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John Pappajohn Centers Celebrate 20Th Anniversary S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEKly GREEK-AmERIcAN PUblIcAtION 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 989 September 24-30 , 2016 c v $1.50 Pence John Pappajohn Meets with Centers Celebrate Arch. 20th Anniversary Demetrios By Demetris Tsakas universities in 1996, at a time when entrepreneurial activity in Rebuilding St. DES MOINES, IA – The state of Iowa was at a standstill, busi - Iowa and the five universities nesses were closing one after Nicholas Church, that benefited from the generos - the other and the agricultural ity, wisdom, vision, and deter - sector was in despair. family discussed mination of John Pappajohn As he pointed out in his held a celebration at the Des speech during the ceremony, TNH Staff Moines Marriott Hotel on Sep - Pappajohn recognized the crisis tember 15 for the 20th anniver - as an opportunity and, along NEW YORK – His Eminence sary of the establishment of the with his wife Mary, decided to Archbishop Demetrios of Amer - John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial initially offer $1 million dollars ica received a visit on Septem - Centers. to each of the five universities ber 15 in his office at the Head - Founded in 1996 at Drake for the creation of the Entrepre - quarters of the Greek Orthodox University, Iowa State Univer - neurial Centers. The couple was Archdiocese of America, from sity, North Iowa Area Commu - not content with just the dona - Indiana Governor Mike Pence, nity College, the University of tion, but managed to transform the Vice-Presidential nominee of Iowa, and the University of their own vision and way of do - the Republican Party. Northern Iowa, these centers ing business into a vision and The two discussed a variety are the only ones in the US plan for the five universities and of topics, including the rebuild - which operate independently of the state itself to promote and ing of Saint Nicholas Greek Or - each other while having joint support entrepreneurship. thodox Church and National programs, including the five the - Pappajohn’s role, as noted by Shrine at the World Trade Cen - matic competitions that allow both Governor Terry Branstad ter, which is now in progress. students to present their busi - and the presidents of the uni - Saint Nicholas was the only ness plans and improve them in versities, as well as the repre - house of worship destroyed in EUROKINISSI order to fulfil their dreams. sentatives of the entrepreneurs the terrorist attacks of Septem - Prime Minister of Greece and Turkish President Meet in New York The Greek-American busi - who emerged from these cen - ber 11, 2001. Father Alexander nessman and philanthropist ters, turned the tide for the state Karloutsos, who also attended Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo ğan in New contributed more than $25 mil - the meeting, opened the conver - York. Among the issues discussed was fate of 8 Turkish military men who sought asylum in Greece. lion to the five aforementioned Continued on page 4 sation on the rebuilding of St. Nicholas in light of the recent tour of the building site that he and the Archbishop attended along with Greek Orthodox Dr. Peter Diamandis & His New Book Archdiocese of America Execu - tive Director of Administration Jerry Dimitriou. As the rebuild - By Vasilis Papoutsis becoming an astronaut for nounced a $10 million award ing continues, St. Nicholas NASA. for the first private entity that Church stands more and more Dr. Peter Diamandis is a vi - Dr. Diamandis went on to ob - would build and fly a rocket into as a beacon of hope as well as a sionary who believes that “there tain an undergraduate degree space twice within a week. A place of worship and reflection is no dream and no challenge in Molecular Genetics and a group of investors who included for all people and once open to too big that you cannot over - graduate degree in Aerospace Paul Allen, built a small shaped the public will be a welcome come.” He is the embodiment of Engineering from MIT. How - rocket called SpaceShipOne, space for all the visitors from this philosophy and his accom - ever, the timing was not right which launched into space and around the world who come to plishments in the fields of inno - as NASA was winding down returned safely to earth to claim pay their respects at the Na - vation, science and academia manned space missions, “I real - the prize and make history in tional September 11th Memor - prompted Fortune Magazine to ized then that my dream of be - commercial space travel. ial and Museum located just name him one of “The World's coming a NASA astronaut was The start of the XPRIZE across the street. Support is still Greatest Leaders.” His fascina - fleeting away,” Diamandis said. Foundation and the extraordi - needed to continue the rebuild - tion with space exploration But he was not discouraged. He nary path to success of the first ing effort and more information started when he was very young is a strong believer that “the best privately funded team in space is available online at www.stni - initially watching the TV series way to predict the future is to aviation is chronicled in the new cholaswtc.org/donate The im - Star Trek in Athens and the create it yourself.” book How to Make a Spaceship: portance of the institution of Apollo 11spaceflights. Finding inspiration in A Band of Renegades, an Epic family was also part of the in - When he was in 7th grade, Charles Lindbergh's transat - Race, and the Birth of Private formative discussion. Diamandis began building lantic flight from New York to Spaceflight , written by award Governor Pence was accom - rocket engines using the Estes Paris that was motivated by winning journalist Julian EUROKINISSI panied by his wife Karen and kits. He was very good doing it Lindbergh's desire to win a Guthrie. She had received Dia - Former King Constantine Moved to Tears his daughter Charlotte. The cou - and he won an award at age12 $25,000 prize, Diamandis de - mandis' enthusiastic endorse - ple has two other children, that ignited his desires even fur - cided to follow the same for - ment and she was granted ac - Presenting awards to Olympic Bronze-medalists Pavlos Kagialis Michael and Audrey. ther, not just to build engines mula. He established the and Panagiotis Mantis in Athens, former King Constantine gave Archbishop Demetrios pre - but to be a space explorer by XPRIZE Foundation and an - Continued on page 3 emotional thanks to Pres. Pavlopoulos and the athletes. sented the governor with two books, the first, In the World, Yet Not of the World: Social and Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and the The Island of Lemnos & Its Amazing Beaches Remembering second, Call to Faith, authored by His Eminence, in which the Archbishop inscribed a dedica - By Penelope Karageorge vert with every kind of facility. private island could not have hands. God inspired me. I love Seferis 45 tion on the request of Governor And tiny, intimate beaches, just had it better. An occasional this beach.” The rustic café looks Pence. Lemnos, a butterfly-shaped waiting to be discovered. child’s delighted cry and gently like a beachcomber’s dream, Pence, who grew up in a island in the Northern Aegean, Famous past visitors to Lem - lapping water are the only decorated with bamboo and sea Years Later large Irish Catholic family in In - offers delicious wine, ambrosial nos beaches have included sounds. Look up occasionally to shells. Straw beach umbrellas diana, was an altar boy, and at - honey, a history rooted in antiq - Odysseus – he dropped by in see a sailboat or a colorful wind - and tanning areas artfully tended parochial schools, but uity and – its best-kept secret – Homer’s Iliad. In more recent surfer floating by. arranged on the beach appear By Eleni Sakellis became an evangelical born- the absolutely best beaches in history, Prince Charles and Lemnos beaches inspire pas - spontaneous. A favorite of the Aegean. There are 162 miles Camilla were spotted swimming sion. Angelo Bondoukas, a 30- young people, Red Rock also Giorgos Seferis, Nobel laure - Continued on page 5 of coastline with coves, penin - at Parthenomytos Beach – a something entrepreneur, over - welcomes more mature beach ate and one of the greatest poets sulas, and capes created just for stretch that is long, beautiful, sees Red Rock Beach, so named lovers with tables for tavli of the 20th century, passed away the exploration of the devoted and largely untrodden. for the red rocks rising out of (backgammon) set under shady on September 20, 1971. At his beach lover and beachcomber. A summer resident of Lem - the water like sculpture to frame trees. Surfboards are welcome. funeral in Athens, the crowds of Lemnos’ beaches are extraor - nos, my favorite beach contin - a beach that offers surf and Lemnos boasts Keros, the pre - mourners following his coffin Benefit in dinary in their great variety. ues to be Lichna, a 10-minute waves. To reach this special mier surf center of Greece. Al - sang the Mikis Theodorakis There are beaches with shallow walk from my village house. beach, you go down a twisting though there are surf centers on arrangement of his poem Arnisi water where children can wade This beach offers shelters from dirt road past a field where Rhodes and Paros, Keros is con - (Denial) which was banned at Honor of Th. out endlessly. Volcanic islets and the sun, and calm water where chamomile blooms in the sidered surfer’s heaven.
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