s o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news w ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of e ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A weekly Greek-AmericAn PuBlicAtion www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 17, ISSUE 870 June 14-20, 2014 $1.50 Samaras, Shaking up Can This Greek-American Save Obamacare? The Cabinet, Replaces Burwell Confirmed as HHS Secretary by a Nearly Half of Ministers Wide Bipartisan Vote

ATHENS – Trying to recover pointed in mid-2012, handled By Constantinos E. Scaros ground and voters his New Greece’s bailout negotiations Democracy Conservatives lost in with the Troika and oversaw the WASHINGTON, DC – Sylvia the European Parliament elec - country’s tentative return to fi - Mathews Burwell, Director of tions, Prime Minister Antonis nancial markets earlier this year. the White House’s Office of Samaras shook up his Cabinet, "Mr. Stournaras will continue to Management and Budget replacing nearly half his key min - defend the bailout policies from (OMB) and nominated in April isters. his new post," SYRIZA by President Obama to succeed New Democracy lost 529,530 spokesman Panos Skourletis was the exiting and oft-assailed voters in the EU ballot from the quoted as saying by Greek news Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary numbers it won in the June 2012 website skai.gr. of Health and Human Services national elections which brought SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras (HHS), was confirmed over - Samaras to power, although he – emboldened by the Party's vic - whelmingly by the U.S. Senate needed to bring in his rival, the tory in European Parliament elec - in a bipartisan vote on June 5. PASOK Socialists, to control Par - tions in Greece last month – had As OMB Director Burwell al - liament. warned Samaras not to appoint ready held a Cabinet-level rank, Among the few changes a new governor without consult - but now becomes the first Samaras made was the most im - ing him. Greek-American woman to head portant position, naming econo - Provopoulos, 63, oversaw the a U.S. Executive Department, mist and banker Gikas Hardou - recapitalization of Greece's bank - and is tenth in line to presiden - velis Finance Minister to replace ing system under the terms of the tial succession, behind the Vice think tank technocrat Yannis country's international bailout President, and the Secretaries Stournaras. Stournaras, in turn, and had publicly said he wanted of State, Treasury, Defense, Jus - will take over as the next Gover - a second term. tice, Interior, Agriculture, Com - nor of the Bank of Greece to re - But he had incorrectly pre - merce, and Labor. place Giorgos Provopoulos, dicted for the last few years that The lopsided vote in Bur - whose term expires later this Greece would recover sooner well’s favor speaks to the confi - month. Stournaras' appointment than it did, putting a rosy spin AP Photo/J. Scott APPlewhite, File dence the great majority of sen - means he will be a member of on the country's crushing eco - Sylvia Mathews Burwell was confirmed by a wide bipartisan margin as Secretary of Health and ators have in the the European Central Bank's Gov - nomic crisis that has brought Human Services, the top position in the executive branch ever held by a Greek-American Greek-American’s competence erning Council. record unemployment and deep woman. Many Republicans, confident of her ability, crossed party lines to vote for her. Can she Stournaras, who was ap - poverty. make Obamacare better and save that legislation once and for all? Continued on page 6 Hardouvelis, chief economist at Eurobank, a bank notorious for hounding austerity-crushed Greeks to repay loans, credit cards and mortgages even if they Vlahos is New Dean at NY Cathedral The Onassis can’t, was an economic adviser to two previous governments, those of PASOK prime minister By Theodore Kalmoukos tion, where he serves as the sec - life, leads us on paths that we Foundation’s Costas Simitis in 2000-2004 and ond residing priest in the history do not always anticipate. We of interim premier, Lucas Pa - NEW YORK – Father John Vla - of the parish. pray that wherever the Lord pademos, also a banker, in late hos, currently the priest of the The letter sent by Fr. Vlahos leads us will be blessed and Zankel Show 2011-mid-2012. Church of the Holy Resurrection to the Brookville parish, where salvific. With the assurance of The Finance Minister is a key in Brookville, NY has been ap - he will celebrate his final Divine God’s love and grace, I am being position in the country whose pointed as the new Dean of the Liturgy on June 15, stated called to embark on a new path By Constantine S. Sirigos near default is broadly blamed Archdiocesan Cathedral of the among others things that “for as His Eminence Archbishop TNH Staff Writer for sparking a financial crisis in Holy Trinity in New York. He the past six years, I have had Demetrios has asked me to as - the Eurozone after successive PA - will be formally installed by the honor and privilege of serv - sume a new responsibility NEW YORK – The Tetraktys SOK and New Democracy gov - Archbishop Demetrios of Amer - ing as the priest of the Church within our Holy Archdiocese. String Quartet, joined by clar - ernments hired hundreds of ica on June 22 and will begin of the Holy Resurrection. You On Sunday, June 22nd, 2014, I inetist Dionysis Grammenos, AP Photo/PetroS GiAnnAkouriS thousands of needless workers his new duties immediately have all welcomed my family will be installed by His Emi - thrilled the audience that New Finance Minister Gikas for decades in return for votes. thereafter. and me with open arms, open nence as the priest of the Holy packed Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hardouvelis takes the oath of “Greece is suffering. Every In May 2008, Demetrios as - minds and open hearts. We have Trinity Cathedral in New York Hall for a concert on June 5, office during a ceremony at signed Father Vlahos to the become a family. As I am sure hosted by the Permanent Mis - the Presidential palace. Continued on page 11 Church of the Holy Resurrec - we can all attest, the mystery of Continued on page 6 sion of Greece to the UN and the Onassis Foundation (USA), and included pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Dmitri Shostakovich First Greek Greek National Team, in NJ, Beats Bolivia 2-1 and the Greek composer Nikos Salkottas. One by one the violinists, Feature Film By Constantine S. Sirigos brothers Giorgos and Kostas TNH Staff Writer Panagiotidis, violist Ali Baseg - mezler, and cellist Dionysis Golfo: 100 HARRISON, NJ – Just over Grammenos entered Bach’s “Art 11,000 fans in the Red Bull of the Fugue,” beginning an arena – the ones in Hellenic blue eclectic evening of music for the Years Later and white loud and passionate knowledgeable and appreciative from start to finish, watched audience. Salkottas’ “10 Greece defeat Bolivia 2 -1 on Sketches for String Quartet” fol - By Constantinos E. Scaros June 7. lowed, whose atonality and dis - Greece, spurred by continu - sonance was the concert’s mu - THESSALONIKI – “Golfo, a ous chants of “Hellas, Hellas” sical spice. young shepherdess, and Tasos, that sent chills down the spines The Shostakovich began with a young shepherd, are secretly of proud Greek-Americans on a a delightful musical conflict in love but are too poor to sup - warm night, drew first blood among the instruments that is port their union. when Guerki Panagiotis Kone more like an argument among “Fortunately, an English lord, scored in the match’s 21st who visits the area, gives the minute. Continued on page 4 boy a great sum of money for Then the captain, Konstanti - rescuing his life in an archaeo - nos Katsouranis, scored a logical expedition and the cou - header off a Jose Holebas corner ple is now able to get engaged. kick in minute 53 – and the Shortly after, a new obstacle crowd went wild, smelling a big Petrakis: a emerges: the rich Master Shep - win. herd Zisis’ daughter Stavroula The shot by Rudy Cardozo in and her cousin, rich shepherd the 70th minute that eluded Chicagoan Kitsos, wish to marry Tasos and Orestis Karnezis, however, did Golfo respectively. more than let the Bolivians back “While Golfo is not affected into the game – it unleashed a Takes NY by Kitsos’ woos, Tasos is con - wave of concern among Greek vinced by Yannos, the village vil - fans who know that their team tnh/coStAS BeJ lain, to abandon his beloved and The Greek national team won its tune-up match against Bolivia 2-1 at Red Bull Arena on June By Harry Mark Petrakis marry Stavroula. As the wed - Continued on page 6 6th, cheered on by thousands of Greek-Americans revved up for the World Cup in Brazil. ding is in preparation, Golfo, Thus far in my life as a Mid - half-mad, curses Tasos and then westerner, I have traveled into poisons herself. Tasos, after a vi - New York a score of times. My olent fight with his rival Kitsos, first visit came in the summer of regrets his decision and rushes Lost History Expert Andreas Zinelis Talks Wine 1958 after I had been writing and back to Golfo, who dies in his submitting stories for about ten arms. years. All were rejected. Finally, “The young shepherd com - Of All-things By Lauren Loeffler grew up in Athens – says he in the spring of 1957 my short mits suicide next to her. Death couldn’t shake off the “hospital - story, “Pericles on 31st Street,” has united them.” Nerai is a modern restaurant ity bug” he developed growing was published in the Atlantic. In That summary, of an 1893 Greek in NY in New York City, serving up in - up in the industry. His father 1958 a second story was pub - play by Spiridon Peresiades novative expressions of tradi - owned a restaurant in Los An - lished in the Saturday Evening called Golfo, if from the article tional Greek cuisine. geles, so he was no stranger to Post. “From ‘Made in Greece’ to ‘Made By Steve Frangos Boasting a mouth-watering the kitchen and the service in - While working on stories, I in China’: a 21st Century Tour - TNH Staff Writer menu of fresh seafood dishes dustry, and his passion drove had also written an undistin - ing Revival of Golfo, a 19th Cen - and rich, juicy, meat dishes, it is him to attend culinary school, guished first novel with the lurid tury Greek Melodrama,” in Issue CHICAGO- Sometime in the late immediately clear that this es - become a sommelier, and de - title of Cry the Black Tears. Fol - 1 of FILMCON: Journal of Greek 1930s, Theodore Gianakoulis tablishment does not skimp on vote himself to the industry full lowing a merciless critique by a Film Studies (September, 2013), (1886-1964) had completed flavor. In addition to a fabulous time. He says that looking back respected editor, I had dispatched written by Panayota Konstanti - enough essays and reports for food menu, Nerai offers an im - he’s never regretted the choice the book into a closet where it nakou, a PhD candidate in The - the Federal Writers Project pressive beverage menu, featur - to forego medical school for the remained for years in an aura of ater Studies at the Aristotle Uni - (FWP), to produce a book- ing an extensive wine list of pursuit of food and beverage, failure and shame. versity in Thessaloniki. length manuscript on the Greeks about 135 selections – 30% of and glancing over the beverage Seeking to implement the sug - of New York City. This volume which are Greek wines. menu at Nerai, one really gets gestions that the merciless but Continued on page 11 has never seen print. Two public While Greece has been mak - the sense that this is the right helpful editor had made, I began locations hold this unpublished ing wine for centuries, wine path for him. a second novel. I also acquired a volume: the Municipal Archives growers and producers there Nerai opened last May, with literary agent in New York named of New York City and the Man - haven’t always seen the spot - Zinelis at the helm of beverage Toni Strassman. I sent her the For subscription: uscript Division of the Library light. That’s why a Greek wine Nerai’s beverage director, selection. He shared his vision first 60 pages of the new novel I 718.784.5255 of Congress. By combing focused list is exciting to see at wine expert Andreas Zinelis. for the wine menu: “I wanted titled Lion at my Heart. [email protected] through the daily press, attend - a successful contemporary to create a wine list at Nerai that My brother Dan, who worked ing an array of performances restaurant. TNH caught up with Though he went through col - was easy to navigate through for U.S. Steel Corporation, had and civic events, and by inter - Andreas Zinelis, the talented lege with a plan to pursue med - for our guests as it is broken arranged a job interview for me viewing a wide cross-section of beverage director at Nerai, to icine, the American-born Zinelis down based on flavor profiles at their company headquarters in discuss Greek wines and his – his parents were both born Continued on page 7 restaurant’s selections. just outside of Karpenisi and he Continued on page 8 Continued on page 7 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014

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n THRU NOV 1 ever at this critical juncture in Condos Steers VT to Popular Vote Presidency TARPON SPRINGS, FL – Night Greek history. The tribute will in the Islands returns to the include some of his most world-famous Sponge Docks of beloved songs from Pornogra - By Constantinos E. Scaros Tarpon Springs for 2014! Satur - phy, Absurd, Captain Michael, days, 6-11PM, May 3, Jun. 7, Big Pink, Blood Wedding, Street When we last interviewed Jul. 12, Aug. 2, Sept. 6, Oct. 4, of Dreams, Reflections, Immor - Jim Condos, he had just been and Nov. 1. A free event of Greek tality, Ballads of Athena Street elected Secretary of State of Ver - music, dancing, and dining! And and more. mont (“Vermont Gets A Greek we will offer an hour of free American Secretary of State,” Greek dance lessons by the Lev - YONKERS – Greek festival! Dec. 18, 2010). It may only be a endia Dance Troupe from 6-7 Please come celebrate at Prophet two-year term (he has since won PM. The festival is supported in Elias Greek Orthodox Church, reelection), but people tend to part by a grant from the Na - 15 Leroy Avenue, in Yonkers. stay in the job for a long time, tional Endowment for the Arts. There will be authentic Greek Condos had told TNH. I’ll be 60 Come join us for authentic island food and homemade pastries, next month in January (that was fun in the warm Florida sun and music and dance, raffles, prizes, three and a half years ago), right mark your calendar and make kids' zone, rides and games. The around retirement age, so this this a regular destination! fun begins Friday, Jun. 13th [position] may be it for me.” 5PM-Midnight and continues The Secretary of State “is re - n JUNE 13 Saturday, Jun. 14 Noon-Mid - sponsible for: Corporations, Pro - MANHATTAN – “The Last Ves - night, and Sunday, Jun. 15 fessional Regulation, State pers of Manos Hadjidakis,” a Noon-11PM. Please visit us at Archive & Record Management, musical tribute on the 20th an - www.facebook.com/prophetelia as well as Elections,” Condos niversary of the death of the em - s. said. “We have been slowly re - inent Greek composer will take viewing, installing, and enacting place on Friday, Jun. 13 at n JUNE 14 new IT solutions for each of the 7:30PM at the Cathedral Center MANHATTAN – Come join the divisions. We have completed AP/John currAn Ballroom Archdiocesan Cathe - Greek-American Writers Associ - Professional Regulation, almost Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos during his first year on the job. dral of the Holy Trinity Greek ation on Saturday, Jun. 14, 6- completed Corporations, com - Orthodox Church, 337, East 8PM at Cornelia Street Café, 29 pleted the overall Agency web - erty Union Parties. That’s double states holding a majority of elec - votes have been approved, it will 74thStreet, in Manhattan. Tick - Cornelia Street between site, and have just embarked on the national average, and gain - toral votes would guarantee a ensure that the aberrations most ets $20 at the door. Artistic Di - Bleecker and West 4th Streets in an installation of a new Elections ing major party status in Ver - candidate for president of the recently experienced in 2000 rector, vocalist, and narrator Manhattan, for wine, fun, and Management system. Our goal mont is not particularly cumber - United States will win the elec - and 1876, albeit rare, will not Yanna Katsageorgi presents a the power of the spoken word. is to provide excellent customer some. tion only if he/she actually wins occur again. Under the Consti - unique evening with five extra - June. Moon. Poetry. What better service with a knowledgeable, Besides its progressive poli - the most votes nationwide. tution, states may cast their elec - ordinary artists performing the time to visit literary, romantic productive and efficient work - tics, Vermont has made national As it stands, the United States toral votes based on criteria they ethereal, poetic, unconventional Greenwich Village. Presenting force.” news over the past few months elects a president via the Elec - see fit – and so the NPVIC does and magical songs of Hadjidakis, three outstanding writers: Lili LIBERAL-LEANING STATE because of reports about a ram - toral College, comprised of Elec - not need an Amendment to the as the composer intended them Bita, dynamic poet, playwright When sizing up blue (Demo - pant drug problem. As that issue tors from each state (the number Constitution to take effect. to be performed. Katsageorgi and actress, author of The cratic/liberal) and red (Repub - does not fall within his scope as of which depends on their total A PROUD GREEK performed and recorded with Thrust of the Blade; Basil lican/conservative) states, many Secretary of State, Condos did number of House Members and “Both of my parents are first- Hadjidakis, starring in one of Rouskas, inspired explorer of a Americans perceive Vermont as not address it specifically, but he Senators), and three from the generation Greek-Americans,” most radical musical composi - two homeland identity, author being ultraliberal – about as blue did tell TNH that “all states have District of Columbia. Although Condos said. “I have only been tions titled Pornography. She has of Blue Heron on Black River; as they come. Not quite, Condos this problem, Vermont has cho - it is very rare (it last happened to Greece once, in the mid- written and will provide the nar - and George Wallace, the Walt says. Vermont is “a blue state sen to meet it head on.” in 2000 and before that, 1876), 1980s, but I would like to go ration for the concert, which in - Whitman of Greek-American po - leaning liberal,” he says, as op - ELECTORAL REFORM it is possible for a presidential back. I am proud of Greek her - cludes many references to touch - ets, Suffolk County’s first Poet posed to purely liberal, and “Ver - Condos says his main priori - candidate to gain the most votes itage and was honored to have ing moments in the composer’s Laureate, author of Eos, Abduc - monters tend to be practical, in - ties regarding the political nationwide, but lose the election been invited by President life. She is joined by sopranos tor of Men. Penelope Karageorge dependent, and caring about process is to increase voter par - because of not having gained the Obama and to have attended the Julie Ziavras, Alexandra Sk - hosts. $8 admission includes a their fellow citizens.” ticipation and to maintain the most electoral votes. The process White House Greek Indepen - endrou, pianist Panos Chrisover - glass of wine, beer, or soft drink. Moreover, as Americans are integrity of the elections. As a ensures that votes in very state dence Day celebration over the gis, and guitarist Spiros Exaras. becoming more and more dis - Vermont State Senator, Condos matter, Condos says, not just the past few years. Joining with The concert is a reminder of the n JUNE 20-22 enchanted by Democratic and helped support legislation (that ones in battleground states. To other Greek-American leaders legacy left by Hadjidakis, an CAMARILLO, CA – Come join us Republican political dominance, ultimately passed in 2011; he this point, Condos explains, 11 was a great experience.” artist whose whole life was an for a Greek Festival Friday, Jun. Condos explains that Vermont was already Secretary of State jurisdictions representing 61% And what about his political act of resistance to injustice and 20 to Sun. Jun. 22 at Camarillo has not just two major parties, by that point) for Vermont to of the 270 electoral votes future? “I will be up for election repression. His social conscience, Freedom Park, 480 Skyway, but four. There are the Democ - join the National Popular Vote needed to activate it have joined for my third term in November,” civic responsibility, creativity, Drive in Camarillo. Sponsored rats and Republicans, of course, Interstate Compact (NPVIC), a the Compact. Once enough Condos says, indicating no plans free spirit, and kindness are val - by St. Demetrios Greek Ortho - but also the Progressive, and Lib - measure that once approved states to ensure 270 electoral to retire in the immediate future. ues that are necessary more than dox Church of Camarillo, CA, the Festival is a celebration of Greek culture, food, dance and music. It’s a fun time for the en - tire family! You will enjoy the festival activities such us danc - ing, drawing, church tour, wall climbing, hanna tattoos etc.. In addition to the activities you can taste the greek traditional cui - sine by trying succulent lamb, chicken souvlaki, spinach and cheese pie. But save room for our world famous pastries made from only the highest quality in - gredients following recipes handed down from generation to generation. The festival would not been such a wonderful fam - ily event without the help of our devoted volunteers that gener - ously dedicate their free time and efforts to make the event a success. Anyone is welcome to come in and participate.

DENVER, CO – Come and at - tend one of Denver's premier and first summer outdoor festi - vals! Featuring LIVE traditional Greek dancing by the Hellenic Dance Academy of Denver and music by Etho Ellas, at the As - sumption of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 4610 East Alameda Avenue in Denver. Friday, Jun. 20 and Sat - urday, Jun. 21, 11AM-11PM, Sunday, Jun. 22, 11AM-6PM. There is plenty of homemade food and pastries from through - out Greece to satisfy any ap - petite. Bonfils will be onsite Sat - urday for a blood drive as well! Our cultural center, book store & gift shop will include original works of art. Beautiful gold and silver jewelry, authentic Greek merchandise and breathtaking photography also available. We are located at 4610 East Alameda Ave at the corner of Alameda and Dahlia (see the map on the right of page). There is parking in our lower lot near the East Gate and on Colorado Blvd and Alameda and shuttles will run throughout the day. General Admission is $5 per per - son a day Free to children under 12 $3 for Senior Citizens 65 years and older. Weekend passes are $10 and may be pur - chased prior to the event at the Assumption Cathedral. There is also valet parking for $5 per car at the Metropolis Center lot. Handicap parking is also avail - When: Saturday, June 21, 2014 Pushing the envelope for chamber music able at the Metropolis Center lot. We ask that only service an - Doors open at 6:30pm in private settings their music has been described as imals are brought into the Fes - Concert begins at 7:00pm (Doors close) "drippingly beautiful, a romantic mixture of tival. Heightened security mea - fairy dust and drama." sures will require bag checks at the gates. Where: Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons Led by Award winning composer/pianist 111 Saint Andrew's Road Pilley Bianchi Southampton, NY 11968 QUESTION Known for their urbanly romantic approach to chamber reper - OF THE WEEK Repertoire: Two 35-minute pieces toire, Bianchi Musica has performed events for: Tiffany & Co., with 15-minute intercession Martha Stewart and Jann Wenner (Rollingstone Magazine) Do you think President Obama was right in exchang - They have shared the stage with Michael Bolton, Josh Groban, ing five Taliban detainees at RSVP: [email protected] Renee Fleming, Cyndi Lauper, Whoopi Goldberg & Jo Dee Guantanamo for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl? RSVP required by June 15 Messina. Please email your response to scaros@thenationalherald. com We may publish some re - FREE. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. LIMITED SEATING. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. sponses as Letters to the Edi - tor in a future issue. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014 3

HELLENIC ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF ASTORIA SAINT DEMETRIOS CATHEDRAL THE SCHOOL OF ST. DEMETRIOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – MIDDLE SCHOOL – HIGH SCHOOL With special joy and great pride we present to you the Class of 2014 The feature leaders of the Greek-American Community

ioaNNaKatehis mariapapaDopoulos Valedictorian Salutatorian • Sophie Davis School of Medicine • Fordham University • Loyola Univ. • Cornell University • St. John’s Univ. • Maryland • Long Island Univ. • College of Pharmacy • University of Brooklyn • Hunter College CUNY Sciences • Philadelphia • Macaulay • Recipient NYS Academic Excellence Honors College • Recipient NYS Award • Astoria CIVIC Association Academic Excellence Award •Vallone Award

NiKolaosaNDreopoulos charlesathaNasopoulos aNtoNioavra ΑmiDes yiaNNiboulas mairilyNDameroN aNastasiosDemetriou • PACE Univ. • Wake Forest Univ. • North Carolina • City College • CUNY • Mercy College • Marymount Manhattan College • Hofstra Univ. • CWPOST/LIU • New York Univ. • Queens College • CUNY • Nassau Community College • College at New Rochelle • Long Island Univ., Brooklyn Campus • New York Institute of Technology • University of California at Irvine • New York Institute of Technology • College at Old Westbury, SUNY • Queens College, CUNY

eleftheriaGaras atheNaGritsipis NicholashaDJiKostaNtis ele ΑNahouiris elizabethKamisariDes NoelleKaNeN • Fordham Univ. • Long Island Univ., • St. John’s Univ. • New York Institute of Technology • Brooklyn College, CUNY • NYC College of Technology • Hunter College, CUNY Brooklyn Campus • Queens College, • Hunter College, CUNY • Farmingdale College, SUNY • Queens College, CUNY • CUNY • City College, CUNY CUNY • Recipient Hellenic Times • Queens College, CUNY • Vaughn College of Aeronautics • Albright College, Pennsylvania • LaGuardia Community College • PACE Univ. Scholarship Award

catheriNelozaDa filiamoDiNos DemetrapapaDopoulos KiriaKospapaNiKolaou alexaNDerproKopiou saviNaruppaNer • LaGuardia Community College, CUNY • Queens College, CUNY • Baruch College, CUNY • CWPOST/LIU • St. Francis College • City College, CUNY • New York Institute of Technology • CWPOST/ LIU • Fordham Univ. • Recipient Kastorian • St. John’s Univ. • Queens College, CUNY • IONA College • College of Old Westbury, SUNY Society “Omonia” Award • College of Old Westbury, SUNY • St. Francis College • Farmingdale College, SUNY

evaNGelossavaiDes christoDoulossavviDes viviaNsfiKas aNastasiaciNa- paNaGiotistsampas evGeNiatsaNGouri • Marist College • PACE Univ. • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, theoDoropoulou • Grove School of Engineering, City College • City College, CUNY • PACE Univ. • New York Institute of Technology CUNY • Mercy College • Post College, Connecticut • SUNY Maritime College • College of Staten Island, CUNY • SUNY Maritime College • IONA College • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY • Manhattan College • College of Old Westbury, SUNY • St. John’s Univ.

christopherpaNaGaKis • Providence College, Rhode Island • Fairfield Univ., Connecticut

paNaGiotatsaNGouri eliastsiroGiaNNis KiKitsiropoulos JohNtsouKalas faNitziKas • Hunter College, CUNY • City College, CUNY • Fordham Univ. • St. John’s Univ. • York College, CUNY • St. John’s Univ.College of Pharmacy • Queens College, CUNY • Farmingdale College, SUNY • Queens College, CUNY • Queensborough Community College, CUNY • Fordham Univ. • Hunter College, CUNY • St. John’s Univ. • Recipient AXA Merit Award • Recipient Hellenic Times Scholarship Award • Recipient Hellenic Club of New York Award

Similar to fertile land, education We shall become much better than you creates all value. Dance of the Spartan Youth Socrates, 469-399 BC. «Η παιδεία, καθάπερ ευδαίμων χώρα, «Αμμες δε γ' εσσόμεθα πάντα τ’ αγαθά φέρει». πολλώ κάρρονες». Χορός των εφήβων, Σπάρτη Σωκράτης, 469-399 π.Χ., Φιλόσοφος

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By Constantine S. Sirigos little kisses…and then they were Foundation, and played a soul - TNH Staff Writer gone. ful “Sagapo giati eisai wraia.” At times swaying, her hair During a pause between NEW YORK – A light but re - bouncing, she veritably danced pieces, a guest’s cell phone freshing breeze accompanied her way through Franz Schu - crashed the party, but the performance of pianist bert’s charming Hungarian Adamopoulos did not skip a Athena Adamopoulos at the Melody, D. 817. beat, picking up the tune where Greek Consulate last month. Its There was another passion - the phone left off, spicing up a open windows were symbolic of ate Beethoven, Sonata No. 14, delicious evening with laughter. the hearts of wallets of the but she saved some fireworks The evening began with a re - Greek-Americans who gathered for Claude Debussy’s Children’s ception and the guests were both listen to a gifted young mu - Corner, which closed the first greeted on behalf of the Atheni - sician, and to offer funds – half of the program. ans’ Society, which organized $20,000 was raised – to help the After intermission, the event, by Panos Adamopou - people of Greece. Adamopoulos quietly slipped los, its president – and Athena’s Last week the Society ful - back into the room and sat father. He thanked Greece’s con - filled its most recent promises down again at the shimmering sul General, George Iliopoulos by presenting a check for ebony Steinway, a gift to the and his wife, Anthousa, for host - $20,000 to “Mazi gia to pedi,” Consulate from the Niarchos ing the concert and she, in turn, an umbrella organization of 10 children’s charities in Greece, and donated a large cooking boiler to the Brefokomio Athi - non – Municipal Foundling Home of Athens. The carefully chosen pro - gram, which included her own composition, delighted from start to finish. The first half be - gan with Ludwig v. Beethoven’s Sonata No. 17, its sweet, lyrical moments were interspersed with furious passages. ABOVE: Standing at the cooking equipment donated by the Athenian’s Society to the Brefokomio The pieces that followed Athinon are (L-R): Theodora Lagou, Sylvia and Panos Adamaopoulos, and Katy Alexandropoulou. evoked a range of human emo - LEFT: Athena Adamopoulos at the Steinway that is a gift to the Greek Consulate from the Niar - tions, which could often be read chos Foundation during a May 2 fundraising concert that benefited children in Greece. on Athena’s youthful and ex - pressive face. welcomed everyone into their father, with admiration for the all art. Like her parents, she is Frederic Chopin’s Nocturne home and spoke about Mazi gia results of the years of hard work dedicated to philanthropic No. 19 in e minor evoked both to Pedi and thanked the Society that commenced in childhood work. “To support Mazi Gia to the artistic and the emotional and the Adamopoulos family. and will soon culminate in a Pedi” in any way I can is some - meaning of the word “romantic” The artist’s mother, Sylvia, PhD from the New England thing I must do… the situation with passages that felt like the and her brother Constantine Conservatory of Music. in Greece is dire, especially for memories of a lost love: runs of were also there, filled, like her But Adamopoulos’ life is not needy children.” Catsimatidis Hosts Guardian Angel Sliwa’s 60th Birthday Celebration

TNH Staff countries and 144 cities. She pertly handled public relations, said that when she was a handling the phone calls and ex - NEW YORK – Billed as an “old- teenager, her father would tell plaining the group’s mission and fashioned, “Frank Sinatra dance her to look for their trademark motivation. band party,” John and Margo red berets when she was on the Citizens and business owners Catsimatidis hosted Curtis subway. “They will protect you,” immediately appreciated them. Sliwa’s 60th birthday celebra - he would say. John Catsimatidis was one of tion at the Edison Hotel that One of the highlights was a the first. was also a fundraiser for the martial arts presentation by the “When I opened my first Guardian Angels, the interna - Junior Guardian Angels of stores in the early 70's, walking tional community service orga - Washington Heights, who range to the bank at midnight with my nization that he founded to fight from 6 to 15 years of age. The deposits was always a harrow - subway crime by training mem - Guardian Angels also provides ing experience. Police had a bers to make citizens’ arrests 35 education programs and work - crime epidemic on their hands years ago. shops for schools and busi - and asking for an escort was out The dinner party featured a nesses. of the question, but the wonderful dance band and per - The most touching part of Guardian Angels were there,” formances by comedian Stewie the evening was the introduc - Catsimatidis wrote in the invi - Stone and Frank Sinatra imper - tion of Michelle Knight, one of tation to the event. sonator Steve Maglia, but the the three women held captive The founder of the Red Apple ebullient Sliwa who has the gift in Cleveland by Ariel Castro. Group conglomerate, he said of gap to go along with his or - The Guardian Angels of Cleve - “Curtis Sliwa and his Guardian ganizing skills did his best to land were very active in the 10- Angels gave the City a boost in keep the spotlight on the year search, working closely security just when we needed Guardian Angels and his loved with local police. it. The Guardian Angels kept a ones – literally in the case of his There were reminders watchful eye on my stores and partner, Queens Borough Presi - throughout the evening that it the neighborhood. I'll always be dent Melinda Katz, who sang a (L-R) Frank Sinatra impersonator Steve Maglia, John Catsimatidis, comedian Stewie Stone, took a while for police and pub - grateful.” stirring rendition of the national Curtis Sliwa, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Margo Catsimatidis. lic officials to embrace the or - That’s why Catsimatidis and anthem. ganization of “unarmed citizen his wife, Margo were happy to Sliwa acknowledged his his late father Chester, for shap - in him and his endeavors. tions made to society by crime patrollers.” throw another great party for a mother, Francesca Sliwa, and ing his character and believing Katz praised the contribu - Guardian Angels chapters in 15 Sliwa said his mother ex - good cause. Onassis Foundation’s Tetraktys Quartet Concert at NY’s Carnegie Hall

Continued from page 1 about the word “tetraktis” from romantic and modern pieces, his parents. The followers of the latter represented by Salkot - friends, but more agitated mo - Pythagoras swore their oaths tas. ments in the piece written in upon the triangular arrange - Told that some audience 1946 reminded that WW II had ment of four rows of 1,2,3 and members were shaken up by it, just ended. 4 pebbles, respectively, that add Travlos, paraphrased a music There are achingly sweet and up to the perfect number 10. critic, saying “when you listen lyrical passages that lead to The symbol also has musical sig - to a piece of music and you some of the most poignant pas - nificance. don’t like it, it’s just that you sages in the modern repertoire, After attending conservato - didn’t listen enough.” and the piece came to an ethe - ries in Greece, he and Kostas Modern music is an acquired real conclusion, hopeful, per - studied in Germany, as did their taste. “You have to be familiar haps, that peace would prevail colleagues, but they all met in with it and open to it,” Travlos in the world. Athens. said. After intermission, Gram - Ali, who was born in Ankara Tetraktys likes to present au - menos joined Tetraktys for the to parents who also play the vi - diences with different experi - Brahms Quintet, which was or - ola and have roots in Constan - ences, including a surprise at namented by tender and emo - tinople, first met Giorgos play - each concert. tional passages on his clarinet. ing in an orchestra in Athens. Salkottas, who was the fa - The young musicians’ focus He speaks fluent Greek but his vorite student of Arnold Schoen - and artistic communication with mastery of the language of mu - berg, is undergoing a revival in one another were unearthly, sic earned him an invitation to Germany. apropos of the group’s mystical join the quartet. He was heavily influenced by name. All five developed the June traditional Greek music through Giorgos Panagiotidis learned 5 program, a blend of baroque, his mother, who was a singer.

ABOVE: (L-R) Giorgos and Kostas Panagiotidis on violin, violist Ali Basegmezler, cellist, Dimitris Travlos and Dionysis Grammenos on clarinet dur - ing their June 5 concert in NY. RIGHT: (L-R) Michel Spinellis, Greece’s UN Ambassador, Kostas Panagiotidis, UN Sec - retary General Ban Ki-moon, Dimitris Travlos, Kibati Ki- moon, Kostas Panagiotidis and Ali Basegmezler.

The quartet was formed in 2008 and in 2009 Grammenos began to play with them at the age of 19. The first piece they played together was the Brahms quin - tet, and during the interview only with Grammenos’ excep - tion in Greece, they told TNH it with TNH Grammenos first tional technique, but also his ex - would be good if the diaspora shared with his colleagues that traordinary maturity. could find ways to support during the second movement in The five will now return to young Greek musicians, actors 2009 he had a powerful feeling Greece, where they look for - and artists. of them all being completely fo - ward to performing this summer They believe that the most cused, and felt “a flow – every - at the music festival on Paxos. important thing for Greece is to thing was so natural that I did This was their first visit to help young people. “It’s not only not have to think about what I the United States and they hope about money and jobs. Young was playing,” which he had to be invited to return soon. people must be able to have never experienced before. “We like it here. It is amazing dreams about the future, other - His fellow musicians empha - – a totally different world.” wise they turn to extremists,” sized they are impressed not Turning to the painful situa - Giorgos said. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014 COMMUNITY 5 Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York Elects New Board

By Demetrios Tsakas tions in the New York Metropol - Michael Kokolis, Vasilios Egle - TNH Staff Writer itan Area, each of which sends zos, Apostolos Trabakoulos, representatives to vote for the Costas Vases, and Gregory NEW YORK – Petros Galatoulas Board, which comprises 21 peo - Demetroulakos. garnered the most votes in elec - ple. Up to 182 people can vote The Federation promotes tions for the Board of Directors and on June 8 154 were regis - Hellenism through charitable of the Federation of Hellenic So - tered. and cultural events and is the cieties of Greater New York, After five days, the new organizer of the Greek Parade. held on June 8. board gathers to choose officers. Other events include lectures at The Federation consists of The top 21 vote-getters were: venues such as Cornell Medical Hellenic-American organiza - Petros Galatoulas, Stefanos Center and the Federation’s Amanatidis, Athanasios Aronis, Stathakion Center in Astoria, Representatives of commu - Timoleon Kakouros, Antonios and organizes symposia on ed - nity organizations vote for Fokas, Vasilios Gournelos, ucation in close cooperation the new board of the Federa - Cleanthis Meimaroglou, Manolis with the Greek Orthodox Arch - tion of Hellenic Societies of Christodoulakis, Kaity Alexan - diocese of America. Greater NY on June 8. Out - dropolou, George Kitsios, The successful tenure of cur - going Federation president Demetrios Kalamaras, Dionysios rent president Elias Tsekerides, Elias Tsekerides, 2nd from L Pilarinos, Stavros Zhongas, was brought to a conclusion by and leading vote-getter Pet - Kostas Lambrakis, Spyros Andri - term limits mandated by the ros Galatoulas, 3rd from L. opoulos, Avgerini Catechi, constitution. Bard of Astoria? Ophelia Theater Group’s Musical Rendition of Hamlet

By Constantine S. Sirigos to vaudevillian song and dance stab Claudius on his knees re - TNH Staff Writer routines provided the – some - penting his first crime even as he times macabre – comic relief. was contemplating the second. NEW YORK – Opera is a power - “Something’s Rotten in Den - The music ramped up the ten - ful mix of drama and classical mark,” sung to a calypso beat was sion as Ophelia’s brother Laertes, music, but tastes change and a show stopper. played by Buddy Pease, raced youth hungers for the new. In the The musical and dramatic back from college in a rage 1970s Cliff Jones took a musical ability of all the performers was singing “gotta kill the guy who leap into rock opera with Rock - of a high quality. Regrettably, they killed my father with a knife.” abye Hamlet and reached Broad - cannot all be named here, al - During the fight scene Hamlet way. Last month the Ophelia The - though Tessy Fairly and Dace Mc - fails to persuade Laertes that atre Group’s reworked Nally played the quirkiest Rosen - Claudius is behind all the evil. production soared in Astoria. crantz and Guildenstern on Gertrude, knowing just With inquiries about taking record. enough to now distrust her new the production on the road, the The play-within-the-play de - husband, grabs the stage to sing company’s youth, energy, and tal - vised by Hamlet to “catch the the blues the way only a wronged ent will not long be confined to conscience of the king” by por - Queen can. humble venues like the Broccoli traying his act of regicide caused Questions remain after the Theater, which became irrelevant Claudius to go beserk. shattering final scene. The play once the band on the left and the Hamlet had his chance at re - ends with Hamlet’s friend Hora - actors, who dashed about on- venge before the king pulled him - tio singing the poignant “why did stage, offstage and everywhere, self together, but the conflicted he have to die?” as he surveys began to work their magic. prince could not bring himself to the tragic scene in disbelief. The ghost of Hamlet’s dead Opheliatheatre.com notes that father, played by Blair Trunzo, “Jones' legendary reimagining of terrified the guests and charac - Hamlet was been revised and up - ters alike with his demand his dated for the 21st Century by Di - son “avenge my foul and unnat - Unaware that their lives are being manipulated, Hamlet (Kevin Reed) thrusts and Laertes rector Pep Speed, Musical Direc - ural murder.” (Buddy Pease) parries in the final scene of the Ophelia Theatre Group’s Rockabye Hamlet. tor Ryan Kimble and The mood swung dramatically RIGHT: It is never clear what Queen Gertrude had in mind throughout the play but she is choreographer Layla Dean,” and as the youthful theater company pretty sure she is unhappy, so she sings the Blues as her life hurtles towards its tragic end. lighting designer Christina poured onstage to sing and dance Watanabe. at the swift wedding of the wid - quickly. speare and Jones was a crucial played by Samantha Turlington The Ophelia Theatre Group owed Queen. The transition from mourning salve for the observers of the un - with a sweetness that alternated was founded in 2003 by Greek- Gertrude, played by Abigail to wedding night was the first folding catastrophe. The new with intensity before life’s ham - American playwright/producer, Ludrof, a blonde soprano, caused hint of the skill with which com - king gave a drunken noogie on mer blows shattered her young Sarah Bennett in her hometown the audience to wonder if the poser, playwright, musicians and the head of the prince whose mind. of Lake Elsinore, CA. After four ghost of Oedipus also haunted actors handled the devastating brain was already boiling with Kevin Reed’s portrayal of trou - key members moved to New Shakespeare and Jones when shifts of powerful emotions that rage and grief. bled Hamlet was the play’s dra - York, Bennett led ten more East they wrote of the brooding young ultimately left the stage littered Hamlet’s tension was relieved matic and musical engine. in 2011, with many settling in prince whose alluring-but-ditzy with high-born corpses. by girlfriend Ophelia, who came The rock music drove the Astoria. Tickets are on sale for mom married his uncle a bit too Humor provided by Shake - to him singing “Hello.” She was drama but wonderful throwbacks the 2014-2015 seasons.

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Continued from page 1 the person than with the nature Foundation. We are proud of the of the position. As Republican many achievements she has to undertake this auspicious Minority Leader Mitch Mc - marked throughout her career.” role. Connell (KY), one of the 17 – SAVING OBAMACARE? It is especially impressive, all Republicans – to vote against Defending his vote of sup - considering that within Bur - confirmation explained, “her port, veteran Senator Lamar well’s purview will be the single embrace of this disastrous law Alexander (TN) was hopeful most divisive phenomenon of is reason enough to oppose her that unlike Sebelius, Burwell the Obama presidency to date: confirmation,” the Washington would help to repair the dam - the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Post reported. Speaking to Mc - aging elements of Obamacare. aka “Obamacare.” Cain’s “Titanic” analogy, Mc - Specifically, Alexander was To that end, depending on Connell said “the Senate should - hopeful that Burwell would: 1) the job Burwell does, she may n’t be focusing on a new captain end the secrecy; 2) work with have a critical role in determin - for the Titanic. It should focus Congress; 3) not solicit from ing whether the Republicans – on steering away from the ice - companies she regulates; 4) be who are poised to win back berg.” a good steward of taxpayer dol - Congress in November – finally It follows logically, then, that lars; and 5) show Americans cease their attempts to repeal McConnell would have voted for some respect. Obamacare. anyone seeking to become HHS Will Burwell we able to suc - RARE BIPARTISANSHIP Secretary who did not explicitly ceed where Sebelius failed? Per - The Senate is currently com - opposed Obamacare. Notably, haps not to the point of convinc - prised of 53 Democrats, 2 Inde - all three GOP senators most ing Republicans to embrace pendents – who typically vote poised for a 2016 presidential Obamacare, but maybe fixing the same was as most Democ - run, Ted Cruz (TX), Rand Paul just enough of the problems to rats – and 45 Republicans. Typ - (KY), and Marco Rubio (FL), thwart any lingering momen - ically, there is a small handful conscious of the political conse - tum in terms of repealing it. of Senators not present for every quences at stake, also voted And if that happens under vote – in this case, 5 were ab - against Burwell’s confirmation. her watch, Burwell will be re - sent; 95 took part in the vote. GREEK ROOTS membered in history as more Every Democrat (53) voted in When Obama nominated than the first Greek-American favor of Burwell’s confirmation, Burwell in April, he pointed out woman to head a federal exec - and 24 Republicans, in a rare that “as the granddaughter of utive department; she will have moment of bipartisanship, Greek immigrants,” she under - crossed party lines and joined stands that the goal of a budget ABOVE: President Obama, in them. “is not just to make the numbers April, announcing his decision Among them, Republican el - add up,” but to “reignite the en - to appoint Sylvia Mathews der statesman Senator John Mc - gine of economic growth” and Burwell (R) as HHS Secretary Cain (AZ) described her as an provide opportunity for all. to replace Kathleen Sebelius "excellent choice" taking on a Those Greek immigrants (L). RIGHT: Sylvia Mathews "thankless job," the New York were the parents of both her fa - Burwell, the first Greek-Amer - Times reported. "Like being the ther, retired optometrist Dr. ican woman to head a U.S. Ex - captain of the Titanic after it hit William Mathews, and her ecutive Department, might be an iceberg," McCain said, a mother, Cleo Mathews, the for - instrumental in saving Oba - scathing reference to Oba - mer mayor of Burwell’s home - macare. macare. town of Hinton, WV. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), Burwell’s maternal grandpar - also an outspoken critic of the ents spoke little English, the in our government. It is entirely ACA, Obama’s signature policy Times reported, but were hard - appropriate that she is charged initiative, distinguished between working and steadfast in realiz - with dealing with one of Amer - the law and the person, the ing the American Dream – even ica's greatest challenges, estab - Times reported. Coburn praised as they hoped to return to lishing an effective universal Burwell for remaining open Greece if only to find a husband healthcare program,” said Man - minded on issues even to the for their then-single daughter, atos. “Her unsurpassed educa - very end, always open to addi - Cleo. tion at Oxford and Harvard tional information that might TNH reported in April com - speak to her intelligence…Her help her to draw sounder con - ments of praise of Burwell from having been selected…by Pres - clusions. Washington policy experts Andy ident Barack Obama to run the An even greater testament to Manatos and Leon Stavrou powerful White House Office of the respect Burwell commands (“Obama Picks Greek-American Management and Budget speaks on Capitol Hill was her confir - as HHS Secretary” Apr. 19): to her managerial competence. mation to the OMB by the Sen - “From my first counter with We are certain to be made ate last year, by a vote of 96-0. Sylvia Matthews over two proud as Greek-Americans by Sylvia epitomizes the best of took part in the Finals of our played an instrumental role in The HHS vote, albeit one-sided, decades ago, I realized that we the second cabinet level and Hellenism.” Greeks Give Back National Stu - sustaining the largest domestic was comparatively more divi - were lucky to have a person of first female cabinet level ap - Stavrou said “before she was dent Competition while serving policy achievement since Social sive, but that has less to do with her intelligence and experience pointee from our community. appointed head of OMB, Sylvia as president of the Walmart Security. Fr John Vlahos Chosen New Dean of NY Cathedral

Continued from page 1 fered to the world. We must continue in our own unique City. ways to offer that in a context “I know the Archdiocese will here in New York, of us here in select a wonderful successor in the East Coast, here in Amer - whose good and capable hands ica.” our Parish family will continue To that end, what of the to flourish as a deeply commit - Cathedral’s Day Greek-American ted and Christ-centered commu - School? Vlahos “absolutely” sup - nity.” ports it, he says. “The Greek Vlahos’ prayer is to bring to School is an asset and has great the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan potential. My goal is to help the Cathedral of New York “love, good people who have been peace, reconciliation, good will there doing so much for that and the mind of Christ. This is school. I am going to assist in everything that I want to do.” any way I can and make it the Vlahos told TNH that “I am best school possible”. honored that the archbishop Vlahos was born on April 8, and Bishop Andonios have con - 1975 in Merrillville, IN, to Stella fidence in me that I will be able and the late Anastasios Vlahos. to go there and to be with the Both his parents immigrated to people, to work with them, to the United States in the 1960s love them and to help them to Fr. John Vlachos presents Archbishop Demetrios of America from villages just outside of continue to build up the min - with a glass lion. Corinth. He has one sister, Faye, istries of the Cathedral.” and two brothers, Steve and Vlahos’ assignment was a Priesthood, to Vlahos, run from Him, during our busy Nicholas. Upon graduation from surprise to all. He said, “It was “means to continue in the life days. Orthodoxy’s message is we Merriville High School in 1993, really unexpected; it was some - of Christ which was to service cannot forget God in our lives. he enrolled at Indiana Univer - Evangelos Moras battles with Marcelo Martens in a game where thing that I didn’t seek, some - people and to feed them to help We cannot forget what it means sity and in 1997 he graduated Greece dominated in the first half and the defense held off thing that never really crossed them, to love them to the point to the lights of the world that with a degree in Public Finance. late charges by Bolivia in the 2nd to prevail 2-1 in NJ. my mind. When the archbishop of giving His life for them.” God is calling us to be, we can - In 2001, he earned a MDiv reached out to me and ex - “Every parish should be Crist- not be lights in the world unless from Holy Cross Greek Ortho - pressed to me that based on the centered, it is the Church.” And we are connected to Christ and dox School of Theology in fact that he knows me and he what does that mean? His Holy Church participate in Brookline, MA. At that point, he Greek National Team, knows what I can do and what “That Christ is the focus, said His Holy sacraments so we can married Tina Manolopoulos. I can’t do, he felt that this would Vlahos. Christ’s words “are the go out and be positive forces in The have two daughters: be a good fit at this time. I love words of life so our faith in Him our jobs, in homes, in our soci - Steliani and Andreana. in NJ, Beats Bolivia 2-1 and trust His Eminence and I and our actions have to line up ety.” He served as Assistant Direc - fell very peaceful about the as - together so that in everything An advocate of Hellenism, tor of the St. Photios National signment and I am hopeful that that we say, everything we Vlahos says “we are privileged Shrine in St. Augustine, FL from Continued from page 1 Attorney Greg Zapantis, who I am going to be able to do a think, everything we do my be to have such a distinguished 2001-2002, and was ordained enjoy the games with his good work there.” quieted by the love of Christ.” ethnicity and culture that goes in 2002 to the Holy Diaconate will only advance as far as their friends, was happy to see the As for Orthodoxy specifically, back millennia and so we en - in Merrillville. defense permits. defense-oriented Greek team How will he deal with the Vlahos says it has “the most im - hance and promote all of those From 2002-2006, he was an Most of that anxiety evapo - score two goals. Gerry Kitsopou - transition? “They are two differ - portant message: that God is not Greek qualities that are passed Archdeacon and was ordained rated as time ran out on Bolivia los was thrilled at Greece’s dom - ent places without a doubt,” against us, God is for us. He is down to us. We cannot be the as a priest in 2006, where he and the Greek-Americans inance and Dr. Ananias Vlahos said referring to the on our team. He loves us no generation that stops that posi - served until he joined Holy Res - capped their cheering with a cel - Adamidis agreed that it is a Brookville and Manhattan lo - matter what. We do not need to tive flow that Hellenism has of - urrection. ebration. promising start for the World cales, but plenty of the people Stathis Antonakakis, propri - Cup run. here [in Brookville] work in etor of the STIX Mediterranean Laura Neroulias, the presi - Manhattan so people are simi - Grill, told TNH “It’s great that dent of Cypriot Young Profes - lar. At the same time, the Cathe - we can see the team up close… sionals, attended with CYP dral has its own ministries, its they played well and we are member Stathis Theodoropou - own responsibilities, its own proud they are going to Brazil.” los and Andrew Timotheou, character, so I will try to fit the Like a number of spectators, who is visiting from Cyprus. best that I can, love the people he wished the community Brooklyn was well repre - make a beautiful home where would have shown more sup - sented at the arena. Friends people will feel comfortable, to port by filling the arena. Sophia Chasabenis and Maria be able to bring the children, to It was the first soccer game Seremetis, brought their young come and worship together be - outside Greece for Olympiakos children, Vasili and Vageli cause everyone wants to feel fan Anthony Haddjimanolis, Chasabenis, Theo and Alex like part of the family. So, we who came with this brother Seremetis and their friend are going to make the Cathedral Stathis. He was confident of vic - Orestis Skountzos. more of a family for 800 or so tory at half time, saying “Greece They all play soccer with the members.” is dominating…it is clearly the Church of the Kimisis’ YKT Vlahos’ priorities “are really better team.” youth group. to bring peace and to really es - Dentist Dena Constandelis Knowledgeable fans believe tablish a loving culture there. and her mom, Olga, who runs the Greek team matches up well We want the people to feel em - the offices Dena shares with her with the teams in its group and braced, to feel comfortable and father, Theodore, are big soccer they have high hopes they will connected there. We want the fans with roots near Thessa - make it past the first “knockout Parish Council to greet every - loniki. Her brother Nico, who round.” body, to smile, to learn people’s now lives in Maryland, plays Greece’s first match is against names, not to turn anyone away soccer, agreed the Greek team Colombia at noon EDT on Sat - but really to love people, to feel Dimitrios and Georgia Kaloidis Parochial School Graduation looked disciplined as they con - urday, June 14. Japan and Ivory a part of a loving family, so trolled the game. “They were Coast are the other teams in that’s what I will try to do. I am Charles Kambourakis, standing with alumni of the Kaloidis Parochial School of Holy Cross chasing and creating and de - their group, of which two will going to embrace everybody, be - Church, will be attending the Medical Science Institute at Midwood High School of Brooklyn fended well. advance to the next round. cause the Church is everybody.” College. Next year, the Kaloidis School is expects to increase enrollment. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY The Long (and Long-Lost) History of All-things-Greek in New York City

Continued from page 1 anakoulis saw all forms of Greek Greek-American intellectuals Greek culture in an American over and began to incorporate expression from Classical times during the interwar period, setting. These American-created and simultaneously recreate a individuals, Gianakoulis gath - to the present as fitting subject viewed the contributions and in - interpretations of Greek art have distinctly American sense of all ered the necessary information for their reports. The editors did fluence of Greek culture on the an independent life and history things Greek within their soci - to write his unfortunately-for - not. wider American society. Gi - of their own. ety. If Larabee is correct, then gotten book. Gianakoulis’ unpublished anakoulis was absolutely correct Complicating these facts one we can compare and contrast Gianakoulis wanted to write volume exists in the following in his observations. All the Clas - step further, as the FWP editors American notions of things about everything “Greek” in sections: Original Greek Settle - sical plays and the long tradi - demonstrate, American-based Greek with native Greek no - New York City. A true Hellene, ments, Greek Immigration, tions of Greek fraternal organi - writers can question Greek- tions. his FWP reports all begin with Greek Writers, Greek Press, Folk zations on American college Americans about their cultural Of course, one can say that the places and performances of Dances, Amusements (in several campus are without question interpretations but Greek-Amer - it was never Gianakoulis’ intent Classical Era a found in the city. parts), Appreciation of Greek part of the total social and sym - ican writers have no such cul - to compare or contrast anything Gradually, in the course of his Art, Greeks in Business, Greek bolic realm of things Greek in tural or intellectual authority to but rather to claim American reports, Gianakoulis goes on to Societies in the Metropolis, In - North America. turn the tables on the Anglos, Greek notions as part of native record the presence and activi - tellectual Life, and quite a num - AMERICAN IMAGINATION for the very good reason that Greek cultural expressions in ties of Greeks throughout the ber of pieces, which include bi - Simply because the FWP ed - the American scholars say so. North America. But it can’t be city. That approach did not meet ographies, labeled simply, itors or even scholars since the Ultimately, it is more important both ways. Either the “Greek” with official approval. General Essays. As with many 1930s have not recognized this to simply realize is that Ameri - cultural expressions are from In the FWP reports found at other FWP writers, a number of linkage does not mean it does can expressions of Greek culture American or native Greeks. That the Library of Congress, Gi - Gianakoulis’ essays were pub - not exist. The problem for the cannot be brought up for sounds fair enough, except that anakoulis’ assignment editor, Hellas Observed, by Stephen lished later in the Greek-Ameri - editors, as well as many con - counter-interpretations. Period. the FWP editors never took all Emanuel Kantor, crossed out Addison Larabee contends can press. Regrettably the New temporary scholars, isn’t solely This contention is supported that into consideration. more than 90% of the Classical that where Americans mis - York City sections have never on the issues of cultural or his - by Hellas Observed: The Amer - There is no apparent expla - references. Given the haphazard communicated the essence of seen publication. torical continuity. Rather what ican Experience of Greece, nation for why Gianakoulis’ manner in which FWP materials Greek arts in the United In terms of the Greek-Amer - remains unexamined is what ex - 1775-1865 by Stephen Addison manuscript never saw print. But were initially kept, until quite States, they did so not inad - ican arts, Gianakoulis’ book is actly did/do Anglo-Americans Larabee (New York: New York given the general conditions of recently not even most re - vertently, but in a conscious so very important because he the times in which it was con - searchers had the opportunity effort to Americanize them. literally packs every report with ceived and written, we can be to see the historical narrative an amazing array of names, fairly certain why this was the Gianakoulis completed. What ical Library. Yet it is still too dates, and events. No area of case. After the government follows is a survey taken from early to identify this fragmented the arts was omitted. We see ex - closed down the Federal Writer’s Gianakoulis’ literally hundreds collection of papers as Nick tensive discussions of Greek mu - project, everything came to a of pages: the background cir - John Matsoukas’ proposed FWP seum collections, theatrical pro - complete halt. No provisions cumstances under which Gi - volume, Children of Ulysses. ductions, dancers, movie actors, were made to preserve any ma - anakoulis worked and wrote, Other evidence suggests that the folk dancers, singers, painters, terials generated by the FWP re - and some of what he recorded internationally-noted photogra - poets, traditional folk musicians searchers. Many documents, in - on the Greek arts of New York pher Wallace Kirkland (1891- at summer picnics, Greek school cluding photographs and City. 1979) twice documented productions, church acting original materials, were lost for - THE BIG PICTURE Chicago’s Greektown area, dur - troupes, visiting performers ever. As we know from the rec - The Greeks in New York City ing Easter celebrations, for Mat - from Greece and fraternal orga - ollections of a number of senior manuscript clearly followed the soukas’ volume. nization sponsored events. Gi - Greek-American writers, during highly-detailed FWP ten-page Building on the earlier FWP anakoulis took great pains to the Great Depression there sim - instruction guide, The Greeks in reports and studies of Greeks gather his data. Extensive ply was no press, Greek or America: Instructions for Socio- around the country Dr. Carl Ble - quotes from interviews and American, which was willing to Ethnic Field Studies, written in gen (1887-1971), drew upon newspaper accounts are inter - take the chance of publishing 1935 by Carl Malmberg and the Office of Strategic Service woven throughout his reports. any strictly Greek-American his - M.W. Royce. All across the coun - (OSS) documentation to com - Aside from his Hellenistic torical or cultural volumes be - try Greeks were being inter - plete his historical study, some - perspective, Gianakoulis also be - cause of the severity of the eco - viewed and written about based time around 1943, The Greek lieved that anyone who was per - nomic crisis. on this guide. Community in the United forming a Greek derived art From our perspective in his - Greeks in New York City is States. Professor Blegen was an form must be included in his re - tory we know (or should real - only one of several unpublished internationally-recognized Clas - ports. Any professional theatri - ize) that unpublished manu - FWP volumes on the Greeks in sical archaeologist. It is espe - cal troupe be they American, scripts such as Gianakoulis’ are North America. The Greeks of cially surprising, given his con - British or Greek presenting a critical to see in print. These Florida is based on reports col - siderable academic stature, that Greek Classical Drama was in - Federal Writer Project volumes lected by FWP state supervisor this manuscript has never seen cluded in his survey on Greek A statue of the Greek Games at Barnard College in New York are the lost historical studies of Carita Doggett Corse and a print. Arts. Gianakoulis went so far as City, presented to the College by the Class of 1905, which Greeks in the United States. number of other fieldworkers. NYC ARTS to describe the Greek Festivals founded the Games in 1903. The Greek Games were one of These Greek American FWP vol - While the Florida volume was Gianakoulis presented his re - and Games at New York’s many Greek artistic and cultural phenomena in New York City umes fill the gap between the never published in a single vol - ports in a consistent manner. Barnard College. This all-inclu - about which Theodore Gianakoulis wrote. earlier published accounts of the ume, it appeared in an ex - The only problem was none of sive approach on what consti - early-1900s and those written tremely popular serialized form, his editors ever shared that his - tuted things Greek in North think or mean by actively seek - University Press, 1957). after World War II. The Greek in Athene Magazine from 1941 torical view. Consequently, his America, again met with official ing out Classical Greek art or Larabee, argues that it was communities of Florida, Illinois, until 1943. reports are heavily edited. Gi - disfavor. All such sections are performing Ancient Greek never simply a matter of Amer - New York City and elsewhere Two Illinois volumes on anakoulis and his editors dif - struck out in the edited reports. plays? Obviously since they are icans becoming more factually have waited far too long to hear Greek-Americans were planned. fered on what was admissible Gianakoulis, especially in consciously seeking to recreate knowledgeable about Classical and see again this long lost What seems to be a long-run - as Greek culture. Along with these omitted Classical sections Classical Greek art in dance or Greek civilization. For Larabee world of our forefathers. ning manuscript is reported to many of the other Greek FWP to his FWP reports, is a perfect drama they are making/enact - what is more interesting is that exist at the Illinois State Histor - writers and field collectors, Gi - example of how the majority of ing their own interpretation of the American imagination took [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Dying to Live

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos neighbor, Fanis, who had retired “Isidoros, I’ve come to ask a looks out on smoky landscapes second thought he said, “Why fragrant thyme and Oregano Special to The National Herald recently, and who could com - very big favor of you. I know it’s and noisy streets. Please, Not! I haven’t been there since I grew wild, sailed in a borrowed pare his own riches with a strange request and you’ll Isidoros!” In a painful plea, he was a kid. Sure, Fanis! Let’s go!” boat to fish and slept each af - Isidoros Manolakis was a Isidoros. Aside from him there think me some kind of crazy begged his friend, “I’ve never It was agreed that they’d go to ternoon like all the inhabitants wealthy man having worked were few others in his life. He man but...” Isidoros laughed. asked anyone for anything - my Isidoros’ birth place. They ar - on the island. A year later, hard to achieve what he had. looked forward to the moments “Don’t say that! What’s on your son can’t...” tears sprung into rived on a sun bathed island Isidoros realized he’d never An apartment with every latest when they’d get together for cof - mind?” He noticed the pallor on his tired eyes. He had lived and floating on an aqua marine sea. been happier. He hadn’t missed convenience, a Porsche in the fee once in a while. his friend’s face, his trembling worked honestly, treated people Small white houses dotted the any of the conveniences, his underground garage, a Rolex on The news in the paper was hands, thin, almost bony figure. fairly and did his best for his landscape as they entered the movie room or Porsche, or his wrist, he lived in the busiest, never good! A woman murdered “I’ve come to ask you to go to family when he had one. “You’re house of Isidoros’ childhood, newspapers with horrendous noisiest city in the world – New her husband; a husband mur - Greece with me.” Isidoros my only hope - don’t let me die where fig and olive trees shaded news. He didn’t even need the York. Evenings, rather than get dered his wife, a child is miss - looked stunned. “Greece? here – in this gray prison. I’m a court yard in back. The bril - gym. He called his attorney, or - mugged again, he stayed home ing, robberies are plaguing Why?” dying, Isidoros! I’ll pay all ex - liant sun flooded every room. dering him to, ‘sell everything and pored over newspapers, Brooklyn, a senator was found “I have no one else anymore. penses.” Isidoros sensed his Fanis felt an elation and eupho - and transfer the money to magazines or watched his big guilty of accepting bribes, a My wife died, my son is married friend’s unhappiness and des - ria that lifted his spirits. He Athens.’ After six more months, screen T.V. For physical exercise priest was found guilty on un - and lives in California...I want peration, keenly. “It’s not the ex - smiled, looking like a child en - Isidoros, turning serious, told he attended a gym instead of speakable crimes and more bad to go home... to die.” Seeing penses, Fanis; not at all. tering a bakery as he went to Fanis, “Hey! You forgot some - jogging in the fresh air like he news in the stock market. A Isidoros’ pensive expression he It’s...leaving...suddenly...” he claim the room that overlooked thing!” Fanis looked concerned, used to before being attacked in knock at his door brought Fanis. explained, “The doctors have looked around the luxurious the sparkling sea – where fish - ‘I did? What have I forgotten?” Central Park. “Come in, Fanis. Sit down. Glad given me six months to live. I apartment. But, here was a man ing boats sailed, lazily on oily- Laughing, he said, “You forgot His daughter had married to see you. ” Isidoros poured co - don’t want to go through more who was facing death. How calm waters. to die.” Fanis, face uplifted and and moved away, busy with her gnac for him and himself and treatments, expenses and then could he disappoint a dying man In the days following, they smiling, said, “You’re wrong, own children. Although he lived sat across from him noticing a waiting to die on a hard bed sur - – a friend? He realized that his visited the tavern, making friend. We both died – and went in relative luxury he was a marked difference in his de - rounded by strangers in four response, alone, would be up - friends, walked up the narrow to heaven,” he waved his hand, lonely man. Excepting for a meanor. bare walls and a window that lifting. So, without giving it a paths going over the hills where pointing to their surroundings.

Harry Mark Petrakis: How a Chicagoan Brought New York City, Briefly, to a Standstill

Continued from page 1 by another friend, Vasiliki Sarant, cently endowed beauties with by a woman beside me crying, the widow of the brilliant writer only the tiniest fragments of “Egg sandwich on wheat!” Pittsburgh. My flight from Isaac Rosenfeld, went to the roof clothing concealing their bodies. I was outraged and seethed Chicago to Pittsburgh for an in - garden of an elegant New York They pranced and danced, strut - as I waited for her order to be terview was being paid and I hotel to celebrate. We sipped ted and swayed, until my filled. Meanwhile, having wit - arranged a stop in New York to champagne and, seeking to cool stunned eyes, suffering sensory nessed my vulnerability, a dozen meet Toni Strassman. We had my fevered psyche, I walked out overload, began to blur. After - smirking deli patrons surged lunch and, afterwards, she took on the terrace. Under a star- wards, walking the Manhattan forward to bypass me again. me to meet the editors at Viking adorned sky, the skyline of New streets on my way back to my From deep in my chest I bel - Press. She did not tell me she had York glittered below me. hotel, I marveled at the peerless lowed, “Two bagels and two cof - sent those editors the first 60 In pallid imitation of words wisdom of my choice. fees!” pages of my new novel. spoken about New York by a A decade later, my wife and I I hadn’t realized how loudly I will never forget the two writer I vastly admired, the gar - were visiting New York staying I shouted until, perhaps fearing renowned editors I met that day. gantuan novelist Thomas Wolfe, at the Wyndham on 58th Street. my impassioned bellow was the Marshal Best was the Managing I vowed, “I’ll bring you to your Rising early the morning after cry of a terrorist demanding si - Director, and the other man, a knees, bitch goddess!” our arrival, my wife still in bed, I lence, the deli froze into silence. senior editor bearing a great Back in my hotel which bor - went down to bring back some Ignoring the disapproving ex - mane of white hair, was Pascal dered Central Park, I phoned my breakfast from one of the ubiq - pressions from patrons I passed, Covici. Both men were legends wife for the third time that night Harry Mark Petrakis uitous and aromatic delis that I carried my bagels and coffee in publishing. Best had brought and while we spoke of a future abound in New York. back to the Wyndham. into print the work of Wallace stunningly resurrected from fu - TV comedian whose self-analysis theater across the street from The The interior of the deli was The following day, as our Stevens, Dorothy Parker, and Er - tility and failure, the clomping of takes place within a dysfunc - Last Analysis was performing the crowded with men and women flight ascended from LaGuardia skine Caldwell in the United the horse carriages carrying tional group of relatives and Follies Bergére, a cabaret musical snacking before work. Behind the for the return trip to Chicago, States and Graham Greene in tourists through Central Park friends. from Paris that had played to en - counters, fleet-footed waiters from our plane window I looked England. Covici was editor and could be heard through my open Bellow and I shared the same thralled audiences around the took orders, while agile-fingered down at the glistening, receding friend to a number of eminent window. In that moment, I felt bright and engaging attorney, world. cooks tossed eggs and bacon onto landscape of New York. I remem - writers. Saul Bellow, John Stein - New York to be an enchanted city. Samuel Freifeld. I had dined sev - Convincing myself that I the glowing grills. bered my foolish boast made beck, and Shirley Jackson would A dozen years later, alone in eral times with Bellow in Sam’s would simply check if seats were I moved slowly forward in a decades earlier about bringing each dedicate one of their novels New York with an open evening, residence, so while we were not available, I inquired at the box line, biding my turn. When the the great city to its knees, a feat I to Covici. I planned to attend one of the close friends, I had come to know office. The cashier told me a sec - waiter across from me cried, had never accomplished. Best and Covici had read my plays being performed on Broad - the writer whose work I admired. ond row center seat had just been “Next!” I started to order at the But I felt a curious and per - novel. They praised the work and way. I considered it would be gratify - cancelled. same instant a man behind me haps perverse satisfaction be - offered me a contract on Lion at In a theater whose name I ing the next time I met Bellow to I could not resist that cried, “Bagel and coffee… black!” cause, for a moment, I had man - my Heart with an advance of cannot remember, a play had tell him I had seen The Last serendipitous opportunity. For I glared at the intruder in aged to freeze a small fraction of $1500. My delight was bound - been adapted from Saul Bellow’s Analysis and then we could dis - the next two hours I sat mesmer - silent reprimand. After the waiter the population of the Big Apple less! book, The Last Analysis. That cuss the production. ized before a pageant of song and filled his order, I started to order into a stunned and attentive si - Afterwards, Toni and I joined dark comedy involved a cast-off But there was a dilemma. The dance performed by magnifi - once more and was preempted lence. 8 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014 Always Papa, Never Dad

By Dr. Constantina or Diomedes, seeking glory in been a farmer, harvesting olives polo player over his heart. He Michalos his journey. But he was cer - and figs from the various ho - was cool without even trying, tainly heroic, leaving his parents rafia. In New York, he was a what Renaissance courtiers My father’s name was and everything that was familiar dish washer at the Horn & called sprezzatura. He wore a Nicholas Constantine Michalos. for an unknown future in New Hardart, a job that did not re - fedora that looked better on him He was born in 1900 and died York. He traveled with my Theio quire English. He also worked than on Jon Hamm. His over - in 1972. In Book II of The Iliad, Yianni, my mother’s oldest as a furrier but found his calling coat had huge pockets that were Homer catalogues the men who brother. Between the two of as a chef. My mother said he always filled with candy. His fa - went to Troy. Among the 142, them, they knew no English, but looked like a banker. He wore vorites were Peppermint Patties 550 Greeks are men from Nisy - they had enough tharos to sus - three-piece suits, button-down and Cracker Jacks. I ate every - ros, a small island in the Dode - tain themselves and prevail. I shirts, cuff links and a tie clasp. thing else. He loved pie but did - canese that is my parents’ birth - never asked how he felt when His shirts weren’t always white. n’t eat the crusts. And we could place. My father, an only child, he saw the Statue of Liberty in He wore light blue, yellow, gray, polish off a bag of oatmeal cook - left Nisyros for America when New York Harbor. even pink shirts before they ies, sitting opposite each other, he was 19. He was no Achilles On Nisyros, my father had were stylish – and without a dunking them in milk. No dunking in public. Only in the kitchen. I loved watching him eat. He would put down his knife and fork between bites and chew thoughtfully, savoring every morsel. And he ate bread with every meal. Only barbar - ians didn’t eat bread. Apparently, back on Nisyros, a couple of ladies were pining for my father. A heart throb. Who knew? But my yiayia took to her sick bed and refused to emerge until he married my mother. He left her behind, re - turning to New York to now pre - history. But that wasn’t going close to their faces, and pare a life for his family. My to happen now, and he was okay watched. Right after Armstrong sister Mary did not know our fa - with that. uttered his famous words, my ther until she arrived in New My father was a patient, father said, “Very nice, pethaki York when she was four. People humble man. I say this not from mou.” And they went back to asked her how she would rec - some nostalgic mythologizing of their game. He had lived to see ognize him, and she answered a deceased parent. I have em - airplane technology evolve into that he would be the one hold - pirical proof and eyewitness ac - space travel, but he never be - ing all the toys. counts. Five females and one lieved the moon landing. He They lived on 145th Street bathroom. Need I say more? didn’t know where Arizona is, and Riverside Drive until I was My father was an only child, but but he figured this had all been born, when they moved to my mother had six siblings. staged in some American desert. Washington Heights. By the Only a preternaturally patient We always kissed him on the time I was born, my three sisters man could be the patriarch of top of his head, and he said that were old enough to consider me such a tribe. He didn’t seek that was why he was bald. When I more of a nuisance than a sib - title. My Theio Miltiadi, the asked why he was handsome in - ling. They also complained that other outsider brother-in-law, stead of rich, he corrected me. Orpheus Awards I was spoiled because I was the named him that. Actually, he “I have $4 million, one for each baby. One thing is certain – I called him Abraham, with all daughter.” That was a lot of The eighth annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival concluded on June 8 with the presentation got THE NAME. My grandfa - that that name implies. Every money back then. of the Orpheus Awards. Miss Violence, directed by Alexandros Avranas won Best Feature. thers were both Constantine. Saturday night, they all played As we drove to the cemetery Crossed Lives (Spyros Teskos, director) won for Best Documentary and also won the Audience Patiently waiting for a son, my cards. If he was winning, my when he died, I remember an Choice Award. Red Hulk (Asimina Proedrou, director) was chosen Best Short Film. The Special parents followed every naming father would get up at an op - old man stop and place his hat Jury Award was given to The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Elina Psykou, director), tradition for my sisters. . .and portune moment, announce over his heart as my father’s and special mention to Travel Express (Natassa Xydi, director). waited. And then I came along. “’Night all,” and go to bed. If hearse passed. That made me Constantina. My mother always he was losing, no one moved. smile, that a total stranger said that when I was a good girl, On July 20, 1969, they were sit - would honor him so simply. My I had been named for her father, ting around the dining room sister Mary was talking, and she but when I was naughty, I had table playing cards as I sat on said something about dad. Sit - been named for her father-in- the floor watching Neil Arm - ting in the back between the THE HERALD SQUARE law. The amazing part in all strong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael other two, I leaned over and this is that my father never Collins make history. As Arm - asked Sybil, “Did she have an - TNH's Crossword Challenge made me feel that he was dis - strong emerged from Apollo 11, other father?” appointed because I was not a I called everyone’s attention to “Are you crazy? What are boy. As an only son in a patri - the TV. “Look. Look. He’s go - you talking about?” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 archal culture, he had a respon - ing to walk on the moon.” They “Well, who’s dad? I had a sibility to carry the surname into stopped, still holding their cards Papa.” 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Expert Andreas Zinelis Talks Wine 19 20 21 22 23 24

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I find that cultural region in Greece that 60 61 styles – refreshing, crisp white they can often compete with top you really enjoy, or any wines, brooding reds – and they wine producing regions in the specific winemakers you 62 63 64 65 pair beautifully with Greek cui - world and they will continue to have your eye on? sine. The market for Greek do so in the future. I just can’t TNH: I believe in many 66 67 68 wines is steadily growing in the wait till that arrives! Greek islands being able to pro - United States, and trying a new TNH: How do you think the duce very high quality Greek wine by the glass at a great Greek wine market in the wines, Naoussa, which is North - www.CrosswordWeaver.com restaurant is the perfect way for United States will progress in ern Greece known for its cooler ACROSS 13 Mr. Bogart consumers to learn more and the coming years? climate, more specifically Xino - 1 Movie about killer shark 16 Bi g Red Ma chine's Conception explore that territory. Zinelis AZ: As mavro, which has tremendous 3 "It's __ v. them" 21 Dept. of Education and Science (abbrev.) gives us more insight into his more potential as well as some newer 5 You lose it when you stand up 23 Gr a ven imag e delicious world of wine: areas popping up in central 8 S windle , info rmally 24 Cl a ssic Martin i ingred ient TNH: Do you find that your Greece. Obviously, the Pelopon - 11 E=MC2 genius (init.) 25 Greek sporstcaster Bob clientele are already familiar nese such as Nemea and Manti - 12 Gr eek suff ix meaning fear 26 Po l iticall y incor rect w ay to say CE with Greek wines, styles and va - neia will be high up on my list 14 Ne ga tive 28 Pin e Wine? rietals or are they exploring new as well. Economou, Sklavos, 15 Pu lverize 29 Op timum T V reso lution ( abbrev. ) territory? Thymiopoulos, Neratzi, 17 Miners' Coll. (abbrev.) 31 Common ending letters of Greek females' AZ: Most of our guests are Greek Gerovassiliou and Parparoussis 18 W icked G ames singr. (init.) su rna m es not familiar with Greek wines, wines enter 19 __-Ho , trendy M anha ttan neighborhood 32 "In __:" about however many have grasped the U.S. mar - 20 Father and son presidents 37 Johnny ___ of the Godfather, Part II certain buzz words such as San - ket, the quality 22 Sq uare root of sixty-four 38 Sin gular of are torini, Assyrtiko, Nemea, etc., continuously 25 Sto ne age abode 39 Ty p e of re d wi n e that intrigues them to learn improving, 27 5 01, to Caesar 41 Ha pp y Days' Moran more about them. We are al - educat - 28 Lindos is on this island 43 Silent mot. picture legend (init.) ways happy to educate our ing con - 30 P rominen t Salem Fami ly on Days of Our 44 Fa l l behin d guests about Greek wines as sumers Live s 45 Ra y Robinso n or Ray Leonard Nickname well as spirits that never seems and of - 33 Asner and Sullivan 49 Coffee alternative to disappoint them. fering 34 Regr et 51 M a ine's Olympia TNH: What advice would more 35 P opul ar hospital-ba sed TV show 52 NB A's "Answ er" (init.) you give to someone looking at competi - 36 "Dou ble, do uble, ____ and trouble" 53 "P r etty W oma n" sngr. (init.) a list of Greek wines who is un - tive pric - 40 Elite naval force 54 Rght. away! (abbrev.) familiar? ing when ap - 4 2 Group of islands containing Sifnos 57 Bo s t. Red S ox Legend ( init.) AZ: I would recommend by plicable 46 Ind ian Riv er Socc er Assn. (abbrev.) 58 Un de r's opposite trying what they offer by the due to 47 Taxi 62 Pa's wife glass as an introduction as it 48 Salt Lake Ci ty's st. ( abb rev.) 63 "__ apple a day ke eps the do ctor away " highlights a lot of Greek flavor Greece’s 50 Chemical symbol for nickel 65 Em ancip ation Procl amato r (init.) profiles. If a sommelier is avail - eco - 51 ____ Lee (bak ed goods company) able at a restaurant, I would nomic 55 A Beatle Solution to last week’s puzzle take advantage of that and have plight are 56 Saint honored on January 17 one go over certain Greek wines all pro - P Q R M A A R T H U R 59 Battery size with them. At Nerai, I always pelling fac - are 60 War Veterans Org. (abbrev.) I D E A L J M O L E tell our guests especially when tors for Greek all 61 Famous surname at Indy 500 E R A T A O N S I G it comes to Greek wines, that wines success in produc - 62 Pa's wife S O N C H E C K E R S G ordering a bottle is not like buy - the U.S. In addition, ers to look 64 Albino screaming rock sngr. (init.) B E N C H K W I I ing a house, I would be happy as consumers enjoy the at out for; styl - 66 A Papandreou to bring something for them adventure and passion that istically all are different and P U Y C N Y V I E 67 Greek prefix meaning opposite that they will be happy with in - comes with new wines from all masters of different grapes of 68 The Sunshine State (abbrev.) A S I D I S Y O E I stead. Thus, our guests feel over the world and price vs Greece. T D A L A U R E N more comfortable ordering quality equation, Greek wines AZ: What are a few of your DOWN H O R T O N A V K U K something that they know noth - will find many fans as they offer favorite food and wine pairings 1 Military Esqs. (abbrev.) A A W L M T V S A C ing about, but trust the somme - truly unique flavors from unique from the menu at Nerai? 2 Greek prefix meaning air or space R A G C A L E X R lier blindly. and indigenous varietals. I love pairing our charred oc - 4 VHS speed (abbrev.) TNH: What changes have TNH: What are a few of your topus, with bright and crisp 5 Plenty D N K R O N O S I E S E you seen in Greek wine, and in go-to favorite bottles, Greek or whites; heavier and more aro - 6 Mr. Lincoln, informally I D A B O O E G S A T the Greek wine industry in gen - otherwise? matic white with our duck 7 Alternative to cigarette or cigar N L E S B O S G H A W E eral, since you started your ca - There are many Greek wines moussaka, as well as fish with 9 Foot subdivision G R I N D K F O T I U reer? that enjoy depending on the lighter body reds as for many it 10 The man who came to dinner? AZ: Greek wines have come mood as well as my meal. Some is still unorthodox, however car - a long way. Over the decades, unique ones that I am a great ries limitless pairing potentials. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014 COMMUNITY 9

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LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE n ANASTASIOU, NIKOLAOS n DEMETROULES, MICHAEL Panagiota Karakitsos. He was a Renovation Fund, 600 East Notice of formation of WU PROPERTY IVAT, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY BEVERLY HILLS, FL (From the RUTHERFORD, NJ (From the veteran of the Greek Army. He Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28203 or MANAGEMENT LLC. (DOM LLC). Articles of Orga - on 3/18/14. Office location: Kings County. Citrus County Chronicle, pub - Star-Ledger, published on May owned and operated John's St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox nization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY is designated as agent upon whom lished on May 30) – Nikolaos G. 29) – Michael Demetroules died Coney Island on the corner of Church 5108 Kuykendall Rd., (SSNY) on 05/20/14. Office location: Kings County. process against the LLC may be served. SSNY SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon shall mail process to c/o Aaron Ivatorov, 3040 Anastasiou, 66, of Beverly Hills, May 27, 2014, in Hackensack Dye and Corunna Roads since Charlotte, NC 28270. Arrange - whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall Ave. U, Brooklyn, NY 11229. General Purpose. Florida, passed away May 29, University Medical Center. He 1971. Mr. Karakitsos married ments are in the care of Hankins mail a copy of any process to: WU PROPERTY 273773/10709 2014. He was born to George was 77. Visiting will be on Fri - Agathie Koroboki June 2, 1957 & Whittington Funeral Service MANAGEMENT LLC, 458 48th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. and Evangelia Anastasiou in day from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Ar - in Kalamata, Greece and she 1111 East Blvd. Charlotte, NC. 273815/119097 Evvia, Greece, April 9, 1948. He mitage and Wiggins Funeral preceded him in death April 5, Please share condolences online LEGAL NOTICE served as a seaman in the Greek Home, 596 Belgrove Drive, 1996. He was a member of the at www.hankinsandwhitting - Notice of formation of HANSTALLION 5004 Merchant Marines then moved Kearny, N.J. His funeral will be Assumption Greek Orthodox ton.com. LEGAL NOTICE LLC. (DOM. LLC) Articles of Organization filed with New York Secretary of State to the USA where he opened a in St. George Greek Orthodox Church. Surviving are: four chil - Notice of Formation of DENIS AYDA LLC a (SSNY) on 03/31/2014. Office location. restaurant for 10 years in the Church in Clifton, N.J., on Sat - dren, Paula and husband Andy n NICAS, STANLEY (DOM LLC). Articles of Organization filed with Kings County. SSNY is designated Agent of the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on LLC upon whom process may be served. Gallery Mall in Center City, urday at 9:30 a.m. Burial will Star of Burton, Helen and hus - LEICESTER, MA (From the 04/16/2014. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, Pennsylvania. He moved to follow at Hillside Cemetery, Lyn - band Tony Urban of Geneva, IL, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, SSNY is designated as agent upon whom 5420 6TH AVENUE 2FL., BROOKLYN, NY Florida and invested in a six- dhurst, N.J. To leave online con - Susie and husband Gus Naum published on May 29) – LEICES - process against the LLC may be served. SSNY 11220. Purpose: Any lawful activity. shall mail process to: DENIS AYDA LLC, 74 273774/18596 unit apartment complex. Nick - dolences, please visit www.ar - of Grand Blanc, and Peter and TER - Stanley J. Nicas, the Round Hill Road, East Hills, NY 11577. Purpose: olaos worked very hard all his mitagewiggins.com Born in wife Litsa Karakitsos of Flush - owner and executive chef of the Any Lawful Purposes. LEGAL NOTICE 273811/19091 life and was a loving and dedi - Livadia Telos, Greece, Michael ing; nine grandchildren, Anna Castle Restaurant, died Sunday, Notice of formation of ARMSTRONG cated husband and father. He lived in North Arlington, N.J., Star and fiance Joel Veenstra, May 25, at UMass Memorial VENTURES LLC. (DOM. LLC) Articles of Or - ganization filed with New York Secretary loved boating, animals, fishing before moving to Rutherford in Tonie Star, Mark Urban, Andrea Medical Center. He leaves his LEGAL NOTICE and working on his truck which 1981. Michael was a very hard Urban, Dr. Jerry Naum, Sophia daughter, Evangeline H. Nicas; of State (SSNY) on 05/14/2014. Office lo - Notice of Formation of HANG FAI REALTY LLC, cation. Kings County. SSNY is designated he was especially determined to working man, and a generous Naum, Thoula, Lula, and Angela son, James S. Nicas and wife a (DOM LLC). Articles of Organization filed Agent of LLC upon whom process may be make run to 300k miles. He but humble man. He was a gen - Karakitsos; sister-in-law, Voula Denise; granddaughter, Nicole with the Secretary of State of New York served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The ARMSTRONG VENTURES LLC, 189 worked at Seven Rivers Re - eral contractor in New York City, Helton of Grand Blanc; and sev - and husband Joshua Rovner; (SSNY) on 05/16/2014. Office location: Rich - mond County. SSNY is designated as agent SCHERMERHORN STREET, UNIT 8E, gional Medical Center for over and was a member of Aphea. eral nieces and nephews. He granddaughter, Laurier and hus - upon whom process against the LLC may be BROOKLYN, NY 11201. Purpose: Any seven years and was lovingly re - Husband of the late Evelyn (nee was also preceded in death by band Andrew Alder; grandsons, served, SSNY shall mail process to: TAI SHING lawful activity. LIU, 98 Croak Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314. 273775/19066 ferred to as the "Mayor of Seven Kabajy), Michael is survived by his parents and three siblings. Alexander, Charles and Jack Purpose: Any Lawful Purposes. Rivers". His dream was to retire his children and their wives, The family wishes to extend spe - Nicas; and great-grandchildren, 273807/19090 to Tennessee where he loved to Emmanuel and Claire cial thanks to Serenity House Desmond and Maxwell. His son, LEGAL NOTICE vacation. There, he single hand - Demetroules, Maria and Sam and their caring staff and Kim John S. Nicas, passed in 2005. Notice of formation of CALAY, LLC. Articles of Or - edly built a cabin for himself Karadimos, and Elaine and Nick and Mark of Home and Hospice Helen K. Nicas, the love of his LEGAL NOTICE ganization (DOM. LLC) filed with the Secretary and his sons. Nikolaos visited Economou. He was the brother Advantage. life and wife of 56 years, passed NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/14. Office loca - his family in Greece at least of Irene, Nina, Andy, Peter, Vin - in 2004. Stanley is survived by COMPANY. NAME: HEIGHTS EQUITIES BK, LLC. tion, Kings County. SSNY has been designated as Articles of Organization were filed with the Sec - agent of the LLC upon whom process against it every two years and spoke often nie and Popy. He is also survived n LAGIS, TRESA one brother, Ilia of Greece. He retary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/31/14. may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Secre - of his homeland. Born in the Or - by all his favorite grandchildren, KANSAS CITY, MO (From the was predeceased by his brothers Office location: Kings County. SSNY has been tary of State, 1 Commerce Plaza, Albany, NY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom 12260. Purpose: Any lawful act. thodox Greek faith, he attended Jessica, Nicole, Veronica, Kevin, Kansas City Star, published on Gregory, Kristo, Thanasi, process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail 2737331/19045 the Greek Orthodox Church in Michael, Katerina, Evan and Jun. 5) – Tresa Lagis, 79, Kansas Nicholas, Kosta and Vasili, and a copy of process to the LLC, 137 Montague Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and Maria. City, MO, passed away June 4, his sisters Vivian, Sophia and Street, #319, Brooklyn, New York 11201. in later years the Cornerstone 2014. Funeral services will be 1 Elizabeth (Sava). He leaves Purpose: For any lawful purpose. LEGAL NOTICE 273810/17973 Baptist Church in Beverly Hills. n GONIS, GEORGE p.m., Saturday, June 7, 2014 at many nieces, nephews and Notice of formation of STUDIO 3D MARKETING LLC Nikolaos is survived by his lov - SAVANNAH, GA (From the Sa - Annunciation Greek Orthodox cousins in the U.S. and Greece. Articles of Organization (Dom LLC) filed with the Secretary of State NY (SSNY) on 04/17/2014. ing wife, Susan Anastasiou; chil - vannah Morning News, pub - Church, 12001 Wornall Rd., Stanley was born on May 29, LEGAL NOTICE Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated dren, Nickolas (Stephanie) lished on May 31) – George Kansas City, MO 64145; burial 1923, in Milford, Mass., the son Notice of Formation of DTK SERVICE as agent upon whom process against the LLC may Anastasiou and Peter (Tricia) Elias Gonis - SAVANNAH - in Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Visita - of Dimitrius and Panagio (Nat - SOLUTIONS, LLC (DOM LLC). Articles of Or - be served. SSNY shall mail process to: THE LLC, Anastasiou; siblings, Paginiota George Elias Gonis, 79, of Sa - tion will be 6-8 p.m., Friday at sis) Nikas. Less than a year later, ganization filed with the Secretary of State of 1158 McDonald Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11230. New York (SSNY) on 05/09/2014. Office loca - Purpose: Any lawful activity. (Kosta) and Lefftera Anastasiou; vannah, died on Sunday, May Mt. Moriah & Freeman Funeral Stanley's family returned to tion: Nassau County. SSNY is designated as 273734/19049 and sister-in-law, Marina Anas - 25, 2014, at his home with his Home, 10507 Holmes Rd. A Tri - Northern Epirus, Greece, to care agent upon whom process against the LLC may tasiou all of Greece; nephews, wife by his side. Born in Jersey asgion service will begin at 7 for his grandmother. He grew up be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mr. Deyan Kazakov, 3377 Hewlett Avenue, LEGAL NOTICE Yannie and Demetrie (Litza) City, New Jersey, he was the son p.m. In lieu of flowers, memor - there, working in his father's Merrick, NY 11566 . Purpose: Any Lawful Pur - Notice of Formation of THE SPACE AND also of Greece. of the late Elias George Gonis ial contributions may be made general store and as an appren - poses. STRUCTURE COMPANY LLC Arts. of Org. filed A memorial service will be held and Maria Galanos Gonis. to the church. Tresa was born tice chef. In 1939, Italians in - 273803/19089 with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/07/14. Office location: Kings County. SSNY for Nikolaos at 3 p.m. Sunday, George graduated from New November 30, 1934 in vaded the region at the start of designated as agent of LLC upon whom June 1, 2014, at Brown Funeral York University, earning a Bach - Axlathokabos, Greece. She mar - World War II and the U.S. in - process against it may be served. SSNY shall Home & Crematory in Lecanto. elor's Degree in Chemistry, and ried Spyros G. Lagis and to - structed its citizens to return LEGAL NOTICE mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: In lieu of flowers, the family Lehigh University where he gether they emigrated to the home. As the only male U.S. cit - COMPANY. NAME: CITY PARTNERS LLC. Articles Any lawful activity. wishes donations be made to earned Masters and Doctorate U.S. Tresa was very active in the izen in his family, 15-year-old of Organization were filed with the Secretary of 273752/17976 HPH Hospice, 3545 N. Lecanto degrees in Organic Chemistry. Greek community and at the Stanley boarded the SS Rex for State of New York (SSNY) on 02/26/14. Office location: Kings County. SSNY has been Hwy. Beverly Hills, FL 34465. In 1964, he began work at Annunciation Greek Orthodox New York alone, armed with just designated as agent of the LLC upon whom LEGAL NOTICE Brown Funeral Home and Cre - Union Camp Corporation's Re - Church. She was a loving $20 and a few English words. process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY matory, Lecanto, www.brownfu - search and Development Divi - mother, grandmother and loved Stanley met an uncle in a copy of process to the LLC, 16 Court Street, COMPANY. NAME: PALLOR LLC. Articles of Organi - Suite 2000, Brooklyn, New York 11241. Purpose: zation were filed with the Secretary of State of New neralhome.com, www.face - sion in Princeton, New Jersey, everyone. Mrs. Lagis was pre - Stoughton, Mass., and spent sev - For any lawful purpose. York (SSNY) on 04/15/14. Office location: Nassau book.com/brownfuneralhomea and soon after married his wife, ceded in death by her husband eral years working in area 273809/17973 County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the ndcrematory. Mary Ann. In the early 1970's, Spyros G. Lagis. Survivors in - restaurants. After Pearl Harbor, LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Mr. Skyler they moved to Georgia, ulti - clude her son George Lagis and Stanley enlisted in the U.S. Navy Rencher, 146 Locustwood Blvd, Elmont, NY 11003. n CALLIGAS, ARETI mately settling in Savannah, his wife Jana; grandchildren and served on the U.S.S. Bunker LEGAL NOTICE Purpose: For any lawful purpose. BERKELEY, CA (From the San where he continued to work in Ross & Kate; sister Theodora Hill CV-17, an aircraft carrier THE OUTFIT M&J,LLC, A FOREIGN LLC. 273746/19057 Francisco Chronicle, published Union Camp's Chemical Divi - Alexopoulos. Condolences may stationed in the Pacific Ocean, Legal Notice THE OUTFIT M&J, LLC, a foreign LLC, filed a Certificate of Authority with New York De - on May 25) – Aretie Spyridaki sion. Upon retiring from Union be made at www.mtmoriah- from 1942 through 1945, rising part ment of State, Division of Corporations, Stated FUNERAL HOMES Calligas, a native of Athens, Camp in 1993, George began freeman.com Mt Moriah & Free - the ranks to Boatswain's Mate Records & UCC on 04/18/2014. Office location: LITRAS FUNERAL HOME Greece, born Nov 25, 1922, GEG Consulting, serving the man Funeral Home. 10507 Second Class. While at sea, he Nassau County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. ARLINGTON passed away peacefully at her resin manufacturing industry. Holmes Rd., Kansas City, MO fought in 23 major engagements SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Outfit M&J LLC, home of 58 years in Berkeley, He was a 50+ year member of 64131. (816) 942-2004 as a gunner on the Mount Five 5 Foster Ave., Valley Stream, NY 11580. General BENSON DOWD, INC processes. CA, on May 22. She is prede - the American Chemical Society www.mtmoriah-freeman.com. gun station, including in the Bat - 273787/19081 FUNERAL HOME ceased by her husband George. and a member of the Society of tle of Okinawa in May 1945 83-15 Parsons Blvd., She was a loving mother to Sigma Xi. George served as a n MENTAVLOS, GEORGE when two Japanese kamikazes Athena, her only child, and First Responder and Volunteer GASTONIA, NC (From the Gas - struck his ship in less than 30 LEGAL NOTICE Jamaica, NY 11432 beloved son-in-law, Nick Arvan - Firefighter for over 20 years ton Gazette, published on May seconds, killing more than 400 Notice of Formation OF CUSTOM COMPOUNDING (718) 858-4434 itidis, whom she referred to "as with Southside Fire Depart - 31) – George Mentavlos, 99, a of his shipmates. An explosion CENTERS, LLC. (Foreign LLC). Articles of Organi-za - • (800) 245-4872 tions were filed with the Secretary of State of New the crown on her head". She ment's Skidaway Island Division long time Gastonia native, en - during that battle injured Stan - York (SSNY) on 03/17/14. Office location: Nassau was the proud "Nona" of 3 and in 2001 was honored as Fire tered into eternal rest on the ley and knocked him into the Pa - County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the grandchildren whom she Fighter of the year.. George also morning of Friday, May 30, cific, where he was rescued. Af - LLC upon whom process against it may be served. APOSTOLOPOULOS SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Ginger Rogers, Apostle Family - adored: Areti (and Christopher had a special talent for fine 2014. Born May 21, 1915, in ter the war, Stanley played for Custom Compounding Centers, LLC, 40 Burton Hills Hickson), Vasili (and Abigail Ar - woodworking and gourmet Karyae (Sparta) Greece, he was the U.S. military soccer team in Blvd., Ste. 250, Nashville, TN 37215. Purpose: For Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - vanitidis), Alexi (and Laurel Ar - cooking. George was a very ac - the fourth of five children raised South America on a mission to any lawful purpose. Funeral Directors of 273779/19075 vanitidis); and 3 beautiful great tive member of St. Paul's Greek by parents Nicholas and Deme - promote good will. In 1946, he RIVERDALE grandchildren: Kassandra, Pene - Orthodox Church, where he ap - tra. Like many Greek citizens returned to Worcester and pur - FUNERAL HOME Inc. lope, and Niko. Aretie arrived plied his craftsmanship to many before him, he migrated to the chased the White House Restau - LEGAL NOTICE in San Francisco, with her hus - projects for the benefit of the United States and set-tled in rant on Park Avenue Extension. 5044 Broadway Notice of Qualification of 514 WEST 24TH OWNER New York, NY 10034 band George, in 1947 as special church. For 15 years, he served Gastonia. Some years later at a Shortly after, at a church LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) Greek Consular envoy for the as Treasurer of the Parish Coun - church dance, he would meet Thanksgiving dance, he asked a on 05/27/14. Office location: Kings County. LLC (212) 942-4000 formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/23/14. SSNY desig - Consulate General of Greece. cil. This year George was Rougenia (Jean) Petchios and pretty Greek girl to dance. She nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE She served under many Consul awarded the St. Paul's Day in 1941 married and raised four was Helen Kotseas, the oldest of may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Largo CONSTANTINIDES Investments LLC, 155 Noble St., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn, Generals and made sure that the award for distinguished service children. For many years he six sisters who helped run her FUNERAL PARLOR Co. Consulate ran like clockwork; to the faithful of St. Paul's. He worked in the produce business father's produce-delivery busi - NY 11222. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE (718) 745-1010 each Consul General knew upon was also a member and Trea - with Le-ventis, Petchios, Trakas ness. They wed in 1949. Later 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the arriving that he'd have no prob - surer of the local AHEPA chap - Company. He later became a that year, the couple bought a State of DE, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Services in all localities - lems adjusting. She became the ter. George is survived by his partner at Sweetland Restaurant restaurant and dairy bar called Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Low cost shipping to Greece 1st woman Vice-Consul of wife, Mary Ann (Katogiritis) Go - in Gastonia. He was a most gen - the Castle on the shores of Lake 273783/17976 Greece recognized by the US nis; 3 sons, Louis Gonis and his tle individual who rarely met a Sargent in Leicester. They later ANTONOPOULOS Dept of State. In 1982, she re - wife Frances of Louisville, Col - stranger. Throughout his life, built a pizzeria next door. By the LEGAL NOTICE FUNERAL HOME, INC. tired after 35 years, and settled orado; Kenneth Gonis of Savan - George took pride in his humble mid-1960s, Stanley and Helen Notice of formation on LEADING SHADOW LLC. Konstantinos Antonopoulos - permanently in the US. Besides nah, Ga.; and Nicholas Gonis of beginnings in Greece. His chil - had a successful business and (DOM LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Sec - her administrative talents, she Naples, Fla.; a sister, Julia dren learned early to "never for - three children, but when retary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/03/14. Office Funeral Director location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as was also knowledgeable of con - Manos of Athens, Greece; and get where you come from" and Worcester began tearing down agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., sular & diplomatic protocol and grandchildren, Marianna Gonis to appreciate the very special old buildings, including the pub - served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: Astoria, New York 11105 United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th was able to wine and dine roy - and George Gonis of Louisville, opportunities that the United lic library and YWCA, they de - Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11228 . Purpose: Any Lawful (718) 728-8500 alty, diplomats, and heads of Colorado. He was predeceased States presented. He would of - cided to build a real castle. Stan - Purpose. Not affiliated with any Ministries. She always had a by his sister, Lillian Finch of East ten say proudly that he worked ley had the buildings' immense 273791/19083 other funeral home. flair for entertaining, and had a Bridgewater, Mass. Visitation his whole life and was always stones delivered to him, and love of music, possessing a will be at St. Paul's Greek Or - deeply ap-preciative for the love over the next several years, the beautiful singing voice. She had thodox Church on Friday, May and support of those relatives Nicas family built by hand a LEGAL NOTICE infinite skills; she could be a 30, from 5 to 7 pm with a Trisa - who came before him. Above all striking stone castle, complete Notice of formation of MAZO FOODS LLC. (DOM. LLC) Articles of Organization cook, seamstress, interior deco - gion Service at 6:30 pm. The fu - was his steadfast devotion to his with moat, on Route 9 in Leices - filed with New York Secretary of State to PlAce your rator, upholsterer, electrician, neral service will be at the Lord, Jesus Christ, wife Jean ter. The Castle Restaurant was (SSNY) on 03/21/2014. Office location. clASSiFieD AD, cAll: plumber, carpenter, painter, church on Saturday, May 31, at and his children, grandchildren born and, for the next 50 years, Kings County. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be (718) 784-5255, eXt. 106, brick layer, gardener, just to 10 am. Burial will follow at and great grandchildren. 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The service will be held on Wednes - vannahnow.com/obituaries. wife Jean, during her lengthy restaurant was a true family The Culinary Institute of Amer - bailli of La Confrérie de la day, May 28 at 12:00 Noon, also illness that really defined his business, with their son Jim run - ica named him Chef of the Year Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, and the at Annunciation, followed by in - n KARAKITSOS, ANTONIOS character as a Christian, hus - ning the dining room, Evange - in 1980. Stanley became a na - national chairman and president terment at the Greek Orthodox FLINT, MI (From the Flint Jour - band and father. He is prede - line handling the finances, and tionally known chef, cooking for of the Les Amis d'Escoffier Soci - Memorial Park in Colma. A re - nal, published on Jun. 4) – ceased by his loving wife of sixty John leading the kitchen. Mean - several U.S. presidents and ety. He was a 32nd degree Ma - ception will follow at Annunci - KARAKITSOS, ANTONIOS P. years Jean; daughter Maria Hol - while, the Castle became hugely coaching the U.S. team in the son and a proud member of the ation Cathedral. Davison Antonios P. Karakitsos, combe and his parents and sib - popular, winning national culi - international Culinary Olympics. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in The Family would like to thank age 82, of Davison, passed away lings in Greece. Surviving are nary and wine awards. Stanley He was a member of the Ameri - Rochdale. Stanley was an avid Aretie's caregiver, Pia, who took Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Fu - his son, Nicholas G. Mentavlos believed strongly in hard work can Academy of Chefs, the skier, a world traveler, and a stu - great care of her, as if she was neral services will be held 11:00 and wife, Marian of Charlotte; and in sharing his knowledge American Culinary Federation, dent of history. Throughout his her own grandmother. Also a AM Friday, May 30, 2014 at As - daughter, Tula Collias and hus - with the next generation. He be - the International Wine and Food life, Stanley said he was lucky. very special thanks to her life - sumption Greek Orthodox band, George of Charlotte and gan an esteemed apprenticeship Society, and many other es - He was lucky to be born in the time friends in the Berkeley who Church, 2245 E. Baldwin Road, Bluffton, SC; son, John G. Men - program at the Castle in 1952 teemed culinary organizations. U.S. and he was lucky to be the were always there for her and Grand Blanc. Fr. Angelo Maggos tavlos and wife, Mari-an of and worked with both the Culi - He served as the grand comman - only one of 11 children to have supported her. Nona was much officiating. Burial immediately Charleston SC, seven grandchil - nary Institute of America in der of the Honorable Order of the opportunity to return to loved and will be missed by her following in Evergreen Ceme - dren and 14 great-grandchil - Hyde Park, N.Y., and Johnson & the Golden Toque, the grand America. He was luckier still, family and friends. Her family tery, Grand Blanc. Visitation will dren. A trisagion (prayer) ser - Wales University in Providence, he'd say, to have survived World appreciates donations to Annun - be held at Sharp Funeral Home vice will be held 7 p.m. Sunday R.I., for over 40 years. Stanley this is a service War II, when his ship buried ciation Greek Orthodox Cathe - and Cremation Center, 6063 at Hankins & Whittington. The helped found the Distinguished to the community. more men at sea than any other. dral. Fenton Road, Flint Thursday family will re-ceive friends fol - Visiting Chef program at John - Announcements of deaths And he was the luckiest, he from 4-9 PM. A Trisagion service lowing the service. Funeral ser - son & Wales in 1979 and then may be telephoned to the knew, when he met his life part - will be held 7:00 PM Thursday vice will be held 10 a.m. Mon - chaired the program until his classified Department of ner, Helen. A funeral service will at the funeral home. In lieu of day, June 2, 2014, at Holy death, teaching cooking demon - the national herald at be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, Days and dates of funerals, flowers, those desiring may Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathe - strations alongside more than (718) 784-5255, June 2, at Saint Spyridon Cathe - memorials, and other events di - make contribution to the As - dral with interment following in 170 of the world's best chefs. monday through Friday, dral at 102 Russell St. in Worces - rectly correspond to the original sumption Greek Orthodox Gaston Memorial Park in Gas - Johnson & Wales awarded him 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eSt ter. Memorial donations may be publication date, which appears Church. 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With Greece already expect - 2014. Ionian island of Ithaca. Both are prices have increased by 51% ing a second straight record Last year, Greece received a noted for having retained their compared to June 2013 with an tourist year, the country’s stand - record 20 million visitors, and traditional character. overnight stay standing at 289 ing as a hot spot got another officials are predicting that 2014 Eager to cash in on the re - euros compared to 192 in June bump when editors of travel will be another bumper year for turn of visitors, many Greek ho - 2013. In Fira prices have in - guide Lonely Planet said it tourists—welcome news for res - tels are hiking their rates creased by 77% while in Oia would be Europe’s favorite des - idents who are still struggling markedly despite promising to there is a rise of 10%. tination this year. to find work amid the sluggish hold them to 3-5 percent and as It’s the same case on the pop - That would continue a re - economy. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras ular island of Mykonos, which markable comeback from a dis - The rush has been driven by and tourism officials have asked got a million visitors last year. astrous 2012, shortly after the celebrities, movie stars, reality for Greeks to show their best The average nightly rate has in - elections that brought Prime TV show personalities, writers face for arrivals. creased by 46% with an Minister Antonis Samaras to and last year was riveted up by Figures from the site Trivago overnight stay reaching 184 eu - power, when would-be visitors the release of a film, Before Mid - showed that many hotels are ros compared to 162 last year. were turned off by constant im - night, which showed the beauty marking up their rates 100 per - The increased tourist arrivals ages of protests, strikes and riots of Greece at just the right time. cent to take as much profit as in the island of Rhodes, have against austerity measures. That provided further impetus they can from tourists. The site brought a rise of 7% in hotel With Greece showing uncer - for once-wary visitors to return found that hotel prices have prices. The average nightly rate tain signs of a recovery, tourists to Greece and spend. risen compared to June 2013 is standing at 75 euros. are returning in droves, follow - Greece was followed in the with the highest increase being An increase of almost 21% ing a gigantic 2013 in which a list by Slovenia, Southwest Eng - recorded in the island of San - has also been recorded on Crete, celebrity-led parade of visitors land, Italy, Viking Denmark, torini. especially Rethymno, with rates flocked to the country despite Seville in Spain, the Outer He - In Imerovigli village, a fa - of 109 euros a night compared reservations about the infra - brides, Plzen in the Czech Re - vorite destination for the inter - to 90 euros the year before structure for serving them. public, Stavanger in Norway national jet set, hotel prices In Athens, which is a Destinations in the Best in and Toulouse, France. have increased by 95% com - stopover destination for many AP Photo/Dimitri meSSiniS Europe Top 10 list by the popu - Last week, Lonely Planet also pared to June 2013. The aver - tourists who visit Greece, hotels A tourist takes a photo of herself under Jacaranda trees at the lar guide are chosen for being included two Greek destinations age nightly rate for June stands have increased their rates by 35 National Gardens in central Athens. The government and either under-the-radar, generat - in its new guide of the top 50 at 501 euros, compared to 257 percent. tourism industry officials are expecting a record number of ing buzz, or for being perennial secret places in Europe, Milia, a euros a year before. visitors this year, providing some relief for the crisis-hit country. favorites with reasons to visit in village in Hania, Crete, and the In the village of Firostefani, Quick Work: Cyprus Now Readies Return to Market

Little more than 15 months cent, Reuters said. after asking international Cyprus has shown stronger- lenders for a 10 billion euro than-expected economic perfor - ($13.7 billion) bailout to keep mance and full compliance with its banks and economy from col - the European Stability Mecha - lapsing, Cyprus is getting ready nism and International Mone - for a bond market issue. tary Fund adjustment program, It’s a surprising comeback, envoys from the Troika of the especially given that President European Union-International Nicos Anastasiades, who ac - Monetary Fund-European Cen - cepted a partial confiscation of tral Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) said. bank accounts although he cam - Cyprus was effectively shut paigned against it, also had to out of international financing institute capital controls to pre - markets in May 2011 as con - vent a run on the state banks cerns around the health of Eu - who had gotten the country into rozone peripheral countries es - the dilemma with huge holdings calated. This caused its in devalued Greek bonds and benchmark bonds to spike in bad loans to Greek businesses. yield to above 14 percent. Cyprus is preparing a bench - Back in April, the sovereign mark public debt sale just a year was raised one notch by Stan - after it was bailed out, which if dard and Poor's amid a dimin - successful would make it the ishing threat of the country not quickest return to the bond mar - being able to meet loan repay - ket by a sovereign after a res - ments. Moody's will be next to cue. review the country's rating on The issuer has mandated July 18. Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, In return for the bailout, HSBC, UBS and VTB Capital to Cyprus had to agree to seize arrange a series of fixed income 47.5 percent of bank accounts AP Photo/PetroS GiAnnAkouriS investor meetings in Europe over 100,000 euros ($137,000), Greece's new Cabinet ministers take the oath of office during a after Greece’s anti-bailout left-wing opposition won European ahead of the deal, the news which set off a furor of protests, ceremony officiated by Greece's Orthodox Archbishop Ieroni - parliament elections last month. New Finance Minister Gikas agency Reuters reported. along with the closing of the mos, at the Presidential palace in Athens, on Tuesday, June Hardouvelis, centre left, the 59-year-old economics professor The announcement comes on state Laiki Bank which was in 10, 2014. New ministers in the conservative-led government and former banking executive, was sworn in as a new report the back of a peripheral rally deep trouble. were sworn in Tuesday following a cabinet reshuffle ordered from the International Monetary Fund praised progress made. that has been gaining momen - Cypriot Gross Domestic Prod - tum following last week's Euro - uct contracted by 0.7 percent in pean Central Bank announce - the first quarter of 2014, a slight ment that it is seeking to boost improvement on the 0.8 percent Amid Skepticism, Samaras Shuffles the Deck Europe's growth with the bloc drop in the previous three still struggling from a six-year- months long fight to get out of reces - The figure is the same as Continued from page 1 face. There is much to be done,” confirms the strict implementa - ment remains bound by the po - sion. given in a flash estimate by the Hardouvelis told Antenna. “We tion of commitments towards litical obsessions and ideological Cypriot officials will be meet - state statistical service on May household has at least one un - have a marathon before us,” creditors, while being indifferent inflexibility that characterized the ing with investors in London 15. It showed that real GDP employed person or someone showing some skepticism himself to the plight of the Greek people,” previous one, then it is certain and Germany over two days shrank by 4.1 percent in the first who is working and not being just as Samaras is trying to be a SYRIZA statement said. they neither society, nor the econ - starting on June 16 in an at - quarter from a year earlier, com - paid,” Hardouvelis told Greek more buoyant and predicting a “What the country needs is omy will catch a breath,” without tempt to woo them and show pared with a year-on-year drop television station Antenna, with - coming recovery that Hardou - not pointless reshuffles, but a mentioning it had backed the reason why they should be con - of 4.9 percent in the previous out noting that politicians and velis seemed to doubt was immi - government that will stop being policies it now opposes. fident the country is already on three months. the rich aren’t suffering and have nent. the overseer of the creditors’ in - And the party of Stavros the rebound. The struggling economy has even prospered in a crisis that Samaras’ political rivals dis - terests,” it added in another poke Theodorakis, To Potami, Cyprus sold a 100-million- performed better than expected, has affected millions of others. missed the Cabinet shuffle as a at Samaras, who changed his launched only earlier this spring, euro private placement back in and the government has won Greece has survived on 240 desperate attempt to win voters Cabinet for the second time in a blasted the government for mak - April. The bond was sold to an praise for sticking to the auster - billion euros ($327 billion) in lost to his imposing of austerity year. ing political moves based on po - overseas investor and was seen ity program despite the protests two Troika bailouts since 2010 on Troika orders. The Democratic Left (DI - litical expediency, not on what is as an initial test for a potential and fears of capital flight, which but both Samaras and Tsipras “Nobody believes that today’s MAR), which was a member of good for the country. Calling the public bond market return. didn’t materialize when most of said debt relief is needed, al - reshuffle will influence […] the the coalition until leaving last changes a “recycling” of “known The issue carried a 6.5 per - the controls limiting with - though they differ slightly on implemented policy and bailout year over the firing of public and failed” officers, To Potami cent coupon, but with periph - drawals were gradually phased what form that should take, a commitments of Mr. Samaras’ workers it opposed, added that, called Samaras and PASOK eral spreads tightening to record out. Cyprus also has benefited task that will now fall to Hardou - government. The government “Governments are not judged by leader Evangelos Venizelos “mere lows, a syndicate banker work - from a strong tourism base velis. not only did not receive the elec - the people, but the content of the balancers, bound by their past ing on the new potential Cyprus which didn’t diminish at all dur - “Greece must find its way. It tion message, but it is trying to implemented policies.” and ultimately worshipers of still - bond spotted it recently at 5 per - ing the ongoing crisis. doesn’t have just the Troika to overtake it with a reshuffle that It added: “If the new govern - ness.” WSJ: Chrysostomos the “CEO” of Cyprus Greece’s First Feature

TNH Staff tionally wielded strong influ - Film, Golfo, Turns 100 ence in Cyprus, unusual in Is Cyprus’ Archbishop largely secular Europe,” wrote Chrysostomos finally set on re - Matina Stevis in the article. Continued from page 1 children's wedding do their fam - gaining some of the influence “Archbishop Makarios III led the ilies stop fighting against each the Church lost in Cyprus under country to independence from The play was turned into a other; in fact, the whole village the rule of former President British colonial rule and became silent film – in fact, Greece’s first is drawn into the fight. This pop - Dimitris Christofias? its first president in 1960.” feature film – by the same ular comedy – a huge commer - Quite possibly, according to But an attempted coup name, by Konstantinos Bacha - cial success – transforms the a recent Wall Street journal ar - against Makarios in 1974 led to toris in 1914, exactly 100 years given story in order to provide a ticle. the Turkish invasion, wrote the ago. Virginia Diamadi starred as metaphor for the Greek Civil War “Church leaders have tradi - Journal. Golfo, and Yorgos Ploutis as and modern Greek character, i.e. Tasos. for the inability of the Greeks to The “dramatic idyll” genre in live in concord with each other.” plays morphed into the “moun - Konstantinakou told TNH tain film” cinematic version, an that at the dawn of the 21st cen - This Week in Greek History: easy transition from the stage tury, “theatre people have found to the screen of the popular new ways to approach these old Alexander the Great Dies Archbishop Makarios “was a statesman,” the Wall Street Journal Greek pastoral setting. plays and offer them to 21st says, whereas Chrysostomos is more like “Chief Executive Offi - As natural a choice as Golfo century audiences.” Specifically, TNH Staff cer, Church of Cyprus, Inc.” But is Chrysostomos beginning to seemed to have been for she referred to: reemerge as a political voice for his beleaguered island-nation? Greece’s first feature film, it did 1) The Golfo Project of On either June 10 or June 11 of 323BC (accounts vary about not fare very well, and it was HoROS Theatre Company, a the exact date), Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King “But if Makarios was a states - nal wrote, during the restruc - only in later years – the interwar touring work-in-progress di - who literally conquered the world, died in Babylon at age 32. man, Chrysostomos, who was turing under Christofias’ com - years, Konstantinakou wrote – rected by Simos Kakkalas Alexander defeated the Persian Empire and established the ordained in 2006, is seen more munist regime. But under a when that film genre ascended (2004-present), which is a post- Corinthian League. Though a very young man, he had managed as a businessman.” new center-right regime, in popularity. modern reading of the original to unite all of Greece. James Ker-Lindsay, a profes - Chrysostomos has reemerged, Yet Golfo has endured, was play, addressing current issues, The circumstances of Alexander's death are not conclusive: sor at the London School of Eco - meeting with new President remade into a film in 1955, such as national identity and some historians wrote that he had died from complications of nomics and an expert on Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades quite regu - wrote film scholar Dimitris Ko - childhood memory; and drinking bad wine, others speculate that he had been poisoned. told the Journal described a joke larly. liodimos in Greek Filmography: 2) The Greek National The - As a youth, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle, who accepted about Chrysostomos’ business- In fact, Chrysostomos re - 1914-1996, and its main charac - atre performance directed by the task when Alexander's father, Philip, who was King of Mace - minded tendencies, that “the cently issued a joint statement ters’ roles were revived in the Nikos Karathanos (2012-13 and donia, agreed to rebuild Alexander's hometown of Stageira archbishop's title should be with the Muslim leader in the 1982 satirical film Alalum, 2013-14 seasons), which forms (modern-day Chalkidiki region), freeing the ex-citizens who ‘Chief Executive Officer, Church Turkish-occupied region of whose plot Konstaninakou sum - part of the theatre's wider pro - were slaves, and repopulating the town with them. of Cyprus Inc.’” Cyprus, calling for unity and marized in her article: “Golfo gram that attempts to answer Alexander remains on the of the most significant figures in The church suffered at least peace on the island-nation. and Tasos are offspring of the the question: What is our home - world history, almost always being featured on any such Top- €80 million in paper losses And he has softened his tone two most powerful families of a land? 10 list. when its stake in the Bank of on the bailout, too, the Journal Greek village, who are longtime Happy Birthday, Golfo! To Cyprus was revalued, the Jour - wrote. enemies. Not even after their the next hundred years! 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014

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The Ancient Greeks did that in column. www.thenationalherald.com life to this point. She studied at the nation’s best universities, worked in important positions – in and out of government – and on June 5 the U.S. Senate approved her nomination by an overwhelming majority: 78 Will the Left and Right Unite against Corporate America? votes. Only 17 Senators, all Republicans, voted against her, citing Oba - macare – which she will oversee – not personal concerns about Bur - GEORGAKAS PRESENTS HIS to keep them in business. She thinking. The mechanics and California, to refuse to require well, as the reason behind their vote of Nay. More Republican Sena - POINT OF VIEW believes criminal prosecutions specific demands of such joint food megamanufacturers from tors, however, were hopeful that because of her capability, she is Dino, I’d like to have your are overdue for corporate huck - efforts face formidable chal - having to label (not ban, mind ideally-suited to make the best of a piece of legislation with which views of the proposal by Ralph sters, especially in banking. War - lenges. His broader thrust, how - you, just label) genetically mod - they are at odds. Nader in his latest book Unstop - ren also notes that ever greater ever, is more realistic. If less ef - ified foods. And why on earth Burwell’s wide bipartisan appeal says a lot about her personality. pable: the Emerging Left-Right economic consolidation has fort were wasted on demonizing does it cost so much to stay in a A personality that was shaped growing up in the town of Hinton, Alliance to Dismantle the Corpo - taken place since the onset of the opponents and more attention hospital, or to get a college edu - WV with its 3,000 inhabitants. rate State. Great Recession and the gap be - directed toward actual programs cation? Never mind who will pay Despite her great strides, she never forgot her home town. Nader posits that Left and tween the wages of the 1% and rather than vague generalities, the bill – why is the bill so high There, in Hinton, a small town in one of the poorest states, Right activists have a better the 99% has widened. She be - the logjam of American political to begin with? All these are em - arrived several decades ago a Greek immigrant couple who spoke sense of public sentiments than lieves no corporation should be reform might begin to break. blematic of the corporate greed little English. Residents still remember their sweet shop. The establishment politicians who allowed to get too big to fail. consumer champions like Ralph Maroudases decided, in accordance with the thinking of the time, are corporate lackeys. He be - Nader reminds conservatives SCAROS RESPONDS Nader rail against. And to that, that when their daughter Cleopatra (Cleo) grew up, they would lieves joint initiatives of activists that Adam Smith, the great the - Dan, you’ll be happy to know the populist in me says – bravo! visit Greece in order to find a groom for her. would rally Americans into de - orist of capitalism, warned that that I have a lot of respect for On the other hand, Occupy Their mission was not successful. manding unstoppable changes gross consolidation of capital Ralph Nader. And not just be - Wall Street and the Tea Party are Cleo, however, did not disappoint her parents. She married a that would better the nation. could only result in price fixing cause had he not been in the exactly the type of movements Greek-American ophthalmologist named William Matthews. The idea of Occupy Wall we need in America, but not in Of course, in that town with so few Greeks, there was no Greek Street types breaking bread with their current iterations. Far too parish. So her parents worshiped at the Episcopal Church. That’s the Tea Party is counterintuitive, many among those loosely-fitting where they baptized their children. That’s where Burwell was married but Nader details 25 issues masses are an embarrassment to and baptized her own children, Christina and Matthew. where the two extremes have what’s great about America. The Her father took the pastor’s place when he was absent. compatible views. Among the best within those groups are Her mother studied to be a teacher and was elected twice as top issues he cites are military principled citizens worthy of re - mayor of the town, serving a total of eight years, from 2001 to spending, corporate greed, and spect. But the worst among them 2009. She “walked the entire town, knocked on every door, asking “free trade” agreements. are an awful amalgam of looter, for votes – even from Republicans,” Cleo’s other daughter, Stephanie Nader argues that Americans vagrants, racists, and gun nuts. Mathews O’Keefe, an executive at the American Bankers Association, are not simply “war weary” but Yes, the bad extremes are few in told the New York Times. now question the policies leading number, but loud enough to Burwell shares her mother’s affinity for bipartisan appeal, con - to two unsuccessful wars, nu - drown out the rest, who let them sidering so many Republican Senators voted for her to be Director merous military interventions coexist and hijack any worth - of the Office of Management and now HSS Secretary. around the world, and proposals while positive image the groups Sylvia Mathews Burwell becomes the first Greek-American woman to intervene in Syria and might otherwise muster. ever to head a U.S. Executive Department. She is tenth in line of Ukraine. Retired libertarian Con - As for Washington gridlock, presidential succession, behind the vice president and eight other gressman Ron Paul and Pat Ross Perot said it best: fixing the Cabinet members. Buchanan have advocated clos - problems is easy – being willing But she never forgot where she came from. ing the majority of our military to fix them is the hard part. Im - bases abroad and militarily dis - Four-time presidential candidate and champion of consumer migration reform is a prime ex - engaging from conflicts that do causes for half a century, Ralph Nader in his new book calls ample: the squabble is over what Samaras’ Shakeup not involve genuine national se - for a left-right alliance to dismantle the corporate state. Perhaps to do with existing illegal aliens. curity. The Left, of course, is usu - Nader is right to suggest the left and the right can find common But if everyone agrees on mea - ally the force that organizes an - ground on this issue: Dan Georgakas and Constantinos E. sures to stop new illegals from The aim of the Greek Cabinet shakeup was to demonstrate to tiwar marches and opposes Scaros certainly seem to have. entering the United States, then the people of Greece that the coalition government got the message militaristic foreign policies. why not just begin there and fig - that was sent in the recent Euro elections. The capstone of the disen - and destroy free enterprise. 2000 presidential race, Al Gore ure out the rest later? Same with That the new government would be more effective than the pre - gagement argument is that liter - Smith also wrote adamantly that almost certainly would have health care. If both sides simply vious one. They needed two whole weeks to complete the process. ally billions will be saved annu - if free enterprise did not produce won. (George W. Bush made reformed what they already Two weeks of governmental paralysis at a time when every day is ally. Those funds could be used a living wage for workers, it had some mistakes, but even now I’m agreed about, the rest could have critical. to rebuild the infrastructure of malfunctioned. glad we didn’t have to live under been dealt with far more civilly, And in the most important Ministry, Finance, they placed an ad - the United States and to lower Regarding “free trade” agree - “President Gore.”) I, too, rail instead of the current mess of visor from former Prime Minister Costas Simitis’ team, who is cur - the national debt. Our unem - ments, Right and Left both un - against corporate greed. I have Republicans condemning “Oba - rently an advisor to Simitis and the Latsis group, Gikas Hardouvelis. ployment woes would end and derscore that existing agree - no problem with a box seat the macare” en masse, and Democ - Even the two-week stall would have been tolerable had Hardou - infrastructure repairs would ments have accelerated the loss ballgame costing hundreds of rats struggling between support - velis possessed the necessary qualifications – and maybe a few more spark vigorous economic growth. of manufacturing in the United dollars, and a diamond necklace ing it and salvaging their own given the situation – that are demanded of the top economic official Advocates of this approach argue States. Obama’s appointment of costing tens of thousands – those political careers. of a country in the midst of an economic crisis. that a successful economy ulti - Jeffrey Immelt to head his job- are luxuries, after all, and people The way to establish real re - A reading of Hardouvelis’ biography is revealing. Professor of mately is far more persuasive creation program is a travesty. should have a right to charge form is as follows: all main - economics, advisor to one group, advisor to another group, etc. about the merits of our system As CEO of General Electric, Im - whatever the market demands. stream minor parties (neo-Nazis These achievements certainly demonstrate that Hardouvelis has a to nations in crisis than military melt had moved all GE manu - But the fact that far too many and UFO Conspiracy Theorists distinguished background. He is very well-educated, there is no actions that often prove counter- facturing out of the United Sates Americans don’t realize that need not apply) should join to - doubt about that. productive. and approved budgetary gim - “junk food” like Coca Cola and gether around one issue: ballot But the man is completely untested. He has not held the top job The Tea Party regularly de - micks that allow GE to pay zero Milky Way bars were far less un - access. They will become one anywhere. nounces “big government” regu - income taxes on over 100 billion healthy in the 1970s than they temporary third superparty, that How, then, will he be able to head the country’s most important lations that thwart small busi - annual profits. The new “fast are today – thus negating the will garner enough support to ministry ably at this crucial time? How will he negotiate with the ness, the greatest generator of track” agreements advocated by reasoning of “hey, I grew up on achieve real ballot access reform. troika and influence the markets? new employment in the United Obama would only accelerate that junk food, and I’m ok” men - Then, with third parties hav - How long will he be able to withstand the constant pressure of States. It loathes corporations what was begun by Bill Clinton tality (no, you didn’t, that junk ing far greater accessibility, the public scrutiny, surely exacerbated by the anxiety of the times? considered “too big to fail.” Lib - with NAFTA: more loss of man - food was healthier!) – is trou - two major parties will be forced In short, even though Yannis Stournaras has now been slated to eral Senator Elizabeth Warren is ufacturing, continuing chronic bling. That they see “high fruc - to fulfill the will of the people, take over as Governor of the Bank of Greece, how is the decision to of like mind. She fiercely ques - unemployment, and tax loop - tose corn syrup” on a label and for a change, lest they find them - replace him at his old position with Hardouvelis a wise one? tions why people who were sold holes. think: “oh good, I’m glad they selves booted far beyond the One has to wonder why it is so difficult to find the right person bad mortgages lost their homes Nader’s idea that the Left and didn’t use sugar, corn’s good for Beltway. to head the ministry, as well as other qualified individuals, in order while those who sold the mort - Right can work together on nu - you, it’s a vegetable.” And that to comprise a sound advisory council. gages got a government bailout merous issues may be wishful they have voted, even in liberal WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? Is it really possible that 43 good men and women – an adminis - trative army in the service of their country – who are competent enough to fill these ministerial positions, do not exist or somehow Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris evade the radar of a thorough search for top talent? What is so difficult about it? What individuals would turn down the call to serve their country and their fellow Greeks, and why? Is Summit at the Vatican Finally, one wonders whether these reli - There are 31 graduates, 18 young women, it that the overall political situation is too fragile? Is there too much gious leaders are attempting to replace 13 young men, smiling, confident, ready to entanglement with special interests? Is it that competent people are In a historic and unprecedented meeting, politicians in their attempts to solve the Is - spread their wings and fly to the next stage fleeing public life? the Pope of Rome, the President of Israel, raeli- Palestinian issue. I don’t think so, but of life: college. It may be all of these factors, and more. the President of the Palestinian Authority, it is evident that given the politicians’ nu - They are the Greek-American men and But the questionable Cabinet reshuffling maneuvers do not end and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constan - merous failures, there is an apparent peace - women of tomorrow. They are our future. with Hardouvelis. tinople walked through the Vatican gardens making void in dire need of being filled – In addition and significantly, the caliber Notwithstanding the ugly conversations he had with Golden to take pictures, plant an olive tree – the and these religious heads have taken valu - of colleges and universities that accept St. Dawn, the reality is that Nikos Dendias was generally doing good symbol of peace – and, of course, escape able steps toward filling it. Demetrios graduates gets better and better work – he brought crime under control and cleaned up some sections the peering paparazzi so they could talk each year. in the center of Athens. Why move him? about the unending Israel-Palestinian feud. The latest crop includes Cornell, Ford - And why should Health Minister Adonis Georgiades, the man It was an unusual panel, not so much Hail to Our Graduates ham, New York, and Wake Forest Universi - who stood up to special interests – the pharmacists, the big doctors, because of the presence of the leaders of ties, and within the CUNY system, Baruch, etc. – leave the government? What message does that send? Certainly these two nations, but because of the pres - It is a barometer. City, and Queens Colleges. not that all the hard work is now done and it is time to move on. ence and the role played by the heads of A measure of our Diaspora. Speaking at the ceremony will be Dr. But there are some bright spots in all of this: Kyriakos Mitsotakis two branches of a religion not prevalent And I look forward, quite eagerly, to this Spyros Spyreas, a man who truly feels for is staying at his post as Minister of Administrative Reform, as are within them – Christianity. weekend: to the graduation ceremony of and supports the community and who has Miltiades Varvitsiotis and Olga Kefalogiani, at Shipping and Tourism, Significantly, the meeting raises both the St. Demetrios, the only Greek high school embraced the Greek language, culture, and respectively, and Dimitris Avramopoulos at Defense. pope’s and the patriarch’s prestige. Their in the United States. Orthodox faith as few others have. Bottom line: this shakeup was undertaken with an eye on the participation was both an act of courage It is proud, no doubt, to hold that dis - Principal Anastasios Koularmanis, the next round of parliamentary elections, and constitutes a shift to the and a moving effort to end the historic ri - tinction, but it is not a happy disrtiction – faculty, and staff, all deserve our acclaim, right, a lurch towards populism. valry between Rome and Constantinople. that there is only one of its kind in this as does Nikos Andriotis, who has devoted a Political expediency aside, is that really what the country needs And it illustrates the role – and leader - country. lifetime to the success of this institution. right now? ship – of the Ecumenical Patriarch. But the occasion is anything but sad. What an honor! THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014 VIEWPOINTS 13 Remembering Greece’s Bergdahl Case: Dysfunctional Politics Turn Disgusting

All-Important Role on D-Day Rarely do we have a news Among the worst ing favor with the we only did one for five. event that causes politicians to hypocritical legisla - Americans in order The Taliban have been at - downgrade from hypocrites into tors: Republicans to secure their re - tacking U.S., NATO and Afghan D-Day, for a ahead of Modern candidates for Dante’s Inferno. Tad Cochran, Paul lease and will prob - troops and civilians since 2001, great part of the Greek history in the The Bergdahl case is the latest DeMarco, and Joni ably kill them. long before we traded for world, is consid - second half of the example. For those of you who Ernest and Democ - Leaving aside Bergdahl and will continue do - ered a pivotal 20th century, is a have been camping on a desert rat Steve Lynch. If the suffering they ing so whether or not we traded event that changed contributing factor island without email or other they had a shred of so viciously in - for Bergdahl. the course of hu - to the malaise that communications, the U.S. gov - decency, they flicted on Legally, the Taliban are not man history. has led to the coun - ernment arranged the exchange would resign. They Bergdahl’s parents, even terrorists: The U.S. Gov - Canada’s identity try’s near failed- of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only fit in the same cat - the critics have ernment (since Reagan’s day) as a state distinct state status. Juxta - American soldier captured by egory as the band their heads defines terrorists as “subna - from the British posing the the Taliban, for five Afghan Tal - of philanderers and by AMB. PATRICK N. screwed on back - tional groups attacking noncom - Empire was rein - liberation of Athens iban officials we have held in womanizers who THEROS wards in their batants for political objectives.” forced; America and the liberation Guantanamo for almost 13 sought to impeach other arguments as Every member of Congress re - emerged as a by DR. ANDRE of Paris offers re - years. President Obama took President Clinton. Special to well. They beat ceives the annual State Depart - world-class power GEROLYMATOS vealing insights credit for the exchange hailing The critics also The National Herald their breasts ment publication on terrorism, and the leader of into how countries it as effort to facilitate a political condemned the ex - screaming “We which carries this definition on the West, while the Special to can emerge from settlement in Afghanistan. change because we have re - never negotiate with terrorists, its first page. Until we invaded British realized The National Herald defeat and how On the first day after the ex - leased “dangerous Taliban who or trade hostages because it will Afghanistan, the Taliban were that this was the others fall prey to change, everyone seemed will rejoin the fight against us.” encourage terrorists to do it the government and army of a beginning of the end of their civil strife. happy. The media highlighted We, in fact, released five aging again.” A superficial review re - recognized country. Although empire. Equally significant, the In August 1944, General the humanitarian aspects of the politicians after 13 years in veals this argument to be spe - the Taliban are truly despicable, total defeat of Germany and the Charles de Gaulle entered liber - event, showing the jubilant par - dreadful incarceration into cious. the U.S. maintains cordial ties rise of the Soviet Union re - ated Paris and had to deal with ents of the freed soldier for house arrest in Qatar. Admit - We always negotiate with with governments and armies aligned the balance of power in the potential threat of a com - hours on the screen. And then, tedly, the men in question will terrorists and trade prisoners. that rival the Taliban for evil. Europe and throughout the munist uprising. The French things turned ugly. find their circumstances more So does every other country in In their frantic search for po - world. Communists had played a key President Obama’s critics re - luxurious than the tropical re - the world. Even Israel, the litical advantage, the critics have Yet for Greece and Greeks its role in the liberation of the alized that you should be careful sort in Cuba. Qatar agreed to much-acclaimed paragon of chosen to vent against Qatar, an celebration is barely noticed. French capital and expected an what you ask for. The prisoner prevent them from traveling for counter-terrorist prowess, regu - ally that once again stepped into Certainly, it is understandable; equally significant role in the exchange made Obama look at least a year. I doubt they want larly and often trades hundreds the breach to help the United with the exception of one de - postwar French Government. In - good. They changed their tune to go home, however, because of Palestinian prisoners to se - States. Having successfully ne - stroyer, Greek participation on stead of alienating the commu - and bashed him for “negotiating rivals will accuse them of curry - cure the release of one Israeli; gotiated the release of Greek Or - the beaches of Normandy was nists and risking civil war, de with terrorists.” They went one thodox nuns held captive by nonexistent. For many Greeks, Gaulle thanked them for their unpardonable step further and rebel groups in Syria, Qatari the memories of 1944-1945 service to the country and urged attacked the character of diplomats played a crucial role were and continue to be them to join the army. When Sergeant Bergdahl. The politi - in mediating the exchange, we clouded with the brutality of the George Papandreou returned to cians found two soldiers from should remember, of the only German occupation, followed by Greece in October 1944, he Bergdahl’s unit who accused American captured by the Tal - liberation that quickly trans - adopted a completely opposite him of desertion without pre - iban in return for five aging Tal - formed into an Uprising in De - stance than de Gaulle. Papan - senting facts and then loudly iban prisoners held in Guan - cember 1944, a period of White dreou, dominated by King proclaimed him guilty. tanamo for more than a decade. Terror in 1945 and then a three- George and the British, lacked Should we have left Bergdahl The critics may have a more de - year vicious civil war that has de Gaulle’s independence and to rot in captivity even before fensible argument when they as - forever scarred the country and followed rather than led events we learned that someone would sert that negotiating with the its people. in postwar Greece. criticize him? Spare me. Many Taliban will fail but that is a The Greeks paid a high price Papandreou was hostage to of the president’s enemies went value judgment; only history for remaining within the allied the coterie of advisers around further and organized a vicious some decades from now will de - camp in 1940. They continued the king, the various competing hate mail campaign, laced with cide. to do so by waging a relentless British agencies, the Venizelists, threats of violence, that forced But we need to examine our - resistance movement against royalists, communists and the the hometown of Sgt. Bergdahl selves. Have we reached a point one of the most vicious and remnants of the Metaxas (Hailey, ID, Pop 7,960) to cancel in our vitriolic political debate heartless occupation armies in regime. Almost from the mo - his homecoming celebration. that no one feels a sense of modern warfare, which left a ment of liberation, the Greek Dante would have had difficulty shame sacrificing common de - trail of destruction when it fi - premier appeared to be doing figuring out where to place cency so as to gain a bump in nally retreated. Indeed, the the bidding of the British – an these politicians. the November elections? price was high in ways that are awkward image since the The ethical and moral chal - only becoming evident in the Greeks had had three years of lenge proved bipartisan; Demo - The Hon. Ambassador Theros is 21st century. German puppets. De Gaulle, cratic politicians facing reelec - president of the U.S.-Qatar The occupation destroyed throughout the occupation of tion in Red States were Business Council. He served in stampeded into joining the cho - the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 rus, denouncing Obama and fur - years, mostly in the Middle ther slandering Bergdahl. East, and was American Ambas - Hypocrisy reigns. The same sador to Qatar from 1995 to righteously indignant politicians The five Taliban Guantanamo detainees swapped for U.S. sol - 1998. He also directed the State judging Bergdahl had in fact dier Bowe Bergdahl (seen here) are not likely to pose a threat Department’s Counter- erased their own earlier Twitter to the United States. If anything, they would probably be killed Terrorism Office, and holds nu - feeds chastising the President if they went home, by rivals accusing them of cooperating with merous U.S. Government deco - for not securing his release. the U.S. in exchange for their release. rations.

LETTER FROM ATHENS The Samaras Shuffle, or Anatomy of a Cabinet Remaking

Much ado about nothing has ten its hands on a ras) “Don “That’s the kind of man we been made by political rivals secret transcript of Messinia. Then we need to be Health Minister and and critics of Greek Prime Min - the meeting where are agreed. The draw votes from Golden Dawn,” ister Antonis Samaras naming a Samaras and his traffic in free bank Samaras says. “Like you, he has third Cabinet of ministers since Deputy loans for New no experience in health care so narrowly winning the 2012 na - Premier/Foreign Democracy and he’s eminently qualified to be a tional elections. Minister/Court SYRIZA will be government minister.” Greek PM George Papandreou (L), and French leader Charles The partially new, revamped, Lackey and PASOK permitted, but con - Georgiadis, a former TV in - de Gaulle saw their respective nations face different futures jury-rigged, cobbled together chief Evangelos trolled, and Don fomercial history book sales - immediately following WWII. De Gaulle had more authority from spare treads band of re - Venizelos made Messinia will give man, storms out of the room than Papandreou, and so things went smoother in France. treads and tired old faces from their picks. up more seats to and everyone is silent until his New Democracy Capitals This is a tran - PASOK – and there Samaras says, “Anyone who the small middle class that had France and to the frequent furry and its coalition partner the PA - script taken from a by ANDY will be the peace.” shook his hand will be getting slowly emerged in Greece after of his allies, remained an inde - SOK Anti-Socialists may look secret videotape DABILIS Health Minister rabies shots rights after the the strain of: the Balkan Wars; pendent agent. He did not, how - like the same kind of people made by the neo- Adonis Georgiadis, meeting,” bringing more laugh - the First World War; the great ever, have a king supported by who drove Greece to ruin with Nazi Golden Dawn Special to a/k/a Samaras’ pit ter. disaster of the Greek-Turkish the British to undermine him wild overspending for decades and smuggled in by The National Herald bull because of his “Okay, now back to busi - war in 1922; the population ex - and the future of his country. and runaway patronage not a cleaning lady the bark, bite and will - ness,” says Samaras. “Here’s our change, which brought over one The rest, as they say, is his - seen since the likes of Boss government had fired to protect ingness to be combative and new lineup: the Defense Minis - million refugees to a bankrupt tory. The failure to establish a Tweed was running New York. its political appointees. confrontational to government ter will be the Interior Minister, country; coups and counter - civil society and the chronic po - That’s because it is. Samaras, noticing people opponents, raises his hand. who is being fired because I for - coups; dictatorship; and finally litical divisions overlaid with en - But it’s not easy to find peo - laughing, sleeping, texting, “But we are here to form a got why I appointed him.” war. demic corruption – a byproduct ple who are so submissive and looking at their iPods, iPads, new Cabinet and I must have He looks at the comely Not only was the middle of the absence of a civil society unqualified at the same time, iTablets and iPhones) “Alright, strict assurance from Don Tourism Minister Olga Ke - class almost wiped out, but the – has left Greece on the sidelines who can bend over in two dif - everyone settle down! What do Messinia that I will be rewarded faloyianni who gulps, thinking rest of the population also faced of the history of the Second ferent directions and wear you think this is? A SYRIZA for attacking our enemies. As she will be replaced. “Olga, you political divisions that made it World War. D-Day is celebrated weathervane hats and don’t meeting? After all, we are not time goes by and his position will stay where you are because almost impossible to find com - by a major part of the world be - mind having to buy extra suits Communists here!” (bringing becomes stronger, will he at - no one can take their eyes off mon civic values. The left re - cause it was a defining moment because the knees get shiny so more kindly laughter from a tempt any individual vendetta? you. But we all took a vote and treated onto to itself and for in history. The Greeks continue fast. simpatico audience.) Venizelos: “Look, we are all next time wear a bikini.” generations treated its oppo - to obscure their significant con - Not for nothing did Samaras The Prime Minister raises his reasonable men here. We don't He looks at Nikos Dendias, nents as enemies, rather than tribution to the allied victory in study economics at Amherst hand for quiet and all eyes turn have to give assurances as if we the Public Order Minister. “Nico, political rivals. The right fol - the Second World War. The College and once he saw that to him. “As you know, these dev - were lawyers,” and, a Constitu - you know nothing about devel - lowed suit and saw the left as Greeks paid a dear price by re - his party lost 529,530 votes, or ils from SYRIZA want to bring tional lawyer himself he brings opment so you will be the De - traitors and enemies of the maining loyal to their allies, but 30 percent of its base in two Greece to ruin and, for some more laughter at his self-effac - velopment Minister. You will be state. Under such circum - fewer and fewer people are years after he rammed more reason, have the support of peo - ing remark. replaced by Vassilios Kakilias. stances, the concept of con - aware of the Greek sacrifices. austerity down the throats of ple who’ve had their pay cut, Samaras raises his hand and Some of you may remember structing a civil society was not The year 2015 will mark the Greeks who were already gag - taxes hiked, pensions slashed, the laughter stops. “Adonis, it’s that Vassilios played profes - a priority - survival was the ul - 70th anniversary of the end of ging on it, he said it was time lost their jobs, health care, true you have done my bidding sional basketball.” timate, and only, goal. The oc - the Second World War. It is an to make changes. Too bad he homes and hope. But what do but your anger has polarized Samaras grabs his head. “I’ve cupation and famine under - opportunity for Greece to make didn’t. we know of such things?” people so you will be replaced got a headache. Everyone, put mined the health of the Greek allies and former enemies know The New Democracy-PASOK He sighs. “But still these, by Makis Voridis,” referring to a your names in a hat and we’ll people and hundreds of thou - that the Greeks were instrumental tag team new look was the old these ….” He stops. “I hoped former colleague of Georgiadis’ let you know who’s minister of sands suffered from chronic dis - in bringing about the liberation look of yes men and bum kissers that we would come here and in the far right-wing LAOS party what. But I want you to know eases and premature death be - of Europe from the Nazi yolk. whose only real hope is to stay reason together. And as a rea - both left to be opportunists and that if we fail again I’m going cause their immune systems had as a minister before the Premier sonable man, I'm willing to do join New Democracy. to blame some of the people in been undermined by famine and André Gerolymatos is Director plays Musical Chairs again, if whatever is necessary to find a “Voridis!” Georgiadis says. this room, and none of them malnutrition. of the Stavros Niarchos Founda - the government lasts out its peaceful solution to these prob - “He’s an anti-Semite, he hates will be me.” The dearth of political lead - tion Centre for Hellenic Studies term until 2016. lems.” gays, he’s practically in Golden ership, a plague that has walked at Simon in Vancouver. The National Herald has got - (Venizelos, looking at Sama - Dawn’s camp!” [email protected] 14 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 14-20, 2014 The Greeks and the Jews: a Look at the History of a Mutually Beneficial Relationship

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Each time ing matters worse, at that time Secretary for Eu - in a Nazi-occupied we truly distinguished our - two cities have counted more the Golden Dawn Party makes the Greek Junta had dramati - rope and Cyprus country publicly selves. Greece should build on with mankind than Athens and the news, anti-Semitism among cally weakened the Greek mili - Special Envoy, Dick opposed the Holo - this image of greatness, and we Jerusalem.” some Greeks is re-exposed. In tary. A war with Turkey could Holbrooke; Ambas - caust, as did Arch - should avoid anything that Today, the relationship be - combating this problem, it is im - have cost thousands of lives and sadors Tom Miller, bishop Damaski - might detract from that out - tween Hellenes and the Jewish portant to know about Jewish even redrawn the boundaries of Mark Grossman, nos; nor had standing Greek accomplish - community is as important as actions that may have saved the Hellenic Republic. and Dick Shifter, on leaders like Metro - ment. ever. Attempts in the Eastern thousands of Greek and Cypriot In 1975, Congress made down to the lowest politan Chrysosto - No one had to order Greeks Mediterranean to expunge non- lives and maintained Greece’s clear to Turkey that the light State Department mos and Mayor to save the Jewish families, and Muslims provide a negative rea - territorial integrity. I refer to the was “red” not “green” by impos - desk officer. Karrer of Zakyn - no one had to order the Jews in son for Israel, Cyprus and Jewish community’s steadfast ing an arms embargo on Turkey. During these thos, who submit - the American government to Greece to be closer than ever. support of our efforts in Wash - It was the only time in modern few Clinton years ted only their treat Greece and Cyprus well. It As well, the fortuitous discovery ington to stop continued Turkish history that the Congress over - under exclusively by Andy names to Nazis de - happened spontaneously be - of natural gas in the exclusive aggression following the inva - turned the White House on a Jewish policy influ - MANATOS manding a list of cause of our peoples’ share sim - economic zones of Israel, sion of Cyprus. major foreign policy issue. ence: Special to the Jewish commu - ilar worldviews. As British Prime Cyprus and now Greece pro - “GREEK ISLANDS SHOULD Among the Senators and • The US The National Herald nity; nor had so Minister Winston Churchill said vides an equally strong positive BE TURKISH!” Representatives who stood with backed down the many citizens make in his book “Closing The Ring,” reason. Turkey’s Ambassador to the us, no group – Democrats, Re - Turkish military that was threat - the instant decision to risk their “No two races have set such a Today, mutual respect and United States threatened Greece publican, women, African- ening war with Greece from the family’s death to hide Jewish mark upon the world. They… assistance between the Hellenic during a 1974 breakfast meet - Americans, Catholics, etc. – ex - Greek islet of Imea; families. When the Greek people have left us the inheritance of and Jewish communities in the ing of Senate Committee Staff ceeded the level of support we • Holbrooke switched the were put to that ultimate test, their genius and wisdom. No U.S. and Greece is the only op - Directors, of which I was one. received from Jewish Senators positions of Germany and tion. He pointed out on a map that and House Members, 95% of France so that Cyprus could be - many Greek Islands are located whom supported the embargo. gin early EU accession talks; * Andy Manatos worked for closer to Turkey than Athens Jewish Subcommittee Chairman • Clinton apologized to the Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, that they were historically Turk - Ben Rosenthal of New York was people of Greece for American leading the Senate effort to ish-Ottoman and should be one of our four primary Turkish conduct vis-à-vis the Greek impose the Turkish Arms Em - Turkish today. Embargo leaders, along with Junta; bargo. Appointed by President This official Turkish position then-Congressmen Paul Sar - • Clinton became the first sit - Jimmy Carter as an Assistant indicates the degree of danger banes and John Brademas and ting president in history to visit Secretary, he offered to resign facing Greece in 1974. Turkey my boss, Senator Tom Eagleton. the Ecumenical Patriarchate, when asked to work to lift the had just killed roughly 4% of Without the support of our Jew - sending a powerful message to Turkish Arms Embargo. the Greek-Cypriot adult-male ish friends, our narrow margins Turkey about America’s view of President of Manatos & population, captured alive and of victory would have been de - the importance of his spiritual Manatos (M&M), the Coordi - executed 1,500 in mass graves, feated, and the Turkish Arms leadership; nated Effort of Hellenes, and and had begun its 40-year mili - Embargo never would have hap - • Holbrooke pressed FYROM the Washington Oxi Day Foun - tarily occupation and coloniza - pened. to drop language threatening dation – contributing half a tion of 1/3 of Cyprus. INFLUENCING U.S. POLICY Macedonia Greece from its con - million dollars’ worth of M&M Turkey may have thought it TO GREECE stitution; and work annually for Hellenic had a “green light” for its ag - It was during the Bill Clinton • The U.S. moved Albania to and Orthodox matters. gression from President Richard Administration, when our Jew - release from jail the Greek Among many other matters Nixon and his Secretary of ish friends filled all of the posi - “Omonia Five” prisoners, one of he worked closely with Am - State, Henry Kissinger. Kissinger tions in policy chain handling whom was condemned to death. bassador Richard Holbrooke had foreknowledge of the inva - our issues that U.S.- Hellenic GREEK SUPPORT DURING and President Bill Clinton to sion of Cyprus and looked the policy reached its zenith. That HOLOCAUST reverse France’s and Ger - other way, while pressing Jewish policy chain included The Jewish community sup - many’s opposition to Cyprus’ Greece not to respond militarily. everyone from the president’s ported us in our time of need, early EU accession and en - Further, Kissinger refused to ter - head of the White House Na - and we Greeks supported the abled the Greek-American minate military aid to Turkey al - tional Security Council, Sandy Jewish community’s during its community to be the only one though American law specifi - Berger, and his European ex - greatest horror, the Holocaust. other than the Irish-Ameri - cally required him to do so pert, Tony Blinken; through the The Greek people were unsur - cans to have an annual White because the aid had been used State Department’s Secretary passed in their conduct. No House meeting with each U.S. aggressively. In addition, mak - Madeline Albright and Assistant other national religious leader Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki. President for 28 years. Comparing Genocides: Some Common Elements of the Jewish and Greek Massacres

By Dr. George and despoiled along the way, a Papadopoulos & German involvement also ex - Aris Tsilfidis isted. It's interesting to note that Germany who allied itself with We are all familiar with the the Ottoman Empire was in vir - mass extermination of Jews dur - tual control of the Ottoman mil - ing WWII. But are we familiar itary and was therefore com - with the extermination of 1.5 plicit in the Greek Genocide. million Greeks during the period • Extermination methods: 1914-1923 in the Ottoman Em - The major method of extermi - pire (today’s Turkey)? How can nating Jews was via lethal gas one genocide be so well-known in extermination camps. In yet another virtually unnoticed? these camps, several hundred Genocide has a lasting effect, Jews at a time were locked into not only on survivors, but also chambers and the lethal gas Zy - on their families. For that rea - clon-B was released. Tens of son, genocide should not go un - thousands of Jews were exter - punished. Unfortunately for the minated each day in this man - genocide of the Ottoman ner. While the Turks were not Greeks, it has received little as advanced in their methods of recognition, let alone coverage exterminating Greeks, they were in media and inclusion in school nonetheless effective. As men - curricula. tioned, deportation was an ef - Certain cultures have done fective way to exterminate the everything in their power to Greeks. Another common bring to light the genocide of method was locking hundreds their people regardless of how of Greeks in churches and burn - long ago it occurred. Take for ing them alive. Newspaper re - example the Armenians who ports also point to lethal injec - were co-victims in genocide tions being used, parboiling, along with the Greeks in the Ot - and dumping Greeks into the toman Empire during the period sea amongst others. 1914-1923. The Armenian • Resistance: Although the Genocide is synonymous to 1938 German Weapons Act pre - many people. A plethora of vented Jews from owning guns, books are available in English All genocides are horrible, and all should be remembered. But had many atrocities in common with the Jewish Holocaust, of - the Jews did offer some resis - on the Armenian Genocide and the Greek Genocide by the Ottoman Empire, 1914-1923, which ten goes largely unnoticed. tance during the Holocaust. subsequently it has been recog - There were in fact over a hun - nized by over 20 countries parable. Nazi’s to complete the Holo - Genocide occurred on April 6, • Deportations/Death dred armed Jewish uprisings. worldwide… • Co-victims: Many people caust were the SA (Storm 1914 when the Turks boycotted marches: The majority of depor - One of the most notable groups Why is the Greek Genocide believe that the Holocaust in - Troups), the SS (Elite Echelon) Greek businesses in Eastern tations of Jews occurred to - was the Bielski partisans who so unknown to most? Let's for volved just the mass slaughter and the Gestapo (Secret police). Thrace and later along the west - wards the end of WW2 when armed themselves and spent one moment compare it to the of Jews. In fact the Nazis did The SS, also referred to as ern shoreline of Asia Minor and the allies were closing in on the more than two years living in Jewish Holocaust, a genocide not only exterminate the Jews. Hitler’s “Death’s Head Unit” was the Black Sea. In both cases, Nazis, and Jews were deported the forests. They were to save most are familiar with. In doing They also exterminated the dis - responsible for the mass murder boycotting was the first sign the away from the extermination many lives. Most are familiar so, we will be able to see that abled, homosexuals, Romani of the Jews. The paramilitary genocides had begun. camps and into the interior by with the resistance of the Greeks the genocide of the Greeks of (Gypsies), Jehovah's witnesses, unit which was responsible for • Hate speech: Hitler out - train and by foot. The major of the Pontus. By arming them - the former Ottoman Empire, and others. In the case of the the genocide of Greeks was the wardly spoke of his hatred of method of extermination of the selves, these Greeks were able had many similarities with the genocide in the Ottoman Em - Teshkilat-i Masusa otherwise Jews. He referred to them as a Jews was by the use of gas to defend themselves and in the Jewish Holocaust which was to pire, it wasn't only Greeks who known as the Special Organisa - plague, an epidemic, germ car - chambers, so deportation was process save thousands of Pontic happen some 20 years later were massacred. Armenians, As - tion (S.O). This organisation riers, harmful bacillus, a cancer, not relied upon to exterminate Greeks from extermination. (1933-1945). syrians, Yezidis, Jews and other was made up of current and for - and as maggots. With the out - them en masse. On the other Many however are not so famil - There are at least 14 similar - groups were victims too. mer convicts, religious order break of WW1 in the Ottoman hand, the Turks deported iar with the Greeks of Nicome - ities between the two genocides • Perpetrators/regimes: In groups, volunteer groups (Lazes Empire, the Sultan issued a de - Greeks from virtually every re - dia (today Izmit) who likewise in question. It should be noted the case of the Holocaust, the and Kurds etc) as well as armed claration of war effectively a Ji - gion of Asia Minor and Eastern offered armed resistance. that in 2007, the Greek Geno - Nazis (or the Nationalist Social - irregulars (chetes and brig - had against the people of the Thrace, usually to the interior, By comparing all the above, cide was formally recognised by ist German Worker's Party) ands). countries who it was fighting by foot, without food and water, we can see that the Greek Geno - one of the foremost groups of came to power in 1933 and al - • Ideology: The ideology in against (ie everyone except Ger - and in many cases during the cide has many parallels with genocide scholars, the Interna - most immediately set about in both genocides was based on mans and Austrians). A secret peak of winter, with intent to that of the Jewish Holocaust, yet tional Association of Genocide persecuting Jews and others. myth. The Nazis were under the paper which was being distrib - bring about their physical de - it remains largely forgotten and Scholars (IAGS). It is however The Committee of Union and illusion that the Jews wanted to uted, wrote: “The world of Islam struction without the need for unrecognised. unrecognised by nations world - Progress (CUP), otherwise control the world, hence they sinks down and goes backward bullets or other means. The German state has offi - wide. known as the Young Turks came had to be exterminated (The Fi - and the Christian world goes • Concentration Camps and cially recognised the Holocaust The following are the most to power in 1913 and immedi - nal Solution). The Nazis also be - forward and is more and more Ghettos: While Jews had been and has to date paid some $90 obvious similarities between the ately began implementing their lieved that the Aryans, a Nordic exalted. Take them and kill living in ghettos for centuries in billion in compensation to the Jewish Holocaust and the Greek plan to eradicate Greeks and race who exhibited blonde hair them whenever you find them. Europe, the Nazis enforced a victims. On the other hand, Genocide: other minorities. and blue eyes, were the first to He who kills even one unbe - ghetto system for the Jews in Turkey has continued to deny • Timing: As mentioned • Leading figures: The leader live in Germany and therefore liever of those who rule over us, order to isolate them for the that the events of 1914-1923 above, both genocides occurred of the Nazi party was Adolf all others were inferior. With the whether he does it secretly or purpose of persecution. When were an act of genocide, instead around the time of a world war. Hitler. He was to become one outbreak of WW1, the Turks be - openly, shall be rewarded by the 'Final Solution' was to take labelling them as the result of This allowed the mass slaughter of the most ruthless dictators in lieved that the Greeks living God.” effect in 1942, these ghettos civil war. to happen while the world's at - the world. If we put aside the within the empire were disloyal • Disarming: Hitler was able were closed and Jews were sent The crime of genocide has no tention was focussed on the war triumvirate of the Young Turks or were supplying the enemy to disarm the Jews by enacting to concentration, labour and ex - place in society. Genocides itself. Both genocides were per - (Enver, Djemal and Talaat) who with goods. As a result, their the 1938 German Weapons Act termination camps. In the Ot - should be punished regardless petrated over several years; the were in control of the C.U.P ideology was to turn to one of which prohibited Jews from toman Empire, the Greeks were of when they occurred, in order Holocaust over 12 years (1933- from 1913-1918, the man who “Turkey for the Turks” and the possessing any dangerous deported usually to destinations to bring closure and justice to 1945) and the Greek Genocide rose to power in what is referred eradication of all its “non-Turk - weapon including guns. Jews in the interior. On the 21st of all survivors and their families, over 9 years (1914-1923). to as the Kemalist phase of the ish” citizens had to be carried were also forbidden from the April 1916, a New York Times and to also act as a deterrent • Death Toll: The total num - genocide, was Mustafa Kemal. out. manufacture or dealing of article with the headline 'Turks for those considering commit - ber of Jews exterminated was 6 He emerged in May 1919 to • Boycotting: The Nazis firearms and ammunition. In Deporting Greeks' wrote “Civil - ting genocide in the future. million, out of a total of 9 mil - complete the genocide his pre - seized power in January of comparison, at the outbreak of ian concentration camp victims The Greek Genocide is one lion, which accounted to 66% decessors – the triumvirate – 1933. Within two months they WW1, the C.U.P was able to dis - attacked and despoiled. The such genocide that awaits recog - of the Jewish population in Eu - had initiated. The difference be - carried out the first nationwide arm the Greeks by forcing them Turkish authorities on the Black nition. rope at the time. If we look at ing, that Mustafa Kemal was to boycott of Jewish businesses. into Labour Battallions, or Sea regions are acting toward the genocide of the Greeks, 1.5 remain a leader/dictator well af - Storm Troops were to stand out - Amele Taburu, as they were the Greeks in the same fashion Dr. George Papadopoulos and million were exterminated out ter the genocide was complete, side Jewish businesses and of - called. The death toll in these as the Germans have done with Aris Tsilfidis have given numer - of a total of 2.7 million who hence his title 'Ataturk' (mean - fices of professionals, and paint battalions was as high as 90%, regard to the civil populations ous lectures about the Greek were living in the Ottoman Em - ing father of the Turks). the Star of David across their as men were sent into the inte - of the occupied portions of Genocide, most recently in Mel - pire, or 55%. While four times • Paramilitary (Death doorways with signs saying rior of Asia Minor and made to north-eastern France.” So not bourne, Australia – from which the number of Jews were exter - squads): The main three para - 'Don't buy from the Jews'. Com - do back breaking work with lit - only were Greeks sent to con - excerpts were selected for this minated, the percentage is com - military groups used by the parably the start of the Greek tle food or water. centration camps and attacked article.