Frixos Goussis: Physician, Philosopher
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O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A wEEKLY GREEK AmERICAN PUBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 13, ISSUE 666 July 17-23 , 2010 $1.50 N.E.’s Metropolitan Did German Submarine Deal Torpedo Greece? Methodios Angered by Billions for Defense While Workers Do Clergy-Laity Bypass Without Raises By Theodore Kalmoukos not planning to do so, to explain ATHENS - As Greek public sec - TNH Staff Writer why. Fr. Ted in his letter stated tor workers struggle with 10% that: “His Eminence asked me pay cuts, slashed pension bene - BOSTON - With a massive ab - to contact you today to confirm fits and higher taxes - part of sence from the 40th Clergy – if you will be attending the the austerity measures to keep Laity Congress in Atlanta last Clergy-Laity Congress in Atlanta the country from defaulting on week, the parishes of New Eng - in two weeks. We received a list its loans and to pay back Euro - land showed vividly the broader of parishes that have registered pean Union and International ecclesiastical problem that exists at least one delegate thus far. Monetary Fund loans - the De - in the Boston Metropolis. Only As of today, only 18 parishes fense Ministry is forging ahead 18 parishes out of the 63 that from the Metropolis of Boston with plans to spend more than comprise the region participated have confirmed their participa - $1.25 billion on two submarines in this pivotal ecclesial event. tion. Metropolitan Methodios from Germany, which had de - Not only medium and small size strongly encourages every manded cuts in other areas of parishes were absent but also parish of our Metropolis to plan public spending and got them some of the major parishes such on participating in the Congress from Prime Minister George Pa - as St. George of Lynn, St. Vasil - with at least the registration of pandreou. While the deal - ios of Peabody, Sts. Apostles Pe - the priest, and hopefully one or whose cost could approach $3 ter and Paul of Haverhill and two lay leaders.” billion euros - has been a decade even the Annunciation Cathe - The National Herald learned in the making, the idea of dral of Boston, the church’s cen - that many priests simply ig - spending money on submarines terpiece in the area. The no- nored the letter, while in Atlanta whose value defense analysts shows of the New England the issue of the absentia of the question threatens to under - parishes made Metropolitan New England parishes was dis - mine Papandreou's hopes to Methodios so upset that the day cussed widely among the priests convince Greeks they must sac - after the event ended he sent and laity in their private con - AP PHOTO/PETROS KARAdJIAS rifice for the common good, es - off a letter blasting the priests versations along with the com - Remembering Cyprus, 1974 pecially because the Wall Street and the parish councils of the ments about Methodios and the Journal (WSJ) in an article writ - communities. He wrote that, state of the church in New Eng - Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias attends a memorial service at the Ayios Constantinos and ten by Christopher Rhoads, re - “The absence of many Priests land. Also discussed was Metho - Elenis cemetery in Nicosia, Cyprus, July 15, by the graves of Cypriot soldiers and police officers ported that some leaders, in - and Communities of the Me - dios’ announcement of the cel - killed July 15, 1974, during a coup which was intended to overthrow Archbishop Makarios. The cluding an Admiral who tropolis of Boston from the 40th ebration of the blessing of the National Herald will commemorate the event with a Special Section in the July 31 issue. resigned over the expenditure Archdiocesan Clergy-Laity Con - waters and the throwing of the he said wasn't needed, insisted gress in Atlanta, GA, was most Cross into a lake at a summer on buying the submarines for disappointing.” On June 23, the camp. This celebration is re - political purposes and to keep Chancellor of the Metropolis of served for Epiphany Day on Jan - Greek shipyard workers on the Boston who signed simply as uary 6th in commemoration of Leonsis' Moment of Live Reckoning job, as part of the contract had “Fr. Ted” sent a letter to the Christ’s baptism. them working on the sub - priests on behalf of Metropoli - WHY THEY STAYED AWAY marines in the port of Piraeus. tan Methodios urging them to The National Herald con - By Andy Dabilis at Georgetown University, and happy. As luck would have it I Besides the submarines, participate to the Clergy Laity tacted many parishes, which did TNH Staff Writer the first culmination, the sale of got onto the wrong airplane … which have been shown to have Congress and, in case they were not participate in the Clergy – a company he created when he I had a reckoning … if you want laws in tests, Greece, which has Laity Congress to ask why, and ATHENS- It was, aptly so, a was 26, only to realize riches humility, be on a plane that jet - the highest expenditure in de - some revealed unhappiness with Greek word – epiphany – which didn’t matter when a plane he tisons its fuel, and we had 35 fense as a ratio of Gross Domes - the structure of the event, and showed Ted Leonsis, freshly rich was on suffered engine trouble minutes of kind of controlled tic Product (GDP) in Europe and Community : Greek Scientist that it would have been too as a young man in 1983 with and he didn’t know if he’d land terror … on the way down I was is fifth in the world, also is look - May Have Oil Spill Solution: costly. Archimandrite Makarios $22 million in his pocket what safely. miserable … and all of the ing to buy six frigates and 15 Anybody Listening? Page 4. Niakaros from the Sts. Peter and he wanted to do with his life. Before he boarded, he told things that I was thinking about search-and-rescue helicopters Paul parish in Haverhill Massa - He even wrote it down, 101 an audience in Washington, D.C. and would miss were none of from France, which, with Ger - Community : It’s All in the chusetts said, “We had other goals. The son of working-class earlier this year, he wondered the things that this victory had many, was the key to getting ap - Tsoukalas Family, But Andrea obligations, baptisms.” When Greek parents from Lowell, why his new wealth hadn’t created for me … I promised if proval for a combined $146 bil - Knows The Law. Page 6. asked if the reason was also fi - Massachusetts and Brooklyn, he brought joy. “I should have been I lived I’ll give more than I take lion three-year loan package to nancial, he said, “No, no, I had had seen what honest, hard unbelievably happy. But I felt … one of my goals is that I will keep Greece from going under. Theater : The Sun Sets, and Al - a baptism on July 4”. Rev. Em - work could bring and brought like I had declared victory, like live the rest of my life without In recent years, Greece has also cestis Dies and Rises Again in that to bear in his career after the game was over, but I was Central Park. Page 4. Continued on page 3 graduating the top in his class just starting and I didn’t feel Continued on page 5 Continued on page 9 To the EPA: Good Green Frixos Goussis: Physician, Philosopher Greek Chemistry from By Stavros Marmarinos TNH Staff Writer Eco-Innovator Anastas NEW YORK- There is an empty chair across from Dr. Frixos Goussis’ desk. Every so often, he By Angelike Contis who was appointed by President glances up from his papers and TNH Staff Writer Barack Obama as the Assistant looks at it. Administrator of the Office of Goussis himself has pasted a NEW YORK – Paul Anastas, or Research and Development of paper along the front of the the Father of Green Chemistry, the Environmental Protection chair with a Greek couplet. thinks globally. But environmen - Agency (EPA) in January. Loosely translated, it reads: talism began very locally - and Anastas, whose position di - “Give the pedestrians a warm early in life - for the chemist rectly under the head of the EPA welcome when you saddle up, makes him the highest-ranking so that they too may greet you Greek American in the U.S. gov - when you get off your horse.” ernment, explains that it was Goussis explains that, “I found seeing the once-lush wetlands it in a store during one my trips Georgia of Quincy, Massachusetts to Greece, and I liked the hu - spoiled that stirred him into sci - man quality of its message. It ence. Of the Quincy of his child - has a philosophy and a gospel Drake’s hood he says, “It was gorgeous, of its own, so we can treat other with wildlife and just beautiful people well.” Goussis was born views. And bulldozers rolled in in Lefkimi, Corfu. He is proud Voice and turned it into a parking lot of his native island’s history, and with banks and insurance com - is quick to point to the reference panies.” made in Thucydides’ History of By Steve Frangos His scientific father (whose the Peloponnesian War, when he TNH Staff Writer parents hailed from Greece’s writes about the victory of that Naoussa) guided him to react in Corfu scored against the CHICAGO - Georgia Drake a constructive way.