S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 972 May 28 - June 3, 2016 c v $1.50 The Illustrious Career Greece to Get a Third Bailout – 11 Million Euros Of HBO Impressario Tsipras Agrees to Demands for More Anne Thomopoulos Taxes and Austerity

By Vasilis Papoutsis keeping the same salary, with TNH Staff the understanding that if she LOS ANGELES, CA - Anne Tho - was successful she would retain ATHENS – Greece’s European mopoulos is a prolific television the position. She remained lenders are ready to reward and film producer. As Senior there until HBO knocked on her Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Vice President of HBO, she was door. Thomopoulos was brought with 11 billion euros from a instrumental in the develop - in to establish a dramatic series third bailout in return for reneg - ment of Emmy and Golden department and she created the ing on anti-austerity promises. Globe-winning series From the popular and critically acclaimed Tsipras, the Radical Left Earth to the Moon and Band of series Oz. SYRIZA leader, came to power Brothers among others. With a budget rivaling that last year on the back of promises She is the daughter of Tony of the motion picture industry to reverse pay cuts, tax hikes, Thomopoulos, the former Pres - but without the content con - slashed pensions, worker firings ident of ABC Broadcast Group, straints of conventional broad - and privatizations but agreed to and a graduate of Georgetown cast television, HBO became the implement more, completing his University. place filmmakers wanted to be. surrender to the creditors. THE ROAD TO HBO MAXING MINIS The Quartet of the European Thomopoulos began her ca - Then came another highly Union-International Monetary reer at Witt/Thomas/Harris Pro - acclaimed production, the Fund-European Central Bank- ductions, which produced 25 miniseries From the Earth to the European Stability Mechanism American primetime television Moon. “Tom Hanks pitched it to (EU-IMF-ECB-ESM) last year ap - series, mostly sitcoms. She then us right after Apollo 13 and we proved a rescue package of 86 worked for Michael J. Fox' Pro - loved it, Thomopoulos told billion euros ($96.44 billion) duction company in charge of TNH. “It was a great story and but has withheld most of it until development. When the presi - we approached it like a feature Tsipras rammed more austerity, dent of the company resigned, film.” including pension cuts, through Thomopoulos offered to take The cost was $68 million and EurOkiNiSSi Parliament. over the position temporarily, traced the history of the Ameri - Tsipras-Bartholomew Meet at the UN’s World Humanitarian Summit The new monies are ready to can space program from its in - be disbursed, the Bloomberg ception to the Apollo 17 moon Greek PM Alexis Tsipras traveled to Constantinople on Sunday, in order to attend the UN’s World news agency reported but will landing. It won an Emmy for Humanitarian Summit. On the sidelines of the UN summit meeting, Tsipras met with Archbishop be used mostly to repay the Outstanding Miniseries and Bartholomew and discussed the Greek minority and reoperation of the Theological School of Chalki. same lenders providing the res - helped spur HBO into historical cue package and 240 billion eu - miniseries dominance. ros ($269.12 billion) in two pre - The story about the making vious bailouts. of Band of Brothers has an in - The funds will be used to teresting twist. Thomopoulos Run Alexei Run! Write Alexei Write! clear arrears and to cover debt had read an article in the Los servicing needs, including a 2.3 Angeles Times about another billion-euro ($2.58 billion) to book by the same author, the TNH Staff Tweets poetry about her work - moral to this story and yet there the ECB in July, according to a eminent historian Stephen Am - outs, writes poetry and a is a finish line. draft of the European Commis - brose, titled Citizen Soldiers, She’s as far from a self-ab - monthly poetry column for “I didn’t start it, by the way,” sion’s compliance report for the and she was in the process of sorbed professional athlete as Women’s Running magazine, es - she said of the interest in her Greek economic program seen inquiring about film rights. Tom you can imagine and that’s the says, a play, a film and will ap - hairstyle. “A high school team in by Bloomberg. Hanks who was in the 1998 allure of Alexei Pappas, 26, of pear in a semi-autobiographical Oregon had tweeted me a pic - Of the 11 billion euros Academy Award winning film Eugene, OR: a world-class 5,000 movie, Tracktown at the Los An - ture of all of them wearing the Athens may receive, 7.2 billion Saving Private Ryan had already and 10,000-meter runner who geles Film Festival on June 4. ‘Alexi Bun.’ I retweeted it. It took euros will go towards covering secured the rights to Band of will compete for Greece in the She’s only among the seven off from there,” she told The debt servicing costs and the re - Brothers and the switch to an - Olympics but is adored just as best American women runners Times. maining 3.8 billion euros will other award-winning miniseries much by her young fans for her at her distance yet the most rec - Her grandmother was born in be used to reduce state arrears, was made. unconventional and literate life ognizable for a personality so al - Greece, earning Pappas dual cit - leaving nothing for a Greek so - FRENCH CONNECTION – along with the “Alexi bun” on luring it was the subject of a fea - izenship, her celebrity making it ciety hammered by big pay cuts, Thomopoulos' dual citizen - the back of her hair. ture in the New York Times by a lot easier likelier than for other tax hikes, slashed pensions and Anne Thomopoulos is respon - ship, American and French, has She’s a track star with rock writer Sam McManis, rhapsodiz - Greeks of the Diaspora who find worker firings. sible for many of HBO’s highly star appeal, an athlete who ing her life’s bio-rhythms and acclaimed hit series. Continued on page 5 quotes Faulkner from memory, running for space and time, no Continued on page 6 Continued on page 11 Former Priest Metropoulos, Onassis Center Presents Greek Gods & Mortals

In Jail for Sexual Abuse, is TNH Staff

The Onassis Cultural Center Now Being Sued by Victim (OCC) presents Gods and Mor - tals at Olympus: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus at its galleries at TNH Staff tenced to 12 years in prison, is the Olympic Tower, 645 Fifth now being sued by the victim, Avenue. This extraordinary ex - BANGOR, ME – Adam the Bangor Daily News re - hibition which opened on March Metropoulos, a 53-year-old for - ported. 24 and runs through June 18, mer Greek Orthodox Priest, who The name of the plaintiff, is free and open to the public. in March was convicted on four now 24, is not being released Ancient artifacts the result of felony counts of sexual abuse of publicly because he was the vic - finds during four decades of ex - a minor, and in April was sen - tim of sexual abuse, the News cavations in the ancient city of reported. The lawsuit also Dion are on display in the base - names as co-defendants ment galleries of the OCC. Lo - Metropoulos’ supervisors and cated on the lower slopes of the Greek-American community Mount Olympus, Dion flour - Evening of in Bangor, although it does not ished with Macedonian king specifically name St. George Archelaus I, great-grandfather Greek Orthodox Church, where of Alexander the Great, as its Food, Film Metropoulos served. ruler. The exhibition was orga - The victim claimed to have nized by curator Dr. Dimitrios sustained severe and permanent Pandermalis, President of the At NYAC physical injury, emotional dis - new Acropolis Museum in tress, mental anguish and future Athens and Director of Excava - and past medical expenses be - tions at Dion on Mount Olym - By Eleni Sakellis cause of Metropoulos’ sexual pus and Professor of Archaeol - abuse, which occurred in 2006 ogy at the Aristotle University Aliana Productions presented and 2007, and he claimed, the of Thessaloniki. a Spring Soiree, An Evening of News reported, that the Boston The variety, nature, and qual - Fine Food & Film at the New Metropolis, its leader Metropol - The artifacts on display at the Gods and Mortals exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center on York Athletic Club (NYAC), on itan Methodios, the Greek Or - Continued on page 4 Fifth Avenue represent over 40 years of excavation finds. May 23. The event began with thodox Archdiocese of America, a reception and tasting of sig - and the Greek Orthodox com - nature dishes from Eataly, The munity in Bangor were negli - Spotted Pig, Breslin, Loi Estia - gent in their supervision of torio, Molyvos, Sarabeth's, We - Metropoulos. Philoptochos Spring Luncheon a Big Success instock Cakes, and Billy's Cup - The Boston Metropolis re - cakes. A flavorful taste of moved Metropoulos from his octopus was on the menu at the position the day following his By Fotis Papagermanos the work they do. Vasilis Philip - America’s role on the world Loi table, presented in charming arrest. pou, Consul General of the Re - map. tasting spoons for guests to en - Metropolitan Methodios did NEW YORK – Eleni Kounalakis, public of Cyprus, also praised She went on to discuss her joy. The table also displayed the not respond to TNH’s request former U.S. Ambassador to the ladies of the Philoptochos family’s origins and pointed out pasta products now available for comment, and the Archdio - Hungary, was honored on May for their work and congratu - that when her father, Angelo from chef Maria Loi and her cese told us that Archbishop 24 by the Philoptochos Society lated them on their contribu - Tsakopoulos, came to America, cookbook The Greek Diet: Look Demetrios was out of the office of the Holy Trinity Cathedral tion. he worked on the land as a and Feel like a Greek God or when we called. during its annual Spring Lun - Bishop Sevastianos of Zela farmer. “When I went to Sacra - Goddess and Lose up to Ten Metropoulos is incarcerated cheon at the Central Park Boat pointed out the significance of mento, my father urged me to Pounds in Two Weeks. Foodies at the Maine Correctional center House. The luncheon’s proceeds the fact that the luncheon was get involved with the Greek- and cookbook fans could bid in in Windham, the News re - will go to the Philoptochos once again a success, without as American community and local a silent auction of signed books ported, with 5 ½ years of his Scholarship Fund. much as an empty spot. issues. This gave me the experi - by the featured chefs and selec - sentence suspended, resulting Kounalakis, cited as one of Philoptochos President Mi - ence to be involved in issues re - tions of wine. in 6 ½ years of jail time actually her most impressive experiences randa Kofinas expressed her ap - lating to diplomacy. I was an A Greek wine tasting with imposed. a wild boar hunt with military preciation for the exceptionally ‘unusual’ ambassador, as I was wines from Amethystos, Do - The civil suit was filed on staff in the Hungarian moun - high turnout for the luncheon, appointed by the president and May 20 in Penobscot County Su - tains. She described the incident chaired by Ourania Soumas and did not come from the diplo - Continued on page 6 perior Court. in vivid detail, just as she re - Pauline Kosilimbas. Kofinas matic corps. Metropoulos served St. layed it in Madam Ambassador, thanked Kounalakis, and reiter - “So when I arrived in Bu - George for 13 years. her memoir which was pub - ated the Philoptochos’ goals of dapest,” she added, “I felt I was As TNH reported, in Septem - lished last year. TNH/COSTAS BEJ providing assistance to the out of my league. However, I re - For subscription: ber 2013 Metropoulos was ar - She left it up to the audience Dr. Miranda Kofinas, Presi - homeless, to children in need of alized that I held a very serious 718.784.5255 rested for child pornography to figure out if she ultimately dent of Philoptochos. therapy, to people who are vic - post, after the fall of the Iron [email protected] and for videotaping a relative of shot the wild boar, which natu - tims of abuse, among many Curtain. Hungary had turned to his wife, who was visiting at the rally was not spared, as she is a less. other causes. the United States for coopera - time, taking a bath in their skilled hunter. In that particular The new Consul General of Further elaborating on her tion and for aid in its recovery. home. When she spotted the case, her performance was ex - Greece, Konstantinos Koutras, experience as ambassador, After 2010, however, there was ceptional, leaving the high-rank - extended his greetings and con - Kounalakis emphasized how im - Continued on page 5 ing Hungarian officers speech - gratulated the Philoptochos on portant it is to be aware of Continued on page 5 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016

PHOTOS: STEvE lAmBrOu Wreaths and flowers were laid at the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper Darby, Ioanna Gerasimidou and Despina Nakou in traditional Pontian costume stand by the icon of PA, monument to the victims of the Pontian Genocide, which features the carved icon of the the Virgin Mary at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper Darby, PA at the memorial Virgin Mary of Soumela, the Protectress of the Pontians. service in honor of the victims of the Pontiac Genocide.

Heracles, Maria, and Victoria Kaltsidis, Christina and Theodoris Vlastaridou dressed in traditional Members of the Pontian Society Akritai of Philadelphia attended and Fr. Georgios Kouzelis Pontian costume at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper Darby, PA at the memorial presided over the special memorial service at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper service in honor of the victims of the Pontian Genocide. Darby, PA in honor of the 353,000 victims of the Pontian Genocide. Pontian Genocide Memorial Held at St. Demetrios in Upper Darby, PA

TNH Staff about 350,000 to 750,000, the remembering the dead as part of St. Demetrios Church fol - Gerasimidou, and Despina a ceremony at the memorial Pontian Society recognizes of the Greek Orthodox Christian lowed the Divine Liturgy. Nakou who wore traditional square for the Pontian Geno - UPPER DARBY, PA – A memo - 353,000 – who died during the faith for so many souls who in Wreaths and flowers were laid costume for the event. Open to cide. rial was held on May 22 to re - genocide. The same genocidal all likelihood never received at the monument, which fea - the public, the event was also The students placed white member those who perished in policy was responsible for the Christian burial. tures the carved icon of the Vir - attended by members of the carnations at the base of the the Pontian Genocide perpe - genocide against the Armenians Akritai members attended gin Mary of Soumela, the Pro - Greek community who were not Pontian monument. Fr. Kouzelis trated by the Ottoman Turks and Assyrians who once lived in the ceremony, and Fr. Georgios tectress of the Pontians. of Pontian descent, showing led Greek school teacher Vasiliki from 1916 until 1923. Anatolia and included deporta - Kouzelis presided. May 19 is rec - A prayer service followed their support for the Pontian Tsanaktsidou, who was one of The Pontian Society of tions, massacres, death ognized as the anniversary of and Dimitris Giannakaris of the Greeks and remembering those the event’s organizers, along Philadelphia Akritai was present marches, arbitrary executions, the Genocide when Kemal Akritai read a monologue about who lost their lives in the geno - with the students and their par - at the service held at St. and the destruction of Orthodox Ataturk landed in Samsounda genocide and the Diaspora. cide. ents in prayer. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Christian cultural, historical, re - on the Black Sea coast and be - Among those attending were On May 15, following Greek Students read poems and Church in Upper Darby to com - ligious monuments, and houses gan the assault on Pontos. Heracles, Maria, and Victoria afternoon school, the St. held signs that stated: “Yes it memorate the hundreds of thou - of worship. The solemn service A procession to the Genocide Kaltsidis, Christina and Demetrios students, grades K was genocide” and “We will sands – the total ranges from highlighted the importance of Monument located just outside Theodoris Vlastaridou, Ioanna through 8, also participated in never forget.” American School of Classical Studies Celebrates its 135th Anniversary

By Eleni Sakellis Among the notable guests, Con - Athens Prize and a video tribute ond year of graduate school, sul General of Greece Konstan - to John McK. Camp II. Camp re - since at that time only graduate The American School of Clas - tinos Koutras, Chief Operating ceived the Athens Prize for his students were accepted into the sical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) Officer of the Stavros Niarchos outstanding contributions to the program, Camp was accepted celebrated its 135th Anniversary Foundation Vasili Tsamis, and advancement of knowledge of anyway, and thus began his ca - with a gala held at the Metro - Dr. Maria Georgopoulou, Direc - ancient Greece and in recogni - reer as an archeologist while politan Club in New York City. tor of the Gennadius Library tion of the 50th anniversary of only a college sophomore. In his The May 12 event began who introduced the Gennadius his association with the excava - speech, Camp gave thanks for with a cocktail hour and then a Prize. The Honorable E. Leo tions of the Athenian Agora. Pro - the honor and mentioned how dinner and awards presentation Milonas, Board of Overseers of fessor Camp is the Director of archeology was a difficult pro - attended by 300 guests. Execu - ASCSA presented the award to the Athenian Agora Excavations fession, lightheartedly noting tive Director George T. Or - the A.G. Leventis Foundation for of ASCSA and is the Stavros Niar - that he found one coin every ten fanakos served as Master of Cer - outstanding contributions to the chos Foundation Professor of years. His contributions to the emonies. Father Alexander advancement of knowledge of Classics at Randolph-Macon Col - field of archeology are many and Karloutsos, Protopresbyter of post-antique Greece. Anastasios lege in Ashland, VA. His daughter he is regarded as the foremost the Ecumenical Patriarchate of - Leventis accepted the award on Katherine was among those pre - expert on the topography of fered the invocation. A video behalf of the foundation which sent at the gala and mentioned Athens and Attica. presentation followed, com - was established in 1979 to sup - to TNH how a misunderstanding With dedicated scholars and memorating ASCSA’s 135-year port educational, cultural, artis - led to Camp’s initial involvement archeologists, ASCSA continues history, detailing its many tic, and philanthropic causes in with the excavations at the the extraordinary work begun at achievements, and dynamic Cyprus, Greece, and around the Athenian Agora. She said her fa - its founding in 1881, by a con - plans for the future. Director of world. ther wrote a letter applying to sortium of nine American uni - TNH STAFF ASCSA Professor James C. After dinner, William T. the ASCSA saying he was in his versities in collaboration with The cocktail hour at the 135th Anniversary Gala for the Amer - Wright offered words of wel - Loomis, Acting President of the second year at Harvard and it leading businessmen of the time. ican School of Classical Studies at Athens held at the Metro - come for all those attending. Board of Trustees introduced the was assumed he was in his sec - A privately-funded, nonprofit ed - politan Club in New York City. ucational and cultural institu - tion, ASCSA is now a consortium of 193 North American colleges and universities with a mission to “advance knowledge of Greece of all periods… by train - ing scholars, sponsoring and pro - moting archeological fieldwork, providing resources for scholarly work, and disseminating re - search.” Recent innovations are revo - lutionizing the way archeologists excavate sites around the world. Most recently, iDig, an iPad app has been developed by Bruce Hartzler, who has worked for the past 18 years as the IT Specialist for the Agora Excavations in Athens. The app will allow arche - ologists to dig and catalog exca - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens celebrated vations as never before. As Hart - its 135th Anniversary at the Metropolitan Club in NYC. zler observed in the video presentation, “It’s our primary markable library and research in - survival of the noble ideals of way of collecting data now. It stitution, “the Gennadeion” also Hellenism from future genera - rides the line between data col - serves the Athenian and interna - tions. lection and data analysis. With tional community through public A silent auction also took the immediate plotting of data, lectures, seminars, concerts, ex - place at the event with the gen - you get that visual check and can hibitions, and publications. erous guests bidding on a wide catch errors much easier. The The future looks bright for range of prizes including a trip faster the feedback, the cleaner ASCSA with its multidisciplinary on a private yacht, a private tour and tighter the data. Also, the approach to Hellenic studies, en - of the Metropolitan Museum of integration with archival data compassing the fields of archae - Art’s Pergamon and the Hellenis - makes a big impact.” ology, anthropology, the archae - tic Kingdoms of the Ancient The Gennadius Library ological sciences, topography, World exhibit followed by dinner opened in 1926 with the collec - architecture, epigraphy, numis - at Molyvos Restaurant, and a pri - tion of diplomat and bibliophile matics, history, art, language, lit - vate tour of the Athenian Agora Joannes Gennadius (1844- erature, philosophy, religion, and with Prof. John Camp and dinner 1932), and now contains over cultural studies, made possible at The Grande Bretagne. A pho - 120,000 volumes, manuscripts, by benefactors, private donors, tographic print, Hotel Belle Hel - electronic resources, and works and funders. Preserving and pro - lene, Mycenae, 1955, by Robert of art, one of the world's most moting Hellenic studies is an A. McCabe and a private tour of significant collections for the even more important project to - Mycenae led by Prof. James study of Hellenic civilization af - day, according to one guest at Wright were also up for bid in ter the end of antiquity. A re - the gala, in order to ensure the the silent auction. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016 COMMUNITY 3 Three Honorary Doctorates Awarded at 74th Commencement of HCHC

By Theodore Kalmoukos ven by security in our faith.” Archbishop Demetrios con - BOSTON, MA – During its 74th cluded the ceremony, initially commencement on May 21, the speaking in Greek and convey - Hellenic College Holy Cross ing the greetings of Ecumenical Greek Orthodox School of The - Patriarch Bartholomew. He re - ology (HCHC) awarded hon - ferred to the Holy and Great orary doctorates to world- Council of the Orthodox Church, renowned expatriate surgeon Dr. which convenes in Crete next Andreas Tzakis, prominent busi - month, which he characterized nessman and philanthropist as “a major and unique event George Marcus of California, which is being held again after and missionary Metropolitan of more than a thousand years and Pisidia and formerly of Korea which will send the message of Sotirios (Trambas), who is es - unity around the world.” He sentially the founder of the Or - congratulated the honorees and thodox Church of Korea (he was administered to each suitable unable to attend). verses from the Bible. Geron Archbishop Demetrios He told they graduates they of America presided, accompa - are “in a missionary state” and nied by Metropolitan Methodios emphasized that “we are in need of Boston, Metropolitan Gerasi - of an internal mission.” mos of San Francisco, and Demetrios noted that “the Bishop John of the Diocese of churches are full on Palm Sun - Worcester and New England day, Good Friday, and Holy Sat - (part of the Antiochian Ortho - urday” and wondered where dox Christian Archdiocese of these people are on the remain - North America). ing Sundays. Dr. Tzakis advised the grad - Demetrios told TNH that it uates that “graduation is not was a “beautiful ceremony. your destination, but the bridge There is something special about to fulfill your life goal, to serve PHOTOS: TNH/THEODOrE kAlmOukOS the community as priests.” He ABOVE: The honored busi - concluded with the Cavafy poem nessman George Marcus sur - “Ithaca.” rounded by (from the left) Marcus encouraged the grad - Demetrios Katos, Dean of Hel - uates to “work hard and suc - lenic College, Rev. Fr. Christo - ceed” while urging them to “give pher T. Metropulos, Metropol - back to the school.” Marcus was itan Gerasimos of San born on Euboea and immigrated Francisco, George Marcus, to the United States at age four. Archbishop Demetrios, and In the real estate and restaurant Thomas Lelon. industries, his meals were served RIGHT: HCHC honorary doc - at the White House during the torate recipient Dr. Andreas 2014 Greek independence cele - Tzakis surrounded by (from bration there. Marcus was the left) Board of Trustees among the first donors to con - President Rev. Fr. Christopher tribute to the fund to rebuild T. Metropulos, Bishop John of Saint Nicholas Shrine at Ground the Diocese of Worcester and Zero donating $1 million. HCHC New England, Metropolitan is a “remarkable institution” at - Methodios of Boston, Dr. An - tempting to become a first-rate dreas Tzakis, Archbishop liberal arts institution, Marcus Demetrios, Thomas Lelon, and told TNH. “It has the opportu - Demetrios Katos. nity, the challenges, the commu - nity, and the leadership. It’s not about buildings, it’s about peo - Sarah-Elizabeth Hunt and by Consul General of Greece in Someone who just few years your journey may be, you must it each year. This year’s special ple, it’s about education, it’s Deacon Lucas Christensen, re - Boston, who pointed out the “in - ago, or at least it was few until I never forget where you began. feature were the three honorary about quality.” spectively. comparable beauty of the Greek counted them, made her entry For all of you, your beginning is distinctions of very interesting Twenty students graduated HC Board of Trustees Presi - language” which she urged the into the real world. And while I especially significant because persons. The archbishop pointed from the Hellenic College, while dent Rev. Fr. Christopher T. graduates “to continue to study.” am far from figuring out where you will be leaving here above out that “this is a school of 33 graduated from the School Metropulos, National Philopto - Furthermore, Kanara stated my career will take me, I can all with a mission which spans value” and invited the Greek- of Theology, of which 20 re - chos Society President Maria Lo - “when I was asked if I would be share with you what I learned millennia… In a world which is American community through ceived the Master of Divinity de - gus, Chairman of Leadership your commencement speaker I so far hoping that these lessons constantly changing, where our TNH to “embrace and support gree which prepares its recipi - 100 George Tsandikos, and have to admit, I was a little will somehow help you navigate principles and beliefs are not it.” ents for a life of ordained or lay Thomas C. Lelon, the Board’s taken aback… What would I talk the road ahead: faith counts, ed - only called into question, but are The HC choir, under the di - ministry. Vice Chair, also extended mes - about? And then I thought that ucation counts, and human con - also in real danger, your mission rection of Assistant Professor of The Hellenic College and sages. the best thing I could offer is to nection counts.” is to help make this a better Byzantine Music Grammenos School of Theology valedictory The commencement speech just share with you my perspec - She urged the graduates “no world, each in your own way, to Karanos, performed liturgical addresses were delivered by was given by Ifigenia Kanara, tive as a peer- colleague of sorts. matter how long and full of peril the best of your ability and dri - hymns and Greek songs. The National Herald

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ASTORIA – On May 20, pop su - perstar Anna Vissi took the stage at midnight and dazzled the fans who had gathered for the concert at Melrose Ballroom in Astoria. The fans waited for two hours for the concert to begin, many expecting an opening act before the star performed, but Vissi appeared on her own with her band, performing her hit DimiTri EliOPOulOS/EliOS PHOTOGrAPHy songs from a career that spans LEFT: Greek pop music superstar Anna Vissi electrifies the crowd. RIGHT: The NHM's annual gala attracted some 700 attendees May 14 at the Hilton Chicago. four decades and shows no sign of slowing down. Enthusiastic fans cheered the star, and some shared their thoughts on the concert, includ - National Headline Museum Chicago Gala Headlined by Vissi ing Chris Semers host of Greek in the City, a YouTube talk show, who spoke exclusively with The By Anthe Mitrakos the night was Fox 5 DC news re - air by bidders aiming to claim Martin said of Vissi. NHM has every one of our families,” that National Herald about Vissi. porter Laura Evans, who was fol - their favorite prize during a live previously featured perfor - make Greeks who they are. “I grew up listening to Anna CHICAGO, IL – The National lowed by words from Gala Com - auction, which raised some mances by Thanos Petrelis and “Greek-Americans are very Vissi and met her at the Greek Hellenic Museum (NHM) once mittee Chairman Dr. George $147,000 for the Museum, ac - Michalis Hatzigiannis. stylish and friendly and they Music Video when I was eight again celebrated Hellenic culture Korkos, and Board of Trustees cording to Martin. Donning a slit long navy know how to have a good time,” years old,” he told TNH. “She and traditions abroad with its an - Chairman and Calamos Invest - “We did so well, our commu - dress, leather jacket, and large said Toronto-based Nadar Abel - spotted me in the back of the nual gala held this year at the ments Founder John P. Calamos, nity is very generous,” Martin hat, Vissi made her entrance with nour, who is of Palestinian de - line and had her security pick Hilton Chicago earlier this Sr. said. “The things we have in the upbeat tunes and mingled with scent. “The Greeks have an op - me up to bring me to the front. month. “This year has been phenom - live auction make it so success - the crowd, which could not resist portunity to really preserve their She signed autographs for the Some 700 members of the enal because we have the largest ful, and our staff worked hard at getting on stage for photos and culture in a massive country next 10-15 minutes with me by Greek-American community and national audience, and that’s our that,” she added. sing-along. Accordion, electric where it is easy for things to get her side. museum supporters gathered to goal, to grow the museum as a The auction included various guitar, drums and the traditional diluted…if they pull together “The concert at Melrose Ball - enjoy a night of mingling, dining, national treasure for the Greek travel, sightseeing and dining ex - bouzouki offered a contrast to their resources, they can keep room was an amazing experi - dancing and live musical perfor - American culture,” NHM Execu - periences such as golf with the classic music of the Chris Sar - this energy and the Greek culture ence,” he continued. Vissi mances by Anna Vissi and the tive Director Elizabeth Martin Calamos, lunch in Los Angeles las Orchestra. alive for generations to come in “started singing around mid - Chris Sarlas Orchestra. said. with My Big Fat Greek Wedding The band’s lively beats got Chicago and beyond,” he added. night and went until 4:30AM “This gala has come a long Serving as a major fundraiser star Nia Vardalos, a five-course both the young and old got off “Not only did we raise signif - with a 15-minute intermission. way…it was a fabulous turnout,” for the museum, the gala kicked meal for 12 by acclaimed chef their dinner chairs as they hit the icant funds for the work that we She sang everything live and said San Francisco-based mythol - off at 7:30 pm and extended well Peter “Kalofagas” Minakis, and dance floor for the much-antici - do, but the gala kind of brings sounded great the whole time. ogy lecturer and donor to the into the night with plenty of at - an eight-day journey through pated moment of Greek dance people together from all over the Usually a Greek artist will have NHM, Georgia Anna Stathis, tractions including a model pos - Italy for six. that lifted spirits throughout the country,” said NHM President of an opening act, but Anna Vissi about the May 14 event. “Every - ing as the Discobolus of Myron. After dinner was served and night. Cultural Affairs Connie Mour - walked on stage before anyone body at our table tonight was Brushed in white color from the auction came to an end, the Touching on the details char - topalas. “We have people here else, and started singing Erotev - non-Greek but extremely sup - head to toe, the living ancient crowd patiently awaited a live acterizing the lively culture and from California, Utah, DC, and menaki a cappella then went portive of the culture.” Greek “statue” subtly looked over show with Vissi, the Cyprus-born traditions that set Greeks apart, that is really gratifying because right into her set.” A Greek Chicago tradition, all event attendees huddled around pop rock and traditional music Dr. Korkos said it’s “laugher, mu - it is the National Hellenic Mu - Vissi sang her hits and classic around, the event was speckled numerous auction booths. performer. sic, parea, our love of family and seum and it is being recognized Greek songs in the festive at - with avid conversation, elegant Later on in the dining room, “Having someone who is so friends, our deep faith, and the as such,” she said. mosphere at the concert. She attire and rich décor. Opening large posters were hoisted in the beloved makes it beyond a gala,” heirlooms left by generations in demonstrated her remarkable range as a singer, performing laika, nisiotika, and popular dance music. A cake was brought out at one point and The Onassis Center Presents Greek Gods and Mortals in Midtown Vissi thanked the fans and the organizers of the concert, Cen - tral, and especially Jack Tranti - Continued from page 1 des and Popi Vassilakis whose efforts brought Vissi back to ity of the objects on display has New York where she had not drawn a steady stream of Greeks performed since 2014. and Philhellenes to the Olympic Though the show lasted for Tower in the heart of Manhat - about four hours, and some of tan, as well as the thought and her fans may have been ex - care lavished on the endeavor hausted by the end, Vissi re - by Dr. Pandermalis and his col - mained tireless. After her per - leagues. Those attending the ex - formance, she even met with hibition come away enlight - friends and fans, including Se - ened, delighted, and inspired. mers, who remarked, “I stayed The noted archaeologist, and met her after the show. She working with dedicated and en - was wonderful and greeted ergetic Onassis personnel, has everyone that came to see her. not merely brought to New York The thing that I find funny is exceptional works of art. In ap - that I’m dragging myself home proximately one year, by assem - tired, and Anna Vissi is walking bling mosaics, sculptures, jew - out with her band and friends elry, ceramics, coins, glass, and full of life! Her energy is that of implements dating from the The Onassis Center's Gods and Mortals exhibit, at the Olympic Tower, runs though June 18. a 25-year-old girl. She is such a tenth century BC to the fourth young, beautiful soul. She was century AD, they have built a with the physical environment.” parts of Greece, but by the king Olympus Now campaign, also born to be doing exactly what window into the world of our Pandermalis, who was raised himself,” he said. connected to the exhibition, al - she is doing.” physical and cultural ancestors. in Thessaloniki and has Pontian With marble sculpture, mo - lows the public to share their Born and raised in Cyprus, The exhibition explores the re - roots, explained to TNH that saics, and jewelry from Dion’s experiences of the city and the Vissi won singing contests early lationship between everyday life “this exhibition contains objects cemeteries, religious sanctuar - exhibition on social media by in her career and then moved in Dion, a city built on the slopes from a single excavation, which ies, and thermal baths, this won - posting their thoughts and im - to Greece where her work of Mount Olympus and the means we have a great deal of derful exhibition also includes pression with #OlympusNow. reached an even wider audi - mythological abode of the gods contextual information. It’s one an installation with sounds of The contemporary art on display ence. Her engaging perfor - on its peak and the natural set - thing to simply have something, birds and wildlife that inhabit in the foyer and atrium of the mance style and her boundless ting of Dion, which can be expe - and another to know it came the site today, offering a fasci - OCC provides a fine counter - energy continue to draw fans to rienced today, strongly impacted from a home or a temple.” nating counterpoint between point to the ancient treasures of her live shows all over the world the spirituality of the ancients. “Around the 5th century BC the ancient and the modern life the exhibition, demonstrating more than forty years after she “It is a place with plentiful the sanctuary was transformed of Greece. Talks and tours are the vibrant, creative spirit of an - began her singing career as a water from springs and wells, from a place of local worship of available to enhance the expe - cient and modern Greece. Gods fresh-faced teenager in Cyprus. and tall trees. It’s is near the Zeus with a later significance for rience of the exhibition along and Mortals at Olympus: An - The concert itself was not a ocean and there was also river all northern Greece into a Pan - with family programming on cient Dion, City of Zeus is made benefit as previously reported, plied by ships in ancient times,” hellenic Shrine…It was the spe - Sundays and a video game, Se - possible by the Onassis Founda - though some of the proceeds of Pandermalis said, adding “Dion cial sanctuary of the Macedon - crets of the Past: Excavating the tion and runs through June 18. online ticket sales of 100 tickets is one of the best places to see ian royal house with a major City of Zeus, appropriate for More information is available on did go to the Cooley’s Anemia how ancient religious practices festival in October organized ages 10 and up, offers an inter - the Onassis Cultural Center Foundation. emerged from the relationship not by committees as in other active experience for kids. The website www.onassisusa.org.

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By Eleni Sakellis blessing to start the concert. Tra - concert. technique and the lyrical quality ganas spoke briefly about the The closing event of the St. of their voices. The St. Patrick’s On May 19, the Alexiad history of the organ, an original Patrick’s Cathedral concert se - Choir joined the Chorale for Chorale with director and com - Greek instrument, and how ries was well-attended by the “Potirion Sotiriou,” the Commu - poser Eleni Traganas performed thrilled and inspired she was to season-ticket holders and mem - nion Anthem of the Theotokos, at historic St. Patrick’s Cathedral write for the solo organ, espe - bers of the public. The first and “Your Mystical Supper” from in Midtown Manhattan along cially the one in St. Patrick’s and piece, “The Litany of Peace the Chrysostomian Liturgy, with with St. Patrick’s Choir under have her work performed in the (Kyrie),” from the Divine Liturgy music composed by Traganas. the direction of Dr. Jennifer Pas - magnificent space of the cathe - of Saint John Chrysostom set to The two groups representing cual in a unique concert entitled dral. The rarity of new Byzan - music is Traganas’ most recent the Eastern and the Western tra - An Evening of Eastern and West - tine sacred music compositions composition, dating from this dition in sacred music per - ern Sacred Music. made the evening even more year. The first soloist, Stephan formed harmoniously, their The Chorale began with Tra - special, and the achievement of Kirchgraber impressed the au - blended talents magnified by ganas conducting her own com - Traganas even more extraordi - dience with his powerful bass the setting and the quality of positions inspired by the sacred nary. To hear the familiar hymns voice. The Alexiad Chorale’s en - the music. The audience, told at music of the Divine Liturgy of and prayers accompanied by tire performance can only be de - the beginning of the concert to the Greek Orthodox Church. wonderfully composed music on scribed as angelic, their voices hold their applause until the end TNH/ElENi SAkElliS Father Dennis Strouzas, Pro - the organ played with tremen - in harmony with the spiritual of the performance of Traganas’ Alexiad Chorale Director and composer Eleni Traganas and Dr. toprsebyter of the Archangel dous skill by organist Michael quality of the music. Costa work, were enthusiastic in their Jennifer Pascual Director of the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir. Michael Greek Orthodox Church Hey was a singular experience Tsourakis, bass-baritone and As - appreciation of the new Byzan - of Port Washington, NY gave a for the music fans present at the sociate Music Director at the tine sacred music. Archdiocesan Cathedral, sang Daniel Brondel took over on beautifully, bringing depth and the organ for the second half of a clear tone to the performance. the concert, accompanying the After the concert, he spoke to Cathedral Choir under the di - TNH about performing at St. rection of Dr. Pascual. The “Veni Patrick’s Cathedral, noting the Sancti Spiritus” was sung as a excellent acoustics of the space. chant and then in an arrange - The organ seemed to fill the vast ment demonstrating the splen - space of the cathedral with the dor of each in its own way. Rev - vibrant sound of the sacred mu - erend Monsignor Hilary Franco, sic. Advisor of the Permanent Mis - Chorale soloists sopranos sion of the Holy See to the Roseanne Ackerley, Olga Xan - United Nations, was one of the thopoulou, and Maria Zollo, and honored guests in the audience bass-baritone Alessio Farina daz - and at the end of the perfor - zled the audience with their mance told the Chorale and the Choir that “John Chrysostom The Alexiad Chorale and St. would be very proud of you.” Patrick’s Cathedral Choir per - He also quoted St. Augustine in form An Evening of Eastern Latin, translating into English, and Western Sacred Music at “He who sings prays twice,” St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New adding “whoever sings well York City on May 19. prayed for all of us twice.” The Illustrious Career HBO Impresario Anne Thomopoulos

Continued from page 1 duction is like a war. Relation - French critics were reportedly Thomopoulos was also the ships are very important and furious about that. That the Executive Producer for The Col - opened up production opportu - you want to work with someone show now airs on BBC2 in Eng - lection, the story of two brothers nities for her in France. She pro - you trust and respect. You want land with great success illus - who are intent on maintaining duced the Renaissance period to collaborate with people that trates that the switch to the Eng - their Parisian fashion company drama Borgia, about the famous you know have the required lish language despite some local in France after the end of the family's rise to power and dom - skills and you want to get back criticism will continue “as more WWII. The fashion industry be - ination of the Vatican political into the foxhole.” The show was European production companies comes a “vehicle of reinvention landscape. Borgia's Executive the highest rated original series realize that their shows will and transformation as France is Producer Tom Fontana is an old for Canal+ in France and Italy. have more international com - attempting to recover after the acquaintance of Thomopoulos, Versailles is a Franco-Canadian mercial value if filmed in Eng - war.” and he was Michael J. Fox' television series about the con - lish,” she says. Is a Greek production in - agent. Thomopoulos said “Pro - struction of the famed Versailles With a budget of 2.7 million evitable? In Thomopoulos’ fu - Palace during the reign of euros per episode, the show ture plans could be the devel - French ruler Louis XIV, and pre - doubles the average cost of an opment of Alexander the Great, Cast members miered in France and Canada episode of Downton Abbey. Ac - a project she began developing of the cutting-edge HBO last November. It is slated to cording to Thomopoulos, the on HBO but was never filmed. series Oz, premiere on American television show “feels very truthful to the She has never filmed in Greece created by Anne this October. This series was period without all of the details and perhaps this would give her Thomopoulos. also filmed in English, and being 100% accurate.” the opportunity to do so.

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Continued from page 1 changes to the constitution as U.S. system of elections. She de - • GREAT FOOD WITH NEW DINNER MENU SPECIALS backward steps of democracy.” scribed them as “the backbone • LIVE MUSIC FEATURING ATLANTIC ORCHESTRA & a different climate which was Kounalakis said her book “is of our life. not consistent with the so-called dedicated to the men and The power we have as a na - DJ G EORGE MARCHELOS Liberal Democracy. Former Hun - women who serve in the diplo - tion. And you realize this when garian Prime Minister Viktor Or - matic corps of the United you visit other countries, who • SOUVLAKI PIT • TAVERNA • CYPRIOT CORNER • WINE & CHEESE bn began to implement re - States.” do not have the infrastructure forms, and the then Secretary Speaking about America, we have here. • LOUKOUMADES • GREEK PASTRY CAFÉ of State Hillary Clinton de - Kounalakis noted how inter - Even organizations such as scribed the reforms and the ested Europeans are about the the Philoptochos.” • COLOSSAL FLEA MARKET • GIANT AGORA (MARKETPLACE) • NEW RIDES, GAMES & PRIZES

Sex Abuse Victim Sues Metropoulos, Church 2016 • ALL RIDES ONE PRICE THURSDAY ONLY • GUIDED CHURCH TOURS Continued from page 1 a priest. Metropoulos was spending long periods of time • GREEK DANCE, PERFORMERS tiny camera, she confronted him during the summer months at and she reported the incident to the Camp of the Metropolis of • SWEEPSTAKES DRAWING NIGHTLY WITH the police. When the police Boston in Contoocook New searched Metropoulos’ com - Hampshire doing catechetical A CHANCE TO WIN A 2016 BMW puter, they found hundreds of instruction to the children, child pornographic material. He played with them and helped in • FREE ADMISSION + OFF-SITE PARKING was placed under arrest and the the camp program. Church was alerted. It was also reported that WITH FREE SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE Metropoulos had previously Metropoulos had slept on the • RAIN OR SHINE been convicted of pedophilia in couch at his home with two un - Michigan. He went to Maine he derage boys and touched them PLENTY OF TENT COVER became a teacher and after inappropriately. eight years was admitted into Recently, the court rejected the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Adam Metropoulos, former Metropoulos’ petition for early School of Theology and became priest of St. George in ME. release. 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016 Dia Pyrros: Brintziki Vineyards Introduces its New Wine – From the Fire

By Aliz Koletas the uniqueness of vinifying As an organic winery and the these grapes which have under - first green and energy friendly Dionysi and Dionysia gone such an extreme situation winery in Greece, Brintziki Win - Brintziki, founders and owners and after one long years of ag - ery and the couple behind it, the of Ktima Brintziki celebrated the ing, they have come out with a Britzikis are also proud of the worldwide release of Dia Pyros wine that truly one of a kind. fact that they can now share this week in New York. Upstairs at Kimberly Hotel their wine with the rest of the "Dia Pyros," meaning "from was packed with Greeks and world and tell the miraculous the fire" has a truly remarkable non-Greeks alike who came out story of how their grapes came story of its grapes surviving the to support the Brintziki Winery. through the fire to tell this story. terrible "Greek Hellfires" of 2007 Groups of New York food blog - Being released are 2300 in - when the Brintzikis remember gers, including Daska Navia dividually numbered bottle of how over 3000 fires raged across from Tater Thoughts, gathered Dia Pyros, which are wax sealed Greece scorching 670,000 acres together to reflect in the gath - bearing the handwritten signa - of land making it the worst fire ering and raise their wine ture of Dionysis and the oenol - season on record in the past 50 glasses in salute to the incredi - ogist George Kotseridis. More years in Greece. The fires even ble story behind Dia Pyros. information is available at reached Brintziki Vineyards out - Dean Gamanos, founder of brintzikis.com. side Ancient Olympia, and while Greenwich Wine Society in Con - the vineyards weren't spared, the necticut, raved about how Greek Oenophiles filled Upstairs at grapes somehow still survived wines are finally being discov - the Kimberly Hotel in Mid - through the scorching flames. ered in America and how happy town for the worldwide re - Ktima Brintziki has captured he was to support the event. lease of Dia Pyrros. An Evening of Fabulous Food and Film at the New York Athletic Club

Continued from page 1 simply throw statistics at people. The chefs sharing their own ex - maine Costa Lazaridi, of Drama. periences will help and inspire The Amethystos Rosé was re - the next generation of young freshingly dry, a wine that could chefs, especially young women easily be paired with a variety who make up more than 50% of dishes. The Amethystos re - of the enrollment in culinary gional dry red wine of Drama, a schools. James also mentioned blend of Cabernet, Merlot, and the rising call for paid family Agiorgitiko, was a perfect pair - leave in the United States. In ing for the roasted beef at the this way, chefs, men and reception. women, won’t have to choose Cindy Spera, NYAC Board of between the restaurant or their Governors Social Activities com - family. mittee head welcomed everyone Many women chefs found to the screening and introduced they were not taken seriously the honored guests Master early on in their careers, but it Chefs, Lidia Bastianich, Maria was the quality of their food, Loi, April Bloomfield, Sylvia We - and hard work that made the instock, and Valerie James, all difference in the long run. As of whom are featured in the fea - Sylvia Weinstock noted when ture-length documentary film A she began her wedding cake Fine Line, directed by Joanna business, people asked who the James Moschos, daughter of Va - new kid on the block was, and lerie, and produced by Anastasia it was a 50-year-old woman. Ganias. Ganias introduced the Now, she is on second genera - sneak preview of the unreleased ABOVE: Joanna James and tion wedding cakes. The secret trailer of A Fine Line to an en - Anastasia Ganias of Aliana to her success was simple, she thusiastic audience. The compi - Productions, screened a wanted, “to make cakes that lation piece from the hundreds trailer of their upcoming fea - look good and taste good, too.” of hours of footage highlighted ture length documentary A April Bloomfield of The Spotted the remarkable achievements of Fine Line at the New York Ath - Pig, said she, “kept her head the women chefs in a male- letic Club on May 23. ABOVE down for two years and worked dominated industry. As noted in RIGHT: Chef Valerie James hard.” For Bloomfield, a dedica - the film and by the producers and Richard Grausman, C-CAP tion to using fresh, local ingre - of the film, less than 7% of Founder and Chairman. dients from environmentally- restaurants are owned by RIGHT: The Loi Restaurant conscious, self-sustainable women and only 15% of execu - table featured a taste of farms, was a priority. There was tive chefs are women in the Greece with flavorful mari - no time to think about being a United States, in spite of the fact nated octopus at the Spring woman in a male-dominated that the overwhelming number Soiree: An Evening of Fine business. Lidia Bastianich spoke of cooks worldwide are women. Food & Film at the New York about the difficulty in getting fi - The documentary explores that Athletic Club on May 23. nancial backing for your restau - discrepancy through the stories rant if you are a woman. Creat - of some of the most successful ing a network of support helped women chefs in the industry. Bastianich follow her passion Valerie James’ own story is only her parents for support and also raise her family. “Pas - especially poignant and uplift - early on, determination was the sion, commitment, and lots of ing. Divorced at a young age key to her success. From a small hard work” are essential for her, and with two children to sup - pizzeria in Holden, a town out - and the fact that she is still ex - port, she decided to open her side of Worcester, MA, Val’s cited about food and cooking own restaurant. Years of hard Restaurant is now 15,000 even as she transitions into work followed, but as she said, square feet and James hopes it more of a mentoring role in the “I had a vision… and kept on will expand to 30,000. Her fa - business. Maria Loi emphasized going.” James observed that she ther, Jimmy, emigrated from is in the blood for the James The tradition continues with Va - film’s director Joanna James the importance of honest, clean went into the business because Greece and worked his way up family. Like many Greek-Ameri - lerie’s son Christos who is the Moschos said she wanted to food and getting back to using she loved people, and for her from dishwasher to restaurant cans, the children of the family chef de cuisine at the restaurant. share the stories of these suc - real ingredients and not children, and though she had owner himself, so the business worked in the family business. Following the screening, the cessful women chefs and not processed foods. Run Alexei Run! Write Alexei Write! Alexi Pappas Greek Olympic Hope Too

Continued from page 1 distance runners in California as a freshman at Bishop O’Dowd it an arduous task despite their High School in Oakland but fell kinship with their homeland. out of favor with coaches who To her teen fans and teen run - thought she wasn’t focused. ners she’s the Lady Gagagaga - “I was 16, with frizzy hair and gaaga of the sport, a magnet for braces, and wanted to explore idolatry and emulation and a soccer, student government, the - hair fashion trend. Girl runners ater and boys,” Pappas said. want a bun too and love the At Dartmouth, she was the sport’s hippie, a kind of 1960’s “slowest runner on the team” her throwback to free thinking. first year because she wanted to One young runner and fan “go to parties and explore the who came to watch her, Rachael full college experience,” she said. Reiter, was too shy to approach Now she trains hard with the her at a meet but told the Times: Oregon Track Club Elite in a “Love the bun. Love that about state which reveres the sport. her. The bun almost has its own She still fits in all her other fan club on, like, Twitter. I tried activities makes her take her eye activities. “The film and creative to run in a bun once. It totally off the track even if it’s watching work have kept me healthy,” Pap - fell apart. She can pull it off.” the road. pas said. “On an average day, I’ll She’s as smart as she is ath - “She gets criticized from all finish my workout, my post- letic, and turned down scholar - angles — the film and the track workout fuel, and come back ships to pursue a Master’s Degree and field,” said Jordan Hasay, an here excited to work on the film. in writing from Columbia, USC elite distance runner who was I’ll bring my bowl of mush down and UCalifornia-Irvine because Pappas’s teammate on the Uni - for breakfast into Jeremy’s office she wanted to run, baby, run. versity of Oregon cross-country and look at what he’s editing. She’s also done stand-up com - team that won the 2012 NCAA She’ll spend some time now edy – showing fearlessness as title. Pappas was granted a fifth doing high-altitude training with anyone who’s tried it will attest year of eligibility after graduat - the Greek Olympic track team in – and understand enough about ing from Dartmouth and ran for Font Romeu, on the border of herself to advise her followers to Oregon while completing a Mas - France and Spain; competing in be themselves. ter’s Degree. the European Championships; “Whatever I am to these girls, “But that’s what works for and then returning to Mammoth, I’m happy to be,” Pappas said. her,” Hasay said. “You find hap - Calif., for more altitude training “The bun is something that, if piness in different areas. It with her mentor, Deena Kastor, your hair is long enough, anyone wouldn’t be enough for her to before heading to Rio de Janeiro can do. That’s a connection to focus on just one thing. It doesn’t in August for the Olympics. make with young runners. committed suicide when her emote, at least not like I do.” inside herself about what hap - hinder her, only enhances her.” “This might open up a whole Rather than tweeting out, ‘Just daughter was only four years Her boyfriend, Jeremy Te - pened to her mom without Pappas’s coach, the Olympian new world for me and my run - ran 100 miles this week’ — not old, leaving the girl to be raised icher, who co-directed Tracktown knowing why really. Ian Dobson, gives her a lot of ning scope,” Pappas said. “I’m of - healthy for them, anyway — why by her father, John, and older said there’s many sides to her “When I think of my mom, it slack, unlike some coaches who ficially on the team, and I’m now not a picture of my hair?” brother, Louis. and that she’s not insular or makes me … I don’t know, let’s won’t suffer a lack of attention the national record holder in the She has a hard serious side When she got old enough, thinking only of self. just say that’s why at least some - and focus on the sport. She 10K, after my time at Stanford. too. “I’m not a cartoon character,” Pappas talked to her father of “Alexi tries to be open and body knows everything about missed three weeks of training There’s already been a bunch of she said. “People read my poetry her mother and sought out her talk honestly with people,” said me,” she said. “I mean, if I have last year to film Tracktown and articles about me in Greece. It’s and this and that, and when they mom’s friends, trying to find Teicher, who met Pappas at Dart - a bad sandwich, I’ll tell Jeremy. Dobson said her coming late to very exciting.” meet me at the track, they think some answers and understand - mouth when they were studying If I see a weird leaf on a run, the sport has made it tough. Now she’s added learning there’ll be a — ta-da! — a show ing about what had happened. film and theater. “She talks about maybe it’ll become a poetry said he not only accepted but Greek to her repertoire but in a or something. At home, I’m “How can someone be so sad her fears and how hard things tweet. I’m making it so that peo - also embraced her choices. When life with so many swirling mostly quiet and often asleep.” that they’d want to leave?” Pap - can be. That’s why people are ple hold on to the things going “Tracktown” was filming last choices made simultaneously LOSING A MOTHER pas told The Times. “What I drawn to her. That’s also some - on inside me.” year in Eugene, forcing Pappas said she has one hard and fast She was raised in Alameda, think it was, maybe she didn’t thing I, as the boyfriend, actually There are those who question to miss three weeks of training, rule: “You cannot run 24 hours California, between Oakland and have someone to share what she admire.” whether being so multi-faceted Dobson did not object, he said. a day. There’s a mental and phys - San Francisco in a life that didn’t was going through. Her close Pappas has to emote as much has hurt her running, that mar - HER WAY ical benefit to having something begin easy. Her mother, Roberta, friends told me she didn’t talk or as run, especially when she gets ginalizing herself with too many She was one of the top prep else in your life.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016 FEATURE 7

ALL HISTORY The Book Nook: Yet another Important Building in Greek-Am. History

By Steve Frangos Herman B. Wells (IU grad Moenkhaus delivered his speech genre. Yet it was Carmichael TNH Staff Writer and later president of the Uni - wearing a bathrobe and holding who is purported to have com - versity) described a slightly less a dead fish. “President” Peter posed his signature song Star - CHICAGO- When the book on raucous establishment in his au - Costas handed out degrees from dust in 1927 at the Book Nook Greek-American Monuments is tobiography, Being Lucky the “College of Arts and Appli - piano. In 1931, the Great De - finally compiled a lengthy entry (1980): “in my day it was the ances.” pression forced the Costas on the Book Nook in Blooming - hub of all student activity; here The Book Nook Commence - Brothers to sell the Book Nook. ton IN must see inclusion. student political action was plot - ments were increasingly elabo - The children of George Poolit - Through various archival collec - ted, organizations were formed, rate productions, involving a pa - san, Nick, Chris, Charlie, and tions, historical markers, public ideas and theories were ex - rade from fraternity house to Pete, and their sister Katherine statues and other sustained changed among students from the Nook, absurd speeches, mu - Topolgus still owned the build - preservation efforts it is clear various disciplines and from dif - sic, the conferring of fake de - ing, and re-opened it as a Americans clearly recognize the ferent sections of the campus. grees and diplomas, and “noise” restaurant called The Gables. importance of this structure, the For most of this period the Book by the “Book Nook Symphony They ran it until 1968. actions of its various Greek own - Nook was presided over by Orchestra,” and “additional The Indiana University Foun - ers and how their daily lives something of a genius, Peter noise” by the “Concert Ya Book dation bought the building in have had a lasting influence on Costas, a young Greek immi - Nook Orchestra.” Students ar - 1979 and has leased it out to the people and culture of south - grant who transformed a cam - rived attired in cone shaped hats several other restaurants, in - ern Indiana. My account here is pus hangout into a remarkably and bathrobes. Some of the non - cluding another Gables restau - merely to make these local ef - fertile cultural and political sensical degrees handed out in - rant, which was owned by Max forts known more widely. breeding place in the manner of cluded: Master of Hearts, Doctor and Linda Wildman and oper - Now among Greek-Ameri - the famous English coffee of Physique, Doctor of Yell, Vo - ated from 1997 until roughly cans there will certainly be houses. All in all it was a lively, ciferatissimus, and Lord Mare of 2001. So, before anyone gets those who know of the both the exhilarating place Hearts, Eroticus, Cum Laude. confused this structure was the existence and contributions of (http://www.dlib.indiana).” During the last Book Nook Com - Book Nook from c. 1919/1920 the tight-knit Greek community The Book Nook Commence - mencement, Herman B Wells, until 1931, then The Gables that stretches across southern ment ceremonies have their then an instructor in economics, Restaurant (1931 - 1980), next Indiana. My singling out the own unique history: “The first was presented with the degree Garcia's Pizza (1980 - 1996), Book Nook from, say, the vari - Hoagie Carmichael at the piano, surrounded by his friends, Book Nook Commencement was “Doctor of Nookology.” Four once again The Gables (1997- ous other early Greek-owned es - during the heyday of the Book Nook. held in 1927 for William Book Nook Commencement cer - 2001), then the Roly Poly Sand - tablishments of Bloomington Moenkhaus, a contemporary emonies were held, three be - wich Shop (Downtown) (2002 such as the Greek Candy signed the building in the Span - sometimes rowdy behavior of its and friend of Carmichael. tween 1927-1929, and the last - 2004) and now Buffalouies Kitchen, Nick’s English Hut, or ish Colonial style. In 1919, customers. Moenkhaus was a leader of a in 1931. In 1930, the depression (Gables) at the Gables (2004 - even the later presence of the George Poolitsan, owner of the The Indiana University group of students who called caused many students to drop ). Kerasotes ownership of the Von Candy Kitchen on Walnut Street, Archives (IUA) has an array of themselves the ‘Bent Eagles,’ out, and the mock commence - Today, a historical plaque Lee Theatre could well be ques - purchased the Book Nook from historic photographs of the known to spend a lot of time at ment was canceled. Although it stands out front of the building tioned. Nonetheless, as each C.D. Fetzer and C.W. Jewett, a events held at Book Nook as the Book Nook.” Carmichael was revived the next year, soon at 114 S. Indiana Avenue hon - book is composed of individual former mayor of Indianapolis. well as those of many of the was also a member of the “Bent after the 1931 commencement oring the fact that Hoagy pages so must we progress in Poolitsan died months later, and most notable characters. No - Eagles,” others included Bix Bei - the Depression again put a stop Carmichael composed his im - our presentation of Greek-Amer - his widow sold the business to table IU alum musician and derbecke (cornetist), “Wad” to the production mortal “Star Dust” in this build - ican historical structure, one his - relatives Peter, George, and composer Hoagy Carmichael Allen, Charles Bud Dant, and Ed (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu). ing. In 2008, a Hoagy toric marker, statue, fountain, Harry Costas. It was during this was a frequent patron, and it is Wolfe. Moenkhaus was often re - ” Carmichael Landmark Sculpture or other monument at a time. period that the Book Nook said he composed his most fa - ferred to as the “poet of Indiana Without speaking of any of was placed near the northeast And given the close nature of gained a reputation as a student mous songs, Stardust, at one of Avenue” and was known to per - the other individuals mentioned corner of the IU Auditorium. It the Greek community in Bloom - hangout hotspot which featured the Book Nook booths. In his form Dada poetry. When as devotees of the Book Nook shows Hoagy composing Star - ington as well as the specific his - a soda fountain, book store and autobiography, Sometimes I Moenkhaus was denied his Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981) dust on the Book Nook piano. tory surrounding the Book Nook music. But what else would you Wonder (1965), Carmichael de - diploma due to his refusal to and Bix Beiderbecke (1903- More could be written about the it will be inevitable that we expect? It was the Roaring scribed the Book Nook as, “a take a required course on hy - 1931) are two of the most Book Nook as well as the Greek mention many of the local Hel - Twenties! The Jazz Age of F. randy temple smelling of socks, giene, the owners of the Book revered musician/composers of community of Bloomington. lenes and their extended kin. Scott Fitzgerald with its college wet slickers, vanilla flavoring, Nook George and Peter Costas the Jazz Age. Beiderbecke was Which is why more individuals The Book Nook still stands fraternity men in their raccoon face powder, and unread books. worked with the Bent Eagles to one of the most influential jazz should take up the task of re - at 114 S. Indiana Avenue across coats, hot “cool” jazz and dances Its dim lights, its scarred walls, put together the mock com - soloists of the 1920s. His turns searching and writing Greek- from the Indiana University (IU) like the foxtrot and the colle - its marked up booths, and un - mencement. The Book Nook on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm American history. School of Law. In 1914, John L. giate. The Book Nook soon steady tables made campus his - Commencement was certainly Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), Nichols, a local architect de - known for its music and the tory.” infused with the spirit of Dada; in particular transformed the [email protected] Traveling The Lobster: it’s Weird, Challenging, and Scary

Through By Penelope Karageorge Lobster slathered with Literary melted butter has always been one of my favorite treats. It took Yorgos Lanthimos’ scary, Kalamata mindblowing new film, The Lobster, to make me realize that this denizen of the deep could By Stephanie live to a ripe old age if left on Nicholopoulos its own. I will never look at lob - ster the same way again. With recently launched non - Nor at a toaster (an instru - stop service from London to ment of torture in the new film) Kalamata by British Airways, the or a steak knife. Will Colin Far - Peloponnesian city is now a hot - rell really gouge his eyes out in ter tourist destination than per - the name of love? As a loner, haps ever before. Renowned the how would I feel about being world over for its olives, Kala - commanded to “dig my own mata also is a literary treasure. grave”? Not good. Did I like the There are plenty of writers movie? I don’t know. But I was to discover from Kalamata and utterly fascinated by it. the famous works set along the An admirer of Lanthimos, the Nedonas River. Kalamata is not only rich in steeped-in-black-humor director Kalamata-born Nikolaos Poli - olives, but also in literature. who plays with audiences by tis is Greece’s forerunning folk - Seen here is poet Kostas Kary - stripping all the niceness off lorist. Born in 1852, he studied otakis. convention to leave them feeling in his hometown until he gained emotionally naked and scared – acceptance into the School of tracted syphilis. He fled the why are we laughing – I could Philosophy at the University of country, coming back only to not wait to see The Lobster. Athens. After graduating, he spend the last thirty-three days Bravo to the director who Colin Farrell and When I left the theatre, the moved to Germany to study on of his life in Preveza before com - stepped out of cult status and Rachel Weisz young man who was waiting to a state scholarship before re - mitting suicide on July 21, into the main stream without (above) star in sweep up the popcorn said to turning to teach Greek mythol - 1928. compromising his bizarre artis - Yorgos me “Congratulations on staying ogy at the University of Athens. Maria Polydouri was born in tic vision. The Lobster proves Lanthimos’ (left) to the end.” Politis wrote about Modern 1902 in Kalamata, where she his strangest film to date. He The Lobster The film does not end. It just Greek culture for the literary studied and began writing at a spares us nothing. stops. But that’s the Lanthimos journal Pandora, founded Par - young age. Associated with the There’s much unsettling in style. For better or worse, he’s nassos Philological Society, es - Neo-Romantic school, her po - this dark new film that takes the an artist, a ground-breaker, as tablished the Library of the Par - etry is intensely personal and imperative to mate as its sub - surely as Picasso or Fellini. After liament, and cofounded the natural – as if snatched from her ject. Consider Lanthimos’s pre - all the dystopian fun and games, Historical and Ethnological So - diary. Love, death, and sadness vious films, Dogtooth and Alps. as the credits roll, a beautiful, ciety of Greece. With poet Geor - saturated her work, no doubt A pattern has emerged. The romantic rendition of S’Agapo gios Drosinis he published the partly because her parents died three films could stand as a tril - plays in Greek. We stumble out journal Estia (Hearth), which when she was just a teenager ogy on the impossibility of free - of the theatre, surprised and launched a biannual short-story and because she became entan - dom. People live entrapped by elated to see the sun shining. contest that promoted the liter - gled with the iconoclastic, society and its leaders. The ary genre and helped launch syphilitic poet Karyotakis. She most minor infraction and de - new writers’ careers. Politis, herself caught tuberculosis in viance from the rules calls forth however, grew increasingly in - the 1920s and spent her final an enormous punishment, even terested in folklore. He began years writing poetry in hospitals death. In The Lobster, a person Law Firm teaching the subject in 1908, in Paris and Athens. Her first po - who does not find a mate in 45 founded the Hellenic Folklore etry collection, The Chirps That days will be transformed into an G. Dimitriadis & Associates Society, published the journal Faint, was published the year of animal of his choice. The newly Laographia (Folklore Studies), Karyotakis’ death. The year af - divorced Colin Farrell, arrives and advised on the creation of ter, she published Echo over at the Hotel with his brother, the Folklore Archive. Politis re - Chaos. Her writing has been now a dog, in tow. In Farrell’s mains known today for his de - translated into Spanish and Ger - attempt to team up with the fense of Hellenism. man. She died on April 29, heartless woman (many of the One of the most significant 1930. characters in this film do not Modern Greek poets, Kostas During World War II, have names) he displeases her. Karyotakis was born on October teenager Sotiria Salivaras scrib - She responds by kicking the dog 30, 1896, in the nearby city of bled away in her diary about (brother) to death. Tripoli. Multiple family moves everything she saw in Kalamata There is no safety in the Lan - landed him for some time in before she immigrated to Ar - thimos world. Forget about Our company aims to provide high quality services, adapted to the Kalamata. 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SSNY shall mail of Optometry in 1962. After friends and community, serving n KALES, JAMES breakfast with his 3 grand chil - the LLC to: Gary Cohen, 75 Lotus Oval North, copy of process to the LLC, c/o Elysa Berlin, completion of his studies, on the board of the Lowell Gen - ANN ARBOR, MI (from the Ann dren, Nicole, Evan and Christ - Valley Stream, NY 11561 . Purpose: Any 238 Saint Marks Avenue, Unit 4A, Brooklyn, George returned to Lewiston eral Auxiliary, as a Corporator Arbor News, published on May ian. Peter is survived by his lov - lawful activity . NY 11238. Purpose: Any lawful purpose . and established his own prac - of Lowell General Hospital, and 5) – Kales, James A. 9/24/1914 ing wife of 57 years, Lydia Ann 27 52 03 /1 9994 27 5161/1 7973 LEGAL NOTICE tice, Optometric Associates. In on the Board of Directors of the - 5/1/2016 Ann Arbor Jim, age Karagianis of Laconia, his son LEGAL NOTICE 1966, he and Kay Angelides House of Hope Homeless Shel - 101, born in Samos, Greece on S. 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Her hus - designated for service of process and shall mail to Reg. Agent: Thomas Law Firm of summers in Boothbay Harbor, LOWELL -- Mrs. Elaine (Mitsios) peacefully on Saturday, May 14, band, Kimon, predeceased her PLLC, 175 Varick St, NY, NY 10014. Pur - sailing and spending time with Coulouras, 94, passed away 2016 at his home. He lived in in June of 2014. Barbara was LEGAL NOTICE pose: Any lawful activity. his family. Friends and family Tuesday, May 3rd, at Wingate Laconia, N.H. for 71 years. Peter born in Bryn Mawr, PA. Her Notice of formation of ROBYN 27 5152/18796 alike will remember George's at Belvidere. Elaine was born was born June 25, 1916 in childhood was spent in Win - UNIVERSAL, LLC. (DOM. LLC). Articles o f Or ganization filed with the Secretary of sense of humor and his ability July 20, 1921 in Lowell, Massa - Somerville, Mass., son to the wood, PA, where she grew up State of New York, SSNY on 04/28/2016. Of - to relate stories of his many chusetts, a daughter of the late late Soterios and Maria (Vinios) with an older sister, Natalie M. fice located in Kings County. SSNY has been FUNERAL HOMES travels and adventures. George Kostandinos and Stavroula Karagianis. He grew up in the Heebner, and two younger designated for service of process. SSNY shall is survived by his wife of 50 (Frangou) Mitsios. Loving wife Central Square area of Cam - brothers, Henry R. Heebner and mail copy of any process served him or APOSTOLOPOULOS her is : Robyn A Warren, 1250 Pacific St., Apt. years, Kay Bournakel of to the late Attorney Peter James bridge. Peter graduated from Charles Heebner. A graduate of 3A, Brooklyn, NY 11216 . Purpose: Any lawful Apostle Family - Yarmouth; his daughter, Coulouras who passed in August Cambridge Rindge and Latin the Shipley School and Smith activity . Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - Christina, of Portland; his of 1972. A lifelong resident of School and took Harvard Uni - College (1950), Barbara also 27 5206 /1 9995 Funeral Directors of grandson, Nicos Bournakel, of Lowell, Elaine moved to versity extension classes at earned a Masters in Education RIVERDALE FUNERAL HOME Inc. Kentfield, Calif.; and his sister, Messinikola, Greece at an early night. He came to Laconia in from Temple University, in 5044 Broadway Angela Bournakel of Yarmouth. age with her parents and re - 1945, where he owned and op - Philadelphia, PA. An elementary LEGAL NOTICE He was predeceased by his son, turned back to the United States erated the Laconia Spa. In ad - school teacher for over 45 years New York, NY 10034 Notice of formation HEMPSTEAD ROAD (212) 942-4000 Stefan Bournakel, in 2004; and making Lowell her home. Prior dition, he started at age 68, she taught at Chestnut Hill LLC (DOM. LLC). Articles of Or ganization his brother, Charles Bournakel; to her retirement, she was em - Happy Jack's Cigar, Pipe & To - Academy (Philadelphia, PA), filed with the Secretary of State of New Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE in 2012. George is also survived ployed by Laganas Garment bacco Shop in Laconia and Shady Hill School (Cambridge, York, SSNY on 10/15/2015. Office located in CONSTANTINIDES Kings County. SSNY has been designated for by his sisters-in-law, Cynthia Manaufacturing as a seamstress worked until he retired at age MA), and Sidwell Friends service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of FUNERAL PARLOR Co. Arnold of Brunswick and Kiki and a presser. She was a mem - 95. He was a New Hampshire (Washington, DC) before com - any process served against the LLC to: THE (718) 745-1010 LLC, 1332 43rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Bournakel of Lewiston; and his ber of the St George Greek Or - State Representative for four ing to the Edgemont school dis - Services in all localities - nephews, Chris Bournakis and thodox Church of Lowell and a terms, He served as a Laconia trict in Scarsdale, New York Purpose: Any lawful activity . Nicholas Bournakel, of Portland. very active member with the City Councilor; was chair of the where she stayed for 33 years. 27 5187 /1 9984 Low cost shipping to Greece At the family's request, there church's Ladies Philoptochos So - Belknap County Convention. An extremely dedicated teacher, will be no visitation. A funeral ciety. Her greatest joy was being Karagianis made countless com - Barbara loved watching her chil - ANTONOPOULOS service will be held on Tuesday, with her family and working in munity contributions over the dren learn and grow, enjoyed LEGAL NOTICE FUNERAL HOME, INC. May 24, at 10 a.m. at Holy Trin - her garden. Elaine's family years and was often celebrated training teachers, and helping Konstantinos Antonopoulos - ity Greek Orthodox Church, 155 would like to thank the staff at for his achievements in the local hearing-impaired children. She Notice of formation B & D DREAM HOMES IMPOVEMENT LLC. (DOM. LLC). Funeral Director Hagan Rd., Lewiston. Commit - Wingate at Belvidere and Bea - media. He worked tirelessly to kept contact with many students Articles of Or ganization filed with the Secre - 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., tal will follow at Oak Hill Ceme - con Hospice for the professional preserve the clean waters of for years. Barbara served dili - tary of State of New York, SSNY on tery. Arrangements are by Fortin care their mother received from central New Hampshire's lakes gently in every organization she 08/21/2015. Office located in King County. Astoria, New York 11105 SSNY has been designated for service of (718) 728-8500 Group/Plummer & Merrill Fu - both facilities. Elaine is survived Winnipesaukee and Win - joined. She was a member of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process neral Home, Cremation & Mon - by three sons, James and his fi - nisquam, after years of raw Hitchcock Presbyterian Church served against the LLC to: Jacqueline Not affiliated with any ument Services, 217 Turner St., ancée, Michaele, Charlie and his sewage was dumped into the in Scarsdale, New York, acting Johnson, 102-12 Avenue K, 2nd Floor, other funeral home. Brooklyn, NY 11236. Purpose: Any lawful ac - Auburn. You are invited to offer wife, Joann, Ernest and his wife, lakes. He also championed the as a deacon and volunteering in tivity . condolences and pay tribute to Voula; a brother, Louis Mitsios effort to save Laconia's Belknap their Living in America pro - 27 5186 /1 9983 George's life by visiting his guest and his wife, Helen, a sister, Mills from the wrecking ball; gram, a weekly English conver - book at: www.thefortin - Madeline Yanas, her grandchil - serving as the "Save the Mill So - sation program for international LEGAL NOTICE groupauburn.com. dren, Kristen, Anthony, Peter, cieties" 1st president from 1971 adults. As a member of The Notice of formation PAJARITO PRODUCTIONS, Eleni, Kiki Coulouras and Kim - to 1978. He put Laconia's Greek Delta Kappa Gamma Society In - LLC. (DOM. LLC). Articles of Or ganization filed n CHIGAS, FILITSA berly Galloway; also her two Orthodox Church on solid finan - ternational, (Pi Chapter Presi - with the Secretary of State of New York, TO PlACE yOur CHELMSFORD, MA (from the great-grandchildren, Dylan and cial footing; Serving as presi - dent for 4 terms) she was com - SSNY on 02/16/2016. Office located in Kings County. SSNY has been designated for service ClASSiFiED AD, CAll: Lowell Sun, published on May Kaiden; her brothers-in-law, dent from 1986 to 2002. Peter mitted for Native American of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process (718) 784-5255, ExT. 106, 19) – Filitsa V. (Papathanasiou) John Contos, Rev. Ernest "Anas - was a dedicated member of the Grants, Travel & Study, Personal served against the LLC to: c/o United States Cor - E-mAil: Chigas, 82, of Chelmsford, tasios" Coulouras and his wife Lakes Region Chamber of Com - Growth & Services and World poration, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activi - classifieds@ passed away peacefully at home Helen; two sisters-in-law, Kay merce, where he served as pres - Fellowship. She also served as ty . thenationalherald.com on May 15, 2016 surrounded by Coulouras and Carleen Gavin; ident in the 1950's, and worked President of the Edgemont 27 51 85 /1 9982 her loving family. She was the her nieces, Connie Hantzis and to enhanced Laconia's Motorcy - Teachers Association. She was a beloved wife of the late Vess Ann Spanos who helped and cle Week. In 1985 he was member of the United States Chigas, who died in 1989. Born kept her company many days as dubbed "Mr. Laconia" by Edwin Figure Skating Association, as on May 24, 1933 in Argos well as many additional nieces well as the Phildelphia Skating with their many animals, includ - orful stories, and contagious Orestikon, Greece, she was the and nephews. Elaine was pre- This is a service Club & Humane Society. More - ing their dogs and a parrot laugh will live on in all those daughter of the late Michael and deceased by her sisters, Maria to the community. over, Barbara served as a USFSA named Memnon. Barbara will whose lives she touched. She is the late Sevasti (Tsolaki) Pap - Kontos, Aphrodite Gavriel and Announcements of deaths judge in figure and dance. As a be remembered for her passion survived by four nieces and a athanasiou. Moving to Thessa - a brother, James Mitsios. Rela - may be telephoned to the participant in the Experiment in for teaching, and abiding inter - nephew: Emily Baker, Elizabeth tives and friends will be received Classified Department of International Living, Inc., now est in Ancient Greek mythology Halliday, Alexandra O'Dell, her at the M.R. Laurin Funeral The National Herald at World Learning, Inc., she led nu - and ice-skating (and her enthu - godchild, Susan Cushman, and Days and dates of funerals, Home, 295 Pawtucket St., Low - (718) 784-5255, merous groups abroad, during siasm for all sports) as well as Robert Glen. A memorial service memorials, and other events di - ell on Friday, May 6th from 4:00 monday through Friday, which she met her husband of her willingness to help those in will be held Friday, May 6, at rectly correspond to the original pm to 8:00 pm. Her funeral will 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST 55 years in Greece. Together need. Barbara was a true friend, 3:30pm at Hitchcock Presbyter - publication date, which appears take place on Saturday at 9 am or e-mailed to: they shared a bicultural life with a wonderful wife and an amaz - ian Church, 6 Greenacres Av - at the beginning of each notice. at the Funeral Home to be fol - [email protected] houses in Scarsdale, New York ing aunt. Her jovial spirit, zest enue, Scarsdale, NY, followed lowed by a service at St George and Vravrona, Greece along for life, gift of conversation, col - by a reception. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016 COMMUNITY 9

OUR EVERYDAY GREEK GREEK GASTRONOMY Krasi, Nero, Portokalada for the Parea at the Kafeneio Artichokes with Fava Beans:

By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou Η καφεΤέρι-α ee cafeteria Modern café Το νερ-ό to nero water A Springtime Recipe to Enjoy “How are things in Greece?” “Bad.”, I said. “Many stores are Η πορΤοκαλάδ-α ee Portokalada oranGe juice closed down; a lot of people have lost their jobs.” “Greeks are com - Η λεμονάδ-α ee leMonade leMon juice By Eleni Sakellis the toughest outer leaves and petent. They will survive”, he said. “I am not so optimist. Salaries Η κόκα κόλ-α ee koka kola coca cola cut off the thorny end with a are cut down. People don’t buy things as much as they did before. Η μπύρ-α ee Beera Beer Artichokes are a wonderful sharp knife. If the stems are in - The market is dead.” The salesman looked at me momentarily and Το κρασ-ί to krasee wine spring vegetable to enjoy in a tact and in good shape, leave then asked “Don’t they go to the cafés?” “Not so much.” I replied. Το ούζ-ο to oozo ouzo variety of ways. Full of nutri - them on and peel off the tough “Now I worry”, he added. It’s partially the stereotype and partially Το Τσίπουρ-ο to tsiPooro raki ents, artichokes have one of the outer layer. Cut the artichokes the truth. Greeks love drinking coffee with their friends, their πα - ο οίνοσ ο eenos wine highest totals of antioxidants of in half and scoop out the choke ρέα, though they don’t spend their whole life at the café avoiding any vegetable. They oxidize with a paring knife. Place the to work. Η παρέα is a Πίνω means I drink. It is conjugated like the verbs θέλω= Ι (turn brown) quickly once cut cut halves of artichoke in a bowl Greek word that doesn’t want, έχω= I have. . open if not sprinkled with lemon of cold water with the juice of have an equivalent in Greek word Pronunciation MeaninG juice or placed in a bowl of wa - half a lemon squeezed in. Con - terms of a single word in εγώ πίν-ω eyo Peeno i drink ter with lemon juice added. The tinue with the rest of the arti - English. It is a group of εσύ πίν-εισ esee Peenis you drink acid helps delay the oxidation chokes, then set aside. Prepare friends that love to share Η μαρία πίν-ει ee Mereea Peeni Maria drinks of the artichokes. In Greek cui - the fava beans by rinsing, shuck - their time together and εμείσ πίν-ουμε eMees PeenooMe sine, the artichoke has been a ing, then set aside in bowl until usually support each εσείσ πίν-εΤε esees Peenete popular vegetable since ancient ready to use. In a large sauté other. A modern café is Η μαρία και ο πέΤροσ πίν-ουν ee Mareea ke o Petros times. The wild variety, if you pan or Dutch oven, heat the called η καφετέρια and an Peenoon can find them, or you happen olive oil until it shimmers, add old fashioned one το κα - DIALOGUE to be in Greece, are tiny com - the scallions, a dash of salt, and φενείο. The cafés also What does this παρέα at the καφενείο says? Write next to each pared to the California-grown sauté until translucent. Drain serve alcoholic drinks like sentence the translation in English. Νote that the word ή with the varieties we find in the United the water from the artichokes beer, wine, ouzo, and accent means or, while without the accent is the feminine article States, but the flavor is so deli - and add them to the pot. Add tsipouro and non alcoholic η. The word μια means one, when we refer to feminine gender cious, it’s unforgettable. The the fava beans, the water, the drinks like orange juice, nouns and ένα one, when we refer to neuter and masculine gender wild artichokes are often cooked juice of one lemon, about half lemon juice and Coca nouns. Παρακαλώ means please. simply as an addition to scram - of the fresh dill, 1 tablespoon of Cola. -Τι πίνει η παρέα; The ancient Greek -Εγώ πίνω μια πορτοκαλάδα. word for wine is οίνος and -Ελένη, εσύ θέλεις λεμονάδα ή πορτοκαλάδα; the Latin from the Greek -Θέλω μία λεμονάδα, δεν μου αρέσει η πορτοκαλάδα. root is vinum. From this -Μαρία, εσύ τι πίνεις; derive the words wine, -Η Μαρία πίνει κρασί. vinegar, vine+yard, vintage (=originally meant the age or year of -Κι εγώ πίνω κρασί. a particular wine and then was shifted to the sense of being of an -Εμείς πίνουμε κόκα κόλα. Εσείς τι πίνετε ούζο ή τσίπουρο; earlier time). In the western world there are places called oinotheca -Εμείς πίνουμε ούζο. (enoteca in Italian, Vinothek in German, oenotheque in French), -Και ο Δημήτρης και ο Κώστας πίνουν ούζο. usually wine bars or wine shops or wine stores. Oinotheca derives -Θέλουμε και νερό, παρακαλώ. from the words οίνος+θήκη= a wine store. The word κρασί derives from the ancient Greek verb κεράννυμι, which means to mix. In PRONUNCIATION KEY ancient Greece they used to mix the wine, which was very strong, i (idiom), ee (needle), e (energy), o (organism), oo (boot), y with water inside a vessel called crater. Oenophilia ( οίνος+φίλος ) (yes), h (helium), th (theory), d (the). The capitalized syllables is the love to wine. Coca Cola is a word ending in – α. Τ herefore it are accented. is considered of feminine grammatical gender and takes the article η. Dimitra Kamarinou, PhD, has studied philology and archaeology at Greek word Pronunciation MeaninG the University of Ioannina,Würzburg and Bochum in Germany. She Η παρέ-α ee Parea a GrouP of friends has been honored with the Academy of Athens Award in Το καφενεί-ο to kafeneeo old style café Archaeology and Homeric Philology.

LITERARY REVIEW Art and Archeology Books to Add to Your Reading List

By Eleni Sakellis World is a book every art years of research on the ruins lover will enjoy. and recently expanded excava - The art and archeology of ASCSA publishes the tions which revealed more Greece have long been the focus work of renowned schol - about the region and the sur - of study over the centuries for ars year after year and rounding area of Corinth. countless scholars from all over this year’s publications Lerna Volume VII: The Ne - the world. The most recent finds offer fascinating revela - olithic Settlement by Elizabeth shed light on the way our an - tions about the way peo - C. Banks completes the first cestors lived in the earliest ple lived in remote an - publications on the Neolithic re - known settlements in Greece. tiquity. Bridge of the mains excavated at Lerna in the From the exhibition catalogue Untiring Sea: The Argolid from 1952 to 1958 by of the Pergamon and the Hel - Corinthian Isthmus from ASCSA. Pottery, plants, and lenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient small objects reveal World at the Metropolitan Mu - the Middle Neolithic seum of Art (MMA) to this year’s settlement as an publications from the American agricultural commu - School of Classical Studies at nity living in mud Athens (ASCSA) there are re - brick houses on markable books available for all stone foundations. bled eggs for a tasty brunch salt and freshly ground pepper levels of interest in the art and Everyday objects in dish. Preserved varieties of wild to taste. Bring to a boil over archeology of Greece. stone, bone, and ter - artichokes in jars are available medium high heat, then reduce The Pergamon and the Hel - racota were found in to use in recipes and salads, but to medium heat, and simmer, lenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient abundance along large fresh ones can also be cut stirring occasionally, until the World exhibition at the MMA of - with a few other up into bite-sized pieces and fava beans and the artichokes fers a wonderful illustrated cat - decorative objects. used. Artichokes with fava are tender. You may need to add alogue of the exhibition featur - Archaeodiet in beans (Aginares me koukia) is additional water if the pot dries ing several essays on Hellenistic the Greek World: Di - a favorite recipe in Greece and out and the fava beans and arti - art and architecture in one etary Reconstruction Cyprus to try at home. chokes are not quite cooked lovely volume. The 485 full from Stable Isotope through. Add additional dill at color illustrations truly bring the Analysis Edited by the end for freshness, and adjust exhibition and the ancient world Anastasia Pap - the salt and pepper to taste, if of Pergamon to life even for athanasiou, Michael Artichokes with needed. Additional lemon juice those who cannot attend the ex - P. Richards, and Fava Beans may also be added, if desired. hibition itself in person. Those Prehistory to Late Antiq - Sherry C. Fox provides a fasci - Serve hot as a side dish with lucky enough to attend the ex - uity edited by Elizabeth nating look into what people ate (Aginares me Koukia) roast chicken, fish, or lamb, or hibition will appreciate the es - R. Gebhard and Timothy in ancient times and earlier in on its own as a vegetarian meal. says expanding on the wonder - E. Gregory presents 17 Greece. By examining the ratios • 6 medium to large artichokes For a heartier option, potatoes ful works of art. Edited by essays on the history of stable isotopes of carbon and • 1 pound fresh fava beans may be added as well to this Carlos A. Pic ón, Curator in and archeology of the nitrogen in bone collagen, the • 2 bunches scallions, diced recipe, just add an additional Charge, and Se án Hemingway, area. The title is bor - scholars are able to reconstruct • 2 fresh lemons cup of water to the fava beans Curator in the Department of rowed from Pindar’s past diets. The findings are the • 4 tablespoons Greek extra and artichokes, add about 4 or Greek and Roman Art at the metaphor of the Isthmus only direct evidence of what virgin olive oil 5 potatoes, peeled and cut into MMA, the volume includes es - as a bridge spanning foods were consumed and can • 1 cup of water 1 inch cubes, to the pot after says by Kiki Karoglou, Assistant two seas. Visitors well help us understand the impor - • 1 bunch fresh dill, chopped the fava beans and artichokes Curator of Greek and Roman Art Hellenistic Royal Portraiture on before Pausanias in the 2nd cen - tance of different foods in the • Salt have been simmering for about at the MMA, on Trends in Hel - Coins. Already a bestseller tury AD and into the 19th cen - diet, the cultural differences • Pepper 10 minutes. Cook until all the lenistic Scuplture, and George among the museum’s publica - tury traveled to Corinth mostly concerning diet, and the ways vegetables are tender, and the Kakavas, Director of the Numis - tions, Pergamon and the Hel - for the Panhellenic Sanctuary of social status, age, and gender To prepare the artichokes, potatoes are cooked through, matic Museum in Athens, on lenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient Poseidon. The book reflects 55 affected nutrition in the past. rinse in cool water, then remove but not disintegrated.

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Ads That Don’t Add Up

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos were found in a patient’s appen - sick, as sick as she had once product. And, in 1962, a Special to The National Herald dix during surgery. In that same been. She remembered Nujol woman, Rachel Carlson, wrote Good Housekeeping issue was and, promptly began giving her a book, “Silent Spring’, exposing One of my many hobbies posted a full page ad that dis - year old son a teaspoon full the chemical industry and the during the years is buying very played a very serious doctor, Dr. every day just like her mother true results of DDT. But, the way old magazines. I find it fasci - Edouardo Antoine – a Hitler had done. Well, like herself, her ads applaud and promise mirac - nating to read articles from the look alike – told about a patient son grew up and was the best ulous benefits are still actively past, see ads and opinions writ - whose face was covered in pim - natured, healthiest kid in ludicrous. ten by responsible, rational peo - ples. He said, ‘Skin troubles, bad school. Lateron, he became top As I flip through the pages of ple in high positions and how breath, coated tongue, fatigue athlete, going on to be a football my current magazine, received very changed those opinions and loss of energy are danger hero – all because of Nujol. O.K. just yesterday I flip past expen - have altered. Some magazines signals that can be completely So, where is it today? Gee! It sively illustrated, splashy ads I’ve collected are: Good House - eliminated by eating yeast! His advantage is getting married in other words you can smoke a could have been the heaven- that are eye-catching. Only now keeping, Vogue, McCall’s, Cos - expression was so serious, his the process). I wonder if science car load of them and not cough sent answer to all of today’s they’ve become more daring, so - mopolitan, the years are from advice so emphatic that I felt an proved that, too. once! On a page whose title health worries, don’t you think? phisticated, precise scientific, 1934 to 1967. While the stories urge to go out and buy yeast The cigarette ads were the was printed in one inch lettering Turning the pages of another Cyber, Infrabolic, atomic, fluo - are interesting, some fascinat - even though I didn’t have pim - most powerful. Mrs. James Rus - announced: ‘A True Story. Mrs. magazine, House and Gardens, rocarbon technology with ad - ing, the ads in them are beyond ples or any of the other stuff. sell Lowell of Park Avenue loves Wallace Ruel was at one time a 1950, is the worst of all. There vanced, mysterious chemicals entertaining and unique; a few Another ad showed four sports. She invariably smokes very sick 14 yr. old girl. She suf - was an ad that featured with that guarantee healing and the are so obviously exaggerated in brides who credit their successes Camel’s, they never get on her fered dizzy spells, severe one inch high lettering that an - chemical industry is not respon - their claims while very few are in landing a husband just by us - nerves, and they always give her headaches, nausea and was al - nounced, SPRINGTIME IS sible for complications or death worthy and honest. I’m not sure ing Lux facial soap. The ad a cool, enjoyable and mild ways tired, missed many school SPRAY TIME. Black Leaf (that because they warn you by print - today’s ads are less so, however. stated that scientists have ex - smoke. It never mentions that days and being with her friends was the name of the product) ing the side effects – which are For instance, in a 1951, Good plained through thorough re - they could also give her 17 dif - until her mother gave her Nujol. spray contains 50% DDT. It con - numerous. When today’s maga - Housekeeping issue, a tooth search that the gradual loss of ferent, irreversible illnesses, too. Then, everything changed. After trols all the insects in your gar - zines are relics from the past, I brush ad promised that their certain elements nature put into I wonder what ever happened consuming one teaspoon full of den. A one pound carton costs wonder which ads will be re - Perma Grip, Pro-Phy-Lac-Tic the skin becomes depleted and to her. Another cigarette ad Nujol every day she was com - 96 cents. Black Leaf spray is a membered and exposed and tooth brush would not shed bris - that is the main cause for the vowed that in smoking their pletely cured. She grew up, got favorite because it contains ar - condemned for the promised tles. A doctor is pictured warn - skin to age. But, using Lux pre - brand it was found that there married and had a baby son senate and lead. Imagine! We benefits that never material - ing that tooth brush bristles vents that loss. (And, an added is, ‘not a cough in a car load’. In who, unfortunately, was very all know the end results of that ized. 10 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016

HELLENIC HAPPENINGS FROM COAST TO COAST

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SAGINAW, MI – The parish of ST. DEMETRIOS GREEK ORTHO - DOX CHURCH OF SAGINAW, MI donated 900 cases of water to the Flint to support the residents of Flint, MI on May 7, amid the on - going water crisis. THE FLINT WATER CRISIS RELIEF DRIVE was organized by Chairman BILL TARACHAS and DR. LOU ECONOMOU, Executive Chairman of the GREEK FESTI - VAL OF SAGINAW. They were re - sponsible for organizing dona - tions from six philanthropic Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Clapsis groups within the St. Demetrios community. The Festival and MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, Mil - Care and General Surgery, and a AHEPA Chapter #216 District 10 waukee, WI, where he taught Professor of Surgery in the Col - were the major supporters and from 1989 – 2012, achieving the lege of Medicine, at the MAYO contributors of this drive, with rank of full professor. While at CLINIC in Rochester, MN. notable contributions by the Marquette, he was attached to Dr. Rossi is the Director of PHILOPTOCHOS LADIES SOCI - SAINTS CYRIL AND METHOD - Counseling and Psychological ETY and the DAUGHTERS OF IUS CHURCH, serving for 22 Services at SAINT VLADIMIR’S PENELOPE. years. Bishop Alexander is a ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL The 900 cases of water, a total noted scholar. He has written nu - SEMINARY in Crestwood, NY. He of 31,500 bottles, was delivered The Greeks of Saginaw step up to help their sister city, Flint, by giving its crisis-ravaged merous books and articles and teaches courses in pastoral theol - by GORDON FOOD SERVICES to denizens 31,500 bottles of clean water. contributed to the establishment ogy and was a member of the the EASTERN MICHIGAN FOOD of an Orthodox scholarly presence SCOBA Commission on Contem - BANK OF FLINT, which distrib - BROOKLINE, MA – The ORTHO - honored that His Grace, (DR.) under His Eminence, METRO - in Berkeley, CA (now the PATRI - porary Social and Moral Issues. utes aid to the victims of this cri - DOX CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BISHOP ALEXANDER POLITAN KALLISTOS (WARE), ARCH ATHENAGORAS ORTHO - Rev. Clapsis is the Archbishop sis. OF MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, (GOLITZIN), will open the Con - and was awarded his D. Phil. in DOX INSTITUTE). He was con - Iakovos Professor of Orthodox Tarachas noted that the citi - AND RELIGION (OCAMPR), an ference with the Keynote Address, 1980. He was ordained to the di - secrated to the episcopacy on May Theology at Holy Cross, having zens of Saginaw and Flint have international, pan-Orthodox or - related to the Conference theme, aconate in 1982, to the priest - 5, 2012, and was elected to fill taught there since 1985, special - long supported the Greek com - ganization endorsed by the As - "On Pain and Suffering." hood in 1984, and was tonsured the vacant See of Dallas and the izing in Dogmatic Theology and munity through their attendance sembly of Canonical Orthodox OCAMPR is also excited to an - to monastic orders in 1986. He South on March 29 of this year. also teaching courses that relate and patronage at festivals and Bishops of the United States of nounce the three plenary speak - was appointed to the faculty of Dr. Jenkins is a Consultant in Orthodox theology to modern events: “this is a way that the America, will hold its annual Con - ers: DR. DONALD JENKINS, who the Theology Department at the Division of Trauma, Critical and post-modern sensibilities. community of St. Demetrios ference November 3 to 5 at the will present the medical perspec - Greek Orthodox Church of Sagi - HOLY CROSS GREEK ORTHO - tive of the theme, DR. ALBERT naw can show their support for DOX SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY in ROSSI, who will speak on the psy - the needs of our sister city, Flint, Brookline, MA. chological perspective, and REV. GOINGS ON... during this critical time.” OCAMPR announced that it is DR. 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THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016 GREECE CYPRUS 11 Greek Police Clearing out Idomeni Refugee Camp on FYROM Border

IDOMENI, GREECE (AP) – Under the deal, anyone ar - people to leave Idomeni and go Greek authorities gradually riving clandestinely on Greek is - to organized camps. I said its evacuated the country’s largest lands from the Turkish coast af - campaign of voluntary evacua - informal refugee camp begin - ter March 18 faces deportation tions was already working, with ning May 24, persuading more to Turkey unless they success - police reporting that eight buses than 1,500 people to leave the fully apply for asylum in Greece. carrying about 400 people left Idomeni site for other organized But few want to request asy - Idomeni on May 22. Others took facilities in northern Greece. lum in the country, which has taxis heading to Thessaloniki or An estimated 700 police par - been struggling with a deep, six- the nearby town of Polycastro. ticipated in the operation, but year financial crisis that has left On the eve of the evacuation there were no reports of vio - unemployment hovering at operation, few at the camp ap - lence or protests. around 24 percent. peared to welcome the news. Greece’s left-led government Greek authorities are also ea - “It’s not good … because pledged that no force would be ger to reopen a railway line — we’ve already been here for used, and says the operation is the country’s main freight train three months and we’ll have to expected to last between a week line to the Balkans — that runs spend at least another six in the and 10 days. Journalists were through the camp and has been camps before relocation,” Hind blocked from entering the camp. blocked by protesting camp res - Al Mkawi, a 38-year-old refugee On the first day, 32 buses car - idents since March 20. from Damascus, told The Asso - rying a total of 1,529 people had Anastassios Saxpelidis, a ciated Press. left Idomeni on the country’s spokesman for Greek transport Abdo Rajab, a 22-year-old border with FYROM, police said, companies, said that the 66-day refugee from Raqqa in Syria, has while earth-moving machinery closure has cost transporters spent the past three months in was used to clear abandoned about 6 million euros ($6.7 mil - Idomeni, and is considering pay - tents. lion). ing smugglers to be sneaked Vicky Markolefa, a represen - Giorgos Kyritsis, a govern - into Germany. tative of the Doctors Without ment spokesman on immigra - “We hear that tomorrow we Borders charity, said the opera - yANNiS kOlESiDiS/ANA-mPA viA AP tion, said the line should open will all go to camps,” he said. “I tion was proceeding “very Migrants enter a bus during a police operation at a makeshift refugee camp at the Greek-Mace - “in coming days.” don’t mind, but my aim is not smoothly” and without incident. donian border near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. The government has been reach the camps but to go Ger - “We hope it will continue like trying for months to persuade many.” that,” she said. spokesman Adrian Edwards said pitched in fields and along rail - in financially struggling Greece The camp, which sprang up the evacuation appeared to be road tracks, while aid agencies since countries further north at an informal pedestrian border taking place “calmly,” and the have set up large marquee-style shut their land borders to a mas - crossing for refugees and mi - U.N. refugee agency was send - tents to help house people. sive flow of people escaping war grants heading north to wealth - ing more staffers to Idomeni. Greek authorities have sent in and poverty at home. Nearly a Cyprus Irony: Rise of ier European nations, was home “As long as the movement of cleaning crews regularly and million people have passed to an estimated 8,400 people — people from Idomeni is … vol - have provided portable toilets, through Greece, the vast major - including hundreds of children untary in nature (and) that but conditions have been pre - ity arriving on islands from the Far Right Propelling — mostly from Syria, we’re not seeing use of force, carious at best, with heavy rain nearby Turkish coast. Afghanistan and Iraq. then we don’t have particular creating muddy ponds. In March, the European At its peak, when FYROM concerns about that,” he said. Recently the camp had be - Union reached an agreement shut its border in March, the “It often does help to move gun taking on an image of semi- with Turkey meant to stem the The Hope for Unity camp housed more than 14,000, people into more organized permanence, with refugees set - flow and reduce the number of but numbers have declined as sites, when they’re willing to ting up small makeshift shops people undertaking the perilous people began accepting author - move to those places,” he selling everything from cooking sea crossing to Greece, where NICOSIA – The entry into Par - lead to major economic ad - ities’ offers of alternative places added. utensils to falafel and bread. many have died when their liament by a far-right group op - vances for both sides in projects to stay. In Idomeni, most have been More than 54,000 refugees overcrowded, unseaworthy posed to unity with Turks on such as transporting Israeli and In Geneva, UNHCR living in small camping tents and migrants have been trapped boats sank. Cyprus could provide an impetus Cypriot off-shore gas via pipeline for a resolution. to Europe and the bringing of The ELAM party took two fresh water to Cyprus through seats in the 56-member Parlia - an existing pipeline. ment in what was seen as a LAST CHANCE SALOON Greece to Get a Third Bailout – 11 Million Euros protest against ruling parties and Anastasiades and Akinci have harsh austerity measures but said this could be the last chance also an indicator about resumed to unify the island. The Cypriot Continued from page 1 bill through Parliament, and unity talks that Cypriot President President’s term expires in 2018, Kammenos voted for every one Nicos Anastasiades and his Turk - so the talks need to move for - Successive Greek govern - of the measures in the 7,000- ish counterpart, Mustafa Akinci, ward before another year of ments, in a desperate bid to page document on May 22. hope will bring a solution by the electioneering begins, James keep the economy from collaps - Now, however, he said the in - end of the year. Ker-Lindsay, a Senior Research ing, have embarked on a strat - crease in the Value Added Tax Analysts told the news Fellow at the London School of egy of seeking successive loans on the islands is something he agency Reuters that the process Economics who focuses on from the creditors to repay pre - fought against and even threat - could now be accelerated before southeast Europe. vious loans and the borrowing ened to resign unless it were critics and ELAM make any more “If he is really serious, this is again to pay even more loans. withdrawn. When it wasn’t, he headway or gain support that where he should come out and Only about 5 percent of the didn’t quit but turned instead to could undermine the fragile say this is the task at hand and money borrowed since 2010 has criticizing his own government. talks and upset hopes to unify move forward,” Ker-Lindsay told gone to help the people of The VAT hike – from 23 to the island divided since an un - Reuters. Greece and the rest used to pay 24 percent – was part of an lawful Turkish invasion in 1974. “There has been a certain tail - back banks and for other uses. avalanche of tax increases he Turkey still keeps a 30,000- ing-off in talks in recent months. The price has been harsh and Tsipras swore they would austerity that has created record never impose on the orders of unemployment and deep international creditors but did poverty and a lower standard of and said they had no choice, al - living for most Greeks, apart though they had blistered pre - from tax cheats, the rich, politi - vious governments for using the cians and those exempted from same reason to implement pay austerity, such as the military, cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions, diplomats, university professors worker firings and privatiza - and Parliament workers. tions. The disbursement would AP PHOTO/virGiNiA mAyO “The VAT increase for the is - cover Greece’s funding needs Greece's Finance Minister Eucleidis Tsakalotos (L), speaks with lands is a criminal act, an un - until the end of November this EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici during constitutional decision; a deci - year when it will need more a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels on May 25, 2016. sion, for which I want to tell money and talk hasn’t relented you, we waged a big battle in of a fourth bailout at some and out of Parliament … unfor - point. tunately, I reached the point of Tsipras, reneging on another resigning as minister over the promise, also agreed to auto - issue of the islands (and the im - matic spending cuts if Greece position of the highest VAT rate fails to meet fiscal targets, which on them), but we couldn’t win it always has. this wager, at least not at this AP PHOTO/PETrOS kArADJiAS The compliance report also phase.” A man, helped by a woman, leaves the polling booth at a proposes a range of measures to He added that it is his “top polling station during the parliamentary elections in southern provide Greece with debt relief, priority” to restore the reduced port city of Limassol on Sunday, May 22. such as locking in low interest rate once the economy returns rates and extending the grace to growth and that he would try man standing army in the north - But now the election is out of period and loan maturities but to convince the country’s credi - ern third it unlawfully occupies the way it’s an opportunity to no debt cut as Tsipras said he tors that Greek islands are not and which only it recognizes and move forward” before negativity would also get in return for cav - what people see at expensive re - refuses to recognize Cyprus or seeps in over the perceptibly ing in. sorts on Myconos and Santorini admit its ships and planes while slow pace of talks, he added. “CRIMINAL ACT” in the summer, Kathimerini re - hoping to become a member of Political analyst Hubert Faust - Greek Defence Minister ported. the European Union, which mann told the news agency he Panos Kammenos said a tax hike The New Democracy Conser - Cyprus already is. agreed. “If they haven’t made a on Greek islands is an unconsti - vatives, of which he was a mem - While the vote in the May 22 major breakthrough by the end tutional “criminal act” even ber at one time, said he should elections won’t change the gov - of the year, we are done. 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though he voted for it. S resign if he doesn’t support tax ernment and was seen more of see it happening next year,” he i k

The provocative Kammenos, A hikes he voted for but he would - a protest against Anastasiades said. r labeled a loose cannon by crit - v n’t respond. for reneging on campaign Anastasiades’ rightwing De - A T ics, is head of the tiny, marginal S promises not to confiscate bank mocratic Rally party lost 3.7

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Independent Greeks (ANEL) A Alexis Tsirpas, right, poses unity talks even as the EU has tion, while Communist AKEL N who are partners in the coalition A with Cypriot President Nicos moved to appease Turkish Pres - lost 7.1 points, or three seats. H T government led by Tsipras. / Anastasiades for photogra - ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of - Both parties have a moderate O The government, with only T phers before their meeting at fering a fast-track entry as part stance on the Cyprus question. O H its 153 lawmakers supporting it, P the Maximos Mansion in of a refugee swap deal. Rival parties who said Anas -

P rammed an omnibus austerity A Athens, Wednesday, May 25. Cypriot unity talks have been tasiades is selling out the coun - a graveyard for a raft of diplo - try made gains, undercutting his mats and envoys from the position just as he said the talks United States, Europe and need momentum. United Nations for four decades. Opponents to the idea of a Abandoned Amid Cyprus War, Cars Await Owners’ Touch The UN’s current representative bi-zonal Federal solution said it Norway’s Espen Barth Eide has violates freedom of movement predicted a breakthrough fre - and settlement, a key EU princi - EPISKOPI, Cyprus (AP) — It's these into little more than rust - It doesn't all necessarily boil unite Cyprus with Greece, Turk - quently with no evidence to back ple, because it would keep two last call for the owner to reclaim ing hulks. down to money — the sentimen - ish Cypriots couldn't drive their it up other than wishing and states, a Turkish one and a Greek a late 1950s Dodge Coronet, Now, base authorities are tal value of these vehicles can't vehicles out of the base. Instead, hoping. one, where there would be quo - shades of its sky-blue paint still hoping to reawaken the interest be brushed aside. There have so the refugees were flown out After the election of the mod - tas on ethnic populations. visible on its tailfins, which has of owners — either in the break - far been around two dozen in - from RAF Akrotiri and taken to erate Akinci last year, and the ELAM has been involved in been rusting on a British military away Turkish Cypriot northern quiries about the vehicles, with Turkey before ending up in the withdrawal by Turkey of a war - violence against Turkish Cypriots base for over four decades. part of the island or abroad — the son-in-law of one man who island's Turkish-controlled north - ship and energy research vessel and some of its members The lone Dodge, a relic of the to reclaim these vehicles before used to own a bus fleet making ern part with whatever belong - from Cypriot waters, there was stormed a lecture by former "swept wing" era, sits among to their disposal starts next year. the trip to look at six bus car - ings they could carry with them. renewed optimism for an answer Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet some 400 vehicles including "We have to make the effort casses. "The sad thing for me is when with Anastasiades offering con - Ali Talat in 2014, a hardliner. Land Rovers, Fiats, Lambretta to give them back before we "He was quite emotional be - you see a child's toy in the back - cessions - too many, his critics Cyprus still is divided, with a mopeds and Bedford trucks that start disposing of them, it's the cause of the obvious history of seat of a car and it makes you said. UN-buffer zone Green Line split - were abandoned by the Turkish proper thing to do," said Ian the buses," said Brayshaw. "He think about how serious this all A senior Turkish source told ting the island, although travel Cypriot owners inside the Brayshaw, a British Bases official was grateful for the efforts of was, it was war," said Brayshaw. the newspaper the Hurriyet is allowed between the sides Episkopi Garrison amid the con - in charge of the project. the bases to give the vehicles Some Turkish Cypriots have Daily News said Erdogan is look - with people passing checkpoints. fusion of a 1974 war that The overwhelming majority back, but disappointed at their come forward over the years to ing to step into the stalled talks “I have a lot of confidence in cleaved Cyprus along ethnic of the vehicles are of little value condition." reclaim mostly agricultural and push aside Akinci. social control in Cyprus,” said lines. other than scrap metal. But there Many of the vehicles, some equipment, said Brayshaw. Hurriyet writer Murat Yetkin Faustmann. “We know it only The vehicles have since lain are a few gems among the pile vandalized and damaged, were Owners have until the end of said Erdogan wants to take a takes a few idiots to mess things inside this wind-swept, fenced- that could be worth some money abandoned on streets of RAF the year to claim their vehicles. more hands-on approach to for - up. Cyprus is no exception to the off field for safe-keeping. But the including the aluminum-framed Akrotiri — a British air base in Vehicles that aren't reclaimed eign policy and that’s likely to rule, but I don’t see it happen - relentless Mediterranean sun Land Rover Mark 1 and a de - the island's southern, Greek will either be sold for scrap or include Cyprus. ing.” Akinci said it was time to and humidity, coupled with a crepit Volkswagen Beetle that is Cypriot half. With tensions run - auctioned off. Brayshaw said all Yetkin said if a settlement is push for peace. "All attention huge brushfire that swept said to be worth as much as ning high immediately after an the money raised will go to pro - reached on the island that’s been should now be directed towards through the field 15 years ago, 2,000 euros ($2,230) despite its invasion Turkey had mounted in jects helping the Turkish Cypriot divided since an unlawful Turk - the efforts for solving the Cyprus have turned more than half of condition, said Brayshaw. response to a coup aiming to community. ish invasion in 1974 that it could problem," he said. 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016

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That period Charles Moskos, included in the The Deal about the Deal AGORA – THE ORIGINAL MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS Coincidentally, while the Greek issue was being discussed in Brussels, IMF First Deputy Managing Director Dr. David Lipton was delivering a speech at the annual Stavros Niarchos Foun - By Dan Georgakas and the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, Rest assured, anything we write here are dation Lecture at the Peter Peterson Institute for International Constantinos E. Scaros and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire our sincere, heartfelt thoughts. Economics in Washington. to continue that tradition. We will share them with you every two It was a very interesting speech by a top scholar who radiates From time to time, an issue emerges and We respect one another’s opinion very much, weeks. We hope you enjoy them, and we look confidence and ethos and impresses with his knowledge. inspires various minds to converge, often at but often times we will disagree on particular forward to your taking part in the discussion There was great concern within the lecture hall about what odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, issues. We would never fabricate a difference as well – by contributing letters to the editor in was happening in Brussels. collective enlightenment will result from such of opinion for the sake of writing an interesting response, and/or commenting on our website: Time was passing without a final decision being made. And conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in column. www.thenationalherald.com then, by morning, the facts became clear. What was the essence of the decision? What bottom line does a busy reader conclusively need to know? What’s the deal bout the deal? Soft vs. Hard Power: What’s the Best Approach to Cuba? On one hand, the negotiations had little to do with Greece and much more to do with the referendum in the UK and the German elections next year. GEORGAKAS PRESENTS HIS regions of the world. Consequently, the decision was to once again “kick the can POINT OF VIEW: Interestingly, I see the biggest down the road” and, as indicated, specifically to… 2018, “if Dino, an ongoing debate in hope for normalizing Cuban re - needed.” American foreign policy circles lations even further to be Donald On the other hand, Greece is going to collect enough money has been whether American in - Trump. Because of his “America to not cause problems and influence these events. terests would be better served first” approach and his hard line Now, as far as the debt is concerned: under pressure from by emphasizing “soft” power stand on illegal aliens, Trump its dominant board members, the United States and Germany, (social values—mass communi - has the credentials to extend the the IMF withdrew its claim for immediate reduction – not “hair - cation—developmental capital - olive branch to Cuba the way cut” – of the debt. ism) rather than the present pol - Nixon, a renowned anticommu - As the Wall Street Journal reported, German Chancellor An - icy of “hard” power (military nist, did vis-à-vis China. gela Merkel and President Obama “are eager to avoid a new intervention—embargoes—ex - Already outspoken against drama over Greece when the European Union is looking un - ploitative capitalism). The Bush protracted wars that lead to usually politically fragile given the refugee crisis, the rise of II administration was the epit - endless quagmires, Trump could populist parties across the bloc, and the UK’s referendum on ome of hard power thinking. rely on his business acumen to whether to leave or remain an EU member.” President Obama has recently make headway in Central Amer - Thus, the IMF “won” the public acceptance that the debt is opted for a soft power overture ica that might help provide sig - not serviceable. In other words, that Greece will never be able to Cuba. nificantly better economic op - to repay the debt on its own. The immediate results have portunities for the people, And in spite of this – shame on them – they are deferring it been heartening. For openers, which, in turn, would reduce to… 2018! Obama outlined American per - gunrunning and drug traffick - Furthermore, it is at least regrettable that Greece was, es - spectives on Cuba national tele - ing, and sharply curb illegal en - sentially, absent from the negotiations that concerned it. Ac - vision. I thought his speech was try and stay in the United States cording to the Financial Times, the discussions took place among self-righteous and a bit – at least from that part of the the Netherlands’ Jeroen IMF Dijsselbloem, who is the EU’s Fi - pompous, but the whole island world. nance Ministers Council Chairman, German Finance Minister listened. No comparable speech Of course, many on the Wolfgang Schäuble, and IMF European Director Poul Thomsen. was broadcast by Raul Castro to American left would scoff at the Unfortunate… the American public. notion of Trump being em - Lastly, as far as the political side is concerned: is this deal a Cubans clearly expressed The world’s eyes were on Cuba as the Soviet Union’s Nikita braced by Latinos – but what “victory” for the government? Of course not, as indicated from their cultural temperament a Khrushchev (L) and America’s John F. Kennedy stood on the they do not realize is that just all the above. A similar deal, and possibly a better one, could few days after Obama’s speech brink of starting World War III. But that was 24 years ago. It’s like anywhere else, the inhabi - have been sealed in November, as the memorandum stipulated. when 200,000 Cubans attended time for a new approach to Cuba. tants of Central America come Instead, this deal constitutes a dark moment in the history a Mick Jagger concert. Apple, in two sets: those with open of Greece, which continues, six years after the crisis, to depend Google, Yahoo, and other inter - much safer than nearby coun - can image in Central America, minds and those with closed on third parties to survive, and which acquiesces to having its net giants are setting up services tries such as Haiti, Jamaica, the Caribbean, and South Amer - ones. The latter are going to re - future shackled for several decades. in Cuba that will end any re - Honduras, Guatemala, and re - ica where our chronic hard sent Americans as a whole, no maining barriers to public access gions of Mexico. Americans will power approach has earned us matter if the messenger of good to international sites. also discover that Cuba has free considerable and justifiable en - will is Donald Trump or Barack American financial institu - education through college and mity. Hopefully, a success of soft Obama. The former will allow Disestablishmentarianism tions are resuming normal ser - universal health care, services power in Cuba will finally help common sense and objectivity vices in Cuba. This will allow Americans are constantly told pivot the U.S. away from the to prevail, and they will not be Cuba to finally conclude are not possible in America. hard power approach that has hoodwinked into believing par - arrangements to purchase the Cuba’s own version of soft led to the quagmire in the Mid - tisan Americans about a partic - What is happening in the presidential primaries is unprece - American agriculture products power has been its ability to dle East and Africa. ular U.S. politician. dented in modern American history. it needs and that American send capable doctors to serve in Case in point: George W. The political system is being put to the test. The establish - farmers are anxious to sell. other nations, quite a difference SCAROS RESPONDS Bush may not have enjoyed ment is being tossed aside. The media is being ignored. The Cuba will also be purchasing from the doctor shortage in Dan, the Cuba issue is one of tremendous support among people are revolting peacefully. The warning bell tolls. heavy duty equipment from America. the most perplexing ones in African-Americans as a whole, Donald Trump, a billionaire New Yorker with a strong sense Deere and Caterpillar. Cuba may That the Cuba Community American foreign policy. As you but he is revered in many parts of politics, with a great impact on the working class, an arrogant well be returning to its tradi - Party is agreeable to these correctly point out, the United of Africa for all of his work in man who initially was taken seriously by very few, and who has tional intimate relationship with changes suggests it trusts the States has made far greater fighting AIDS on that continent. never held public office, defeated sixteen of his fellow candidates the United States, but with an population to retain a socialist overtures over the past half cen - Strategically, Trump ought to – including, amazingly enough, five senators and nine governors increased role for the Cuban perspective within a mixed tury to nations with which it has consider reaching out to Cuban- – and has emerged as the presumptive Republican presidential government and the absence of economy system. The Commu - had far greater conflicts than Americans now. As a whole, nominee. organized crime. nists also believe a raised stan - with Cuba. they tend to be more conserva - On the other hand, the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, American cruise ships are dard of living will bolster public Considered in a vacuum, tive and Republican than most who has played a key role in politics for decades now, who has stopping in Cuba, and American confidence in their ability to Cuba is not a big deal, objec - other Hispanic groups, and passed through the White House, the Senate, and the State De - airlines will be servicing ten govern. Moreover, many Com - tively. Except, of course, to those while some of the hardliners partment, is unable to rid herself of her opponent, a senator Cuban cities. American hotels munists have long wanted to directly affected – such as the might resent any overtures to who has excited the imagination of young voters. We refer, of are finally able to operate in move to more democratic prac - Cuban people, and Cuban- Cuba while a Castro remains in course, to Bernie Sanders, whose rise is remarkable in its own Cuba in the manner European tices in the party and the nation. Americans who now have the power, Trump might be able to right, considering that in this bastion of capitalism, he is a self- hotel chains have for decades. American opposition to opportunity to visit their ances - make enough of a dent to win proclaimed democratic socialist. There is even a nascent airbnb Obama’s initiative is mainly by tral homeland. To the larger is - many of them over, particularly And so, Democratic frontrunner Clinton, whose political ex - system in place. One result is diehard anticommunists and sue of American national secu - in a key swing state like Florida. perience can be matched by very few, and surely by no one cur - that Americans will be able to older Cuban exiles who refuse rity interests, though, a friendly A Trump presidency would rently opposing her, like most of America, is scrambling to make enjoy relatively inexpensive va - to acknowledge the old policies government in Cuba as opposed be interesting in that respect: I sense out of this most unusual political phenomenon. cations in Cuba in the manner were fruitless. The argument to a hostile one does not make don’t see it being identical to A recent New York Times poll about voters’ views of the Canadians have done for more that dealing with Cuba means a significant difference. the hard-powered Bush or the presidential race is clearly indicative of the impasse that the than fifty years. Another result endorsing the Cuban system is But if we do not look at Cuba soft-powered Obama. It would American electorate has reached. is that American-born Cubans nonsense. We currently deal in a vacuum, if we approach it be, if not a middle ground, then When asked if they have a positive opinion about the candi - will be able to visit their ances - with but do not endorse author - in terms of an entire region, as at least a distinctive ground that dates, only 26% said they view Trump favorably and only 31% tral homeland in the way Greek- itarian regimes throughput the you suggest, then normalizing incorporates elements of both. said the same for Clinton, while 41% favor Sanders. Asked if Americans have always done. world, including Communist relations with Cuba indeed Of course, I’m putting the they consider the candidates to be “honest and trustworthy,” Americans visiting Cuba of - governments in Vietnam, China, could go a long way toward pre - cart before the horse. First, just 31% said yes for Trump and 32% for Clinton. Their negative ten judge it as underdeveloped. and North Korea. venting the quagmires that Trump has to be elected. numbers are astronomical: 64% have a negative opinion about This is a half-truth at best. Cuba The change in our Cuban American hard power has both. is far more prosperous and policy has enhanced the Ameri - helped to perpetuate in other WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? It is a sad picture that reveals the deadlock in which voters find themselves. Also note that the margin between the two main candidates is decreasing – 47% favor Clinton and 41% favor Trump, and Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris in many other polls it is a statistical tie – while the gap was 10% in Clinton’s favor not too long ago. Remarkably, Sanders leads Trump by a wider margin than Greece’s Taxing Tax Bill will be paid by the Greek people through a that stems from existing laws enhanced by does Clinton. tsunami of additional measures. direct and indirect tax increases. Of course, a lot can happen for both parties until the July Under different circumstances, one could And they are paying for it in multitudes, How many more taxes can the remaining nominating conventions. even congratulate the government in general, both in cash and mortgaging the country to businesses really afford to pay? And how For example, charges may be brought against Clinton on the and specifically Greek Prime Minister Alexis the creditors for which future generations much more can consumers afford to pay with - issue of her emails – she is currently being investigated by the Tsipras, for passing the omnibus bill in Par - will pay. out shrinking their purchasing power, and in FBI – or perhaps there may even be an incredible revelation liament on May 22. The way Greece’s sovereignty is being sur - turn inflicting more damage on the market? against Trump. And I say this because this newspaper has rendered to foreigners is truly appalling. And for what? To protect the public sector, In any case, the point is that the people have reached their supported a similar bill that should have been In reality, just as the leader of the main i.e., the public employee who refuses to pro - limit. They are working harder than ever, but are struggling to voted on and, of course, implemented. opposition party Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted portionally contribute to the sacrifices of the make ends meet. They feel abandoned by their elected offi - But not this one. in his speech in Parliament, Greece is paying private sector. cials. This particular bill was not the appropriate a heavy price for the creditors’ lack of confi - With this mindset, reforms cannot be im - And so, instead of turning to a traditional candidate, they one, nor was it passed when it should have dence in the government. plemented, the economy does not grow, un - are in search of someone, even a nationalist (Trump) – America been, in accordance to the agreement with Confidence, as we all should be aware, is employment does not decrease, and young first, let’s build a wall, etc. – and a Wall Street opponent, some - the creditors. a currency of very high value. Lack of confi - scientists have no other choice but to “turn a one (Sanders) who will look after the American citizen and To be precise, it should have been passed dence, then, is why the country has been blind eye and go wherever the path may promises something specific, such as free tuition for public uni - in November, according to the conditions of handcuffed for decades. lead.” versities. the third memorandum, namely, the one that It is not the first time this has occurred, Thus, the New Democracy Party rightfully On this page, we have cautioned that the establishment was signed by Prime Minister Tsipras. but this government has exceeded all tolera - voted in favor of the articles of the bill with ought not be underestimated. Then again, this is a most unusual This delay, just as the previous one – which ble limits. positive provisions – such as the concession election year. cost the Greek people 86 billion euros, ac - But this time, Greece will pay a very heavy of 14 regional airports – and voted against cording to the Bank of Greece’s governor – price for the suppression of private initiative all the rest. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016 VIEWPOINTS 13 ISIS’ Transient Nature and We Cannot Fix Our Problems Without Having a Vision

The US, Israel and Greece Nothing describes the state frastructure deteri - boringly to the in - more have-nots who will, if his - of the Western world better than orated, as rising tellect. Should Mrs. tory is any guide, take matters seething discontent. In America, costs made Ameri - Clinton win the where none of us want to go. The United the means by this discontent has erupted in can health care un - election we can re - Mrs. Clinton must, if she is to States and its allies which radicals and both political parties of angry sustainable and liably depend on be remembered as a successful are slowly driving terrorists can con - populists motivating millions of university educa - her to approach president, acquire a vision. She ISIS away from Iraq nect, intellectually voters in ways that confound tion unaffordable. America’s problems has proven that she has the job and Syria to the and emotionally, traditional politicians. Seemingly unable in a steady, work - skills, the bureaucratic knowhow point where the ter - with ordinary peo - Economists and the estab - to learn from past manlike and gener - and, above all, the strong will to rorists will have to ple in the Middle lishment blame the populists for mistakes in half a ally efficient man - make government carry out her evacuate the region East and beyond. stirring up this discontent when, century, politicians ner working within orders. She needs the vision as a in the near future. The Palestinian they say, we are doing well and have repeatedly the existing system. goal, even if the implementation The most likely issue has been a the discontent is misplaced. The sent American by AMB. PATRICK N. Unfortunately, remains a series of small steps place is Libya. The factor in the Mid - economists may have the num - troops to fight and THEROS the existing system rather than giant leaps forward. unfortunate coun - dle East for over 75 bers right but they have the peo - die in losing causes has failed the peo - With a vision she can persuade try, after U.S. and by DR. ANDRE years and has col - ple all wrong. They look at the around the world. Special to ple. Without fixing the American people to be pa - NATO intervention, GEROLYMATOS ored America’s re - big picture and tell us GDP is Bernie Sanders The National Herald the system, we only tient and perhaps even persuade is now a failed state lationship with the up, unemployment is down, av - and Donald Trump delay worse prob - her political opponents that thus ideal for ISIS. Special to region. If ISIS can erage income is up, prices are have correctly assessed the mood lems. Without a grand vision of mindless obstructionism, espe - In effect, the The National Herald link with the plight low, trade has increased expo - and gained millions of enthusi - how to fix the system just tin - cially in foreign policy, under - move to Libya will of the Palestinians nentially and thus we are better astic supporters by promising fan - kering, even competent tinker - mines their political survival. be a fundamental shift for ISIS’ it will tie in the terrorists with a off than any other large econ - ciful solutions. Sanders would ing, will not fix it. Giving Mr. Trump similar ad - direction as the organization will powerful cause. omy in the world. have the government pay all the That grand vision must in - vice baffles this column. “Mak - concentrate on North Africa, Equally significant, ISIS in The populists look at the bills while ignoring the law of clude several basic components. ing America Great Again” is no leaving the United States, its al - Sinai can attack Israel and in small picture and glommed onto supply and demand: tossing The United States cannot address vision; how he will do it seems lies, and Russia to deal with the the process further complicate the fact that most Americans more money at health care and health care and education with - to change by the hour and by mess in Syria and Iraq. the problems of the Egyptian live according to the small pic - education will drive prices higher, out acknowledging that paying the audience. He has undeni - In North Africa ISIS will be Government. Remarkably, the ture. The number of people far higher than any tax increase more and more without reducing able genius at figuring out what able to exploit the discontent in Egyptian-Israeli treaty had sur - looking for work is down but la - could possibly cover. Donald costs leads to failure. We have inspires the mob and intimidat - Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and vived the political upheavals in bor force participation (the total Trump offers a simpler but scarier expended much blood and trea - ing unprincipled office-seeking other in other countries in the Cairo. However, once ISIS at - number of Americans working solution: “Trust me. I am a genius sure playing “whack-a-mole” politicians, but no one has any region. The Egyptian Govern - tacks Israel and the Israelis fight or looking for work as a per - and I will fix it all.” The fact that with poorly conceived military idea of what he believes other ment has failed to deal with a back it will place the Egyptian centage of the total working age between them they have con - interventions for half a century than an apparently sincere con - failing economy, which is accel - Government in the position of population) has never been vinced a plurality of the Ameri - while ignoring diplomacy, both viction of his own brilliance. erating protests and violence. fighting with Israel against Mus - lower. Average income has can people that these are viable hard and soft, and preferring our Concurrently, the failure of the lims. ISIS can cause sufficient climbed but all of the increase solutions should scare all of us. allies remain dependent vassals The Hon. Ambassador Theros is Muslim Brotherhood to hold on damage that could also bring in went to a minute percentage of Assuming that no “black rather than contributors to world president of the U.S.-Qatar to power and its subsequent col - the United States thus pitting the population, which also swan” (e.g., a felony indict - stability. Expanded international Business Council. He served in lapse has left ISIS’ affiliate, ISIS the Muslim ISIS against the scarfed up the losses of those ment) shows up, Hillary Clinton trade and technology advances the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 in Sinai, as the only so-called Is - forces of “evil” and Christians. who went from working on an will clinch the Democratic nom - bring enormous benefits to the years, mostly in the Middle lamic alternative. Unfortunately for ISIS, there automobile assembly line to ination. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. overall economy and a minority East, and was American Ambas - Egypt is the largest Arab is a wrinkle. The extremist lines assembling hamburgers. To Trump share one terrifying qual - of citizens but good leadership sador to Qatar from 1995 to country, with a population of Hamas that controls Gaza is al - rub salt in the wound, virtually ity: a majority of probable voters must find new and novel ways 1998. He also directed the State close to 100 million. For ISIS, lied with Hezbollah, which is a the entire political class joined dislike each and both of them. to mitigate the bad effects and Department’s Counter- Egypt is a rich prize. The terror - creature of the Iranian Shiite the economists and the share - Otherwise the two are polar op - spread the benefit to the entire Terrorism Office, and holds nu - ists can exploit the growing dis - government, while the Sunni holders in praising the techno - posites. Trump theatrically ap - population. Otherwise, we will merous U.S. Government deco - gruntlement in the country in Palestinian Authority that gov - logical disruptions and out peals to the viscera and Clinton continue to create more and rations. which poverty afflicts a large erns the West bank has a rela - sourcing of jobs abroad that de - percentage of the population. tionship with Israel. stroyed high paying jobs. Egypt is also the home of al- The complex layers that As the political class and its Azhar University, one of the cen - make up the Palestinian situa - cronies separated themselves ters of Islamic scholarship. It tion, perhaps, was one of the from the day-to-day lives of was founded in 970 AD and is reason that al-Qaeda avoided their fellow citizens, they de - the most prestigious and world- getting directly involved. ISIS, vised strategies to retain votes. renowned institution that is also beyond the usual anti-Semitic On the Republican side, the affiliated with 4,000 teaching propaganda, has preferred to Party successfully rechanneled organizations in Egypt. bypass the Palestinian issue, but the resentment into a divisive Al-Azhar, however, has an if and when the terrorists relo - and vicious hatred of gays, antagonistic relationship with cate to Libya they have little blacks, immigrants, welfare Wahabism and Salafisim, both choice but to get involved with queens, Muslims, bureaucrats versions underscore ISIS’s con - the cause of the Palestinians – and eviscerated the Democrats fused and perverted interpreta - at best a divisive issue. In such for spending money on them. tion of Islam. Consequently, the a context, ISIS’s only avenue The Democrats, in turn, doubled ISIS leadership can dream of will be to inflict more terrorism. down on increasingly ineffi - gaining control of al-Azhar and The killings and bombings as cient, complex and expensive policies that softened the blow of the modern economy without providing solutions. Both polit - AP PHOTOS ical parties have looked the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton share one terrifying quality: a majority of probable voters other way as transportation in - dislikes each and both of them.

LETTER FROM ATHENS A Press Conference With the Prime Minister of Greece

Unlike American Presidents, nege on my promises trol Parliament but I’m the one who sold off the who have the guts to hold news because I still believe and made its rest of it, ridding Greeks of the conferences and trade shots with in them. The fact leader, Panos Kam - place which now will be a key reporters, Greek political leaders that I implemented menos, Defense to the European markets from don’t. They have their lackeys everything I oppose Minister, but he’s Asia and make private busi - and staff put out self-serving, only shows what a been kind of a nesses rich. Who really wants to self-aggrandizing press releases true statesman I am loose cannon, pro - go to Piraeus anyway, except for AP PHOTO and hide in the shadows. – the greatest in voking Turkey, tourists getting on ferry boats. President Obama has a golden opportunity to eliminate ISIS While American Presidential Greek history – even ridiculing austerity Q: You also said previous gov - before he leaves office. campaigns are manipulative and more than Pericles – measures he voted ernments were hiring all their well-orchestrated, candidates do who was a schmuck for. Isn’t he really friends and yet you’re doing the through it dominate Islamic well grotesque acts of torture take the chance to go to Joe’s compared to me – just a convenient same, including people critics scholarship and law. will obscure policy objectives Diner in whatever state they’re even more than by ANDY embarrassment?’ said couldn’t run a hot dog stand Toward that end, ISIS in and bring in the Israelis. What in to grab a cheeseburger and Eleftherios Venize - DABILIS A: That kind of and making them – quote – Spe - Sinai has been killing, blowing better for ISIS than to be in a shake hands with the locals, who los, who was a little talk is nonsense cial Advisors at big bucks. Aren’t up airplanes, and shooting at war with the “crusaders” and would be well-advised to imme - far to the right for Special to and yesterday’s BS you really just a lying, sniveling, Egyptian policemen, soldiers, as the “crusader” state? At the diately use hand sanitizer imme - my taste – or even The National Herald with a little cowardly hypocrite? well as at innocent bystanders. same time, ISIS may also extend diately thereafter. Lakis Lazopoulos. chicken spread on A: Hey, I don’t snivel. I may The police and army, of course, its reign of terror to the allies of Greece is not really a democ - Q: Why don’t you wear a tie? it. Panos, or Pano as I call him, shuffle and don’t forget I made are symbols of the military the “crusader” state such as racy. Prime Ministers and politi - A: A tie is the symbol of Cap - is an indispensable part of my the Tsipras Tango the new na - regime that rules the country Greece. The economic mess has cal leaders tell their party mem - italist bankers and running yel - government, plus he brings me tional dance to replace Zorba, with a heavy hand and is held made Greece an easy stepping- bers – whom they selected – how low dog Imperialists who hold coffee every morning from Star - that Silly Syrtaki. Mine is much accountable for the misery that stone to Europe and in the fu - to vote. If there’s any disobedi - down the masses. Not wearing buck’s but don’t tell anyone be - simpler. You just take two steps has inflicted the poor – the most ture can easily become a battle - ence, you get booted from the a tie gives hope to the op - cause we don’t like the Ameri - to the left and one step back, likely supporters of ISIS. ground for the terrorists. party and then deconstructed as pressed. As the noted Revolu - cans or NATO or the European then one step to the left and two Indeed, ISIS recruits are ei - These are the challenges that a traitor, especially if you show tionary leader Tom Tuttle from Union or the United Nations. steps back. As for your question, ther middle class and well-edu - American policy makers should any hint of decency or scruples. Tacoma said: “Our enemies are Minister Kammenos has proved the thousands of people I hire cated young men or even young be considering. The ISIS hydra Since Premier and Looney all those in league with Imperi - himself an invaluable ally to the are invaluable assets to the state women, but also come from the must be cauterized in Syria and Left SYRIZA leader Alexis “The alism. The bureaucrats, the big cause, although you sure don’t while the thousands of people ranks for the destitute. In North Iraq and not be permitted to Great Reneger” Tsipras, who has landlord class and the reac - want to get between him and a New Democracy and PASOK Africa, Tunisia is the home of transplant to North Africa. Al - completed his white flag surren - tionary section of the Intelli - buffet table. hired were lackeys and flunkeys. the largest percentage of ISIS though the complete destruction der to international creditors and gentsia attached to them. Our Q: When you were out of of - That’s the difference. terrorists. Accordingly, the com - of ISIS will still leave terrorist groveled on his knees before enemies are all around us. We fice you mocked previous gov - Q: Do you have anything to bination of the Libyan failed cells, it will make future recruits them, won’t give a press confer - must always be on our guard. ernments for privatizations and show except for a trail of broken state, the prospect of success in think twice about joining the ence, we’ll conduct one here for Sure, we’ll lose a lot of snooze said they were selling off Greek promises? What do you say to Egypt, and a steady stream of cells. President Obama has a him with some questions and his time, but that’s okay. We can assets at – and I quote – bargain people who said you’ve done ex - recruits from Tunisia as well golden opportunity to eliminate real – and translated – answers. catch up after the revolution’s basement fire sale prices. Yet actly the same as New Democ - from Algeria, and other North ISIS before he leaves office Q: Mr. Prime Minister – and I over.” I still have the tie that Ital - you’re doing the same thing. racy and PASOK and previous African countries offer excellent partly undo the mess his admin - say Mister only with a wince – ian Premier Matteo Renzi gave A: No, actually I’m not. I’m governments and caved in to in - prospect for ISIS. istration will leave in Syria, Iraq, why did you lie to the Greek peo - me and will keep my promise to shedding Greece of patronage- ternational lenders and surren - Yet, there is another critical Afghanistan, and Libya. ple when you said you would re - wear it when we find a viable ridden inefficient, bloated state dered faster than the French factor, Israel. For many terrorists verse austerity and stand up to solution for Europe or Kyriakos enterprises and suckering pri - Army in World War II? and fanatics in the Middle East André Gerolymatos is Director the country’s creditors? Mitsotakis joins SYRIZA. vate investors to take them off A: I’m sorry, telling the truth the Palestinian issue and the of the Stavros Niarchos Founda - A: I didn’t lie, I merely de - Q: You brought in the tiny, our hands. True, the Chinese is a Red Line I will never cross elimination of Israel underpin tion Centre for Hellenic Studies ceived myself, what I call self-de - far-right nationalist jingoistic In - bought a stake in the port of Pi - for anyone. their rhetoric. At the very least at Simon Fraser University in ception or deception of the self. dependent Greeks to have a raeus when New Democracy’s the Palestinian issue has been Vancouver. Technically speaking, I didn’t re - coalition government and con - Antonis Samaras was Premier [email protected] Deserving the Brunt of the Blame: Europe is Responsible for the Refugee Crisis

By X forts of everyday Greeks. with internationalism, and lax rope’s failure to handle the mi - individual member state. compassionate journalists, but Perhaps the “negotiations” and misguided humanism at the grant crisis effectively. Though With newer members as key the UN itself, recognizes today. The latest official count esti - on the assessment and debt, fa - expense of the Greek people, that straightforward judgment players, the EU closed its bor - Of course, recognition alone mates the number of refugees miliar to all of us from last sum - have been exploited by traffick - did not refer to details, the in - ders, succumbed to Ankara’s in - does not solve the problem, and in Greece to about 55 thousand. mer, have temporarily overshad - ers of human souls as well as by ternational community is per - solent threats, and essentially it is little consolation for Greece, A population the size of an av - owed the issue in media neighboring states. Conse - fectly aware of what happened placed the burden on the backs which amid all its problems is erage Greek city, of impover - headlines. Nonetheless, the quently, Greece has been over - and what continues to be at play of those who cannot avoid it, called upon to avoid repeating ished people with pressing hous - damage to Greece’s economy run as a defenseless state by even today. the Greeks. The refugees, who mistakes of the past and to fi - ing and sustenance needs, that and overall morale, and endures tens of thousands of refugees. Almost every European coun - desperately knock on Europe’s nally implement effective pre - constitutes a huge economic, and worsens. Nonetheless, recent honest try, in light of the refugee wave, door to save themselves from ventive policy, since conflict in environmental, and demo - The government’s amateur - and bold statements by a senior barricaded itself behind its nar - conflicts which to great extent the Middle East continues and graphic problem. ishness and weakness bears a UN official responsible for the row national interests like a have been created or enabled Turkey still drives its typical Amid a grave economic crisis significant share of the respon - refugee issue reminded us that frightened child, in order to for - by Europe itself, are being hard bargain. with mass unemployment, sibility for this tragedy against there is another big guilty party. get the basic principles of Euro - locked out and left to exhaust Greece is unable to cope with the nation. Unsuccessful and The biggest, in fact: the EU. Eu - pean civilization as well as the and torment poor Greece. X is a former senior foreign this crushing reality, despite the frivolous management, lack of rope as a whole. cornerstone of the EU itself: sol - Unfortunately, this is the policy leader who prefers to re - truly touching humanitarian ef - basic organization, an obsession That official attacked Eu - idarity and support toward each harsh reality that not just a few main anonymous. 14 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2016 How is it Possible that Turkey is Able to Appropriate Byzantine Heritage for Itself?

By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou thesized the concept of Hagia Sophia and it’s architectural or - Visiting the remaining ganization around the crowning Byzantine monuments in Con - dome with the Ottoman mosque stantinople may become un - building experience, as it had pleasant for a Greek. The reason been developed by his master, is that by reading the texts in Mimar Sinan, the architectural the labels and the context in genius of the Ottoman Empire. which they are presented it be - Though the Sultan Ahmet’s ar - comes more than obvious that chitect created an impressive modern Turkey’s policy is to complex, he did not succeed in claim itself the successor to the achieving a gradual transitional Byzantine heritage. flow from the dome to the sides. When I descended the fifty- He supported it on the so called two stone steps into the Byzan - “elephant legs,” four huge piers. tine Royal Cistern, I saw a scale Looking at the Beyoglu model reconstruction that rep - mosques from the opposite side resented the Fall of Constantino - of the Golden Horn it becomes ple by the army of Mehmed II quite clear that Hagia Sophia dominating the entrance of the was the archetype for the archi - site. Though in history he is re - tectural development of the Ot - membered as the Conqueror, toman mosques. The Sultans at Mehmed II declared himself the culmination of their reign Kayser-i Rum, Caesar of Rome. used to build mosques. Sultan The impressive Basilica Cistern Suleyman’s the Magnificent’s is one of the few buildings in ambition was to surpass Justin - Constantinople that still holds ian’s achievement. Suleymaniye traits from the Byzantine Em - Mosque (1550-1557), the most pire’s splendor. It is an amazing famous work of Mirmar Sinan, subterranean structure sup - crowns the hill next to Hagia ported by a forest of 336 marble Sophia. Though it incorporates columns of 9 meters (30 feet) Sinan’s innovative ideas, before height, with capitals of Ionic Suleymaniye no mosques had and Corinthian styles, arranged been built with that roof style. in 12 rows, on which the weight It was taken from Hagia Sophia. of the cistern lies by means of an innovation fully realised for It is smaller in size than the Ha - cross-shaped vaults and round the first time in this church. gia Sophia. At the time it was arches. Built in the 6th century They facilitate the transition built, the dome was the highest by Justinian I, the ample cham - from the circular base of the in the Ottoman Empire, but still ber (9,800 square me - dome to the rectangular outline lower from its base and smaller ters=105,000 square feet) is ca - of the nave below. Hierarchies in diameter than that of Hagia pable of holding 100,000 tons of dome-headed elements built Sophia. of water. Today few feet of wa - upon arched openings extended Consequently though the in - ter lining the bottom are hold - by half domes of identical diam - terior of the Ottoman Mosques ing among the shadows of the eter to the central one and car - differs, the exterior design in - columns reflections of the ried on smaller semi-domed corporates the Hagia Sophia’s Byzantine Royal Court. The rep - exedras reinforce the building style aiming at continuing and resentation of Constantinople’s and distribute the weight. They surpassing the Byzantine tradi - Fall at the entrance clearly un - additionally signify an uplifting tion. The Ottoman Sultans de - derlines the importance of the toward the crowning dome. fined themselves as successors Ottoman’s achievement. Only Forty windows inserted on its to the Byzantine Emperors and that? base allow the light to diffuse appropriated for themselves the After the Fall of Constantino - and create the effect of the glorious history of their territo - ple the conquerors made re - dome hovering above. rial gains. Modern Turkey for markable efforts to incorporate Today called Blue Mosque, obvious reasons continues this and surpass the magnificence of Sultan Ahmet’s Mosque is the tradition. the Byzantine Empire. It was not last great mosque of the Ot - easy. An example is visualized toman classical period. Aiming Dimitra Kamarinou, PhD, has in the Sultan Ahmet’s Mosque at surpassing Hagia Sophia in studied philology and archaeol - that was built in front of the Ha - size, majesty and splendour Sul - ogy at the University of Ioanni - gia Sophia. earth to heaven, which is repre - the whole structure is organized to solve. In order to restrain the tan Ahmet I ordered his archi - na,Würzburg and Bochum in Why was Hagia Sophia so in - sented by the central dome that around the cupola. The weight lateral forces of the dome and tect to build a mosque in front Germany. She has been fluential? The architectural con - crowned the building. For the and the massive appearance of allow its weight to flow down - of the church (1609-1616), on honored with the Academy of cept of Hagia Sophia was to first time a church was not dis - the cupola were two of the ma - wards, it was carried on four the foundation of the Byzantine Athens Award in Archaeology symbolize the transition from tinguished by its façade, since jor problems the architects had spherical triangular pendetives, palace. In the building are syn - and Homeric Philology. It’s Not Just Politics That’s Haywire: a Look at today’s Greek Orthodox Church in US

By Yianni Pappas standing of the evolution of the adage states: “the fish smells stream? similar to the disconnect from the this to whoever is the archbishop. Greek-American community as from the head first.” This will pre - Our Hierarchs do not hear the political class from the average This is another vast difference The 2016 presidential election good as Iakovos did. He did not cipitate and act as a catalyst for voice of their flock as they did citizen. Our Hierarchical elite from years ago: our church cul - cycle in America has been wild. mention that this is the case to - the decay of the rest of the body. decades ago. This phenomenon class is utterly disconnected from ture now is more toxic, negative, Pundits on all networks have said day. As a matter of fact, many be - It is happening now. Unless is vastly different today. the average layperson. Some hi - and Byzantine. that the old rules just don’t apply lieve we have regressed. Many something is done, we are in a Executive professionalism is a erarchs have given orders to the LIMOUSINE LEADERS anymore. Many have stated that have stated that our GOA has severe irreversible decline. must for successful corporations. sycophants around them that When Archbishop Iakovos “this is not the America we negatively changed since Arch - ADMINISTRATION But one wonders if our Hierarchs they “do not want to hear any - would visit, people were abuzz knew.” A lightbulb may have fi - bishop Iakovos “left.” The administration of the ever ask the question “how we thing negative.” with joy. Today there is dread at nally lit up. The pulse of the peo - There was no fundamentalist GOA is vastly different to what it can improve?” If it is asked, one Who are the “outsiders” to the thought of any of our hierar - ple is beginning to register. Ephraimite movement under was decades ago. It used to be wonders which follow up ques - which the laity will turn? That is chs coming to a local parish. The It is too late for most of the Iakovos. The GOA used to be that we grew up seeing our tions were dismissed? Corporate an easy question. The answer is dread is because they will at - candidates, but perhaps in ob - called the “Greek Orthodox Arch - priests outside of church wear structures are there for a reason, another jurisdiction, but more tempt to raise more money for serving the political climate we diocese of North and South suits and most were clean and should exist in a harmonious probably another Christian de - their metropolis or one of their can better understand the lay of America”. However, the patriarch shaven. Now we see them and mutually edifying way. We nomination. pet projects. The dread parish - the land within the Greek Ortho - decided to divide this massive re - around town with their black can learn from each other. But Orthodoxy has a war-chest of ioners have is because our hier - dox Archdiocese of America gion. Now the GOA only encom - robes and wearing their “kali - the fact of the matter is that the priceless theology, history, and ro - archs would like to pretend they (GOA). passes the United States. On top mafi” headcovering. laity is dismissed just like an aris - bust spirituality. But like the war are corporate executives and Our lightbulb is still out and of that, the divide has been fur - Some of our priests have mandate us into any given di - our GOA leaders (metropolitans, ther exacerbated by changing beards and hair similar to the Tal - rection that appeals to them at bishops, priests, deacons, and each Diocese to be a Metropolis. iban, as if this were the litmus the time. monks) do not understand that Our diocesan bishops are now test of their Orthodoxy. Now, Making a parish pay for a lim - this is not the Church they grew Metropolitans. some priests even go swimming ousine service to cart our hier - up in, either. If the upcoming Great and at Clergy-laity congresses wear - arch around in, and paying for a We as laity already know that Holy Council decides to give au - ing their “antiri” robe. Women in high-priced suite at a hotel for there is one unofficial report that tonomy to the GOA, we pray it is Church have suddenly started him, is not leadership. Closing our stewardship and membership not in the form of each Metropo - wearing head coverings. The Or - down a parish and selling the as - is down 38% nationally, and lis being an autonomous region. thodox fashion is now to look sets, as will be more common - about 45% in the Metropolis of That would further divide, mar - frumpy and disheveled. It is as if place, does not require a “press Chicago. This is unsustainable. ginalize, and “hush” the voice of this is a statement that the agent,” multiple articles or an - Remarkably, we have found no the people. frumpy ones are modest and nouncements. one who can officially comment On top of that, instead of hav - truly Orthodox, when indeed it Recently, one of our bishops on these numbers or give us an ing only one leader of the Church is a testament of arrogance. They thought it best to get on a plane accurate number as reflected in in America, we would have nine. themselves project their arro - and fly to New York with the fan - their own records. This may mean that there will be gance when they judge others fare of a “Roman Cesare” instead As Chris Chiames wrote in a different version of Orthodox who dress socially appropriate of wiring the funds for $20.00. “It’s Time for the Greek Orthodox Christianity that reflects the par - and clean as “the country club Do you want to guess who is pay - Church to Look Inwardly” TNH ticular metropolitan who over - crowd.” ing for these excesses? May 14), “when church leaders sees each Metropolis. This has This fashion change is vastly This is another vast difference look out over empty pews and happened now as we see some different to what it was decades today: there is a deeply acute mi - come up short on fundraising metropolitans are more akin to ago. This reflects an emerging di - cro-management of our local goals, they might want to look the “village” mindset, some are vide occurring within the Church A visit to a parish by Archbishop Iakovos, seen here with Prei - communities by the ruling class inwardly, start listening, and fac - to “scholarship,” and others yet itself in America. dent Jimmy Carter, would cause joy. Nowadays, a visit from a ecclesiastically elite. tor in their audience’s point of are to being a bit more liberal. As cream rises to the top, so Church hierarch causes dread. Our people are fed up and view before talking.” Each Metropolitan will believe the voice of the people was an their allegiance to the GOA is Our GOA Leaders do not ap - that his way is better than his col - important component of Church tocrat would dismiss a peasant. chests of many presidential can - nominal if not vulnerable. This pear to understand us for who leagues. While theological mat - administration. People had input Our leaders have given many didates, it is not benefiting us. is not the GOA we knew. It is no we are. Style of leadership, per - ters of dogma will be the same, and our leaders were able to hear people the impression that we We are going belly-up on a case- wonder people are flocking to sonality of people as a whole, one can imagine that matters of the voice of the laity. Not so much are insignificant members of a by-case basis. “outsiders”: the fundamentalist ethnic identity (or in many cases policy will be quite different. Get - anymore. At a mere capricious larger body that only they know We do not think that anyone monasteries of Ephraim, and also lack thereof), cultural context, or ting all Metropolitans to agree on whim, the people who question how to run. While they have in the leadership class will ever to other jurisdictions and denom - respect for the laity, in terms of a non-dogmatic matters of policy and call attention to some things many gifts, the attitude of “aris - dare to actually take an objective inations. These are the “out - reasonable service structure that will be miraculous. are dismissed and marginalized. tocracy” (as one metropolitan look at what is happening, nor siders” that are now appealing to emphasizes timeliness, and safe - What about the cohesiveness This is happening more so now proudly announced that we will they dare to actually con - the masses of Orthodox Chris - guarding from belabored/ca - of our GOA? Matters and contro - than ever before. should emulate) is taken to new verse with us. It is too negative. tians in the GOA. Our forefathers cophonous music that makes one versies that affect the Church will Case in point are the monas - levels of ecclesiastical elitism. Unfortunately, this means our sit - here gave their blood, sweat, and cringe. not be dealt with in a universal, teries and the message of Elder The result is that many clergy uation will get worse before it tears for our Church in America. The “leadership by mandate” expeditious, and conciliar man - Ephraim and his proponents. and laity feel that our executive gets better. We were guided to bring Or - approach does not work today. ner. As Metropolitans, they each This fundamentalist element has leaders are insulated and thereby That is another vast difference thodoxy to America. Now we are “Leadership by inspiration” is far will enforce their own systems of infected the body of the church disconnected from the commu - from the pulse of the people to - told “if you are not Orthodox, more effective. The laity have unilateral (non-theological) be - with heresy and unhealthy teach - nity and all the issues contained day versus decades ago: It used leave.” been hushed, and our member - liefs (policies) that may or may ings. The doctrine of Aerial Toll - therein. Clergy and laity both feel to be we had a sense of excite - All of the sacrifices our fore - ship and stewardship numbers not include the input of the laity. houses (which make a mockery that our executive leaders simply ment amongst us. But now, large fathers made are for naught. If since the new charter all clearly When our ruling despots sur - of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross) don’t care. churches are not full anymore. dwindling attendance and stew - reflect that. Yet, no changes have round themselves with syco - and that conjugal relations within One metropolitan is quoted as The administrative culture at var - ardship numbers are a sign of been made. phants, objectivity is further marriage are only for procre - saying that he doesn’t bother to ious levels of our church is utterly anything, they are a sign of the THE METROPOLISES thwarted and “hushed”. ation, are cases in point. The read what is posted on various toxic and negative. There are a comfortable ecclesiastical elite The relationship between These are old issues to which messengers that call attention to sites. Another hierarch stated that few positive occasions, but they being aloof from the realities of clergy and laity is vastly different many objected with the new these (and other) concerns are he never wants to hear anything are the exception to the rule. the average parishioner. today than decades ago. Charter that was given to us. Our looked at like they are the insti - negative. The translation of this Stewardship and membership What is the record of achieve - In its April 9 edition, this metropolitans appear to have a gating causes of disruption. In - seems to be that our executive numbers all across the nation re - ment for our hierarchs? Nothing newspaper published “Prof. systemic failsafe in place to keep deed, some are looked at like leaders do not want to know flect this. Mark my words and extraordinary. What did our hi - Kitroeff Speaks at U Mass about them from dealing with issues they are crazy. The laity now what is going on in our society those of other jurisdictions, de - erarchs do to be elevated to the Archbishop Iakovos,” about the with which they are uncomfort - wonder out loud if there is more and our lives. This is another vast nominations, or faiths, who in - bishopric? They decided not to academician, who spoke at able. This systemic failsafe is to the story. change from decades ago: are dependently follow our Church: get married. That’s pretty much length regarding the late arch - called stonewalling. It is nothing Why have the shepherds al - leaders appear uncaring and out- our Priests will soon be ordained it. This is why the legacy and bishop. Kitroeff stated that he new. Why this emphasis with the lowed their flock to be poisoned of-touch. “tax collectors” for their metro - record of achievement of our hi - would like to see tomorrow’s leaders at the top of the GOA by fairytale “theology”? Are there A DISCONNECT politans. Of course the metropol - erarchs in the GOA today will be GOA leaders have a keen under - structure? Because as the old economic benefits flowing up - And so we have a disconnect itans will blame, or rather deflect “ego-driven failure.”