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Inner Circle By Constantine S. Sirigos idea. Thousands of years later it TNH Staff Writer remains one of the greatest gifts Greece has given to the world,” By Constantine S. Sirigos WASHINGTON, DC – President he said. TNH Staff Writer Barack Obama welcomed Greek- The president greeted the in - Americans to the White House vited guests with “Kalispera! Wel - NEW YORK – When Bill de Bla - on April 4 for a celebration of come to the White House,” and sio, New York’s new Mayor, wel - Greek independence, and “the proceeded to acknowledge the comed the Greek-American deep connection, and deep affec - Greek-American achievement in community to the annual cele - tion, that has always drawn the United States. bration of Greek Independence Greece and America together, “Over the years Greek-Ameri - at Gracie Mansion, he looked and I know Joe [Biden] conveyed cans have had a profound effect around for his Director of Inter - that affection when he spoke to on this nation, shaping our cities, governmental Affairs who has Prime Minister Samaras yester - and our culture… and when we already established a reputation day.” come together to celebrate Greek for self-effacement. The president was referring to independence we can all be “Where is Emma Wolfe; the Vice President’s April 3 tele - Greek for a day,” he said. where is she hiding?” He called phone call to Greek Prime Minis - He also said that his recent her “The Greeks’ secret ter Antonis Samaras. Biden told trip to Europe “was a chance to weapon,” but he didn’t need any the guests that he and Samaras reaffirm the bonds between the weapons because he disarmed discussed a number of issues. United States and all of Europe, the gathering with his knowl - “I also told him he is moving and Greece is at the heart of that edge and admiration for Hel - in the right direction…as you partnership, and declared, “that’s lenism and the community. know throughout history Greece why as Greeks continue to work The guests were also im - has overcome every challenge, to return to growth and eco - pressed by his appreciation for with that trait I mentioned ear - nomic prosperity, the United the fourth-generation Greek- President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and Archbishop Demetrios lier: courage, the key to freedom American with roots in Mani, address 400 Greek-Americans in the Blue Room of the White House on Greek Independence. and democracy, that audacious Continued on page 5 and it was clear it went beyond gratitude for the major role Wolfe played in getting him elected Public Advocate in 2008 and as his Deputy Campaign Impressive New England Greek Parade manager for Mayor in 2012. Capitalnewyork.com has written that “He counts her By Theodore Kalmoukos great respect and love for Evzones Guard, which belongs among one of his most-trusted Boston’s Greek-American com - to the Federation of the Hellenic aides.” BOSTON, MA – Beneath a pure munity,” adding that he went to American Societies of New Eng - Wolfe brings a brand of en - blue sky and covered with sun - school with many people of land. ergy and dedication to public shine, thousands of marchers Greek descent. Police Commis - The marchers paused for a service, and a love for her family and spectators enjoyed the 20th sioner Bill Evans was also pre - moment to acknowledge Mayor and appreciation for the values Greek Parade presented by the sent and spoke to TNH very Walsh, Federation President they transmitted and examples Hellenes of New England on highly about the Boston’s Greek- Ioannis Rammos, Metropolitan they set for her that was very April 6. At the head of the Pa - Americans, stating that “it is a Methodios of Boston, Greece’s familiar to people at the cele - rade was Boston’s new Mayor, happy day, all my good friends Ambassador to the U.S. Christos bration. Marti J. Walsh, who praised the from the Greek Community are Panagopoulos, and Ifigenia Ka - Asked what she learned from Greek-American community here so I am happy to be here.” nara, the Consul General of her parents that helped her, when he spoke to TNH. The Parade began at 1PM, Greece in Boston. Walsh said “I am so proud for led by the police motorcycle Continued on page 8 this day and the parade…I have corps and the Greek-American Continued on page 4

tnh/CostAs BeJ Terrorists Bomb Bank of Greece; No one is Hurt Hamptons Church Christens Zoullas Center (L-R) Fr. Constantine Lazarakis, Fr. Alexander Karloutsos, Arch - By Andy Dabilis bishop Demetrios, and Archdeacon Panteleimon Papadopoulos TNH Staff Writer help Nicholas S. Zoullas and his children, Andrew, Winston, and Diana, cut the ribbon of the Nicholas S. Zoullas Hellenic ATHENS – Hours after an ap - Center of the Dormition of Mary. Related story on page 7. parent terrorist-planted car bomb exploded outside a main office of the Bank of Greece, the country returned to the sover - eign bond market for the first Greek Bond Market Return time since seeking international bailouts in 2010. The attack caused damage Seen as Election Maneuver but no injuries, and government officials said while it seemed to be a message from those TNH Staff Ralph Atkins wrote that, “The ur - seething about the country’s gent wish is that a successful pi - economic crisis that it didn’t ATHENS- While the Greek gov - lot Greek bond market issue work. ernment trumpeted the sale of a boosts confidence, highlights im - The government hailed the three-billion euro five-year sov - pressive progress in reforming issuance of a five-year 3-billion ereign bond, the first since in public finances and encourages euro ($4.15 billion) bond at 2010, as proof the economy is further foreign investment.” 4.95 percent interest as proof of recovering from a deep reces - But, he added: “Not uncoin - a burgeoning comeback and re - sion, it has also been seen as a cidentally it could rally support newed investor interest. gimmick to win votes for the rul - for Antonis Samaras, prime min - “The evident target of the at - ing New Democracy Conserva - ister, ahead of May’s European tackers is to change this image, tives ahead of next month’s crit - elections.” and change the agenda,” gov - ical elections for Greek New Democracy is trailing the AP Photo/ Petros GiAnnAkouris ernment spokesman Simos municipalities and the European major opposition Coalition of the Police bomb disposal experts place plastic sheeting over the remains of a car bomb that exploded Parliament. in central Athens on Thursday. The bomb exploded outside a Bank of Greece building. Continued on page 11 Financial Times columnist Continued on page 11 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014

GREEKS AROUND THE US GOINGS ON...

n THru MAY 1 hope you will join us to cele - BOSTON, MA – Boston Univer - brate Greek Easter! Olympiacos, in Chicago, Celebrates Hellenism sity is currently accepting appli - cations for the 2014-2015 Eleni n APrIL 22 Gatzoyiannis Scholarship MANHATTAN – The Association By Anthe Mitrakos Olympiacos Soccer School through May 1. The scholarship of Greek American Professional Chicago during the Parade. is available to full-time under - Women (AGAPW) is pleased to CHICAGO, IL – Members of Celebrating with Chicago’s graduate and graduate students invite you to their Conversation Olympiacos F.C. visited Chicago Diaspora community, Dourekas of Greek birth or ancestry who with Women Leaders Series fea - on Greek Independence Day Pa - and Issa participated in the rais - have completed at least one se - turing Oscar and Golden Globe rade weekend to attend festivi - ing of the Greek flag at Daley mester at Boston University, are award winning actress Olympia ties and scout out the city in ad - Plaza in commemoration of in good academic standing, and Dukakis. Discussion will be mod - vance of their Guinness Greek Independence Day. The demonstrate financial need. To erated by film director Stavroula International soccer match team continued their tour with apply, eligible students must com - Toska. Tuesday, Apr. 22 , 6- against Liverpool F.C. this sum - the Olympiacos celebrities pay - plete a two-page application and 9:00PM at The World Bar at the mer. ing a visit to the Deerfield-based write a short essay. To obtain an Trump Tower, 845 United Na - “The mere participation of Hellenic American Academy, Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship tions Plaza (First Avenue, corner our club in the International where they recounted their pro - electronic application, contact of 48th Street) in Manhattan. Champions Cup to be held in fessional soccer experiences to Liberty Collom, Senior Assistant Minimum suggested donation the United States of America some 200 students. Director BU Financial Assistance, $75. Special appetizers and open next summer is a huge thing in As guests of honor at the In - via email at [email protected]. In bar offering wine, beer, and re - its own right,” states the team’s dependence Day gala held at the advance of the May 1 deadline, freshments. Please RSVP at official website olympiacos.org. Chateau Ritz in Niles, the completed applications should be www.agapw.org. Preregistration Competing in the U.S., Olympiacos group promoted returned to Liberty Collom via e- is required by April 20. There Olympiacos will join some of the their upcoming match with a mail, postal mail or hand-delivery will be no admittance without world’s top European football video presentation. At the event, to the BU Financial Assistance, pre-registration. For further in - teams including Manchester Nikopolidis and Georgatos each 881 Commonwealth Avenue, formation, please contact Dr. United, Manchester City, and handed over signed jerseys to Boston, MA 02215. Olga Alexakos at 917-405-6833 Real Madrid. A team delegation His Eminence Metropolitan or [email protected]. consisting of Olympiacos sports Iakovos, and Anna Housakos, n APrIL 12 director Pierre Issa, and this year’s Parade President. MANHATTAN – Be Greek. Get n APrIL 30 Olympiacos team manager Kuri - The Olympiacos group visit Literary. Have fun. The Greek- MANHATTAN – The 2014 An - akos Dourekas, visited Chicago was particularly exciting for the Members of the Olympiacos Soccer School Chicago participate American Writers Association nual Career & Internship Fair will and New York to prepare for the students and staff of the local in the city's 2014 Greek Independence Day Parade. will rain an April shower of ex - take place on Wednesday, Apr. event’s organization and accom - soccer school chapter, co- traordinary talent presenting: 30 4:30-7PM at the Holy Trinity modation. founded in 2012 by John Kos - the right way from a player de - tional Team player Nikos Mirt - Nicholas Samaras, award win - Cathedral Center Ballroom, 337 Former Olympiacos players mas. velopment standpoint,” said sekis, currently instruct over 80 ning poet, author of the new E. 74th Street in Manhattan. Job Grigoris Georgatos and Antonios “Olympiacos has always been Kosmas, director of operations enrolled children on the basics American Psalm, World Psalm; seekers should come with their Nikopolidis, who served as goal - the team I followed in Greece, at the school. and tricks of European football Dean Kostos, outstanding poet, resume. Company representa - keeper on the Greek National and as I grew up in Chicago, As Olympiacos’ first official playing. Students adhere to the critic, author of Rivering and the tives can discuss career and in - Team when Greece won the Euro one of the things I wanted to do U.S.-based program, Olympia - team’s guidelines and wear upcoming This Is Not a Sky - ternship opportunities. Spon - Cup in 2004, also visited the city, was to provide training with the cos Soccer School Chicago’s four sport club uniforms. Olympiacos scraper; and Stephan Morrow, sored by Cyprus-U.S. Chamber of marching alongside members of ability for kids to learn soccer coaches, including former Na - has academies in Greece, actor, writer, director of the New Commerce and The Cyprus Cyprus, and Australia as well, American Play Series and author Young Professionals, in coopera - while Chicago’s training facili - of the prize-winning travel tion with the American Hellenic ties include The Odeum in Villa memoir, Amorgos. Saturday, Institute NY, Hellenic American Park, Maine East High School in April 12, Cornelia Street Café, Bankers Association, Hellenic Niles, and Frontier Park in 29 Cornelia Street between American Lawyers Association, Naperville. Bleecker and West 4th Streets in and Hellenic Organizations of “We’re basically staying true Manhattan. Subways A, C, E, B, University Graduates of America. to player development and that D, M to West 4th St. or 1 to Admission is free. Companies in - was a major reason we started,” Christopher St. 6-8 p.m. $8 ad - terested in participating, please Kosmas said. “Having the back - mission includes a glass of wine, contact: Despina Axiotakis (201) ing of a major European soccer beer or soft drink. 444-5609 or email: team behind you adds to the ex - [email protected] perience of both the players and n APrIL 15 – DEADLINE . the staff,” he added. WASHINGTON, DC – The Amer - Olympiacos F.C. will play ican Hellenic Institute Founda - n MAY 1 against Liverpool F.C. at Soldier tion (AHIF) is accepting appli - MANHATTAN – The Hellenic Field in Chicago on July 27th cations for its travel abroad American Bankers Association for the Guinness International program AHIF College Student (HABA) requests the honor of Champions Cup. Tickets for the Foreign Policy Study Trip to your presence for our 32nd An - game are available online. For Greece and Cyprus (June 18- niversary, honoring KPS Capital more information on Olympia - July 4) aimed to help Greek- Partners Co-Founder and Co- cos F.C., visit olympiacos.org. American college students better Managing Partner Michael G. For more information on the understand the core foreign pol - Psaros at the 2014 Executive of Olympiacos Soccer School in icy issues important to the Greek the Year Award Dinner, Thurs - Former Olympiacos F.C. team members Grigoris Georgatos and Antonios Nikopolidis march Chicago, visit olympia - American community. During day, May 1 at the Union League with students and members of the Olympiacos Soccer School at Independence Parade. coschicago.com. the two-week trip to Washington Club, 38 E. 37th Street in Man - DC, Greece, and Cyprus the stu - hattan. Registration $200 HABA dents will have the opportunity Members, $300 guests. For ad - to see and experience first-hand ditional information, please con - foreign policy issues affecting tact [email protected]. 100 Years ago: the Black Easter Massacres and Deportations Greece and Cyprus, their rela - tions with the U.S., and the in - n MAY 2 terests of the U.S. in the region. TENAFLY, NJ – A benefit concert By Ted Pastrinidis and cians, and Pontians. April 6th, rates not only the Genocide of we urge all Thracian Associa - For more information and appli - to feed the needy in Greece The Ioannis Fidanakis or as it was referred to in 1914 Thracian Hellenism, but the be - tions, worldwide, to unite and cation: http://ahiworld.org/for- Hellenic Relief Foundation in co- “Black Easter,” commemorates ginning of the Ottoman Greek launch a coordinated effort to students/policy-trip.html. operation with the community A hundred years ago, our an - the deportations and massacres Genocide, as a whole. force the Greek State to fully of the Greek Orthodox Metro - cestors were forced to endure that initiated in Thrace, and We honor the victims, from recognize April 6th, with the n APrIL 16 politan Cathedral of St John The the 20th century’s first Holo - later spread to Asia Minor and all effected regions, more than same respect as May 19th. 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CHICAGO, IL – Erika Wilhelmine a time even before she was born. she met an engineering student per. The Spyropoulos family was Knickmann Spyropoulos has been Her scenes convey a host of emo - from Greece. One glance from about to grow: their daughter appointed by Illinois Governor tions and moods: romantic, play - across the room was enough to Mariyana, now an elected official Patrick Quinn as a Commissioner ful, melancholic, panoramic to spark a romance that shines in Chicago, was born in Germany of the Illinois Arts Council (IAC). riveting in her portrayal of strik - bright to this day. “At the end of while Ted finished his military The agency is governed by up to ing figures from an ancient past; the evening, he brought me service. The young Spyropoulos twenty-one private citizens cho - mythical portraits of characters home, kissed my hand, and said family decided it was time for sen for their demonstrated com - frozen in time, the sea and its good night, never to be seen new opportunities and headed to mitment to the arts and ap - beauty melded with myth, fantasy again. Several weeks later, as fate America to join some of Ted’s pointed by the Governor. Council and color. There are also Greek would have it, we again saw each family in Chicago. members serve in a voluntary, themes which stem from her mar - other back at the Latin Club. This In the United States, they Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist, addressed a conference non-paid capacity and are riage to entrepreneur Theodore time was going to be different; I started a small petroleum com - on youth unemployment convened by the Stavros Niarchos charged with developing the Spyropoulos. Both are striking fig - had no plans of letting him get pany that grew to become T.G.S. Foundation in NY. SNF official Stelios Vasilakis is at left. state’s public arts policy, fostering ures worthy of capturing on the away. We ended up dating for Petroleum, a company manufac - quality culturally diverse pro - portraits she draws. several months until he proposed turing petroleum products for grams, and approving grants ex - Erika was born in Stroebitz, and we moved to Hamburg.” companies that included CITGO penditures. The mission of the south of Berlin, and grew up in They were wed at a simple and Marathon Petroleum Corpo - Niarchos Foundation Hosts Council is to build a strong, cre - Kaltenkirchen, a small town north civil ceremony at Hamburg City ration, Clark Products, and ative, and connected Illinois through the arts. Unemployment Conference “Erika is a renowned Chicago artist and philanthropist whose On April 3rd and April 4th on both sides of the Atlantic, commitment to serving others is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation with the Peterson Institute for In - admirable,” pointed out Patrick convened an international con - ternational Economics in a lead - Quinn in his message to mark the ference on youth unemploy - ing role, brought together lead - occasion of Erika’s recognition by ment in New York, Recharging ing labor economists, as well as the Federation of Hellenic Edu - the Youth: An International Con - experts in the areas of agricul - cators and the Hellenic American ference on the Global Youth Un - ture, entrepreneurship and cul - Women’s Council, last May in employment Crisis and the Need ture/tourism for the purpose of New York. “The Greek commu - for Collective Action, bringing proposing new analytically nity in Chicago has long been an together economists, policy grounded initiatives to address essential part of the city’s vibrant makers, foundations, NGOs, youth unemployment. The goal cultural landscape, and Greek government officials and busi - was to bring on the table ideas Americans have made significant nesspeople to debate and ana - unconstrained by supposed po - social, cultural and economic con - lyze action-oriented collabora - litical limitations, and to use the tributions to the growth of Illinois tion on dealing with youth conference and sustained follow- over the years.” unemployment. up to create practical pilot pro - “My appointment at the Illi - The conference was part of grams in Greece that can be used nois Art Council is a great honor the Recharging the Youth initia - as proof of concept, and then im - and I will do my best for this mag - tive which the Foundation an - plemented on a larger scale there nificent opportunity to highlight Erika Wilhelmine Knickmann Spyropoulos, seen above with husband Ted and daughter nounced in October 2013, com - and in other economies facing the importance of art in our lives”, Mariyana, has been appointed as a Commissioner of the Illinois Arts Council (IAC). mitting a long-term grant of high youth unemployment. says Mrs. Spyropoulos. “Art imi - €100 million towards helping Speeches, audiovisual mate - tates and inspires life. It gives peo - of Hamburg. She is a descendant Hall. “There was no white dress, CAM2. They sold part of the com - create new opportunities for rial, and more information ple the chance to explore their of the mid-nineteenth-century no reception or sentimental vows. pany and its assets to U.S. World Greece’s younger generations, about the conference will be imaginative side, enhances cul - poet and writer Theodor Storm. I wore my own handmade suit, Fuel Services and still retain part which are severely impacted by available online soon, in both tural appreciation and awareness, By the end of the Second World had a run in my stockings, and of their wholesale distribution ac - the country’s current alarming English and Greek. connects us all and makes our War her talents had blossomed– do not even have a picture of that tivities. unemployment rate. lives more beautiful. I believe that her appreciation of art, music special day.” He worked at the Success has provided time to The Foundation in collabora - [From the Stavros Niarchos there is a hidden artist inside all drawing, embroidery, knitting Hamburg post office until he got spend on other interests, sports, tion with a number of partners Foundation website, snf.org] of us. One of my priorities will be and sewing would serve her the call to go back to Greece to gardening, reading and painting. to promote the Hellenic American throughout her life. She then serve in the Navy at the large Erika’s work can be found in pri - Art and Culture.” went to Hamburg to study fash - shipyard installation at Skara - vate and corporate collections ABOUT SPYROPOULOS ion, design, architecture, and mangas; she moved in with his throughout the U.S., Australia, For Erika Wilhelmine Knick - painting at the prestigious Meis - family. “I did not speak Greek, nor Europe, and, of course, Greece. mann Spyropoulos, art and phil - terschule fuer Mode in Hamburg. could they understand German She was awarded the prestigious anthropy represent sharing one - Family friends in Sweden invited or English. I never enjoyed so Bicentennial Art Award for a self and are lifelong expressions her to visit and stay. There, she many Indian love stories in the mural depicting the “Spirit of of giving back to a world that pro - earned a living teaching German open air movie theatre or 1776” and her work has been fea - vided her with a stage to reflect to young people and painted by shopped at so many colorful mar - tured at the Beverly Art Center, and share. night; neutral Sweden had been kets as I did while in Greece.” Gold Coast Art Fair, and other Spyropoulos’s art is a glimpse lightly touched by the war and The walled garden filled with venues. Exhibits showcasing her of a profound and meaningful Stockholm was a magical place fruit trees and a tiny old hut work include the Southwest Area world opposite the personal dev - for young adults. served as a backdrop for Erika’s Cultural Arts Council, Australian astation surrounding her during When not working she and painting and craftwork. She be - Exhibition Center, the Treasury in the nascent stage of her life grow - her friends would frequent many gan to teach again but also took Chicago, and Kourd Gallery in Present at “Recharging the Youth: An Int’l Conference on the ing up in war-torn Germany. Just of the popular Bohemian night lessons herself to learn the Greek Athens. She and her husband are Global Youth Unemployment Crisis,” were (L-R) Andreas Dra - as the physical canvas draws on spots. A favorite was the Latin language–and cooking. Ted was also very active with many phil - copoulos, SNF, Co-President, Amb. Vassilis Kaskarelis, Senior paint to form that expression, her Club, a haunt of artists and young transferred to a desk job in Athens anthropic endeavors benefiting Advisor to the SNF Board, and Olga Kefalogianni, Greece’s art draws from a well spring of people seeking to distance them - and moonlighted at the Athens the Greek community in the U.S. Minister of Tourism. life experiences that date back to selves from the past. It’s here that Courier, a small German newspa - and Greece.

grEEK OrTHODOx CHurCH Congratulations to the Spanakos twins, Petros and Nikos, ST. NICHOLAS 196-10 northern Blvd., Flushing, ny 11358 - tel.: (718) 357-4200 on being included in the inaugural class of the HOLY WEEK AND PASCHAL SErVICES 2014 New York Daily News golden gloves Hall of Fame orthros 7:30 a.m. • Divine liturgy 8:30 a.m.

Οrthros 6:45 a.m. 1st Divine liturgy ( main sanctuary) 7:45 a.m. 2nd Divine liturgy ( sarantakos hall) 9:30 a.m. 3rd Divine liturgy ( main sanctuary) 10:15 a.m. SErVICE OF THE NYMPHIOS 7:00 p.m.

Pre-sanctified liturgy 8:00 a.m. SErVICE OF THE NYMPHIOS 7:30 p.m.

Pre-sanctified liturgy 8:00 a.m. • lΕΝΤΕΝ suPP er 6:00 p.m. SErVICE OF THE NYMPHIOS 7:30 p.m

Pre-sanctified liturgy 8:00 a.m. HOLY uNCTION 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

1st Divine liturgy ( main sanctuary) 6:00 a.m. 2nd Divine liturgy ( sarantakos hal l) 7:00 a.m. 3rd Divine liturgy ( main sanctuary) 8:15 a.m. (holy Communion will be administered only at the appropriate time at each Divine liturgy) THE SErVICE OF THE HOLY PASSION 6:45 p.m.

royal hours 8:30 a.m. • Descent from the Cross 3:00 p.m. trisagion for departed 6:30 p.m. THE LAMENTATIONS & PrOCESSION OF THE EPITAPHIOS (Church) 7:30 p.m. ( sarantakos hall) 7:30 p.m.

1st Divine liturgy ( main sanctuary) 6:00 a.m. 2nd Divine liturgy ( sarantakos hall) 7:00 a.m. 3rd Divine liturgy ( main sanctuary) 8:15 a.m. (holy Communion will be administered only at the appropriate time at each Divine liturgy) They will be officially inducted on April 17th 2014 PASCHA L VIgIL 11:00 p.m. and rESurrECTION 12 :00 midnight during the Final golden gloves event resurrection liturgy 12:30 a.m. • AgAPE SErVICE 10:30 a.m. at the Barclay's Center, Brooklyn, NY b Οrthros 8:00 a.m. • Divine liturgy 9:00 a.m. This honor follows inductions into the A.H.E.P.A. Hall of Fame,

the College of Idaho Hall of Fame, a Οrthros 8:00 a.m. • Divine liturgy 9:00 a.m. the Fort Hamilton Alumni High School Hall of Fame, and the Fort Hamilton High School Athletics Hall of Fame. Οrthros 8:00 a.m. • Divine liturgy 9:00 a.m.

The twins invite fans of all ages to join them. Protopresbyter PAuL C. PALESTY, the Priests, the Parish Council, the Educators, the Office Staff and all Parish Organizations wish the members AND ALL grEEK OrTHODOx a Blessed Easter 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014

TOP ROW FROM LEFT: Boston’s mayor Marti Walsh cuts the ribbon of the 20th Greek Parade of LEFT: Greek-American young ladies dressed as “Caryatides” carry the Greek flag with pride. • Boston. Ambassador of Greece to Washington Christos Panagopoulos, Metropolitan Methodios Federation Board Member Elefteria Papaslis and Commissioner Bill Evans carry the banner of Boston, Consul General of Greece Ifigenia Kanara, and Police Commissioner Bill Evans look “Boston Strong – Greeks Strong.” • The historic parish of St. George Lynn, MA led by its presiding on. • All generations of Greek-Americans proudly participated in the Parade. Children dressed priest Rev. George Tsoukalas showed a dynamic presence at the Parade. Shown are Fr. Tsoukalas, in their colorful costumes carry the Greek flag with pride and honor. BOTTOM ROW FROM Parish Council president Emmanuel Argyros, and Council member Demetris Skalkos.

The New England weather cooperated magnificently as thousands of Greek-Americans enjoyed Honoree George Geraniotis is flanked by Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, Federation Presi - the Independence Parade under all-blue skies and warmer climes. dent Ioannis Rammos, and Consul General Ifigenia Kanara. Hellenes Celebrate Greek Independence under Sunny New England Skies

Continued from page 1 tack took place a year ago a and 300 who were severely injured. A doxology service was held ton ME; Cranston RI, and Man - ipation of the communities and the Federation laid a wreath in The Parade once again honored beforehand at the Annunciation chester NH. According to police the organizations.” The Parade stopped for a few memory of three innocent peo - Greece the birthplace of the Greek-Orthodox Cathedral of estimates, between 15 and 17 Panagopoulos said “it was minutes at the site where the ple who lost their lives and also ideals of democracy and free - Boston officiated by Methodios. thousand were on hand. unique. The participation of so Boston Marathon terrorist at - in honored of the more than dom. Mayor Walsh, who was also one Greek School students many people, the new mayor of of the Grand Marshals (along dressed in Greek traditional cos - Boston. We all should be proud with Methodios and Panagopou - tumes added enthusiasm and of the Greek-American commu - los) cut the ribbon and started color, as did a number of Greek- nity of New England.” the Parade led by members of American students from various At the conclusion of the Pa - the Boston Police Department. universities and colleges from rade, which was organized by MA State senator Bruce Tarr, the Boston area. the Federation, with the support RI State Senator Leonidas Rap - Greek-American author Nick of the Metropolis of Boston, the takis and NH State Representa - Gage told TNH that “I think we Consul General of Greece and tives Tomas Katsandonis and Ef - have challenged New York this the Mayor’s Office of Special stathia Booras were also time, a lot people, very good Events, a Greek cultural celebra - present. floats, and a lot of enthusiasm. tion took place on the Boston More than 90 units marched. It made you proud and glad to Common featuring Greek music, The Parade was of the most be a Greek.” traditional Greek dance perfor - successful of the last few years. Methodios told TNH that “I mances, and Greek food. Many had come from long dis - think it was the best parade of On April 5, the Parade An - tances such as Cape Cod and the last few years. We had a lot nual Dinner Gala was held at Holyoke, MA; Saco and Lewis - of people and very good partic - the Revere Hotel in Boston New - ton Marriot Hotel in Newton, with over 300 guests in atten - dance. The Greek-American Evzones ALL GREEK ORTHODOX gave a special feel to the event with their impressive entrance HOLY WEEK SERVICES into the hall and the traditional Greek folk dances that they per - IN ENGLISH formed. During the Gala, Greek- at ST. ANTHONY ORTHODOX CHURCH American businessman George 385 Ivy Lane, Bergenfield, NJ 07621 Geraniotis was honored for his TEL: 201-568-8840 • www.stanthonysorthodox.org valuable contributions to the Greek-American community of New England. Also, four schol - APRIL 13, 2014 - 10:00 A.M. - PALM SUNDAY arships of $1,000 each were Divine Liturgy & Procession with Palms handed out to Greek-American students from Boston: two cour - APRIL 13,14,15, 2014 - 8:00 P.M. - PALM SUNDAY EVENING HOLY MONDAY, HOLY TUESDAY tesy of businessman Harry Katis, Bridegroom service (Nymphios), Hymn of Kassiani on Holy Tuesday one from the FHASNE, and one from the family of the late Dr. APRIL 16, 2014 - 8:00 P.M. - HOLY WEDNESDAY EVENING Constantine Chionides, under HOLY OIL ANOINTING (EFCHELAION) whose presidency the scholar - Bishop Nicholas ship awards were first estab - of Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, presiding lished. On April 4, the annual cele - APRIL 17, 2014 - 10:00 A.M. - HOLY THURSDAY MORNING bration at the Massachusetts Divine Liturgy “Eucharist of the Last Supper” State House took place, orga - nized and hosted by state rep - APRIL 17, 2014 - 8:00 P.M. - HOLY THURSDAY EVENING resentatives and senators of Passion Gospels, Washing of the Feet, Carrying of the Cross to Golgotha Greek descent and friends of the APRIL 18, 2014 - HOLY FRIDAY 4:00 P.M. VESPERS Greek-American community, at - Placing of the Epitaphios (Apokathelosis) tended by 250 people. Tarr, a Greek-American, was the pre - APRIL 19, 2014 - HOLY FRIDAY EVENING 8:00 P.M. senter. Lamentations at the Tomb Irene Pantakides, a Greek School student at the St. APRIL 20, 2014 - HOLY SATURDAY MORNING Nicholas parish in Lexington, 10:00 A.M. DIVINE LITURGY read her excellent essay about Celebration of Christ’s Victory over Death (Proti Anastasis) “Philhellenism” and Sara Bout - sellis, a student of Holy Trinity APRIL 19/20, 2014 - SATURDAY EVENING 10:15 P.M. PASCHA, RUSH PROCESSION & DIVINE LITURGY parish in Lowell read her essay in English. APRIL 20, 2014 - EASTER AGAPE VESPERS 11:00 A.M. A reception followed at the Reading of the Gospel in many tongues Greek Consulate, located in short distance from the State House. THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014 COMMUNITY 5 Eric Adams, the New Borough President of Brooklyn, Shows His Greek Appreciation

By Constantine S. Sirigos Borough President of Brooklyn, President of Brooklyn sat down can help the community con - here is Borough Hall on how to dren interacting with each TNH Staff Writer invited Brooklyn’s Hellenes to for a discussion with The Na - tinue both its growth and its create a more business-friendly other. I want to encourage that celebrate Greek Independence tional Herald. contributions to Brooklyn. environment,” but he also wants kind of growth. NEW YORK – A Community’s Day at Borough Hall, signaling Adams said he admires Adams acknowledged the to provide business owners re - The name of the game is to future depends on its leaders’ a great start. Greek-Americans for the way success of the Greek-American sources that will help them educate all of our children and ability to bring its concerns and Prior to the ceremony, where they adore both Greece – which community rests on the twin pil - grow, from loans, to advice that’s part of what I believe the needs to the attention of local Greek-Americans who have dis - he has visited and loves – and lars of small businesses and ed - about how to tap into existing Greek community has always officials. Relationships must be tinguished themselves in service America, their adopted country. ucation, and added the impor - programs. stood for.” established and cultivated, and to their communities were hon - He said immigrant communities tance of the restaurant industry He said he is aware of “the As borough president he when good friends leave office, ored by Adams, and which was made Brooklyn a better place. not only for the community but amazing result of the Hellenic makes appointment to the Panel the process begins again. On followed by a reception and cul - He also understands how the the City as a whole. Classical Charter School, where for Education Policy and other March 26, Eric Adams, the new tural program, the new Borough office of the borough president “We are leading the charge there is a cross section of chil - key bodies. Obama Welcomes Greeks to White House, Speaks of “Deep Connection”

Continued from page 1 should not have to sell tourism, Bilirakis told TNH he first vis - adding that although he has yet ited the White House before his States will continue to stand by to visit “I look forward to it.” father became a Congressman. It the Greek people. Greece will al - Also present were Christos never gets old, however. Every - ways have an unwavering friend Panagopoulos and George Cha - one was thrilled to be able to and ally in the United States of calli, Ambassadors of Greece and walk through all the rooms nick - America…God bless America, Cyprus, respectively. named for the colors of their dec - Zito I Ellas.” The president explained that oration, Red, Green, and Blue, in During his remarks, Biden re - he could not celebrate Greek In - addition to the East Room and minded the gathering that Thucy - dependence last week because he the diplomatic dining room. dides said “the secret of happi - was in Europe, but said “there is “It’s so wonderful, and it’s an ness is freedom, and the secret no such thing as a wrong time to honor to be here,” Bilirakis said of freedom is courage,” and that celebrate the extraordinary ties of the event. “We have to be what binds us together the between the United States and grateful for what these heroes of United States and Greece.” Greece, dating back, as His Emi - Greek Independence, our forefa - Archbishop Demetrios nence said, to our earliest days. thers, did for us. Under Ottoman thanked the President for his hos - Our Founding Fathers drew in - rule for 400, they maintained pitality, and noted that it was spiration from the Greeks as pio - their culture, traditions and reli - very appropriate to celebrate neers of the radical idea that or - gion and passed them on to us. Greek Independence in the Pres - dinary citizens can govern There were philhellenes in the idential mansion of a country themselves.” U.S. as well,” who helped Greece, known “for its unabated passion “When the Greek people rose some of whose portraits, includ - for freedom and its unlimited up to claim their own freedom. ing Thomas Jefferson, where love for independence in every Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter nearby. “God bless them all,” he nation and every community.” wishing the blessings of liberty said. He also noted the personal upon them. The Greeks, he Maloney said “we are all and intellectual bonds between ABOVE: Vice President Joe Biden remained to greet many old and new friends in the various wrote, were the first to present wearing blue today, we are all the leaders of the American and reception halls of the White House. Earlier, he spoke about his conversation with PM Samaras. an example of what man should Greek today.” She said “It’s al - Greek revolutions. BELOW: Greek-Americans were at the ready with their cell phones to record their moment cel - be,” he said. ways special to visit the White Archbishop Demetrios indi - ebrating Greek Independence in the White House, at least for the Internet if not for posterity. He urged the guests to remain House.” Her first time was with rectly referred to the plights of after his speech and enjoy them - her parents for Christmas when Cyprus, in its 40th year of illegal selves. “I cannot think of a better she was in high school, “it never occupation by Turkey, and the Ec - way to end the week than with occurred to me that I would umenical Patriarchate, when he all our Greek and Greek-Ameri - come here when I was elected. It praised President Obama “for can friends and with some was not an aspiration of mine; leading the noble fight…in order spanakopita, baklava…and there were no women in Con - to secure freedom and indepen - maybe a glass of ouzo, although gress at the time.” dence for nations and individuals I still have some work to do.” She told TNH that she is more thirsty for it. There are still, for Before departing, the Presi - optimistic than ever about efforts us Greek-American Orthodox, ar - dent shook hands and spoke to to reunify Cyprus. She said the eas of serious concern, areas the guests at the front of the current U.S. Ambassador to [that lack] freedom, both reli - room. “We are praying for you,” Cyprus, John M. Koenig, “told me gious and political. We are sure one said. “I really appreciate it,” that Secretary of State John Kerry you are aware of the areas and Obama responded. is very focused on reaching a so - care for them, as you do for other HOPE FOR CYPRUS lution and he is confident some - places.” Congressman Gus Bilirakis of thing can happen.” During his speech President Florida and Congresswomen Car - The firm of Manatos and Obama acknowledged Olga Ke - olyn Maloney of Astoria, co-chair - Manatos helped create the falogianni, Greece’s minister of men of the congressional Hel - White House celebration 20 tourism, and Panos Pana - lenic Caucus that was founded years ago and has worked with giotopoulos, Minister of Culture. by the former’s father, Michael every administration to main - Obama declared that Greece Bilirakis, were both present. tain the event.

St. Nicholas Church in red Bank New Jersey 15 Pearl street, red Bank, nJ 07701 • Phone: (732) 670-3419 roCor the Very reverend Protopresbyter rafael melendez Divine services at st. nicholas in red Bank new Jersey are conducted in Greek, Church slavonic, english and spanish ARCHANGEL MICHAEL APrIL 2014 HOLY WEEK SCHEDuLE OF SErVICES GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH 100 Fairway Drive, Port washington, ny 11050 Saturday 12 - Lazarus Saturday tel: (516) 944-3180 Akathist at 9:00 a.m. - Divine liturgy at 9:30 a.m.- Confessions Sunday 13 - Palm Sunday Akathist at 9:00 a.m.- Divine liturgy at 9:30a.m.- Bridegroom service at 7 APrIL 2014 p.m. HOLY WEEK SCHEDuLE OF SErVICES Monday 14 - Holy Monday April 12: Saturday of Lazarus Akathist at 9:00 a.m.- Pre-sanctified Divine liturgy at 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m.: orhros 10:30 a.m. : Divine liturgy Bridegroom service at 7 p.m. His Eminience Tuesday 15 - Holy Tuesday Archbishop Demetrios of America Officiating Akathist at 9:00 a.m.- Pre-sanctified Divine liturgy at 9:30 am April 13: Palm Sunday Bridegroom service at 7pm 7:30 a.m.: orthros 8:30 a.m.: 1st Divine liturgy Wednesday 16 - Holy Wednesday 11:00 a.m.: 2st Divine liturgy

Akathist at 9:00 a.m.- Pre-sanctified Divine liturgy at 9:30 am April 14: Holy Monday holy unction at 4 p.m. - Bridegroom service at 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m.: service of the Bridegroom Thurdsday 17 - Holy Thursday/Last Supper Αpril 15 : Holy Tuesday 7:30 p.m.: service of the Bridegroom holy Communion 6 to 8 a.m.- Divine liturgy of st. Basil 8:30 am hymn of kassiani 12 Passion Gospels at 7 p.m. Αpril 16: Holy Wednesday 3:00 p.m.: sacrament of holy oil Friday 18 - good Friday 7:30 p.m.: sacrament of holy oil royal hours at 9 a.m.- Apokathelosis at 4 p.m. Αpril 17: Holy Thursday epitaphios at 7 p.m. 6:00 a.m.: Τ he liturgy of st . Basil 9:00 a.m.: Τ he liturgy of st . Basil Saturday 19 - Holy Saturday 7:30 p.m.: the holy Passion service holy Communion 6 to 9 a.m. service of the 12 Gospels Divine liturgy of st. Basil at 9:30 a.m.- Confessions Αpril 18: Holy Friday Canon of the resurrection at 11 p.m. 9:00 a.m.: Τ he royal hours 3:00 p.m.: Apokathelosis Sunday 20 - resurrection and Paschal Divine Liturgy 7:30 p.m.: service of lamentations at midnight Αpril 19: Holy Saturday 8:30 a.m. the liturgy of st . Basil Agape Vespers at 10:30 a.m. 11:00 p.m.: The Holy resurrection Service Divine liturgy CHrISTOS ANESTI! Αpril 20: Easter Sunday CHrIST IS rISEN! 11:00 a.m.: Great Vespers of Agape CHrISTOS VOSCrESE! on behalf of Fr. Dennis and Fr. nikolas, the President, officers and members of the Parish Council, CrISTO HA rESuCITADO! the officers and members of all the organizations that comprise our parish we wish you and yours EL MESSIAH KHAM! a Blessed Pascha and a Joyous resurrection! 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014

The Parthenon Enigma is Examined at Rubin Museum of Art Fort Lee Mayor at Greek Independence Fete of Hellenic Civic Club The Hellenic American Cultural Foundation presented NYU professor and archaeologist Joan B. The dance troupe of the Church of the Ascension of Fairview, NJ, accompanied by their pastor, Connelly at the Rubin Museum of Art. She said her new book, The Parthenon Enigma: A New Un - Fr. Christos Pappas, delighted the guests, which included Mark Sokolich, the Mayor of Fort derstanding of the World’s Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made it. Countering some Lee, at the celebration of Greek Independence sponsored by the Hellenic Civic Club. The guests media portrayals of her thought-provoking work, she presented her thesis that the Parthenon were greeted at the Recreation Center of Fort Lee by Peter Fragides, the president of the Club, Frieze teaches that even the elite must be willing to make sacrifices for the common good. and Savas Tsivikos, president of the Federation of Hellenic American Organizations of NJ. “I am a Hellene,” NYC Mayor de Blasio Declares to Greek Community

By Constantinos E. Scaros nity, that it “makes such an ence” at the Greek Indepen - amazing imprint on the life of dence Parade, de Blasio said. NEW YORK – “You are not just New York City every day and “The rain stayed away, which a Philhellene, you are now a has for generations…They’ve shows me the influence of a Hellene,” Archbishop Demetrios helped to make it a great city… great man… the archbishop had said to Bill de Blasio, the Mayor I have such affection for this that worked out.” He congratu - of New York, at a reception the community. Part of it is,” he lated Elias Tsekerides, President mayor hosted in honor of Greek said, due to the years he lived of the Federation of Hellenic So - Independence on April 3 at Gra - in Astoria. “You basically be - cieties of Greater new York for cie Mansion, the official Mayoral come Greek after a while, it was “putting on an extraordinary pa - residence – or as de Blasio called an amazing and wonderful ex - rade every year,” and Tsek - it “your house – the people’s perience and because I try to be erides, in turn, thanked the house.” in my own way a student of his - mayor “for hosting this beautiful An imposing figure standing tory, it is impossible to think event.” literally head-and-shoulders about this country, the history Acknowledging the numer - above the crowd, de Blasio of the world, of democracy, ous dignitaries on hand, de Bla - looked more like a player for without thinking about the con - sio said he was honored to have the hometown Knicks basketball tributions of the Greek people.” Demetrios there, as well as “a team, but his presence as the He relayed what his teenage dear friend and a wise man, Fa - city’s chief executive resounded son, Dante, a student at Brook - ther Alex Karloutsos.” as he declared New York “the lyn Technical High School, told He also recognized NY State capital of the world.” him that morning: “‘Athenian Senator Michael Gianaris, new Paying homage to Hellenism, democracy was purer than Ro - City Council member Costas de Blasio paid heed to man democracy.’ He didn’t know Constantinides, Judge Nicholas Demetrios’ words and acknowl - about this [event] tonight,” he Garaufis, Miss Greek Indepen - edged that he, indeed, was to - just made the statement based dence Sotiria Irene Sotiropou - day “a Hellene,” and recounted on what he is studying now – los, Greek Consul Manos Mayor de Blasio, self-proclaimed Hellene, onstage at Gracie Mansion with Archbishop Demetrios, that his family is from “Neapo - he has a great interest in history, Koubarakis, and Cypriot Consul NY Federation of Hellenic Societies President Elias Tsekerides, and Miss Greek Independence lis” (Naples). He spoke fondly de Blasio said about his son. Vasillios Philippou. Sotiria Irene Sotiropoulos. of the Greek-American commu - “I had a wonderful experi - Aphrodite Skeadas, National Philoptochos President, said the mayor’s gesture at the Greek Pa - as a community to change and event “means that the continuity rade: “when he grabbed the cor - show a different face.” of the celebration of freedom, ner of the Greek flag flown at Constantinos Bastas said the of eleftheria in our country, as the Acropolis carried by our top gathering “is an opportunity to adopted from the Ancient Greek school students, instead really celebrate and to be uni - Greeks. The administration of going to the reviewing stand, fied. We tend to go our separate changes, but the ethos and who it showed he is a people’s way and it’s important on a day the Greeks are never changes.” mayor.” like this for us all to be to - John Kaiteris, the executive Valia Glytsis, president of Hel - gether.” director of the HANAC social lenic Professional Women, was “Zito I Ellas and kali doulia,” service organization told TNH very pleased with the event, but de Blasio said, to the delight of “It’s exciting that it’s the first she agreed with guests who said Greeks in the crowd, some of celebration with Mayor de Bla - it would be good to see more who yelled out their Hellenified sio.” young professionals and such an version of the mayor’s name: Educator Eleftheria Oikouta event. “As with the changing of “Blasios!” The mayor chuckled, was very impressed by the the mayor, I think it’s also for us and then repeated it himself. Getty Museum to Return New Testament to Athos Arianna Huffington Discusses Her New Book: Thrive, in NY TNH Staff ing that the book had been ille - With frenetic but beguiling Manhattan as a backdrop, media baron and author Arianna Huffin - gally removed. The report of its gton discussed her new book about how individuals and society can fight burnout: Thrive –The LOS ANGELES— A 12th-century disappearance had never been Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom and Wonder, Byzantine illuminated New Tes - made public, nor had informa - with interviewer Paul Holdengraber at the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The audience tament that was acquired by The tion about the theft been made was welcomed to the event sponsored by the Onassis Foundation (USA) by Amb. Loucas Tsillas, J. Paul Getty Museum in 1983 available to the Getty, to law en - Minister of Culture and Sports. its Exec. Director. will be voluntarily returned by forcement, or to any databases “The decision also clearly demon - the museum to the Holy of stolen art. strates the respect the Getty Mu - Monastery of Dionysiou on “This illuminated New Testa - seum has for Greek cultural her - Mount Athos in Greece. ment,” said Museum Director itage and encourages us to The manuscript was acquired Timothy Potts, “which was copied continue to build and strengthen by the Getty Museum in 1983 as in 1133 by the scribe Theoktistos our collaborative relationship for part of a large, well-documented and can be stylistically associated the future.” SAINT BARBARA collection. Recent research on the with court art produced in Con - Since its acquisition, the man - object by the Hellenic Ministry of stantinople, is a masterpiece of uscript has appeared in over 20 GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH Culture and Sports, which was Middle Byzantine art. We ap - publications and its images have 27 Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002 - Tel.: (212) 226-0499 conducted in close collaboration plaud the Getty for their respon - been available on the Getty web - www.stbarbaragoc.com • In the heart of New York’s Chinatown and Little Italy with the Getty, suggested that the siveness to this matter. Their de - site since 1998. It has been fea - New Testament had not been cision to return this precious tured in 14 exhibitions at the Program of Sacred Services for Holy Week - April 2014 legally transferred from the Byzantine manuscript honors the Getty Museum, and was loaned Monastery of Dionysiou. This was spirit of our 2011 Framework for to the Metropolitan Museum of confirmed by a recently obtained Cultural Cooperation,” explained Art in 1997 for its landmark ex - April 12 SATURDAY OF LAZARUS 1960 monastery record indicat - Panos Panagiotopoulos, Greek hibition, The Glory of Byzantium. 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TNH Staff morning, they were greeted by the magnificent icon of the Dor - NEW YORK – The sky was a mition on the façade of the new brilliant Hellenic Blue for the church’s portico. blessing of the Nicholas Zoullas Eventually the parish will ex - Hellenic Center of the Dormi - ecute a fine iconographic pro - tion of the Virgin Mary Church gram, but in the meantime, pure of the Hamptons on April 6. white surfaces of the interior of After the Archieratical Divine the new sanctuary evoke the Liturgy with Archbishop glorious churches of the Cy - Demetrios of America presiding clades and may have prompted assisted by Parish’s co-pastors, many mental notes to book Protopresbyter of the Ecumeni - flights to Greece among sur - cal Patriarchate Alexander Kar - vivors of the brutal New York loutsos and Fr. Constantine winter. Lazarakis, the congregation After the Liturgy the congre - gathered on the lawn in front gation was welcomed by Fr. of the Center’s entrance. Lazarakis, Fr. Karloutsos invited The procession of clergy Peter Nikiteas, the president of from the church was led by the the Parish Council, to the solea. parish’s altar boys in robes of The latter presented Demetrios cream and gold, the choir of vis - with a blessing cross, which was iting students from the Holy donated by Bouras and the Cross School of Theology in parish, and whose original de - Brookline, MA and the Arch - sign His Eminence had earlier bishop, priests as deacons in admired on Fr. Karloutsos’ desk vestments mainly of blue that before he knew it would become mirrored the heavens. his gift. During the outdoor Agiasmos tnh/CostAs BeJ Archbishop Demetrios – Blessing of the Water service, Nicholas S. Zoullas with his children, Andrew, Winston and Di - Altar boys and a choir of students from the Holy Cross School of thanked them and said he will the rich spiritual treasury of the ana, during the blessing service for the Hellenic Center he en - Theology in Brookline, MA lead the procession from the Church tell everyone that it was as gift Orthodox Church provided dowed in honor of his parents, Sophocles and Louiza. to the Nicholas S. Zoullas Hellenic Center. from the Kimisis parish and words that put the church’s wished everyone a blessed Lent, building projects into perspec - dream a new church and com - are from Parga, but it was not wave after another,” he said. fices of ancient Constantinople, Holy Week and Pascha. tive through the words of the munity center could be realized. part of the New Greek state, so The Archbishop then cited and the Zoullas Center, with its Alexander Miral, a member Gospel of Matthew and St. Zoullas thanked Demetrios, they were awarded land in Mis - the many who contributed to large but graceful arched win - of the choir whose family has Paul’s Epistle to the Corinthians. Fr. Karloutsos, and the commu - solonghi, but malaria made it the community’s great endeavor, dow-walls on three sides attended Kimisis since the Archdeacon Panteleimon Pa - nity, and spoke briefly about his uninhabitable, so they moved including Presbytera Xanthi Kar - crowned with a single elegant parish’s inception, is proud of padopoulos, mirroring the Bible unique Greek-Orthodox her - across the Gulf of Corinth to Pa - loutsos, whom he credited for crystal chandelier, is now one of the hard work and vision of the passages, prayed “that this itage and the obligation to pre - tras, where my father was numerous aesthetic elements, the most beautiful spaces in the parishioners. “The center will Nicholas S. Zoullas Hellenic serve Hellenism and the Faith born,” he said. but when he said the biggest ac - Archdiocese. serve the community for many Center be grounded on the rock in America. Demetrios thanked Zoullas colades should go to Fr. Karlout - After a delicious Lenten years to come.” of Faith that is Christ Jesus, to He said Greeks and “the and took a moment to marvel sos, the latter pointed to those meal, there was a presentation Long-time parishioner An - remain forever unshaken and Greek Church are very special. at the parish’s achievement, not - gathered around them and ac - of songs, poems, and dances by gela Giannopoulos was one of secure for the edification of His We did not have a general begin ing that when Ecumenical Pa - knowledged the community’s ef - the parish’s Language and Cul - many who sang the praises of people and the glory of His the war of independence, but a triarch Bartholomew last visited, forts. ture Institute of the Hamptons, the Center and those who made name…That our Lord continue bishop.” he saw a modest little church. Soon, Zoullas cut the ribbon which includes Greek, Slavic it possible. to bless his servant, Nicholas, Zoullas said that he was mo - “Today he would say ‘I do not and after loud cheers the parish - and Romanian programs. Building Committee Chair - together with his family, and tivated to help build the new believe it is the same place.’” ioners and the special guests The guests were delighted to man George Gavalas, who that he may grant eternal rest center out of concern for the He also turned the occasion poured into the Center, which hear the youngest sing “Fen - worked assiduously with co- among the saints to the souls of danger of overassimilation. “My in a teaching moment about the competes the parish complex garaki Mou Lambro – My Shin - chairman Paul Mauss, was his beloved parents, Sophocles effort is to make sure our chil - millennia-old power of Hel - that also includes Johnides Fam - ing Little Moon,” causing many thrilled, as was past president and Louiza.” dren and grandchildren con - lenism. “There is not just one ily Cultural Center. to reminisce about their Greek Dimitrios Hatgistravrou, who After the service, Archbishop tinue to feel their Greek heritage Hellenic culture…The nation The whole, with its internal school days. told TNH, “a lot of blood, sweat Demetrios presented Zoullas and the Center will keep Greek has produced waves of cul - arcades and Byzantine touches, When the congregation and and tears made all this possi - with a cross that is a copy of the culture and Greek ideas alive in tures…including the Minoan, offers a taste of the great edi - guests first arrived on Sunday ble.” one that crowns the dome of the future generations.” Mycenaean, Classical, Hellenis - Church and numerous speakers He said he did not want his tic, Greco-Roman, and Byzan - referred to the sacrifices and name on the building – “that tine,” to say nothing of Greek struggles of individuals and the was Fr. Alex’s doing” – but Zoul - inspiration for the Renaissance community, which had to over - las spoke to TNH with pride and and the Enlightenment. come numerous obstacles, in - reverence for his forebears, who “The Hellenic Center stands cluding lawsuits, before the included heroes of 1821. “They for an ocean of cultures, one 8 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014 Poetry and Pilgrimage: Greek-American Students Visit Constantinople

By Christopher Tripoulas stantinople, where we were which they recited Seferis’ po - Special to The National Herald overcome with emotion as we etry. Besides, the Ecumenical Pa - chanted the timeless hymn to triarch afforded them the honor The St. Demetrios Greek- the Theotokos, “Ti Ypermaho” of this invitation based on the American High School of Astoria (O Champion General), or fact that they are genuine par - participated in the student con - where the touching display of ticipants in Hellenic Paideia. ference “G. Seferis: From everyone singing Seferis’ “De - And this accomplishment Smyrna to Constantinople,” nial,” set to music by another achieved by teachers, students, which took place under the aus - legend of Romanity, Mikis and all the unsung heroes who pices of the Ecumenical Patriar - Theodorakis, echoed through - keep our schools operating was chate at the Zographeion Greek out the Zographeion. In Con - rewarded with the “praises of High School in Constantinople, stantinople, where a handful of the Demos… the difficult, in - from March 20-23, ably repre - ethnic Greeks (known by the valuable ‘Well Done’;” which an - sented by graduating seniors historically accurate term other great Greek poet, C.P. Ioanna Katechis and Maria Pa - “Romioi,” or Romans) remain Cavafy, so eloquently describes. padopoulos, who were accom - steadfast, exhibiting the pa - The hope is that this trip will panied by this columnist – their tience of Odysseus, operating inspire this year's ambassadors teacher. A trip to the spiritual schools and celebrating litur - of Greek-American education center of Romanity is a life ex - gies, in the hope that Seferis’ throughout their lives and serve perience in itself and many teacher General Ioannis as the occasion for many future thanks are owed to the Ecu - Makryiannis will be proven right such journeys – both for them menical Patriarchate for the in - yet again and our leaven will re - personally in their relationship vitation, as well as to the Arch - main always, “from beginning with our spiritual center, as well diocese of America and St. till end, from the days of old un - as for the students who shall fol - Demetrios for their financial and til today.” low in their footsteps and in - moral support. The joy of participating was clude this destination in their And since Nobel laureate multiplied not only through in - cultural and spiritual odyssey. George Seferis served as the cat - teraction with the local Romioi, Many thanks belong to the alyst for this trip, who better who welcomed us with open principal of the Zographeion than to describe the emotion felt arms, but also with our compa - High School Ioannis Dermit - by the participants who walked triots from all over Greece and zoglou, as well as the confer - the wide streets of the erstwhile His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is seen here at the Church of Panagia of Cyprus. And through their par - ence coordinator and director (and in our hearts perennial) Blachernae in Constantinople with two graduating seniors representing St. Demetrios Greek- ticipation, our Greek-American general of the Mantoulides Queen City. They bore a bit of American High School in Astoria Maria Papadopoulos (l.) and Ioanna Katechis, their teacher students made this conference School in Thessaloniki Aspa Ha - resemblance to Seferis’ ancient Christopher Tripoulas, and Konstantinos Adamou of the William Spyropoulos Day School in truly ecumenical, as Patriarch sioti for their wonderful hospi - hero, setting sail towards self- Flushing, NY together with his father Nikos Adamou. The students visited Constantinople to at - Bartholomew himself pointed tality – another cultural charac - knowledge on the sea of Greek tend a student conference organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate from March 20-23 on out during the opening cere - teristic of Hellenism. history and culture: “Happy is Greek Nobel laureate George Seferis. mony. As a result of this conference, he who made the journey of The importance of events like the osmosis that occurred be - Odysseus. Happy if, as the jour - you. And where better for stu - stantinople, where the central this lies in the fact that the lead - tween the young Romioi from ney loomed, he felt the sturdy It's not easy to bear the bur - dents to gather and comem - gate at the longsuffering Phanar ers of tomorrow’s Greek com - Greece and abroad, as well as rigging of a love, stretched den of so much history on your morate Greece’s first Nobelist remains closed to memorialize munities gain insight into just the insight into Seferis’ poetry taught inside his body like the shoulders, as Seferis explains than Constantinople, where the Patriarch Gregory V, thus high - how truly ecumenical our cul - helped graft us even deeper into veins where the blood booms.” when he describes the marble ecumenical nature of Hel - lighting the importance of free ture is and how deep its roots the worldwide community of There in Constantinople, head of some statue pinning lenism/Romanity begot a “Hel - will and sacrifice in our cultural extend. It is equally seminal be - Hellenes, whose roots date back where the living mingle with him down, but the common ref - lenic Hellenism,” as Seferis mode? In Constantinople, cause it highlights the impor - thousands of years, and whose those fallen asleep, “living in erence point and the cama - terms it, in contrast to its West - where the churches lay carefully tance and value of Greek edu - branches continue to sprout (es - their death, and dying in their raderie shared by those gath - ern version, which he views as concealed from the outside, and cation in America. The students pecially there where they are life,” as Heraclitus puts it, a new ered in the stately rooms of the a product for foreign consump - once you enter the outer gate, from St. Demetrios in Astoria cut, much to the vexation of Ithaca appears. Like in Seferis' magnificent Zographeion build - tion. Where else but in Constan - you suddenly witness their as - and their fellow student repre - those doing the cutting). May poem above, where he alludes ing lightened the load, offering tinople, where the magnificent tounding architectural beauty, senting the William Spyropoulos this grafting, blessed by the Pa - to love of country, and more the joy of belonging to a mode Hagia Sophia endures patiently, situated amidst heavenly court - School in Flushing, NY, Konstan - triarch and watered with the po - deeply, the ability to feel a pow - – a tradition – that has survived housing the dreams of an entire yards; “churches shaped like the tinos Adamou, made a wonder - etry of Seferis (next year it is erful emotion that reaches your and continues to survive for people within its massive sky,” as our other Nobel laureate ful impression thanks to their George Vizyenos’ turn), bear core and ceaselessly activate thousands of years now. vaults? Where else but in Con - Odysseas Elytis wrote. In Con - stellar Greek and the ease with bountiful fruit. THE HERALD SQUARE Emma Wolfe: Greek in Mayor’s Circle TNH's Crossword Challenge Continued from page 1 Wolfe said “I can’t put it into 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 words. My mom is by far the biggest influence in my life. She 11 12 13 14 is the hardest worker I know and she’s just got a ton of in - 15 16 17 tegrity and is smart and I could 18 19 20 21 22 not be a prouder daughter.” Her mother, Kate Maguire is 23 24 an actress and the Artistic Di - rector, and CEO of Massachu - 25 26 27 28 setts’ Berkshire Theatre Group, but she could not wait to pay 29 30 31 32 33 34 tribute to her own mother, Jen - 35 36 37 38 nie (Sperounis) Maguire, whose recent passing at 88 the family 39 40 41 42 43 is mourning. Jennie (Yanoula) was the Then-mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio introduces Emma Wolfe 44 45 46 47 youngest of eight children and at the Archdiocese. (L-R) Fr. Alexander Karloutsos, Wolfe, de no one in her family could speak Blasio, Archbishop Demetrios, and Bishop Andonios. 48 49 50 English when they started school, 51 52 53 54 but she rapidly learned the im - ies, “the perfect major to learn that “more than anything, every portance of communication and about the city…I had a tremen - day I learn a tremendous 55 56 57 58 59 60 a commitment to excellence. dous experience and I didn’t amount from the Mayor and Maguire said, “When I was want to leave.” other members of the cabinet, 61 62 63 64 four my mother took me to The path to government be - the deputy mayors, the budget drama an elocution lessons be - gan with community service director, and all the great folks 65 66 cause she believed that if you work and organizing – there who work at City Hall.” could speak the language pow - was some student government GREEK DÉJ VU www.CrosswordWeaver.com erfully and collect your ideas activity, too – “it’s hard for me The annual celebration of you will succeed.” to think of a time when I was Greek Independence Day at Community service has deep serious about something else,” Gracie Mansion had some déjà roots in Wolfe’s family. Jennie she said, “but I always have vu moments. Just as the com - AC ROSS 14 Wres tlin g's Bobb y "The Brain" was active in the Philoptochos great respect for the arts be - munity was proud of Wolfe’s 1 " T he Greek Ty coon" (init.) 16 Scar lett O 'Hara's plantation and the Daughters of Penelope, cause it’s the field my mother predecessor, Greek-American 3 A Swe athog 17 Addr ess Key R eg. (abb rev.) and her husband, Jimmy, who and my sister work in.” Haeda Mihaltses, so they have 9 T h e Key sto ne S t. (abbrev.) 18 Ralph K ram den's bff (ini t.) was a Lowell, MA police officer Wolfe took the ability to con - embraced Wolfe. 11 Bread for gyro 20 Horticultrual Assn. of Kenya (abbrev.) for 51 years, was president of nect with and motivate people “Greek-Americans and Greek

13 Famous fairy tale brothers 21 NBA's M.L. the AHEPA chapter. that ran in her family to groups New Yorkers are a welcoming 1 4 H is c ounterpart? 22 Tsip our o Among the things Kate such as ACORN, America Com - bunch,” she told TNH. “I cer - 1 5 L argest G reek Island 23 Mo by Dic k ca pta in learned from them and devel - ing Together, and the Health tainly feel blessed and honored 1 7 A ncient Diphthon g 25 Layer 's thickness oped through her work in the Care Workers Union 1199SEIU. to be a part of this and I am 1 8 M ethod of welfar e pmn t. (abbre v.) 26 Peculi ar tough theater industry and con - She then joined the Working happy to have my mom here to - 1 9 N ixon's famous dog , inspire d spee ch 27 Athenian Neighborhood veyed to her daughter are pa - Families Party, where she ran day.” 2 3 " ___ m inute now " 29 ____ - ki'e tsi so-so , to a Greek tience and communications campaigns across the city and Asked if she had a message 2 4 F Ilipino mythica l bi rd 30 Spiel berg Alien skills. “Communication is why I state. for Greek-Americans Wolf 25 Greek Socialist Party (init.) 32 Id. est (abbrev.) am in the theater …it was all She believes she has brought replied “we have been grateful

28 Sarah Palin's state (abbrev.) 33 All-encompassing prefix? about my mother and what she those experiences to bear on her for all of the support from the 2 9 S lipper y char acter ? 34 Arth ur of the Whit e H ouse learned when she came here. ” work at City Hall to get the most Greek-American community of 3 1 F irst Afri can-Am. S up. Ct. Justice (init.) 36 Come h ere, t o Stavr os The passion and commit - for the people of New York out New York. The mayor has been 3 2 P arad oxical 38 Post Off . ( ab brev .) ment to excellence percolated of government’s resources. very impressed by their unity 3 5 P art-Greek a ctress White 40 Charol otte of F acts of Life sitcom to Emma (Emelia), her twin sis - Added to everything she has and enthusiasm… during the 3 7 A li's trap: "_ ___-a- Dope" 41 Putin 's sp y org. (abbrev.) ter, Isadora, a dancer and an ac - learned from the great activists campaign I distinctly remember 3 9 H ot L ips o n M*A*S*H ( init.) 42 "__ I Were a Carpenter" (song) tress who is currently abroad and organizers she has worked that during our visit to the Arch - 40 Area in Nigeria 43 (GW Bridge town (abbrev. 2 words) dancing, and her brother with are experiences with her diocese last year when he met 41 Item with a cutting edge? 45 A Kennedy Alexander Hill, a film studies new colleagues. “They are peo - with Archbishop Demetrios and 44 Fox home 49 Oak tree nut student at Syracuse University. ple who are very committed to Fr. Alex Karloutsos. It was a 46 Indie musician DiFranco 51 "Two left ___" (clumsy dancer) The classic Greek-American the bottom line, focusing on ac - moving moment for him.” 47 "Beware of Greeks bearing _____" 52 Jacob's First Wife commitment to education complishments and results, and And for the fourth-genera - 48 "Ultimate" wristwatch brand? 53 Horse kept for breeding reigned in her family and Wolfe not getting lost in the conven - tion American who loves to 49 Ital. pop star tenor (init.) 54 Famous boombox maker said she attended “public tional wisdom and political pun - shine the spotlight on others, 50 NY Giants Hall of Fame Linebacker (init.) 57 Motorists' org. (init.) schools all the way.” ditry of the day-to-day.” but whose achievements draw 51 Botch 58 Doc. containing metadata (abbrev.) She lived in Lowell until she At the end of the administra - it back to her. 53 Swiss Assn. for Energy Economics 60 "___ a Wonderful Life" was nine years old and then tion’s third month, Wolfe said (abbrev.) 63 Diane on TV's Cheers (init.) moved to Western Massachu - 55 Brat Pack membr. (init.) setts. She would come back 56 Corn unit every weekend to stay with her 59 The man who came to dinner? Solution to last week’s puzzle grandparents or her father, and

61 Star of Green Acres TV show (init.) attended Sunday School at Holy 62 Speaks with a grating voice A R I S A N N G M A C M Trinity of Lowell. “That was my 64 Flanked by Q and X, sans S and V S P O I T I E R N C A ritual. My mom did more of the 65 Letters following Etas P S N L A O A B I A R 24/7 rituals but, but we did the 66 Cigar size T A N A H S I V Y real deal every Sunday.” Wolfe came to New York to R U B Y S A B U B E T A DOWN study at Barnard. “I knew that I 1 Mimic H N R T P U R S E F L wanted to live in a city,” after 2 Greek plural diphthong E O C A R T A Y N living in small towns. She 3 Legendary Quarterback Starr A K W A R D G I F T S looked at schools in a few cities, 4 Busch Gardens Eur. (abbrev.) R A E U M P Y H A M but her mother suggested she 5 Alleged to have fixed 1919 World Series take a look at Barnard College. (init.) I C B M N M O N C E “It was one of the few colleges 6 The Ocean St. (abbrev.) O P A P D E N I M S L we visited and it felt right” – she 7 Said hello on the comp. (abbrev.) A S T H U C Y D I D E S I said the Greek architecture and 8 Santa Fe st. (abbrev.) T R L M G A I N the names of Great Greeks on 9 Former Knicks plyr. (init.) the façade of the library made 10 Greek soccer team H A R R I S R O A I W A her feel at home – “and I fell in 12 Dairy product co. (abbrev.) E S S O E R A Y O D A love with New York.” Emma Wolfe succeeded fellow Greek-American Haeda Mihalt - She majored in Urban Stud - ses as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at City Hall.

THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014 COMMUNITY 9

ALL HISTORY Peacefully Assembled: the Ipswich Riot of 1913 in Unlikely Rural Locale

By Steve Frangos “Women armed with clubs was picked up by newspapers teen persons” including the la - TNH Staff Writer dashed fearlessly upon the po - across the nation and quite lit - bor leaders Carroll Pingree, lice and the mill workers. Across erally the world. But as with Mary Pingree and Nathan Her - PART 1 the street stood a squad of many other accounts describing man all for starting a riot and twenty-five Greeks hurling rocks the actions of the police we also murder. Scores of police from CHICAGO- On Tuesday, Jun. 10, indiscriminately into the strug - hear that “none of the police nearby Salem, Newbury and 1913, Nicoletta Paudelopoulou gling mass. The police turned were injured during their un - elsewhere were called but by had just finished her shift at the and fired volley after volley warranted charge upon the un - the time they arrived the crowds Brown Stocking Mill. It was from their revolvers, into this suspecting strikers (Lumberjack had long dispersed. nearly dark. Tired, Paude - group. Suddenly all of the win - July 10, 1913).” Standing on the outskirts of lopoulou began walking toward dows in the fronts of the two Accounts vary widely about the crowd, Nicoletta Paude - the cold-water flat on tenement houses opposite the how many strikers, bystanders lopoulou was caught in the Brownville Avenue where she mill gates blazed with spurts of and/or police were injured. It backward rush away from the lived with her mother, four sis - fire…Two of those shot may die, appears 1 person was killed, 6 police gun fire. Eyewitnesses ters and brother. Stepping care - it was reported at the Salem people were shot, 50 badly later testified that the 27 year- fully, (her feet hurt inside her hospital last night. Mrs. Flora beaten, and 15 other persons old Paudelopoulou was shot in cheap shoes from standing Cornelius, shot through the were injured, including several the temple by a policeman, the throughout her shift) Paude - right leg, was exhausted from policemen hit by flying bottles fatal bullet lifting up the back lopoulou had difficulty making loss of blood when she reached and debris. In news report after of her scalp. She never regained her way through the shifting the hospital. Mrs. Pahagiova Pa - report we hear “five of the consciousness and died shortly crowds. The nearby Ipswich ganus was shot in the side of wounded were hurried at once before 8PM in a local doctor’s Hosiery Mill (in Northern Mass - the head. The bullet came out to the Salem hospital, 14 miles office. achusetts) had also just changed through her cheek (Newport distance, in an automobile. They Between 1913 and 1914 shifts. A murmur of voices and Mercury June 14, 1913).” were placed upon the operating Greek immigrant laborers were other sounds, at that mill, “Officers in the street began table before their identity had beaten, arbitrarily fired from gained in volume. Paude - firing and the mob broke and been learned (Burlington their jobs, driven from their lopoulou, taken by curiosity, fled. Several victims of bullet Weekly Free Press June 12, homes, cheated out of their walked toward the swaying wounds were stretched on the 1913).” The implication here is rightful wages and killed out - crowds down the street to see pavement. Blood was trickling clear whether Anglo or immi - right. As we shall see not only what was causing all the com - The “sexy witch” was the logo of Ipswich Hosiery for years. down the faces of many of the grant, everyone was given im - was this strike forgotten for motion. What followed gives officers where broken bottles mediate medical aid as if they many years but that these same new meaning to the idea of veloped as a home industry in force, but to fight by inactivity. and bricks had hit them (Ben - should be given special praise events and locations have mor - “peacefully assembled,” not in Ipswich after the first stocking ‘Picket with your hands in your nington Evening Banner June for this most basic act of human - phed into a kind of theme park any abstract manner but how it machine was smuggled from pockets,’” they were told 11, 1913).” This last phrase ity. of history. has been experienced. England to Ipswich in 1822. In (Kansas City Star June 14, about the “bloody trickling Accounts again vary between For seven weeks, 500 work - 1868 Amos A. Lawrence estab - 1913). down the faces of many officers” “scores arrested” and “a total fif - [email protected] ers at the Ipswich Hosiery Mill lished the original Ipswich At the moment when the had been on strike. They were Hosiery Mills in the old stone “jostling” occurred, Charles G. demanding a 20 percent wage mill on County Street (www.his - Hail, identified in some ac - increase. At the time their “pay toricipswich.org).” counts as “Chairman of the is the lowest in any knitting mill In news accounts of the day Board of Selectmen” and others in the country. There are girls the 500 strikers were always de - “chief of police,” climbed a fence who have worked from one to scribed as Polish, Italians, and and began reading the riot act. three years and getting from Greeks. For reasons to be dis - “To this day many jurisdictions $1.50 to $3.50 a week (Lum - cussed later news accounts in - that have inherited the tradition berjack July 3, 1913).” In addi - evitably focused on the Greek of English common law…that tion accusations of mill workers strikers. In addition, virtually require police or other executive receiving arbitrary beatings by every newspaper story from agents to deliver an oral warn - foremen were also raised in by 1913 refers to the scabs as “Eng - ing…like the Riot Act, before an labor organizers. lish-speaking workers” and con - unlawful public assembly may Management had fired all versely the 500 strikers as “non- be forcibly dispersed.” Various 500 striking workers and imme - English speaking.” That reports commented that “the diately hired 500 “scabs” to re - language is emblematic of the pickets unable to understand place them. At this time Ipswich media’s Anglo-centered perspec - English, became more demon - Hosiery Mill employed a total tive in that era. strative.” of 1,500 workers. This strike As Nicoletta walked toward After the reading of the riot was especially noteworthy since the crowd in front of the Ip - act the thirty Ipswich policemen the Ipswich Hosiery Company swich Hosiery Mill the workers raised their clubs and advanced was the largest stocking mill in leaving after their shift ended on the crowd in order to “re - the nation. Following this mill met a double picket line of strik - store order.” Bricks and bottles company’s rise tanning, shoe - ers on either side of the mill’s began to fly as the police making and machine knitting main entrance/exit gate. Ac - moved. All reports attest that industries also established them - cording to press accounts the Ip - the following violence and gun - selves in Ipswich. Given the swich police acted as they did fire only lasted five minutes. growth in local industries immi - when the strikers began Given everything reported that grants from England, Ireland, ‘jostling’ the emerging crowd. took place during this interval Canada, Poland, and Greece all Curiously, later local “policeman of time it must have been far arrived in Ipswich to work in Moore testified to being at a longer in duration. Here is the the various mills. This was far [prior] meeting of strikers at sequence of events and acts that The serene Ipswich countryside hardly seems like a place that would have seen more than its from a recent development. which [labor leaders] told the is said to have happened as the share of violent labor riots, such as the one in 1913 that killed innocent bystander Nicoletta “Lace and stocking-making de - strikers not to use weapons or police advanced. Paudelopoulou.

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES John, the Barbarian

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos learned views. “Well, first, anxious to put it into operation This citizen from Marou - Special to The National Herald you’ve got to prove smarter.” as Yiannis wondered about the sanakislaki managed to invent Kipreos, who under the hostile reward Dimos offered. The fol - something that will revolution - John was telling the guys environment, didn’t admit he lowing week end saw a very dis - ize America’s back yards!” he sat around the table about his squir - fed a squirrel that climbed up gruntled John, explaining, with back, beaming. “Oh, there will rel problem.”Why do people his second floor window, said, stiff-jawed irritation, the chaos be a revolution, alright. The think they’re so cute? They eat “Squirrels gotta eat, too! They ‘Yiannis’ contraption, caused. kid’s mother informed the AS - my cherries right off the trees can’t go to the super market like “What’s th’ matter? Didn’t it PCA. I’m getting a summons! before they’re ripe. They climb us, you know.” John reminded work?” Yiannis asked, planning The neighbor on the other side the squirrel –proof bird feeder I him that they find a lot more a patent. “Oh, it worked, alright. tossed the carcass into my yard paid twenty dollars for and eat than humans could, “- even in One squirrel came, started eat - and this morning there were everything in it before the birds the dead of winter!” “So, you ing and – VOOM! got shot maggots and flies all over it. My get to it. They’re nuisances! think you’re smarter than a across, over the fence into my wife acted like I was ‘public en - They’re nothing but rats with squirrel?” George asked Yiannis neighbor’s yard who was sitting emy number one. She yelled, bushy tails!” Dimos echoed with a note of sarcasm. Af - in his chair. There was blood on ‘you barbarian! How could you John’s sentiments. “I hear you. fronted, Yiannis said, “Of his newspaper.” Kipreos cringed. kill an innocent little creature My fig tree, pear tree and apple course! I bet I can think up a “Another squirrel came along that never did anything to you?’ tree are fruit free because of fool-proof contraption.” Eyeing and climbed onto your little Wait till I tell the kids!’ I didn’t those, ‘adorable little imps’, as his nemesis, he added, “You’re vised. Yiannis uncovered a springs push him off. Then, the ‘merry-go- round’ and it went mention it was Yiannis’ idea.” my wife calls them.” Yiannis lis - the mechanical genius – or, you round tray with springs around birds eat royally.” Yiannis, smug spinning and – VOOM! He went Relief flooded over Yiannis who tened, amused; the only squir - think you are, can you think up the perimeter. He explained, and self- assured asked George flying into the yard on the left – feared an end to the free fruit. rels he saw were in Central something?” George grinned, “I “You put the seed here – hang it what he thought of as a squirrel landing in the kid’s sand box. Kipreos, mentally, promised his park. But, his mind’s wheels can give it a try.” The incentive up and wait!” John asked, repellant. George admitted he The screams - the excitement little friend a special treat when started churning with ideas. was a good start. Dimos offered “What am I waiting for?” Yian - hadn’t come up with anything, from the kid’s mother.” John he got home – in memory. How - “Twenty dollars, eh? Obviously, a reward if either could invent nis, looking at his friend like he excepting, “–maybe, a 22 Rem - waved his hands about. Unper - ever, all fancy ideas of entrepre - the squirrel-proof feeder was in - a squirrel-proof plan by next was dense, said, “The squirrel ington, semi automatic.” John turbed; Yiannis reflected pride. neurship VOOMED – like the vented by some guy who thinks week end. “Deal?” he asked. tries to eat the seed but these accepted Yiannis’ invention, “Ah! So it worked! Imagine! squirrels. kittens come from Pussy Wil - “DEAL!” chorused George lows,” he snickered. “You need and Yiannis. Kipreos looked something proof positive!” “Like glum at the possibility of their what?” asked John, stirring is eliminating the innocent, cute, coffee. “Like something that tells God created, critters. 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SSNY institute, s. miami, Fl, and entrepreneur. A scholar athlete at miami sr. Chauncey St Brooklyn, NY 11207. Purpose: Any shall mail copy of process to 1 Main St., Apt. lawful activity. The latest date of dissolution is 10E, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: Any high school, earned a BA in Biology from harvard university and mD to PlACe your ClAssiFieD AD, CAll: (718) 784-5255, 1/4/63. lawful purpose. ext. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com degree from university of miami school of medicine. member and past 273626/18588 273590/10801 president of the Dr. John t. macDonald Foundation, founding board member of Coral Gables trust, member of um Business mentor Program, national Chairman of orthodox Christian network, Vice mayor of the town of orchid, Fl, served on several hospital and church boards, Emanuel Fthenakis, Satellite Communications Pioneer member of riviera Country Club and orchid island Golf and Beach Club. Avid golfer and nature lover who cherished traveling with his wife, family POTOMAC, MD – Emanuel contributed substantially to sponsible for the Fermi Labora - ing at the graduate level. He and friends. George was an honorable man with a brilliant mind whose Fthenakis of Potomac, MD died state-of-the-art satellite commu - tories); member of the Board of published the textbook on Satel - family mourns their profound loss. may his memory be eternal. memorial on April 3. He was born in Thes - nications. He was elected Man Visitors, College of Engineering, lite Communications for his donations may be made to st. sophia Cathedral, “mekras memorial saloniki, Greece on January 30, of the Year in 1982 for imagina - University of Maryland; member course. He received the 1989 Fund”, 244 sw 24 road, miami, Fl 33129, orthodox Christian network, 1928 to John and Evanthia tive and pioneering work in dig - of the Board of Visitors, Univer - Distinguished Service Award Fthenakis. ital communications by the Elec - sity of Maryland Foundation; from the University of Mary - PoB 4690, Ft. lauderdale, Fl 33338 and st. nicholas Greek orthodox He graduated from the Tech - tronics & Aerospace Systems and Chairman of the Board of land, College of Engineering. He Church, 2525 s. 25th street, Ft. Pierce, Fl 34981. nical University of Athens, and Conference and proclaimed a Pi - Directors of the Challenger Cen - also taught in Bell Laboratory's 14364 received an MS in electrical en - oneer in Space Reconnaissance ter. Until June 1991, Emanuel Advanced Telecommunications gineering from Columbia Uni - and Recovery for his work on was Chairman and Chief Exec - program and General Electric's versity. Emanuel was a leader in the Discoverer Satellite. He re - utive Officer of Fairchild Indus - Professional Business Manage - the telecommunications and ceived The Donovan Award tries which he joined in 1971 ment Program. Emanuel was an aerospace fields. As a pioneer in from the OSS Society for distin - and became CEO in 1985. Prior active member of St. George n AMArIANOS, STAVrOS dear aunt and uncle who satellite communications, he di - guished service to the United to that, he was Chairman and Greek Orthodox Church in KINGSTON, NY (From the Daily brought him to America. Paul rected the development of a States of America. He also re - CEO of the American Satellite Bethesda, MD. He is survived by Freeman, published on Apr. 5) graduated from Brockton High unique multiple satellite launch ceived a citation for leadership Corporation and Head of Engi - his wife, Hermione; two sons, – Stavros T. Amarianos, 90, of School, class of 1959. While in technique, for the first time and vision for the development neering in the Space and Missile John and Basil Fthenakis; and Kingston, passed Friday morn - school, he worked nights, week - launching eight spacecraft at and production of the nation's activities of General Electric four grandchildren. ing, April 4, 2014, at Northern ends and summers ironing and once, forming a network of 27 first space reconnaissance satel - Company. He began his career In lieu of flowers, the family Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. pressing womens coats in a gar - satellites. During his career he lites. During his career he has as a member of the technical is requesting donations be made He was born March 17, 1924 in ment factory. He received a B.S. founded two successful, highly been a consulting member of staff of Bell Telephone Labora - to the Smithsonian National Air Andros, Greece, the son of the in 1963 and a M.S. in 1965 in technical national organiza - the National Academy of Sci - tories in 1953. Emanuel also and Space Museum. late Theodore and Olga Amari - Electrical Engineering from the tions: the Philco-Ford Space Di - ence; member of the Board of took pride in teaching as an ad - anos. At an early age he moved University of Massachusetts, vision and the American Satel - Directors of the University Re - junct professor in University of [Information from legacy.com to Athens and then served in the Amherst. He also received a lite Company. Both of which search Association (which is re - Maryland's School of Engineer - was used in this obituary] Greek Army. In Greece he had Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering owned and operated a shoe fac - in 1969 from Purdue University, tory and in 1968 he immigrated West Lafayette, IN. For over to this country with his family thirty years, Paul worked for the and was employed as a chef un - Foxboro Company in Foxboro. Theodosios Pagiavlas, Owner of “Best Steakhouse,” 55 til his retirement. He was the He started in the research de - loving husband of Andrianna partment and spent several Amarianos, they wed on April years with the company before MARLTON, NJ – Theodosios States in 1978. Although his was recently voted the Best 15, 1948, beloved father of Olga joining the development depart - “Theo” Pagiavlas of Marlton, the profession was going to be a Steakhouse in the country on Moustakas of Kingston, ment from which he retired in beloved husband of Georgia captain in the Merchant the Steve Harvey show. He will Theodore Amarianos of 2000. He published over two (nee Pentakis), devoted father Marines, he arrived in New York be lovingly remembered by his Kingston, father-in-law of Harry dozen papers and a book and of Leonidas and Eleni Pagiavlas, and decided to stay and make family, business associates, em - Moustakas, grandfather of An - was granted a number of and loving grandfather of Theo - the U.S. his home. He met and ployees, and many good friends. thony Moustakas and Andreana patents. In 1998 he was selected dosios, passed away on April 1. married the love of his life, In lieu of flowers, the family Petersen and her husband Reife, the Foxboro Companys Inventor He is also survived by mother- Georgia, and lived the true requests donations may be made and great-grandfather of Andri - of the Year and was inducted in in- law, Mary Pentakis, nephew American Dream. to the Altar Guild of St. Thomas anna Olga Moustakas . The fam - the Corporate Division of the In - Leonidas A. Pagiavlas, sister-in- He worked his way up in the Greek Orthodox Church in ily extends their deepest grati - ventors Hall of Fame in Acron, laws Popi Stamatiades, Marsha restaurant business and became Cherry Hill, NJ. To share condo - tude and appreciation for the OH. Paul helped organize the Pentakis, brother-in-law Peter owner of many restaurants in lences with the family please visit loving care their father received Southborough soccer program Pentakis, and several nieces and the South Jersey area. He de - www.murrayparadeefh.com. at the Kingston Hospital, North - and was its president for a num - nephews. voted himself to Copperfield's of ern Dutchess Hospital and the ber of years. Many people will Theo was born in Chios, Mt. Laurel and most recently [Material from legacy.com was Ferncliff Nursing Home, 5th remember him for the years he Greece and came to the United The Pub of Pennsauken, which used for this article.] floor. The Mass will be at St. coached boys and girls soccer George’s Greek Orthodox teams. He also volunteered for Church on Monday at 11 a.m. the Northborough/ Southbor - Burial in Montrepose Cemetery. ough Music Association and was ily, please visit morrisfuneral - his wife Irene's children and sisters-in-law as well as many his brilliant and vigorous mind The family suggests memorial its president for a year. Paul parlor.com. grandchildren. The Greek Ortho - loving nieces and nephews. The to various projects and activities. contributions to St. George’s shared 48 years of marriage dox funeral and burial services family will receive their friends Despite his physical disabilities Greek Orthodox Church, 294 with the love of his life, Judith n BAzIOTIS, ELEFTHErIOS will be private. In lieu of flowers, on Friday 5-9 PM at the Frank (he had "polio" at the very young Greenkill Avenue, P.O. Box 3062, (Outten) Badavas, who survives CRANSTON, RI (From the Prov - donations may be made in his A. Patti and Kenneth Mikatarian age) he loved to remodel old Kingston, N.Y., 12402 or Fern - him. He is survived by his son idence Journal, published on memory to The Annunciation Funeral Home 327 Main Street houses not only for money but cliff Nursing Home, 21 Ferncliif Christos P. Badavas and his wife Mar. 20) – Baziotis, Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church Endow - "opposite the Fort Lee Library". for the joy of it. He was very Drive, Rhinebeck, N.Y., 12572. Sarah of Sunnyside, NY; his "Lefty" 79, of Cranston, RI ment Fund. Online condolences All are asked to assemble Sat - happy when his dream to build Arrangements entrusted to the daughter Elizabeth Badavas Vas - passed away peacefully Friday www.WoodlawnGattone.com. urday in the Greek Orthodox residential units in Sunset area care of the A. Carr & Son Fu - siliou and her husband morning March 14, 2014 at Church of the Ascension at in San Francisco was accom - neral Home, 65 Lucas Ave, Christophoros of Albany, CA. He home. He was the husband of n COCKINOS, HELEN 10:30 AM. For condolences, di - plished. He liked to be known Kingston. Light a candle in mem - was the loving grandfather of Irene (Petras) Baziotis, and the EDGEWATER, NJ (From the rections, or information call as a "Real Estate Developer" and ory of Stavros at www.Key ser - Paul and Thomas, and Angeliki, late Chrysanthe (Pliakas) Bazi - Bergen Record, published on (201) 944-0100 or indeed he was a successful one. Carr.com. Panagiotis, Baby Boy and Twin - otis. Born in Sikea, Greece, he Mar. 13) – Helen "Eleni" (nee; www.frankpatti.com. Art was an amazing individual, nie. He is survived by his broth - emigrated to the U.S. in 1954 Diamantopoulos), 82, of Edge - a gentleman, full with life and n BADAVAS, PAuL ers, Bill Badavas and Steve Ba - and lived the American dream. water, died on March 11, 2014, n DEDES, ArT endless energy, vibrant, philoso - SOUTHBOROUGH, MA (From davas, both of Brockton; John A devout conservative with an after a long and joyful life. Born SAN FRANCISCO, CA (From the pher, intelligent, knowledgeable, the Hopkinton Crier, published Badavas and his wife Karen, of unparalleled work ethic, he was July 1, 1931, in Patra, Greece, San Francisco Chronicle, pub - wickedly funny, fearless inde - on Mar. 20) – Paul C. Badavas, Raynham; Dimitrios Badavas co-owner of Kip's Restaurant in she came to the United States lished on Mar. 22) – Art (Aris - pendent with a feisty personality. 76, of Southborough, died on and his wife Toula, of Athens, Pawtucket for 40 years and as a teenage girl with her family totelis, Telis) Dedes born in Ar - He loved nothing more than to Sunday March 16, 2014, at Greece; his sister Vicky Livas, of owner of a commercial real es - in 1946. It was in New York City gos, Greece passed away at the surround himself with friends, home with his family at his side. Athens, Greece; his brother-in- tate business. He is best known that she met the love of her life, age of 85 on March 13, 2014. providing us with love , humor Paul was born in 1937 in the law Richard Outten of Chicago for his love of family and his pas - Nikos Cockinos, with whom she He is survived by his loving de - and happiness. He enjoyed the village of Thoknia, county of and four nieces and seven sion for his heritage and Greek led a wonderfully romantic life voted partner, compassionate friendship with many wonderful Megalopolis, state of Arcadia, nephews. Relatives and friends Orthodox faith. He is survived filled with love, dance, and companion, and best friend of people he met. Art enjoyed trav - Greece. He was the son of the are respectfully invited to call by his three children Anne (Bazi - travel. Helen worked as a pro - 45 years, Eva; his beloved and elling with his loving friend, Eva, late Christos P. and Vasiliki on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at otis) Kaloidis and her husband fessional hairstylist for nearly 60 caring brother Demetrios and his visiting many countries, espe - (Pechilis) Badavas and of his the Morris Funeral Home, 40 Constantine of Woodbury, CT, years. She was a faithful parish - nephews and nieces, Chris, Dina cially liked to visit Greece every beloved stepmother Maria Main Street, Southborough, Peter Baziotis M.D. and his wife ioner of the Greek Orthodox Pano, Dino and Christina. Art year for many months at the (Giorgada) Badavas. Paul immi - from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. A liturgy Silvia of Cranston, and Angela Church of the Ascension in immigrated to USA in 1960 to time. He loved the outdoors, grated to the United States of in Pauls memory will be cele - (Baziotis) Pontikes and her hus - Fairview, NJ. Helen was pre - join his parents and siblings in staring at the sea for hours on America on February 7, 1956 brated at Saints Anargyroi band Tom, of Cranston. Papou ceded in death by her beloved San Francisco in pursuit of the end, reading the Greek newspa - and became a naturalized citi - Greek Orthodox Church, 9 Cen - Lefty was a loving and devoted husband Niko in 1998. She was "American dream." He focused pers and interesting books in zen in 1961. He could always tral Street, Marlboro, MA on Fri - grandfather and is survived by a deeply devoted mother to her philosophy. His determination be found with a copy of the Con - day, March 21, at 10:30 a.m. his cherished grandchildren two children Violet Mavrakis this is a service and personal resolve allowed stitution of his adopted country Burial will follow be in South - Vasilios, Chrysanthe, Maria and her husband Vasilios, and to the community. him to live life to the fullest ex - in his briefcase and was forever borough Rural Cemetery. Elenni, Thomas, Matthew, Eleft - James Cockinos and his wife Announcements of deaths tent possible. We really miss you thankful for the support of his Memorial Donations may be herios (Teddy), Sophia, and Constantina. Helen was an may be telephoned to the dear friend. Friends and family made to the Dana-Farber Cancer Michael as well as sisters and adored and cherished grand - Classified Department of may visit Thursday, March 20th Institute, 450 Brookline Ave., brothers-in-law Rev. James and mother of six: Niko, Eleni and the national herald at at 5 pm and are invited to the Days and dates of funerals, Boston, MA 02215-5450, or to Vasiliki Rousakis, Rev. Petros and George Mavrakis, and Nicholas, (718) 784-5255, Trisagion at 7:30 pm and to the memorials, and other events di - the Building Fund of Saints Christine Kopsahilis all of Zoe and Samantha Anna Cocki - monday through Friday, Funeral Service on Friday, March rectly correspond to the original Anargyroi Greek Orthodox Tampa, FL, Demetra Had - nos. Helen is also survived by 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. est 21st at 11 am All at Holy Trinity publication date, which appears Church, PO Box 381, Marlbor - jitheodoridis of Athens, Greece her brother Peter Diamant, and or e-mailed to: Church, Brotherhood Way in SF. at the beginning of each notice. ough, MA 01752. To leave and his many beloved nieces and sisters Maria LaGreca and Sylvia [email protected] Interment at Greek Orthodox words of condolence to the fam - nephews. He is also survived by Stratiotis, beloved brothers-and Cemetery. THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014 GREECE CYPRUS 11 Cyprus Bank Gov Wants Bad Loans Offset

Cyprus’ outgoing Central fault happening,” Demetriades what they owe to the banks who Bank Governor said the govern - said in an interview with took their cash. ment must move to allow fore - Bloomberg. “Borrowers need to Rising unemployment, closures and seizure of debtors’ know that there’s a consequence falling credit and the bad-debt assets to offset bad loans, which when you don’t pay. It’s still the stock are the challenges facing make up 50 percent of bank case that the banks are not able Cyprus’ bailout program imple - holdings during an economic to basically carry out any repos - mentation and the road to re - crisis. sessions in any meaningful time - covery, according to an Interna - The government last need frame. That’s the top priority tional Monetary Fund staff got a 10 billion euro bailout now, to address NPLs,” or non- report. from international lenders that performing loans. According to the IMF, about came with conditions that it He said that will be politi - 50 percent of total loans in the come up with 13 billion euros cally difficult, especially in the domestic market are classed as in revenues or cuts on its side. current atmosphere in which non-performing, nominally Demetriades, who left office President Nicos Anastasiades is worth 22 billion euros. April 10, said too many people still reeling from reneging on a “There will be difficulties as Defence Minister Avramopoulos Meets with AHEPA Delegation who can afford to pay are taking campaign vow not to seize bank regards this legislation,” Deme - advantage of the crisis and their account assets. triades said. “I see the legisla - The Minister of National Defence Dimitris Avramopoulos received the AHEPA delegation at the properties should be seized to Depositors with more than tion as a deterrent to strategic Ministry of National Defence on Monday. The minister informed the delegates of AHEPA on the deter others from trying the 100,000 euros in the bank lost default,” he said, adding that country’s systematic efforts, in order to establish peace, security, and stability in the broader same strategy. 47.5 percent of their money but “there’s a lot of politics” sur - region of South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. “There’s a lot of strategic de - Demetriades wants them to pay rounding the discussion. Prosecutor is Investigating Baltakos Video and Circumstances of its Making

A prosecutor is probing a se - government tries to dismantle with critical elections looming cret videotape in which a former the extremists. next month for Greek munici - top aide to Prime Minister An - “The prime minister did not palities and the European Par - tonis Samaras is heard telling know,” Baltakos said. “I was op - liament. the spokesman for the far right erating on my own initiative as Samaras and Venizelos Golden Dawn Party that the a mediator for the good of the talked about the barrage of crit - government trumped up country. I wanted to dislodge icism directed at New Democ - charges against its leaders and the thousands of Greeks who racy and Baltakos’ claims that influenced the judicial system had voted for Golden Dawn.” the crackdown was an attempt The tape produced by Baltakos said he lied to Ka - to get voters back from the ex - Golden Dawn lawmaker Ilias sidiaris to gain information from tremists for the Conservatives. Kasidiaris as Parliament was him but also said that he made With the video posted online voting to strip him of immunity claims about the government Samaras and New Democracy so he could face criminal cracking down on the party be - were bracing for what could be charges shows him talking to cause the extremists had “pres - more damaging claims the gov - Panayiotis Baltakos, who was sured” him. ernment acted improperly and the Cabinet Secretary for Sama - Government officials are also perhaps even criminally al - ras’ ruling New Democracy Con - expecting that other coalition though prosecutors said they servatives before he quit over officials may surface in new se - would go after anyone releasing the revelation. cret videotapes that could show more videos. The prosecutor, Calliope Da - further incrimination and keep The major opposition Coali - gianta, is investigating the cir - the issue alive. tion of the Radical Left cumstances leading to the mak - Baltakos did not rule out this (SYRIZA) party that is posing a ing of the video. Making and possibility when he spoke to serious challenge in the elec - using an unlawful video is a Real FM. tions because of its opposition crime subject to imprisonment. “There may be more videos to deeply unpopular austerity After it surfaced, Baltakos and I may have said more AP Photo/ sooC/menelAos myrillAs measures the government im - said he was acting as a secret things,” he said. “I cannot re - Former Cabinet Secretary Panayiotis Baltakos arrives at a public prosecutor's office in Athens. Bal - posed on the orders of interna - agent to learn about Golden member with which Golden takos resigned last week after claiming that the prosecution against lawmakers of the Golden tional lenders seized the oppor - Dawn’s inner workings and that Dawn MPs I met. I do not re - Dawn party was politically motivated. He was allegedly videotaped by one of the lawmakers. tunity to attack. Samaras was unaware of what member what else I have said SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras he was saying. and if I said something about selves quickly from the affair. gang, calling the accusation Samaras and his coalition said that Justice Minister Har - He said he acted alone when the prime minister.” Their union dismissed claims “groundless insinuations.” partner, PASOK Socialist leader alambos Athanasiou and Public he met with Kasidiaris and Judges anxious that they will the judges were willing to help Supreme Court prosecutor Evangelos Venizelos, who is the Order Minister Nikos Dendias, Golden Dawn’s deputy chief, come under scrutiny for al - the government by going along Efterpi Koutzamani said the government’s Deputy who Baltakos suggested had Christos Pappas, one of the legedly being subject to political with insufficient evidence courts “acted on the basis of ev - Premier/Foreign Minister, were acted wrongly and pressured party leaders arrested as the influence tried to distance them - Golden Dawn was a criminal idence and the law.” trying to contain political fallout judges, should be forced out. Greece Returns to the Bond Market after 4-year Absence

Continued from page 1 an anti-European stance taken ing she would not let Greece fall exceptional case,” Gammelin by the people,” Gary Jenkins, an out of the Eurozone, the 18 stressed. Radical Left (SYRIZA) party analyst at LNG Capital, told the countries using the euro. Other analysts have said the which is opposed to the terms of Associated Press. A GERMAN DISSENT interest rate could yet prove two bailouts from international And while the bond sale But the German newspaper onerous and condemn Greek to lenders that Samaras backed. could presage an economic re - Süddeutsche Zeitung said that just paying more and more of its The austerity measures have covery it could be a long time Greece has returned to the bond revenues in interest and provid - created record unemployment coming while the issuance could market under false pretenses ing less for social services as it and deep poverty in stark con - provide an immediate bump to that shouldn’t be celebrated. tries to come out from under a trast to the bond sale, at 4.95 Samaras and his party, although “Greece is seeing its return to crushing economic crisis and percent interest, that was lower PASOK has fallen to irrelevant the markets as the country’s re - deep recession. than expected but still enough levels. turn to normalcy. But the situa - Gamelin noted that the gov - to be a bonanza for investors. “Overall, this debt sale is a tri - tion is a little bit different,” wrote ernment has only 152 of the 300 Greeks have rebelled against umph in financial terms,” said the newspaper’s Brussels corre - votes in Parliament, although six AP Photo/thAnAssis stAVrAkis the pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed Kathleen Brooks, Research Direc - spondent, Cerstin Gammelin. members of the ultra-right Greece's Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, left, arrives for a pensions and worker firings that tor at Forex.com. She credited According to the article, the Golden Dawn party have been news conference with European Union's Vice President and Com - Finance Minister Yannis German Chancellor Angela Greek return to the markets is a jailed pending a trial on charges petition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia in Athens on Thursday. Stournaras said, while harsh, Merkel, whose country is the decision based mainly for the po - of running a criminal gang, cut - were the medicine needed to re - biggest contributor to two litical purposes of boosting the ting the majority to 148. threat to the entire Eurozone.” rozone. verse decades of wild overspend - bailouts of 240 billion euros flagging credibility of Greece’s But, said Gamelin in refer - SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras EU leaders have hailed Sama - ing by New Democracy and its ($330.7 billion) from the Troika coalition government and avoid - ence to Samaras, “If his party has said his party would win the ras for pushing reforms while current coalition partner, the PA - of the European Union-Interna - ing a new Eurozone crisis. loses at the local or Euro elec - elections big enough to force shunning Tsipras, fearing what SOK Socialists. tional Monetary Fund-European “If Greece, despite its massive tions in May, this might lead to early national elections. He said would happen if he won. Just “Considering everything Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB). debt, enters the markets, it will early parliamentary elections, if he came to power he would this month the EU okayed an 8.3 Greece has been through one Brooks said Merkel, who in - have an interest rate of 5% and which subsequently might lead revise the Troika memorandum billion euro installment from the could argue that it is surprising sisted on the austerity, also pro - an extended debt repayment pe - to political instability and further or renege on the payments, Troika package to keep Greece that there hasn’t been more of vided investor confidence by say - riod. This isn’t normalcy but an crisis, which would also be a which could jeopardize the Eu - going. Terrorists Bomb Bank of Greece Building in Athens, But No one Injured

Continued from page 1 bailout packages, most of which The measures have helped runs out this year. Greece balance its books after Kedikoglou said. “We will not With the Troika pipeline run - decades of wild overspending allow the attackers to achieve ning dry, Greece was testing the by the ruling parties of Prime their aim.” waters for a full-fledged market Minister Antonis Samaras’ New Greece hoped prospective in - return perhaps by the end of the Democracy Conservatives and vestors wouldn’t be scared off, year. With a primary surplus of his partner, the PASOK Social - two years after they were stiffed up to 2.5 billion euros and a ists. with 74 percent losses by a pre - pending 8.3 billion euro Troika As the government concen - vious government in a desperate installment coming, Finance trated on the hope for a full bid to write down the country’s Minister Yannis Stournaras said market return, the economy re - debt, which still stands at a stag - Greece has finally turned the mains in the doldrums, despite gering 310.35 billion euros, corner toward recovery. investor interest which was an about $430 billion. “After four years of fiscal apparent attempt to cash in on The transaction attracted measures and structural re - the interest rate. more than 20 billion euros of forms, the Greek economy has There is still record unem - interest from more than 550 in - started to show the first encour - ployment, deep poverty, and the vestors, including 1.3 billion eu - aging signs of stability and economy is still contracting, ros of lead manager interest, the growth,” Stournaras said, having shrunk by some 25 per - news agency Reuters reported. adding that bond sale results cent of GDP during the bruising The rate Greece has had to would soon be published. crisis. pay is around half which Russia Greece should now take But Stournaras was hopeful has to pay for the equivalent steps to boost growth, create the successful sale would be a debt and comes even though the jobs and inspire hope among the harbinger for some bigger bonds country has yet to emerge from debt-hit population, he said, later so that Greece doesn’t have a savage recession and remains without adding why that hadn’t to rely on the public loans, even lumbered by a debt burden of AP Photo/Dimitri messinis already happened. though it plans to seek debt re - around 175 percent of Gross Do - Police bomb disposal experts search for evidence next to remains of a car after a car bomb ex - The government crowed lief from the Troika later this mestic Product. plosion outside a Bank of Greece building in central Athens before dawn Thursday. about the bond, which came a year. THE ANALYTICAL VIEW day before German Chancellor “Yields everywhere have “Overall, this debt sale is a “huge” fiscal adjustment and versity, argued it would still be the high returns likely to be of - Angela Merkel was to visit to been falling, and so, like in triumph in financial terms,” said achieved a primary budget sur - too pricey for a country with a fered. “Whoever is fast enough give Prime Minister Antonis many asset classes, investors Kathleen Brooks, Research Di - plus — which excludes debt ser - tiny growth forecast this year will take advantage of that,” he Samaras a boost for backing will be getting paid something rector at forex.com. vicing costs — she said the and high pre-existing debt. said. “But Greece will be bur - austerity measures she insisted for the risk that they are taking, Megan Greene, chief econo - country still faces much on mar - “Can the Greek economy, dened with new onerous inter - upon in return for backing the but that risk premium is proba - mist at Maverick Intelligence, ket liberalization to attain sus - with its limited dynamic, take est rates.” bailouts, much of which comes bly below historical levels for a said the timing is good as pe - tainable growth. borrowing costs of 5-6 percent, THE COMEBACK TRAIL from Germany. commensurate risk,” Colm ripheral bond yields have fallen “Add to this significant polit - even though these are the low - For the last four years, The bond issuance happened D’Rosario, Senior Portfolio Man - significantly. “But there is a fun - ical risk in Athens and market est in the past four years?” he Greece has relied on funds from against the backdrop of the ager, Emerging Markets and damental disconnect between sentiment towards Greece could said in a note. “Probably not. So the Troika of the European bombing and a previous day’s High Yield, at Pioneer Invest - easy market conditions and eco - shift again in the future,” she the vicious circle of over-indebt - Union-International Monetary general strike by labor unions ments told Reuters. nomic fundamentals,” she told said. edness will continue unabated.” Fund-European Central Bank furious over ongoing pay cuts, the AP. Dimitri Mardas, economics Mardas said the issue would (EU-IMF-ECB) in 240 billion eu - tax hikes, slashed pensions and (Material from the Associated While Greece has made a professor at Thessaloniki Uni - attract investor interest due to ros ($330.7 billion) in two worker firings. Press was used in this report) 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014

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When last summer my ified America. So for her, every ness. We toured Greece to I recently placed many of my mother was laid to rest alongside snowfall – even the passing experience our heritage. We at - mother’s favorite things around my father one year after his pass - flurry – was a “winter wonder - tended Greek parochial school my house: an oil painting, a ing, a few people pointed out to land.” She had danced at her col - and church services. We learned small lamp, her porcelain box to me that I was now an orphan. lege prom. She inherited Doris to speak and read Greek and hold my rings. I wear some of Dear Mr. Samaras: While that may have been true Day and Gary Cooper as idols. write it calligraphically. We be - her jewelry in tribute and with in principle, I didn’t believe I was On a nickel’s fare she safely rode came at ease telling friends that sentiment. Last Easter, for the As you know, one of the most memorable expressions inspired abandoned, as I imagine or - New York City’s subways late at ours was the “other” Easter. first time, I baked kourambiedes by the economic crisis and Great Recession in the United States phaned children might feel. On night. And Southern pecan pie At a time when married using her recipe. Their aroma was made by Rahm Emanuel, a close associate of President Barack the contrary. My mother lived a became her newest, most delec - mothers were encouraged to sus - brought me back to holidays in Obama and now Mayor of Chicago: “never let a serious crisis go to rich life that provided her with table dessert. tain their feminine mystique and my childhood home many years waste. And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things definable memories that con - you think you could not do before." tinue to be of value to my sister Indeed, as a result of that logic, and despite her shortcomings, and me. America proceeded to undertake a series of reforms, especially in My mother, Kiki Skafidas the banking sector in response to the Wall Street crisis that threat - Kourkoutas, was a teen in Athens ened to blow up the country's economy. Thus, step-by-step, America when the Germans occupied is recovering. Indeed, it is coping much better than Europe. Greece from 1941-1945. She But in Greece’s case, the opportunity to implement much-needed and her family lived in a neigh - reforms was lost. borhood below the Parthenon I hasten to add that the opportunity was missed not so much during a time when food was ra - during your tenure as during the time of George Papandreou, be - tioned, curfews were strictly en - cause then, at the crisis’ beginning, there was the chance to strike forced, and public executions while the iron was hot. It was then that the measures would have were common. She saw families been readily accepted by the people. of Greek Jews taken away to Now, with upcoming historic elections that may impact Greece’s what everyone thought were la - European orientation, and given the Greek people’s fatigue after so bor camps. Yet, she experienced many years of hardship, reform – despite remaining necessary – is the paradoxes of war, too. She much more difficult to achieve. and her sisters were saddened But in recent days, following the release of the tragic video by to learn that Hans, a 19-year old the Golden Dawn spokesman, you have been presented with an op - German soldier who patrolled portunity to clean Augean Stables of the ministries related to Justice, the street near their father’s gro - to make them truly independent of politics. cery store, had died in combat a Mr. Prime Minister, this opportunity is invaluable. It would be a few years later. shame to waste it. While she fiercely maintained I am sure that the “wise men” who are your advisors are sug - her loyalty to her beloved Greece gesting a cover-up and hope this scandal will magically disappear. and all that its culture did to This was where she wanted remain at home to raise children ago. In these small ways I have Most likely, they say that because they believe it’s what you want to shape her, she also seized the op - to make her life especially after in Spockian fashion, for many remembrances of her and the hear, and they do not want to lose your favor. portunity to live out the Ameri - she met my father, a Greek- years our mother directed a home she created for us. But, in Don’t listen to them. It would be wrong – both politically, and, can Dream. Shortly after the war, American, whose empathy for rather large nursing home’s di - addition to who she was, she more importantly, for the good of the country – to miss this oppor - my mother was fortunate to win this country echoed hers. With - etary department. As a regis - also gifted us with two cultures tunity. two academic scholarships – one out hesitation she became an tered dietitian with an Angli - positioned side-by-side to be re - Do the right thing: make cleanup of the crucial area of Justice to complete her undergraduate American citizen. She learned to cized surname, she confidently spected and drawn from. your banner. Make that cleanup your election motto. Call for the studies, and the second, as one drive standard transmission in went off to work donning a Since she died I often hear restoration of an independent Justice Department. of Greece’s first Fulbright fel - city traffic. In the lilt of her Greek starched white uniform in “old- “Bravo Margoula!” whispered in Everyone knows that Baltakos’ videoed conversation with Ka - lows, to do graduate work at Co - accent she taught me all the lady-heeled” white oxfords. She my ear especially when I think sidiaris has some elements of truth to it. So, come forward now. lumbia University’s Teachers Col - words to Santa Claus is Coming marveled at the fact that she did I’ve accomplished something Grab the bull by the horns. Now. lege. It was at that time, the to Town (while I, an unbuckled a pretty decent job of it consid - that would make her proud. And Mr. Prime Minister, immediately fire the two ministers who early 1950s, that she forged life - toddler, tossed around in the ering her foreign roots and what so, on this first Mother’s Day dragged you into this mess. time friendships with American back seat of the 1953 Ford she thought was the hindrance without her, for many reasons I Punish and make examples of the judges who, for personal rea - students and faculty who wel - singing at full volume.) We made of a spoken accent. The beauty know for sure that I am not an sons, played such shameful games with the politicians. comed her into their homes. special trips into New York’s of it was that my sister and I did orphan. And show appreciation, respect, and support for those honest They introduced her to the Lower East Side to lunch on pas - not resent not having a stay-at- judicial officials who are now being crucified in the arena of the American traditions, beliefs, and trami at Katz’s Deli. Frequent va - home-mom despite the occa - Margo N. Kourkoutas Morea is public discourse. cuisine that she eagerly passed cations at the Jersey shore were sional stinging remarks play - an adjunct professor and Call senior court officials to your office. Make it perfectly clear down to us. Grateful for the op - with her blond, fair-skinned, mates made. We simply grew up student teacher supervisor at that you support their work. portunities that came her way Protestant college friends. But, believing we were part of a four- Ramapo College of New Jersey. And make the necessary legislative changes to guarantee the in - dependence of the judiciary and to severely punish politicians who illegally pressure magistrates. If you follow this route, instead of a cover-up, whatever then Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris happens in the political arena, your conscience will be at peace, and you will have done a great and historic service to the nation. Sincerely, Olympic’s Would-be Savior man who began as a scientist and made the Eternal be his memory. Antonis H. Diamataris leap from research to business administra - An important Greek-American scientist tion. As often happens, though, nostalgia and entrepreneur, Emanuel Fthenakis died for his country of birth was inevitable. Thus, A Jewel of a Church The (Blue and) White House on April 3 in Potomac, MD at age 86. His he could not resist the temptation to serve name became widely-known when he re - when invited by its prime minister. The newly-built church of the Dormition signed from his position as Chairman of the Mitsotakis’ New Democracy, however, of the Virgin Mary and its attached cultural “Good evening!” The guests heard the familiar strong baritone Board of Directors of Olympic Airways in lost the next election. The new government complex in the famous resort of Southamp - voice of President Barack Obama. 1998. It was at that time that he famously (PASOK) appointed Fthenakis to a second ton, where the well-known clergyman Fr. A voice reminiscent of his campaign speeches, one that seizes said: "Nothing has changed in Greece." A term, but members of ND, which hired him, Alexander Karloutsos has been based for a the audience’s attention and makes a strong first impression. statement that many believe still holds true now voted against him, while members of number of years, proves once again the cre - In front of him, nearly 400 Greek-Americans from every corner today. PASOK, previously against him, voted in fa - ative power and leadership ability of dy - of the country were jammed into the White House’s East Room to But let's start from the beginning. In vor of his reappointment. namic personalities. celebrate Greek Independence with the American president. 1993, then-Prime Minister Constantine Mit - The main reason I bring up these matters In just a few years, in the place of a At exactly 4PM on April 4, security began to admit the crowd sotakis appointed Fthenakis Chairman in is to make the more general point that the small, almost-forgotten church, one of the that gathered outside the White House gates. Prudently, the guests the hope that he could save the airline. number of Diaspora Greeks invited to offer most beautiful and tasteful edifices in the were required to check in twice. Regardless of how many times one Fthenakis was born in Thessaloniki, studied their services to the homeland able to func - community has risen. Reminiscent of Hagia visits the White House, each one feels like the first: at its University, was awarded a Masters in tion within the mindset and manner by Sophia, the elegant buildings were fash - One is overwhelmed with awe – the history of the place is pal - Mechanical Engineering from Columbia which businesses work there can be counted ioned with love, intelligence and “meraki” pable, as is the sense of America’s imperial might. University, and began to work at the famous on one hand. Tassos Filippakos, who was – i.e., with passion and soul – every element It is like walking into a secular Hagia Sophia. Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1953. He appointed by Kostas Karamanlis’ govern - was carefully chosen and well-ordered. So there, in front of this audience, an event organized with pro - distinguished himself in the field of com - ment to head the Greek aerospace Industry Naturally, we were very pleased to see fessionalism and precision by the lobbying firm of Manatos and munications satellites, founded two high- and who fought to place it on the right the Johnides Family Cultural Center, with Manatos, spoke a visibly tired President, who persevered through tech companies, and eventually became track, resigned and returned to New York, its state-of-the-art classrooms, the Nicholas fatigue and did his duty. It is an event that should not be underes - Chairman of the Board and President of probably embittered by the behavior he en - S. Zoullas Hellenic Center, which was chris - timated or taken for granted. Fairchild Industries, a large conglomerate countered. tened on Sunday and named for its bene - Of course, recognition of the Greek-American community’s with operations in several areas, including That's because people work differently factor but dedicated to his parents, Sopho - strength and contributions inspires the White House to open its in aircraft technology. He was honored by in Greece from how we are accustomed to cles and Louiza Zoullas, and the magnificent doors and welcome its members, but essentially, turning theoretical the most important organizations in the in - working here: meritocracy does not reign sanctuary. inspiration into reality is the result of the personal relationship that dustry. there, and business is not conducted ac - This church, with its proud inscription a handful of Greek-Americans – not least of which the Manatoses – The Washington Post, recognizing his cording to the known rules of competence, “Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons,” have with the White House. contributions, published a lengthy obituary diligence, transparency, and productivity. is sure to become a center of Hellenism and President Obama and by Vice President Biden acknowledged a from which I borrowed a few items. It is So, despondent after their experiences, men Orthodoxy, offering a rich spiritual and cul - number of folks, and during his brief speech, the president referred clear from the above that Fthenakis was a like Fthenakis leave Greece again, and with tural life that is sure to draw near many to the achievements of Ancient Greece. highly- educated and financially successful a fair amount of bitterness. new enthusiastic and steadfast parishioners. He also reported on his recent trip to Europe – where he stopped, among other cities, in Brussels – from where he said he gained a better understanding of Greece’s geopolitical and economic impor - tance. That turned out to be the news of the day: the president’s reference to Greece’s strategic significance obviously implied that • Mail Delivery service is available from • Classified services available with a wide he discussed the issue of Greece with European officials. Services to our readers: coast to coast. 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United States by Education In American politics, the “new she might fail in her nerdy, high-func - ering. black” is not something anyone presidential bid. tioning capabilities, George H.W. Bush rarely in - planning to win an election Again, thankfully, he is the conserva - tervened in son George W.’s pres - By Chris P. Tomaras them on their path to greatness. would like to be. Because, the none of the signifi - tive Republican ver - idency, and so it is highly unlikely BETTER, STRONGER, “old black” was an African-Amer - cant impediments sion of Michael that at age 92 (which he would Reading the article “Maintain - SOCIETY ican who was politically unelec - have anything to do Dukakis. But to his be on the night of the 2016 elec - ing the Greatness of Hellenes” Education is a cornerstone of table simply because of the color with gender. credit, Jindal has tion), he would do so. And much (TNH, Jan. 11) written by Andy American society. Greek-Ameri - of his or her skin. In a nation in America’s soft been working on like his father, and unlike his fel - and Mike Manatos, one feels cans are among the most highly which most hardcore racism racism, then, in that, and his low 67 year-old ex-President Clin - pride in our ancient and modern educated Americans. We need to (lynchings, cross-burnings, e.g.) terms of blacks and speeches are becom - ton, the younger George Bush has legacies. Our contributions to civ - ensure that this trend continues. had been all but eradicated, “soft” women, seems to ing increasingly an - no desire to reenter politics, on ilization have had a lasting im - However, today’s Greek-Ameri - racism (reluctance to vote for a have dissipated imated. He cannot any level. He may join Clinton – pact. Andy and Mike Manatos are can college students are faced black person at the polls) en - enough where nei - by CONSTANTINOS E. change what he is, as he has done before – in raising to be congratulated for their ef - with the challenge of having suf - dured. ther is an obstacle to SCArOS though, an Indian- funds for the victims of natural forts in preserving our Hellenic ficient resources to complete When Barack Obama was run - winning national of - American, and just disasters, but he is highly unlikely identity, history, and heritage their education. According to the ning for president in 2008, I was fice, even the high - Special to because Americans to place his stamp on a Jeb Bush through the Washington OXI Day National Student Clearinghouse in Greece that summer and was est one of all. But The National Herald have proven they presidency in any way. Foundation. Research Center, nearly half of assured by the Greeks that “no there are three other will vote for a per - Moreover, the elder Bush’s The article’s poignant account all students enrolled in college way will those American racists factors yet to be extinguished that son of color, does not mean that vaunted political connections – a of OXI Day, through which I lived, will not complete their education. elect a black as president.” Thank - will present big challenges to four they are willing to vote for a per - few of whom influenced his son’s brought back a myriad of emo - Why? These are the three top fully, they were wrong. formidable presidential con - son of any color. presidency – have either passed tions. It truly was a David versus reasons: rising tuition, decreasing I say “thankfully” not be - tenders: Louisiana Governor Rubio and Ryan have gravitas on or retired. Simply put, if Jeb Goliath encounter. The Nazi oc - financial aid and a lack of support cause I am a particularly big fan Bobby Jindal, Florida Senator in their words, but not in their Bush were president, we wouldn’t cupation laid the seeds of mis - from the private sector. Can we of Obama (though I don’t cate - Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Con - looks. Granted, Candidate Obama see Dick Cheney and Donald trust that gave way to a Civil War, afford to let this happen to our gorically denounce him, either), gressman and 2012 Republican looked very youthful, too, in Rumsfeld at the White House to threatening the cradle of democ - Greek-American undergradu - but because I am proud to live Vice Presidential Nominee Paul 2008, before the most stressful give him advice. racy’s very existence. With family ates? in a country that has – at long Ryan, and former Florida Gover - job in the world aged him. But Northeast elitists can deny it members and friends pitted At the PanHellenic Scholar - last – demonstrated that it will nor Jeb Bush. Jindal is an Indian Obama has a booming voice, and all they like, but the fact is they against one another, with lives ship Foundation we say a re - elect a black president. That (the country) – American, Rubio that can help to compensate for have a regional bias akin to lost thoughtlessly – including that sounding NO! On June 14, 2014 does not necessarily mean, how - and Ryan barely look like they’re looking too young. Not so for Ru - racism. Part of why they think of of my mother – the stakes were at our Awards Ceremony and ever, that the United States will old enough to shave, and Bush is bio or Ryan. Alexander the Great George W. Bush as “dumb” is his none higher than that of the Gala at the Hilton Chicago, out - not reject other candidates the son of an only mildly popular conquered the world at 32. Texas twang. They won’t admit Great War of Independence. standing students from across the based on equally irrelevant rea - former president, and the brother George Washington was a Gen - that whenever they hear an ac - As freedom and democracy United States will receive schol - sons – such as nationality, age, of a much-maligned one. In terms eral at 21. Doesn’t matter. In to - cent from Texas or the American prevailed, we witnessed the re - arship awards totaling $250,000. and family ties. of political unelectability, then, day’s political world, gray hair (if South as a whole, they can’t help siliency that Greeks are famous By the time of this event, the Gender seems like the next being Indian, young, and a Bush you’re a man) scores points. but think of the goofball charac - for. The final victory led to Foundation will have awarded hurdle the presidency needs to are the new black. Then, there’s Jeb Bush. Unlike ters on Green Acres, the Beverly Greece's membership in NATO more than $2 million to over 260 overcome – which would be his - I could be wrong, and hope nationality and youthful appear - Hillbillies, and the Andy Griffith and helped define the ideological deserving undergraduates. torically consistent with voting that I am (again, not so much ance, there is something to be Show. balance of power in the Aegean Education is also our means rights (the 14th Amendment, based on the candidates them - made of the argument of “the ap - But Jeb is nothing like that. Sea. Greece’s emergence demon - to advance Hellenism. John F. which prohibited voting discrim - selves, but to eradicate irrelevant ple doesn’t fall very far from the He doesn’t “look that part” of a strates not only its strategic im - Kennedy said, “Let us think of ed - ination based on race was ratified reasons for rejecting candidates), tree.” Those who dreaded the two Southerner. He doesn’t mangle portance, but the inherent value ucation as the means of develop - 50 years before the 19th, which but I don’t think the country is Presidents Bush (or at least one his words, like W. does. of its numerous contributions to ing our greatest abilities, because guaranteed women the right to ready to take the plunge and vote of them), cringe at the thought Take away Jindal’s ethnicity, the modern world. in each of us there is a private vote). Yet as of this writing, the for an Indian (and yes, it’s ok to of another one. But unlike the Rubio’s and Ryan’s youthful fea - HELLENISM IN AMERICA hope and dream which, fulfilled, odds-on favorite to win the White say “Indian,” even among the po - Clintons, in whose case if Hillary tures, and Bush’s surname, and For more than 134 years, the can be translated into benefit for House in 2016 is a woman – litically-correct crowd, when re - wins, there is little doubt husband you’ve got four much more elec - glory that is Greece has thrived everyone and greater strength for Hillary Clinton. ferring to a descendant of India, and ex-President Bill will be in table candidates, any of which in America. According to histo - our nation." Our goal at the PHSF Despite Clinton’s perennial as opposed to a Native Ameri - the thick of things again, the ex- would mount a very strong chal - rian Alexander Kitroeff, the first is to build a better America frontrunner status, there are can). That is a shame, because Presidents Bush would probably lenge to Hillary Clinton. wave of immigration between through Education and Hel - plenty of reasons being discussed Jindal’s biggest political liability limit their Washington visits in a Maybe next time, gentlemen. 1880-1920 brought more than lenism. We ask you to join us in about why – as in 2008, when is his lack of being able to deliver Jeb Bush presidency to the occa - America still has some growing 400,000 Hellenes to the United this effort. she was favored to win as well – stirring speeches. In terms of sional White House family gath - up to do. States. They laid the foundation CHAIRMAN’S CHALLENGE of Hellenism in America, instill - Education is my passion. I ing the values of “ethos and have witnessed how education philotimo, honesty and integrity” has made an impact on one’s per - that have sustained us for nearly sonal growth and on society in five generations, with thirst for the accomplishments of our education being at the top. It is award recipients. They are out - true that we have an “unceasing standing future leaders. Their let - pursuit of knowledge and excel - ters have expressed not only grat - lence.” itude, but how their scholarship It is this pursuit of knowledge has had a life changing impact and excellence that drives us to in helping them continue their make meaningful contributions education. I want other deserving to society. The PanHellenic Schol - students to experience this suc - arship Foundation (PHSF), which cess. In doing so, I have initiated I founded to ensure that Greek- The Chairman’s Challenge. Left to right: Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, and Jeb Bush. Four strong candidates weakened by irrelevant reasons. American college students have The Chairman’s Challenge is the resources they need to pursue a matching gift program de - their educational goals, has wit - signed to “challenge” individuals, nessed this quest for excellence businesses, and corporations to LETTER FROM ATHENS in our scholarship recipients. It join the PHSF as a philanthropic has also helped them shape their partner. As Chairman of the future by following real life ex - PHSF, I will personally match amples as demonstrated by the each monetary gift of $1,000 to What the Whole Baltakos Mess Reveals about Samaras recipients of our Paradigm Award. $10,000 up to $200,000, for a The Paradigm Award is given to combined total of $400,000 to outstanding Greek-Americans support our scholarship awards There’s no evidence that in detention camps Supreme Court aide and a lawyer, Failos Krani - whose values and accomplish - and leadership programs. Greek Prime Minister Antonis that are so bad al - prosecutor Efterpi diotis, a hardline anti-immigrant ments emulate our Hellenic Imagine your donation dou - Samaras ordered a trumped-up most every human Koutzamani or - nationalist, and others of his ilk virtues and serve as role models bling in value, multiplying re - crackdown on the ultra-far right rights group worthy dered Greece’s who have had the Premier’s ear to our scholarship recipients sources and magnifying the im - Golden Dawn Party as Little Big of the name has prosecutors to ini - since the election and pushed The distinguished group of pact on financially deserving, Man Panayiotis Baltakos, who condemned them. tiate proceedings him toward the extreme right. Paradigm Award recipients in - academically excellent Greek- was the Cabinet Secretary in the With critical May for the immediate If Samaras really wants to re - cludes: Senator Paul Sarbanes, American college students. And government’s coalition and a elections looming arrest of anyone store any sense of integrity into Congressman Michael Bilirakis, for every $10,000 donation you top aide, implied in a secretly- for the European who makes public New Democracy now that it’s John Calamos, Sr. (founder of give, you will have the opportu - recorded videotape before re - Parliament and illegally obtained been smeared by Baltakos as Calamos Investments), the late nity to dedicate one scholarship canting and claiming he was Greek elections, footage, a clumsy one step removed from Golden Constantine Papadakis (President in the name of your choice. working as an underground se - Samaras is desper - and obvious at - Dawn, he has to purge the party of Drexel University), Peter Dia - There is no greater gift than cret agent. ate to keep the ma - by ANDY tempt to block the of people who want it to be - mandis (founder of the X Prize the gift of education. It is a gift The Baltakos Affair is a sor - jor opposition Coali - DABILIS release of more come just like the near neo- did one indeed, because it tion of the Radical videotapes, except Nazis whose hate knows no shows just how petty politicians Left (SYRIZA) that Special to that’s not going to bounds. really are when the photo op opposes the auster - The National Herald happen in the age There’s no room for that in a cameras aren’t whirling and ity measures he im - of Youtube, Daily party that claims it’s trying to when they’re not hiding behind posed on orders of international Motion and Twitter. bring Greece back from the platitudinous press releases that lenders from making a killing at Baltakos told Kasidiaris that brink of economic disaster, es - aren’t worth the Charmin on the polls. Samaras was in the U.S. when pecially when it’s the only line which they’re printed. He’s been spreading good the Golden Dawn spokesman of defense against the Maoist Baltakos, who all the while news that Greece has a primary was released after being arrested, Conspiracy of SYRIZA reneging looked like a guy who’d had his surplus and he’s going to return and that the Premier went viral on international loans and lunch money stolen by bullies much of it to a few sectors hit and that the Premier blamed bringing back neo-Communism when he was a kid, suggested by pay cuts, tax hikes, and Public Order Minister Nikos Den - almost 75 years after the coun - that the evidence against slashed pensions. dias and Justice Minister Har - try was split viciously along ide - Golden Dawn’s hierarchy on That gave him a bump in the alambos Athanasiou, who have ological lines. charges of running a criminal polls, before the Baltakos Affair denied any wrongdoing. So instead of circling the wag - organization, was concocted in gave SYRIZA a shot in the arm “He wouldn’t tell me about ons and going into a Nixonian a bid to siphon votes away for and retook the lead, but these this,” Baltakos said. “He called stonewall, Samaras needs to New Democracy. things are volatile and Samaras the other two and f***** them show he has the courage and de - Chris P. Tomaras, PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation There’s a thin line between is already moving into damage … he told them, ‘You ridiculed cency to vet out people like Bal - Founder, dedicated to educating Greek-Americans. the two parties: Golden Dawn control to prevent the release of me. This is a joke.’” That was takos and Kranidiiotis and too is just a whacko collection of more videos like the one that allegedly because Samaras was many others who’ve made New Foundation), the brilliant NASA that can never be returned, only uneducated soccer hooligan showed Baltakos with Golden upset that the anti-Semites in Democracy just a bunch of heart - scientist, Dr. Thanasis Economou, increases in value and as Aristotle types who couldn’t spell cat if Dawn spokesman Ilias Ka - Golden Dawn had embarrassed less capitalists who don’t care Frances Fragos Townsend (the has proclaimed “is the best pro - you spotted them the “c” and sidiaris, the party’s biggest thug. him while he was speaking to people are dying because first woman to be Homeland Se - vision for life’s journey.” I ask you the “t” and who have a danger - After Baltakos said there the American Jewish Congress. Greece’s health care system does - curity Advisor), and Alexander to accept our challenge and join ous jingoistic mission aimed at would be more video tapes com - Within a few days, AJC n’t have the money for syringes Payne, famed Academy Award us! Visit our website at www.pan - ridding Greece of illegal foreign - ing out – ensnaring other New leader David Harris said, “This or toilet paper in hospitals. winning writer, director, and pro - hellenicscholarships.org to make ers. Democracy officials in the incident must have been a real That’s where the real prob - ducer. Each of the recipients em - your contribution today or call So does Samaras, who stated Golden Dawn lasso set-up – the shock for Prime Minister Sama - lem is in Greece, not in the likes bodies Hellenic ideals and has in - (312) 357-6432. Together, we as much when he was cam - government went into high gear ras, who has shown such strong of Golden Dawn, which poses corporated Hellenic values and will build a better, stronger and paigning in 2012. The differ - to prevent it, only reinforcing moral and political leadership no real threat because so far all principles into their very being educated America. ence is New Democracy doesn’t the extremists allegation the ju - in confronting Golden Dawn.” it’s shown that about 10 percent and their life’s work. Hellenism go around beating up immi - diciary is on the take too. If that But what hasn’t been said of the people are gullible fools, has shaped them and fueled their Chris P. Tomaras is the founder grants but relies on the police stuff happened in the U.S. some here is why Samaras has sur - which isn’t enough. ambition to pursue excellence, of the PanHellenic Scholarship force, a core constituency, to very high-ranking officials rounded himself with people but it was education that set Foundation. round them up and dump them would be in jail fast. like Baltakos and another top [email protected] 14 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 12-18, 2014