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E 10 0 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEKly GREEK-AmERICAN PUBlICATION 1915-2015 VOL. 19, ISSUE 948 December 12-18, 2015 c v $1.50 Academic California Victim Thalasinos Had Death T1hreats Community Greek-American Mourns J. was Messianic Jew, Rassias Posted FB Fears TNH Staff By Theodore Kalmoukos TNH Staff SAN BERNARDINO, CA – Ter - rorists don’t ask for passports NORWICH, VT - Prominent when they take people down the Greek-American professor of road to mayhem. Every national - languages John Rassias died at ity, and religion – Muslims died the age of 90. He was a profes - on 9/11 too, has representatives sor at Dartmouth College in New among their potential victims, Hampshire and was known to and as on 9/11, the Greek-Amer - the Greek-American Community ican community was not un - from his work on the present touched by the horror of the San and the future of Greek educa - Bernardino horror. tion and language in America. Nicholas Thalasinos, a 52- Former Archbishop Spyridon year-old Colton resident was of America had appointed him among the 14 victims killed in in 1998 chairman of a thirty the California shooting rampage, member’s commission to study according to a Facebook post by in depth the issue of Greek edu - his wife. cation. The study was one of its “My husband, Nicholas Tha - kind but was never acted upon lasinos, was killed in the shoot - because Archbishop Spyridon ing,” wrote Jennifer Thalasinos, was forced to resign. a second-grade teacher for Colton According to the Communi - Joint Unified School District, early cations Department of Dart - Thursday. She posted a photo of mouth College the late professor them with their arms around each John Rassias will be remem - other. bered for his internationally Just four days earlier, Nicholas renowned teaching method— Thalasinos had phoned a friend which includes rapid-fire drills, to tell him he was feeling ok after immersion in culture, and a having a growth removed from healthy dose of theater—a his head. unique style that quickly makes “He had just healed from one students comfortable using a thing and then this happened,” new language. Key to the said Ed Beck, whose wife once method was his use of dramatic Mary Jaharis holds the Distinguished Hellene award she received Ambassador Vasilios Philippou, Archbishop Demetrios of Amer - worked with Thalasinos for the technique style, the goal of on behalf of her husband, attorney, industrialist and philan - ica, Mary Jaharis, Nicole Liakeas, HMS President Dr. George Li - Cape May County Department of which was to eliminate students’ thropist Michael Jaharis. Left to right: Cyprus Consul General akeas, and Archdeacon Panteleimon Papadopoulos. Health in New Jersey. inhibitions and encourage dia - He has many relatives in the logue from the first day of class. New York area. Rassias grew up in Manches - Thalasinos had worked as a ter, NH, the son of Greek immi - HMS Honors Jaharis, Soterakis, Harovas health inspector and took a simi - grants. Before heading to col - lar job in California about a lege, he served in the U.S. decade ago after meeting Jen - Marines, piloting an amphibious By Constantine S. Sirigos December 4. and American national anthems. closely with the HMS board and nifer, Beck said. tank in the 1st Marine Division’s TNH Staff Writer Mary Jaharis received the HMS President Dr. George Li - is administrator Evangelia The formal identification and landing in the Battle of Oki - Distinguished Hellene Award on akeas greeted the guests and Tsavaris - whom Dr. Liakeas announcement of the names of nawa, on April 1, 1945, the last NEW YORK – Three extraordi - behalf of her husband Michael thanked all who contributed to called “our fearless leader” to the victims is taking place at a and largest of the Pacific island nary human beings – one, Jaharis, Dr. Jack Soterakis re - the success of the auspicious ensure and atmosphere of both slow pace as officials await con - battles of World War II. Michael Jaharis a pharmaceuti - ceived the Distinguished Physi - event, including, he said “my dignity and festivity, and to keep firmation by the victims’ relatives. He studied French at the Uni - cal industry pioneer two distin - cian Award, and the revered Dr. darling wife, Nicole.” The com - the speeches short and sweet. The Philadelphia Inquirer re - versity of Bridgeport, from guished physicians, Dr. Jack Harovas was honored posthu - munity’s other professional or - Among the dignitaries ac - ported that the day before the which he graduated summa cum Soterakis and the late Dr. An - mously with the Distinguished ganization or their support, and knowledged by McCarthy from laude in 1950. Following gradu - toine C. Harovas, and – were Colleague Award. “our honorees, for being who the stage were Greece’s UN Am - ation, he went to the Université honored at the Annual Scholar - Archbishop Demetrios of - they are.” bassador Catherine Bouras, de Dijon in France as a Fulbright ship Gala of the Hellenic Med - fered a touching invocation and The gala chairs, Nicole Con - Greek Consul General Amb. ical Society of New York at Man - Everett O’Hanlon presented tos Liakeas, Susan McCarthy, Continued on page 8 hattan’s Plaza Hotel on thrilling renditions of the Greek and Dr. Theo Diktaban, worked Continued on page 4 Marianna Vardinoyannis Lauded

By Constantine S. Sirigos Speakers and videos in - evening was set by the repeated TNH Staff Writer formed guests about RFKHR invocations of two of Robert programs including The Speak Kennedy’s speeches. NEW YORK - Robert F. Kennedy Truth To Power curriculum de - His 1966 speech in Cape Human Rights (RFKHR), an or - veloped by the organization that Town, South Africa throwing Nicholas Thalasinos ganization founded in 1968 by is taught to millions of students down a gauntlet at apartheid Robert Kennedy's family and around the world. and encouraging its opponents shootings, Thalasinos had posted friends as a living memorial to It is based on the Universal is the source of the title of the about a threat he had received carry forward his vision of a Declaration of Human Rights gala’s award: “Each time a man that included the words “you will more just and peaceful world, which has deeply inspired RFK stands up for an ideal, or acts die and never see Israel.” presented its Ripple of Hope Human Rights President Kerry to improve the lot of others, or Authorities have not released award to four international phil - Kennedy. strikes out against injustice, he any motive for the shooting, or anthropic leaders, including Her daughter, Michaela Kerry sends forth a tiny ripple of suggested an intended target. Marianna Vardinoyannis, Con - Cuomo, shined the spotlight on hope.” Thalasinos was a Messianic Jew gressman John Lewis, Apple a group of people, called De - Recent events around the and posted frequently about Is - CEO Tim Cook, and investment fenders, who exemplify the hu - world and in the U.S. have res - rael and politics. His posts in - banker Roger Altman on De - man rights dream and who were urrected remarks of April 4, cluded several that compared cember 8. at the gala. 1968, the night Martin Luther Muslims to Nazis. Mainstream media and 700 Later, noted actors like Sam King, Jr. was assassinated, less GUN ADVOCATE people, stalwarts of the progres - Waterston read dramatizations than two months before his own He also publicly opposed tight - sive community in New York, of the trials and tribulations of murder: ening gun controls, and displayed filled the Grand Ballroom of the human rights fighters around “What we need in the United National Rifle Association stickers New York Hilton to celebrate the world and across the U.S. States is not division; what we on the front door of his home in Robert F. Kennedy and to honor Robert Smith, RFKHR’s need in the United States is not Colton, California, according to those who, in the words of nu - Chair, served as Emcee, and the hatred; what we need in the the New York Daily News. TNH/COSTAS BEJ merous speakers, mark his well-planned event was spiced United States is not violence and In July, he went on Facebook Marianna Vardinoyannis addresses the guests as Kathleen legacy with deeds, not just by Kerry Kennedy’s passion and Kennedy Townsend, Robert Kennedy’s oldest child, listens. words. humor, but the tone for the Continued on page 7 Continued on page 6 Lazos Speaks to TNH About Great Books Greek Student Prostitution As Gifts the

By Aris Papadopoulos results pertains to the Greek fi - Holidays TNH Staff nancial crisis because there was no prior upward trend toward By Eleni Sakellis ATHENS - The stir caused by the prostitution observed in Greek publication in the Times of Lon - women. Book lovers agree that when don of an article about prostitu - As he underscored, however, it comes to delightful gifts this tion in Greece was felt both by following a survey of 400 young holiday season, books are the way the Greek-American community Greek women, the phenomenon to go. With so many great books and the people of Greece. seems to be increasing at a steady available, choosing the right book The newspaper piece, which rate. can be a daunting task. Here are was reproduced by Ethnikos The article’s headline was some suggestions for the book Kirix, was based on a survey con - shocking: “Greek students sell sex lovers in your life. ducted by the Panteion University for food” and of course it was re - For the classically-inclined, a professor of Sociology Gregory produced in several foreign new edition of classic Greek liter - Lazos and was supported by data newspapers, including the Wash - ature is a wonderful gift. The Iliad that he collected himself from ington Post. and The Odyssey make a great 2012-2015. It was natural, thus, that the gift set for those who enjoy The substance of the survey’s issue did not go unnoticed by the Homer. For drama fans, The Com - social networks and by the main - plete Works of Euripides offer stream media, which tried to clar - tragedy at its peak. The Complete ify what is going on. Works of Aristophanes provide For subscription: TNH chose to communicate comic relief and social criticism 718.784.5255 directly with professor Lazos for EUROKINISSI that continue to be relevant and [email protected] certain clarifications and to as - Greek-American Industrialist Behrakis Visits Greek President funny today. certain whether his statements Coffee table books add lovely were conveyed correctly in the Well-known Greek-American businessman George Behrakis was received on December 9 by visual interest to any home and Times. President of the Greek Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos during the former’s visit for the purpose make an excellent hostess gift. of receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens. The President praised Behrakis Continued on page 5 for his many achievements and thanked him for all he does for Greece. Continued on page 7 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 Chians Honor MIT Media Lab Star, One Laptop Per Child Founder Negroponte

By Constantine S. Sirigos Christopher expressed deep ap - because of my growing up in a earth…everyone could get con - TNH Staff Writer preciation for the support of Greek family and having a sense nected just by turning a coffee Chian organizations from the of security,” Negroponte said. cup-sized device towards the NEW YORK – Nicholas Negro - start and concluded his remarks His father provided him and sky.” ponte, Co-Founder and Chair - by declaring “the hope endures his brothers “infinite education” The buzz among the guests man Emeritus of the MIT Media and the dream of a free and - and no extra money, but the began immediately, and Arch - Lab and Founder of the “One united Cyprus will never die.” inheritance included the confi - bishop noted in his closing re - Laptop per Child” initiative was “I am extremely honored,” dence to go forth boldly into the marks “tonight we heard things presented the Homeric Award Negroponte said, noting that of - world. that are really worth hearing.” at the 36th annual gala of the ten in Greek society, “The father Negroponte then shared his Citing Negroponte’s triumph Chian Federation of New York of your father is what counts… criticism and vision in the field with One Laptop Per Child, the on December 6. and he was from Chios.” of education, perhaps his most Archbishop said, “that needs George Pantelidis was the Feeling at home, he began counterintuitive ideas, he said. someone who is not in an ivory Emcee for the 2015 event that with some personal stories that “We all learn primarily tower, just a thinker, but some - was dedicated to education, re - illuminated his career and led through passion, not discipline,” one who cares: for education, search and innovation. For its into his ideas about education. he declared. He then decried the for children, for a better world,” first 20 years Negroponte di - He had dared to ask his pri - obsession with testing, followed and he continued, “Tonight we rected the Media Lab, an inter - vate school headmaster to sub - by his astonishing report that not only honor an individual, disciplinary endeavor where art, stitute art for sports in his pro - the off-the-charts successful but a family that has con - design, science and technology gram – to his surprise, he was school system of Finland does tributed tremendously to gen - converge. It was the first time allowed. “By doing well in not give K-12 students tests or eral progress the well-being of the sibling of a prior recipient math, I decided that the way to homework, and the schools are millions.” Among the speakers offering greetings were Consul General of Greece Amb. George Iliopou - los, Cyprus Consul General Amb. Vasilios Philippou, N.Y. ABOVE: Chian Fed. President Stavros Haviaras gives Nicholas Federation President Petros Negroponte the Homeric award – his brother John Negroponte Galatoulas, artist George, film won in 2010 - flanked by Archbishop Demetrios and George maker Michael, and John, who Pantelidis. LEFT: Nicholas Negroponte shares some family his - was the first ever Director of tory and his vision of a wired world after received the Homeric Homeland Security. Award as Archbishop Demetrios and George Pantelidis look Real estate entrepreneur on. BELOW: The Hellenic American Cultural Center of the George Doulos was very pleased Chian Federation in Astoria is filled with people celebrating. with the event. He was among

won the award. John Negro - combine it with art was by do - in session the least hours per ponte was honored in 2010. ing architecture…but while day and days per year – “all the Negroponte ιs a pioneer in studying architecture, I discov - things we say will make our the field of computer-aided de - ered computers…my real love… schools better,” Negroponte sign. His 1995 best seller, Being that was where art and science said. Digital, has been translated into intersected” for him – and for Negroponte then dropped more than 40 languages. He en - others, like his student Steve what in America is an ideologi - thralled the guests with revolu - Jobs, who created the revolu - cal bomb ““Finland works be - tionary ideas on education and tionary brave new digital world cause the kids go to school with - his latest radical endeavor, uni - now taken for granted. out any competition. versal internet connectivity. Negroponte said “I’ve always Competition is the enemy. Those The invocation was offered enjoyed thinking and saying kids spend 12 years collaborat - by Archbishop Demetrios as - things that everybody thought ing…One Laptop Per Child, to sisted by Fr. Vasilios Louros and were wrong…and then slowly which I devoted 10 years of my 800 apps, mainly for alphabet write today,” he said. the young professionals who greetings were offered by Fed - they would drift to being OK, life, showed me the passion with and numbers games, all in Eng - The key was that the kids or - helped organize it, serving as eration President Stavros then to being obvious.” which kids could teach them - lish. “We dropped off the tables ganized themselves into groups gala co-Chair with Alexandros Haviaras and the event’s chair “Computer science was be - selves thing.” with no instructions, just closed and worked together, not alone Panteloukas. was Anna Condoulis. yond radical…when I founded Then he described a stunning boxes…and within five days the at home. Guests were entertained by Philip Christopher, founder the media lab it was also con - experiment. “We dropped off average child was using 50 aps His latest endeavor is cham - Cosmos Entertainment and they and president PSEKA, spoke pas - sidered a joke – until it turned Android tablets in a village in spending 7 hours per day on the pioning the idea of internet ac - were delighted by the tradi - sionately about the need to con - into one of the biggest labs in Ethiopia where no one could tablet. Within two weeks they cess as a human right and pro - tional costumes and dances of tinue to fight for the Cyprus MIT,” he said. read or write and which had no were singing ABC songs and in poses to launch a satellite Chios performed by the Dance cause. “I enjoyed the opportunity electricity.” six months they hacked An - system “that would provide in - Group of the Women’s Auxiliary A refugee from Kyrenia, to do that,” and it was partly The tablets were loaded with droid! – they now all read and ternet bandwidth to the entire of the Federation. National Herald

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The National Herald/ Ethnikos Kirix Foundation 37-10 30th Street, Long Island City, NY • T: (718) 784 -5255 THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 COMMUNITY 3 Aphrodite: a Talk with Ithaca Church Celebrates its 50th Anniversary Author Monica Cyrino By Evan C. Lambrou ITHACA, N.Y. – Saint Catherine By Vasilis Papoutsis of beauty and sexuality in con - Greek Orthodox Church in temporary culture. She said Ithaca celebrated the 50th an - IRVINE, CA – Dr. Monica Cyrino ''love comes from the outside, it niversary of its official church is a Professor of Classics at the attacks and takes you over,'' it is charter recently with a special University of New Mexico and a ''physical imposition from the event, to which the Saint her academic research centers outside and while it is very plea - Catherine’s parish community on the erotic in Ancient Greek surable it is also very painful. had also invited the wider pub - poetry. “When you are in love you are lic. Local ministers and Ortho - While visiting the University compromised, you are invaded. dox Christian priests from the of California Irvine to give a lec - You are always aware of the area, as well as professors from ture, she spoke with The Na - presence of someone else.'' The Cornell University and Ithaca tional Herald. book offers new insights into the College, attended. Prof. Cyrino said she fell in ancient texts. She also is the au - Rev. Dr. George D. Dragas, love with Ancient Greek poetry thor of a popular text book, A professor of Patristics and in her first year in college and Journey through Greek Mythol - Church History at Holy Cross decided to focus her academic ogy(2008). Explaining the ori - Greek Orthodox School of The - studies on the Greek Classics. A gin of the book she said, ''I did ology in Boston, was the event’s prolific writer and a consultant not agree with some of the in - featured speaker. Father Dragas on numerous film and television terpretations on the textbooks has represented the Greek Or - productions, Cyrino’s first book offered and I decided to write thodox Patriarchates of Con - was In Pandora's Jar: Lovesick - one with my own interpreta - stantinople, Antioch and ness in Early Greek Po - tions. I did not included any pic - Jerusalem in scores of interfaith tures on it to keep the cost dialogues at the ecumenical down. Textbooks have gotten so level for more than 35 years. expensive.'' She has been “Christ, who is both human awarded the American Philolog - and divine, mediates between ical Association's Excellence in created man and the Uncreated Teaching Classics award (1999). God. What, then, is the Church? Alderman Seph Murtagh recently presented an official proclamation to St. Catherine Greek Or - Her book Big Screen The Church is the Body of thodox Church in Ithaca for the 50th anniversary of the church’s official charter. L-R: Fr. Tom Rome(2005) surveys several Christ, which implies that the Parthenakis (church pastor), Alderman Murtagh, Ann Bantuvanis (church president) and Rev. films on ancient Rome. She fol - Church also mediates between Dr. George Dragas, the event’s featured speaker. lowed that with two volumes on man and God, in order to help the HBO series Rome, Season man enter into communion with Orthodox Christian faith, Ithaca, New York,” the procla - By that time, the local Greek- One and Two. The reception for the Creator. That means the through your words and deeds, mation states. American community, which her film books was enthusiastic world was built for the Church to each generation… As a parish Local Greek-Americans had had once held services in the and the demand for her services because the world is called to of the Greek Orthodox Metrop - started settling in the Ithaca Saint John’s Episcopal Church has increased since they were be part of the Body of Christ,” olis of Detroit under the area in the mid-to-late 1890’s. rectory at Cayuga Street on Sat - published. She is asked to Father Dragas told more than omophorion of His Eminence By the early 1950s, they decided urdays, was holding services at coach, translate, and consult on 100 people who had gathered Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit they needed a church of their their first church in Collegetown a regular basis now. to hear him speak this past No - – and within the canonical ju - own. After drawing straws, the (the former Cosmopolitan Club At her lecture at UC Irvine ti - vember 21st about the life of the risdiction of the Greek Orthodox late Peter Poulos – owner/oper - on Bryant Avenue). They pur - Classics Professor and author, tled ''The Bible Epic as Action saints and ecclesiology of the Archdiocese of America, which ator of the former Pop’s Place, a chased the historic downtown Dr. Monica Cyrino Movie: 'Maximal Projections' in Church. is an eparchy of the Ecumenical popular eating establishment in property from IC and recon - Noah (2014) & Exodus (2014).'' “We are familiar with the fact Patriarchate of Constantinople Collegetown – named the new verted it to a house of worship. etry(1995). In Greek mythology In her presentation, she ex - that each of us has a physical – you share in a sacred history parish in honor of his mother. The building’s original organ Pandora, just like Eve, was the plained that both these movies and genetic composition. When as an ecclesial community of the and stained glass windows, one first woman on Earth. Zeus had were produced and marketed as we are physically conceived, we Great Church of Christ. On this Saint Catherine Church of which was donated by the ordered her creation as a pun - epic style action movies rather receive our biological DNA. But day, when the Rev. Dr. George Treman family to the Congrega - ishment to the human race, af - than movies with religious over - what about our spiritual DNA? D. Dragas will be addressing started holding services tional Church back in the early ter Prometheus stole fire from tones. She also compared two What does that mean? During your community, I pray that you at its present location 20th Century, are still in their the gods. movies, Gladiator and Exodus. our physical conception and de - will be enriched by his knowl - original place. “Pandora is the tool of the The storylines and characters velopment in the womb, God edge and strengthened in the in 1967, and has been Saint Catherine Church gods,” she said, about the story’s are almost identical, a successful stamps our souls with the understanding of the direct and faithfully serving started holding services at its premise. Women bring beauty, commercial cinematic formula. Breath of Life. That is our spiri - unbroken link the Greek Ortho - present location in 1967, and love and most importantly life Over the years, Cyrino has tual DNA. And that is what dox Church shares with the Orthodox Christians has been faithfully serving Or - on Earth. But they also brought led student tours to Greece both makes human beings not only Holy Apostles themselves. I offer ever since... thodox Christians at the Cornell mortality, and the unleashing of in Peloponnese and Northern physical creatures, but spiritual you my heartfelt best wishes for University and Ithaca College the evils from Pandora's jar. Greece. About the current Greek beings, as well,” he added. a festive 50th anniversary cele - Initially a mission of the An - communities, as well as the lo - ''Mortality is the price to pay for crisis, she says “The European SACRED HISTORY bration,” His Eminence wrote. nunciation Church in Endicott cal Greek American community, all the beauty and love we ex - Union should act more like the To mark the occasion, His Alderman Joseph Murtagh of (now located in Vestal), Saint ever since. The church today perience.” We have “highs and United States of America. When Eminence Archbishop Ithaca’s 2nd Ward (where the Catherine Church became a also has several non-Greek lows, no one gets a flatline any - states are in financial trouble in Demetrios of America also sent church is situated) presented fully incorporated parish of the members. Dr. John Bezerganian more.'' the United States the federal his archiepiscopal greetings to the St. Catherine’s community Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in is treasurer of the parish coun - And yet Elpis, Hope, re - government would support Rev. Dr. Athanasios Parthenakis, with an official proclamation 1964, receiving its official cil, for example, and Dr. Steve mained in the jar, ''and we don't those states. Germany's financial pastor, and the Saint Catherine’s from the City of Ithaca: church charter from the Arch - Hoskins is the choir director. know why but, hope gives life a policies were not fair to the parish community for the event: “Whereas the Apostle An - diocese in September of 1965. Four sons of the parish grad - meaning.” Greek government.'' “For the last 50 years, you drew founded the Holy Mother The charter was signed by then uated from Holy Cross, three of Her book Aphrodite (2010) As she continues to lecture have gathered humbly and joy - Church of Constantinople al - Archbishop Iakovos of North & whom went onto become cler - examines the importance of the around the country, Dr. Cyrino fully before God in prayer. You most 2,000 years ago; whereas South America. gymen: the late Metropolitan Greek goddess of love for the is currently working on a new have proclaimed the Gospel the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Located on the northeast cor - Epiphanios (Gus) Perialas; Pou - Ancient Greeks as well as her book about the Spartacus series, with power and conviction. You of America is an eparchy of the ner of Seneca and Geneva los’ son, the Very Rev. Seraphim enduring influence as a symbol due out soon. have taught the precepts of the Holy Mother Church; whereas Streets in downtown Ithaca, the (John) Poulos, pastor of Saints Saint Catherine’s Church in building that is now Saint Nicholas, Constantine & Helen Ithaca, incorporated under the Catherine’s was designed in the Church in Roseland, New Jer - Archdiocese, is this year cele - late 19th Century by William sey; and Rev. Steve Dalber, pas - brating the 50th anniversary of Henry Miller, who studied under tor of Saint Nektarios Church in Greek-Am. Gymnasts Sign w/ Div. 1 Univs her official church charter; and renowned Cornell University Charlotte, North Carolina. whereas, Saint Catherine’s Professor of Architecture Church commemorates the Charles Babcock. Originally Evan Lambrou was Managing Men’s gymnastics is a sport are recognized as Academic All Greek School and playing on memory of her patron saint each built in 1884 for Ithaca’s First Editor of The National Herald in struggling to survive in the wake American Athletes. their church basketball and soc - year on November 25th… now Congregational Society, which 2004. A lifelong member of of Title IX. With fewer than 16 Socrates and Sebastian have cer teams, unbeknownst to his therefore, I, Svante L. Myrick relocated to Cayuga Heights in Saint Catherine Church and colleges fielding men’s teams, known each other for years, gymnastic coach. (mayor of Ithaca), do hereby 1960, the historic edifice was graduate of Holy Cross, he was the odds of receiving a scholar - having met at meets their teams Socrates is a member of St. proclaim November 25th, 2015 also where Ithaca College held the chief organizer of the ship or even a spot on a team is attended. After some time, the Barbara’s parish in Toms River, as ‘Saint Catherine Greek Ortho - its music and performing arts Church’s 50th anniversary slim. Yet this year, however, two boys began to know their com - NJ where he participates in dox Church Day’ in the City of programs from 1960 to 1966. event. Greek-American young men de - petitors. Sebastian remembers GOYA, Greek dancing and is a fied those odds and signed with his mother pointing out Socrates graduate of their Greek School. NCAA Division I Teams. when they were younger and Socrates and Sebastian credit Socrates Gavallas and Sebastian stating, “There is another Greek their supportive parents and Sembos Quiana are excited boy doing gymnastics.” their Greek family values for about their recent offers, and After some time, they started helping them achieve their (Now in Paperback) are looking forward to joining talking and quickly became dreams. Hard work, dedication their college teams this fall. friends. This summer they at - and self-discipline are traits they Socrates, a senior at Brick tended gymnastic training found all around them and UNCERTAIN Township High School in New camps together at Stanford Uni - ready to emulate. Jersey, trains at Monmouth versity in Palo Alto, California Coincidently, both hope to at - Gymnastics under Coach Yuriy and the University of Michigan tend medical school and are JOURNEY Amino. He accepted a scholar - in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was pursuing majors headed in that ship to The University of Michi - a fun time and a chance to in - direction. Socrates plans to ma - by James Rouman gan. Sebastian, a senior at River troduce themselves to college jor in BioChemistry, and Sebas - Dell High School, also in New coaches while experiencing col - tian in BioEngineering. An illegal immigrant struggles to find Jersey, trains at US Gymnastics lege campus life. This year’s competition sea - Development Center II under This fall, Socrates and Sebas - son is about to begin. Socrates a home in America in this moving tale of Coach Genadi Shub. He ac - tian were recruited by several and Sebastian will see each loneliness and belonging. A subtle, absorbing cepted a scholarship to The Uni - universities. Socrates received other at a couple of meets and versity of Illinois. offers from Michigan and Iowa; if all goes well at the US Junior portrait of the immigrant experience These are not easy feats. Sebastian received offers from Olympic National Champi - Their hard work and dedication Michigan, Penn State and Illi - onships in Battle Creek, Michi - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review were rewarded but not without nois. gan this May. They have quali - years of training. 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By Constantine S. Sirigos and acknowledged the presence TNH Staff Writer of one of its founders, past HMS president Nicholas Mezitis, whose NEW YORK – Celebrating ‘Tran - brother, Federation of Hellenic sitions in Medicine’ was the Medical Societies of North Amer - theme of the 2015 Scholarship ica president Spyros Mezitis was and Awards presentation of the also present. Hellenic Medical Society of New Patsos also offered a compre - York on December 3 at the Ein - hensive and sympathetic presen - horn Auditorium of Lenox Hill tation, sometimes in an “I’m just Hospital in Manhattan. the messenger tone. She urged The theme was double edged the doctors to “really pay atten - as the joy over achievements and tion to billing and coding errors” promise of the gifted young schol - and make sure staff is properly arship recipients was tempered trained in order to avoid penalties p- by concern over the future of the and other problems. D - practice of medicine in America, The Q & A addressed the ques - RA - a topic covered in excellent pre - tion of what is driving the bu - sentations by distinguished physi - reaucratization of medicine, and cian Dr. Jack Soterakis, VP Physi - one sympathetic non-medical per - cian Clinical Services Quality son to physicians decried the vir - Improvement, CHSLI and attor - tual “enslavement” of physicians. ney Catherina Patsos, and a lively While featured speakers and and fascinating Q &A moderated guests bemoaned the fact that the by HMS President Dr. George Li - process is disrupting the vital doc - akeas. TNH/COSTAS BEJ tor-patient relationship and the The event’s traditional Contin - Honored students surround doctors George Liakeas, Stella Lym - to Katrina Krough, Anastasis, Alexander Orfanos, Andrew doctors’ ability to advise and uing Medical Education portion beris, Sotirios Stergiopoulos Demetrios Karides at Lenox Hill Sideras Andomachi and Myra Trivellas, Eve Frangopoulos, guide, and while it was noted that featured a fascinating presenta - Hospital. Scholarships, research grants, and awards were given Raphael Kirou, Nikolaso Kostaras, Christos Ioannis Mouzakitis. the slack is being picked up peo - tion by Dr. Stavros N. Stavropou - ple like physicians assistants, los, adjunct professor of clinical to Myra Trivellas of the Pennsyl - Coryllos Memorial Scholarship, a practicing physician in the past, key terms such as “accountability” HMS Vice President Stella Lym - medicine at Columbia and Tem - vania State College of Medicine, and Andomachi of Tulane Uni - for today’s doctors and their feel - and advice such as “physicians beris told TNH “there is no sub - ple universities titled “The gas - who won the award sponsored versity School of Medicine was ings of being overwhelmed. He will have to become members of stitute for hearing it from your troenterologist as surgeon: The by the Leonidas Lantsounis Re - presented the HMS-NY Scholar - then gave an overview of how teams” and “pay attention and be doctor. New Era pf Endoscopic Surgery.” search Fund, and the Stavros ship. healthcare industry challenges, active.” He noted that govern - Stavropoulos spoke of the evo - HMS Scholarship Chair Dr. Hartofilis Research sponsored Dr. Soterakis preceded his pre - including both quality of care and ment agencies want to get it right, lution of techniques for minimally Sotirios Stergiopoulos, who grant presented to Christos Ioan - sentation with a call for a mo - skyrocketing costs have been ad - for physicians and patients, and invasive surgery, including the re - praised all the recipients for “giv - nis Moutzakitis. ment of silence to honor the dressed over the past three that they are reaching out for in - moval of tumors and other inter - ing us hope for the future” offered Medical scholarships were pre - memory of their dear friend and decades. put and urged his colleagues to ventions. special praise, validated by his sented the following five students, noted colleague, Dr. Antoine C. The dramatic shift from the be involved in the healthcare re - In procedures that blur the wife who is an assistant principal Katrina Krough, who attends New Harovas, but he was also happy “free for service” model to “value design process. lines between the work of sur - of English, for their essays. He York Medical College and won for the students, saying “we see based care” guided by the “triple Although most of what Dr. geons and gastroenterologists, urged all the young honorees to the Dr. Spyros and Vivian Mezitis they will have a bright future.” aim” goals of 1) population health Soterakis discussed pertained to doctors gain access though the talk to the HMS veterans. “Get to Hellenic Fund; Anastasis Meletios Soterakis began by noting the 2) experience of care, and 3) per Medicare and Medicaid reim - mouths and other orifices of pa - know them. This is your net - of SUNY Downstate College of well-known fact that the U.S. capita cost, and governed by re - bursement requirements, he tients, eliminating for scar-creat - work… whatever you need, we Medicine wm the Dr. Constanti - spends the most of any country – views and ever-increasing paper noted that many insurers follow ing piercings of the abdomens are all here for you.” nos Vardopoulos Scholarship, 18 percent of GDP – but added (and computer) work) has many their leads. and the need to remove large por - The high school students were Alexander Orfanos of the Geisel that American healthcare is not physicians feeling like “deer After his presentation, Dr. tions of organs like the stomach, called up first and Eve Fran - School of Medicine of Sartmonth tops in the developed world in caught in the headlights” of on - Soterakis made a personal appeal esophagus, and colon. gopoulos, Raphael Kirou and won the scholarship sponsored by terms of quality. coming industry and government for his colleagues to support the Past HMS president Dr. Nikolaos Kostaras were the Christ Dr. Anthony Vasilas, Andrew Soterakis, given that he is now demands. work of the Hellenic Relief Foun - George Dangas and Dr. Soterakis Bozes essay winners. Sideras of the NYU School of on the management side of the His comprehensive presenta - dation, which provides food and congratulated Stavropoulos on Research grants were awarded Medicine won the Polyvios N. field, expressed his sympathy, as tion can only be summarized by medicine to the needy in Greece, his pioneering work. HMS Honors Michael Jaharis, Dr. Antoine Harovas, and Dr. Jack Soterakis

Continued from page 1 sorships they established, and him. He was a beautiful soul. In the medical research they sup - all my years at the Archdiocese George Iliopoulos and his wife port. he never took money from any - Anthousa, Greek Consul Manos Soterakis was introduced by one” when he gave employees Koubarakis and his wife Geor - Diktaban. The former’s contribu - medical care. “Whenever you gia, Cypriot Consul General tion to medicine include writing needed him for something, he Amb. Vasilios Philippou, and articles, abstracts and chapters was always there,” she said, Protopresbyter of the Ecumeni - of textbooks in gastroenterology adding that when she now sees cal Patriarchate Fr. Alexander and liver disease. Reflecting his the well-organized altar boys at Karloutsos and Presbyter Xanthi Hellenic passion, he was hon - Holy Trinity Cathedral, she Karloutsos. ored for his devotion to his her - knows the legacy of children he Archbishop Demetrios, calling itage and Hellenic culture by the recruited and trained. God, “the donor of the gift of life Chancellor of the City University Poulos called Michael and to all her tonight and to the of New York. Mary Jaharis “friends that I love whole world,” intoned “ we “I am humbled to accept this and respect” and noted, as all thank you for this opportunity to honor” Soterakis, said, but he im - their friends know “they are not be together and to honor excep - mediately praised HMS and its the kind of people who look for tional people among us…we mission of “education, research, recognition or accolades. They thank you for their lives and of - philanthropy, as well as support just give with their heart and soul ferings and we ask you to bless for the Greek-American commu - and the only one who knows is abundantly their families and all nity.” the Lord.” Noting that Mary Ja - the wonderful people present He shared how thrilled he haris was at the gala to receive here serving as physicians to was by the prior night’s scholar - the award because “Michael is your people… and keep us al - ship presentation event. going through a very difficult ways under your protection in a Soterakis expressed his appre - time” with his health “I admire wounded world in need of your ciation for his family, colleagues Mary because she was always the healing and redeeming and sav - and friends, and especially his silent partner standing by his side ing presence.” dep appreciation for his parents, 1 and tonight she came to pay trib - Diktaban presented Harovas’ whose roots are from the island ute to him in her own way and I biography, and said “Tony worked tirelessly during his 46- year professional career, earning the respect of his colleague and earning the admiration of many grateful patients. He added that Harovas’ “love for medicine was matched by his deep sense of Hellenism” and support for the church. Harovas was an Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and “ was the proud recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor…but his greatest pride and joy was his family…he was adored by his wife Debbie, his daughters Amalia and Stephanie and his grandchildren. ”Diktaban concluded by saying “The digni - fied and exemplary manner in which Tony lived his life on a daily basis will continue to serve as an inspiration to his family and friends,” and invited Harovas’ son-in-law to receive the award. Nicole Liakeas., who said “I am honored and much pleased” to present the award for Michael 2 3 Jaharis, pointed out one of the things he could not achieve – perfect anonymity – when she 1. Left to right at HMS gala: Dr. Theo Diktaban, Susan McCarthy, said “who does not know Euterpe Harovas, Dr. John Bendo, Dr. Jack Soterakis, Ethel Soter - Michael Jaharis.” akis, Nicole Contos Liakeas, and Dr. George Liakeas. 2. The guests She know him as an avuncu - who filled the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel to lar figure in her childhood and a honor Michael Jaharis, the late Dr. Antione Harovas, and Dr. dear family friend, while fellow Jack Soterakis rise for the national anthems. 3. Mary Jaharis, Greeks respect him for his lead - who received the Distinguished Hellene award on behalf of ership in institution such as the Michael Jaharis at the HMS gala is escorted into the Plaza Ho - Archdiocesan Council. The Lead - tels’ ballroom. Left to right: Dr. Theo Diktaban, Archbishop ership 100 and Faith endow - Demetrios, Dr. George Liakeas, Mary Jaharis, and Amb. Vasilios ments. Philippou. 4. Left to right, seated at the Hellenic Medical Society Non-Greeks, she noted, rec - gala in NY: Archbishop Demetrios, Mary Jaharis and Euterpe ognize the name from “the beau - Harovas. Standing: Dr. Jack Soterakis and Dr. George Liakeas. tiful Mary and Michael Jaharis galleries of Greek and Roman of Kastellorizo, Greece’s eastern - humbled and honored that my and Byzantine art at the Metro - most island, also known as peers have recognized my con - politan museum of Art, and at Megiste, for instilling in him his tributions as a physician, and the Art Institute of Chicago,” en - work ethic and love of education. care that I have given to patients, dowed scholarship and profes - Dr. Soterakis told TNH “I am as a participant in HMS and its

4 Support our Greek Businesses ! mission to foster education and haris, spoke to the spirit and pray for the Lord to give her scholarship, as well as philan - achievements of both. “As I strength.” thropy and the Omogenia.” walked in tonight I immediately The Something Special Or - WR • THE NATIONAL HERALD Executive Director of the thought of Tony Harovas because chestra entertained guests during www .ekirikas .com • www.thenationalherald.com Leadership 100 Paulette Poulos, we used to always do all the the cocktail reception in the who has worked closely through Greek dances, and where I heard renowned hotel’s Grand Ball - the years with Harovas and Ja - the music I immediately went to room. THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 COMMUNITY 5 Telling the Story of Storytelling: Dr. Vasillis Loules on His Film Directing

By Aria Socratous ary of a child, photographs, and across North America. This tour share? home movies. It also depicts the was sponsored by the University VL: I am currently in the ex - Vassilis Loules is an ac - life of the Greek Jewish Com - Seminars Program of the Onas - tremely hard situation to seek claimed and multiple award- munities before the War, com - sis Foundation (USA). funding in Greece, Europe, and winning film director who loves plemented with rare images of THN: What is the procedure the United States for making a embarking on a journey into the Occupied Greece from archival you follow when you create documentary on the photo - world of storytelling. He was material, as well as amateur your documentaries? graphic work of Panos Eliopou - born in the town of Trikala in films by German soldiers and il - VL: Real life is in the streets, los, the value of which was only the early 1960s, on the cusp be - legal footage shot by Greek pa - in the neighborhood alleys, in recently appreciated. Un - tween two eras in a small, one- triots. In January 27, 2014 the the stories of simple ordinary schooled, very poor and orphan, story house that opened onto a film was screened in Paris people. I love to put my camera Eliopoulos enters the United courtyard which his family into the narrow streets, record - States illegally in 1923 and set - shared with other neighbors. ing these little stories while at tles in Detroit, MI working as a Next door was his father’s bicy - the same time I try to catch a rail worker and at the General cle shop. And on the other side, glimpse of the parade of the his - Motors car factory. In 1927, he a coal shed. This was his entire tory which is taking place on the enrolls at an Institute of Pho - world. In the winter he would big avenue in the distance. tography in Chicago. His grad - often go to the bike shop and Passed by There takes us on a uation project, a short silent sit near the wood stove together journey into the magical world movie, receives praise by his tu - with his dad’s customers and of fairytales. Grandmothers and tors. After the crash of 1929, he friends smelling the oil and grandfathers, folk storytellers of returns to Greece and opens a grease of his father’s tools, lis - rural Greece, face the camera photographic studio in his birth tening to the stories of the un - and tell fairytales and stories of town Filiatra, Peloponnisos. He schooled, common folk and let - a universal and timeless charac - takes pictures of unknown poor ting his mind travel. This is how ter. A documentary film dedi - people, births, funerals, newly - he started creating stories. On cated to perhaps the last people weds, prospective brides about October 20, his new documen - of the land in whom the echo of to immigrate. A mosaic of the tary film’s screening And I Also Storyteller Vasillis Loules says: I love to put my camera into centuries of oral storytelling is Greek province 1930-1964. The Passed from There and Had Pa - the narrow streets, recording these little stories…” still alive. Simple folk, shep - documentary In the Dark Room per Shoes to Wear (“Passed by herds, housewives, farmers, will present the adventure of a There”) took place as part of of Materials” had double effect: and I was wondering how could people with strong ties to the man who managed to turn the The New York City Greek Festi - First, it helped me to create a child who was forced to hide earth and the animal world. dark experiences of the first val. brand new, solid worlds starting in order to save his life, escape Most of them illiterate, but en - thirty years of his life into a The interview with Vasilis from the beginning, (this is ex - from the fear. Kisses to the Chil - dowed with the gift of story - work of art, filled with internal Loules follows: actly the process of creating a dren is not just another film telling, spellbind us and take us light. The triumph of the will TNH: You studied electrical film) and it offered me the psy - about the Holocaust; it is a film on journeys of the imagination. and the resilience. engineering at the National chological strength to manage about childhood in the shadow THN: Is there any special The trailer can be seen at: Technical University (NTU)of the construction of those new of the Holocaust. The film is within the frame of the UN - project you are working on right youtube.com/watch?v=W12Kw Athens. How did you end up be - worlds. about five Greek-Jewish chil - ESCO’s events on the occasion now that you might want to cIQ1yk. coming a film director? Were TNH: Your documentary dren who were saved by Christ - of the International Holocaust you looking for something cre - Kisses to the Children was a ian families during the German Remembrance Day. It was in ative and intriguing? striking success and was the rea - Occupation; they lived in total theatrical release in Athens & VL: I started my film studies son for the expansion of your silence and tell their stories. Sto - Thessaloniki for 8 weeks, it was while I was studying at NTU. To career to the United States. ries of terror, anguish, and con - screened in many Greek towns me, electrical engineering was Please elaborate on this docu - fusion, but also stories of salva - as special events, won awards a job with steady paycheck and mentary: how did you capture tion and carefree childhood into at film festivals and received cinema was the means to ex - the idea of its creation? the arms of strangers. Those be - many rave reviews. It is cur - press myself in a creative way. VL: In 2005 I felt extremely came the secret Gardens of rently in educational screenings After long time, I realized that emotional when I visited I vis - Eden, nests of love away from for the students in Greek High engineering is a complicated ited the exhibition with invalu - the horror of the Holocaust. The Schools as well as in special and analytical job; its organized able personal documents of the movie follows these kids from screenings in North America, structure was a valuable lesson Hidden Jewish Kids at the Jew - childhood to present, revealing Europe, and Australia. In fall for becoming film director. I of - ish Museum of Greece. I had re - their hidden stories and invalu - 2014, Kisses to the Children was ten say that the course “Strength cently become a father myself able personal documents, a di - screened at 11 Universities Prof. Lazos speaks to TNH about reports of Greek students 50th Anniversary of Historic Orthodox-Catholic Continued from page 1 estimate. Six months later he survey was based mainly on present’ – and then that woman Meeting Marked, Metropolitan Tarasios Honored identified a dip in the prostitute poverty prostitution in order to accepts his offer, but this not a Lazos first brought up the re - population, involving the center be able to identify the causes general thing even in poverty A two day observance of the 50th Anniversary of the historic actions that the publication trig - of Athens, and he says that the that compel a woman – Greek prostitution.” 1965 Orthodox-Catholic Consultation was recently held at St. gered in Greece, where he was number of Greek women en - or not – to enter this area. Such At any rate, Lazos, in conclud - Louis University sponsored by University and the St. Irenaeus mocked. He told TNH that the gaged in prostitution has in - a thing, though, requires a ing his discussion with TNH, un - Orthodox Theological Institute. Metropolitan Tarasios of article generated angry cynicism creased, but less than what was process of change in the psyche derscored that “prostitution, just Buenos Aires was among the participants. He was also the instead the kind of attention and expected. And this is due to a on her part. Thus it takes time, like criminology is a minefield. guest of honor at a luncheon chaired by Nicholas Karakas – discussion such a serious issue new wave of immigration which an element that is indicating to We cannot approach these people speaking at the podium - where funds were raised of the work deserved. possibly created new customers. us that in the future there may with a questionnaire in hand.” of the Metropolis throughout South America. With regard to the reaction As he explains, the survey be an explosion with Greek to the article, he explained that from 2012 until this year indi - women as well.” editors write sensationalized cated a 12.5 percent increase in He said that in the Times’ ar - headlines to get attention – “but prostitution, with the Greek ticle “there is a greater boldness that does not mean we don’t have women constituting approxi - than what I have said. Anyway major problems with prostitution, mately 80 percent the increase. the matter is that the Greek Open Letter to Orthodox Christians mind you.” Regarding the matter of woman has made her appear - Speaking to TNH, Lazos clar - whether the charge for a half ance in the realm of prostitution.” ified, however, that “this thing hour visit is 50 euro or 2 euro, as The professor denies that he about young students soliciting reported in the British publica - spoke about two euro tricks, or themselves is an invention. It is tion, the professor said, “prosti - about the percentage of Greek Dear Fellow Orthodox Christians: the result of stretching the data tution is a free market, so there women in the population of pro - too much. Some things I had said is no 50-euro charge. If you asked fessional prostitutes. “I could not and others I had not said,” so me I would tell you that the usual have talked about a half-hour Once again, Thanksgiving this November 26, 2015 was a wonderful oppor - there was a fusion of things he price of low-cost prostitution is visit given the context of an en - tunity to give Thanks for the many blessings we of the OCl have received said explicitly and what was ex - 30 euros, but there is also prosti - counter full of panting, yet me - trapolated from the data. In other tution catering to the perversions chanical and stressful , and which and enjoyed. words, the students’ poverty is a of an elite clientele that costs never exceeds five or ten min - fact, and the prostitution is a fact, thousands of euros. utes. Also, about the two euros and so the Times concluded some “We have encountered this and the cheese pie I might have we offer thanks for the legacy provided by the courageous group of lay Greek women must be prostitut - population, but we have not said possibly that someone may ing themselves for money to buy touched upon it in the report be - talk sarcastically to a woman who people who began Orthodox Christian laity almost 30 years ago. It was and cheese pies “and other such vul - cause these are populations that is desperate and tell her ‘I’ll take is their vision that laid the groundwork for what OCl is today, a unique re - gar things,” he noted. are prostituting themselves to - you to have this and that to eat, The professor hastened to in - day and then they may stop. My and I’ll buy you a Coca-Cola as ligious group that has experienced and works on the critical issues within form us that his survey involves poverty prostitution. That is, the Orthodox Christian Church and the wider, larger society and gives voice prostitution that emerged during the years of crisis. “I have not to the marginalized. found students involved in what I have named, rightly or wrongly, poverty prostitution. That is, we are Thankful for the talent and dedication of our officers and members among people trying to survive for their hard work, both those who work for OCl behind the scenes mak - below the poverty line. In gen - eral, though, in the area of pros - ing certain that our memos, comments and stories get attention from our titution I have found students. But not in the surveys of poverty fellow faithful and also those who help get our bills paid. most inspiring we prostitution.” He noted that the interview are grateful for the loyalty and support from our members. you inspire us can have its own interpretation as it stands. “If someone asks me, to keep doing what we do and you enable our work to continue through ‘are there women who have pros - your generous gifts. we can never thank you enough for your faith in OCl. tituted themselves in order to America's “Greek” City Hall have breakfast, I would respond, ‘there are,’ but this is not a gen - New York and other cities may have more Greeks than Tarpon In the season of giving thanks, we remind you of OCl's annual appeal. we eral occurrence.” Springs does, but Tarpon is without a doubt the most Greek city TNH had sought a clear yes in the U.S., as evidenced by its main display case at City Hall, are in constant awe and respect for those who have responded so gener - or no response to the question: featuring books on Greek islands, and other Greek documents. “So you did not talk about stu - ously to OCl and ask those who have not yet done so to keep our indepen - dents prostituting themselves for a cheese-pie?” dent Orthodox Christian voice alive by making a donation to OCl. Please The surveys of professor La - use this listing at the bottom of this greeting to respond. zos, which will be published in April or May of 2016 in a collec - tive volume in honor of professor On behalf of the OCl membership and our hard working officers, have a Manganas, began in December 2012. He took two breaks: a 3- blessed Thanksgiving and thank you. month break and a six-month break for health reasons, and then then he resumed work that Gratefully, is continuing in order to further confirm the data. He concludes www.GreekKitchennyc.com that there are about 17,000 pros - titutes throughout Greece. The number though is an approxima - tion because the professor fo - cused only in the center of Athens. He pointed out that he looked at the population three years ago Nick Karakas OCl Past President b and he estimated that it has in - creased since then. “But certainly I did not actually interview all

17,000 of them.” a He is confident in his estimate and says the number is valid, be - 4400 woodson Road • St. louis, mO 63134 cause, as he says “our country is Tel: (314) 447-0290 small. So being aware of the spe - cific area, I could get the infor - mation I needed for a population 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 Vandy’s Zeppos, USC’s Nikias On Top 10 Highest-Paid College Leaders List

Vanderbilt Chancellor sity. graduate applications, a large gineer and served as President Nicholas Zeppos and University ONE SMART LAWYER HERE turnout of Ph.D.s, a growing of SUNY-Buffalo from 1982 to of Southern California President Zeppos joined the faculty at number of minority PhDs, an in - 1991, the last year being when Chrysostomos C.L. Max Nikias Vanderbilt, in Nashville, TN, in crease in faculty national recog - Nikias left Northeastern Univer - are among the top 10 highest- 1987 and has held a number of nition and top performance in sity to move to USC. paid college leaders in the posts including Professor of Law, research funds acquisition. Before that, Nikias was on United States, and rank among Associate Dean of the Law Zeppos said he was especially the faculty of the University of the most prominent-Greek School, Associate Provost for pleased that the university has Connecticut. He became a U.S. Americans in the country. Academic Affairs, Vice Chancel - been able to maintain its excel - citizen in 1989. He was named Columbia’s Lee Bollinger lor for Institutional Planning and lence while making it possible USC’s President in 2010. ranks first with earnings of $4.6 Advancement, and, in 2001, for talented students of all eco - He was founding director of million while Zeppos, a lawyer Provost and Vice Chancellor for nomic means to receive a Van - two national research centers at who started his career in Wash - Academic Affairs. derbilt education. This, he cred - USC: the NSF-funded Integrated ington, DC, came in fifth at $2.1 He has also written widely on ited, to the success of Media Systems Center and the million and Nikias, 63, a Cypriot legislation, administrative law, Opportunity Vanderbilt, which Department of Defense (DoD)- who was graduated from the Na - and professional responsibility. eliminated loans from the finan - funded Center for Research on tional Technical University in He has served as the chair of the cial packages the university of - Applied Signal Processing. The Athens and is known for his Scholars Committee on the Fed - fers students with need. DoD has adopted a number of fundraising abilities, was 10th eral Judiciary and as chair of the He noted that several peer in - his innovations and patents in at $1.48 million. Rules Advisory Committee of the stitutions have backed off similar sonar, radar, and communication The list compiled by CNN University of Southern Cali - U.S. Court of Appeals for the financial aid policies, while Van - systems. Money, showed that college fornia President Chrysosto - Sixth Circuit. derbilt has not, the paper added. Vanderbilt Chancellor As President, Nikias has writ - presidents pay keeps rising even mos C.L. Max Nikias. Zeppos serves on the Na - “Times got tough and they Nicholas Zeppos ten frequently about a range of during a debate on whether col - tional Security Higher Education withdrew,” he said. “But we at nationally significant topics, in - lege should be made more af - college presidents generally Advisory Board, a program of Vanderbilt are dedicated to become a high school teacher.” cluding the value of—and access fordable and as many students have a small effect on tuition at the Federal Bureau of Investiga - keeping the doors open for that When Nikias was 10, his fam - to—higher education; the future are crushed by years of paying the vast majority of institutions,” tion. He also serves on the Board student who is working very ily moved to Famagusta from his of online education; the contin - back school loans. said Robert Kelchen, a Professor of Directors of Fulbright Canada. hard, and, for them, Vanderbilt village of 800 so he and his sister ued importance of the arts and Median compensation rose of Higher Education at Seton In 2012, Zeppos, who was is a dream. Vanderbilt is a place could get a good education. humanities; and the role of elite nearly 6% to $436,429, accord - Hall University. among faculty members recog - of acceptance. We want to pro - Nikias excelled at math and sci - research universities, particu - ing to a new report from the And despite some big pay nized for 25 years of service to vide these worthy students op - ence, but it was in history that larly as economic drivers. Chronicle of Higher Education. packages, the president isn’t al - the university, said he is proud portunities.” he finished first in his class. In 2011, Nikias announced a It looks at salary and benefits for ways the top earner, with some that Vanderbilt has become “the THE JOURNEY FROM “I still read classical Greek $6 billion fundraising campaign, leaders at 497 private, non-profit football coaches above them – embodiment of diversity and CYPRUS history,” he says. “I love history, at the time the largest in higher colleges during 2013, the latest including at Vanderbilt, known meritocracy.” Those students ac - Nikias, an electrical engineer not just Greek history, but all his - education history. In his first five year data is available. more for academics than sports. cepted into the Vanderbilt com - who received a master’s and PhD tory.” years he’s brought in 27 lucra - Consultants say that there are No one thing can be blamed munity are considered “to be on from the State University of New After high school, Nikias was tive gifts, four more than $100 a “finite amount of people” for for rising college costs, Kelchen a journey. … We must never York at Buffalo, has shot up the drafted, drilled and shipped off million each and 60 percent of these jobs and it’s not uncom - said. limit them.” academic hierarchy ladder and to Crete for an intensive junior the funds he raised came from mon for college Presidents to Besides Zeppos and Bollinger, Vanderbilt, he said, “is a place keeps his interest in Athenian officer training school. non-graduates, leading the hop from one institution to an - the only others to make more with great academics that be - drama and democracy. He calls it one of the best ex - Chronicle of Higher Education other, said Sandhya Kambham - than $2 million, through the lieves in the American dream,” “My father was a carpenter, periences of his life. “Those six to call him “a prodigious pati, a reporter at the Chronicle. 2013 reporting period, were the Vanderbilt News reported. and my mother was a house - months on the island of Crete fundraiser.” The relatively high pay of col - Amy Gutmann at the University Among the university’s recent wife,” he told the USC News. had a big impact on me,” he In recognition of his efforts lege presidents generally repre - of Pennsylvania, Nido Qubein at accomplishments he cited were “But both of them really had a says. Nikias learned what it to renew USC's athletic heritage, sents a small amount of a High Point University, and increases in student body diver - passion for education. My meant to be goal-oriented, using the New York Times selected school’s budget. “The salaries of Richard Joel at Yeshiva Univer - sity, an all-time high in under - mother’s dream was to see me strategy and leadership to ac - Nikias as one of a small number complish difficult missions. He of national figures "who make led a platoon, made decisions sports' little corner of the world and learned to take responsibil - a better place.” ity, sometimes for failure. Nikias was awarded the Aris - Yale’s Christakis Quits Over Politically Correct e-Mails “Leadership means you al - teia medal, the Republic of ways have to worry. You never Cyprus' highest honor in the let - rest,” he says. “Being a dean is ters, arts, and sciences, the USC A lecturer at Yale on Early to continue teaching in the spring posts they will keep the school the same. It isn’t a job, it is a Black Alumni Association's Childhood Education, Erika semester,” the statement said. said. They didn’t respond to the commitment, and it occupies my Thomas Kilgore Service Award, Christakis, quit after an email “Her teaching is highly val - Times’ request for comment. mind seven days a week. But I the Los Angeles Police Museum's she wrote urging students to ued and she is welcome to re - In 2009, he was named to the love it!” Jack Webb Award, and earned a pick their own Halloween cos - sume teaching anytime at Yale, Time 100, Time magazine's list Ironically, the man he re - commendation for cutting-edge tumes – even if they were offen - where freedom of expression of the 100 most influential peo - placed as USC President, Steven research from the governor of sive. and academic inquiry are the ple in the world. In 2009 and Sample, is also an electrical en - California. She wrote the email in Octo - paramount principle and prac - again in 2010, Christakis was ber suggesting that there could tice.” named by Foreign Policy maga - be negative consequences to stu - Her email, combined with an zine to its list of top global dents ceding “implied control” overheard “white girls only” re - thinkers over Halloween costumes to in - mark at a fraternity party, helped The message caused an up - California Victim Thalasinos stitutional forces. “I wonder, and set off protests over racial insen - roar among some students who I am not trying to be provocative: sitivity at Yale. said the email was insensitive Is there no room anymore for a A debate over whether the and itself failed to create a “safe Had Death Threats child or young person to be a lit - protests and efforts to legislate space” at Silliman. tle bit obnoxious,” she wrote, “a forms of expression like Hal - In an email to the Washing - little bit inappropriate or loween costumes were making ton Post, she implied that the Continued from page 1 and possibly other victims, be - provocative or, yes, offensive?” students and faculty afraid to Halloween controversy and its cause of their divergent religious Her position was in response speak out if they disagreed at fallout were at the heart of her to vehemently criticize a pro - beliefs. to a directive from the Intercul - the school which said it wel - decision: posed bill to tighten gun control Jennifer Thalasinos told Sean tural Affairs Committee at Yale Erika Christakis comed freedom of expression. “I have great respect and af - in California. Hannity on his Fox News show warning students it would be in - After the email, a group of fection for my students, but I His widow Jennifer said he ap - that her husband was a devout sensitive to wear costumes that Her husband, Dr. Nicholas students confronted her and one worry that the current climate peared to be friendly with Farook, Messianic Jew who often wore a symbolized cultural appropria - Christakis, a physician and a was shown in a video posted on at Yale is not, in my view, con - his co-worker, and a part of the Star of David tie clip. tion or misrepresentation, or Professor of Sociology at Yale, YouTube screaming at her, “It is ducive to the civil dialogue and same “little group” at the office. She said Farook and her hus - both, like feathered headdresses, will take a one-semester sabbat - not about creating an intellec - open inquiry required to solve “He had worked with him,” band “completely disagreed” on turbans, war paint, blackface or ical, the university said. The tual space! It is not!” the student our urgent societal problems,” redface, or costumes making fun statement said the administra - was heard yelling. “Do you un - she said in a shot at the school’s of people. tion hoped she would recon - derstand that? It is about creat - apparent policy of both urging Christakis made a “voluntary sider, quitting. ing a home here!” and squelching freedom of ex - decision not to teach in the fu - “Erika Christakis is a well-re - Dr. Christakis is the Master pression if some students don’t ture,” according to a statement garded instructor, and the uni - of Silliman College, an under - like what you say or what they from the university, the New versity’s leadership is disap - graduate residence at Yale, and think you’re implying or suggest - York Times said. pointed that she has chosen not his wife is Associate Master, ing or hinting or indicating.

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By Constantine S. Sirigos throughout her whole life…we TNH Staff Writer are thankful to God for persons like her.” NEW YORK – Noted Greek phil - He then cited an early Chris - anthropist Marianna V. Vardi - tian text, the Didache, and noyannis was honored and was called Vardinoyannis a person the featured speaker at a joint who does not merely loves her presentation of the Hellenic- neighbour as herself, but more American Chamber of Com - than herself,” especially the chil - merce (HACC) and the Hellenic- dren. American Cultural Foundation Kerry Kennedy founder and (HACF) at the Holy Trinity President of Robert F. Kennedy Cathedral Ballroom on Decem - Human Rights organization, ber 7. which the following day pre - HACF President Nicholas sented Vardinoyannis with is Kourides introduced Vardinoy - prestigious Ripple of Hope annis’ brief but inspiring talk, award, told the guests, “I don’t “The Greek Crisis and the Im - know anyone who more embod - pact Through the Eyes of the ies loving others more than her - Children.” self.” Vardinoyannis was deeply Koubarakis, speaking on be - touched by the huge turnout on half of the Consul General, a Monday night deep in Christ - echoed Kennedy and added “I mas shopping season. She cannot imagine a more fitting thanked everyone , especially person to present this crucial HACF President Nancy Pa - Marianna Vardinoyannis, the founder of ELPIDA, which helps the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Manhattan about the philan - topic than Miss Vardinoyannis.” paioannou, and declared “Thou - children with cancer, told guests who packed the ballroom of thropic obligations she feels and wants to convey to them. Earlier in the event, which sands of miles away from was preceded and followed by Greece and yet I feel like I have and the refugees, providing food the bedrock of Greek history. children winning a second Papaioannou, who is also a reception, Kourides described never been closer to my country. and medicines.” “Greek people have been chance in life” fighting against President of Atlantic Bank, said HACF’s mission, which is “to or - This is because I stand among Asking what hope the proved to be great fighters cancer through the ELPIDA As - presenting Vardinoyannis is ganize and promote high quality you, among people who purely refugees could have for the fu - throughout the centuries,” she sociation she established. “one of the proudest moments and relevant educational and keep Greece in their hearts, be - ture, Vardinoyannis said “I be - said, and reminded that after “I am convinced that collec - of my life” and called her an ex - cultural programs…for persons ing in fact its best representa - lieve that this hope lies on our “the poverty that followed the tive action and the power of ample for all of us of philan - interested in the legacy of tives.” hands, on each one of us,” and Second World War and the civil true faith can bring the big thropic efforts to bring the Greece.” He also acknowledged She noted that “Crisis can said that “As a minimum con - war, the Greeks who emerged [change to the world] that we world together to good things the dignitaries, including Greek produce societies of indifference tribution on our side, our Foun - contributed to the progress of all dream of…So, let these chil - for needy people.” UN Ambassador Catherine or societies of solidarity, soci - dation recently launched the our world, like many of you dren be our source of inspiration Archbishop Demetrios Bouras, Amb. George Iliopoulos eties of exploitation or societies Refugee Child Medical Assis - here today: great scientists, suc - through their unbelievable thanked and congratulated the and Manos Koubarakis, Consul of compassion. And it is us who tance Program called WE cessful businessmen, Nobel courage and strength. Let them organizers for what he called a General and Consul, respec - will live our mark in this chal - CARE,” and described its work Prize Laureates and most of all be our symbols of hope as the beautiful event and a “wonder - tively, of Greece, Ambassador lenging era,” and highlighted and collaborators. happy and creative individuals.” everyday heroes who remind us ful opportunity to hear someone and Mrs. Loucas Tsillas, Amb. the efforts of “those in Greece She is optimistic about Vardinoyannis then said she that everything is possible,” she who is a real ambassador of Andrew Jacovides, and Princess who by hundreds help the poor Greece, founding her beliefs on drew inspiration from the “780 said. happiness and care for children Alexandra of Greece. RFKHR Lauds Marianna Vardinoyannis’ Philanthropic Work in Greece

Continued from page 1 tune 500 CEO – and corporate responsibility, including charita - lawlessness, but is love, and wis - ble giving. dom, and compassion toward Challenged by an Apple one another.” shareholder about it, Cook Katherine Kennedy boldly responded that he could Townsend introduced Vardinoy - sell his shares and invest else - annis and together with her where, but it is RFKHR’s posi - mother, Ethel Kennedy, who sat tion that companies that protect at the head of the dais, pre - human and workers’ rights are sented the award to Vardinoy - more profitable in the long run. annis. Guests were touched by a The honoree’s work and striking photo of Robert words are reminders that only Kennedy standing before the the efforts of today’s adults can Parthenon graced by his quote: guarantee good futures for chil - “only humanity and love can dren, but the very children as - climb the hill of the Acropolis.” sisted by groups like RFKHR and The Hellenes and the audi - the ELPIDA association created ence were aslo moved by refer - by Vardinoyannis inspire people ences to Robert Kennedy calling to take action and make sacri - 1 Aeschylus his favorite poet, fices. making it clear that he faced the That is why Vardinoyannis unique and terrible challenges said that in addition to her fam - in his life armed with two pow - ily and her husband, Vardis, “I erful forces, his Catholic faith, also wish to dedicate [the 2 and the wisdom of ancient award] to the children suffering Greek philosophy. from cancer… being so close to them for 25 years through they have become a unique source of inspiration and determination to me through their unbeliev - able courage and strength. They are symbols of hope while they are battling for life.” Turning to the special goals of RFKHR, she added, “They be - come symbols of a world that we dream of, a world of equal chances for all and of the right to live in dignity.” Joining Vardinoyannis on the 3 dais was Archbishop Demetrios.

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1)Marianna Vardinoyannis addressing the 700 guests at the RFK Human Rights gala standing next to the striking bust of Robert F. Kennedy that she was awarded; 2) Marianna Vardinoyannis congratulates two of her fellow honorees, Congressman John Lews and Apple CEO Tim Cook; 3) Marianna Vardinoyannis greets Archbishop Demetrios. Atlantic Bank President Nancy Pa - paioannou is at her side; 4) Left to right: Congressman John Lewis, known as the conscience of Congress, Marianna Vardinoyannis, RFKHR President Kerry Kennedy, and Apple CEO Tim Cook; 5 5) Marianna Vardinoyannis receives the Ripple of Hope Award from Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy.

Nearby were seated friends in - man,” she said “I treasure this cluding Greek UN Ambassador special award as one of the most Catherine Bouras. important and touching mo - When she arrived at the ments of my life.” Get These Great Books for Gifts this Holiday Season podium, she said “I feel hum - Altman, who served as bled and deeply touched to re - Deputy Treasury Secretary un - ceive this special award der President Bill Clinton and is Continued from page 1 Another cookbook highlight - topoulos is a fine collection fea - gifts for book lovers. His epic tonight… First of all, allow me Founder & Executive Chairman ing the healthy Mediterranean turing poems inspired by antiq - poem The Odyssey: A Modern to thank the founder… my dear of the investment bank Evercore Some beautiful coffee table books lifestyle is The Greek Diet: Look uity along with contemporary Sequel was published in 1938. friend, Ethel Kennedy, who has Partners, called Vardinoyannis a include At Home in Greece by Ju - and Feel Like a Greek God or themes. The Black Sea by He considered it his most impor - always been a role model for symbol of humanitarianism. lia Klimi, and StyleCity Athens by Goddess and Lose up to Ten Stephanos Papadopoulos is an ex - tant work. A massive undertak - me… and Kerry Kennedy, for He is active in numerous Ioanna Kopsiafti and Julia Klimi Pounds in Two Weeks by Maria traordinary poetic work tackling ing at about 1,360 pages of this inspiring award and for our philanthropic ventures, espe - which offer charming pho - Loi and Sarah Toland. With one the Pontic Greek genocide verse, Kazantzakis began writing continuous co-operation all cially in the poverty-stricken tographs and focus on the cre - hundred recipes, this book offers through the eyes of various char - in 1924 and wrote seven drafts these years.” South Bronx, and he reminded ativity and style of Greece. An Is - tasty and healthy recipes beauti - acters. before finally publishing it four - Vardinoyannis acknowledged that even in America, citing the land Sanctuary: A House in fully photographed and provides Fiction fans will enjoy …And teen years later. The English that “It is a real challenge, under recent police shootings, the Greece by John Stefanides takes insightful commentary from both Dreams Are Dreams by Vassilis translation, by Greek-American these difficult international cir - struggle for human rights con - a look at the elegant aesthetics of Chef Loi and the health journalist Vassilikos translated by Mary author and translator Kimon cumstances, not only to focus tinues. a home on the island of Patmos and former Olympic athlete Kitroeff. This short story collection Friar was first published in 1958. on the leaders who fight for jus - Congressman Lewis held the with stunning photography. Toland. is perfect for those who love mag - The book is a wonderful com - tice and democracy, but also to audience spellbound with his For foodies, cookbooks make Poetry collections are a ical realism. Vassilikos is best panion piece for Homer’s educate the new generations to passionate words about human fantastic gifts. Ikaria: Lessons on thoughtful gift for loved ones who known as the author of the polit - Odyssey. Also inspired by Greek recognize them and appreciate rights and his memories of Food, Life, and Longevity from enjoy the lyrical side of literature. ical novel Z, which was adapted mythology, Sta Palatia tis Knosou the values they stand for… Robert Kennedy and Dr. King. the Island Where People Forget The Greek Poets: Homer to the into the acclaimed film by Costa- (At the Palaces of Knossos) is a Thank you, my dear Kerry, for According to his congres - to Die, by Diane Kochilas. This Present edited by Peter Constan - Gavras. His novel The Few Things retelling of the story of Theseus. keeping our hopes alive…I am sional biography “By 1963, he enchanting volume with its deli - tine and Rachel Hadas is a must I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis Though originally written for completely sure that a better was dubbed one of the Big Six cious recipes will inspire you to have for poetry fans interested in combines elements of magical re - young readers of a youth maga - world for our children will rise leaders of the Civil Rights Move - eat healthier and to book your seeing the progression of the art alism and political fiction to tell zine, this historical novel is en - one day! A world where we can ment. ticket to Ikaria as soon as possible. over time and through history. the story of a writer investigating tertaining for all ages and highly leave our trace of peace and sol - At the age of 23, he was an A native of the island of Ikaria, Along with Homer, works by Pin - the life of another writer, the mys - recommended in the original idarity” she said. architect of and a keynote Chef Kochilas is the author of sev - dar, Cavafy, Seferis, Elytis, Pavlina terious and recently deceased Greek. The books mentioned Declaring that “The honor I speaker at the historic March on eral cookbooks, including The Pampoudi, and Vasilis Steriadis Glafkos Thrassakis. above are all available online in feel today becomes even greater, Washington in August 1963.” Country Cooking of Greece also are included in this collection. Nikos Kazantzakis, best Greek and in English translation. as I stand among three great hu - Cook was honored for cham - photographed by Stenos. She also For those who enjoy more re - known for writing Zorba the Check with your favorite local manists: The Honorable John pioning two causes, LBGT rights runs a cooking school on Ikaria cent poetry, Through These Greek, was a prolific author bookstore and local library for Lewis, Τim Cook and Roger Alt - – he is the only openly gay For - called the Glorious Greek Kitchen. Lenses by Apostolos Anagnos - whose works make excellent availability. 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 Savvas Christodoulides is Mourned by all Who Knew Him CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE By Demetris Tsakas unexpected death of Savvas “Savvas was virtuous, mag - Notice of Formation of BUKH LAW FIRM, PLLC Notice of Formation of SBRE VENTURES, LLC TNH Staff Writer Christodoulides in the USA nanimous, generous, noble, and (DOM LLC). Articles of Organization filed with (DOM LLC). 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General purpose . up until the day he fell ill. saved lives, gave meaning to Shirley, Addison Ahrendts, Olivia Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 274739/10709 Frank was born April 1, 1929, lives, and made a difference in Gettelfinger, Christian Gettelfin - 27 4876/19769 to Nick and Katina Hrisomalos, many, many lives. ger, Alex Jerden and Scott Jer - LEGAL NOTICE from Rapsani and Larissa, Frank became the longest- den (Brittany). FUNERAL HOMES Greece. Frank spent his child - practicing physician in Monroe Preceding him in death were Notice of Formation of 236 GRAND STREET APOSTOLOPOULOS hood growing-up in and around County and was very proud of his father, Nick Hrisomalos of LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/15. Office location: Kings Apostle Family - his parent’s establishment, Nick’s that accomplishment. “Dr. Rapsani, Greece; his mother, County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC English Hut in Bloomington, Frank,” as they would call him, Katina Hrisomalos of Larissa, upon whom process against it may be served. Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service which has now become a college began taking care of the grand - Greece; and his granddaughter, Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. Funeral Directors of institution as well as a city land - children of patients he had ac - Faith Coghlan of Bloomington. agent upon whom and at which process may RIVERDALE mark. He spent his childhood as tually delivered decades ago. He Visitation will be from 5 to 9 be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. FUNERAL HOME Inc. the only son of two Greek im - had a true love and tremendous p.m. with a Trisagion Prayer Ser - 274875/17976 migrants who came to America enthusiasm for medicine. He a Kentucky Colonel. On his 80th vice at 8:45 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5044 Broadway to start a better life and seek the practiced during the grand days birthday, he celebrated in a place 6, and from 10 a.m. to noon New York, NY 10034 American Dream. He graduated of the family practitioner - ad - of great significance in his life - Monday, Dec. 7, at Sherwood LEGAL NOTICE (212) 942-4000 from Bloomington High School ministering anesthetics before Nick’s English Hut. Mark Oaks Christian Church, 2700 E. Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE in 1946 and attended Purdue the sub-specialty of anesthesia Kruzan, mayor of Bloomington, Rogers Rd. in Bloomington. Notice of Formation of STONEBOTS, LLC CONSTANTINIDES University. He was a member of became further developed - and proclaimed April 1, 2009, “Dr. Orthodox Christian funeral (DOM LLC). Articles of Organization filed Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, grad - delivering thousands of babies - Frank Hrisomalos Day." services will be conducted at with the Secretary of State of New York (SS - FUNERAL PARLOR Co. NY) on 22/06/2015. Office location: Nassau uating with a pharmacy degree including one of his own daugh - Frank had a passion for many noon Monday, Dec. 7, at the County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC (718) 745-1010 in 1951. He returned to Bloom - ters - at all times of the day and things, from the arts to IU ath - church, with the Rev. Father Pe - upon whom process against it may be served. Services in all localities - ington and practiced pharmacy night. letics. He had a fantastic mem - ter Jon Gillquist officiating. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Spiegel & for a short while at Brummett’s He was exceedingly kind, ory; his knowledge of history Burial will follow in Valhalla Utrera P.A., P.C., 1 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, Low cost shipping to Greece New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful Pharmacy on Third Street while, dedicated, generous, wise and was remarkable. He inherited Memory Gardens. purpose. at the same time, taking classes humble. He always wanted to his love of property and invest - In lieu of flowers, memorial 274869 /19762 ANTONOPOULOS at Indiana University to meet the talk about others, not himself. ing from his father who, many contributions can be made to All FUNERAL HOME, INC. requirements to apply to medical He sacrificed his own life and years earlier with foresight, had Saints Orthodox Church of LEGAL NOTICE Konstantinos Antonopoulos - school. He married Athena personal time to help others and purchased farm land where Bloomington, 6004 S. Fairfax FOURPOINT BOXING LLC. App for Auth Funeral Director ”Becky” Anton in 1954 at St. An - spent years on the Bloomington Frank would later build his fam - Rd., Bloomington, IN 47401, or filed w/ SSNY 10/30/15. Formed in DE drew’s Greek Orthodox Church Public Board of Works under ily home - where he lived, en - to I.U. Hospice House at Bloom - 8/7/15. Office in NY Co. SSNY designated 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., in South Bend, moved to Indi - several different mayors. He was tertained and enjoyed his family ingtonhospitalfoundation.org. for service of process and shall mail to: Astoria, New York 11105 anapolis and graduated from the the director of Public Investment and friends since 1963. Arrangements are under di - The LLC, 150 W 56th St. Apt. 4103, New York, NY 10017. Auth Officer: DE Div of (718) 728-8500 I.U. School of Medicine in 1957. Corporation and chairman of the Frank lived a magical and rection of Day & Deremiah-Frye Corps, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Pur - He moved back to his hometown board for decades. 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The Academic Community Mourns Language Lecturer Rassias John Rassias: The Dartmouth Professor Changed Foreign-Language Instruction Continued from page 1

Scholar, and stayed there to Much of the American academy is beset by political rot, but complete his PhD. He then went here and there are reminders of what once made U.S. higher to Paris, where he studied education the envy of the world. One example was John A. French drama at the Sorbonne Rassias, the Dartmouth College professor who died at age 90 and acted in the theater. on Wednesday after revolutionizing the teaching of foreign His time in the theater served languages. him well as he developed his The son of Greek immigrants, Rassias joined the Marine teaching method. Corps in World War II and fought on Okinawa. He turned to In 1964, he began a long af - the study of French and other romance languages in the 1950s filiation with the Peace Corps and developed a language program as a consultant to the Peace language programs, working as Corps. At Dartmouth he adapted that into what became known a consultant and developer. Two as the Rassias Method, or the Dartmouth Intensive Language years later, he became director Model that has been used for instruction in 180 languages of the first pilot program of lan - around the world. guages for the Peace Corps in Rassias rejected the rote repetition of language instruction Africa, leading training in the in favor of immersive classes that engaged students in rapid- Ivory Coast. The Rassias Method Dartmouth, but around the ABOVE: Prof. fire drills and often dramatic set-pieces. of language instruction was world. In the past few years the John Rassias The idea was to get students thinking in the foreign language later adopted by the Peace method—brought to Mexico by demonstrates while enjoying the experience of learning. Rassias’s passion Corps. John’s daughter Helene Rassias- the Rassias and personality made him a student favorite and earned ap - Rassias joined the Dartmouth Miles – has been taught to more Method to a pearances on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and even “The Tonight Show faculty in 1965, and served than 2,000 English language group of with Johnny Carson.” Believe it or not, education used to be thousands of students and col - public school teachers who, in teachers from part of American popular culture. leagues for close to 50 years. He turn, have instructed hundreds Mexico in 2010. Rassias also made Dartmouth an early leader in campus was a founder of the College’s of thousands of Mexican stu - Photo: Joseph study abroad. President Jimmy Carter named him to his com - Language Study Abroad pro - dents throughout the country. Mehling. mission to improve foreign language study in the U.S., which grams and was the director of Rassias-Miles, her father, and RIGHT: Prof. is still much needed and is a reminder of the days when more foreign study programs for sev - Dartmouth alumna Luanne John Rassias Americans thought it was a virtue to be engaged with the eral years. Zurlo ’87 created the Mexico claps his hands world. John Rassias showed that the American campus can be His commitment to commu - project. “It was such a huge love to make a point a joyously unsafe space where young people can be inspired nication and cultural under - of his,” she said yesterday from while teaching and have their minds opened. standing was the cornerstone of Mexico. “He was so excited that Mexican his life. I was coming down this week teachers of Originally printed in the Wall Street Journal -Opinion Page- on The Rassias Method of in - to work on it with our col - English. Photo: December 6, 2015. struction lives on, not only at leagues.” Eli Burakian. THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 COMMUNITY 9

OUR EVERYDAY GREEK GREEK GASTRONOMY Don’t Be Afraid of Greek Pronunciation: It’s Easy Zucchini Bread and Cream By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou Letters Diphthongs Pronunciation Examples Cheese Frosting Easy Recipe Though the Greek vocabu - ι ει i (idiom) Όχι ( ohee= no ) lary may not be easy to under - η οι or ee Αθήνα By Eleni Sakellis The mini loaf pans will bake stand, the pronunciation of υ υι (needle) (Atheena=Athens ) quicker, test them for doneness Greek words is very easy for two when ύπνος ( eepnos=sleep ) The versatile zucchini is a at about 35-40 minutes. Cool on reasons. First, each single letter accentuated έχει ( ehee= has ) vegetable with a sweet side. wire racks for ten to fifteen min - one reads is pronounced. No let - Grated into a simple cake batter, utes before removing from loaf ters are omitted in a word. Sec - οικογένεια ( ikoyenia= family ), the zucchini helps the cake re - pans. ond, each letter possesses only υιός ( ios= son ) tain its moisture for a sweet Allow to cool completely be - one sound. In English the pro - ε Αι e (energy) ένα ( ena= one ), treat that can be enjoyed any fore slicing and serving. nunciation of the letters “o” and ναι ( ne= yes ) time of day. Though it is called These cakes can be made in “a,” for example, varies depend - ο o (organism) Όχι ( ohi= no ) zucchini bread, this quick cake advance and taste even better ing on the word in which they ω Ώρα ( ora= time ) made in the muffin method is the next day as the flavor ripens. belong. In Greek, the sound of ου oo (boot) Σουβλάκι ( souvlaki ) reminiscent of that other cake If you prefer, you can store the the vowels α,ε,ο,ι,η,υ,ω is one, made with a grated vegetable, cakes tightly covered in the re - αυ af (scoff) or Αυτό ( afto= this ) clear, and open, and it doesn’t carrot cake, and is sure to be - frigerator or even freeze them, change significantly. av (suave) Αύριο ( avrio= tomorrow ) come a family favorite. Here is just thaw in the refrigerator for VOWELS ευ eph (ephemeral) Ευχή ( efhee= wish ) a simple recipe for zucchini two to four hours before serv - Τhe Greek alphabet has three ev (Evelyn) Ευρώπη ( Evropi= Europe ) bread. ing. different letters, ι, η, υ, which Though the cake is sweet are all pronounced the same: ee enough without frosting, you (needle). The letters o and ω lium, with the English X,x. Όχι Zucchini Bread can dust it with confectioners’ are also pronounced the same: CONSONANT COMBINATIONS is pronounced ohee, not oxi (as sugar or if desired, frost with o (organism), but the first one Some consonants are combined to produce a new sound. in oxygen). Due to its resem - • 3 and 1/2 cups all-purpose, your favorite cream cheese is short and the second is long. Consonant combinations Pronunciation Examples blance to the English P,p the unbleached flour frosting or the simple recipe that What does this mean? In An - Greek letter Ρ,ρ= R may mis - • 2 cups sugar follows. cient Greek, the vowels had a μπ b (botanic) Μπαμπάς= babas: father takenly be pronounced as P. A • 1 teaspoon baking powder value. ντ d (diagram) Ντομάτα= domata: tomato word where the Greek P and the • 1 teaspoon baking soda Short vowels are ο and ε, γκ, γγ g (grammar) Γκρι = gri, grey English R can be clearly distin - • 1 teaspoon cinnamon Simple Cream Cheese while long vowels are always η guished is Ευ-ρώ-πη = Ε u-ro- • 1 teaspoon salt Frosting and ω. In Ancient Greek the τσ ts (nuts) Κορίτσι= koritsi: girl pe: ρ stands for r, while π • 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated long vowels took almost twice τζ dz (suds) Τζατζίκι= dzadzeeki: yogurt dip stands for p. nutmeg • 6 ounces cream cheese, at as long to pronounce as the PRONUNCIATION KEY: • 4 eggs room temperature short vowels. Α, ι , υ were some - i stands for short i (idiom), • 1 cup vegetable oil • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at times long and sometimes short, (needle). Αι is pronounced as ever they occur. The accented while ee (needle) for long and depending on the letters that the letter ε = e (energy). Ου is syllable is indicated by the accentuated, followed them. In Modern pronounced like oo (boot). In “tonos” on the vowel ( ΄). No e stands for e (energy), d Greek we have inherited the some cases αυ is pronounced as matter how many syllables a stands for δ ( that ), while th writing and less the long values aff (scoff) and in other like av word may have, the accent can stands for θ ( theory ), in the pronunciation. (suave). The same goes for the appear only over one of the last y stands for γ ( yes ), h stands DIPHTHONGS diphthong ευ. Sometimes it is three syllables. When the word for χ ( helium ). Certain pairs of vowels are pronounced as eph (ephemeral) is pronounced the accent is pronounced together to produce and sometimes as ev (Evelyn). shown by an increased stress on Dimitra Kamarinou, PhD, has one continuous sound, different A Greek word has as many syl - the accented syllable. The one- studied philology and archaeol - than the one that each vowel lables as it has vowels or diph - syllable words do not get a ogy at the University of Ioanni - alone can produce. These are thongs: Κα-λη-μέ-ρα, έ-χει, αύ- tonos. na,Würzburg and Bochum in called diphthongs. Diphthongs ρι-ο, αυ-το-κί-νη-το, Ευ-ρώ-πη. USEFUL TIPS Germany. She has been are in most cases counted as ACCENTS English-speaking people may honored with the Academy of long syllables. Ει, οι, υι are Unlike written English, writ - confuse the Greek letter Χ,χ , Athens Award in Archaeology equally pronounced as the ee ten Greek marks accents wher - which is pronounced like he - and Homeric Philology.

TURNING POINT Sarah Johnson: Helping Refugees to Carry The Future

A recurring series of conver - have followed the Greek crisis sations with residents of Athens, and know it's not easy for your and the very moment that people. The fact that there has changed their lives. been so much effort by Greeks to help refugees while you still By Alexia Amvrazi need help is very moving.” “Carry The Future offered me When 26 year Sarah John - a great sense of purpose. Al - son, who runs a ranch in Texas though coming here I was some - and also works as a Doula, as - what set on keeping myself sisting women give birth, heard buffered in order to help it not about the repeated, almost daily seem so real, you constantly drownings of Syrian refugees come across people who remind • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla room temperature and their children in Greece, she you of yourself – you see yourself extract • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla knew that she had to do some - in them. I know that I would • 2 cups coarsely grated extract thing about it – to literally, phys - want people to take care of me if zucchini • 4 cups confectioners’ sugar ically, actually take action and I were in that situation, so to be • 1 cup chopped walnuts offer her help, even if it meant able to help take care of them it • 1 cup raisins In the mixing bowl of a stand paying her own way, leaving her lets you know theres good in the mixer with the paddle attach - two young children, aged one world. The next step immediately Grease and flour two (9 by 5 ment, beat the cream cheese, and three, behind for a few is to formulate our 2016 Calen - by 3 inch) loaf pans or four (5 butter and vanilla until thor - weeks, and landing face-on with dar, and continue trips for people 1/2 by 3 by 2 1/2 inch) mini oughly combined and smooth. a reality that nothing can pre - in the US who want to help, to loaf pans and set aside. Preheat Reduce the mixer speed and add pare anyone for. be able to, and to gather more oven to 350 degrees. In a large half of the confectioners’ sugar She is one of numerous fe - support here in Greece in order bowl, whisk together the flour, slowly to avoid making a huge male American volunteers who to be able to hand out more car - sugar, baking powder, baking dust cloud of sugar. joined Carry The Future, an ini - riers. Our goal is to see the soda, cinnamon, salt, and nut - Add the remaining confec - tiative they first heard of from night) when she found a few of carriers, made to carry babies refugee crisis through, and make meg. tioners’ sugar, then gradually Greek American Cristal Logo - hours to talk. The process is this: from a few days old up to sure every refugee who wants a In a separate bowl, whisk to - raise the speed to medium and thetis, to raise money for, buy once refugees arrive, volunteers around four years), soon they baby carrier can receive one.” gether the eggs, vegetable oil, beat until the frosting reaches and hand-deliver new and gen - rush within the 15 minutes be - realize what a great difference “We have two Indiegogo and vanilla extract. the desired spreadable consis - tly used baby-carriers to refugee tween them coming on shore it makes and it becomes clear campaigns, one is for carriers Stir the grated zucchini into tency. parents who manage to reach and before they are herded onto they are relieved.” and the other is called Opera - the egg and oil mixture. Add the An additional 1/2 to 3/4 cup the Greek shore, in order to buses, to offer baby carriers and For Sarah, hearing about tion Refugee Child which is for wet ingredients to the dry in - of confectioners’ sugar may be make the rest of their journey a fit them onto willing parents' Carry The Future created a huge handing out small drawstring gredients and mix until just required depending on the wa - little safer, easier and more hu - bodies so they can understand turning point in her life. Already bags to give young children for combined. Stir in the nuts and ter content of the butter and man. The campaign, which how to wear them. At the time very occupied at home with her them to carry the very few toys raisins. cream cheese. started in early October, with of our interview, around 5000 two jobs and two kids, as well they have as well as a few es - If you prefer, dried cranber - Makes enough frosting for the initial goal of raising $2,500, carriers had already been as an ailing husband, when she sentials like diapers, wipes, ries may be substituted for the two cakes. went viral overnight and man - handed out. began hearing about people some food. These kids are con - raisins. Store any leftover cream aged to garner widespread in - “A lot of people are reticent drowning in Greece she made stantly moving from one place Divide the batter between cheese frosting in the refrigera - terest and support. at first,” she says, “because they the big decision to come over to the other, facing the most dif - two loaf pans or four mini loaf tor and use within one week. I met Sarah on one of the don't quite understand the func - herself and offer help. Making ficult situations, and this offers pans. Bake at 350 degrees for Always cool cakes completely many evenings when she was tion of the carriers. But once this pivotal decision has been them some sense of stability.” one hour or until a toothpick, before frosting. between volunteering shifts at we've strapped them on them hugely rewarding to her: Find out more about Carry The skewer or cake tester inserted Cakes topped with cream the ports (volunteers are there and they have their baby or tod - “Greece has won my heart, as Future online: www.carrythefu - in the center of each cake comes cheese frosting should also be at all hours of the day and dler inside (there are three sizes have the Greek people. I also ture.org. out clean. kept refrigerated.

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Belated Thanks

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos Centers on that day.” Kipreos of neglect, servitude and thank - naturally. I’d do anything to Special to The National Herald asked him why he went there. lessness, forgotten birthdays, keep my family together; order Yiannis shrugged, looking up many holidays, too. You may be not only dinner and flowers but Yiannis confessed that Areti nostalgically at Dimos. “You waking up one morning and a special card saying how much was mad at him; a lot of silence weren’t having Thanksgiving at find yourself all alone in your you appreciate her. I’d do it in in the house, dinner late, no your diner this year – like that old age – which isn’t far.” Yian - an especially nice place.” slippers when he got home, no one time...and it was great...all nis’ expression turned pensive. John, having caught George’s chamomile tea before bedtime, of us being together...real He, actually, appeared worried. wink, decided to go in on it, no shoulder massage. homey like. The others had their He looked up at Dimos, plead - telling Yiannis, “I’d make sure “Why?” asked George, adding, own plans, so, where was I to ingly. “You’re wise, Dimos - a she got those roses.” Brighten - “Keep it short! Areti isn’t the com - go?” John asked, “What about good friend, too! I always re - ing, Yiannis bestowed a wide plaining kind. If she was we’d be your sister? She’s invited you spected your opinion. What do smile on Dimos and John. “You here till closing.” Ignoring him, and your family to her house a you think?” Dimos shrugged, guys would really do all that?” Yiannis told them that he’d blun - couple of times, hasn’t she?” stirring his coffee in contempla - They nodded, assuredly. Know - dered Thanksgiving Day. He ex - Yiannis nodded. “Yeah, but she tion, giving serious thought to ing Yiannis better than most, plained, hesitatingly, “Unfortu - expects us to bring a pie, what George had said, receiving George sensed that their good nately, Barbara is now old Spanakopita and flowers. All a wink that hinted George was advice was about to backfire. enough to be opinionated. And, that gets expensive!” exaggerating and decided to go Taking in a deep, relaxing let me tell you she makes sure Always outspoken, George potatoes, made a salad and got a repentant Yiannis. John, feel - along with it. “Yes, Yiannis, it breath and reaching for the last she voices them. She sure didn’t said, “And, why not? A little a pecan pie all in complete si - ing sorry for him, offered to pre - looks very serious. When donut covered with sprinkles, take after her mother.” George ‘something’ won’t break you. lence. She served her mother pare a bouquet of roses for women begin taking inventory Yiannis said, “That’s what I’ll do. interrupted, “I’d call that fortu - Your trouble is you’re a cheap while I...served myself. No re - Areti. “I’ll charge you half the of the years, some, actually, do Thanks, guys! I’ll take care of nate!” Turning away, he contin - free loader and ...” Dimos held spect!” John, looking stern, told price.” Yiannis looked up. “She’s something about it, finally. I be - getting a card and signing it. ued. “So, she objected when I out his hand, preventing him him, “And, you’re wondering not THAT mad.” lieve you should take George’s What friends! And, what friend - said we’d go for Thanksgiving from adding more. “So, where why Areti is mad at you? I George, wanting to put the advice, seriously. Not only get lier surroundings than the where we went on several occa - did you go Thanksgiving, Yian - wouldn’t speak to you until next fear of God in him, said, “I the flowers but a dinner, too, diner? When do you want us sions.” Dimos told him, “I can’t nis?” After a few minute’s Thanksgiving.” Head hanging wouldn’t be a friend if I didn’t completed with wine – the there, Dimos?” Dimos looked blame Barbara, Yiannis. Only thought, he told him, “We low, donut untouched and inform you that, from what my works!” adding, “consider Bar - up in complete surprise as Yian - homeless and those who are gen - stayed home. Barbara bought a falling into a long silence they wife told me Areti is madder bara, too! After all, if Areti goes nis asked John, “Could you de - uinely poor go to the Good Will Turkey breast, mashed some all wondered if they were seeing than you think ... all the years Barbara will go with her mother, liver the flowers to the diner?” 10 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015

ALL HISTORY The Astounding Artwork of John Gavrelos via Eye of the World Exhibit

By Steve Frangos stopped or felt he had completed could conceive and create. scouts each year displayed in his TNH Staff Writer his exhibition in 1948. At that John Gavrelos was not a ca - store window. I recognized what time the overall assembly of con - reer artist nor even a confec - author David Lewis means by the CHICAGO- While it is generally structions when organized and tioner. At some point Gavrelos influences of Greek folkart tradi - agreed that John Gavrelos (1893- presented, as the artist intended, left the confectionery trade and tions on the original artwork of 1979) built what would come to they measured a staggering 27 joined his brother in Beaumont Helen and Peter Contis in the be called “The Eye of the World running feet in length. How John ,TX. While reliable biographical drawings and candyart I first saw Exhibition,” some time between Gavrelos came to conceive of or information on John Gavrelos’ Koumbaro Ted create. 1923 and 1948, little else about ultimately understood his own life is available we do know that As one might expect museums this astounding work of art is work is not for the moment pub - the Gavrelos brothers owned and around the nation have vied to publicly known. licly known. operated the J and J Steakhouse display John Gavrelos’ The Eye Gavrelos was what we would According to Gavrelos’ great- at 6685 Eastrex Freeway in Bea - of the World. Chief among these call today an outsider artist. Well nephew and namesake (John mont. This same location became has been the Texas Association outside the boundaries of any art Gavrelos), when his great-uncle the site for their bigger brand of Schools of Art at Lamar Uni - tradition this man’s singular cre - first came to the United States at new Lone Star Steakhouse in versity in Beaumont, Texas. In ation is now sought after by mu - the beginning of the last century 1953 and then something else 2008, Gavrelos’ art was included seum’s across the nation. Said to “he worked at a chocolate factory until it was no more than an in the TASA tour of Beaumont be in the hands of his extended (where) he was fascinated with abandoned building by 2012. Seen here is part of Greek- Folk Art. Public sources report family John Gavrelos’ fantastic the molds he saw, and thought if Gavrelos carved and stored American outsider artist that the last large scale display creation is, and perhaps right - it could be done in candy, it could his initial works in a trailer John Gavrelos’ magnificent of Gavrelos’ creation was at the fully, in the realm of community be done in wood.” What is miss - parked next to his restaurant. By “Eye of the World” American Visionary Art Museum legends. ing from Gavrelos the younger’s 1953, Gavrelos was ready to collection. in Baltimore. Yet search as I Given the artist’s vision, The explanation is that at the height show his work to the world. In might public accounts offer no Eye of the World is not so much of Greek immigrant involvement the new restaurant with its own clude certain self-taught or naïve clue as to the either the present a single work of art as much as in the American confectionery specially room that featured a art makers who were never in - condition or future plans for the an assembly of constructions. As trade was their artistry and busi - neon sign Gavrelos carefully as - stitutionalized. Typically, those la - “The Eye of the World Exhibition. family recollections have it in ness savvy. Confectioners around sembled his work. At this point beled as outsider artists have lit - As far as I can determine this 1923, John Gavrelos began carv - the nation competed with each the artwork had taken on mean - tle or no contact with the massive work of art is still in the ing tiny replicas of famous build - other for the general public’s at - ing for the entire extended mainstream art world or art in - hands of Gavrelos’ extended fam - ings, the Parthenon, Biblical tention by means of their elabo - Gavrelos family. While it is said stitutions. In many cases, their ily. All we can hope for at this scenes, the Statue of Liberty, the rately displayed candy fantasies. that “other members of the always keep the museum next to work is discovered only after stage of events is that the wishes Founding Fathers signing the De - Candy store front windows were Gavrelos family contributed pa - the restaurant” their deaths. Often, outsider art of the extended family that their claration of Independence, a cou - the settings for seasonal displays per-mache mountains, bridges, (texasmonthly.com/articles/eye- illustrates extreme mental states, beloved Poppa John’s creation be ple of Greek monasteries and of Santa Claus houses, Brea Rab - streams, and people – not neces - of-the- unconventional ideas, or elabo - properly preserved will be met other notions. Gavrelos’ construc - bit adventures during Eastertide, sarily to scale” no one is identi - world/#sthash.1GN4JKQ8.dpuf) rate fantasy worlds.” by some public institution. tions are all that more amazing airplane dogfights during World fied by name. Having said that .” But as far as I can now deter - There are many Greek-Amer - Still it cannot be said Gavrelos’ because these undeniably beau - War I, perfect renditions of their his great-nephew Gavrelos is mine the Lone Star Steakhouse ican outsider artists and there outsider artwork creation is be - tiful constructs were whittled out local schools in spun candy, giant adamant that everything in that no longer exists. So what has be - have been Greek outsider artists yond public view. For those of of no more that cast-off fruit life size animals in chocolate and room and display case was come of the Eye of the World Ex - since the early immigrants of the you wishing to view elements of crates and cigar boxes For rea - whatever the artistry and imagi - arranged exactly according to hibition? 1880s. Just to list a few we can Gavrelos’ massive work of art, for sons not now known Gavrelos nation of the local candyman Gavrelos’ specifications. As his Artists and museum personal certainly point to Helen Contis, the moment, the Internet is your nephew insisted, “He wanted had long recognized John Gavre - Peter Contis, Stephanie Frangos, best source. Over the years many everything just right…he was los’ standing as a unique outsider George N. Kapotas, John W. Per - visitors to the Gavrelos restaurant very particular.” artist. For those of you unfamiliar ates, Tom E. Stefopoulos, and photographed the Eye of the Gavrelos, known far and wide with the genre of outsider artist Drossos P. Skyllas. One of the World Exhibition from various QUESTION OF THE WEEK as “Poppa John” died in 1979. In here is one definition: “The term finest books on two of these points of view. Close-ups of single July, 1997, his great-nephew of outsider art was coined by art artists (despite the misleading ti - structures within the larger pre - Should visaless entry continue for those visiting the United old Poppa John and then current critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as tle) is: Byzantine Butterflies: The sentation show the incredible de - States from abroad? owner of the Lone Star Steak - an English synonym for art brut Folk Paintings of Peter Contis and tail and artistic achievement in - Please email your response to house told Texas Monthly maga - (e.g. "raw art" or "rough art"), a Helen Contis by David Lewis vested in each structure, element [email protected] We may publish some re - zine that the family had label created by French artist (New York: The Overlook Press, or figure. Panoramic photographs sponses as Letters to the Editor in a future issue. “promised our uncle we would Jean Dubuffet to describe art cre - 1995). This book is available all give some sense of the overall ated outside the boundaries of over the Internet and is one of scale and intricacy of this fabu - official culture; Dubuffet focused the finest biographical histories lous artistic achievement. What - particularly on art by those on of Greeks in the United States I ever the ultimate fate of Gavrelos’ the outside of the established art have ever read. creation, as these Internet images scene, such as psychiatric hospital Ted Poulos, my mother’s and commentaries report, it has THE HERALD SQUARE patients and children. While brother’s godfather was a candy - already entered the conscious - Dubuffet's term is quite specific, maker in Antioch, IL, I saw his ness of the wider world of art. TNH's Crossword Challenge the English term "outsider art" is six-foot Christmas candycanes often applied more broadly, to in - that he donated to the local boy [email protected] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 GREECE CYPRUS 11 Tsipras, Germany’s Schaeuble Tangle Over IMF Role in Greek Bailout

German Finance Minister politically unacceptable to third he said can’t work and Wolfgang Schaeuble said Greek Greece, he said, “and by going won’t be repaid to keep the Premier Alexis Tsipras is trying to the (EU) partners demanding country afloat for a little while to wiggle out of a bailout deal solutions and proposals on debt longer until the next dilemma. that includes the International sustainability which they know It’s now so bad that the IMF, Monetary Fund. our partners cannot accept”. breaking from the unspoken Tsipras had said he wants the In the 90-minute interview role about not going public to IMF, one of the country’s Quar - with public broadcaster ERT, air dirty laundry, in August tet of lenders along with the Eu - Tsipras said he wouldn’t bring wrote a paper declaring Greece ropean Union, European Central in new partners to bolster his needs debt relief – from the EU Bank and European Stability coalition of his Radical Left and ECB – to be eligible for con - Mechanism, to either bow out SYRIZA and the formerly anti- tinued IMF aid. of a bailout program or go eas - austerity far-right Independent “I remain firmly of the view ier on Greece, reversing his ac - Greeks. that Greece’s debt has become ceptance of its role earlier. IMF Managing Director unsustainable and that Greece “The Fund must decide if it Christine Lagarde met with cannot restore debt sustainabil - wants a compromise, if it will Greek Economy Minister Gior - ity solely through actions on its remain a part of the program,” gios Stathakis who briefed her own,” Lagarde said then. said Tsipras. “If it does not want on the government’s lack of A growing number of econo - to, it should come out publicly progress in instituting more re - mists agree that Greece needs and say so.” The IMF has been forms demanded by the lenders more than another dose of aus - urging European lenders to pro - and why. terity policies to recover. But vide debt relief to Greece but In response to a question they are also asking why it took said it would not join in. from The National Herald on so long for the fund to reach Speaking on the sidelines of AP PHOTO/VIRGINIA mAyO whether debt restructuring was that conclusion, the New York an Ecofin meeting, Schaeuble Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, center, arrives for a meeting of EU finance ministers discussed, an IMF spokesman Times wrote. said: “It is not in Greece’s inter - at the EU Council building in Brussels on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. EU finance ministers are set to said it is not IMF policy to com - “I applaud the fund for re - ests for it to question the IMF’s debate in Brussels ways to better track financial transfers, control pre-pay bank cards, freeze ment on what other parties say leasing the report, but at the involvement in the bailout pro - assets and limit movements of cash and precious metals. and that he could not speak same time it was too late,” gram,” according to about what Stathakis said during Gabriel Sterne, an economist at Kathimerini. manded by Greece’s lenders. only a three-seat edge in the majority in Parliamentary could the meeting. Oxford Economics in London “I believe we negotiated at “They should focus their at - 300-member Parliament and be tested if he implements more WE CAN’T PAY who has closely studied the length with Mr Tsipras in July tention on doing what they have faces trouble if it goes ahead pension cuts, a “Red Line” he Although he said Greece I.M.F.’s role in Greece told the and August,” added Schaeuble. to do,” he said. “As always, they with pension cuts. said he would never crossed but couldn’t pay back the first two paper. “For right or for wrong, “I also believe that he signed the are behind schedule. Maybe Greece shot back. “We re - jumped over under pressure loans, Tsipras – reversing anti- they are the only honest broker agreement and then held elec - questioning the agreement is mind that the Greek government from the lenders. austerity campaign pledges – here so they really should have tions to get a mandate from the necessary for domestic reasons; is responsible for deciding what “This is a stance that cannot said he was forced to ask for a gotten this out sooner.” Greek people so he could imple - he has a slim majority I have no - is in the country’s interests,” said be called constructive in this ment what he signed.” ticed. This may be the easy route government spokeswoman Olga process,” he said in TV inter - He said Tsipras, under fire at but it is not in Greece’s inter - Gerovasili. view, an ironic reference to the home for reneging on virtually ests.” “We expect the German Fi - debt relief he wants but in which every anti-austerity campaign Tsipras’ coalition of his Radi - nance Ministry to separate its he said the IMF doesn’t want to promise he made, is having sec - cal Left SYRIZA and its partner, stance from the unacceptably take part. ond thoughts about adopting the formerly anti-austerity far- tough stance of the IMF,” she “The Fund must decide if it some of the measures de - right Independent Greeks has added. “Europe should and is wants to compromise, if it will able to solve its problems on its stay in the program,” Tsipras own.” said. “If it does not want that THE BIG SQUEEZE compromise, it should say so With his shaky coalition tee - publicly.” tering, Tsipras blamed the IMF The IMF has taken the hard - for pushing the country too hard est line in demanding pension for more tough reforms in a reform with benefit cuts, and a third bailout that is raised ire far-reaching liberalization of among the citizenry. Greece’s labor market. The IMF has been urging the The IMF has not disbursed other international lenders, the any aid to Greece since August European Union, European Cen - 2014 under a previous program tral Bank, and European Stabil - due to expire next March. ity Mechanism to take a big hit Athens defaulted on an IMF and give Greece debt relief at loan repayment in June but has the same time the Washington, paid up after getting revenues D.C.-based institution is insisting from a third bailout which is be - it won’t. ing used to pay a second bailout, Tsipras agreed to a bailout of which was used to pay a first 86 billion euros ($93.44 billion) bailout. – since reduced by less money An IMF spokesman said last AP PHOTO/PETROS GIANNAKOURIS needed for recapitalization of week it would decide whether Arsenal beats Olympiakos 3-0 to qualify with 3 Greek banks – but in return has to co-finance the new bailout af - AP PHOTO/SANTI PAlACIOS been forced to break virtually all ter the first review of compliance Refugees rejoice and embrace each other after safely landing Olivier Giroud scored a hat trick, during a Champions League his anti-austerity campaign with the program, expected on the shores of Lesbos, eager to get out of Greece to other EU Group F soccer match with Olympiakos, as Arsenal advanced promises. early next year, based on how countries. to the last 16 of the Champions League with a 3-0 win over But he said the IMF is squeez - much debt relief Greece gets. Olympiakos on Wednesday, at the Georgios Karaiskakis sta - ing too hard and making unre - The IMF was not being help - dium in Piraeus, overturning an advantage held by the Greeks. alistic demands as his three-vote ful by making reform demands Greece, EU Leave Refugee Aid to Volunteers, NGOs Reunification Optimism Buoys Cyprus Investors As Greece’s Radical Left soup. Within minutes, they had SYRIZA struggles to keep to - an outdoor kitchen set up. “ Growing hopes Cyprus can be gether a shaky coalition and im - They were helping feed the reunified after 41 years is boost - pose more austerity, it has been migrants and refugees, more ing prospects investors will be ripped for failing to deal with a than 406,000 of which landed willing to take a chance on its tsunami of refugees and mi - on Lesbos, half the more than success. grants using the country as a 800,000 arriving in Greece on The island has been split way station to get to other more their way mostly to Germany, since an unlawful 1974 Turkish prosperous European Union but only after fighting and wait - invasion and Ankara still keeps countries. ing for registration and being a standing 30,000-man army on As SYRIZA – which for pushed back on Greece’s border the norther third it occupies and months has failed to even set up with FYROM and locked out of refuses to recognize the Cypriot an office that would bring in countries which don’t want government and bars its ships 460 million euros ($504.41 mil - them, such as Hungary and and planes. lion) in critical EU aid – it’s been Slovenia. Turkey wants to join the Eu - left to charities, NGO’s, volun - Greece, suffering under aus - ropean Union, of which Cyprus teers from Greece and other terity imposed as a condition of is a member. Cypriot President countries to try to help the new - three bailouts, is finally starting Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish- comers. to see some help from EU in get - Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci Greenpeace and other ting the migrants registered, but have been taking part in the ne - groups, including the Red Cross, many are still stuck in the coun - gotiations aimed at reunifying are among them, as well as mu - try as the government struggles the island amid recent optimism tual aid group called O Allos An - to deal with them and its own they will succeed although all thropos, or “The Other Person” people as well while immobi - the same major issues that have in Greek, founded in 2009 by lized by crisis and internecine plagued past talks remain. Konstantinos Polychronopoulos, political warfare. “This is probably the time a burly, bearded man in his early Greek volunteers, Annia where we have the best climate fifties. Ciezadlo noted, have provided ever in negotiations,” Phidias His role, and that of the oth - everything from housing to Pilides, President of the Cyprus ers helping the migrants and food, medical and legal help. Chamber of Commerce and In - refugees landing on the Aegean Volunteers from Greece and dustry, which represents about island of Lesbos near Greece, other European countries even 8,000 companies, said in an in - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (l), Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (c), and Cypriot was featured in a piece in produced a clear, comprehen - terview in Nicosia with the President Nicos Anastasiades snake hands after their trilateral summit in Athens, Dec. 9. Politico Magazine by Annia sive guidebook for incoming Bloomberg news agency. Ciezadlo, a Beirut-based jour - refugees, with useful Greek Across the United Nations- property and tourism, although There are many obstacles yet when austerity and seizure of nalist who began her career as phrases like “I want a doctor” controlled buffer zone that sep - still unresolved is the thorny is - though, although there's the accounts led many to be unable an editor at City Limits, a New and “I am from Iraq,” and trans - arates the two sides of Cyprus, sue of either returning homes to added lure of the prospect of oil to pay mortgages, credit cards York City newsmagazine before lated it into Arabic, Farsi and Fikri Toros, President of the Cypriots that were occupied by and gas reserves being found off and loans. moving to the Middle East to English. Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Turks or compensating them. the island, a bounty in which A boost to the property sec - distinguish herself. Most of the refugees land in Commerce, echoed that senti - Despite the political obsta - Turkey wants to share. But Turk - tor, especially in the south, Polychronopoulos, who lost the north of the island, near the ment. cles, there's a heady feeling on ish President Recep Tayyip Er - would allow banks to sell bad his job in marketing and com - ancient city of Molyvos, where "There is a unique window of Cyprus that something is hap - dogan reigns over Akinci and loans at better prices, Kroska munications, told her he was in - the distance from Turkey is only opportunity," he said in a pening. "We’re seeing a lot of in - could be the final determinant. said. Cypriot lenders have the spired to begin his group after about six miles. But no matter Bloomberg interview in the terest from foreign investors fo - But money could trump poli - highest level of non- performing seeing children fighting over where they come to shore, all Turkish-occupied section of cused on these ...areas," Libor tics, especially as the memory of loans in the EU, according to the rotten fruit in a garbage can, an - the travelers have to make their Nicosia, Europe’s only divided Kroska, head of the Cyprus office the invasion and its aftermath European Banking Authority, other symbol of Greece’s crush - way to Mytilini, the capital, to capital. of the European Bank for Recon - fades and newer generations of surpassing even the 48 percent ing economic crisis in which the register. "Reunification will make up struction and Development told Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots in Greece. rich and privileged have thrived It’s a long line of sad people for a huge number of lost eco - the news agency. have no tie to the event. “The dividend for the bank - while most have suffered. that at one point this year mea - nomic opportunities," he said. "Cyprus-based professional CYPRUS ECONOMY LIFT ing system for supporting a re - One this day summer, while sured 5,000 a day. No one His organization represents companies would be able to pro - Cyprus is still trying to recover covered combined economy Lesbos was being overrun with knows how many didn’t make about 3,500 enterprises. vide accounting, legal and fidu - from a 2013 economic crisis that would be substantial," John refugees – those who made it it because many frightened Economic output in a reuni - ciary services to Turkey, the led Anastasiades to renege on Hourican, chief executive officer because hundreds have refugees tried to cross at night fied Cyprus could reach 45 bil - largest and fastest-growing re - promises not to let banks confis - of Bank of Cyprus, the country’s drowned trying to get there in overcrowded rubber dinghies lion euros ($49 billion) at con - gional market," he said. cate private bank accounts as the largest lender, told the news from Turkey – a blue station and rickety craft with no one stant prices by 2035 compared Buying property in Cyprus at government needed 10 billion agency. He wants to make it eas - wagon pulled up to the Kara able to help or see if they landed with about 25 billion euros for a time when the country is euros in aid. That, as in Greece, ier for banks to take people’s Tepe refugee camp on the Greek or are at the bottom of the the two sides together, with an preparing to exit its international came with attached austerity property. island of Lesbos. Aegean. annual average growth rate of bailout program at the end of measures that hurt businesses Bert Pijls, Chief Executive Of - Big letters on the side said There’s some evidence in the 4.5 percent over 20 years, com - March, makes it a good invest - and citizens alike. ficer of Hellenic Bank said his “Free Food For All” in English bodies that have washed up on pared with just 1.6 percent with - ment, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, He’s hopeful that a unified institution’s eight branches could and Greek. A half-dozen sun - Turkish and Greek beaches, out a solution, according to Chairman of easyGroup and Cyprus – in what form hasn’t see big benefits too from unifi - burned, chain-smoking Greek picked up by volunteers while Fiona Mullen, director of founder of the Stelios Philan - been decided and it could still cation especially as commerce leftists of all ages piled out, fol - EU leaders plan conferences in Nicosia-based Sapienta Econom - thropic Foundation, said in an be a split sovereignty – would and travel between the two sides lowed by two barrel-sized alu - hotels with nice dinners and ics and co-author of the report interview in Nicosia. help the comeback while Turkish would be easier, although it’s un - minum vats, several gas burners Greece’s government looks on, The Cyprus Peace Dividend. “Bricks and mortar is proba - Cypriots, whose area is recog - sure whether Erdogan would with propane tanks, two folding including Prime Minister Alexis If both sides can reach an bly a good, safe investment," he nized only by Turkey, could reap then allow Cypriot ships and tables, forty bags of pasta, a box Tsipras, who visited Lesbos to agreement - if - analysts believe said. "It might be too late if it’s benefits by being in the Euro - planes into Turkey, which would of spices, a dozen car-battery- see for himself and saw he saw there could be a boom in num - obvious to everyone that Cyprus pean Union. have a de facto entry into the sized cans of tomato paste and refugees out at sea trying to ber of sectors, particularly pro - is out of its memorandum. Prices Cyprus though is also strug - EU through its presence on the a couple of three-foot-long make it to shore. He didn’t stop fessional services, shipping, after reunification will go up." gling with bad loans created island that would be sanctioned. wooden paddles for stirring to help. 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015

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The Ancient Greeks did that in column. www.thenationalherald.com demonstrated that the Universities can be places where the stu - dents could be inspired and broaden their horizons.” The NY Times in its obituary for John A. Rassias reports that “his parents were Greek immigrants and he grew up speaking The Islamic State is Indeed Islamic: No Argument Here Greek.” John A. Rassias thus made his mark. Unfortunately, we failed to recognize his value while he was alive. Something which, GEORGAKAS PRESENTS HIS pouse. can air strike in the past few of losing support from relatively sadly, I’m afraid we do frequently. POINT OF VIEW The terror tactics of ISIS are weeks. No satisfactory explana - moderate elements of Islam, In view of the public acknowledgement of the genius of Ras - Dino, I am dismayed when - a double-edged sword. A hand - tion has been given as to why it who might have already tipped sias on language, we ought to be obligated to go back and ever President Obama and other ful of fanatics caused chaos in has taken so long to take such their hand that they will walk study his committees’ report on Greek language education – politicians deny that ISIS (Is - Paris and Brussels. They also effective and relatively simple away from any coalition if the since it has been published it means that it exists somewhere – lamic State of Iraq & Syria) is a generated mass anger. How military actions. words “radical Islam” are ut - and look again at its suggestions. movement rooted in Islam. They leaders mobilize that public re - ISIS is a reactionary religious tered by an American president. ignore the very name of the action will determine who is movement willing to employ And speaking of fighting movement in a pathetic attempt most deeply cut by the double- terrorism as a tactic. Unless we ISIS, what in the world hap - Guns: The State and its Duty to combat Islamophobia. They edged sword. If the ISIS center understand all the ramifications pened to NATO? I thought its seem to believe the public is not is not destroyed, stopping small of that reality and appropriate Article 5 clearly proclaims that smart enough to understand any groups of extremist individuals counter-measures, we will have an attack on one NATO member Still Undone religion has many branches. If is difficult and not particularly a policy based on false assump - is an attack on all. Last I the politicians actually believe effective. tions that lead to ineffective ac - checked, France is a member of Rupert Murdoch, wrote in an article in his newspaper, the what they are saying, we can ISIS envisions an apocalyptic tions. NATO – so, where’s the re - Wall Street Journal, recently, that he, also, as it happens fre - begin to understand why the conflict in the Middle East be - sponse? NATO nowadays might quently with naturalized Americans, has greater sensitivities United States has no effective tween Western armies and Is - SCAROS RESPONDS as well stand for No for this country that those born here. policy to turn back the ISIS lam. The West is expected to Dan, I, too, often wonder Action,Treaty Over. He is not the only one who feels like that. threat. lose in what is the onset of a why so many Democrats won’t I think back to 2008, when America is being unfair to itself with massacres such as the ISIS is a religious movement global movement to Islamize the identify the Islamic State as Is - Candidate Barack Obama’s one in San Bernardino, California - our hearts are really broken. that represents a coherent and world. American strategy has lamic. The problem is, it’s not biggest liability, among There is no reasoning or justification in the actions of the learned branch of Islam. This grownups who evaluated him – murderers; those who grab a gun and start shooting at people form of Islam seeks to create a as opposed to the “he pals in cold blood, regardless of who gets shot for being in the wrong theocracy headed by a caliph. around with terrorists and is a place at the wrong time. To maintain its legitimacy, it secret Muslim” crowd – was that How can then the children, spouses, parents, friends, all of must hold territory and rule it he would be weak and ineffec - us forgive such actions? How can we not think, “It could have under Sharia (religious) law. tual on a large and dangerous been me”? Bearing this is mind, Obama’s world stage. For the first two or After each massacre the country is shaken, after a while it policy of “degrading” or limiting three years, he silenced his crit - returns to its daily routine; until the next time. ISIS territory is not an effective ics. Obama kept important ele - This way we are running the risk of considering the situation strategy. ments of the Bush team in place, as nearly normal; as a part of the price for someone to live in ISIS is based on a Sunni per - including Bob Gates at Defense the USA. spective on Islam as opposed to and David Petraeus at Central America, the country known for dealing with problems upon the Shia perspective. Sunnis Command, used drones to blast their appearance, remains a distant spectator when it comes to make up 85-90% of Muslims, terrorists from their cells at an the gun issue. Shia 10-15%. Economic and ever greater rate than Dick Ch - And all for reasons of political expediency. identity issues fuel the denomi - eney and Donald Rumsfeld did America sees to the protection of its citizens in any way pos - national conflict. The Shia com - under Bush, deported illegal sible. From the amount of salt we consume, to driver’s licenses, munities tend to be wealthier aliens aggressively, and cap - safety belts and smoking laws. than the majority Sunnis. Some tured Osama bin Laden. What While we are right to be concerned about terrorism, and of the atrocities and destruction changed? while we spend endless hours in airport security checks, spend seen in the present war are rem - I can understand why Obama billions for the protection of the country, a terrorist may walk iniscent of the Thirty Years War is no longer interested in work - into a gun store and buy any gun he likes with no check at all. in 17th century Europe between ing with Republicans. He was, Isn’t that insane? Catholics and Protestants. Even at first, and they clearly weren’t I listen to my friends the hunters protesting, invoking the earlier, Catholic forces orga - – so he stopped trying. Constitution and “The right of the citizens to bear arms”. nized as the Fourth Crusade been to assemble mainly Islamic just limited to Democrats. What, though, does any of I am not against this right of theirs. They are entitled to sacked Orthodox Constantino - forces to carry on the land bat - Granted, ISIS wasn’t really that have to do with the war on hunt. ple. tle. Our strategists are so ob - prime-time news while George terror? Would they mind so much though if they got a gun permit “Radical” certainly means ex - sessed with regime change in W. Bush was president, but ter - For all we know, Obama issued by the Police so that the lunatics cannot buy weapons? tremist. In political discourse, Syria that they cannot plan dy - rorism certainly was, and Bush could be planning some grand At least, though, they will have a record and if they continue however, radical refers to ex - namic joint actions with the made sure that we didn’t asso - rope-a-dope, luring ISIS, Iran, to drive carelessly, their license will be suspended. treme change to something new. Russians or the Syrian army. Co - ciate it with the “great religion” Putin, North Korea, etc., into a Now, shouldn’t we do the same with guns ? “Reactionary” indicates an ex - operation with Iran, another of Islam, as he put it. major trap. But I doubt it. In - treme return to an idealized ISIS foe, also has a low priority. If I were a conspiracy theo - stead, I agree with your position Golden Age of yore, shorn of its Even assisting the Kurds is half- rist, and I’m not, I’d think who - that “the United States has no More Hurtful Threats against many shortcomings. ISIS is re - hearted. Instead we have spent ever sits in the Oval Office has effective policy to turn back the actionary, not radical. billions on an Iraqi army that been warned that if the words ISIS threat.” Western media and politi - won’t fight and support Syrian “radical Islam” leave his lips, a As for Obama, Hillary, and Poor Greece cians insist on identifying ISIS rebel forces that include numer - major American city is going up Co. bending over backwards not as a terrorist movement. ISIS, ous Islamic fanatics in their in smoke. No wonder presidents to offend, Marco Rubio said it The Financial Times’ (FT) December 1 headline was remi - in fact, does not believe terror ranks. age so quickly. As they smile and eloquently: “I don’t understand niscent of other times, not so long ago, when Greece was in the is a cause in the way the nine - Our own military actions are wave nonchalantly, they are fac - it. That would be like saying we mainstream media headlines on an almost daily basis. teenth century Nihilists did. Ter - tortured by half-measures. For ing a constant life-and-death po - weren’t at war with Nazis be - This new chapter opened with the FT’s headline: “Greece ror for ISIS is a method to be example, we have long known tential hostage situation about cause we were afraid to offend Threatened with Schengen Suspension over Migrant Response,” used or discarded depending on that considerable financing for which the rest of us are com - Germans part of the party but worsens an already-difficult situation and indirectly affects its effectiveness. To dismiss ISIS derives from selling oil. A pletely clueless. weren’t violent themselves.” Greece’s position in the Eurozone. them as terrorists is to misun - convoy of 250 trucks carrying More realistically, though, it The Schengen Treaty, established in 1985, is one of the Eu - derstand what they actually es - oil was destroyed by an Ameri - probably has to do with a fear WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? ropean Union’s (EU) founding principles, as it allows free travel of the citizens of its member states. If it is abolished, it would mean the loss of a fundamental EU component. Accordingly, If Greece is excluded from Schengen, that chal - COMMENTARY lenges its position in the EU. Brussels brings the entire weight of its policy to the imple - mentation of the Schengen Treaty at the borders of Greece. The Greek Crisis and the impact on Children And they also insist that Greece cooperates with Turkey and FYROM. Mrs Marianna V. Numbers, however, can never honourable, worthy and decent most certainly affects their This would not pose a problem if the Turks did not have any Vardinoyannis gave a speech express the soul and the essence people, as you are here today thoughts and dreams. demands on the Aegean, which under the initial cover of coop - December 7th on “the Greek of things and tend to lead soci - and as those in Greece who by I am afraid for us, my friends! eration, they later might use it as a legalization of their de - Crisis and the impact on the eties to false ways of living. hundreds help the poor and the That we might not prove worthy mands. children’s eyes”. Following are It is the people who make the refugees, providing food and of the circumstances! That we Based on all of this, Brussels now threatens to create a mili - excerpts from the speech: difference, even in the midst of medicines. I can only be proud might fail in conveying the mes - tary force to implement its intended protection of Europe’s bor - the crisis. It is the people who of the potential of our nation. sage that difficulty is strength, ders, even against the will of border countries such as Greece. I am coming from a country shape the future through their History is shaped by people, not because it teaches us to fight, it The issue, therefore, is a complex one. A Greece-Brussels which is suffering by a severe actions, through the stance they by numbers. And Greek people makes us measured and modest conflict is practically inevitable, and the EU is delivering the economic crisis. A crisis that runs keep when faced with the cir - have been proved to be great and, in the end, more persistent “key” of the refugees to Turkey, surrendering itself to Turkey in through society, destroying any cumstances, through their minor fighters throughout the cen - and stronger! the process. will for creativity and spreading or major decisions. turies. I am afraid for us that when A clearly superior policy would be for the West to to stop a sense of insecurity. If we want I believe in people. This is I am not afraid of the eco - speaking to our children about the civil massacre in Syria, pressure Ankara to protect its borders to describe the crisis in Greece why you will never hear from nomic crisis for our children, Greece of crisis, we will forget with Syria, and reinforce Greece in order to enable it to deal today, we can do it in two ways: me pessimistic words about my even if they have to go to schools the true Greece: the values of with the then-reduced number of refugees that would reach its we can talk about numbers or homeland. You will only hear with no heating, live in homes the Greek civilization and the shores. we can talk about people. words of pride, because Greece where courage has been lost and obligations we have due to the We usually choose numbers. is still producing enlightened, in a general environment that fact that we were born "Greek". THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 VIEWPOINTS 13 From Paris to San Bernardino: The Reasons We Need Turkey to Fight the Islamic State

ISIS and the Refugees Saga Unless Turkey joins the war wherewithal to smuggled Syrian support to offset the main weak - on our side, we will find our - play a key role de - and Iraqi oil at fire ness of the Turkish Army. How - selves battling the Islamic State feating is ISIL both sale prices enrich - ever, the bulk of combat must It has been a tu - bia. (ISIL) for years. Currently, we on the ground and ing Turkish busi - fall to the Turks. multuous and ISIS and Saudi face a multi-year slog just to im - in the mind. It has nessmen who form We have played Erdogan’s tragic period, many Arabia share the prove the Iraqi Army enough to large land forces the backbone of Er - game for him; we offer carrots people have died same version of Is - retake territory lost to ISIL. The equipped with the dogan’s domestic but no sticks. We winked at Er - and many more lam and medieval Kurds fight better but not for most modern political support. dogan unilaterally starting a have suffered griev - legal practices. non-Kurdish territory. The equipment capable He has even turned war against the same Kurds ous bodily harm be - Saudi Arabia’s cler - “moderate” rebels (a mixed of occupying most the influx of fighting ISIL in return for giving cause of ISIS. The ics radicalize and group which includes jihadists of the territory refugees from Syria the USAF access to Incirlik Air terrorist organiza - send into the West and village militias) cannot even held by ISIL in into a bonus, shift - Base. Erdogan must feel there tion has tried even men and women hold their ground – despite Syria and Iraq with ing the blame to is a price to pay for inaction. to muddy the wa - such as the San coalition air support – between coalition support. by AMB. PATRICK N. Greece while nego - Given his skillful playing of ters when it comes Bernardino terror - the hammer of ISIL and the More importantly, THEROS tiating a very high Turkish national pride the sticks to refugees. One of by DR. ANDRE ist. Saudi Arabia anvil of the Assad regime. As - Turkey has an al - price for not push - must be subtle and not con - the murders in GEROLYMATOS refuses to fight ISIS sad’s troops, even with Russian ternative Islamist Special to ing refugees into frontational. For example, se - Paris carried a fake and like some help, will be hard pressed to ideology to com - The National Herald Europe (i.e., nior US and EU officials should Syrian passport. Special to other Middle East hold coastal Syria and Damas - pete with ISIL. Er - Greece) that in - cancel or delay visits to Turkey The message from The National Herald governments subsi - cus. To decisively defeat ISIL on dogan’s government espouses a cludes Euros 3.2 billion, visa- with flimsy excuses. President ISIS was that some dize ISIS and other the ground requires hundreds revolutionary Islamism derived free entry for Turks into the EU Obama and his EU counterparts of the refugees are terrorists or terrorist organizations of thousands of regular ground from the more mature and mea - and restarting Turkey’s EU ap - should not pick up the phone could be terrorists in the future. The response of the govern - forces prepared to fight a skilled sured Muslim Brotherhood plication while ignoring Erdo - when Erdogan calls and return Therefore, reject them send ments in Europe and North and motivated enemy on his (MB) of Egypt. ISIL springs from gan’s dismal human rights the call at inconvenient hours. them back to Syria and ISIS. America has been tepid and con - own territory. the Wahhabist revolutionary record. Erdogan also exploited Arms shipments should run into It is remarkable how govern - fused. Bomb Syria and get rid And then we would still have theology that our Saudi ally has the shoot-down of a Russian scheduling problems. NATO ments and the media have of Assad. Is he so much worse to deal with the ideological con - exported to the Islamic world fighter-bomber by casting it as should downplay the Russian missed the greatest weakness of than the Saudi royal family or test. So far, we have not grasped for more than half a century. Er - a Russian threat to Turkey and threat. Erdogan will get the the so-called Islamic state. Hun - some of the other absolute the fact that ISIL has already dogan came to power democra - NATO. message and make his own cal - dreds of thousands of people in regimes in the Muslim world won the war of ideas. ISIL tically on the same Islamist po - culations. Iraq and Syria prefer to risk who are allies of the West? usurped the role of 20th century litical platform that emphasizes If we fail to bring Turkey If we fail to bring Turkey into their lives and seek shelter in Instead, the a motley crew of communism, championing the economic well being and respect the war against ISIL, we must the West rather than race to ISIS American governors, some downtrodden and the op - for the poor and downtrodden Into the war against ISIL, dig in and wait for the blood - territory for a better life. The Canadian premiers and new pressed. They HAVE won the that brought the Muslim Broth - we must dig in and wait bath to play itself out, hoping refugees are voting with their formed ultra conservative gov - hearts and minds of millions. erhood to power democratically we can contain it before it feet. They want to live in the ernments in Europe and the Driving them out of territory in in Egypt. Because of this differ - for the bloodbath to play spreads its poison to more coun - decadent West, the West indeed Balkans focus on the refugees – the Levant will not deter home - ence, Erdogan and the Egyptian itself out, hoping we can tries, destabilizes more coun - and not even anywhere in the the only people who are running grown attacks like Paris and San dictator Sissi, who overthrew tries in which we have deep po - Middle East for that matter. away from ISIS. In effect, the Bernardino, inspired by a dis - the MB, have become bitter en - contain it before it litical and economic ISIS succeeds because it ap - wrong target of concern and tant Caliphate that the attackers emies. It is a very sad state of spreads its poison further. investments, thus generating peals to a particular type of per - fear. mostly met on the Internet. affairs, but the truth is that only millions more refugees and tar - sonality that yearns for violence The current thinking in Furthermore, most of the Turkey alone combines both the We obligingly lined up be - nishing us all for our failure to and death. Most of these dis - Washington is that ISIS “Does people in territory to be liber - military and religious clout to hind Turkey again. To be fair, address this human disaster. turbed people are Muslim, but not pose an existential threat to ated will not welcome a “Chris - deal with ISIL. Erdogan may also fear that some are converts to Islam. Both the United States,” says Mr. tian” occupation by countries So, why is Turkey not step - sending the Turkish Army into The Hon. Ambassador Theros is Muslim and converts to Islam, Obama. One can only wonder (U.S., Europe, and Russia) ping up the plate? For the sim - battle may revive the power of president of the U.S.-Qatar however, have chosen an ex - who is advising the American whose air forces have devas - ple reason that Erdogan pursues Kemalist officers nor wish to Business Council. He served in treme and literal interpretation president? The strategy of the tated their homes and killed what he has determined to be deal with Turkish mothers who the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 of that faith not followed by Obama Administration is to their children. Even less will Turkish national interests and do not want to send their con - years, mostly in the Middle over a billion Muslims. bomb ISIS. It is the wrong strat - these people welcome an occu - his own political agenda. Pre - script sons to die in Syria and East, and was American Ambas - pation by the Iraqi Army, Shiite venting Kurdish national aspira - Iraq. If we truly want to bring sador to Qatar from 1995 to militias or the brutal forces of tions trumps fighting ISIL, so ISIL to heel, Turkey must be 1998. He also directed the State the Syrian regime, which regu - Turkey backs ISIL by subterfuge. made to intervene in a manner Department’s Counter- larly inflict atrocities on those Erdogan, on balance, also ben - that meets our objectives. NATO Terrorism Office, and holds nu - whom they liberate. efits domestically from the Syr - allies, including the United merous U.S. Government deco - Turkey, if it wants to, has the ian civil war. ISIL sells Turkey States, should offer logistical rations.

LETTER FROM ATHENS Unkindest Cuts of All: Pensions Slashed, Oligarchy Not

You’d expect hard-hearted was former Defense stealing food from mortgage or rent) – now will right-wingers and banker lack - Minister Yannis Pa - the mouths of the see further cuts of 2 to 30 per - eys to cut benefits to Greece’s pantoniou, con - powerless who cent. Tax cheats will see none. poor, elderly and most vulnera - victed of hiding 1.3 have to pay extra How long do you think a U.S. ble but the pensioners are about million euros ($1.41 taxes to compen - president would last if he an - to get their hearts ripped out by million). sate for rich nounced the same in Social Se - the party they foolishly expected He got a four- thieves who don't, curity? The National Guard AP PHOTO would help them, the Looney year jail sentence, and who never would have to surround the This July 27, 2014 photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Left SYRIA – I mean SYRIZA – but this being will beyond some White House and it would be Protection shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook, as of World Class Liar Alexis “U- Greece where politi - token prosecutions the death knell for that party, so they passed through O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Turn” Tsipras. cians convicted of and penalties. powerful is the elderly lobby in The husband and wife died on Dec. 2, 2015, in a gun battle His excuse is the same, tired corruption and sen - All this means America. with authorities several hours after their assault. cliché for which he blasted pre - tenced to life in jail by ANDY that Tsipras, in - In Greece, the old have no vious governments for doing the get out in a few DABILIS stead of crushing power beyond marching, albeit This argument now falls on egy, it is ineffectual and not same: I had no choice. years and keep all the oligarchy as very slowly, in the streets in deaf ears because of the mas - worth the death of innocent Well, yes, he did. First he the money they Special to his hero Che Gue - protest where they are ignored sacre in San Bernardino. In this civilians in the region. could have, as he said in an - stole, his sentence The National Herald vara would have or ridiculed by politicians be - tragedy a Muslim man and a The more aggressive strategy other of long line of broken was suspended on done, is crushing hind closed doors who don't Muslim woman – a married cou - is that a Muslim army made up promises, “crushed the oli - condition he pay a fine of only pensioners, like the right-politi - wait for their pensions, which ple in effect, killed, in cold of soldiers from the Middle East garchy” who control him and 10,000 euros and could pay off cians he built a career on lam - are lavish and come with a few blood, fourteen innocent peo - countries with Western air Greece or gone after tax cheats his time at the rate of 10 euros basting delight in doing to ben - years of non-work sitting on ple. The man had good job, he power should take on ISIS in or cut the defense budget since a day for another 29,200 euros. efit their banker buddies. their duffs. was not a disaffected lonely in - the field. That is not going to no one’s going to attack. His wife, also convicted, got Pensioners – who have to “Pensions will be cut. The dividual. The woman, on the happen. The Middle East coun - Or, if he had any principles the same ridiculous terms. There wait up to three years or more cuts in health care are huge. other hand, had grown up in tries refuse to take part. This or guts or backbone, all of which was no word on whether they for their benefits, including aux - We’re at the point of not having Saudi Arabia and had been in only leaves two solutions. One he’s lacking, he could have re - paid the taxes also due but clearly iliary pensions, that they earned health care, of not having med - the United States for only cou - is to give ISIS what it wants, a signed and said let someone else they should have gotten the Wes - with money taken out of their ication. We can’t just idly stand ple of years. battle between the armies of the do it, I’m not going to stain my ley Snipes treatment and spent checks for years (and who aren't by,” Yannis Antoniou, head of a So, what made this couple West and the terrorists. limp legacy and I’d rather quit their four years in the hoosegow allowed to work while they're bankers’ pensioners association, want to kill and not soldiers but Such a scenario will have than look a pensioner in the eye reflecting on their crime. waiting in case they need some - told the Associated Press while ordinary people celebrating positive results. ISIS will be de - while he’s eating dog food and These are people who are thing like food or to pay the joining protesters on a peaceful Christmas. Was it the issue of stroyed instantly and a cata - I’ve let banks foreclose on his march this December. Christmas and Christianity? It is strophic defeat will undermine home and I’m selling off “It appears this government certainly the mantra of ISIS to completely the millenarian Greece’s assets I swore to pro - has decided not to leave any - bring about a clash of Christians prophesies of the world ending. tect. thing standing. But we’re also versus Muslims in an apocalyp - It will thus discourage many fu - The job of reforming Greece determined not just to sit back tic battle. It is a factor. ture so-called inspired lone should be left up to the soulless and do nothing.” Sigh, it just ISIS is crucifying, enslaving, wolves terrorists. The Kurds people who can do it, not those doesn’t make any difference and torturing Christians in order should be rewarded with their who pretend to be on the side what they do. Pensioners have to push the West into a war. The own state and will become a of workers, pensioners and the killed themselves – one in Syn - terrorists are not the only ones true and steadfast ally of the poor. tagma Square – and it was for - who persecute Christians in the West. Washington and the Euro - Voters never understand, of gotten like yesterday’s news. Middle East. One cannot get a pean governments should simply course, that parties and the peo - Tsipras lamely said, "We will drink in Saudi Arabia and one ignore the Turkey, Iran and Syria ple in them are all the same so do the utmost to secure pen - cannot build a Church. The West (or what is left of Syria) regard - they deserve what they get: they sions without further painful does not care if people convert ing a new Kurdish state. elected Tsipras and his bunch cuts,” weaker than his vow that to Islam but conversion from Is - The second solution is to ban twice in seven months, putting cutting pensions was a Red Line lam to Christianity is punishable the Saudi lobby in Washington themselves in a different league he would never cross before he by death in many Muslim coun - and consider launching a law - of gullibility. jumped over it, and the bodies tries. suit every time a terrorist in - He said he’d go after corrup - of pensioners, with glee to sat - Yet, the governments of the spired by Saudi Arabia’s Islam. tion too, but obviously not in isfy the country’s heartless in - West refuse to recognize that Paying hundreds of billions in his own Cabinet where Econ - ternational lenders. any of that. On the contrary, dollars will make the Saudis re - omy Minister Giorgos Stathakis, Tsipras says the government American and European govern - think what they preach. Money who has a doctorate in econom - will instead raise the Social Se - ments are allies with some of is the one thing that Saudi cler - ics but didn’t check his own ac - curity tax on businesses – killing the most repercussive regimes ics and their government under - counts, said he forgot he had a those already under his capital in the Middle East. The female stand only too well. million euros in the bank and controls – but the truth is pen - terrorist (we should refuse to didn’t declare it on his declara - sions will be cut again, this time recognize them) in San André Gerolymatos is director tion of wealth forms. in the name of SYRIZA. If that Bernardino grew up in Saudi of the Stavros Niarchos Founda - That’s a crime in Greece if a doesn’t work, they’ll be cut Arabia. She was radicalized – tion Centre for Hellenic Studies party if out of power and then again. Let them eat cake. albeit radical interpretation of at Simon Fraser University in the politicians can be chased AP PHOTO/THANASSIS STAVRAKIS Islam is the norm in Saudi Ara - Vancouver . and prosecuted – as, properly, Pensioners take part in an anti-austerity protest in Athens. [email protected] 14 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 12-18, 2015 Greek-Americans: Small Part of U.S. Population, but with Strong Heritage, Identity

For several decades, the total about preserving identity, the Nothing compa - recorded the num - what is common knowledge nam, nonetheless the Greeks number of persons of Greek an - Greek-American community rable exists for the ber of parishes and about the community. The data, came out top in in terms of the cestry has hovered around 0.4% knows relatively little about itself Greek-Americans. vital statistics such such that it is, including a focus percentage of business owners in of the total population in the in terms of its demography. For There was a nation- as baptisms, mar - on New York City, has been nicely relation to the total number of United States. Despite the rela - example, the Jewish Americans, wide Gallup survey riages and funerals. collated by Professor Nicholas migrants. The survey counted tively small numbers, Greek whom Greek-Americans fre - of Greek America There is of course Alexiou of Queens College CUNY 74,798 persons from Greece in Americans maintain a strong quently cite as a model of ethnic commissioned by the information and is available on the College’s the U.S. labor force and 12,105 sense of Hellenic heritage. cohesion, do much better at con - Archbishop Iakovos available from the Hellenic American Oral History or 16% of them owned small This combination generates a stantly counting and assessing in 1980. Since then, U.S. Census Bureau, Project website. To summarize, businesses by the time they had seemingly constant angst about their numbers in order to main - the only sources for which valuable but compared to the average in the stayed in the country for a the ethnic group’s survival. The tain their sense of community. assessing the com - too general for any United States, persons of Greek decade, with 6% of them acquir - American Hellenic Institute (AHI) Brandeis University runs the munity’s profile are in-depth analysis, ancestry are better educated, with ing businesses in less than ten convenes an annual conference American Jewish Population Pro - small scale surveys by PROF. ALExANDER not to mention that women ahead of men, they have years. Migrants from Israel/Pales - entitled “The Future of Hellenism ject; in 2001, Jewish American generated by schol - KITROEFF every successive a higher rate of employment and tine (the Census does not disag - in America.” Several Greek-Amer - organizations spent nearly $6 mil - ars such as the late decade seems to higher individual and family earn - gregate the two) had the second ican organizations consider the lion for a National Jewish Popu - Alice Scourby and Special to contain less and less ings and, not surprisingly, a lower highest rate of business owner - preservation of the Greek lan - lation Survey. Meanwhile, others, more recently by The National Herald information about rate of poverty. In terms of em - ship with 13% of the total, fol - guage not just a priority but also such as the Pew Research Center Angelyn Balodimas- European-origin ployment the most common sec - lowed by migrants from Syria a matter of life and death for the conduct similar demographic in - Bartolomei among others. And ethnic groups. tors for the Greek Americans are with 12%. community. quiries about the Jews in Amer - for a long time, the Greek Ortho - At best, what is currently avail - education & health care, profes - The overall results indicate Yet for all its professed concern ica. dox Archdiocese’s Yearbook has able from the census confirms sional and scientific and retail. that immigrants from the Eastern These are barn door-size type of Mediterranean have a propensity categories that need further pro - to become small business owners. cessing. Most disappointingly, the Why this happens is something census does not measure employ - beyond the original concerns of Syrian Issues: No Fly Zone, Boots on Ground, Russia ment in the food industry where the Fiscal Policy Institute, but the Greeks are so prominent. credit to them for producing Occasionally, additional infor - much more detailed information By Dr. Aris P. Christodoulou should join that alliance. The ar - It has been stated by many, ian Kurds are Winning”, by mation pops up in unexpected compared to that the U.S. Census gument is that the United States including the United States, that Jonathan Steele, Dec. 3). sources. An example is an info - is designed to gather. To go even The recent Paris massacres and Russia are the two leading post-Assad planning is insuffi - What does all this mean for a graphic, an eye-catching depic - further, and learn more about and the Turkish downing of a world nuclear powers, and con - cient. However, all agree that newly energized Erdogan-led tion of statistics, which recently these Greek immigrant business - Russian military plane have crys - taining WMDs from falling into boots on the ground are neces - Turkey? Since Ataturk canceled made the rounds of social media. men for example the sectors they tallized elements of a highly the hands of terrorists, especially sary to preserve the peace from the 1920 Sevres Treaty, which It represented the percentage of are in, their gender distribution, volatile mixture of components, ISIS, will require both countries ISIS and other terrorists once As - guaranteed an independent Kur - small business owners among for - their overall economic clout and touching on geopolitics, to work together, with France be - sad departs. However, neither the dish State (and incidentally gave eign-born immigrants in the their ties with the wider commu - geostrategy, terrorism, leader - ing the catalyst for this union. United States, Russia, or France the Ottoman holdings of Syria United States Drawn up by a pro- nity and views about its future, ship, and ethics. For humanitarian and other (though it sent troops to Mali re - and Lebanon to French rule, and immigration and pro-refugee ad - Greek America would have to get How can we reconcile the reasons, the prevailing opinion cently), and certainly not the lo - Iraq and Palestine to British rule), vocacy group, Migreat, and based more serious about investigating drama and its cast of characters? in America is that a no-fly zone cal powers: Iran, Iraq, Saudi Ara - the over-30 million Kurds in the on a survey by the New York- its own numbers. It appears that ISIS’ attack on should be created by the coali - bia, or Turkey, have offered to region have become the largest based Fiscal Policy Institute, it Paris has created a new impera - tion forces in Syria, ostensibly to send anti-ISIS troops to Syria. ethnic group without a state, and provided the added bonus of Professor Alexander Kitroeff tive to hasten the search for a permit a safe haven for refugees The local anti-Assad forces sup - the recent close accord between shedding light on Greek immi - teaches history at Haverford new equilibrium of the West on the border between Syria and ported by the United States to the U.S. Central Command and grant entrepreneurs. College and is writing a book with Russia, following Russia’s Turkey . This would be similar date have been small and inef - Kurdish forces have both infuri - Although the overall numbers on the history of the Greek Or - bold gamble to enter the Syrian to the no-fly zone created in fective. Only the Kurds, also sup - ated and worried the Turks. of Greek-born business-owners thodox Archdiocese of conflict militarily. northern Iraq earlier to protect plied by the United States, have If the U.S., Russia, France, and were naturally much smaller than America. Follow him on The Obama’s Administration the Iraqi Kurds from Saddam been numerous and effective Turkey are all supposedly fighting those from countries such as Mex - Twitter @Kitro1908 or email is in the middle of addressing Hussein’s forces. Loud pro - against ISIS, as noted above, de - ISIS and thus are on the same ico, India, Korea, China and Viet - him at [email protected] this issue, and has not yet re - nouncements recently by Hillary spite the fact that they are more side, would an overflight by solved how to respond to the Clinton, the media, retired gen - anti-Assad than anti-ISIS. American or French aircraft over Russian initiative, other than ef - erals and CIA directors, most Re - Stability on the ground in a Turkey have caused Turkey to fecting minor coordination with publicans, and many Democrats, post-Assad era will require a shoot it down? What was the risk the Air Force on joint air sorties have now demanded a Syrian Sunni-majority force, since Syria to Turkey, invasion? Pan-Orthodox Council: against ISIS. no-fly zone. Obama has strongly is largely Sunni. Iran is Shiite, I believe the shootdown was The basic question remains: resisted this call, claiming that it and opposed by the rest. Kurds done intentionally by an arrogant is Russia right by claiming that risks escalating the U.S. involve - are Sunni Muslims and would Turkey, to disrupt the approach - Ready for 2016, beyond President Assad of Syria should ment, and risks shooting down qualify, and if the Syria-Turkish ing accord with Russia, and the be supported in office in the Russian planes. border be made contiguous by approaching Kurdish State. It is near-to-medium term (and also Instead, what Obama did do their capture of one last piece unlikely that Russia will respond By Dennis Menos is an especially critical issue be - thereby protecting the Russian recently was introduce 50 Spe - north of Aleppo, or about one aggressively to this provocation, cause of conditions in the bases) in order not to create a cial Forces personnel into the third of the total length still in as the stakes are bigger in the al - The need for a Pan Orthodox Ukraine, where in effect there are vacuum that would be filled by Syrian war zone (in addition to ISIS hands, then almost the en - liance scenario with the West, es - Council to resolve the issues that today three competing Orthodox ISIS, whose takeover of Damas - adding 3500 troops to Iraq as tire border up to the border with pecially as it seeks some under - confront the Church in the mod - Churches. How this issue will cus would then increase the risk well). Iraq would be in Kurdish control. standing by the West on its ern era and also to further pro - play in the Council is hard to pre - of them acquiring WMDs (since But what can a mere 50 more This would also cut the last re - actions in Ukraine. Turkey, how - mote Christian unity, has been dict. At the present time, there is they would then graduate from American troops do? Actually, maining supply route from ever, is playing a dangerous debated in the Orthodox East for reluctance on the part of the a quasi-state to a full state), or something very significant, if po - Turkey to ISIS forces in Syria. game, putting at risk its NATO many years. It came, therefore, Church of Russia to grant this au - is the United States right insofar sitioned into the Syrian-Turkish Once this contiguous strip is cre - membership, and even the future as no surprise when the Primates thority to the Ecumenical Patri - as Obama claim of two years ago thin strip of border now con - ated, the way is cleared for de - of NATO. of the Church announced in archate alone, because the Patri - that Assad should be immedi - trolled by the newly-victorious claring an independent , contigu - What does all this mean for March 2014 that such a Council archate refuses to recognize the ately deposed, regardless of the Syrian Kurds (who recently re - ous, Kurdish State. Greece? Because of the concur - would convene in Constantinople autocephaly status of the Ortho - consequences – despite Amer - captured Kobani and Tal Abyad Hopefully, this is Obama’s hid - rent refugee crisis, in which front- early in 2016. dox Church in America, which ica’s failure to find and arm suf - from ISIS), it guarantees that den agenda, which would ad - line Greece is most vulnerable, The Council will bring to - was granted earlier by the Patri - ficient responsible Syrian anti- Turkish forces will not bomb the dress the post-Assad era. A No - especially with FYROM now clos - gether the Primates and Bishops archate of Moscow. Assad forces? Syrian Kurd areas in order to sup - vember 24 New York Times ing its borders, German Chancel - of all fourteen Autocephalous The rank order of the fourteen France answered that ques - press their nemesis, the Kurds, article by former UN Ambassador lor Angela Merkel pushed for a Churches in the Orthodox East. Autocephalous Churches and dis - tion last week, following the but it would also risk those Amer - John Bolton. “To Defeat ISIS, Cre - three-part meeting among Ger - Chairing the proceedings will be putes between Patriarchates, Paris attacks, as Premier Francois ican troops being killed. ate a Sunni State,” makes a sim - many, Turkey, and Greece on the Ecumenical Patriarch such as currently is the case be - Hollande transformed himself in In Iraq, instead of attacking ilar point, and it is one of the refugee crisis. Remembering the Bartholomew, and all decisions tween Jerusalem and Antioch the process from a somewhat ISIS positions, Turkey attacked only times in my life that I have close relationship between Ger - will be by consensus. Every over the church of Qatar, will passive, occasionally ineffectual, Iraqi Kurds, thereby weakening agreed with Bolton. TNH’s Andre many and Turkey in the 19th and Church will have one vote, except similarly be troublesome issues leftist politician into a decisive, anti-ISIS forces, thus counteract - Gerolymatos made the same 20th centuries, it seems insane for the Autonomous Churches, for the Council to consider. His - vigorous, inspiring wartime ing U.S. policy there. If my theory point (“Examining the World of for an overwhelmed, underpre - whose participation will be torically, the status of the Ecu - leader. Also, he decreed that a is correct, it may be that Obama Terrorism and the Middle East”, pared, and underleveraged through their “Mother Churches.” menical Patriarch as the “first France-Russia alliance be created is finally waking up to the du - Nov. 21). The scenario regarding Tsipras Government to agree to Current plans call for holding the among equals” in the East has immediately to fight ISIS, and is plicity of the Turkish state with the Syrian-Turkish border is also participate. TNH Publisher Anto - Council in the church of Hagia been undisputed. Not so, any now trying to convince Obama respect to the Kurds, ISIS, and addressed in the current New nis Diamataris has recently made Irene in Constantinople, the site longer. A very powerful Church that that the United States American policy. York Review of Books (“The Syr - that point several times. of the 2nd Ecumenical Council. of Russia with its 165 plus million The enormous importance of members is challenging the lead - the event cannot be overstated. ership of Constantinople. The There has not been a comparable pressure has eased somewhat un - Pan Orthodox meeting in over der the leadership of Patriarch 1,200 years, and though it will Kirill, but there is no assurance not rank as an “Ecumenical that it will continue to be so in DON’T MISS OUR Council” because of the absence the future. of Rome, it could turn out to be A dozen or so additional sec - the most important happening in ular issues will likewise confront modern Orthodox history. the judgement of the Council. To be sure, there are potential They concern such moral and problems, and it would be wrong bioethical issues as surrogate not to take note of them. Fortu - motherhood, rules for marriage Christmas Special! nately, they are secular and ad - and fasting, the adoption of a ministrative in nature rather than common calendar, and preserva - doctrinal, and as such should be tion of the natural environment. December 19-20, 2015 easier to resolve. Some of the And, of course, the key question problems trace their origins to on continuing the dialogue with the parochialism that unfortu - other Christian Churches, espe - nately afflicts many of the Auto - cially Catholicism. The issue of cephalous Churches; others are Papal primacy looms strong on a reflection of current political the latter issue. In any final East- realities. Through the years, West reconciliation, will the Pope preparatory meetings held on the merely hold the honorary title of island of Rhodes, in Switzerland, the first among equals, or would and in Constantinople, have aired he have also real authority over these problems in sufficient detail the Churches in the East? Until to facilitate their consideration this issue is resolved it will be dif - by the Council. Still, how the ficult to proceed in earnest with Council will rule on each of them the Orthodox- Catholic dialogue. remains to be seen. What is the outlook for the Of the problems, one of the Pan Orthodox Council of 2016? hardest to resolve, will be that of It will depend on its agenda. Will the Orthodox Churches in the Di - the important issues of the Dias - aspora (specifically those in West - pora, Autocephaly, and Rank Or - ern Europe, the Americas, and der of the Patriarchates be ad - Australasia), because as presently dressed? What about the terms organized, they do not comply for the hoped for reconciliation with the Canon of the Church with Rome? Will bioethical ques - that allows the appointment of tions be answered for the guid - only one Orthodox Bishop per ance of the faithful? Decisions city. Today, in the cities of the Di - will come difficult under the rules aspora there are more than 170 adopted, that require agreements Orthodox Bishops, Russian, to be by consensus, and with Greek, Romanian, etc. Fifty-five every Autocephalous Church in of them alone in the United effect holding the power of veto. States. It is all the result of im - Still, the urgency for readying migration that has transplanted the Church for the 21st Century Place your Holiday Greetings by December 9, 2015! millions of Orthodox faithful dur - and preparing it for reconciliation ing the past century from the East dialogues with Rome and other to new homes in the West, blur - Christian Churches, is overriding. ring in the process the jurisdic - The problems under considera - tional lines of the existing Ortho - tion may be difficult, but with

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