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O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald c v A wEEkly GrEEk AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 14, ISSUE 703 April 2-8 , 2011 $1.50 March on 5th Avenue to Celebrate Freedom and Honor Skies Confound Forecasters; Smiles North And Pride Prevail

America By Constantine S. Sirigos Strides to a TNH Staff Writer – Boom! Boom! ... BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! With the Greek Beat sounding of their pounding, re - minding that fighting in places today such as Libya and By TNH Staff Writers showed that freedom sometimes must be won with guns and It wasn’t just New York blood – as it was in - the Greeks marching to celebrate young drummers of the Greek Greek last School of of Brooklyn week: the faithful turned out in launched the annual Greek In - big cities such as Baltimore, De - dependence parade up New troit, and Toronto – York’s Fifth Avenue on March and small cities and such 27, the 73rd time that famed as Lowell and Peabody, Massa - boulevard received Greek cele - chusetts, North Wildwood, N.J., brants. It didn’t matter that the and Dover, N.H. And they all anniversary was two days ear - had the same mission: to mark lier as blue skies and smiles their heritage and the freedom framed the picture for the it brought their . On march that marked the 190th Sunday March 27, many Greek anniversary of the Greek Revo - Americans and Greek lution against the Ottoman oc - took out flags and traditional cupation. But the day’s head - costumes and sported their lines about Libyan rebels walking shoes to celebrate re-gaining ground in the battle March 25. Baltimoreans were against their repressive ruler among the most ambitious. This brought to life the words heard year for the first time, the city in speeches throughout the of more than 30,000 Greek week hymning the heroes of the Americans held Baltimore Greek struggle for Greek indepen - Week, with events running dence about the contributions - March 20-27. In the days lead - TNH/COSTAS BEJ including the ultimate ing up to the parade, countless Above: New York’s Greek pa - - made by Greeks and Philhel - events included a rade this year was closer to lenes alike so that Hellas would tasting, a talk on the healthy the real March 25th date of rise again, and its people be free Mediterranean diet and even Greek Independence, but the once more. It was chilly, but that Greek-themed film screenings. early spring weather was didn’t deter Greeks, Philhel - Baltimore Greek Week chilly, making some of the lenes, neighbors and tourists spokesperson Gayle V. youngest participants having from celebrating Pride Economos explained that the to bundle up stylishly on Fifth and Greek Independence Day by idea was the brainchild of three Avenue, while moms juggled marching on the edge of a Cen - of the youngest members of the flags. tral Park whose trees are finally Baltimore-Piraeus Sister City Left: The most star-studded bursting in to bloom after a bru - Committee, which organizes the float in New York’s Greek In - tal winter. They were joined by parade and turns 30 next year. dependence Day parade up local leaders, including Mayor The participants ranged from Fifth Avenue on March 27 in - Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Sena - Zagat-rated restaurants like The cluded (L-R) Tricia Nixon Cox, tor Charles Schumer and Con - Black Olive to diners and non- daughter of the late U.S. Pres - gressman Anthony Weiner, but food businesses. “Most restau - ident Richard Nixon; actor the community’s pride and joy rants were very happy and so Michael Constantine of My Big was its onward marching youth, were visitors. Establishments Fat Greek Wedding film fame; the children who participate in not involved asked to be in - Margo Catsimatidis, Andrea its organizations, as well as the volved next year,” said Catsimatidis, Christopher young public servants who are Economos. Everything built up Nixon Cox, the former Presi - making their mark in the state to the main event, the Greek Pa - dent’s grandson; and Yianni capitol of Albany, State Senator rade (the 15th by current organ - Catsimatidis. Michael Gianaris and two brand isers). As in most cities, there new assemblywomen, Democrat were schools, dance groups, dig - Aravella Simotas, and Republi - nitaries, Hellenic organizations can Nicole Malliotakis. such as AHEPA and Daughters’ The parade’s first move - of Penelope. But in Baltimore, ments, right on time at 1:30 there were also the 300 Spar - p.m. to the cheers of the chilled

Continued on page 3 Continued on page 5 Economists’ Greek Women Who Heal: Kalopothakes to Today Greek

Blurry Greek NEW YORK – Did you know the are here tonight who has our work, not only expertly but in her profession, Lymberis Landfill first Greek female doctor in worked hard, who has con - with love and joy.” The honoree harkened back to ancient Greeks modern times was a Greek tributed to the care of patients is a Drexel University College of reminding the audience of the Crystal Ball American, Mary Kalopothakes? of any subspecialty of every age, professor and Director daughters of the Greek god of Fight Turns Her work has been carried on of every age. And I think that of the Neonatal ICU of St. mediciner Asclepius – including through her female colleagues this award, this symbol of Maria Christopher’s Hospital. Panacea and Ygeia – and Agn - By Constantine S. Sirigos and it’s a name that’s used to K. belongs to all of you...” The Dr. Stella Lymberis, who had odice, a legendary female gyne - Violent TNH Staff Writer honor the best of them. On society’s President, Dr. Nikos first presented the idea of the cologist who rocked the all boys’ March 29, the Hellenic Medical Melezites, said, “This is the be - symposium – as Melezites told club of Ancient when – NEW YORK – It’s been said if Society of New York gave its first ginning of a series that we now the audience, provided the his - surprise, surprise – women pre - While the ongoing of you get a group of economists Mary Kalopothakes Award to Dr. in our 75th year as a society set torical context in her lecture. ferred her care to theirs. She whether Greece’s economy will in the same room you won’t get Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos forth.” He underlined the hon - She dedicated the symposium also noted that the term “men - go belly-up and the country go the same answer to a question. of Drexel University of Philadel - oree’s accomplishments, partic - not only to her grandmother, tor” comes from the story of the bankrupt – which has included But when a group of some of phia. At a Memorial Sloan-Ket - ularly in improving the who never achieved her dream goddess Athena’s wearing a dis - some raging protests and battles the best met here to discuss why tering Cancer Center sympo - prospects for premature babies, of becoming a doctor, but also guise to advise Telemachus. between protesters and police – the Greek economy turned sour sium organized by the society, and her strong mentoring work “to the women who were barred “Even in 2011,” Lymberis said, has dominated attention, a sim - and what happens next, they she acknowledged how it felt to and humility. Dr. Delivoria-Pa - from medicine and to the “in academia we are debating mering dispute over govern - had a consensus: the country follow in Kalopothakes’ foot - padopoulos is noteworthy for women – despite barriers – who whether men and women have ment plans to build a waste cen - will have to inevitably default. steps. “I am very humbled by reminding others of the follow - succeed and excel in medicine.” the ability to achieve in ter in the seaside of The March 28th program, The this distinction bestowed to me ing, he said, adding “..that in Before offering statistics on both and I think that is a little dis - Keratea, about 30 miles south World Financial Crisis – The tonight, but I believe that award the end, the best recompense is the progress as well as the hur - of Athens, has spilled over into Case of Greece was aimed at belongs to every one of you who the sure knowledge we’ve done dles still remaining for women Continued on page 6 violent fights between police sorting out what happened in and residents. The government Greece and why, and the ana - says it will not back down from lysts said it was a worst case construction of the facility, and scenario in which almost every - last week sent police and work thing went wrong, from an un - N.Y. Parade: crews to the city to open roads, productive – one called it “use - which had been blocked by pro - less” – public sector, to The Audience testers. Speaking to Skai TV, uncontrolled tax evasion and, Deputy Interior Minister perhaps its biggest bugaboo: Theodora Tzakri said that the mistrust. The guests were wel - Was Fun Too government intends to see comed by Greece’s Ambassador through longstanding plans to Aghi Balta, who thanked the build a landfill near the village. Foundation for By Angelike Contis She said that the courts have its support, as did the modera - TNH Staff Writer backed the decision to build the tor, Prof. George Syrimis, Asso - facility and that the government ciate Program Chair at the Hel - NEW YORK – What would a pa - has tried to appease locals by lenic Studies Program, who rade be without the cheers and withdrawing police from the introduced the panel beginning the applause, without people area. Her statements came after with John Geanakoplos, James holding flags and wearing spe - a tense night last week that in - Tobin Professor of Economics at cial emblems? The National cluded a seven-hour battle be - Yale and co-founder of the Hel - Herald spoke to some of the tween police and protestors and lenic Studies program in 2001. people who made the Manhat - exchanges of tear gas and Molo - For many economists, math is tan March 27 Greek Parade hap - tov cocktails in which four po - pen with their spirit. lice officers were injured and Continued on page 6 EMOTIONAL FOR MANY one person arrested. Authorities Retired former merchant ma - managed to open Lavriou Av - rine captain George Glytsis, who enue, which links Athens with has been attending the event for the port of Lavrio, after a bull - For subscription: 35 years, says the parade always dozer removed barricades that 718.784.5255 brings tears to his eyes. Bundled had been constructed by protes - [email protected] up from head to toe, he said tors, but it was uncertain how with a laugh: “The warmth of Turning out in Baltimore long that would last as road is patriotism is more than the periodically blocked. cold.” His wife Georgette Glytsis It wasn’t just New York that made a big show for Greek Independence Day. The parade came Earlier, protesters set fire to in Baltimore after a full program of Greek Week events, involving many area restaurants. After Continued on page 4 the marching ended, all the dance groups joined in for a final Kalamatiano. Continued on page 9 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011

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n APRIL 2 at the Parthenon Restaurant in WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Fu - Greektown (314 S. Halsted ture of the Classics: A Discussion Street). The musical (book by of the State of the Art will be Barbara Georgans, by hosted by the Center for Hellenic Philip Seward, lyrics by Jon Studies on Saturday, April 2 at Steinhagen) is a musical comedy the center’s Building A. Presen - about two Greek American tations from 10:00-11:15 a.m. brothers who make bootleg by: Don Lavigne, Texas Tech, in Chicago during Prohi - Classics as Cost Center?; Liz bition. Unfortunately no one Gephardt, Williamsburg Middle likes the stuff and the brothers School, Classics in American try instead to find wealthy Schools; Nikolaos Papazarkadas, grooms for their daughters, who Berkeley, Classics in Greece; Bar - have different plans of their own. bara Graziosi, Durham, Classics Tickets are $65 and include din - in and Britain; Norman San - ner, dessert, a glass of Retsina dridge, Howard, Classics and and valet parking. For more 'Academic Renewal'; Johannes info/tickets: www.stockyardsthe - TNH/COSTAS BEJ TNH/COSTAS BEJ Haubold, Durham, Classics and atreproject.org. The judge gets the honor All the Colors of Greece Fill Cretan House Comparative Studies; Allen Ro - mano, Florida State, Classics and n APRIL 7 The Hellenic Lawyers Association honored Judge Peter Skelos Dancers young and old from 27 Metropolitan area organiza - Digital Humanities.Discussion WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dr. (2nd left) with the Norman Lent Award by the Criminal Courts tions in their multicolored traditional costumes gathered at 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and Katherine A. Schwab, Associate Bar Association of Nassau County, N.Y. on March 10. Left is Cretan House in Astoria to celebrate Greek Independence Day Lunch is 12:30 p.m.-1:30 pm. All Professor of Art History, Visual Criminal Courts Bar Association President William Kephart on Friday, March 25. Presented by the society “Omonia” and presentations/discussions will be and Performing Arts at Fairfield and next to Skelos (L-R) Judge Helen Voutsinas, Association organized by Kyriakos Maragoudakis, it was the third year in broadcast on the web. If you University, Connecticut will pre - President Mamie Stathatos-Fulgieri, and Matthew Fulgieri. a row for the popular event. cannot join us at the CHS, please sent the talk Investigating the follow the webcast and then par - Surface: the Parthenon Metopes ticipate in the discussion through and Hairstyles. It will the chat interface. The link to be based on ongoing research the streamcast follows. she did on the Parthenon east In the Spotlight: Stephanie Marudas Has Greek rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/H and north metopes as well as a ouseA 2009 project to recreate the hair - styles inspired by women on the By Angelike Contis Then I worked at an environmen - ents were born in the United n APRIL 2-3 Athenian Acropolis. A short film TNH Staff Writer tal consulting firm that devised States, and so it was my great- ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Technol - made on the project will also be and evaluated recycling pro - grandparents who immigrated ogy and Tourism is the theme of screened. The event is spon - NEW YORK - Future generations grams for commercial properties. from and . I try the 2011 Hermes Expo, which sored by The American Friends will have a sense of how Greek I also volunteered with COSMOS to visit Kythera for a few weeks was launched on March 31. The of the New Acropolis Museum American college students FM - the Greek-English radio sta - in the summer. 20-year-old event moves to the and The American School Of throughout the felt tion - for which I produced and TNH: How does your Greek Tropicana on April 2, with exhi - Classical Studies at Athens In about their ethnic background to - hosted the show, Eye on The heritage play a role in your life? bition booths, seminars on topics Collaboration with The Embassy day thanks to a study now un - Community from 2003 to 2004. SM: If I had not joined Co - like business in South Eastern Of Greece. It will take place on derway. On the Got Greek? Na - My experience at COSMOS FM lumbia’s Hellenic Association as and presentations. The April 7, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. at tional Research Study website, helped me make the leap to free - a freshman, I probably would Grand Opening Ceremony there 2217 Massachussetts Ave. NW, one college student talks about lance reporter on public radio sta - have never signed up for elemen - will be at 1:00 p.m. on April 2. Washington, D.C. A reception how reactions to his Mediter - tions. I’ve reported for WYPR in tary , which led me There will be meetings of young will follow. Please RSVP to af - ranean olive complexion has led Baltimore, WHYY in Philadel - to take what would be the first professionals and a viewing of [email protected]. him to fill out “Other” on forms phia, and have done some pieces of many more trips to Greece. I the documentary Still Di - when asked about his ethnic along the way for National Public spent a good part of two sum - vided: A US Foreign Policy Fail - n APRIL 9 background. Another young Radio. Apart from my work in ra - mers working with ARCHELON- ure with a panel discussion. LOS ANGELES, C.A. – Actor John woman declares that a massive dio, I’m involved with the Next The Turtle Protection Society Don’t miss the April 2nd 20th an - Aniston will be the master of cer - flag decorates her room. A third Initiative of Greece - on the island of Za - nual dinner reception gala hon - emonies at the American Hel - student says he says “Greek” be - (hellenext.org) and help run the kynthos, and also stayed several oring Gus Bilirakis, US Congress - lenic Council’s 2011 Annual fore saying “Cypriot,” to avoid organization’s Got Greek? Na - months on Kythera during the fall man (R-FL), Dr. Spiros Spireas, Honors Awards Dinner. Linda P. long explanations, when asked tional Research Study (got - after my college graduation. Founder and CEO of B. Katehi Chancellor, University about his land of origin. Survey greek.org), and also do podcast Stephanie Marudas Without that connection to SigmaPharm Laboratories, Elias of California, Davis will receive creator Stephanie Marudas can interviews for academic journals. Greece and my heritage, I prob - Rizakos, Yiannis Zoulis and the Aristeio Award in Academics, be thanked for focusing these I live in Philadelphia with my with major support from the Za - ably would have never consid - Manny Mastromanolis Pan Gre - Eftichios "Van" Vlahakis, Owner many voices in one place. The husband and baby. In my free pis Charitable Foundation, the ered volunteering at COSMOS gorian Enterprises of Baltimore, and CEO of Earth Friendly Prod - Philadelphia-based reporter ap - time, I enjoy taking walks around Maliotis Charitable Foundation FM, which provided me with MD & Executive Board, Dr. Chris ucts, The Aristeio Award in Busi - proached the Hellenic organiza - the city; chatting with folks in the and others. The main goal behind valuable skills to break into pub - Tsokos, Nicholas Karakostas, ness, Georgios Anagnostopoulos, tion Next Generation Initiative community; reading newspapers; the project is to learn more about lic radio. So, my Greek heritage Supreme President AHEPA & Ex - Professor of , Univer - about the idea for the survey - playing bocce in an organized the ways the next generation has a lot to do with who I am, ecutive Lodge, George Horiates, sity of California, San Diego, The and is now seeing it through with women’s league; swimming laps connects to their Greek heritage. not to mention that I’m married Esq., Governor AHEPA District Theodore Saloutos Award and a bigger team. Soon, the Got in the summer at my gym’s out - We want to find out how their to a Greek-American. #5 & Executive Board, Ted Congresswoman Ileana Ros- Greek? results will be presented door pool; and getting together Greek heritage plays out at home, TNH: Do you have any role Manousakis, President PanCre - Lehtinen of Florida, Chairman of to the public. While she’s usually with family and friends. school, and in many other facets models? tan Association and Zaharoula the US House Foreign Affairs the one asking the questions, we TNH: Can you tell us more of their lives, from relationships SM: The late Studs Terkel, a Marmatakis, Nicholas Kanel - Committee, The Pericles Award. turned the tables around on about the Got Greek project and to spirituality to career pursuits. radio interviewer who went on lopoulos, President EOT and Hel - The event will be held Saturday, Marudas, asking her a few ques - how you became involved in it? “We hope the survey results, to do a wide-ranging series of lenic Teacher members of the April 9 at the Omni Hotel, 251 tions. She’s clearly a voice we’ll SM: I approached the Next which are currently under analy - oral histories. I admire the way Federation. April 3rd also fea - South Olive Street, Los Angeles, be hearing more of in the future. Generation Initiative with the sis by CUNY College Pro - he did interviews, especially in tures a brunch and presenta - CA 90012. VIP Reception 5:00 TNH: Tell us about yourself. idea to do both a survey and an fessor Nicholas Alexiou, will help his humble and informed way. tions. p.m., Reception 6:00 p.m. Din - SM: I’m 30 years old. I grew oral history project geared broaden our community's under - He could also listen intently. http://www.hermesexpo.com ner and Award Ceremony 7:00 up in Baltimore, Maryland and around college and university standing on these issues and per - TNH: What is your greatest p.m. There will be Music and graduated cum laude from Co - students of Greek descent. I haps lead to relevant program - achievement thus far? What do n APRIL 3 Dancing. RSVP By March 31. lumbia University’s Barnard Col - teamed up with the Initiative's ming aimed at the next you hope to achieve in the fu - NEW YORK, N.Y. - Translator Tel: 323-651-3507, Fax: 323- lege. During college, I developed Executive Director Leon Stavrou generation.” ture? Karen Emmerich will read and 658-6306, e-mail: info@ameri - an interest in environmental is - and Managing Director Bill TNH: What part of Greece are SM: Staying committed to do - discuss the work of late Greek canhellenic.org sues and spent a semester at the Shuyler. We put together a team you from? Do you visit often? ing work that meshes with my novelist Margarita Karapanou, Biosphere 2 in Arizona. My first of professors and students to help SM: My maternal grandpar - personality. I enjoy conversations, author of The Sleepwalker and n APRIL 10 job after college was as an envi - develop the survey, and were able ents were from the island of the exchange of ideas, learning Rien ne vas plus, recently reis - DEERFIELD, I.L. - In Celebration ronmental educator in the Bronx. to launch the Got Greek? project Kythera. My paternal grandpar - about how people think and live. sued by Clockroot Books. Mar - of the Greek Revolution of 1821, In my various jobs, I have always garita Karapanou was born in The Hellenic American Women’s been fulfilled in this manner and Athens in 1946 and raised in Council and the Hellenic Ameri - hope that I will continue to have Athens and Paris. One of Greece's can Academy present “Rehears - opportunities that will engage me most beloved authors, she was ing Revolution: Aeschylus’ Per - in this way. the author of five novels. She sians and the Greek War of TNH: What are some upcom - died in 2008. Karen Emmerich Independence” with Professor ing projects? has translated Modern Greek po - Gonda Van Steen who will pre - SM: As part of the Got Greek? etry and prose including I'd Like sent themes from her recent project, we’re looking forward to by Amanda Michalopoulou, Po - book, Liberating Hellenism from holding community forums on ems (1945-1971) by Miltos the : Comte de the survey results. We hope the Sachtouris and The Few Things Marcellus and the Last of the results will be conversation I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis Classics (2010). The free event starters among the various age by . She is the will be held Sunday, April 10, groups in our community, and in - recipient of translation grants 2011, at 3 p.m. at the Hellenic spire others to do further re - and awards from the NEA, PEN, American Academy auditorium. search as well as generate new and the Modern Greek Studies Liberating Hellenism explores ideas and efforts to help keep the Association. The event will be the nineteenth-century links be - next generation connected. held at 4:00 p.m. at Idlewild tween , archaeology, TNH: Share with us some Books 12 W 19th St (between and -cultural contact by fo - words of wisdom. 5th and 6th), Contact: cusing on two key historical SM: Look people in the eyes [email protected] episodes that have generally es - when you talk to them. Do your caped the notice of modern best to listen. Keep close com - n APRIL 4 Greece, the Near East, and their pany with people who help you NEW YORK - Under the auspices observers alike. Hellenic Ameri - tap your potential; whom you of H. E. Ambassador Aghi Balta can Academy, 1085 Lake Cook can be honest with; and laugh Consul General of Greece and Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015, (847) AP PHOTO/CArOlyN kASTEr with. The Greek Press and Communi - 317 –1063. Site: HellenicAmeri - A Presidential notice for the Greeks For more about the Got Greek? cation Office, the American canAcademy.org Survey, visit the website Friends of the Jewish Museum President Barack Obama speaks at an event commemorating Greek Independence Day in the http://gotgreek.hellenext.org/ of Greece presnt a Lecture on: BOSTON, M.A. – Beantown’s East Room of the White House as Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the “The Permanent Greek Exhibi - Greek Independence Day Parade in America, looks on, March 25, 2011 in Washington. [email protected] tion at the Auschwitz Memorial” will be held at 1:00 p.m. The By Photini Tomai-Konstan - Federation of Hellenic American topoulou Director of the Diplo - Societies of New England in co - matic and Historical Archives of operation with the Metropolis of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Boston, the Consulate General of of Greece, with remarks by: Greece and Mayor’s Office of Amb. Balta and Solomon Asser, Special Events and Tourism pre - President, AFJMG. Monday, April sent this annual event. The fun 4, 2011 at 6 p.m. at the Greek begins on Boylston Street and Press and Communication Office continues to Charles Street. 305 East 47th Street, 2nd Floor. There will be live music, dancing Από το 1915 and food at Boston Common im - για τον Ελληνισμό n THRU APRIL 5 mediately afterwards. For more CHICAGO, I.L. – New musical info www.fhasne.com, (617) Nobody Likes Retsina is running 507-6444.

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By Constantine S. Sirigos Cyprus tragedy and the commu - Christopher, after noting Greece TNH Staff Writer nity’s obligations to make a dif - was the world’s first ference, led “by your wonderful and America is its greatest, he NEW YORK – With the ebullient politicians here,” including the and pointed out that the nephew welcome the New York Greek evening’s hosts. The other recip - of George Washington was American community has come ients of the Citations of Honor among those American philhel - to expect from N.Y. State Senator were Florentia Chirstodoulidou, lenes who went to Greece to Michael Gianaris - joined by his physican and philanthropist, who fight against Ottoman oppres - exuberant new colleague in Al - offered the words of encourage - sion. He also added his voice to bany, Aravella Simotas and Bor - ment “We all can make a differ - those who reminded everyone ough President Helen Marshall, ence, Vikentios Rouhotas, and about Hellenism’s continuing the woman who is known as the Mouzakis-Tavlarios, struggles in Cyprus and said Queen of Queens - the celebra - President of the Hellenic Ameri - Greek Americans have a double tion of Greek Independence had can Banker’s Association obligation: To fight for democ - an auspicious beginning on, (HABA,) who told the hosts and ratic ideas in America and in be - March 18. All three were co- guests, which included her fi - half of the people fighting for sponsors of the annual Astoria ancee Michael, “You honor not freedom all over the world, in - event. The students of the only me but my parents, Eka - cluding Cyprus. Christopher was Church off the Transfiguration of terini Mouzakis" and the late last year’s Grand Marshal, and Corona, Queens stole the show, Christos Mouzakis. She is proud was reminded by the former fed - despite being among the of her family's roots in Cephalo - eration President, attorney youngest ever to grace the stage nia and Ithaki and she also de - Kalamaras that the he of a March 25th celebration. The clared, “I am so proud to be a has but one more week to enjoy annual event that was held at PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ first generation Greek American.” the privileges of being Grand the Hellenic Cultural Center of The Pancyprian Dance Group was dressed in traditional costumes at the Greek Independence Marshal read the Proclama - Marshal, though he did not say the Archdiocese and which is the Day celebration at the Hellenic Cultural Center in Astoria, N.Y. tion, which said: “Whereas what those were. 10th organized by Gianaris re - Greek history , , philoso - Kalamaras gave an intriguing minded the community once bly. Numerous speakers ex - freedom and liberation contin - Balta when she declared of the phy and are a great in - presentation on the power of again that the children are the pressed pride and delight in her ues. importance to her of Balta’s wel - heritance shared by all of west - Hellenic history, literature and focus and highest motivation of election and for her part Simotas Marshal said she was thrilled come when she arrived in New ern .. and whereas ideals to inspire thinkers and the Greek American community’s pointed out her life has come full to present this year’s Citation of York. Balta told her new col - Greek Americans have made ex - artists through the millennia, leaders and organizations when circle: Nine years ago she was Honor awards but was happy ac - league she was there for her and ceptional contributions to every choosing as an illustration the they present such events. The honored and now she has the cept the assistance of Senator Gi - for Cyprus. Earlier in the pro - aspect of life in the United states, passage in praise of Helen of children were accompanied by privilege of presenting awards to anaris with respect to the difficult gram the two Consuls General helping to uphold freedom and Troy from Christopher Marlowe’s their pastor, Fr. George Anasta - others for their contributions, Greek names. The first recipients offered reflections on the mean - democracy that we all hold dear. play, Dr. Faustus. He siou, who offered the invocation and hopes other young people were the Consuls General of ing of Greek Independence day, .. we hereby proclaim Friday, said that if we replace the name at the start of the event. From will follow in her footsteps. Greece and Cyprus, who are their but they also focused the gather - March 18 2011 as Greek inde - of beautiful Helen with the word pre-kindergarten through the Simotas worked in Gianaris’ countries’ bridges to the Greek ing’s attention of the tribulations pendence day in the Borough of “Hellenism” we will better ap - fourth grade, they braved the early campaigns and managed and Cypriot American communi - of the Japanese people and urged Queens.” The proclamation was preciate the power of ancient spotlight and the crowd that the first campaign of Astoria’s ties. Much of their time and en - everyone to do all they could to received by Elias Tsekerides, Greek culture and its legacy. overflowed the auditorium of the leading Philhellene and rising ergy is devoted to being present help them recover from the President of the Federation of Simotas introduced Kelly Archdiocese’s Hellenic Cultural star in politics, at events of the organizations of earthquake and tsunami that the Hellenic Societies of Greater Manolopoulos, a student of the center and recited poems that City Councilman Peter F. Vallone, the community, the breakfasts, wracked that country. Balta New York and, who praised Gi - Frank Sinatra High School of the stirred deep and moving memo - Jr. , who was also present and luncheons, dinner dances and traced the Greek peoples’ strug - anaris and Simotas for being Arts who sang the Americ an and ries of friends, families and de - was happy to note that “she now other ceremonies where awards gles through the millennia down role models for the community’s Greek national anthems and ac - voted teachers among the de - outranks me.” are presented to others. This to today for liberty, democracy youth, which he hopes will fol - knowledged this year’s Miss lighted and appreciative The Pancyprian Dance Group time, the community took the op - and human dignity, and cited the low them into elective office. Greek Independence, Alexandra audience, including Marshall dazzlingly dressed in traditional portunity to honor their work. young Americans who were in - The Federation organizes the an - Kavoura. Among the many peo - who gushed “Aren’t the children costumes took its turn on stage Ambassador Balta graciously ac - spired by the same ideals and nual Greek Parade up Fifth Av - ple responsible for the success of wonderful!” Marshall and Gia - between segments of the pro - cepted the Citation by giving journeyed to Greece in 1821 to enue in . 2011 Parade the annual even was Irene naris were joined as sponsors for gram, entertaining the guests New York’s Hellenic community fight for the liberation of the chairman Dr. Frixos Gousis Stathatos-Vasilakos, long-time the first time by Simotas, who and providing a cultural re - some of the credit “ You have in - Greek people. Sophianou echoed spoke about the meaning of the aide of Senator Gianaris. succeeded to Gianaris’ seat in the minder that for some parts of the spired me,” but Sophianou those sentiments and expanded celebration of Greek indepen - 36th district of the State Assem - Hellenic nation, the struggle for turned the spotlight back on on Balta’s description of the dence and co-chair Philip [email protected] Marches to the Greek Beat in Cities and Towns

Continued from page 1 Filippou. Despite the com - at the St. Nicholas Church, with Fotopoulos and Mary Deros. The mittee’s name, there were no Pi - a morning service. A total of 120 parade events drew to a close tans – or at least about 20 of raeus representatives. The pa - organizations paraded, includ - at the Greek Cultural Center. them, entitled the Hellenic War - rade ended with a wreath laid ing AHEPA, SAE and the Plato Meanwhile, in Toronto, 40 riors; John Trikeriotis prepares at a representation of the tomb Academy Charter School with groups braved more of the same the impressive group in a his - of the unknown soldier – and the VIP stand based at Dode - chilly but sunny weather, as they toric reenactment. The more the awarding of the Paul Sar - canese Street, where the Greek marched for two hours along than 60 groups marching hailed banes Public Service award to American stopped to do Danforth Avenue. Several thou - from everywhere from Northern Greek American Diane Conomos a Greek dance. Attending were sands people observed the event Virginia and Washington, D.C. Homberg, Baltimore-Piraeus Congressman Gus Bilirakis, Tar - that featured groups such as the to Ocean City Maryland on the Sister Committee Chair – before pon Springs Mayor David Hellenic Home for the Aged and other side of the state. all the dance groups joined up Archie, Florida State Senate many schools, dance/theater For Economos, it’s always the in a big Kalamatiano dance. The President Mike Haridopolos, groups, universities, the theolog - children proudly wearing their week of festivities ended on Greek Consul General Antonios ical academy, teachers, Greek costumes that make the parade. March 29 – with the annual re - Sgouropoulos, Commander Orthodox communities, scouts, “There were some little boys in ception in Annapolis, where a Michalaros Pavlos of Mac Dill Toronto Police and regional their foustanelles, little girls letter by Thomas Jefferson in Base and, from Greece, MPs clubs. Two Greek MPs attended dressed up, walking proudly support of the Greek Revolution Maximos Charakopoulos (ND) - Emanual Stratakis (PASOK) with their parents or grandmas is read on the steps of the capi - and Dimitrios Papadimoulis and Nikos Papaconstantinou or papous.” The second genera - tal. Economos explains, that due (). (KKE.) Earlier, the March 26 tion Greek American adds, to the Monroe Doctrine, the OH, GREEK ! gala drew high-ranking Cana - “They go off and play their fledgling U.S. government could By contrast, the sun was dian VIPS, including Toronto Po - sports and do their American not get involved abroad at the shining, even if temperatures lice Deputy Chief Mike Federico, things, but they still have an ap - time of the Greek Revolution. were sub-zero at the Montreal Minister of Citizenship and Im - preciation for their ancestors, However, individuals could. Bal - Children from the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Greek parade. The parade fea - migration Eric Hoskins, Minister religion and culture.” Other pa - timoreans Charles Carol, who Dover NH dressed in traditional Greek costumes for Greek In - tured the city’s many churches, of Energy Brad Duguid, House rade organizers take note: Hav - signed the Declaration of Inde - dependence Day flag raising ceremony. From left are Peter Greek regional clubs and of Commons member John Can - ing a Greek Week builds up a pendence, sent money. She Georgakilas, Jack Richards, Mikayla Wolfe and Avery Richards. schools. Rev. Yiorgos Saitanis nis, the consul generals of major buzz. The Baltimore Sun added that freed African Amer - headed the parade, which was Greece and Cyprus, MP Paul Ca - blogged about it. Economos ap - ican James Williams also joined Congressmen Hansen Clarke Loukas Harrington, 2, was attended by politicians includ - landra, Minister Gerry Phillips, peared on all the local network the Greek navy – and eventually and 13th District Senator John among those who took part, ing Montreal Mayor Gerald Transportation Minister Kath - affiliates, in her Macedonian is said to have settled on a Pappageorge. The parade fea - TNH’s Theodore Kalmoukos re - Tremblay. leen Wynne and City Councilor garb. “Greek Week helped get Greek isle. tured the anthems of Greece, the ports. His mother, Althaia Anag - The parade began with a Mary Fragedakis. There were everybody all excited, earlier, a DETROIT U.S. – and also Canada, in a ges - nostopoulou Harrington said doxology at the Evangelismos performances by theatre group great excuse to talk about Greek George Reganis, President of ture towards the units at the that it was the second year he’d tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Nefeli, the Dionysus dance Independence.” PR wiz Detroit Greek Independence Day event from Windsor, Canada. taken part, in his Greek outfit. Church, where the General Con - group and Cretan dancers as Economos added, as she did in Committee, reports that in its There were 42 units in total in - The third generation Greek ex - sul of Greece in Montreal well as musical group Oi Parea. each appearance: “We are doing tenth year under the current or - cluding 14 parishes and over plained that, despite the cold, Thanos Kafopoulos spoke. VIPS MARCHING ON... it for a reason - to commemo - ganizers, the Greektown event 500 university students from she wanted her son to start at the event included Interna - Upcoming parades include rate 190 anniversary of our an - was “very outstanding.” He high - various institutions. “We keep on learning about the tradition tional Civil Aviation Organisa - Boston (April 10), San Francisco cestors declaring independence lighted the presence of the Kyries adding things and improving early. Amb. Elias Fotopoulos tion representative, Ambassador (rescheduled to April 10) and from Ottoman .” The pa - Pylou dance group from Pylos, and getting better participation,” spoke at The Holy Trinity doxol - Haralambos Manesis, Senator Chicago (May 1). rade was underpinned by sup - the site of the decisive Battle of said organizer Reganis about the ogy in the morning, with many Leo Housakos, as well as politi - port from the top - Mayor Rawl - Navarino in the War of Indepen - current parade’s tenth edition. youngsters in attendance. The cians , Stephane Additional reporting by ings-Blake knows how to dance dence. The Mayor of Pylos, The participation of Northwest parade headed from the church Dion, Gerry Sklavounos, Ellen Theodore Kalmoukos. the syrto “without looking at her Demetrios Kafantaris, also at - Ohio communities have made to the Town Hall, to the beat of feet,” says Economos, due to tended. Festivities kicked off the event more regional. Things Lowell’s Philharmonic Orches - Blake’s long friendship with with the March 25 grand open - will be even better this year, he tra. Two stops were made along Deputy Deputy Mayor Kaliope ing of the Wayne State Univer - notes, with the development of the way at memorials to Greek Parthemos. Major event spon - sity building that was donated the Evzones group. “For the first Americans and war veterans. sors included Orioles owner/at - as a future Greek museum. year, we started putting together The Greek flag flew outside torney Peter Angelos, the Pater - There was a banquet for the five our own ezvone group, a replica of the Town Hall, where the pa - akis family of H&S Bakery and Hellenic Heritage Awards recip - of the Greek honor guard,” he rade ended with celebrations. Aris Melissaratos. ients on March 24. Parade Day, explained. This year there may VIPs at the event included Parade dignitaries included Sunday, March 27, began with a have only been eight – because Mayor James Milinazzo, Con - from the Greek Embassy Dr. An - doxology at the Annunciation there weren’t enough costumes gresswoman Niki Tsongas and tonios Marmarinos, Education Cathedral in Greektown, with – but next year Reganis promises philanthropist George Behrakis. Consul and military attaché Col. many groups dressed in beauti - a bigger evzones group, which FLORIDA Goerge Katsanis. Also marching ful costumes. Metropolitan of will be hand picked from 10 In Florida’s Tarpon Springs, were Congressman John Sar - Messinia sent Archimandrites dance groups in order to prepare those not in ethnic costumes banes, retired Senator Paul Sar - Theoklitos Lambrinkos to repre - the group known for its strict wore short-sleeved shirts at the banes, Baltimore County Sheriff sent him. After the doxology, height and weight criteria. Greek Parade. Alexandra Lazi - R. Jay Fisher, Col. John Gavrilis there was a dignitaries’ reception LOWELL dou was president of the event, and Executive Director of Greek - of some 100 people in the early The city of Lowell celebrated Sotirios Aggelatos, Vice Presi - town Development Corporation afternoon. Among them were its 103rd annual Greek parade. dent. Events in that city began

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By Constantine S. Sirigos as the Greeks of the Diaspora in church there.” When it was TNH Staff Writer 1821 supported the war of in - noted that the Port Authority of dependence, I urge all of you to New York has broken off com - NEW YORK – The current support our struggle for the just munications with the Church, he mayor of New York does not live cause of Cyprus. I am sure that declared, “They should sit down in the official residence the City you will put pressure on your and talk,” however, when asked provides for him, but every year government so that justice fi - what he could do as Mayor he Mayor Michael Bloomberg in - nally prevails on Cyprus.” When reminded that New York City vites Greek Americans to the he received the proclamation, does not have people on the PA blue and white-toned reception Tsekerides thanked the mayor of Board - they are appointed by hall of Gracie Mansion for a cel - “the greatest city in the world” the Governors of New York and ebration of Greek Independence for hosting the event and noted New Jersey. day and the contribution the that they were celebrating not The spotlight wasn’t on long community makes to his city. On just a date, but the lives of the enough – or maybe the VIP’s ar - March 24, the night before heroes and heroines of the war rived too late – for one of the Greek Independence Day, as of independence, including the promised entertainment high - wine and Greek Hors d'œuvres philhellenes from the U.S. “who lights, the dance troupe of the flowed and circulated among the made the ultimate sacrifice to Church of The Holy Trinity - St. cheerful guests, the Mayor pre - the cause of freedom, liberty and Nicholas to perform. The mem - sented the official proclamation justice. Bloomberg thanked and bers who range in age from 13 which marked Greek Heritage acknowledged the work of to 20 years old lifted spirits just Day in New York, to Elias Tsek - Greek American Haeda Mihalt - with their presence at Gracie erides, President of Federation ses, the Director of the Mayor's Mansion, led by Tina Marie Vli - of Hellenic Societies of Greater Office of Intergovernmental Af - tas and dressed in their tradi - New York, the organizers of the fairs. The Mayor also singled out tional Greek costumes. Popular Greek parade. Bloomberg was in two of the rising Greek American artist John Staikos and a jovial mood when he wel - stars of New York’s political a piano accompanist entertained comed the guests, including world, Democrat Aravella Simo - guests throughout the reception. Archbishop Demetrios, who of - tas and Republican Nicole Athena Kontoyannis and Mary fered the invocation. The Johns Malliotakis who were elected in Polemarchakis represented two Hopkins and Harvard Univer - TNH/COSTAS BEJ 2010 to the New York State As - sides of the Mayor’s life that had sity-educated Mayor declared New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presents a Greek Independence Day Proclamation to sembly. built a multi-billion dollar media that he continues to be amazed Federation President Elias Tsekerides as the diplomatic corps of Greece and Cyprus look on (L- Dimitrius Kalamaras, the company and has been running at how many English words R) Ambassador of Greece to the UN Anastasios Mitsialis (obscured); Ambassador of Cyprus to prior president of the Federa - a city often described as un - have Greek origins, stringing to - the UN Minas A. Hadjimichael; Greek Consul General in N.Y. Aghi Balta and Cyprus' Consul tion, said the event is the year’s governable for almost 10 years. gether one after another – like General in NY Koula Sophianou. political highlight for Greek Mary once worked for New York metropolitan, cosmopolitan, etc. Americans in New York but said City under Bloomberg and in a humorous but good-natured praise took on a more urgent where everything that we hold rights, religious freedom that are that he in most impressed that Athena, who now works for the tribute to Greece’s cultural tone when Bloomberg declared: dear was born.” shared by Greeks and Americans the community helped elect two company Bloomberg founded legacy. His pronunciation was “This spring, one word and one The Ambassadors of Greece are fundamental for the whole Greek women to the State As - but no longer runs, was thrilled generally good, including most Greek idea clearly remains an and Cyprus to the UN, Anasta - world, and although the republic sembly. Noting that until now to be at the reception and en - of the names of those present, inspiration the whole world sios Mitsialis, and Minas A. Had - of Cyprus also embraces those the community could be de - joyed the remarks of Bloomberg but he said a Greek friend of his over: Democracy ... It is what jimichael were present but did values, it is she pointed out that scribed as a patriarchy if not a and the Greek Consul General noted that although it’s good to Greeks so valiantly fought for not make addresses. However, “32.6 percent of the island’s ter - theocracy, he smiled and told which “united the values and show Greeks he is “empathetic,” 2500 years ago, and battled for Greek Consul General Aghi Balta ritory does not,” because the il - TNH: “Maybe it’s becoming a history of America and Greece unfortunately his Greek is just as it won its independence 190 spoke in praise of the support legal Turkish occupation has matriarchy.” and demonstrated the everlast - plain “pathetic’” and he was en - years ago, and it’s our shared the Greek revolutionaries re - lasted 36 years and whose sol - After the reception, a sympa - ing impact of the Greek achieve - couraged to stick to things he devotion to democracy that re - ceived from American philhel - diers continue to perpetrate thetic Bloomberg briefly dis - ment through history.” At the knew and liked, such as mains a strong bond between lenes still fresh from their own abuses of human rights, most re - cussed the fate of the Church of end of the program Bloomberg and . Still, he expressed the people of New York and the victory over British tyranny 45 cently, by disrupting a Christmas St. Nicholas, the church that was said he looked forward to seeing a hearty “Zito i Ellas” to the de - people of Greece today.” He rem - years earlier. Cyprus’ Consul liturgy last year. “So I do enjoy destroyed at Ground Zero on them all again at the parade on light of all and noted that the inisced about his visit to Athens General Koula Sophianou these wonderful days,” she con - 9/11. He told TNH that when Sunday. “Until then, let me say words he had mentioned are “re - for the 2004 Olympics, when he echoed those words and said she cluded, “But we have to remem - he has brought the issue up with again, loud and proud: Zito i El - ally only a few reminders what looked up at the gloriously honored to be there to celebrate ber that in Cyprus the rights Port Authority officials he has las!” Greece ha given to America and floodlit Acropolis and thought to democracy, but after noting that Greeks fought for are not en - been told simply, “There was a people around the world.” The himself, “This is magical. This is the values of democracy, human joyed fully by its people and just church there and there will be a [email protected] At N.Y. Parade, It Was Fun Watching the Audience Too

Continued from page 1 was close to the March 25 cele - joyed the costumes – plus the his - see all the beauties of Greece.” bration this time. One young man torical information supplied to Her sentiments were echoed by added: “It’s a very emotional pointed out: “It’s . All of the her by native New Yorker Dr. Fo - Atlantic Bank’s Katherine Boshell thing for all of us.” The event Greeks in one place.” Family was tis Niforos, who watched the pa - and Maria Pagoulatos, whose also brought tears to the eyes of the theme for many. Rena Xenos rade with her. Dr. Niforos, who float bore the tourism message. mother Katherine Parros, who of Westchester County, who works at Long Island College Said Boshell, “We want Greece braved the cold with her video - watched the parade with her Hospital in Brooklyn, said it was to prosper and we are very proud camera held high, to see her brother Evan and young cousin the first time in years he was able of our culture and our heritage.” daughter march by in one of the Elena Xenos, said it was the at - to attend, recalling marching in Pagoulatos added: “We plan to last groups, St. Demetrios of Ja - mosphere that drew them there. it as a young man. be there this summer.” There maica. “She’s holding the ban - “We come just for fun. We love TRAVELING TO GREECE were also other Greeks from ner!” she cried, as the girl and to look at everyone.” George Sio - The Visit Greece theme to this Greece. “We’re proud to be her classmates approached. “We las came from Putnam County year’s parade was not lost on Greeks,” said dietician Evie Kli - came every year,” she said, with his wife Chrysanthi and chil - Francine O’Keefe, who is Greek, matza. Her boyfriend, hotel man - “Now we have even more rea - dren Peter, Eleftheria and Elpida. and her husband, Brian O’Keefe. ager Prokopis Tsoukias added: son.” Her eyes misty from more “We come and we show our The couple were already saving “Celebrations like this show us than the cold, she ran to catch kids,” he said, remembering up for a Greek trip soon, but how important it is to stick to - her daughter at the finish line. marching for the Whitestone Francine O’Keefe said she noticed gether, especially in these times Brooklyn attorney Vasilia Tsis - community growing up. His son the www.visitgreece.gr signs. Re - when our country is having a bit menakis said she felt Greek said he enjoyed the float tired web marketer Georgette of problems.” There’s nothing like pride as was delighted to see the best. “His mother’s from Glytsis said of the theme: “It’s a a parade to bring together so the smiles on all the marchers. there,” George Siolas explained. motivation for all of us, instead many different people in one Accountant Mary Dervos of Or - UNITING of going somewhere else, espe - common message: Zito h Ellas! angebrook loved the Evzones The parade drew New Yorkers cially the Greek Americans... Be - from Greece – and the floats of TNH/ANGElikE CONTiS of all backgrounds. Shirley and cause a lifetime is not enough to [email protected] Cyprus and Epirus. “This year Cretan cousins celebrate, including Anna Kokkinakis, Maria Frank Solerno, an elderly West everything is good,” she added. Costantelos, John Garganourakis, Manolis Garganourakis, George Side Italian couple in their Sun - BRIDGING GENERATIONS Kokkinakis (C), and (Bottom, right) Evangelia Kokkinakis. day best, said they took it in for Vasiliou, Presi - the first time. “I think it’s great,” dent of the Laconian Association straight all of us (have) been Float” they were awaiting, with said Shirely Solerno, who en - Evrotas, led three generations of back here.” The message was the its traditional music, instruments joyed seeing the children. Ronald his family, marching with his same from Thekla Tirsos and and even souvlakia. Speaking for Bangiyev, who is of Russian ori - daughter Athanasia Koutso - Sotiria Mikeli, whose long fur his cousins, George Kokkinakis gin and lives in Queens’ Fresh giannopoulos and her son, also coats shielded them from the said that they all used to dance Meadows, wore blue and white named Demosthenis. The grand - cold. The New Jersery residents folk dances: “It brings us back to and marched in the parade with father noted: “Our children and both hail from Greece’s northern our heritage. We love it.” Evan - his friends of the Francis Lewis grandchildren’s interests are city of Yiannina. “We grew up in gelia Kokkinakis added: “One day High School Hellenic Club. He here, but Greece needs to be built Greece, but it’s about passing on of the year, we all come out and said, “I’m not Greek but I’m sup - up here too.” He underscored the the culture to our children and celebrate. It’s not the St. Paddy’s porting my friends.” One of them, importance of more Greek edu - grandchildren,” explained Tirsos. day parade, but we sure do have Thomas Koumparoulis, said he’s cation, noting: “We have enough “It’s a cultural inheritance that a good time!” noticed the parade get shorter churches, but not enough we can’t ever abandon,” added Cheering on a cousin march - over the past four years: “It did schools.” His daughter, like many Mikeli. “It brings us all together, ing with the Zoodohos Peghe kind of go quick.” A Cyprus float Greek New Yorkers at the parade, from the whole region.” school in the Bronx is what impressed Bangiyev, who noted: said: “I’ve been marching all my One lively group of first gen - brought teens John Pigis, Con - “I didn’t know that there were life.” Her teen son said it’s a spe - eration Cretan cousins in their stantinos Mokkas, Chrysovalantis parts of Greece that were still oc - cial bond that’s forged between teens and early 20s, all members Boutsikos and Rafael Mokkas to cupied. That was a real eye TNH/ANGElikE CONTiS friends who’ve marched together of the Minos association, had the parade. It had been a while, opener for me.” “It’s a breath of George and Chrysanthi Siolas of Putnam County, New York, since age 4: “So it’s 14 years bucketsful of kefi. It was the “Kriti they said, and they were glad it fresh air,” said Lani Ha, who en - with their children Peter, Eleftheria and Elpida. Greece’s Home in New York Marks Independence – in Greek, Naturally

By Constantine S. Sirigos which acknowledged the contri - The words of the Consuls guest’s complaint – increasingly try’s struggle to stay afloat fi - Weekly recently reported that Special to TNH bution of Diaspora Greeks and General were complemented by common at community events nancially. Another guest was dis - Kanellopoulos has announced philhellenes to the struggle to Christos Kosovitas, representing and church services even in appointed in the Greek Ameri - there are indications there will NEW YORK – The Greek Con - liberate Greece from the Ot - the Society of Epirotes Anageni - places like New York – that can community over this year’s be “a 20% rise in visitors from sulate on East 79th Street in toman yoke. “And their example sis, who evoked beautiful child - “There was not a word of Eng - turnout. Although the lobby and Great Britain, , the Manhattan opened its doors to is required today, to increase our hood memories of March 25 cel - lish spoken.” Although support - auditorium of the Consulate United States and . Israel citizens of Greece, Greek Amer - efforts toward the rebirth of the ebrations when he spoke the ive of Greek education were filled, it was not the jam- is also showing increased inter - icans and Philhellenes, welcom - homeland,” Balta declared. words of the song many learned and the preservation of the packed affair of past years. She est in Greece.” ing them to a celebration of Koula Sophianou spoke of how in Greek school: “I Ellada pote in America, he pointed out, with the agreement Kanellopoulos was excited to Greek Independence Day and moved she was to see the Greek den pethheni – Greece will pointed out that “The Greek of nearby Greek Americans, the share the message behind EOT’s Hellenism. The festivities were flag waving in the breeze at his - never die.” Christos Papoutsis, speakers in America are dwin - Consulate is to be commended new Visit Greece campaign. He not far from the Metropolitan toric Bowling Green in the fi - Minister for Citizen Protection, dling. How do they expect for maintaining its commitment said those words would appear Museum of Art that is home nancial district in lower Man - was one of the special visitors young people to come to events to be a welcoming home in New on all the floats at the Greek Pa - many creations of hattan earlier in the day in from Greece and Cyprus who like this if they don’t speak in York for Greeks to celebrate rade on Fifth Avenue. Every artists and works of other mas - memory of the spirit of all who greeted the guests. He was English.” March 25 despite their govern - chance he gets, Kanellopoulos ters who were inspired by Hellas fought to liberate Hellas from joined by members of the Greek Another guest suggested a ment’s financial struggles and tells listeners that Greek Ameri - through the ages. Ambassador Turkish domination, who stood Parliament, including Eleni Pa - better balance of Greek and reminded friends of the outrage cans can help Greece by inviting Aghi Balta, Greece’s Consul up with the leaders of Greece narites, who expressed their ap - English at such events would at - that was expressed in 2010 their friends, neighbors and col - General in New York and Con - and said “Oxi” to Mussolini and preciation for the community’s tract more Greek Americans when the event did not take leagues, including Greeks but sul Evangelos Kyriakopoulos his Nazi allies on October 28, support. Panarites declared: “We who don’t speak Greek and give place. especially non-Greeks, “to share greeted guests in the alcove 1940, and who celebrated the are building the economy of the them a greater feeling of having The dominant tone of the your Greece, the Greece you with Chronia Polla to mark the independence of Cyprus on Oc - future in Greece and we will a stake in the efforts to promote evening however was celebra - love and miss when you are not double holiday, the modern re - tober 1, 1960. She added that succeed!” She expressed her joy both investment and tourism in tion and appreciation. One of there. Your homes and villages.” birth of Greece and the Greek on this day are also honored all to be in New York, personally Greece. Greek American writer the people who picked up the In this way everyone in the Di - Orthodox feast of the Annunci - who continue to fight for the and collectively for the Greek Demetria Daniels agreed, theme of what the Greeks of the aspora and the Greek American ation that commemorates the liberation of Cyprus from Turk - Parliament, concluding with adding, “It might be easier to United States can do to take community can become a part announcement to Saint Mary of ish occupation forces and who praise for the community for sell Diaspora bonds if they speak their places as heroes of Hellas of the effort to help Greece, for the birth of Christ by the are working to secure a better continuing to speak the Greek to people in the language they was Nikos Kanellopoulos, the which he said he thanks the Archangel Gabriel. Fellowship future for Greece by promoting language. Though the words understand,” a reference to the President of the Greek tourist community “from the depths of and warmth was found inside tourism and its culture by spoken by the visitors were ap - recent announcement Greece organization EOT. He was up - my heart” during the reception and the marching up Fifth Avenue at the preciated by the guests, the lat - wanted its brethren abroad to beat about his country’s tourism speaking program that followed annual parade. ter prompted at least one buy bonds to support the coun - prospects this year - Travel [email protected] THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011 COMMUNITY 5 Greeks March on 5th Avenue to Celebrate Freedom and Honor

Continued from page 1 Olympic Dancers of the Metrop - Three Hierarchs, Holy Cross and olis of Pittsburgh traveled a long Staten Island’s Holy Trinity-St. but enthusiastic crowd, were way to be with their brothers Nicholas combined for a float, made by the Plato school’s and sisters in New York. Cross - putting into action the message marching band, whose snare ing geographic lines, with family that appeared on its signs: drums and glockenspiels were roots all over the Greek world, “Strength through Unity” as crisp and clear as those of the New York’s professional organi - THERE WAS A MESSAGE more seasoned bands of high zations were out in force, in - Many organizations with spe - schools and professional associ - cluding the Hellenic Lawyers As - cial messages for the community ations that provided the sound - sociation and the Hellenic took care to create floats and track for the day. After a block Medical Society. Numerous banners meant to inspire inter - or so, the impressive New York AHEPA family chapters marched est and action. The float of the City Police Department with their Supreme President, Order of AHEPA was impressive Mounted Color Guard took its Nicholas Karacostas. AHEPA as usual, topped with contes - special place before everyone, Empire State District 12, District tants for the upcoming year’s followed by the NYPD’s band, 6 New Jersey and Yankee Dis - Miss AHEPA pageant, but there the St. Paul’s Society represent - trict 7 had a combined float. was another important message ing Greek Orthodox police offi - FLOATING ALONG this year: The national order is cers and the Hellenic Society of The groups vied to create strongly campaigning on behalf New York’s Fire Department. Be - memorable floats and many are of the Church of St. Nicholas at sides the 16 marching bands both entertaining and educa - Ground Zero. The Cypriot with their own drummers and tional. The Pansamian Society’s American community was out some twirlers spinning rifles and conveyance honored the great in strength. The Pancyprian As - not batons, another reminder of mathematician and mystic, who sociation of America numerous the military dimension to all pa - influenced the science and reli - Cypriot organizations marched rades, is the word “Battalion” to gion of Western Civilization, along with the float of the mark the groups of communities while the float of the Island of Cyprus Federation of American. and organizations who ad - honored the great physician The float of the Pan Pontian Fed - vanced up Fifth Avenue. First PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ , of Hippocratic oath eration of USA and Canada car - came the Honorary Battalion At one point FOX 5 Anchor Ernie Anastos could simply not resist the kefi and the joy generated fame. The Nisirian float was a ried the important message of that included Archbishop by the parade and the band in the booth next door and got up for some Greek dancing with his crowd pleaser: a trireme filled remembering the Pontian Demetrios of America, the Hon - co-host Network correspondent Nicole Petallides. with school children and the Genocide, and noted it is com - orary Grand Marshal, the 2011 float of the Cretan Societies of memorated every year on May Parade Grand Marshals and the traditional bright white garb but block march until they reached parade, emblazoned on 42 N.Y. and N.J. bounced its way 19. The Armenian Knights of St. Board of Directors and officers with some groups wearing the reviewing stands where they floats, was a message inviting up the Avenue as youngsters Vartan’s once again joined their of the Federation of Hellenic So - darker uniforms representing were greeted by the exuberant Greeks and their friends: “Visit danced to the strains of an au - Greek brethren celebrate free - cieties of Greater New York the fighters in a numbers of the public address team led by ac - Greece.” The first float carried thentic live Cretan orchestra fol - dom from Ottoman oppression which organizes the parade, led wars for Greece’s independence tress and community activist Miss Greek Independence 2011, lowed by groups from through - and to add their voice to holo - by its President Elias Tsekerides, from other regions of Greece Anthoula Katsimatides whose Alexandra Kavouras, a sopho - out the metropolitan area. The caust remembrance. The float and representatives of the gov - such as and . voice rang out: “Good afternoon more at Queens College, and second Battalion was dominated of the Carnival of Love Founda - ernments of the United States, This year’s ebullient Grand Mar - ladies and gentlemen ... Wel - some of her fellow contestants, by parishes of the Metropolis of tion, dedicated to raising aware - Greece and Cyprus. shals included the Congres - come to the 2011 Greek Inde - including 1st Runner Up, Cretan New Jersey and organizations ness and funds to support the LOOK, IT’S THE EVZONES! sional Hellenic Caucus, repre - pendence Day Parade in New representative and Brooklyn- such as the Federation of Hel - health and well-being of chil - A bit further ahead were the sented by its Chairmen, York City, the greatest city in the raised Maria Vitetzakis. lenic American Organizations of dren, advertised their April 29 World, on Fifth Avenue, where Kavouras told TNH, "Today it New Jersey. The region of Mace - fundraiser and the impressive 121 organizations are marching was a little chilly. Nobody donia dominated the end of the float of the Hellenic Times, pub - for the pride and glory of the seemed to mind, because every - parade, anchored by a huge Kas - lished by John Catsimatidis, an - motherland, Greece.” She and her colleagues Takis Vasos, jour - nalist Dimitrios Filios and Nancy Biska of Greece’s Antenna TV divided up the announcements in Greek and English. DANCE TO THE MUSIC The announcers yielded the podium to a Mayor Bloomberg filled with Greek pride, who de - clared he was there to celebrate Greek independence. He gave credit to the Archbishop for the sunshine before shouting “Zito Ellas – Long live Greece.” The Mayor took his place in the re - viewing stand amidst other U.S. VIP’s and the special visitors from Greece. There was a huge bandstand set up for group Al - pha, the official entertainment for the parade and right next door was a broadcast booth for WWOR – NY, Channel 9 and the hosts, FOX 5 Anchor Ernie Anas - At the Pierre Hotel pre-parade reception: Amb. Vassilis Kaskarelis tos and Fox Business Network (L), Federation of Hellenic Societies of New York President Elias correspondent Nicole Petallides. Tsekerides (R), Hellenic Tourism Organization head Nikos Kanel - Once again Catsimatidis, who lopoulos (back, 2nd R). In the foreground: Miss Independence also partially underwrites the The Evzones, the elite Presidential Guard of the Republic of Greece, most dressed in the white Alexandra Kavouras (C) and runners-up Maria Vitetzakis (L) costs, was responsible for the garb of the fighters in the 1821 war for Greek independence, garner the lion’s share of cheers and Second runner-up Konstantina Serbetzoudis (R). arrangements for the telecast on Fifth Avenue when they fly to New York to march. that brings the parade to many first proud Hellenes in the pa - Democrat Carolyn Maloney of tens of thousands who cannot body had the love of Greece. It torian contingent. The shouts nounced their upcoming 20th rade’s ranks, the three men car - New York and Republican Gus attend. The parade was also was nice to see the youth, so and applause for the Metropoli - Anniversary Scholarship Fund rying the banner of the Federa - Bilirakis of Florida; Demetris streamed live world-wide on many young people. It felt great tan areas’ biggest parishes re - dance. tion, Vasilis Sfyroeras, Bill Kastanas, beloved Greek Amer - thenationalherald.com. At one and it’s very nice representing sounded from the walls of the The importance of support Gournelos and Anthony ican broadcaster and founder point, Anastos, the consummate the Greek American youth.” mansions lining Fifth Avenue as for all Greek causes from the Vasilopoulos, but just behind the and President of NGTV, and Dr. media professional, could sim - The Kalavritan Freternity their groups marched by espe - Greek American business com - VIP’s were the tall, stately visi - William Tenet, noted heart sur - ply not resist the kefi and the Lavaron of 1821 was the fist cially the youth groups GOYA, munity was illustrated by the tors from Greece who are the geon and brother of former CIA joy generated by the music, and group to proceed. They were JOY, Sunday and Greek schools, floats of companies with strong ones parade participants are Director . The pa - got up for some Greek dancing followed by floats and marchers choirs and the rest. The largest Greek ties such as The Fiduciary most thrilled to see, especially rade Chairmen were distin - with his co-host. Schumer with organizations from the rest groups marched for the Cathe - Insurance Company of America, the parents, grandparents and guished physician Frixos Gous - caught the kefi also as he of the and from all dral of the Holy Trinity, St. Bank, Investors Sav - godparents anxious to point sis, and marched with the community the regions of Greece: The Do - Nicholas of Flushing, St. ings Bank, Atlantic Bank – them out to young children: The busi ness men-philanthropists carrying his trademark bullhorn decanese, Ionian, and Demetrios of Astoria, Zoodohos whose entire staff marched Elite Presidential Guard of the Philip Christopher, and John shouting Zito i Ellas and Kali other island groups, the regions Pighi in the Bronx and its almost along with their President Spiros Republic of Greece, the Evzones, Catsimatidis, who was Chair - Anastasi to the Greeks cheering of Sterea Ellas () century-old Hellenic American Voutsinas - and Alma Bank, most of them gleaming in the man Emeritus. It was a four him on. The theme of this year’s Thesally, Macedonia, Epirus, Academy, the Cathedral of St. whose float with it large model , Crete and the Island Paul in Hempstead, Long Island of the Parthenon in the front was state of the Republic of Cyprus. along with the Patriarchal one of the most impressive. The The societies of the proud island Monastery of St. Irene Chryso - New York Police Department no of united for a float and valantou in Astoria, N.Y., which longer provides crowd estimates, the societies of Cephalonians seemed to have a smaller con - not even informal ones, and it and Ithakans joined together for tingent than usual. St. Markella was difficult for organizers to do one of their own. Dozens of Cathedral (GOC) and their stu - so with rule of thumb formulas parishes from New York and dents marched by proudly as the as on some blocks the spectators New Jersey showed off their sun began to dip, as did the stu - were all squeezed together on youth, schools and other orga - dents and staff of St. Basil’s the sunny side of the street, leav - nization and St. Sophia of Al - Academy. ing the opposite side totally bany came all the way from the Academics well represented empty, while the distribution on state capital, but onlookers the ancient and modern Hel - other blocks was scattered. After doubted they sailed their float lenic value at the parade, last year’s parade, the commu - down the Hudson River as some through groups such as the Cen - nity became angry when it be - suggested. The highlights in - ters for Hellenic Studies , came obvious that most of the cluded appearances by special the Hellenic societies of many VIP’s from Greece left the parade groups dedicated to the preser - colleges and universities, includ - very early. This year, they stayed vation of Greek culture such as ing the Intercollegiate Hellenic until the chilly end. This year it the Greek American Folklore So - Society of New York. Students, was some Greek Americans who ciety, striking in their authentic staff and families of the Hellenic bailed early, leaving the sad costumes. The armor of the Classical Charter School in prospect of nearly empty grand - Greek Warriors – Living History Brooklyn also participated. This stands for the children and oth - Group glistened in the afternoon year the churches of Brooklyn ers marching in the tail end of sun and their swords and spears and Staten Island drew the lot the parade for the second year glinted menacingly as they con - for the final parishes to march. in a row. Father John Romas, pastor of parish of St. Nicholas whose church was destroyed on 9/11 and fronted each other during St. Constantine & Helen Cathe - which is fighting with the PA to rebuild it, sends a exuberant greeting to well-wishers. pauses in the marching. The dral, Kimisis tis Theotokou, [email protected]

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Whether open or closed when the photographer snaps the This year’s parade came as Greece continues to struggle eco - Nicholas Karacostas, Supreme Pres. of AHEPA who was grand photo, Greek eyes are always smiling on parade day on Fifth nomically, so there was some good advice written on one of marshal of last week's Phildelphia Greek Parade proudly Avenue. the stands and repeated elsewhere: Visit Greece. marches up the grand avenue of his home town.

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1. It wasn’t just youngsters showing their pride, but some of the community’s healers, represented by the Hellenic Medical Societies across the country and the New York chapter. 2. New York’s Greek Warriors were among the most impressively costumed groups, making their way through Manhattan streets with colorful shields and sharp spears. 3. New York City’s many Greek American college students turned out in force as well, including the fervent members of the Ikaros club at Queens College. 4. Miss Greek Independence Alexandra Kavouras, a Queens Col - lege Student, waves from her float, along with Runners- up Maria Vitetzakis (R) Konstantina Serbetzoudis and other young women representing their regional organi - sations. 5. Their navy-colored uniforms contrasting with the Hellenic blue that prevailed on New York’s grandest avenue, the St. Paul’s Society representing Greek Ortho - dox police officers marched proudly, led by some of their children in traditional Greek outfits.6. Children of the Church of the Assumption Greek Afternoon School of Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, proudly march and grin. 7. What would a New York Greek parade be without Greek Americans from Connecticut? Here they came from colleges in that state to show their support. 8. The sky was blue and white, and the Greek flag flut - tered in the hearts of many in Manhattan on Sunday, but 7 these young ladies adorned their faces with the national 8 colors lest anyone doubt they were Greeks. THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011 COMMUNITY 7 Greek Women Who Heal: From Dr. Mary Kalopothakes to Today

Continued from page 1 Nightengale, but as Kokolis had a mastectomy, married, and noted, the doctor who also ded - never told her husband about couraging if one thinks about icated her last years to aiding the surgery – and he did not no - it.” However, she concluded – Minor refugees, died in tice any scars. after offering figures regarding poverty during World War Two, Dr. Maria Theodoulou dis - the increasing participation of in 1941, serving troops in Alba - cussed how “individualizing and women in the medical profes - nia. Though Kalopathakes never targeting” is the word in breast sion and : “The future had her own family, noted Koko - cancer treatment today. The is bright.” lis, “all she helped, she consid - speaker, who has been at Memo - The past was bright too, ered her family, her children.” rial-Sloan Kettering since 1987, judging from World Council of THE PAPERS gave hints at the psychological Hellenes Abroad (SEA) Educa - With many doctors and med - trauma of patients, the agony of tion Committee President Stella ical professionals in the audi - doctors giving bad news, but Kokolis’ lecture. She reviewed ence, the evening’s lectures also a strong sense of optimism the life of Mary Kalopothakes, were largely targeted to a spe - about very recent developments, who was born in 1859 to an cialized crowd. Even a few med - as treatment options have ex - American mother and Greek fa - ical professors confessed that panded to even include catering ther. Her father was Dr. Michael honoree Delivoria-Papadopou - treatment to patients’ DNA. Kolopothakes, who treated pa - los’ detailed lecture on Mecha - She noted: “I am going to far tients in his Peloponnese home’s nisms of Hypoxic Cerebral In - less funerals today than I did 25 courtyard. When her mother jury in the Newborn went above years ago...” Early on in her ca - Martha Hooper Blackler (of their heads, as she discussed her reer she learned, “Breast cancer Marblehead, Massachusetts) recent work to understand and is a lie. It is multiple diseases died, however, young possibly to inhibit the damage under one heading.” It was the Kalopothakes and her sister to healthy cells in fetal brains. positive developments that keep came to the U.S. with American If anything, the symposium was her going, Theodoulou said. “I relations. Kalopothakes would proof of the cutting edge work thought I would have burned eventually study both at the undertaken by Hellenic female out a long time ago and gone Harvard Annex (today’s Rad - medical professionals in many into another subspecialty or cliffe College) in Cambridge, areas. opened up a Greek restaurant.” Massachusetts and medicine The University of Pennsylva - Dr. Andromachi Scaradavou abroad (perhaps because as nia’s Melpo Christofidou-Solo - of the NY Blood Center gave an Lymberakis reminded the audi - midou gave a talk entitled accessible overview of Cord ence, Harvard Medical School Chemoprevention for Lung Can - Blood Banking and Transplan - didn’t accept female medical cer, in which she discussed some tation, a procedure which took students until 1949) at the Uni - of her recent research involving off in the 1990’s, explaining versity of Paris. After graduat - lab mice, exploring how diet- how the blood is made useful ing, she returned to Greece in and notably the phytochemicals for the population. 1894, with the distinguished ti - of flaxseed- can play a positive History and current scientific tle of being the first female doc - role in lung cancer treatment. knowledge blended in the Hel - tor. Two presenters gave good lenic Medical Society’s inau - Kokolis painted a picture of TNH/COSTAS BEJ news regarding breast cancer. gural symposium, but it seems a life devoted to service and vol - There was a stellar lineup at the Hellenic Medical Society meeting, including (L-R) Dr. Melpo Dr. Eleni Tousoumis – using certain that Kalopothakes’ name unteerism. Kalopothakes treated Christofidou, Dr. Stella Lymberis, honoree Dr. Maria Delivoria-Papadatos, President Dr. Nicholas powerful visuals - gave exam - will live on and, thanks partly soldiers in the many wars of Mezites, Stella Kokolis, Consul General Aghi Balta, and Dr. Maria Theodoulou. ples of how mastectomies have to her, there’ll be a long line of Greece during her lifetime and become less invasive, in many Greek women in medicine just was involved in disseminating the magazine Hygeia. As the Evangelical ’s by the then-queen Olga in 1899 cases, as well as more effective like her. medical knowledge through Hellenic Medical Society’s notes founder, Dr. Kalopothakes even and her team was acknowl - in recent years. She even gave studies and work as editor of indicate, being a daughter of the wrote hymns! She was honored, edged by English nurse Florence the case of a woman who had [email protected] Economists’ Greek Crystal Ball: Default and Recovery, But a Bumpy Road

Continued from page 1 at decades of mismanagement $99 billion of Greek debt. If the questions was how much the and the failure to undertake value is reduced by 1/3 they will person surveyed trusts people the reality, and Geanakoplos be - structural reforms, he said. The lose $28.2 If the government from other countries; i.e., a Ger - gan with a focus on the numbers historical trend is clear: “In pushes restructuring it will have man is asked how much he that have the greatest impact on 1980 the debt-to-GDP ratio of to provide support for its banks. trusts Greeks. It has been found the actions of markets and gov - Greece was a healthy 25 per - He said Greece can’t ignore the that answers are reflected in ernments, providing a clear pic - cent, but it kept inexorably ris - holdings of foreign banks but trade patterns, foreign direct in - ture of the Greek situation: ing. He asked: “Where was this that he didn’t think their losses vestment, and purchases of bleak in terms of avoiding de - money going?” and said that would create a crisis for them. bonds. An Italian person who fault, bright with respect to its during the past 30 years, He said Greece will need EU doesn’t trust the British is less consequences, which he ex - Greece’s ratio of consumption help to restructure its debt. likely to buy their goods, pur - plained would be good both for to what it produced (GDP) rose, Costas Arkolakis, Assistant Pro - chase their bonds, or advise his Greece and its debtors. He noted while investment to GDP, a mea - fessor at Yale’s Dept. of Econom - company to build a factory near that Greece owes about 300 bil - sure of what the country was ics, said he wasn’t sure about London. Out of 15 EU countries, lion Euros ($420 billion,) which doing to increase its productive the quality of mercy Greece Greece is the least trusting and amounts to 141% of its Gross capacity – declined. Its govern - could expect from Germany, and is the second least trusted – Italy Domestic Product (GDP.) ments moved away from spend - said while Meghir’s list of re - ranks lowest. In the case of Geanakoplos noted that even ing on infrastructure to an in - forms was laudable they would Greece, being regularly occupied countries with a 50% threshhold creasing public sector payroll. never happen. and suffering civil wars has had have defaulted on their debt By 2000 the resulting problem Arkolakis wondered if Greece an impact, but Barberis said he and that Greece’s level means were becoming very apparent, had reaped the gains of Euro - believes public education is a each year it must pay $42 billion but entry into the Eurozone of pean integration, especially in good place to start, with pro - interest, and refinancing means countries using the euro allowed trade. He reminded the non- grams designed to build trust Greece must borrow $98-$112 them to be swept under the car - John Geanakoplos , James Tobin Professor of Economics at economists of the concept of among children through group billion per year. To help Greece pet. Yale, seen with Karl Shell of Cornell, brought Shakespeare into comparative advantage and that activities. By focusing on a com - survive, the Meghir presented graphs the discussion of the Greek crisis. it enables countries to specialize mon task students would learn and International Monetary that showed Greece compared and “do more of the things they the value of working together. Fund (IMF) is providing $150 unfavorably with the members who don’t work out. Another Greece because Greece has a are better at,” and export goods He said he believes the Greek billion in loans over three years, of the EU and other developed ironic statistic shows the Greeks solvency problem. Galenianos and services successfully. Coun - Diaspora with different experi - but on the condition harsh aus - countries. Its tax system is no - work the most hours in the EU, said Greece cannot possibly re - tries also capture efficiency and ences has a role to play in fos - terity measures were imposed. toriously inefficient. In Greece “But they are extremely unpro - pay the total amount of its debt. quality gains by obtaining the tering trust among Greeks. Geanakoplos showed how a se - only 8% of GDP is collected ductive,” he said. Heads shook He added that the level is actu - products and services of coun - ries of Greek governments did through taxes while the EU av - in disbelief when he declared ally 160% of GDP. “That means tries that do things better than [email protected] nothing to correct the problem erage is 13.4%. Greece could that the productivity of Greek if Greece can get a rate of 6 per - they do. Arkolakis presented of heavy borrowing as the state’s have covered its debt simply by workers is about 7% of the EU cent (right now markets are of - graphs and data that showed tax revenues declined, but he curtailing the national sport of average. fering an interest rate of 10 per - Greece has not taken advantage gave credit to Prime Minister tax evasion, which costs about He said that uncompetitive - cent) Greece will have to send of either, but pointed out that for reducing $40 billion a year. Meghir ex - ness could be reversed if Greece 10 percent of its annual output Greece could develop its export the government’s primary bud - ploded the that Greece’s harnesses its untapped talent into interest payments. That is sector and be more open to out - get deficit (excluding interest public sector is very large by through reforms. Ambassador a huge number and anything side firms. payments) in one year from 10 showing that its wage bill is not Balta said, “I don’t believe in that goes wrong will cause a dis - Nicholas Barberis, Stephen & to 3.3%. Despite that, he said, far from the EU average of 11% numbers. They can mislead aster where “one of every three Camille Schramm Professor of Greece’s debt hasn’t declined. of GDP, but he stated bluntly sometimes. This discussion or four Euros the government Finance at the Yale School of The bleak numbers led the that the problem is that “The could have taken place last year collects in taxes will go to Management, who was called by panel to conclude that a Greek Greek public sector is com - and we could have said the Greece’s bondholders, a huge Syrimis one of the best-known default, controlled or otherwise, pletely useless” and unproduc - same things, but many things transfer of money from a poor researchers in behavioral sci - is inevitable. tive. He noted that workers can’t have taken place in the past European country to the richer ence, especially as it illuminates Geanakoplos then described be transferred and if an office year.” She noted the reforms ones.” He said Greeks will not economic activity, shifted the a fortunate peculiarity in has a shortage it’s filled with that have taken place in the ed - accept that. He said if the aus - discussion to the cultural dimen - Greece’s situation: 90% of Greek temporary hires who become ucation, health and other areas terity measures stay on track, sion of the crisis. He said there The most Complete Site bonds are issued under Greek in the public sector, some of there will be a government sur - has been an explosion of work for Learning Greek law, and under the complete which have been very cutting plus by 2013 – if interest pay - on culture and economics in the control of Greece’s government, “Greece has to consider edge, and said it would be an ments are excluded - and at that past 20 years, moving beyond on the Internet! which means lenders could lose defaulting on its debt and injustice to Greece not to men - point he said, Greece, which he the dicta of the Chicago School all their investments. But, rather tion its assets. “No one is con - declared to be “practically insol - of Economics that have domi - should start negotiating learn to read and speak Greek than burning bondholders – testing the numbers and the vent,” will benefit, in the short nated the field for 50 years that online. Our subscription service which would wreck Greece’s with its EU partners to do huge debt, but we have decided term and not have to default. economic activity is best under - ability to borrow - other speak - to do something about it, and He said the lending markets will stood on the assumption that gives you the freedom to study ers suggested it could offer it in an orderly fashion to we are doing it. And we are not see this coming, and Greece will economic actors are fully ratio - Greek from anywhere you can them a “haircut” of a 30% re - prevent being cut off from alone. We belong to the Euro - be completely cut off. “The cur - nal and thus there is no room access the internet. duction in the bonds’ value. His - the financial markets” zone and are not the only ones rent EU policy simply postpones for culture in its analysis. His torically, if troubled countries facing these problems.” default. 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Greece’s bailout while Greeks rate education a reforms Meghir said, “It does rowers and lenders and said that a country’s situation is the games and more all with audio. means that within five years, priority, it’s one of the lowest- not make sense to continue like Greece could reissue bonds sum of countless decisions made 50% of its debt will effectively rated in the EU, despite having this.” He said Greece has to con - worth 70% of their values, but by millions of people through have been shifted to the IMF one of the highest teacher-to- sider defaulting on its debt and with some guarantees, perhaps the years and that those choices Visit www.ilearngreek.com and EU, who could recommend student ratios. 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He also said Greece’s fault might make that easier ard in which Greece could do it noted that in “high trust” coun - PayPal and e-checks. rower/lender relations. In the judiciary system is a wreck. politically because it will permit again if let off the hook, which tries there are more large orga - Payment services provided Merchant of , the careful “In Greece it takes an aver - a fairer distribution of the bur - he found unlikely. Galeanianos nizations and firms, and govern - by PayPal spectator concentrates on the age of 819 business days to den. Manolis Galenianos, Assis - then looked at the other side of ment works better. Greece collateral’s ratio to a loan in - solve a commercial dispute. In tant Professor of Economics at the “moral” issue: “The people comes up as a low trust country, stead of the rate of interest. He the worst cases, a decade can Penn State, explained that the who have not paid for this crisis with the people demanding high also cited Portia’s “Quality of go by. Practically this means you EU and IMF had to step in be - are the people who lent the regulation of product and labor Mercy” speech, that forgiveness do not have a formal way of en - cause financial markets have money, the bankers who did not markets, thinking, “If I don’t Τη γλώσσα μου έδωσαν benefits the transgressor and the forcing contracts,” which is not been unwilling to lend money do their job, which was to figure trust any of you, then I want you Ελληνική. victim. That includes debt for - good for foreign investment, to countries in crisis. The re - out how creditworthy the bor - to be regulated. You will make giveness, which Geanakoplos and is one elements in Greece’s sponse of the EU was to tap a rower is. So far those banks bad products and you’ll cheat Το σπίτι φτωχικό said is the way to go regarding notorious lack in investor pro - support mechanism whereby have not lost any money. All the me, so I want regulation.” He στις αμμουδιές Greece. tection. Greece can get the money from payments have been made. It is said research shows that trusting του Ομήρου. Costas Meghir, the Douglas The labor market is also a the EU and IMF to help reduce not only economically rational individuals and societies are is a A. Warner III Professor of Eco - disaster for the economy, with its deficit to 3% by 2015 when it is also fair that that the banks powerful predictor of a wide nomics at Yale, said Greece was the highest youth unemploy - it will be able to return to pri - should bear part of the costs.” range of behavior. He presented a crisis waiting to happen. That ment rate in the EU, 22%. He vate markets for its borrowing The remaining problem is what data from the Eurobarometer Οδυσσέας Ελύτης it was revealed but not caused said the problem is rigidity. Busi - needs. He said that’s a solution happens after the default when polls, a series of surveys under - by the international financial nesses are reluctant to hire be - for a temporary liquidity prob - banks lose a lot of money. He taken for the European Commis - crisis is understood by looking cause it’s so hard to fire people lem, but the wrong plan for said Greek banks hold about sion since 1973. Among the 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011 George J Cotsirilos, Noted Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer, at 90

George J. Cotsirilos was such served in five invasions as a U.S. ural. In the 1961 Summerdale fended Nick Castanes, a Greek sirilos in 1953, and the current ican Bar Association Section of a legendary Chicago criminal Navy ensign during World War scandal that rocked the Chicago immigrant and diner operator Cotsirilos, Tighe & Streicker, Litigation, Complex Crimes defense trial lawyer, mentor, II. He began handling high-pro - Police Department and triggered who stood accused of murder - L.L.P. Throughout, Mr. Cotsirilos Committee. In addition to his leading figure in law and ethics file cases early in a long and dis - the Police Commissioner’s res - ing three men during a con - provided generous guidance to 2002 receipt of the Justice John that best-selling novelist Scott tinguished legal career. Over ignation, Mr. Cotsirilos success - frontation. Mr. Cotsirilos put his generations of lawyers on how Paul Stevens Award, Mr. Cotsir - Turow, who wrote about the le - more than half a century, Mr. fully defended officers accused client on the stand and, hearing to run a law firm successfully ilos was elected to the American gal system, said of him that in a Cotsirilos committed himself to of placing orders for stolen of the defendant’s fear and the while maintaining the highest College of Trial lawyers, the pre- world where decency is rou - clients from throughout the fab - goods in a crime ring headed by cooking grease rendering his ethical standards and a spirit of eminent association of its kind tinely under assault, “he’s like ric of society. He achieved out - Richard Morrison, known as the pistol unmanageable, the jury generosity toward colleagues in the United States, and served an eagle flying free.” Cotsirilos, standing outcomes in state and “Babbling Burglar” for providing acquitted on all charges. The and clients. He mentored young as a Regent from 1988 to 1994. recipient of the Justice John federal courts, trial and appel - evidence in exchange for le - prosecutor in the case stated, lawyers both in the workplace George is a beloved husband of Paul Stevens Award for integrity late. As one of a select group of niency. Mr. Cotsirilos also served “Impossible you may think - I and through his teaching at Joan M. Hall and the late and public service in the prac - Assistant State’s Attorneys pros - as defense counsel in the 1969 agree - except for the fact that John Marshall Law School. His Theresa L. Cotsirilos; father of tice of law, died on March 27, ecuting felonies, in 1949 Mr. Black Panther case involving an George Cotsirilos was his extensive civic engagement in - Stephanie , John(Susan) and 2011 following a stroke. He was Cotsirilos interviewed Ruth Ann infamous dawn raid. His work lawyer.” Mr. Cotsirilos was cluded eleven years as one of George J. Jr. (Maria Baird) Cot - 90. The son of Greek immi - Steinhagen, whose story of in the 1970’s and 1980’s in - widely acknowledged as a role the original members of the sirilos; stepfather of Colin, grants, Mr. Cotsirilos grew up shooting Phillies first baseman cluded the Captain Clarence model, not only with respect to Registration and Disciplinary Christina (Peter Wald) , Lynn, on Chicago’s west side, gradu - Eddie Waitkus at her room at Braasch extortion case and a the breadth and strength of his Commission of the Illinois and Justin Hall; grandfather of ated from Marshall High School the Edgewater Beach Hotel be - teamsters pension fund case. legal abilities, but also with re - Supreme Court. He chaired the Teresa, Joseph, Gabriel, Lula, at 16, from University of came the basis for the 1984 In one of his most stunning gard to his ethics. He founded Illinois Bar Association Section Zeke, Gideon, Elias and Cassidy; Chicago Law School at 21, and Robert Redford film, The Nat - successes, Mr. Cotsirilos de - two law firms, Cogan and Cot - on Criminal Law and the Amer - brother of Betty Angelos.

DEATHS n ANDERSON, FOTINI and Loretta Tgavalekos of nis and Aglaia Fuson. Angelo Greek engineer and physicist. Her family will gather to cele - from the University of Iowa. FOUKAS Greece, her loving husband was a man of keen intelligence Mr. graduated from brate her life at a later date. She Grace was united in marriage The Birmingham, Ala. News re - George Patrick Callahan of who spent a lifetime in the pur - the German School of Athens was born Jan. 7, 1920, in Sioux April 4, 1955, with Mervin ported that Fotini “Tina” Foukas Malden and by her two loving suit of knowledge. He was a and received a diploma in archi - City, Iowa, to James and Edna “Dutch” Shaffer of Windham, Anderson e 86, of Vestavia Hills, sisters Evangeline Coussoule of great student of history and pol - tecture in 1948 from the Na - (Lewis) Red. She was preceded Iowa, where they made their Alabama passed away, February Newburyport and Helen Man - itics. Angelo spoke four lan - tional Technical University of in death by her husband, Mervin home until moving to Grand Is - 18, 2011. She was born in Ae - nering Joyce of Abington. Mrs. guages; English, Greek, Roman - Athens. After serving in the Shaffer. Survivors include four land in 1969. Grace worked as a gion, Greece, and received her Callahan was a woman known ian, and Russian. The funeral Greek Navy, he took his first job daughters, Helen Kudos (Bob legal secretary in Iowa City, Iowa degree in Fashion Style and De - for her strength of character, her was held at the Greek Orthodox with the Athens office of the Caldwell) of West Branch, Iowa, and then for the law firm Payne sign from the famous Demetri - absolute integrity and most of all Church of The Annunication in New York-based engineering Mary Shaffer of Bushton, Kan., and Payne in Grand Island retir - ades School of Design in Athens, the love of her family. She is sur - Sacramento. company Knappen Tippetts Ab - Kathy Shaffer of Seale, Ala., and ing in 1985. Grace was a mem - Greece. Tina was the owner of vived by her devoted daughters bett McCarthy, where he worked Jean (Joe) Whyte of North ber of the Legal Secretaries As - Fotini's Coutouriere in English Patricia Leahy of McLean, Va. n GIANAKIS, PETER for three years. Encouraged by Platte; a sister, Mary (Ralph) sociation in Grand Island for Village and was affiliated with and Loretta McNary of Wilming - The Fitchburg, Mass. Sentinel & an American colleague there, Mr. Beard of Milk River, Alberta, many years. She enjoyed plant - Feinfield Green, Burger Phillips, ton and her cousin Steve Enterprise reported that Peter Gi - Santorini decided to seek his for - Canada. Additional survivors in - ing a large garden each year and Pizitz and McRae's. She was a Tgavelekos of Ipswich. Mrs. anakis, 86, of Leominster, died tune in America, emigrating to clude grandchildren, Iris and Joe sharing her produce with every - Godly woman known for her Callahan has four grandchildren Feb. 16, with his family and Canada in 1954 and to the Caldwell, Chuck and Kellie one! She also enjoyed lively con - nurturing care and love of her Edward R. Leahy, Jr. of McLean, loved ones by his side. He is sur - United States in 1956. Mr. San - Whyte, Lukas Sidzyik and Jamie versations on current events and daughter, son-in-law, and grand - Amy McNary of Methuen, Jen - vived by his son, Larry Gianakis torini’s first years in the United Lynn; and nieces and nephews. stories of her Greek heritage of children of whom she was ex - nifer Dukeshire of Danvers and and his wife, Jean of Leominster, States were spent in Columbus, She was graduated from City which she was very proud. She tremely proud. She touched Joseph McNary of Wilmington. and his daughter, Georgia Gi - Ohio, and New Haven, Conn. In High School in 1937, and went was preceded in death by her many lives with her unselfish She also has two great-grand - anakis Robideau, and Robert Ro - 1963, he settled himself and his on to receive her B.A. in English parents, and two brothers, heart and loving spirit and will children Sara and Joelle bideau, also of Leominster. He family in the Washington, DC and Business Administration James (Rhedi) and John Red. be greatly missed by her family Dukeshire of Danvers. The fu - also leaves his brother-in-law, area. From 1967 on, he lived in and friends. Tina was preceded neral service was held at the As - James George and his wife, Bethesda. A member of the in death by her husband, Alexan - sumption of the Virgin Mary Pamela of Fitchburg; two step- American Society of Civil Engi - CLASSIFIEDS der A. Anderson of Vestavia Hills; Greek Orthodox Church, Ip - daughters, Janes Andrews and neers, he was employed in senior parents, Nicholas Foukas and swich. Lynn Kelleher, four grand-chil - positions as principal engineer Vasiliki Costopoulos Foukas, and dren, Teddy Champa, Larry Gi - or consultant by a number of FOR RENT brother and sister, Tykie Foukas n COSTOPOULOS, anakis Jr., Derrick Fedders, and U.S. engineering and construc - FUNERAL HOMES and Maria Foukas, all of Aegion, THEOPHELOS Alexa Robideau; three nieces, tion firms, including the Bechtel LONG ISLAND CITY Greece. Survivors include daugh - The Record and Herald News re - Georgia Amanatidis, Tina Lewis, Corporation. His work took him Beautiful second floor OFFICE CONSTANTINIDES ter and son-in-law, Katherine ported that Theophelos, “Phil,” and Mary George, five step- around the United States as well SPACE. Has 10 offices, 3 bathrooms, FUNERAL PARLOR Co. Thomason and Michael A. 81, died on Feb. 21, 2011 at the grandchildren; and 19 great- as to Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Nige - server room, lounge area, reception area etc. Spacious, modern, freshly 405 91st Street Thomason Sr.; two grandchil - Veterans Memorial Home, Para - grandchildren. He was prede - ria, and Germany. Mr. Santorini painted, close to all amenities. Bay Ridge - Brooklyn, dren, Michael A. Thomason, Jr. mus, N.J. after a long illness. ceased by his first wife, Mary was the project engineer for the Some offices are already furnished NY 11209 (Lauren) and Nicole Thomason, Born and raised in Manhattan, (George) Gianakis in 1979, and 1976 rehabilitation of the port with custom desks and matching (718) 745-1010 all of Vestavia Hills; sisters, Irene he and his beloved wife Helen his second wife, Anne (Xarras) of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in which cabinet files. Easy move in. Great Services in all localities - Michael and Asimo and Efthimia lived in New Milford for the past Gianakis in 1998, his eldest the existing wooden structure for Electrical contractors, Architects, Low cost shipping to Greece Foukas; and numerous other rel - 49 years where they raised three daughter, Jean Fedders Taylor, was replaced with concrete. Al - Engineers, Lawyers, Accountants, atives primarily of Aegion, daughters. The son of Greek im - and twin brother, George Gi - though the 2010 earthquake se - etc. Call Demetrios at (646) 732- Greece. migrants, Phil served as Sergeant anakis. He was born on July verely damaged the port and the 9572 or email: controller@ekirikas. ANTONOPOULOS First Class in the United States 31,1924, the son of John and An - furthest portions of the dock col - com for a walk through. We are FUNERAL HOME, INC. offering a 1 to 5 year lease for the Konstantinos Antonopoulos - n ANTON, JOHN SR. Army where he earned the geliki (Treachis) Gianakis. At age lapsed into the sea, the ware - premises, 2 month security deposit Funeral Director The Albany, N.Y. Times-Union re - Bronze Star during the Korean 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy houses and containers stacked required once lease is signed. Premi ported that John Anton Sr., 83, Conflict. He went on to have a serving on the U .S. Herbert C. in the populated part of the port ses are available. Asking $7,000 per 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., died, February 10, 2011 at the long career as a furrier. Follow - Jones. He became a lightweight did not collapse onto any work - month. Astoria, New York 11105 Community Hospice of Albany ing retirement, Phil spent his boxer in the Navy. He also served ers, and the port reopened eight 467367/2/06-26 (718) 728-8500 at St. Peter's Hospital. He was time reading about history, cook - in the European African Middle days after the earthquake first Not affiliated with any born in Goffstown, N.H., son of ing and listening to jazz music, Eastern Theatre, and received hit. After more than 30 years as HELP WANTED other funeral home. the late Evangelos and Olga Got - but he especially enjoyed spend - three Bronze Stars. He was hon - a professional engineer, Mr. San - sou Anton. John was a veteran ing time with his family. Phil was orably discharged in 1946. torini retired in 1990. Mr. San - LEADING GREEK AMERICAN APOSTOLOPOULOS of the Army, serving as a tank a member of St. Nicholas Greek Peter was a carpenter and a torini was an avid photographer NEWSPAPER SEEKS Apostle Family - commander during the Korean Orthodox Church of Wyckoff graduate of the Wentworth In - whose work, including coverage Full-time AD sales representa - , Nicholas, Andrew - War. John was the owner along where he continued his involve - stitute of Technology and be - of the 1968 Washington, D.C. ri - tives for both GREEK and ENG - Funeral Directors of with his late wife, Sydney, of ment in the Greek community. came the Clerk of the works on ots, appeared in German maga - LISH language publications. Ap - RIVERDALE John and Syd's Pub and Pizza of Surviving are Phil's beloved wife many construction projects. His zines in the mid-1960’s. He en - plicants should have some sales FUNERAL HOME Inc. Albany. He was a member of St. Helen, to whom he was married pride and craftsmanship stood joyed collecting and and/or marketing experience. 5044 Broadway Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, for 58 years; three daughters; out in all of his work, most espe - experimenting with different Fluency with computer use and New York, NY 10034 Albany, where he was a bingo Eve Costopoulos and husband cially in his home which he built high-end cameras before trading knowledge of Internet a plus. Bi- (212) 942-4000 volunteer and also volunteered Douglas Brierley of Morristown, by himself. He was a dedicated them in for the next model. An lingual command of both lan - at their . Survivors Nancy Costopoulos of Oradell member of Holy Trinity Greek avid reader, he disregarded nor - guages preferred. This positions Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE include sons, John (Vikki) Anton and Christine Costopoulos of Orthodox Church hosting church mal waking hours when in the offers base salary, plus com - Jr. of West Sand Lake and Slingerlands, N.Y., his six loving picnics at Siama Park in Fitch - grips of a favorite book. He was misand/or marketing experi - LITRAS FUNERAL HOME Matthew Anton of Albany; grandchildren; Katherine, burg, MA, and was a board fluent in Greek, German, French, ence. Fluency with computer use ARLINGTON daughters, Rebecca (Wayne) Alexandra, Theo, Dean, Adri - member of the church. and English and had a working offers base salary, plus commis - BENSON DOWD, INC Tearno of Albany, Olga Anton of enne and Andrea, his sister He - knowledge of Italian. In the first sions. E-mail resume and cover FUNERAL HOME Albany and Katina (Anthony) len Tavantzis and husband John JENNINGS, POLLy years after his retirement, he de - letter to [email protected] or 83-15 Parsons Blvd., Barulli of South Plainfield, N.J.; of Teaneck and his nieces and The Dallas Morning news re - voted himself to compiling a fax to : (718) 472-0510 Attn. Jamaica, NY 11432 brother, Arthur (Pauline) Anton nephews; Menelaos and Chrissie, ported that Polly Jennings, 86, comprehensive family tree, the Publisher or call (718) 784-5255 (718) 858-4434 of Albany; sister, Mary Sarris of Karen and Scott, Paul and Becky, March 23. She was born in earliest entries of which reach and ask for Veta. • (800) 245-4872 Troy; grandchildren, Michael, Bill and Missy, and Boston to Greek immigrant par - back to the mid-1600s. In con - John and Alexis Anton; great- and Ava. The funeral was held ents, James and Anna Hontasis. nection with this project, he trav - grandson, Miles Anton. He was St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox At 16 she moved to Tulsa, Okla - eled extensively to acquire pri - TO PlACE yOur ClASSiFiED AD, CAll: (718) 784-5255, predeceased by a sister, Elefthe - Church, Wyckoff. homa, which she first hated and mary historical sources and to ExT. 106, E-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com ria Googas; and a brother, Ted then grew to love, before gradu - interview extended family mem - Anton. The funeral service was n DOUVRES, IRENE ating from Central High. She bers. The result was a document held at St. Sophia Greek Ortho - North Jersey.com reported that later met and married a war the size of a dining-room . dox Church, Albany, to which Irene B. Douvres of Montclair, hero, Vernon Neal Jennings in After completing the genealogy contributions may be made. N.Y. died on March 8. She was 1952. A beautiful, vivacious and project, Mr. Santorini wrote a PRINTED EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HERALD 86. She was born in Long Beach, always fun-loving person, she two-part biographical essay fo - VIA THE POST-OFFICE: n bIROS, STEPHEN N.Y. She moved to Montclair as never met a stranger and made cusing on his decision to emi - o1 month $11.00 o3 months $22.00 The Binghamton, N.Y. Press & a child and established a lifelong many friends. She and Neal were grate and make good in America. o6 months $33.00 oOne year $66.00 Sun-Bulletin reported that residency for herself and her pioneers in adopting a child from The essay was published in the VIA HOME DELIVERy (Ny, NJ & CT): Stephen Biros, 85, passed away family. She was a licensed insur - a foreign country, and thus re - International Herald Tribune o1 month for $14.00 o3 months for $33.00 Feb. 15. He is survived by his de - ance agent working at Ross In - ceived a boy they named James and, in a fuller version, in the o6 months for $48.00 oOne year for $88.00 voted wife of 60 years, Barbara surance Company in Upper (Jim), sight unseen in 1956 from Greek newspaper I Kathimerini. Koast Biros; two daughters, Jan Montclair for 35 years. She cele - a Greek orphanage. Her efforts Mr. Santorini is survived by his VIA HOME DELIVERy Biros and her husband Stephen brated her Greek heritage and spurred other couples to adopt wife of 54 years, Hildegard née (New England, Pennsylvania, Hirsch of Phoenixville, PA, and culture, becoming an avid trav - several hundred Greek orphans Isbrecht, of Bethesda, their three Washington D.C., VIRGINIA & MARyLAND) their sons, Matthew Biros Hirsch eler to Greece. She is prede - in both Oklahoma and the children, Beatrice Santorini of o1 month for $18.00 o3 months for $41.00 MD and Daniel Biros Hirsch, and ceased by her husband Jim. She United States generally in the Philadelphia, PA, Eva Santorini o6 months for $57.00 oOne year for $109.00 Susette Biros Costes and her hus - is survived by her daughter late 1950’s. Her work changed of Silver Spring, Maryland, and ON LINE SUbSCRIPTION band John G. Costes of Bedford, Kathy Emanuilidis and her hus - many lives. The family moved to Christine Biser, of Frederick, e www.thenationalherald.com N.H. and their children, Christo - band John, both of Verona, and Dallas in 1967, and she quickly Maryland, his son-in-law, Chris NON SuBSCriBErS: oOne year for $45.95 pher Costes and Laura Michelle her grandson Andrew. She is also became a real Texan. They had Pestalozzi and grandson, Lukas o6 months for $29.95 Costes; a sister, Veronica Biros, survived by her sister Mary B. lived for the last 25 years in a Pestalozzi, both of Silver Spring, 3 months for $18.95 Maryland; and a niece, Paulette Peterson and her many friends home they built themselves at his brother-in-law Karl Isbrecht, o

b SuBSCriBErS: One year for $34.95 Moore. Stephan was a member and relatives in New Jersey, New Cedar Creek Lake, where they of Flagstaff, Ariz., his step - o 6 months for $23.95 of St. Michael's Greek Catholic York, Virginia and Athens, enjoyed many friends, boating, mother, Santorini, and o 3 months for $14.95 Church. He was a retired Assis - Greece and Fortaleza, . Do - fishing and watching the sun set his cousin Valia Spanidou, both i o tant Vice President of Marine nations may be made in Irene’s and moon rise over the lake. of Athens, Greece. Mr. Santorini NAmE: ...... Midland with more than 30 memory to the Ss. Nicholas, Con - Polly and Neal were each other's donated his body to the State ADDrESS: ...... years of service. He was always stantine & Helen G.O. Church constant companions. She is sur - Anatomy Board of Maryland. r active in sports, playing basket - Building Fund, Orange, N.J. vived by her husband, a son, CiTy: ...... STATE: ...... ZiP: ...... ball, golfing and refereeing bas - James, and wife Susan and three n SHAFFER, GRACE TEl.: ...... CEll: ...... ketball. He volunteered for many n DRIVAS, ANGELO granddaughters she adored, The Grand Island, Nebraska, In - E-mAil: ...... years for the B.C. Open. He was The Sacramento, Calif. Bee re - Olivia, Caroline, and Alexandra; dependent reported that Grace c PLEASE SEND A GIFT SUbSCRIPTION TO: a WWII veteran of the U.S. Mar - ported that Angelo Drivas, 98, and a sister, Sophia. The funeral Shaffer, 91, of Grand Island died NAmE: ...... itime Service and U. S. Air Force died on Feb. 17, 2011. He was was held at Holy Trinity Greek Feb. 9. Her wishes were to be ADDrESS: ......

and a member of the American born in Galatzi, , the Orthodox Church cremated with no formal service. s CiTy: ...... STATE: ...... ZiP: ...... Legion. A and fu - youngest of 10 children of Dim - TEl.: ...... CEll: ...... neral service was celebrated at itri and Anastasia Drivas. For 47 n SANTORINI, EUGENE P. This is a service St. Michael's Greek Catholic years, he was the loving hus - The Washington Post reported to the community. E-mAil: ...... Please specify method of payment Church, with burial in the parish band of the late Adrienne Drivas. that Eugene Paul Santorini, 86, Announcements of deaths

b i enclose a check/money order for $ ...... cemetery. He is survived by his nieces Tas - a retired professional engineer, may be telephoned to the made payable to: The National Herald, Inc., soula Mihalopoulos, Nitsa died on January 29, 2011 at Classified Department of 37-10 30th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 - 2614 n CALLAHAN, PAULINE Zeizan of Athens, Greece, Maria Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, The National Herald at or please debit my mastercard Visa TGAVALEKOS Courbanidis and his devoted Maryland, of pneumonia. Mr. (718) 784-5255, o o The Ipswich, Mass. Chronicle re - nephew Demetre Drivas, both of Santorini was born on March 15, o American Express monday through Friday, u ported that Pauline Tgavalekos Adelaide, South . An - 1924 in Athens, Greece. His 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST CArD NumBEr: ...... Callahan, 91, died Feb. 20, 2011. gelo is also survived by his mother was a German foreign- or e-mailed to: ExPirATiON DATE: ...... Mrs. Callahan was preceded in brother-in-law Spero Jouganatos language teacher, and his father [email protected] SiGNATurE: ...... death by her loving parents Louis (Kiki), sisters-in-law Mary Caza - a prominent Swiss-educated s THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011 GREECE CYPRUS 9 Greek Ombudsman Says Austerity Just Made Public Services Worse

The Greek Ombudsman’s an - a country where trust in state to the newspaper Kathimerini. budsman last year, a large chunk fall within the remit of the drawn up by the Ombudsman nual report for 2010 has found institutions has always been lag - Spanou’s report noted that cut - referred to delays in the dis - body’s competencies and there - found municipal authorities to that the spending cuts imposed ging, the fostering of relation - backs have had a negative im - bursement of pensions and ben - fore could not be dealt with. Of be the worst offenders, followed by the country’s debt crisis have ships of trust between the state pact on the broader operation of efits, often due to understaffed the remaining 60 percent, by the former Economy, Com - aggravated existing problems in and its citizens, particularly as the state apparatus while also public service offices. Often the around half were found to be petitiveness and Merchant Ma - public administration, down - seen under the prism of the cri - putting a huge dent in citizens’ authors of the complaints “groundless.” Many of the com - rine Ministry (which has since graded the quality of public ser - sis, is more crucial than ever,” optimism as is clear from the charged that the public service plaints comprised appeals for split into three separate entities.) vices and intensified the public’s Ombudsman Calliope Spanou thousands of complaints re - in question had failed to offer help by heavily indebted house - Next in line was the Social Se - exasperation in its attempts to said after handing over her re - ceived by the body over the any response at all. Of the com - holds, unemployed citizens and curity Foundation (IKA,) ’s meet financial obligations as port to Parliament Speaker course of 2010. Of the 13,176 plaints filed by citizens to the entrepreneurs facing bankruptcy. immigration services and the household budgets tighten. “In Philippos Petsalnikos, according complaints received by the Om - Ombudsman, 40 percent did not A “mismanagement chart” country’s prefectural authorities. Disgraced Olympian Thanou Says She and Kenteris Conspiracy Victims

ATHENS - Former Greek sprint time. Speaking to a panel of tional documents to prove what testify today, but his wife’s seri - In the lead-up to the Athens star Katerina Thanou has testi - three judges, Thanou reiterated we have been saying all along,” ous health problems forced him Olympics, Greece quickly grew fied in court that she and team - the now familiar account of he told television cameras out - to be in America,” lawyer into a track and field power. But mate Kostas Kenteris didn’t fake what happened that evening side the courtroom. “The most Michalis Dimitrakopoulos told the Kenteris-Thanou scandal a motorcycle crash to avoid a and backed by Tzekos. “I have important document being a se - The Associated Press. “He will cast a pall over the effort, and doping test just before the 2004 been presented by the media as cret conversation between the submit his testimony through another three of Greece’s medal - Olympic Games here, but that a criminal but I never doped or legal departments of the IAAF me.” Dimitrakopoulos said the ists from 2004 have since been the International Olympic Com - hid from anyone,” Thanou told and the IOC which shows that sprinters had no reason to stage sanctioned for doping-related mittee set them up to prevent the court. Thanou said she did the athletes were wrongfully ac - an accident. “The time for them offenses. In an unprecedented them from running. She said the not remember much about the cused of missing tests on the 3rd to appear before health officials move in 2009, the IOC decided athletes were victims of an IOC accident, only that the bike and 9th of August. For us it is to undergo a doping test expired not to promote Thanou to the setup to “…deny a whole coun - wobbled and fell to the ground. clear that the game was rigged at 7:15 p.m.,” he said. “The ac - Sydney 100-meter gold medal try a major distinction.” After A passing motorist then took from the beginning,” he said. cident occurred four hours later. that was stripped from Marion five years of delays, she was on them to the hospital, she said. Kenteris was not in court, and So what motive did they have Jones because of steroid use. trial for perjury but denied all “If the doping controller had his lawyer said the former to fake an accident, when the The IOC said Thanou was not charges during his first appear - done their job properly we Olympic champion would not disciplinary offense had already deserving of the “honor” be - ance in court. “I demand jus - would not have missed any dop - make any appearance. “Costas been registered four hours be - cause of her role in the Athens tice,” Thanou said according to ing control,” she said at the end Kenteris wanted to come and fore?” scandal. a court source and argued that of her testimony, referring to the the media had unfairly vilified signed notification form at her, Agence--Presse re - 18:15 on the evening of Aug. ported. Thanou, silver medalist 12, 2004 that gave the athletes at the 2004 Sydney Olympics in only one hour to appear. Yiannis the women’s 100 meters, and Papadogiannakis, the head of Kenteris, who won gold in the AP PHOTO/PETrOS GiANNAkOuriS the Hellenic Olympic Commit - 200 meters at Sydney, were Greek Olympic medalist tee delegation in Athens, signed Greece’s biggest hopes for sprinter Katerina Thanou, ar - that form. But as HellenicAth - medals as the games returned rives at court in Athens, March letes.com has previously re - to their home for the first time 28, 2011 to face charges of ported, this was apparently con - since the inaugural modern staging a 2004 accident. trary to the rules, which provide games in Athens in 1896. Ken - that a notification must be per - teris would have had the glory standing line of defense, saying sonal, as it requires the element of a Greek gold medalist to carry that both she and Kenteris had of knowledge on behalf of the the Olympic torch into the sta - turned off their cell phones and athlete. Without such knowl - dium at the game’s opening cer - found out about the missed dop - edge, the argument is that an emony, but he and Thanou were ing test hours later at the home athlete cannot be guilty of miss - not allowed to take part after a of their coach Christos Tzekos. ing a test. scandal developed following the She said Kenteris grabbed the The athletes have long in - alleged motorcycle crash during keys to Tzekos’ motorcycle and sisted the doping controller which they were hospitalized. they intended to ride back to should have known this, even if Thanou and Kenteris are ac - the Olympic Village, but failed Papadogiannakis did not, and cused of faking the accident and to put helmets on. After their that they should have had 24 of having encouraged medical alleged fall, a passing driver hours to appear for the test. IOC staff to issue false certificates on helped them to a hospital with pressure and alleged threats their behalf and of lying about Kenteris complaining of a head forced the athletes to withdraw the affair. At the time, a forensic injury, she said. Tzekos, who is from the Games days later. “I surgeon who separately exam - also on trial for allegedly im - have been waiting for seven ined the athletes found no evi - porting and trading banned years for this day in court, to dence of their claimed injuries. sports substances, has also dis - explain how things were, as I Thanou said the defense had missed the charges and also experienced them and as they submitted new evidence that claimed the whole affair was en - really happened,” Thanou said had come to light during the le - gineered by IOC. If found guilty, outside the courthouse. Tzekos gal proceedings, but wouldn’t the athletes face a maximum stated the defense had submit - AP PHOTO/NikOlAS GiOAkOumiDiS say what it was. “I hope the sentence of under a year in ted new evidence that had come Fighting spirit judges see all the new evidence prison, which could be sus - to light, which he said supports that has arisen and issue a fair pended and, under Greek law, the argument that the two ath - Retired soldiers in traditional Greek military dress walk past a protest banner reading “Take to decision,” she said. they would be able to buy them - letes were victims of a set-up. the Street. Protest! So the People Don't Go Bankrupt,” during an Independence Day parade in Thanou maintained her long- selves out of any prospective jail “We have tabled some addi - Athens, March 25, 2011. Greek Landfill Fight Turns Violent, Police and Residents Clash Again

Continued from page 1 communities over the years, the and this is our garrison,” said Times noted. In 2009, residents Nikos Filippou, 64. “People are a bulldozer sent to clear roads of Grammatiko, a town east of ready to die. It’s a matter of they had blocked for more than Athens, scuffled with the police honor.” Many hut regulars seem a day with rubble, and further for weeks over a landfill that is unlikely resistance fighters but violence broke out in the after - now under construction as lo - defend locals wielding fire - noon. One of the Interior Min - cals fight the project in court. bombs. “What can we do? No istry’s General Secretaries, Yian - In 2008, a 43-year-old woman one listens to us,” Eleni Giorda, nis Economidis, told Skai Radio died when riots broke out on 60, told The Times. “We will use that a police escort had been over the planned con - guns if we have to.” arranged for the driver but that struction of a landfill there; the Ioannis Andrianopoulos, 40, he arrived half an hour earlier project has been held up as lo - a shopkeeper, and his wife Sofia, and was set upon by locals, who cals mount court challenges. In 39, often leave their children, 8 sprayed pepper spray at him. the northern port of Thessa - and 10, at home for guard duty. Keratea residents have been in - loniki, residents have opposed Andrianopoulos said, “If they volved in running clashes with landfill projects for years. In Ker - start building, we’ll set fire to the riot police for much of the past atea, protest has been sup - garbage trucks.” His wife added, three months, arguing the dump planted by civil disobedience “We’re not crazy, and we’re not will degrade their area and and violence involving a large anarchists, but we are being pro - damage local antiquities. section of the town, including voked.” Concerned about Ker - “Attacks on police officers in the middle-aged and the elderly. atea’s defiance, the government the area — with firebombs, The residents’ reactions appear has appealed for discussions. But stones and other objects — oc - to have taken the government the locals will not talk until the cur almost every day,” Lt. Col. by surprise and have provoked police withdraw and the govern - Thanassis Kokkalakis, a political rift. The Citizen Pro - ment will not talk until the resi - spokesman for the Greek Police tection Ministry says the heavy dents dismantle their barricade. told The New York Times. He police presence in Keratea is a “You can’t have dialogue in a said that police were in the area drain on resources, while the In - hostile environment with fire - “to protect the public interest” terior Ministry insists that the bombs’ being thrown,” Theodora but that this role had been “mis - AP PHOTO/THANASSiS STAVrAkiS authorities cannot back down. Tzakri, Deputy Interior Minister, understood by some residents.” Riot police push back protesters during clashes in the town of Keratea, about 31 miles southeast Meanwhile, residents say they told The Times in a telephone The police say they are regularly of Athens, March 29, 2011. The police fired tear gas to push back firebomb-wielding demon - are under attack. “It’s simple — interview. “We will not tolerate pelted with firebombs and have strators, who were protesting plans for a garbage dump in the area. we are being threatened, so we lawlessness.” The government been shot at by a sniper. They defend ourselves,” Sotiris Iatrou, has appealed a decision by a lo - want to withdraw, said Christos sisting the attempts to construct how the fight has resembled a Times. “This is about trash, and a municipal councilor, told The cal court suspending work on the Fotopoulos, who heads the po - the new landfill. Since mechan - movie and been spread across trash has been fueling violent Times. Asked about the involve - proposed landfill until environ - lice workers’ union. “Keratea ical diggers were moved to the the Internet, with “middle-aged protests for years,” he said. “The ment of anarchists in protests mental and archaeological as - doesn’t need policing,” told The site in December, residents have protesters hurling firebombs at fact that this dispute coincides — frequently described in the sessments are carried out; resi - Times. “It needs a political so - set up a permanent picket near the police, overturned cars in with the economic crisis makes Greek press and not denied on dents have appealed a ruling by lution.” The blockade forced the entrance to the site and have flames, Orthodox priests in it all the more explosive.” Resi - anarchist Web sites that pro - a higher court allowing construc - cars heading to and from Lavrio clashed frequently with riot po - black robes wailing amid clouds dents of Keratea say they will claim support for Keratea resi - tion to proceed. Tzakri insisted onto small side roads. In an in - lice. They argue the land for the of tear gas,” and how it has been not become a dumping ground dents — Iatrou responded, “We that the Keratea project was non- terview with Sunday’s waste center has not been compared by some in the media for the capital’s population, have solidarity from many negotiable. “We won’t let Athens Kathimerini, Interior Minister legally acquired, that it is near to growing, although milder, about four million, and argue sides.” He also referred to back - turn into Naples,” she said, re - Yiannis Ragousis said that the an archaeological site and that forms of civil disobedience as that the chosen site — covering ing from leftist political groups ferring to the Italian port that construction of the landfill there is a lack of transparency more and more people are re - 50 hectares, or 125 acres, of hill - and said locals had been in - has been swamped in garbage in would go ahead, despite the res - about how the contract for the fusing to pay tolls on highways side on the town’s outskirts — structed on how to make fire - recent years as a result of stren - idents’ protests. “We have made construction was awarded. and buy tickets for buses, trams hides archaeological treasures. bombs. “We were taught,” Ia - uous opposition by residents to it clear that we are open to dia - Ragousis, however, argued that and the Metro, complaining that but the government says the fa - trou said, smiling. On most the creation of more landfills. logue with all social groups with the residents have overstepped only workers, the poor and pen - cility must go forward since the days, he joins fellow residents But she said the government was regard to any improvements the mark. “It is not acceptable sioners are bearing the brunt of capital’s existing landfill is full. in a wooden hut set up along - willing to discuss making the that can be made,” he said. “But for a project that is completely the government’s austerity mea - The dispute originated last side the road leading to the pro - Keratea landfill environmentally the project must be carried out legal, environmentally sound sures. Prime Minister George Pa - year when Greece faced millions posed site. friendly by setting up a recycling at all costs, and it we will ensure and which is being supported pandreou’s adminstration has of euros in fines after missing a TENSE NIGHTS OF TROUBLE plant and composting unit on the it is carried out.” Plans had orig - by European Union funding to cut public worker’s pay as much July 2010 deadline for razing On most nights, residents site. “If the mayor can guarantee inally been unveiled in 1998 to be obstructed by narrow inter - as 20%, limited pensions and hundreds of illegal landfills clash with police officers on the us that police cars won’t be fire - construct new waste manage - ests, which have been rejected raised taxes, although critics around the country. In January, road and in the fields around bombed, and workers’ lives ment centers in Keratea and by the Council of State.” A final noted none of that has affected the EU froze these fines on the the site. Residents also guard won’t be threatened, we’ll sit Grammatiko, northeast of court decision on whether the the country’s rich and tax condition that the government the barricade by day, playing re - down and talk,” Tzakri said. Athens, but the projects have construction can go ahead is evaders who have escaped the carried out a waste-manage - sistance songs from the early Costas Levantis, the mayor of been held up by legal wrangles due later this year. crisis with impunity, enraging ment program that increased re - 1970s, when the military ruled Lavreotiki, a municipality com - since 2003. “If these two pro - BATTLE LINES BEING many people. cycling and replaced the illegal Greece, and drinking coffee prising Keratea and two other jects do not happen, waste man - DRAWN But fare-evasion is quite dif - dumps with “sanitary” landfills around a wood-burning stove. towns, said he could not guar - agement in Attica will collapse The lingering battle has ferent than waging an armed that met E.U. health and safety The walls of the hut are covered antee anything. “People won’t and five million people will find started to get some attention standoff with the police, Karolos standards. with news articles about their back down,” he said. “If the ma - rubbish piling up outside their outside Greece as well. A recent Kavoulakos, a lecturer in social But no town in Greece wants efforts and children’s drawings, chines start up, the whole town doors,” he said. Keratea resi - lengthy piece in the New York sciences at the Univer - a landfill in its backyard, as is many depicting stickmen in op - will come out and we’ll have ca - dents have been doggedly re - Times by Niki Kitsantonis noted sity of told The clear from the reaction in other posite camps. “We are at war sualties.” 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011

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Here at St. Sophia Greek the National Herald, March 5, 96th anniversary Orthodox Church in Albany, N.Y., Evan Alevizatos Chriss of Balti - our annual budget is $542,000, more, Maryland, agrees there has It is with awe and a profound sense of responsibility that we our annual allocation to the Arch - been "certain recent events in the celebrate the 96th anniversary of the launching of our sister publi - diocese is $65,000, but we have life of our Orthodox Church cation, the Greek language Ethnikos Kirix on the 2nd of April 1915. never received any warning that which deserve the greatest con - AP PHOTO What is 96 years of life? How does one evaluate it? And how our church may be closed unless demnation..." He also agrees that Look For Me on TV can it be celebrated, we wonder? we discontinue our weekly the Greek government has not And on a deeper level: What factors determine the fragile - by Wednesday evening gambling ac - governed "wisely or well." Yet, And I just want to say hi to all my friends in Greek extremist nature - existence of an ethnic newspaper, as it overcomes huge tivities which produce a $500 per Chriss condemns the February 5 groups and please tell my mom I won’t be home for dinner. obstacles like war, economic depression, a shrinking pool of possible week profit for our church and a article in "A Letter From Athens" readers, enabling it to survive for 96 whole years? What allows one paper to survive, while so many others have faded into history? The answers to the questions, we believe, are many. In this ΛΟΓΟΣ case, we have a rare combination of three absolutely essential fac - tors: faithful readers; a great staff; and capable publishers/editors, as we will see below. Friday, April 2nd, 1915 was otherwise, a regular day in a tu - Long Live the Wellness Revolution! Revolution! multuous epoch. For the newly arrived Greeks to these shores, what distinguished that day was the appearance of a new newspa - per with the ambitious title Εθνικός Κήρυξ ( The National Herald ). With all of the civil unrest go - live from the lab. Americans Don’t Food Revolution, in which he In contrast to the many Greek newspapers in America before it ing on in the Arab world, along This shift harms our Even Know They’re tried to change the way people that were launched and folded in rapid succession - with the sole with public protests against aus - health as well as our Fat, by Amanda eat in Huntington, West Virginia, exception of the royalist paper - this paper was different: it terity measures and other actions planet. A healthy Gardner, a reporter which in 2008 had been rated as was done professionally and espoused a forward-looking set of being taken by governments in lifestyle has been re - for HealthDay the unhealthiest city in the principals. It was destined to write history. other parts of the globe including placed in the post - News reported a United States. Efforts to solve From that first day, it was embraced by a large number of England, Greece, and the USA, it modern world by Harris Interac - childhood obesity under the Let’s readers who wanted a reliable source of information that would looks like we’re living in revolu - “disease manage - tive/HealthDay poll Move was launched last year by cover the news from mother Hellas and also sided with the states - tionary times. As the mass media ment,” prescription that found that First Lady Michelle Obama in man . On top of that, they wanted a newspaper is focused on such major trans - and OTC drug de - 30% of people who which President Barack Obama that covered their news, the news of their communities. formational events, there is an - pendency, and crisis are overweight established the first-ever Task They realized early on that for a people to survive in a foreign other, quieter revolution taking intervention instead don’t think they are Force on Childhood Obesity to land, they had to be well-informed and able to communicate with place in our own backyard. It is of prevention. Re - by Dr. ALEX and many believe develop and implement an inter - one another. For a number of them, the 2 cents cover price at being called the Wellness Revo - sponsibility for our PATTAKOS they are thinner agency plan to end the problem newsstands on April 2, 1915 was a considerable amount of money. lution and may prove to be the health has been than they really within a generation. Due to me - As is the cover price of $1.25 on today’s newsstands. key to true healthcare reform - turned over to pro - Special to are. Even among dia exposure, the revolution is Yet they knew a good paper was very expensive to produce. and the only viable solution to fessionals who pre - The National Herald those in the study among the most noticeable at - They wanted their paper to survive. So they supported it faithfully, rising healthcare costs - in Amer - sumably know bet - who could be accu - tempts to counteract the stark passionately. As our today’s readers do. ica and other developed nations ter and will take care of us when rately classified (using their ac - healthcare crisis, not including The other factor that contributed to its longevity is that Ethnikos where declining health trends, we’re sick. The idea of food as tual body-mass index or BMI) as what economist Paul Zane Pilzer Kirix was fortunate to have a staff with filotimo, dedicated, hard- particularly the rising obesity medicine and medicine as food “obese,” some 70% felt that they refers to as the “next trillion dol - working people in all of its departments. Cultivated women and rate, have reached epidemic pro - has become a foreign concept for were simply overweight. Such lar industry” - wellness. He men who care about the community, who live and breathe the pa - portions. had it right: many people who, as they move skewed perceptions may help ex - points out that even “sickness in - per, who are inspired by its history. “One should eat to live and not farther and farther away from the plain why overweight and obe - dustry” companies, such as Mc - The feeling of public service is captivating mesmerizing, thrilling. live to eat.” Philosopher and “land,” don’t have a clue where sity rates in the U.S. keep going Donalds and Wal-Mart, are get - And, at the end of the day, their names endure in ink - or in - mathematician Pythagoras ad - their food even comes from! up. If people don’t recognize a ting into the act by making huge creasingly today in digital formats - for many years to come. vised that “health is a thing you The insidious nature of this problem they are less likely to investments in fresh and organic The third contributing factor, is that the paper was lucky to ought not despise; in diet use a challenge to our way and quality do something about it, and it’s foods. He notes that medical have very few - in fact, only seven - capable publishers over the mean, and exercise; and that’s a of life is alarming. Too many not just about body image. It’s costs exceed profits for most past 96 years. mean whence does no damage Americans have chosen - subcon - dangerous to our health. Imagine large employers and that corpo - We owe gratitude to the founder, Petros Tatanis, the man who arise.” The father of modern sciously if not consciously - to for a moment that obesity be - rations are beginning to recog - devoted his life and his considerable fortune to the paper. He de - medicine, Hippocrates, was a live out their lives on autopilot comes the new “norm.” Besides nize that “wellness” and disease posited, upon launching, $100,000 in the paper's name, as a guar - proponent of healthful eating and or cruise control, oblivious to the the body image question, think prevention “are the only viable antee to his readers that his paper would not fold, dying a poor hygiene for the achievement of a risks and dangers. Many people about how such a standard solutions to rising healthcare man. Tatanis was thrown out of his apartment during the Depres - healthy body. “Let food be your live in denial of their hazardous would influence the rates and costs that threaten their very ex - sion of 1929. medicine and medicine be your circumstances much like the costs of health threats such as istence.” There’s an opportunity Not only were there only seven publishers, but three of them food,” he stressed, and he wasn’t poor helpless “victim” in the diabetes, heart disease, and cer - here for promoting and leverag - served for a total of seventy seven (77) years. Our current publisher referring to super-sized fast-junk parable which contends that if tain cancers. But the audacity of ing the Cretan/Greek Diet along holds the longest record, with 32 years on his back up to now. food. This ageless advice applies you put a frog in a pot of boiling hope still exists in people push - with a healthy lifestyle that is Often people ask us what the future of the paper will be. "Who today as much if not more than water, it will jump out, but if you ing the Wellness Revolution. grounded in the traditional knows?" we respond. And frankly, our faith in predicting the future, it did in . Yet, in put it in a pot of cold water and There’s the English chef, restau - Greek village way of life. or relying on so- called experts, is nonexistent. so-called “developed” nations turn up the heat until the water rateur, and media personality, Here is what we believe, for both of our National Herald pub - with all of the benefits that reaches the boiling point, the Jamie Oliver, known as The Dr. Pattakos, author of lishing company’s newspapers: What we do today determines our progress has afforded them, the frog will stay in the water until Naked Chef, who has been cam - Prisoners of Our Thoughts, is future. And so, if we continue to do our job well, if we continue to costs of enlightenment have also it boils – just like a lot of people paigning vigorously against the co-founder of a business earn your trust every day, then we are certain that you will continue skyrocketed. No longer living today who make poor decisions use of processed foods in schools. initiative based on Greek to support us. from and in harmony with the about their eating and health. A He is known for his American culture. Readers may contact The only real question is, in what form will the content of our land, we seem more content to recent article entitled Many television series, Jamie Oliver’s him at: [email protected] news stories be delivered. Our answer to this question is that we always adapt to new technologies, as evidenced by our website. Thus what we can promise is this: We will continue to do what - COMMENTARY ever it takes to preserve the relationship of trust that exists between ourselves and you, the readers of both editions. Because there is nothing more important than that. To Win Back the Philhellenes, Root Out the Vassals

It’s not the forecast... brother One of the most interesting Point graduate and country’s supposed that country and agree to favor - aspects of the Greek War of In - relative of the na - allies are selling able terms without selling off the dependence is the role played by tion’s first president, their aid at a steep country. Meanwhile, if the Greeks The skies were blue after all. Who doubted they would be? the Philhellenes – a wonderfully George Washington. price, with the In - stop throwing yogurt at the gov - Don’t we know by now that the weathermen flip coins, except our romantic and astoundingly brave Other well known ternational Mone - ernment’s top ministers, and redi - own Nick Gregory? Did the smiling children who marched up Fifth group, who were so enthralled men such as George tary Fund and Eu - rect their anger to the lowly Par - Avenue think it was going to rain? It wouldn’t have mattered. They with the struggle of the Greek Jarvis of New York or ropean Union liamentarians who keep the are our sunshine, though the Evzones always add to the day’s bril - people to regain their freedom Dr. Samuel Gridley demanding the leaders in power by rubber liance. that they exposed themselves to Howe, (perhaps the government im - stamping their decisions, maybe Our pride also swelled as society after society, parish after parish all kinds of peril, sacrificed best-known Ameri - poverish the citi - some good can come out of all marched past us, demonstrating Hellenism’s dynamism in America, wealth, prominence, health, - can Philhellene) also zenry and hold a this. If enough Greeks held these but we were also pleased that participants took our annual stage sometimes even their lives – to proved themselves fire sale to appease enablers accountable, the country on Fifth Avenue seriously, and used floats and banners to send im - help Greece achieve its long- on the battlefield. by Christopher the nation’s credi - might once again taste the free - portant messages to our fellow Greeks and our American friends: awaited liberty. Among them They learned to TRIPOULAS tors. dom that Greek heroes and Phil - Macedonia is Greek! Rebuild St. Nicholas – Bravo AHEPA; Support stood a group who came from speak Greek and Special to To meet the de - hellenes lost their lives for, and our scholarship funds; Free Cyprus! Remember the Pontian (and the United States. The role that dressed in the tradi - The National Herald mands of its “sav - which politicians have placed at the Armenian) genocide and very important for the next few years American Philhellenes played in tional Greek fous - iors,” the Greek risk so many times since. As and beyond: Visit Greece. the Greek War of Independence tanella. Aiding them were per - government has decided to shut Jarvis (a/k/a Kapetan Zervos) – The latter message, which appeared on all the floats, reminds is touching and seminal. Through haps the three greatest American down schools, sell-off billions in noted in his journal: “It is the no - us of clouds that herald more serious problems than rain. The their example, Greece was able orators of the 19th Century – U.S. state assets, close hospitals, etc. blest (cause) perhaps that ever forecasts for Greece have changed, but we don’t know what to to receive hundreds of thousands Senators Daniel Webster and Last year, it didn’t even celebrate man fought for; and the Greeks... make of them. The ever more frequent suggestions that Greece of dollars (an astounding amount Henry Clay, as well as Harvard Greek Independence Day at its their conduct and their bravery, will or even should default disturb us, but as you can read in this at that time) in support for its University President Edward consular offices around the is it not an example to all the edition, top economists are saying this could be, in a way, a good cause, as well as equally ines - Everett. Through their speeches, world, lest state finances go un - world? ... Never has an object in - thing for Greece. timable moral support. The work public appeals, and opinion-mak - der by uncorking a few bottles of terested me more, never did I feel Yes, a Greek default would be heartbreaking if not shattering of researchers such as Frederiki ing articles in newspapers, more wine. However, when it comes more sincerely for my own fam - for the Greeks and us as well. Yes, Greece will rebuild and rise Pappas (Portraits of Historic than $150,000 in money, food, to participating in military exer - ily, than I did and do for the poor again, but the shame! H ntropi! American Philhellenes,) who and supplies was sent to Greece cises in Libya, Greece has no Greeks.” The running joke in Which brings us to a Greek Parade irony. You might recall that compiled valuable information from the U.S. in 1827-1828, problem offering “logistical sup - Greece nowadays is that while on these pages last year we expressed outrage over the v.i.p’s from on these Philhellenes is important through public collections! A mo - port” to the tune of $700,000 per many people would pledge their Greece who left early, wiping those smiles off the faces of the chil - for its historical significance and tion to send government support day. It’s no wonder there are few salary for the sake of the country, dren who marched past empty rows of empty seats. The Greek because it gives modern-day was defeated in Congress a year Philhellenes to be found today. most politicians would gladly delegation showed their honor this year, staying until the end on a Americans ample evidence about earlier, but the citizens outdid the The Greeks are doing their best pledge the country, for the sake cold day, but the Greek Americans abandoned the reviewing stands. Greece’s struggle for freedom. In - government by raising far larger to eradicate themselves. But if of their salary. This year, on the Who were they? Where did they go? Perhaps it’s time for the Fed - cluded among the American amounts and circumventing gov - there are some to be found, 190th anniversary of Greek In - eration to review their invitation policy. We all know many dedi - fighters who fought in Greece ernment red tape, quite an ac - they’ll likely come from Ireland, dependence, it’s time to run these cated Hellenes who should be there but somehow every year the and lost their lives is a member complishment, considering all which is fighting to get the guys out of town. Maybe then we invitation gets lost in the mail. Just like the one to the White of the American elite – William the fuss being made regarding EU/IMF to lower its outlandish could get the support of some House. Time to check those addresses. Townsend Washington, a West aid to Greece now. Today, the interest rates in bailout loans to real Philhellenes. THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011 VIEWPOINTS 11 LETTER FROM ATHENS Better to be Good than Lucky: Obama Pulls it Off

The Phony Housewives of On Friday December 18th It is only a small taken all the oxy - ground rhetorically, Secretary of 2010, a young Tunisian college exaggeration to say gen out of the ra - Defense Bill Gates laid out the graduate who could only find that eight years of tional development case against military interven - Athens: Rich and Clueless employment as a vegetable George W. Bush of foreign policy. tion. This apparently confusing push-cart vendor poured paint and his neo-cons Yet, we have just position forced the Arab world thinner over his head and set left the United seen a magnificent to the realization that they could “No one in this their bedroom!” himself ablaze in front of a po - States politically, foreign policy suc - not count on the Americans to world has ever lost which is where they lice station. Within a month the morally, financially cess. The manage - take the responsibility (and money by underes - do their best acting blaze spread from the Atlantic and militarily bank - ment of the Libyan blame) of bringing down the timating the intelli - and why they are to the Indian Oceans, from Mo - rupt in the Middle matter appears a one Arab dictator that everyone gence of the great where they are. So rocco to Oman and to almost all East. The hypocrit - stroke of genius. It wanted to be rid of. This res - masses of the plain did Greeks tune the countries in between. ical exhortations was a brilliant, if onated especially loudly in people.” them out and turn ’s President became the for democracy jux - by AMb. PATRICK N. rather messy, per - . Our seeming inaction - H. L. Mencken them off? More first Arab dictator to succumb, taposed with the THEROS formance adapting also forced our European allies than 600,000 view - fleeing to Saudi Arabia after a reality of support to the realities of a to come face to face with the re - May 9 is the 50th ers in a country of month of protests. But the real for cruel dictators Special to broken American ality that their inaction would anniversary of Fed - 11 million people transformation took place in and Israel’s occupa - The National Herald treasury and badly release their own worst night - eral Communica - tuned in to the first Egypt on January 25th when tion destroyed the overstretched mare, a tsunami of refugees tions Commission by ANDy show to watch Husni Mubarak, Egypt’s ruler of good opinion in which we were armed forces. For the first time from into Europe. Chairman Newton DAbILIS women so vapid 33 years, resigned quietly. Egypt held for two centuries. Our ill- since the end of World War II, Unable to hide behind the Minow’s now-fa - they make Paris has now embarked on an admit - conceived and badly executed the Obama-Clinton-Gates team US, the Arab League appealed mous speech to the Special to Hilton look like tedly uncertain path towards operations in Iraq and forced others to stand up and to the UN Security Council to National Association The National Herald Madame Curie and government accountable to its crippled the Amer - take responsibility. Letting vote a no-fly zone - a eu - of Broadcasters in whose ambition people. History will treat ican military and undermined Qaddafi crush the Libyan rebel - phemism for military action to which he called television a “vast was to land a rich husband or ca - Mubarak more kindly than the our diplomatic clout. The col - lion was incompatible with US bring down Qaddhafi - and pres - wasteland,” although it’s forgot - reer. They are perfect candidates other despots; he withdrew lapse of the world economy pre - interests throughout the region. sured Russia and to not ten that he also said: “When tele - for the remake of Dawn of the from office before too much cipitated by the American bank - Pious homilies supporting the exercise their veto. Before the vision is good, nothing – not the Dead, in which female zombies bloodshed engulfed Egypt. His ing system threatens to turn us rebels, unsupported by real ac - ink dried on the UN Resolution theater, not the magazines or are still walking around inside a downfall, more importantly, into a dependency on what we tion, did make us look uncer - authorizing military action, newspapers – nothing is better.” shopping mall trying to buy opened the floodgates to Revo - once called the Third World. To tain. But a unilateral and pre - French warplanes smashed Qad - Programs such as HBO’s The So - shoes. The reviews have been - lution. Traveling in the region be fair to Bush, the Obama Ad - mature American military dhafi’s tanks attacking Beng - pranos and Curb Your Enthusi - expectedly and typically - sav - recently, I heard the same re - ministration has also allowed it - intervention would have given hazi, rolling into battle ahead asm prove that, as do other dra - aging. TV critics have said the frain: Arab citizens no longer self to be so distracted by do - ammunition to Obama’s domes - of the US! Despite the whining mas such as The Wire, a gritty show is insulting at a time of un - fear their governments! As of mestic concerns and, especially, tic enemies while provoking of pundits rendered clueless by police drama set in Baltimore co- precedented belt-tightening in this writing, the Arab World has by the vicious polarization of firestorms in the Arab world. the rapidly evolving situation, it written by one of Greek Amer - Greece. “The talk of money and turned upside down. Arab Gov - American politics, which has While Obama took the high appears that the application of ica’s best writers, George Pele - luxury ... raises one’s hackles par - ernments, not outsiders, went air and naval power may be all canos. When Minow gave his ticularly for someone living in to the United Nations to stop that is needed to demoralize the address, the top shows on Amer - Greece at this point in time,” said Libyan dictator Moammar Qad - dictator’s troops and give the ican television were some supe - Kathimerini daily. “Only scan - dhafi’s repression and pressured edge to the rebels. Characteris - rior dramas indeed, including the dalous blindness ... could con - China and Russia not to veto UN tically, the intellectually chal - courtroom mesmerizer Perry Ma - sider that this series has anything action. Western air and naval lenged Republican leadership in son. But Americans were watch - to do with the harsh daily life of forces intervened militarily in Washington, geared up to play ing insipid comedies such as Car Greek women,” the top-selling the internal affairs of an Arab its normal game of “gotcha” and 54, Where Are You? and The newspaper Ta Nea daily said. state with widespread Arab demanded explanations, finan - Hathaways, about a Los Angeles “These are neither real nor backing. The yearnings for cial accounting and clairvoyance family whose three children are housewives … One wonders if democracy threaten to bring of the President while not offer - chimpanzees, not to be confused the broadcasters realise that down not only key US allies ing any ideas of their own. with politicians. Minow saw the there are around a million un - such as Bahrain and but Obama is not out of the woods promise and peril of a still-emerg - employed in Greece at the mo - opponents such as Syria and yet; his administration’s notori - ing medium, but even he couldn’t ment,” it added. It predicted – . Had these words been ous inability to manage the mes - foresee when television would wrongly, you can bet - that it written two months ago, I sage may yet undermine him become a vast sewer, and that won’t be a hit. “With the eco - would have been advised to lay domestically even if the Libyan the United States - whose great nomic crisis ... a reality show on off the bottle. Equally unprece - operation succeeds. That would movies and cultural best inspire lavishness and consumerism dented, the United States has be a shame because Obama has people around the world – would seems unlikely to catch on,” the been a bystander and not a just shown us how the US can export the equivalent of televised paper said, forgetting to add this player until two weeks ago. We continue to lead the world on a human waste at the same time is an unreality show. This drivel did not anticipate the revolu - budget. cable television was creating a spreads faster than kudzu and tionary wave, though no one new wave of shows rivaling the more dangerous than Triffids and else did either. Events have The Hon. Ambassador Theros is best Hollywood movies. But then, now the franchise is headed for moved so quickly that they over - president of the U.S.-Qatar Busi - led by reality shows such as Big France, Italy, Germany, Israel and take decisions before we can ness Council. He served in the make them. However, let us U.S. Foreign Service for 36 make no mistake: the events years, mostly in the , have undermined the founda - and was American Ambassador tions of American Middle East to Qatar from 1995 to 1998. He policy. We wake up each morn - AP PHOTO/muHAmmAD muHEiSEN also directed the State Depart - ing to discover that another cru - Yemeni girls shout slogans during a demonstration demanding ment’s Counter-Terrorism cial ally finds himself on the the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Office, and holds numerous U.S. wrong side of history. Sanaa,Yemen, March 26, 2011. Government decorations. Greek America 101: My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Lessons

I have lost count how many dividual freedoms. ciality. Films of as reserved, formal and rigid. In times I have watched My Big Fat Individuals often course do not mir - this way the film promotes a Greek Wedding. Since 2002, the resort to compro - ror all of reality. particular ideal, namely accul - year of its release, I have been mise as the most They do, however, turated ethnicity as the cultural The Rich Housewives of Athens, whose lives are as empty as showing it without fail in my advantageous strat - powerfully shape model for America. It is Toula their heads. Their names don’t matter as they’re all the same. class on Greek America. I also egy to fulfill per - conceptions about who primarily exemplifies this watch the film often on my own sonal interests and the issues they por - ideal. She defies patriarchal tra - Brother, in which a group of peo - where viewers can watch to further reflect on how to best simultaneously tray. A story that dition to assert herself as a con - ple pretend not to notice televi - “elite, obnoxious socialites who present it to my students. This maintain the cohe - turned main - fident modern woman but she sion cameras following almost have nothing better to do than is a story after all that brought siveness of family. stream, Wedding still connects with ethnicity. Ac - their every move, and faking hys - throw monumental tantrums to the center of Ian is paradigmatic introduces Greek culturated ethnics represent the teria to get themselves noticed, about nothing,” as the web site national attention, and for that in this regard, a su - ethnicity to hun - golden mean between exces - the worst of television descended Celebrific put it. There seems no alone it deserves careful atten - per-nice guy. by yiorgos dreds of thousands sively traditionalist immigrants into such inanity it was beyond end to this ooze on Greek TV, tion. The Portokaloses and the THE STRANGER ANAGNOSTOU of Americans, shap - and excessively formal WASPs. poor taste – except that it sells. which also has a show in which Millers made many of us laugh. TEACHES ing public views Students are quick to recognize “When television is bad, nothing young men who’d be turned But can this light romantic com - To safeguard his Special to and sentiments to - the main point of the film, is worse,” Minow lamented. down by hookers around Omonia edy tell us anything of impor - love and salvage a The National Herald ward Greek Ameri - namely that ethnicity matters. That was before The Real Square are being set up for mar - tance about Greek America? measure of har - cans. This is why Ian finds a meaningful sense of Housewives series that showed a riage by their mothers – usually Does this blockbuster matter to mony within the ethnic family, Aliki Efstathiou bitterly com - community in it, Windex at parade of brainless twits frolick - with whom they live, of course, us, and if so, in what way? The he converts to Greek Orthodoxy. plaints about the film’s portrayal hand and all. Ethnicity offers a ing through lives untouched by because Greek mothers don’t cut movie works well as a launch - He further promotes family co - of the Greeks as “vulgar, a group valuable sense of belonging that problems apart from picking out the umbilical cord when they ing-point for reflection on vari - herence by persuading his of imbeciles, and as ignorant, counterbalances the void he ex - luxury handbags and shoes, have boys. Then there’s another ous aspects of immigrant cul - beloved not to elope. Ironically, uneducated louts.” periences in life. The Millers oblivious to the Real World. in which people with financial ture. It successfully dramatizes, it is the xenos who defends Noted film critic Dan Geor - overcome their inhibitions and Americans loved to follow them problems so bad they make for instance, the tendency to dis - obligation to the ethnic family. gakas enters the discussion from join the ethnic dance, both lit - - rich, vane bourgeois housewives Greece look like play distrust toward outsiders Along these lines, the film re - a different angle, taking issue erally and figuratively. This is with nothing to do except shop - have no problem exposing them - and acceptance toward insiders. stores the authority of parents with the anachronistic portrayal the age of ethnicity, the film because many women want to selves and their inability to add. Gus, for instance, throws a to determine the place of eth - of Greek ethnicity. “The Greek loudly proclaims. It is not alone be just like them, the 21st Cen - This is why Donald Duck outsells tantrum over Ian’s status as a nicity in the lives of their chil - Americans offered in the film” in this pronouncement. It is now tury equivalent of the Sex and the Bible, and advertisers know xenos (stranger/foreigner), us - dren. In the concluding scene, are “at best fifty years out of an established fact that hyphen - the City crew whose second that crap sells. That’s the bottom ing his foreignness to oppose in - Toula emphatically admonishes date,” he rightly notes. The “ut - ated Americans enjoy great cul - movie bombed as the gals went line, not quality. It’s a miracle that ter-ethnic marriage. How could her daughter. There will be no ter banality” of the film offends tural visibility in festivals, pa - shopping in Dubai as the world SKAI TV, perhaps the best station he possibly trust a stranger as a restraints regarding whom she him. Neither can one ignore the rades, documentaries, and burned. The Real Housewives of in Greece, with intelligent news prospective son-in-law when he marries, she promises, but not film’s reception in Greece where museums. The importance of Orange County was a success and presenters and high-quality doc - knows next to nothing about attending Greek language the often-evoked term “kitsch ethnic roots has become a na - begat successors in New York umentaries, got such a huge au - this person? In contrast, recall Vardalos” captures the disdain tional pastime. There is no City, Atlanta, New Jersey, Wash - dience for its mini-series on the the overwhelming affection that of many critics. These are cred - stigma for American ethnics of ington, D.C., Beverly Hills and Greek War of Independence, the ethnic family showers upon Instead of asking what is ible reservations, serving as a European descent, who inter - Miami. None of these vacuous 1821. They really aren’t, of Ian after his baptism. The true and what is false in reminder that the film neglects marry in record numbers. And exercises were as egregiously aw - course, because they hire immi - Millers are now “family” (dhikoi to address the complexity of the the film itself enjoys a kind of ful or as ill timed as the just pre - grant cleaning ladies to clean mas), who warrant acceptance the script, I encourage group. Its story is not a true por - celebrity in education curricula. miered The Real Housewives of their toilet seats and nannies to and sharing of intimate infor - students to probe its trayal of Greek America even Lesson plans for teaching Wed - Athens, featuring six empty- take care of their children while mation. Aunt Voula has so much though some families may rec - ding to students at various levels headed beauty queens spending they’re at the mall, the hair - to explain, so much to disclose, significance:.. ognize aspects of their own lives are all over the Internet. If themselves silly as the country is dresser, or frolicking with their including the story about her in the screen. Moreover, its tight Greek America enjoys cultural going bankrupt. Whoever at the lovers at private unlawful seaside unformed twin. The tension be - school is not an option. This adherence to the conventions of cache, the question comes up Antenna television station, which clubs. The Real Housewives of tween collectivism (conformity raises an important issue, the the romantic comedy (boy inevitably: How to best tap this used to be half-decent, decided Athens are workers whose pay to cultural norms) and individ - selective retention of ethnicity. meets girl; boy and girl face ob - historical opportunity to further to roll out these six shop-a-holic has been cut while they’re trying ual freedom often comes up in Unlike village culture, where in - stacles to their romantic union; Greek America’s resonance in brainiacs whose collective IQ isn’t to help raise a family, civil ser - class discussion. Clearly, the film dividuals experience great pres - boy and girl overcome obstacles the U.S.? Is there anything in 69: former models, a fashion de - vants whose future is bleaker satirizes the immigrant patri - sure to conform to tradition, in to find true love in marriage) the film that could help us think signer, an actress, and a retired than Greece’s chances of not go - arch’s insistence that his daugh - modernity individuals actively strips it of any originality. about this challenge? I believe basketball player, breathlessly fol - ing bust, supermarket and de - ter conform to traditionalist reflect on the status quo, includ - But I also take an alternative so. But this exploration will re - lowing them as they are shown partment store clerks and gender roles. It further illus - ing the ways of their parents. I route in teaching the film. In - quire yet another essay. lounging and shuttling between cashiers who don’t have two eu - trates the power of collectivism invite students to think about stead of asking what is true and Yiorgos Anagnostou is an As - luxury homes, hip restaurants, ros to rub together, women in several instances, when for what it means to act upon tra - what is false in the script, I en - sociate Professor in the Modern shops and beauty salons, is more standing behind carts at the example it features the group’s dition. Which aspects of ethnic - courage students to probe its Greek Program, Ohio State Uni - out of touch than a Greek politi - weekly fruit and vegetable stands incredulous reaction to Ian’s ity does one wish to retain, significance: What is the pur - versity. He is the author of Con - cian. It’s enough to make you called laiki, desperation tattooed professed . If col - which to discard, and why? pose of portraying certain tours of White Ethnicity: Popu - want to throw a Jimmy Choo on their foreheads, unable to lectivism limits individual pref - Which facets of ethnicity appear groups in specific ways? Why lar Ethnography and the Making shoe at the TV screen. With all mask the sweat of fear rolling erence, the script celebrates compelling, which behaviors of - for example are immigrants car - of Usable Pasts in Greek Amer - that money, you’d think they down their noses and necks. those individuals who challenge fend, whom, and why? The ar - icatured? Why is it that the ica (Ohio University Press, could at least buy a clue. These They aren’t shopping at Rich the group’s norms. It values ticle Education of Greek Ameri - Millers are ridiculed in their 2009) hairdos– yes, four are blonde – Bitch (yes, that was the name of Toula’s initiative to break away cans for a Pluralist Society, by WASPy ways? What does the can’t spell VW but they got a the store) because they’re clean - from traditionalism. And it rel - Harry Triandis, provides a con - contrast between the unruly Yiorgos Anagnostou is an Asso - Porsche. Somebody at Antenna ing their stoves, scrubbing their ishes Nick’s aspiration to move text for class discussion. In Portokaloses and the uptight ciate Professor in the Modern who’s just as useless, put this floors, raising their children, and beyond the immigrant valuing teaching the course I carefully Millers accomplish? What is it Greek Study Program at Ohio teaser on the website to describe putting cardboard inside their of business in order to pursue address the misconceptions that that the film promotes? Clearly, State University and Modern the show and entice and enthrall shoes. That’s reality, and it’s not art. The film keeps a distance, the film may generate. I take se - the film denigrates immigrants Greek Program, The Ohio State you: “Six named housewives wel - on TV, but at least they don’t have however, from American soci - riously the misgivings of those and WASPs alike. The former University and author of Con - come us to their homes and guide to worry about ruining their mas - ety’s tendency to exalt choice. Greek American commentators are depicted as traditionalists, tours of White Ethnicity: us through the lounge, the sec - cara. Instead, it promotes the idea of who protest the negative por - patriarchal, crude, close- Popular Ethnography and the ond lounge, swimming pool, the social life as negotiation be - trayal of Greek immigrants in minded. The latter, in the figure Making of Usable Pasts in Greek endless wardrobe, but also in [email protected] tween social pressures and in - the film or criticize its superfi - of the elderly Millers, are seen America. 12 THE BACK PAGE THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 2-8, 2011 Eva Kyriazis Antholis: A Remembrance - April 6, 2010

By William and Kary that “They are Republican” as if bination of introversion and ex - Antholis they had come down with an troversion, intelligence and unfortunate, perhaps temporary, style. She loved Annika, her Mom’s world was a pretty disease. She loved drama – fiercest protector who alone was simple place – it divided into plays, movies, television shows. able to convince Mom to leave what Mom loved and what Her greatest moments as a the loneliness of her apartment Mom did not love. Mostly, she teacher were staging Greek and to move to be closer to fam - loved. Her love for family, plays with high school actors – ily. One morning, near the end, friends and faith gave shape to her sons included – where stu - when Mom was barely speak - her life and sustained her dents could feel words come to ing, she looked at Annia and through great tragedy – her fa - life. But she also loved to be in said in Greek: “She is a Kyriazis” ther’s death, her own divorce, the audience. Going to a play or (i.e. Mom’s maiden name.) And and the dimming of her memory a movie with Mom meant sitting she loved Kyri, her baby princess that dominated her last five next to a would-be member of who was a clone of her own years. Mom loved her brothers, the cast, who would take on all childhood photographs, and especially Chris, who devoted of the joy or sadness or anger who Mom would hug like a his own life to stewarding his or tension on the stage or the stuffed animal in her final days. sisters and mother. Brothers screen. Mom loved history and Mom loved God and Pete and George were equally mythology. Especially Greek his - and Panagia (mother of God.) paternal figures. When Mom tory and mythology. Mom loved In good times and bad, she al - visited George in Greece in 1991 her students. She raised a gen - ways looked to the protective – a full 40 years after the last eration of young Greek-Ameri - power of God. She read the time she had seen him – she cans – and virtual Greek-Amer - bible in Greek and in English for held his hand constantly, a small icans – first in Washington, then comfort and companionship. child scared of losing a parent in New Jersey, and then again She prayed constantly, over in a crowd. She and her sisters in Washington late in life. The sporting events, over the health were five fingers on one hand. loyalty and devotion she had for of friends and relatives, over the Mary hopeful and quiet; Nikki them, and which they returned fortunes of her children. And disciplined, loyal, and proud; to her, was her great contribu - while Mom would pray for mir - Chryssa playful, and joyous; tion in life. She poured her soul acles, prayer was more than ask - baby Evangeline, Mom’s adven - into their instruction. They ing for tangible results. Prayer turous alter-ego and eternal knew it, and remained as pas - was that place where she found friend. Mom’s nieces and sionate about her, as she was That smile, from the depths of her being, reflected the faith that enabled Eva to endure crises, meaning, and calmed herself. nephews were her own chil - about them. She devised games, raise a family and spread her love wherever she might be, in whatever role she was devoted to. Sometimes she wanted a sym - dren. Their photos covered her wrote plays, rearranged popular pathetic ear. Sometimes she apartment, their latest victories, songs, rehearsed dances …. when her beloved Mets won the triangles. Mom’s fingers worked every recipe in it. She was proud wanted a shoulder to lean on. or diplomas, or jobs, or wed - Anything to capture the atten - World Series, Mom would fall with dough and butter the that many friends had thrown Sometimes she sought answers dings filled her conversations. tion of young minds which were asleep each night with the tele - way a concert pianist worked out their own mother’s recipes or security in a world swirling Mom shared her love of family quickly being absorbed into a vision on and tuned to Channel with white and black keys, or for some items in deference to around her, a world beyond her with her friends, who them - broader American culture that 9. On those nights where she the way a heart surgeon worked her recipes. She hoarded her fi - control or understanding. When selves became family – Georgia, she herself both loved and did not make it up until the end with sutures and arteries. nal copies as if they were bars she would be upset or at wits Marina, Rita, Kristina, Kassan - feared. For certain, there were of the game, the first question (Speaking of which, Mom’s love of Fort Knox gold, and she loved end, she would repeat that God dra, Alexandra and so many parts of America Mom did not she would ask in the morning of filo dough no doubt played a to inscribe them for her friends. is Great, make the sign of the others. She loved their children like. She did not much like cars, was who had won. Later that bit part in one or two bypass Each one was like a child that cross, and assert that God would too – especially their daughters. and she hated driving on the fall, she would call her sons surgeries.) And then main she personally could share with set all things straight. It was that She taught all of them Greek, highway. While she loved stores each night of the playoffs to talk courses would appear, things to a loved one. Of course, Mom faith – along with her family and helped turn them into the and shopping and shopping about the game while it was in behold. Mom could braise a loved her sons. There is little and friends – that sustained proud and strong women that malls, she hated paying full progress. If she got an answer - lamb, roast a chicken, or bake a doubt that they were the center Mom through the three great they would all become. Mom’s price for anything. She did not ing machine, she would leave salmon in her sleep. All of those of her life. Their accomplish - crises that would have defined sons’ friends became hers. She care for non-Greek restaurants. long, laughter-filled, detailed dishes had to be served with ments were her accomplish - the life of a weaker, less-pas - loved to feed them. She would She did not share the American message of the latest Darryl potatoes or rice or bread or ments, and she had every right sionate woman. Prayer was par - ask favors, but would always re - love of vacations – the cost, the Strawberry home run, the latest meat-stuffing (replete with to take credit for all of them. ticularly important to Mom as turn the favors with grand, elab - travel, the eating of other peo - Dwight Gooden or Ron Darling chestnuts) or all of the above. She loved to tell how both boys struggled with her divorce. Usually all three main courses had read 20 books every sum - Clearly, Mom suffered deeply. would be served simultaneously, mer from the age six on. She She spent many hours, weeks on the off chance that one of was a regular – and LOUD – and months questioning her fate her guests preferred one or the presence at every baseball and seeking mercy and protec - other. And then, after three game, football game, wrestling tion for herself and her sons courses, Mom would roll out her match, lacrosse game, under - from incomprehensible forces. two masterpieces: graduate and graduate school Thanks to her faith, she also and . Nothing made ceremony, movie premier, or came out of the experience with her happier than pouring White House reception she her soul intact. It was the arrival béchamel sauce over perfectly could get to. If she had only one of the next generation that cooked eggplant and ground regret it was that her sons’ com - helped make that happen. beef. When her son Bill had the mand of the Greek language Twelve years ago, with the birth temerity to stop eating beef, was never as good as that of the and baptism of Evie, she broke Mom protested at first, and then beautiful Greek girls whom she bread and shared celebrations reverted to ground mushrooms. had taught. When Mom’s mem - in the intimate company of Dad It was not possible, you see, for ory began to fade, and her bal - and his family. her to have a son that could not ance began to fail her, she was The process of reconciliation eat moussaka. Mom’s main admitted to the hospital after had begun. After the baptism, courses always came with having fallen. To benchmark her she said that she felt a peace spinach. Spinach with garlic or grip on reality, the doctors and happiness that she hadn’t onion or both. Spanakorizo – wanted to confirm some fairly felt in years. She would travel that is, spinach sautéed with outlandish things she seemed to to California to take part in rice. She would also sauté it be saying. One of her sons had Jack’s Greek Orthodox bap - with orzo, or with tomato and won an Academy Award? Oh, tismal celebration, and again . Most of all, Mom loved to that’s true? Ok. Another son the following year to Cape Cod make spinach pie. She could worked for Bill Clinton at the for Annika’s. Mom and Dad con - sling spanakopita with anyone. White House? Oh, that’s true? versed and shared in the joy of She could make it in triangles Ok. She lives in New Jersey? Ah their grandchildren. And then as an appetizer, but her prefer - hah! We found one that’s not six years ago, on Easter Sunday, ence was to make a whole plat - true at all … or hasn’t been true Mom completed that reconcili - ter, and serve it as part of the in some years. It did not take ation. Easter also happened to main course. And just when you much to get Mom to talk about be on her son Bill’s birthday and thought you would explode, the her boys, to friends, to relatives, was about two months after the desserts would appear. Mom or to total strangers. It was her birth of his second daughter, The love of family, friends and heritage were at the heart of Eva’s life, seen here with her sons would cook to the audience, and favorite subject, and she loved Kyri. Mom encouraged inviting William (Bill) and Kary A. Music, movies, politics, cooking and sports were also important. provide a little something for to chat about their accomplish - Dad. For that amazing weekend, everyone. One son’s favorite was ments for hours. all sleights and sins were for - orate, never-ending dinners. ple’s foods, the sleeping in other pitching performance. After the galatobouriko – her version of She loved her daughters-in- given, and the celebration of life She followed their professional people’s beds. Still, Mom was miraculous, come-from-behind custard (wrapped in filo, of law. It was no secret to anyone – the next generation, a son’s and romantic lives, and they too no xenophobe. She loved Amer - win over the Red Sox, her mes - course.) Her grandkids loved that when her sons were young, birthday, and Christ’s eternal became family. Mom rarely dis - ica, and was proud to be born sage lasted a full three minutes. her cookies: and Mom was always on the lookout resurrection – was paramount. liked people, but she was willing to American citizens, and that Over a decade later, she relived . Others liked her for a nice Greek girl for them to Mom addressed her own to take down anyone who two of her brothers had served those joys with the Yankees, bread-like, honey-soaked al - marry. But as her sons fell in memory loss with the same crossed her family or her in the U.S. army. who she had come to love as mond cakes and cookies love, she was not only accepting sense of faith, optimism and friends. She could curse like a She loved American music well. She worried through and (karithopeta.) But Mom’s own of their decisions, but seized pride. To the end, she was ex - sailor – in Greek and in English. and musicians, movies and reveled in each World Series personal favorite to make and upon her daughters-in-law as tremely proud, rarely acknowl - In fact, Mom had a secret love movie stars, politics and politi - win and suffered each loss. to eat was baklava. She took the daughters she never had. edging that she was confused, of cursing, and especially if a cians, sports and athletes. She When watching another great special pleasure in watching She saw in them those parts of and feigning that she knew loved-one had been crossed, or simply held them all to the high - playoff game – the Yankees ver - people bite into her baklava. her that her sons no doubt also where she was or what was go - had their heart broken, or was est standards. Were they as sus the Red Sox, game 7, 2003 She had a gift for combining filo saw: their joy for life, for laugh - ing on when she clearly did not. shown disrespect at church, or smart as Aristotle or Plato? Were – Mom had lined up on and nuts and honey in a way ter, for politics, for drama, for But in quiet moments, she con - not promoted at work. The poi - they as clever and persistent as the top of the television set, and that kept the filo crisp, the nuts friends, for family, for food and fided that she was aware of son words would well up and Ulysses? As brave and strong as sat with all her fingers crossed crunchy, and the honey sweet for cooking. And most of all, she what was happening, but under - come spewing out. Mom could Hercules? As elegant as Sopho - on both hands, and the thumbs and smooth and soft. When go - loved them for the grandchil - stood that it was a natural part invent foul words – in Greek cles? Or more recently, as rich crossed with one another, link - ing to a restaurant, Mom would dren that they brought her. She of God’s world. “Gheramata,” and English – and they would as Onassis? As powerful in voice ing her two hands. When the always order the baklava just to loved her namesake Evanthia she would say. Old Age. And fly like darts from her lips, al - as ? As good an ath - Yankees fell behind, she exiled see whether it was better than (fragrance of a flower was while her condition often left ways hitting bulls-eye. Mom lete as Greg Louganis? As beau - a son into the other room, as hers. It never was. Mom’s translation). Evie was her scared and lonely, it never loved the Greek language. She tiful as Jennifer Aniston or as she judged him to have been She was terribly proud of her truly the daughter Mom never stopped her from finding joy in loved how it was built on a se - smooth and smart as George bad luck, responsible for their cookbook, authored with her had. She loved Evie’s wit and – and bringing joy to – those ries of simple words –roots and Stephanopoulos? Mom loved poor play. As the Yankees dear friend Georgia Zamis, and her determination, and saw in around her. To a person, her prefixes and suffixes connected John Wayne and Frank Sinatra climbed back into the game, she published by the Church and her a kindred spirit with a pas - caregivers found in her a bril - and disconnected like toy train and Merryl Streep and Al Pacino would run into the other room sold at the annual Greek festival sion for language and ideas. She liant smile, a ceaseless desire to cars. She loved how little words and Catherine Hepburn and to describe what had just hap - for at least a decade. She was loved Jack as the fusion of her share a hug and kiss, and a love like poli, logos, sophia, eco, ego, Henry Fonda. She grew to love pened, and then run back into proud to have tested and tasted son and herself – the sweet com - that knew no bounds. nomos, proto, philo, genia, Johnny Cash and Bruce Spring - her own room to watch her own demos, and zoë could be mixed steen. No doubt, many of the -adorned TV. and matched and turned into American things she loved were Mom did not hate the Red the words that have come to de - things that her sons happened Sox. She mostly felt sorry for fine our civilization. Anthropol - to love. Of course, Mom loved them. When they finally won ogy was human plus logic. Ecol - the Olympics – and loved the the World Series, she thought it ogy was household plus logic. Americans. Not just Louganis. only fair. After all, Mom loved Economia was household plus Bruce Jenner and Dwight the underdog. (For the record, rules. Philosophy was friend Stones and Mark Spitz and Eric though, she was not fond of Kurt plus wisdom. Protozoa was first Hayden and Mary Lou Retton Schilling. He is a Republican.) plus life. Prologue was first plus and Peggy Flemming and Joan Mom loved cooking – which was logic. In fact, several of those Benoit. She loved that they really another way to love her words were some of her favorite came from everywhere, that friends and family. Whether subjects. She loved politics. She they were all so attractive, and cooking for two, four, or 40, loved Democrats of all kinds, always so optimistic. She called Mom’s kitchen was Fantasia, and while it was purely coinci - them by their first names, and and she the sorcerer’s appren - dental that “Democrat” comes treated them as though they tice…with a smile. Food flew from a Greek word and Repub - were her students. When the out of her refrigerator and stove lican from a , for her it Olympics went back to Athens like brooms, infinitely dividing. would have been a happy coin - in 2004, she took special pride Dinner guests went from being cidence. She worshipped the in having taught Greek to some delighted, to being full, to being Kennedies – especially John and Americans that were going to overwhelmed. Upon arrival, fa - Jackie. Mom mourned each suc - work at the games. She felt per - vorites like egg-lemon-chicken cessive Kennedy death as if they sonally responsible for the soup (avgolemono,) or delica - were family. She loved Bill Clin - games’ success. And since her cies such as fish-roe spread ton, and more than that she students were media advisors to () would immedi - loved Hillary Clinton. the Greek organizers, in a sense ately appear. Then there was al - Mom was not as fond of Re - she really had succeeded. Mom ways salad, and always feta publicans, except those whom loved baseball – first the Mets cheese on the salad. Next, her she knew personally and who (short for Metropolitans … yes, own favorite appetizers would she loved as friends … though Greek again), and then the Yan - appear, starting with tiropetes – Eva poured her soul into teaching her students in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., working she would sometimes whisper, kees. In the summer of 1986, cheese-filled filo pies, usually in to mould them into human beings, just as if they had been her own children, nieces or nephews.