defend your honor. He insisted green leaf, as poets and singers want the truth, Greece neither pletely. padopoulos? Unless you are those that are unwritten and once that he didn’t show up for the have described you, dear Moth - now nor in the future will be I have urged you many times naïve enough to believe that you upon a time were inviolate in doping test because he had not erland, but I cannot find it. I am able to act effectively, irrespec - in the past to extend a hand of will strike a deal better than the Greece, those of honor and de - been notified, which explain the searching for “Cyprus, the land tive of the number of Treaties (even informal) cooperation to Annan Plan (which in 2004 you cency, but they’ve fled faster than faked motorcycle accident too, of of love and dream,” but I cannot of Unified Defence Space signed the Democratic Rally, which had had praised like nobody has even Kenteris could run when he course. The rest of what little he find it. How has it all been spir - with it (When I was Foreign supported you when you were ever done in Cyprus and a few was allegedly (wink, wink, nod, said is indecipherable babble in ited away? And how have we Minister, the then Minister of in trouble with your own allies days later you rejected it.) It ap - nod) hopped up like Speedy Gon - any language. Kenteris lost the ended up as one of the very few Defence of Greece Evangelos during the past two years. For pears that now is the time for zales chasing the Road Runner. greatest chance in life – not being countries in the world split in Averoff told me: “Minister, in you, the Rally Party, Clerides you, Demetris, to pay the price Kenteris is even better at another an Olympic hero – but the honor two, left out there without case of a military confrontation and Anastassiades represent of your options of the past. Greek game called Thiplo, pass - of carrying that Olympic flame peace, love or dreams? How with Turkey, I shall have to de - Capitalism and Imperialism. You I look out of the window. ing the blame, so he inferred that into its home as a Greek gold did we manage to tumble down fend more than 1000 islands in do not mind rubbing shoulders Fifty years of the Republic of perhaps his coach Christos Tzekos medalist, which must have turned from the triumphant cry “We the Aegean, Attica, where we with your 26 European peers, Cyprus are lost in the infinite was to blame. Tzekos’ own high - to black by now, apt indeed since have Won” of Makarios in 1960 have 70% of the production of who wake up, work and sleep Time and Space of the Universe. light reel included shoving the Greek saying of having a black to the 2010 doldrums of the country, Thrace and the rest every day in an atmosphere of The land of Cyprus anticipates Olympic drug test officials, had rock thrown at you shows you are Christofias’ agony: “If Cyprus of Greece. How shall I manage absolute Capitalism – they have the caress, which your message something to do with Kenteris’ paid with the same coin. And will exist in the future.” And with Cyprus as well?” - Was he become your buddies. The bil - may bring to her, Demetris. I rocket rise from an unknown who maybe he’s learned what Ameri - why do we celebrate? Is it be - wrong?) lionaire Emir of Qatar and the wish you success, even if you finished last in the 200 meter fi - can blues singer Chris Smither cause we ended up with the po - The West never looked at us colossal multinational corpora - have to run after the train on nals in the European indoor meant in his little ditty about life’s sition that “Cyprus may not ex - with sympathy in those years tions whom you implore to in - which you failed to embark championships in 2000 to win - passing fame. ist” from the victorious mood of and I do not think that they like vest in Cyprus are welcome. The when it was at the station. ning the Olympic gold in six These races that we’ve run were the 1960’s? Is this why we cele - us today either. The East did Russian billionaires to whom months, improving his time by a not for glory brate? And finally what shall not move, because the imbroglio you have offered by special Mr. Rolandis was the Cypriot quarter of a second, so something No moral to this story – we tell our children? took place in a western area and arrangement, Cyprus national - Government’s Foreign Minister was in that feta cheese. We run for peace of mind What can we say? Alas, the also because it benefited from a ity, are not Imperialists. (1978-83) and Minister of Com - Of course, this being Greece, But the race we’re running now is answer is simple: we have built crack in the Western Alliance. Similarly, the new generation merce, Industry & Tourism Tzekos was cleared by the Greek never-ending – since space and a country in which neither the And what about us? Naïve and of AKEL millionaires in your en - (1998-2003). He was also a athletics federation – and them - time are bending. Greek nor the Turkish Cypriots silly as ever, we paid the heavy tourage are not Imperialists ei - member of the Cyprus House of selves, of course – on allegations There’s no finish line. ever really believed. We built it price of a war we had lost. A ther. But Anastasiades is an Im - Representatives (1991-96) and of distributing banned substances, in 1960 and we demolished it war we might have avoided, if perialist, because you have so chairman of the Liberal Party spurious in and of itself because [email protected] three years later, when the co- there was some grey matter in decided. Similarly, the Anglo- (1986-98). 12 TRAVEL THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 2-8, 2010 If You Really Want to Go Greek, Tarpon Springs is The Place

The 1953 film Beneath The city has special Greek American verted most of its sponge-related 12-Mile Reef put the light on cultural festivities, such as this activities, especially the ware - Tarpon Springs, Florida and its year’s Greek Arts Initiative. houses where they were sold, Greek American community, THE SPONGE DIVERS into tourist attractions. The particularly the famed sponge The region along the north - Sponge Docks are now mostly divers whose families came west coast of Florida, with a se - shops, restaurants, and muse - there from the Dodecanese Is - ries of bayous feeding into the ums dedicated to the memory of lands of Greece, especially Ka - Gulf of Mexico, first attracted at - Tarpon Springs' earlier industry. lymnos, Symi and Halki. Of tention as a place for winter Most sponges sold on the docks course, in those days (even to - homes about 1876. Some of the are now imports: Relatively few day too) the lead players were newly arrived visitors spotted sponges are harvested from the not Greeks or Greek Americans, tarpons jumping out of the wa - area, although attempts have so it was a young Robert Wagner ters and so named the location been made in recent years to playing Tony Petrakis and the in - Tarpo’n Springs. The first Greek restart local sponge harvesting. comparable Gilbert Roland, yet immigrants arrived during the Led by local businessman

PhOtOS: tINA bUcUVAlAS ABOVE: Sponge diver/captain Taso Karistinos hanging sponges from his boat, the Anastasi. LEFT: Night in the Islands recreates the atmosphere of the Greek islands with music, dance and dining on the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs.

waters and the boats. Since the the occasion for a visit by his all- side village in Greece, with de - livelihood of the initial Greek im - holiness, Bartholomew I, the Pa - livery trucks parked in the right migrants hinged around the sea triarch of Constantinople, who of way and locals that greet each and their boats, their attachment is considered “First among other in Greek and stop to chat to a religious service centered Equals” of all hierarchs of the without regard to the traffic. The on requesting divine protection Orthodox Church. He presided nearby beaches at several of the for what used to be a highly over the Epiphany services in Pinellas County Parks are popu - risky job can be easily explained. one of the few visits to America lar for swimming, windsurfing, The celebration attracts Greek by an Ecumenical Patriarch. picnics, boating, and other wa - Americans from across the coun - THE SIGHTS tersports. People also come to try, and the city's population is The shops along Dodecanese the beaches to watch the beau - known to triple in size for that Avenue in the Sponge Dock Dis - tiful sunsets over the Gulf of another Hispanic actor who, like 1880s, when they were hired to George Billiris, in the late 1980’s day. The Metropolitan of Atlanta trict of Tarpon Springs are still Mexico. Sandy barrier islands off Anthony Quinn, looked more work as divers in the growing the sponge industry made a usually presides over the bless - thriving as both a historic and a shore shift position over time Greek than Greeks and could sponge harvesting industry. In comeback and in the fall of ings, sometimes joined by the current tourist destination. The with the waves and storms. They play one better, as Tony’s father 1905, John Cocoris introduced 2007, a record harvest of Archbishop of America. The street winds its way from the are accessible by boat and are Mike. Roland was particularly the technique of sponge diving sponges by a single boat was blessings conclude with the cer - bayou towards the Tarpon especially ideal for shell spotting memorable for his tough, irasci - and recruited sponge divers made. emonial throwing of a wooden Springs Aquarium at the far end. and watching bottlenose dol - ble character taking on the prej - from the Dodecanese Islands, In 2007 and 2008, Tarpon cross into the city's Spring Along the way it passes the ma - phins at play. One permanent is - udice of some other non-Greek leading, by the 1930’s, to a very Springs' Mayor, Beverley Billiris, Bayou, and boys ages 16–18 rina and Sponge Boats docked land, Anclote Key, is a State Park rivals in the industry, but while productive sponge industry in established Sister City relation - dive in to retrieve it: whoever along the north side of the street Preserve with a historic light - the movie was a nice guilty plea - Tarpon Springs, generating mil - ships with Kalymnos, Halki, recovers the cross is said to be and the Historic Sponge Ex - house, bird nesting colonies and sure B-film, it helped introduce lions of dollars a year. But when Symi, and Cyprus, honoring the blessed for a full year. Following change on the south. There are pristine beaches. the city, which has the biggest a red tide algae bloom occurred close historical link with these the blessings, the celebration many restaurants serving tradi - But most people come for the percentage of Greek Americans in 1947, wiping out the sponge Greek islands. Tarpon Springs is moves to the Sponge Docks tional Greek cuisine and fresh Greek nature of the city, and you in the United States, almost 12% fields in that region of the Gulf known for elaborate religious where food and music are made seafood that dot the street as can even take a tourist boat ride of the population, and nearly of Mexico, most of the sponge ceremonies related to the Greek part of the festivities. On Janu - well as quaint boutiques that sell and see a diver go into the water nine percent speak Greek at boats and divers switched to Orthodox Church such as ary 6, 2006, the 100th anniver - everything from real sponges to pretending to be looking for home, keeping their heritage fishing and shrimping for a Epiphany celebrated every Jan - sary celebration of the Epiphany imported goods. The street is sponges closer to shore than alive. There are so many that the livelihood. The city then con - uary 6 with the blessing of the services in Tarpon Springs was narrow and reminiscent of a sea - you’d find them.

Greek Arts Initiative Showcases a Culture Timeless As the Ages

Tarpon Springs’ unique cultural history is the January 9, 1-3pm, Monday, January 10, 5-7pm, basis of the Greek Arts Initiative. The city has pre - and Tuesday, January 11, 5-7pm, Heritage Mu - served a strong ethnic character and maritime seum, 100 Beekman Lane, Craig Park. Panayotis heritage. Among 24,000 residents, those of Greek League specializes in the intricate traditional mu - descent now number about 30% as many have sic of Kalymnos and the Dodecanese Islands. He moved to nearby towns for work or new homes. plays at events in the U.S. and Europe, and lec - Tarpon Springs remains the epicenter of a three- tures in Greek and music at Hellenic College in county area with an unusually large Greek popu - Brookline, Mass. The workshops will explore basic lation. Some U.S. cities have a larger population, and advanced laouto playing techniques and but none is more Greek in the percentage of Greek styles. Students should bring their own instru - descent. Tarpon Springs maintains a rich cultural ment. heritage, producing two of Florida’s five National Heritage Fellows, but the range and availability • Traditional Greek Percussion Workshops with have of folk arts has declined in recent years. The Panayiotis League. Friday 3/4, 7-9pm Saturday initiative is designed to have a profound impact 3/5, 12-2m, and Sunday 3/6, 12-2-pm, Cultural on the presentation and preservation of Greek Center, 101 S. Pinellas Avenue. Musician and eth - arts and make them more accessible to residents nomusicologist Panayotis League will explore and visitors who are eager to experience the cul - playing techniques and styles for the touberleki ture more fully. Its aim is to strengthen the com - (dumbek,) daouli (two-headed drum,) defi (tam - munity by providing greater access to its heritage bourine), frame drums, snare drum, and other and generating opportunities to learn increasingly instruments used in traditional Greek music. Stu - rare arts. Greater accessibility of Greek arts will dents will learn dance rhythms from various re - generate more tourism, the city’s economic en - gions, the role of percussion instruments in Greek gine, and also will increase knowledge about one ensembles, and improvisation within traditional of Florida’s most distinctive communities, city of - rhythmic structures. All percussionists and per - ficials said. cussion instruments are welcome. The Greek Arts Initiative, which is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for • Kalymnian Tsabouna (bagpipe) Workshops the Arts, will augment the integration of Greek with Manolis Choullis. Saturday 3/5, 2-4pm, Sun - culture into Tarpon Springs’ Cultural Treasures George Soffos works with students at the day 3/6, 2-4pm, and Monday, 3/7 7-9pm, Cultural presentations. Working with artists newly or pre - bouzouki workshop. Center, 101 S. Pinellas Avenue. Choullis has been Kalymnian tsabouna (island bagpipe) player viously identified by folklorist Tina Bucuvalas, playing tsabouna in the style of his native Kalym - Manolis Choullis. also the city’s Curator of Arts and Historical Re - GREEK COOKING CLASSES nos for over 20 years, and is a leader in the move - sources, and ethnomusicologist Kathleen Mona - • Saturdays, 12-2pm, October 9, 23, 30, No - ment to preserve the instrument. In addition to Docks. Night in the Islands re-creates the atmos - han, it will offer several events designed to reflect vember 6, 2010 & April 30, May 7, May 14, May Kalymnian music, he has studied and performed phere of the Greek islands with monthly outdoor a wide range of traditional culture. Funded in 21, 2011, Safford House, 23 Parkin Ct., $10 per bagpipe music from Chios, Kythnos, Crete, and dining on the Sponge Docks, performances by part with a grant from the National Endowment class. Several excellent community cooks will offer Karpathos at events in France, Italy, Turkey, and outstanding musical groups Ellada and Odyssey, for the Arts’ Folk & Traditional Arts Program, the classes in the delicious regional cuisine of the Do - the U.S. Choullis holds a graduate degree in ar - Greek dancing, and other arts. The March 5 Night Greek Arts Initiative augments the integration of decanese Islands—the area from which most of chaeology. There will be a few instruments avail - will feature a celebration of Apokries, the Greek Greek culture into Tarpon Springs’ Cultural Trea - Tarpon Springs’ Greek residents came. able for students. Please call to reserve a place in Mardi Gras. Manolis Choullis, Demetri Tashie, sures presentations through a variety of program - the workshop and a tsabouna if needed. and Panayiotis League will play traditional ming. Unless otherwise noted, the events and FALL 2010 Apokries music on the tsabouna (Greek island workshops are free. Please call 727-937-1130 or • October 9 Maria Pantelis – octopus stifado PERFORMANCES/FESTIVALS bagpipe,) zurna (small conical oboe), and drums. 942-5605 for more information. (stew,) avgozoumi Revelers wear traditional village or Halloween- • October 23 Nick Koulianos - kavourmas • Night in the Islands : Saturday nights, Sep - style costumes. Levendia Dance Troupe, will per - GREEK FOLKLIFE WORKSHOPS (preserved meat stew made for sponging expedi - tember 18, October 2, November 6, 2010 & March form and teach Apokries dances. tions,) patsa (tripe soup) October 30 Maria Pan - 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 9, 2011, Sponge BOUZOUKI WORKSHOPS telis – baked garbanzos, octopus keftedes (meat - • Music of the Dodecanese Islands : Saturday, WITH GEORGE SOFFOS balls) January 8, 8-11pm, Kalymnian House, 42 W. Mor - • Sundays, 2-4pm, September 19-November • November 6 Katerina Zaronias - eftazimo gan St., $3 at door. Kalymnian violin player 7, 2010 & January 23-March 13, 2011, Heritage (unleavened Kalymnian Easter bread) and Michalis Kappas will join laouto (Greek lute) mu - Museum, 100 Beekman Lane, Craig Park. Soffos lazarakia (bread dolls made in honor of Lazarus’ sician Panayiotis League for an evening of music is considered by many to be the best bouzouki rising) and dance from Kalymnos and other Dodecanese player born outside of Greece. His repertoire in - islands. Joining them will be Tarpon Springs’ cludes folk genres such as rembetika and nisiotika, SPRING 2011 tsabouna (Greek island bagpipe) player Skevos as well as popular and classical Greek works. • April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21classes will Karavokiros and traditional vocalist Irene Kara - Since he was 16, he has entertained audiences in explore specialties from Halki, Symi, and vokiros. Greek night clubs and other venues throughout Karpathos, as well as recipes for religious obser - the world and accompanied many top vocalists vances, such as kolliva (memorial dish) and pros - • Gulf Maritime Festival: Saturday March 5, from Greece. Classes will be organized into be - foro (bread for Greek Orthodox Liturgies). 2011, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sponge Docks Greek cul - ginning and advanced sections.There will be sev - ture is intertwined with its maritime heritage. As eral bouzoukis available for students who do not • Kalymnian Violin Workshops with Michalis one of Florida’s few remaining working water - have one. Please call to reserve a place in the Kappas, Saturday, January 8, 3-5pm, Sunday, Jan - fronts, Tarpon Springs is the perfect venue to workshop and a bouzouki if needed. uary 9, 3-5pm, Monday, January 10, 7-9pm, and showcase Gulf Coast maritime folklife from Cortez Tuesday, January 11, 7-9pm, Heritage Museum, to Apalachicola, with a special emphasis on the KALYMNIAN TRADITIONAL SONGS 100 Beekman Lane, Craig Park. Kappas will jour - local sponge industry. Demonstrations and inter - WITH IRENE KARAVOKIROS ney from Greece to provide workshops in the tra - views will include sponge diving and processing; • 12-2pm, Sunday, September 19, Saturday, ditional violin music of the island of Kalymnos. making diving helmets, cast nets, mullet nets, September 25, Sundays October 3 and 10, Her - An archaeologist by profession, Kappas learned sponging equipment, stone crab traps; mullet itage Museum, 100 Beekman Lane, Craig Park. from the best traditional Kalymnian players of smoking, oyster shucking, clam farming, and boat Karavokiros grew up on Kalymnos, where her ma - the older generation and began performing at building. The one-day free festival will also pre - ternal family frequently sang traditional Kalymn - events (glendia, panigyria, weddings) when he sent music, dance, and foodways associated with ian songs. She will teach many of the older Ka - was 17. He appears on a recording of traditional the maritime cultures. Invited artists will include lymnian songs, including songs for the issos, sirta, Kalymnian music and has performed extensively National Heritage Fellow Nicholas Toth (diving kalamatiano, and other dances (September 19 & at festivals in Europe and the U.S. Students helmets,) Folk Heritage Awardees Taso Karistinos 25); nifika or wedding songs (October 3); and should bring a violin. (sponge diver & captain,) George Saroukos (boat kalanda or Christmas carols (October 10). Stu - building,), Wayne Martin (old-time fiddle and dents may attend any number of classes. • Greek Laouto (Lute) Workshops with Panayi - Nioti Koulianos makes the traditional Greek bateau boats,) Mike Berg (decoys,) Stuart Pacetti otis League, Saturday, January 8, 1-3pm, Sunday, dish, kavourmas, at the Gulf Maritime Festival. (castnets,) and many more.