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ATHENS – Greeks may get to fully, although they are stolen Authority see the marble friezes stolen antiquities, and that Greece had from the Parthenon by British no proper place to exhibit them, diplomat Lord Elgin from 1801- a stance that lost its standing Wants the Church 12 while Greece was under the when Greece two years ago yoke of the Ottoman Empire, opened a the New Acropolis Rebuilt at Ground Zero but it could be in return for re - Museum, partially designed to linquishing claim to the national hold them. By Constantine S. Sirigos treasures to the British Museum, The Athens News Agency TNH Staff Writer where they are housed, al - quoted the Greek Culture Min - though Greek officials quickly istry as saying that the “perma - NEW YORK – Defamation. denied a report in a British nent return of the Parthenon Fraud and Misrepresentation. newspaper the deal will be Marbles to the new Acropolis Trespass. Unjust enrichment. made. The Times of London Museum remains the steadfast Bad faith. Arrogance. With these published a report claiming that demand of the Greek state.” But strong words in the text of a no - Greek Culture and Tourism Min - the statement also said that, tice of their intention to sue the ister Pavlos Geroulanos has “Greece is prepared to offer the Port Authority of New York and made an offer in which Greece British Museum classic master - New Jersey and several other will relinquish give up 200-year- pieces of the country for peri - entities, the Greek Orthodox old claim to the Parthenon Mar - odical exhibitions,” a position Archdiocese of America and the bles housed in the British Mu - similar to what the Times re - parish of St. of Nicholas have seum in return for a long-term ported was part of the deal for taken the gloves off in their dis - loan, and that Greece would which Greece's marbles would pute with those agencies over also then have to loan the be only loaned to the country, delays in the rebuilding of the British Museum other antiqui - which owns them. The Times Church at Ground Zero. The pa - ties to fill the space occupied by reported that Geroulanos had pers were served on the PA on the stones, which the British call entered into the agreement to December 6, 2010 and consti - the Elgin Marbles but which abandon the claim to the prop - tute 60-day notice of the Greece calls The Parthenon Mar - erties that are a national symbol Church’s intention to go to ΕΥΡΩΚΙΝΗΣΗ bles. Once word got out a deal of Greece, and whose return court, which is required by law Navios Maritime rings the bell was possibly in the making, Greeks - including the late ac - for certain actions against the Greek officials quickly moved to tress Melina Mercouri who also PA. Father Mark Arey, Director One of Greece’s continuing success stories, the shipping company Navios Maritime Partners, quash the notion it was giving served as Culture Minister, was of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical was celebrated when company leaders, including Chairman and CEO Angeliki Frangou (C) seen up the fight, but only through passionate in her unceasing de - and Interfaith Relations at the above the Euronext sign, and her father on her right, Capt. Nicholas Frangou, got to ring the press releases. British Museum mand they come back to Greece. Archdiocese said the Archdio - opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange last week, coinciding with the announcement of officials had long maintained cese and the parish took that ac - impressive third-quarter results for one of Greece’s best managed businesses. they obtained the marbles law - Continued on page 9 tion “very reluctantly and sor - rowfully because we must protect the interests of the St. Nicholas parish.” The legal pa - pers state, “This claim arises out Anniversary of Riots, Austerity, Brings Protests Paisios of the arrogance, bad faith, and fraudulent conduct of the Port Authority in preventing Saint ATHENS – After months of rel - young turned out for demon - officer charged in the case was students and protesters from Escapes Nicholas from re-building its ative calm, apart from occa - strations downtown, Syntagma convicted and given a life sen - reaching it, and police buses sional strikes and a few half- Square awash with high school tence for murder and a second blocked the streets around it to Continued on page 4 hearted marches against the students on skateboards, mixed given a 10-year sentence for keep vehicular traffic away as Punishment government’s pay cuts for public with hooded anarchists still an - complicity. That didn’t assuage well. The clashes, like the workers, tax hikes and pension gry over the death of Alexi Grig - protesters as demonstrators protests two years before, were reforms that have cut into the oropoulos in 2008 in a police hurled stones, petrol bombs and fueled by anger at Greece’s eco - By Theodore Kalmoukos ability of the elderly to provide shooting that sparked days of oranges at police who re - nomic crisis, but mixed with an - TNH Staff Writer Considering for themselves, the second an - violent clashes with police and sponded with tear gas. At least archy, anger at government and niversary of the shooting death the destruction of scores of three people were hurt and 40 the banks, as seen when red BOSTON - Metropolitan Paisios of a 15-year-old boy, and new downtown businesses and left a protesters were detained as the paint was daubed on the head - of Tyana and Bishop Vikentios Dimitri work stoppages by workers pro - deep psychological scar on clashes spread to several areas quarters of the Bank of Greece of Apameia are officially out as pelled a new round of protests Athens and Greece. About 5,000 of the city, the BBC and other and several shop-fronts were Abbot and Deputy Abbot of the that led to clashes with police youths tangled with riot police media reported. smashed. Main roads in the cen - St. Irene Chrysovalantou Sacred Mitropoulos and left Athenians without pub - in Athens, in protests marking Outside the Parliament, hun - ter of Athens were closed to traf - and Patriarchal Monastery in As - lic transportation for a day. On the fatal shooting of Grig - dreds of riot police with shields toria, New York. Bishop Ilia of Dec. 6, thousands of Greece’s oropoulos, although the police blocked the building to prevent Continued on page 9 Philomelion was named Acting By Constantine S. Sirigos Abbot while a group of three TNH Staff Writer monks led by Fr. Prodromos of the Dionysiou Monastery of NEW YORK – Dimitri Mitropou - Mount Athos, Greece have been los, who was the Director of the Spyridon sent to man the monastery and New York Philharmonic from help Bishop Ilia to carry out his 1949 to 1958, is a 20th Century duties. Bishop Ilia of Philome - titan among musicians and Has No lion also presides over the Al - artists of modern Greece, and banian Orthodox Diocese of by extension, a towering figure America. The decision was among Greek Americans. Yet, Regrets made at a meeting of the Holy few Greek Americans know him and Great Synod of the Ecu - and those who do seldom speak menical Patriarchate on Dec. 2 of him today, 50 years after his By Theodore Kalmoukos following a report submitted by death. That changed, even if not TNH Staff Writer a patriarchal Exarchy (delega - enough, on Nov. 29, when there tion) which had come to the was an opportunity to learn BOSTON - Former Archbishop United States last month, to in - about this brilliant but enig - Spyridon of America, in an in - vestigate the issues of the matic Greek from a panel dis - terview with The National Her - monastery and its former lead - cussion that at the Walter Reade ald for the first time since his ership. Theater at Lincoln Center for departure from the Archbish - Metropolitan Paisios had re - the Performing arts in New opric Throne of America in signed from his post in two let - York, the current home of the 1999, attempted an approach ters on Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, for orchestra which he conducted with the Ecumenical Patriar - “reasons of health” following when its home was the chate. He also spoke openly public criticism made against renowned Carnegie Hall. His about the Archdiocese, the The - him by Bishop Vikentios in an place among the likes of Gustav ological School in Brookline, interview with The National Mahler and Bruno Walter who and the Greek-American Com - Herald, concerning the split at preceded him, and Leonard munity. Archbishop Spyridon the Holy Ascension Dependency Bernstein, his immediate succes - visited Boston recently and offi - in Florida. TNH has learned that sor after his painful dismissal ciated at the one year Memorial the Holy Synod presided by Ec - Service of his friend Leo Con - umenical patriarch Continued on page 12 dakes at Boston’s Greek Ortho - Bartholomew started its meet - dox Cathedral. To the question ing on Dec. 2 at 9:30 a.m. and of if the Patriarchate were to in - concluded a little before 7 p.m. vite him to visit for a new en - There were certain members of For subscription: counter and an attempt to set the Holy Synod who were ask - 718.784.5255 up a new course in your rela - ing for severe sanctions and [email protected] tionship, would he respond pos - even defrockment for Metropol - itively, he said, “Encounters and ΕΥΡΩΚΙΝΗΣΗ itan Paisios, but finally the dialogue are undoubtedly edi - Nick Gavalas’ Character Was His Fate Synod decided to apply “eccle - fying occurrences. In this sense, siastical leniency” and simply Noted business executive Nick Gavalas is seen here together with his loving wife Eleftheria. He’s Continued on page 6 a man who believes in family, hard work, church and friends. (See related story on page 5). Continued on page 6

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His love of life, ASTORIA, NY - The Greek Cul - game outside Troy (late sixth TNH Staff Writer passion for his work and phil - tural Center kicks off the season century B.C.); a black-figure col - anthropic spirit were an inspi - with the New York parody of umn krater (c. 510 B.C.) depict - NEW YORK - Theodora (Dora) ration to all who met him. He the, Theater of the Ridiculous, ing Odysseus escaping from the Ziongas has wanted to help peo - was unfortunately stricken by a The Mystery of Irma Vep by cave of the Cyclops Polyphemos; ple throughout her life. She was malignant brain tumor, glioblas - Charles Ludlam, as translated by and a gold medallion with the born in Ioannina, Greece, and toma and died in November Lakis Lazopoulos and acted/di - bust of Alexander the Great (c. when she was 18 months old 2008 within a month of his di - rected by Christos Alexandridis 218-235 A.D.; among many her parents came to New York, agnosis. and Evangelos Alexiou. The play more. Guided tours of the exhi - where she grew up. Scholar - TNH: Tell us about the foun - lampoons every conceivable bition will be offered to the pub - ships gave her the opportunity dation you helped establish. British, mass-market literary and lic every Tuesday and Thursday to study at Barnard College, TZ: Along with George’s theatrical convention, and films at 1:00 p.m. Tours can also be where she majored in psychol - good friend Nikos Floros (the from the mystery and horror organized upon request for ogy. She went on to receive her world-renowned sculptor) and genre. The two actors primarily school groups. A comprehensive Master’s degree in psychology his family, we founded the play the parts of the Lord and brochure will also be offered free from SUNY, Stony Brook and George “Best” Costacos Cultural Lady, thus ridiculing the British to visitors. For additional infor - studied developmental psychol - and Cancer Research Founda - Victorian melodrama and on a mation, contact: Lillian Golden - ogy at Teachers College, Colum - tion in June 2009 and I now secondary level play the parts of thal at (212) 593-6355 or email: bia University. She may have en - serve as Vice-President of the the butler and the house keeper [email protected]. visioned a more private, even board. We received our 501(c)3 of the Estate, thus parodying one-on-one approach to caring status in June 2010. The mis - various literary themes. Perfor - n DECEMBER 16 for people, but her career took sion of the foundation is to pro - mances will continue until De - ROCHESTER, New York - The her humanitarianism onto a mote, foster, and advance the cember 12th on every Friday Greece Chamber of Commerce more public path. She is cur - professional pursuits of young and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and is hosting their Holiday Party on rently with American Cancer So - artists as well as performers in Sundays at 7:00 p.m. in Greek December 16 from 5:30-7:30 ciety as the Director of their On - theater, dance or musical per - with English supertitles. The p.m. at the Rochester Marriott site Patient Navigation Program. formance, and to support re - Greek Cultural Center is located Airport Hotel. Admission is: $10 TNH: How did you move search to understand the etiol - at: 26-80 30th Street, Astoria, per person or $5 per person with from studying psychology to in - ogy of cancer and to support NY. For further information, the donation of a hat, scarf or stitutions devoted to the care of improvement in the manage - call: (718) 726-7329 or visit: pair of mittens, or packaged cancer patients? ment of brain tumors. The Foun - www.greekculturalcenter.org socks or underwear (needed for TZ: I was always interested dation has organized three both children and adults) to be in doing something that would events in New York, including n THRU DECEMBER 17 donated to the Greece Ecumeni - help people in some way. When Theodora (Dora) Zionga the first annual George “Best” FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Fairfield cal Clothing Closet. All cash pro - I was still a student, a good Costacos Walk of Hope on Oc - University’s new Bellarmine Mu - ceeds will be donated to: Two friend of mine who was study - TZ: It affected me a great affected by cancer. Although the tober 3, 2010, and an exhibit by seum of Art presents its first tem - Doors Community Resource ing here received a call from a deal and I knew I wanted to outcomes have improved for heraldic artist Ioannis Vlazakis porary exhibition, Gifts from Center. The Holiday Party is friend in Greece that a young work helping patients and espe - some types of cancers, it con - titled Illuminations, hosted by Athens: New Plaster Casts from sponsored by: Rochester Mar - student from Thessaloniki, cially children, facing life-threat - tinues to be a life-threatening Consul General Aghi Balta. We the Acropolis Museum and Pho - riott Airport Hotel, Courtyard by Greece was coming to New York ening illnesses. In the interim I illness with a great deal of phys - are a young, all-volunteer orga - tographs by Socratis Mavrom - Marriott - Courtyard West and for treatment at Memorial graduated and a new program ical, emotional and psychologi - nization but we have plenty of matis. The museum is free and the Residence Inn by Marriott - Sloan-Kettering and asked if she was being formed at Sloan-Ket - cal impact. Helping patients and passion, commitment and en - open to the public Monday to Rochester West. The event will could help her in some way. Her tering, the Greek Children’s their families cope by providing ergy. Friday, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. It be held at the Rochester Marriott name was Katerina Pashaloudis Fund and they were in need of information, resources and sup - TNH: Has your life path been is located at the lower level of Airport Hotel, 1890 West Ridge and she came to New York with a social worker who could help port can help lessen their bur - influenced by your Ancient Bellarmine Hall on the campus Road, Rochester, NY. For further her father for treatment. She the Greek and Greek–American den a great deal. The prognosis and/or Modern Greek and Or - of Fairfield University. “Gifts info, contact the Greece Cham - was just 19 years old and had children being treated at the for those diagnosed with thodox heritage? from Athens” features eight plas - ber of Commerce at: 2496 West been given a dire prognosis by center. I applied and was ac - glioblastoma multiforme is a TZ: My parents instilled in ter casts given to the Bellarmine Ridge Rd, Suite 201, Greece, NY the doctors in Greece. As is the cepted for the position. I em - particularly difficult one and by me and my three sisters a love Museum of Art from the First 14626 or at: (585) 227-7272. custom here in the United braced my role wholeheartedly working to support research to of Greece, our history and cul - Ephorate of Prehistoric and Clas - States, doctors were very open and worked there developing help find a cure, hopefully we ture and it has been an impor - sical Antiquities—Acropolis Mu - n JANUARY 9 about her diagnosis and treat - the program and helping the can improve the outcomes. tant part of my life and work. I seum. Six of the casts represent OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. - The ment but were optimistic that families for 15 years. After that, TNH: Your work can be in - have a great respect for our his - sculpture from the Parthenon. Greek Women's University Club she could be treated. She was I was offered a position as Exec - tensely personal. Has it spilled tory, culture and heritage and Other casts include a diminutive is hosting a special Annual Schol - close to our group of friends in utive Director of the Children’s over into other parts of your am very proud to be a Greek- kore (maiden) from the late Ar - arship Luncheon, “Celebrating age and we could not help but Blood Foundation at Weill Cor - life? American. chaic period and the renowned 80 Years of Greek Women's Uni - be moved by her story. Our con - nell Medical Center and held TZ: In November 2008, I un - TNH: Are you involved in “Sandalbinder” from the Nike versity Club - Promoting the Arts, cerns seemed so mundane next that position for four years. In fortunately lost another dear any cultural endeavors? Parapet. The original sculptures, Culture, and Education," at Mike to what she had to cope with. additional to children with can - friend to cancer, George “Best” TZ: I have always been in - after which these casts were Ditka's Restaurant on January 9 Her love of life, her spirit and cer, the foundation also sup - Costacos. George came here terested in working to bring taken, can be seen in the new at 12:00 p.m. Guest speaker her courage captivated us ported research and clinical care from Greece to study at 18 with quality Greek cultural events to Acropolis Museum in Athens. will be NBC Channel 5 Reporter though and we became friends for children with thalassemia. I “a suitcase full of dreams” as he our community and I am a Web link for directions: Kim Vatis. The Restaurant is lo - instantly and did all we could went on to become Regional Di - used to say. An accomplished member of the board of the www.fairfield.edu/about/about_ cated at: Two Mid America to help her. She continued her rector for CancerCare, a national athlete in Greece, winning Greek Cultural Center in Asto - directions.html. or call: (203) Plaza (22nd St & Rte 83), Oak - treatment here on and off for nonprofit and am now with the medals in the Balkan Games for ria, Queens. 254-4000. brook Terrace, IL. It will be $45 over 10 years returning to American Cancer Society. gymnastics, he was also a tal - TNH: What has been your per person. For further informa - Greece in-between to continue TNH: How do you help the ented dancer, writer and actor greatest achievement so far? n THRU JANUARY 3 tion, contact: Maria Kallis at: her studies and life there. people you work with? and became a proud member of TZ: I have been fortunate to NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Onassis (630) 455-1688. TNH: What effect did the ex - TZ: I don’t think there is any Actors Equity, which selected do work that I love and that Cultural Center explores the role perience have on your career family these days who does not him as its representative in the gives me a great deal of satis - of heroes in society in the exhi - n NOTE TO OUR READERS choices? know someone who has been opening ceremony of the Athens faction and fulfillment. bition, Heroes: Mortals and This calendar of events section TNH: What’s the greatest les - Myths in Ancient Greece, on is a complimentary service to son you've ever learned? view in Manhattan from October the Greek American community. TZ: It is hard to choose just 5, 2010 to January 3, 2011. The All parishes, organizations and one. We should cherish every exhibition is supported by an in - institutions are encouraged to minute we have because we demnity from the Federal Coun - e-mail their information regard - don’t know what the next will cil on the Arts and Humanities. ing the event 3-4 weeks ahead bring. Many of the patients I Highlights of the exhibition in - of time, and no later than Mon - have served have been an inspi - clude a bronze Corinthian hel - day of the week before the ration to me. I am humbled by met from 700-500 B.C.; a black- event, to english.edition@then - their strength and courage. My figure amphora depicting ationalherald.com parents have also inspired me with their honesty and integrity. One of my best friends, Maria, has also been an inspiration as QUESTION OF THE WEEK well. I always strive to achieve her level of integrity, intelli - Vote on our website! gence, humanity and sense of humor and hope I achieve it You have the chance to express your opinion on our website some day. on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - TNH: What’s your most en - lished in our printed edition next week along with the question joyable pastime? for that week. TZ: Listening to music and The question this week is: Should Greece give up its rights being with friends and people I to the Parthenon Marbles in return for a long term loan from love. the British Museum? TNH: What’s your ultimate o Yes goal in life, and share with us o No some words of wisdom. o Maybe TZ: To be the best person I The results for last week’s question: Will you be spending can be and to be true to myself. less on Christmas this year? I tell people: Never lose your 74 % voted "Yes" sense of humor in life. 26 % voted "No" 0% voted "Maybe" [email protected] Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com

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CHICAGO - Nearly 500 people family, friends and Philhellenes well known as the former attended this year’s Awards Gala wanting to share in the Founda - Homeland Security Advisor to of the PanHellenic Scholarship tion’s celebration of 40 of the President George W. Bush and Foundation that took place at the smartest Greek American stu - a former top official of the U.S. historic Hilton Chicago to award dents. Foundation founder and Justice Department. In address - $250,000 to 40 of the nation’s Chairman Chris P. Tomaras told ing the award recipients, she top Greek American students the audience that: “We must con - emphasized: “You must not for - and scholars, chosen for their tinue to encourage our students get your roots and you must al - outstanding academic achieve - and to demonstrate that we be - ways be proud of your ancestry. ment and character. This largest lieve in them … that we recog - It is the substance you are made ever event of the Panhellenic nize their potential … and that of and the guiding light to your Foundation was attended by we rely on them for becoming destinations.” During dinner, a live auction was held that featured an eight- The 2010 Award Recipients, also inducted in the PanHel - day and a five-day vacation with lenic Honors Society are: all expenses paid, including air - fare, to some of Greece’s 5-star Iris Agrafiotis, University of California-Berkeley hotels such as Grand Bretagne, Eve Marie Avdoulos. Michigan State University Costa Navarino’s Romanos and Courtney Estelle Basile, Ball State University Blue Palace Resort in Crete. The Joanna Christina Boardman, University of Alabama retail value of both was $17,600. Asimina Angeliki Boutzoukas, Florida State University Concurrent with the dinner, a Andrea Gaspar, University of Texas at Austin tomorrow’s leaders and contrib - Above: (L-R) Master of Ceremonies Lou Canellis, Alexandra silent auction went on where Nicole Eleni Ginarte-Papaslis, University of Massachusetts, Boston utors in the American society.” Plattos, Dimitra Mouzakis, Alexis Keramaris, Academic Com - guests had an opportunity to bid Katerina Glyptis, Harvard University He said the 40 were honored mittee Chairman George Alexopoulos, Board of Directors Chair - on many items such as jewelry Katerina Eleni Kafkas, University of Massachusetts-Lowell for their performance and out - man Chris Tomaras, Eleftheria Lekkas, Katerina Glyptis, Nicole from Konstantino, trips to Las Andreas Gus Kalantzis, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne standing abilities. “Of these, 20 Ginarte-Papaslis, Courtney Basile, Executive Director Yiannis Vegas, tickets to sporting events, Nickolaos Zackary Kallis, University of Florida students who applied on the ba - Valsamas. Below: Chris Tomaras, Chairman of the PanHellenic restaurants and other items, all Dean S. Karahalios, Loyola University Chicago sis of and documented their fi - Foundation Scholarship Awards. in bargain prices. Distinguished George Stephen Karas, Harvard University nancial need received $10,000 personalities who attended in - Alexis Maria Keramaris, School of the Art Institute of Chicago each. The other 20, whose fam - cluded Metropolitan Iakovos of Athanasios G. Kondilis, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne ilies can meet today’s financial Chicago, Ambassador Anastasios Marie Alexandra Latsa, The Ohio State University challenges, received $2,500 Petrovas, Consul General of Eleftheria Lekkas, Rutgers University each, for a total of $250,000, as Greece in Chicago, Hon. Circuit Nickolas Loukedes, Saint Anselm College we feel that these kids also de - Judge James K. Booras, Alexi Gi - Aikaterini Makridakis, Northern Illinois University serve our encouragement and annoulias, Illinois State Trea - Sotirios Alexandros Malamis, University of Michigan recognition as all other hard surer; Mariyana Spyropoulos, Jessica Ann Metzger, Washington University in St. Louis working kids,” he said. Commissioner of the Water Vasiliki Mitrakos, Northwestern University The Master of Ceremonies Reclamation District of Chicago; Dimitra Mouzakis, Columbia College Chicago was the well-known Greek- Dean Maragos, New Trier Town - Anastasia Nitis, Iona College American Fox TV sports caster ship Committeeman; Dr. Thana - Theodore Papadopoulos, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne and three-time Emmy winner sis Economou, NASA Senior Constantine Demetrios Pappas, California State University, Fresno Lou Canellis who covered the Planetary Scientist and 2009 Alexandra Marie Plattos, University of Illinois at Chicago entire evening and, in a innova - Paradigm Award recipient; Eleni Michelle Susan Prew, Boston College tive move, presented this year’s Bousis, President of the Greek John Tucker Sigalos, Vanderbilt University event. First, it was the awards American Rehabilitation & Nurs - Louis Andreou Spanias, University of California-Berkeley ceremony, held in theater seat - ing Centre; Demetrios Kozonis, Amalia V. Stavropoulos, New York University ing style, where the awards Chairman of the Chicago Sister Nikitas J. Tampakis, Princeton University were distributed and all the pre - City-Athens Committee, Endy Sydney Marie Thayer, University of Southern California sentations were made. The Zemenides, Senior Advisor to Rebecca G. Theophanous, University of Pittsburgh award recipients paraded on the Alexi Giannoulias; Helen Arthur Stephen Tingas, University of Virginia stage one by one to receive their tel’s illustrious Grand Ballroom. Stephanie Prodromos. Alexander, Director of Develop - Yolanda Maria Tselepidakis, University of New Hampshire awards. Each of the donors pre - The evening continued on with During the awards ceremony, ment of the National Hellenic Leonidas George Vasilakos, Boston College sent who contributed $10,000 dancing and entertainment to the Foundation’s annual Para - Museum; officers of universities Christina Verdos-Petrou, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne presented the award in person the tunes of jazz, blues and digm Award was presented to and educational institutions; of - James Peter Xamplas, Northwestern University to each recipient. Next followed Greek music offered by the Chris Frances Fragos Townsend, as is ficials of Greek American Orga - Mina Zissopoulos, New York University a cocktail reception continued Sarlas orchestra and songs by always done for a distinguished nizations; and members of the by a sit-down dinner at the ho - the two sisters, Lexy and Greek American achiever. She is media. The Future of Hellenism Is On The Line, Some Ideas to Save It

By Paul Papadeas an important comment that ways in which his organization Turkey is proven to have Neo- reached out to local communi - Ottoman expansionist ambitions ties using tools such as Twitter, LOS ANGELES – From how to to annex the Turkish occupied Facebook, email blasts and their perpetuate the Greek language portion of Northern Cyprus into website to update people on to political dilemmas such as Turkey and to find ways to wrest news, events and to find ways Cyprus – and more domestic control of the rest of the island to get individuals involved in problems such as the fractured from the Greeks. Kypriades fundraising while offering guid - nature of Greek American orga - added that, “the goal is to create ance and support to ensure that nizations, community leaders a united, free and independent they stay on a consistent agenda. met here to talk about The Fu - Cyprus.” Greek-Americans must Georgakas noted that Greek- ture of Hellenism in America take advantage of their fortu - Americans are one of the most and represented a wide spec - itous position to promote this prosperous and well-educated trum of thought. The 9th Annual humanistic version of Hellenism communities in the US with a Conference was held at the in the face of such rigid ideolog - good image in the country and famed Beverly Hilton in Beverly ical and religious dogma perme - in the best historic position to Hills, on Nov. 20 where speakers ating our world. And with the spread Hellenism domestically converged to discuss serious po - falling hegemony of the United and overseas. Furthermore, 80% litical matters related to Greek States and rival powers growing, of Greeks marry non-Greeks and Americans and the greater Dias - it’s more imperative than ever even wed in the Orthodox pora. The American Hellenic In - that the Greek lobbyist efforts Church. The Internet has al - stitute Foundation (AHI) hosted are emboldened to make a dif - lowed an unprecedented oppor - the event in cooperation with ference and to keep on the radar tunity for the second immigra - the Alexander S. Onassis Public of those who have the power to tion wave Greeks (1965-80) to Benefit Foundation, The World Leaders of the Greek American Community who gathered in Los Angeles to talk about the make a change. reconnect with their relatives Council of Hellenes Abroad future of Hellenism included (L-R) American Hellenic Institute President Aleco Haralambides, TECHNOLOGY TOOLS back in Greece. In order to main - (S.A.E) USA Region and the Professor Van Coufoudakis, John Aniston, receiving the AHI Hellenic Heritage Achievement Michael Galanakis, President tain culture, Georgakas stated Behrakis Foundation. AHI is a Award, AHI Executive Director Nick Larigakis and AHI Board member Nick Karambelas. of the American Hellenic Coun - that, “Greeks must keep connec - lobbyist group that was started cil, stated that, “Organizing local tion with modern Greece.” And in 1974 and galvanized the U.S. Films; Professor Dan Georgakas, Greek Orthodox Church in the duced a three hundred thousand communities to establish rela - he said they can indeed do this Congress to pass the Rule of Law Director of the Greek American US and abroad as being the dollar one hour documentary tionships with congressman, now through access to film, TV, Arms Embargo, which prohib - studies project at the Center for main instrument in regards to entitled Cyprus Still Divided, A gaining direct access to staff newspapers all online with the ited arms sales to Turkey. This Byzantine and Modern Greek facilitating and spreading this U.S. Foreign Policy Failure, members and establishing open ability to connect with other Di - was in response to the nation’s Studies (Queens College – City concept of Hellenistic identity which recently aired on Detroit lines of communication was the aspora Greeks abroad to com - illegal invasion and occupation University of New York); Dr. An - through religious faith. Never Public Television, WTVS Chan - best way to educate them to var - plete academic projects. And for of the Republic of Cyprus with dre Gerolymatos, Chair Hellenic mind that the mission of orga - nel 56. The documentary re - ious issues vital to Greeks.” He their children the globalized era the illegal use of American sup - Studies Simon Fraser University nizations such as AHEPA has his - vealed the web of domestic pol - also discussed how access by of the new millennium has made plied arms in violation of U.S. in Vancouver B.C. Canada; Pro - torically been to create an itics, the realpolitik of former groups to President Barack monoculture a thing of the past laws and agreements. Since this fessor John K. Papadopoulos, awareness of the principles of U.S. secretary of state Henry Obama helped facilitate the call as being bi-lingual, having an time AHI has been instrumental Professor of Archaeology and Hellenism to society through a Kissinger and the repeated re - for more religious freedom in ethnic identity and no longer in initiating congressional legis - Classics Chair, Archaeology IDP, commitment to the preservation fusal of US presidents to de - Turkey and for the opening of identifying completely with lation, issuing policy statements UCLA , Rev. John S. Bakas Dean and promotion Ancient Greek mand that the rule of law and the Halki seminary during his American or Greek foreign pol - and serving as a watchdog on St. Sophia Cathedral, and Pro - values of civic responsibility, fundamental human rights be historic speech in Ankara. icy has given us an advantage. issues affecting US relations in fessor Van Coufoudakis, Rector philanthropy, education, family upheld in Cyprus. Andreas Kypri - Galanakis urged people from the This “independent inquiry to de - Southeastern Europe. Key issues Emeritus, University of Nicosia, and individual excellence, and aides, Honorary Consul General Greek community to become po - cision making,” is more in line have included ending the illegal Cyprus and former President, the ideals of democracy and how of Cyprus in Los Angeles added litically engaged and discussed with Hellenic heritage, he said. occupation of Cyprus, the treat - Modern Greek Studies Associa - these incongruous interests col - ment of the Ecumenical Patriar - tion. laborate to fulfill the same goals chate, the aggression in the KEEPING THE LEGACY without consistently clashing is Aegean Sea and the US response The conference focused on testimony to the resilience, in the dispute between Greece the ongoing challenges in re - openness, and tolerance of our and the Former Yugoslav Repub - defining and promoting Hel - cultural heritage. It seemed that ENGLISH - GREEK DICTIONARY lic of Macedonia (FYROM) over lenism in the face of a protean Hellenism can mean different the nation’s name. AHI has in - global landscape in the 21st things to different types of (Βasic, Phonetic) - by HELEN DUMAS fluential contacts within the US Century and there seemed to be Greeks. The main goal was to Congress, Executive Branch a sense that Hellenism prior to promote the continuing historic (State, Defense, and National this conference was an improb - importance of Greek antiquity This New Book is: Security Council), the diplomatic able marriage between Greek on the modern world and its in - corps, think tanks, and educa - Orthodox Christianity and An - dispensable and timeless influ - 1. Most essential for the study of Greek tional institutions to advance the cient Greek cultural antiquity ence. interests of the US on issues of mixed with a problematic nos - A POLITICAL PUNCH 2. Purse-size, practical and affordable importance to Greek Americans. talgia for the Byzantine Empire The underlying agenda of the The conference program con - and a tacit yearning for the once conference was to report on the 3. Written by Helen Dumas, the author of sisted of an entire day of sessions proud primacy of our own cul - outcome of recent lobbying ef - ranging in topics from the future tural supremacy. There was a forts, to discuss the various SPEAK GREEK IN 2 MONTHS of Greek American organizations, diversity of political perspectives strategies of fundraising and grassroots lobbying, the role of from both sides of the political promotion of ongoing historic 4. Nothing like it on the market today Greek Americans in the entertain - spectrum in answering many of concerns to US foreign policy ment industry in promoting Hel - these looming questions. There makers in hopes of somehow 5. It makes an excellent GIFT lenism, the future of Greek Amer - seemed to be a pluralistic defin - aligning these issues of vital im - ica, Greek education in America, ition of the term, with some portance to Greeks with US na - the image of Hellenism abroad, guests, such as Bilirakis, saying tional security interests. Ulti - Instructor: Helen Dumas the Greek American Organization they believe that Hellenism mately, the goal is to help Authority in teaching Greek as 2nd language Study Program to Greece and should be about “The passing on influence and guide the formu - Checks / Money orders for Cyprus and the perspectives of of certain customs, traditions, lation of favorable policy. Echo - - Native of Greece; UCLA credentialed Teacher young Greek Americans. Some the language and religion all ing a statement by Bilirakis that, notable speakers and moderators which go hand and hand,” while “non-Greeks love Greeks but $18.50 - Director of GREEK EDUCATION for W. US for 25 Years ranged from Republican Florida Georgakas had a slightly differ - need to be educated on our is - Congressman Gus Bilirakis, ent notion of it being rooted in sues and held accountable,” (Plus $5.00 S&H) - Nationally recognized as "The teacher of the Year in USA" Alexander Mizan, the Executive adhering to, ”an independent there was talk of local grass Director of the Hellenic American judgment, polemical tradition, roots lobbying efforts discussed Payable to: - Internationally recognized by the Greek government, and National Council; Gene Rossides, reason, due process, and multi- by Larigakis discussed the ongo - HELEN DUMAS Founder of AHI and its Executive culturalism.” Yet, a majority of ing violations of UN law by P.O.Box 1553 - From the Greek Orthodox Church in America, Helen was Director, Nick Larigakis; actor audience members in atten - Turkey along with what he said John Aniston, Kary Anthoulis, dance seemed to focus on the is its abuse of religious freedoms. Torrance, CA 90505 awarded "The Medal of Saint Paul" - the highest honor President of Mini-series for HBO strategic importance of the The institute has recently pro - 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 11-17, 2010 Drexel’s Tsetsekos Beams Over A $45 Million Business Gift

By Constantine S. Sirigos support and encouragement of schools in the U.S. and in the Tsetsekos has served as dean business consulting, videocon - TNH Staff Writer Papadakis that LeBow made the world. Tsetsekos said he is of Drexel University’s LeBow ferencing capabilities and a original $10 million donation – proud of the institution’s vision College of Business since August recording studio to support PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Dr. the largest gift Drexel had re - and planning, saying of LeBow: 2001. Asked about his vision for LeBow College’s online pro - George Tsetsekos, Dean of ceived up to that time. “After “He is a successful businessman. the College of Business, he Tset - grams. Also included are exten - Drexel University’s LeBow Col - seeing the continued success of In 2006 he took a critical look sekos said he wanted to deepen sive areas for students to gather lege of Business, has announced the University and the business at all our plans, and for a facility the school’s commitment to fos - socially and for collaborative a record $45 million gift from school under the leadership of that will enable us to develop tering entrepreneurship, noting study. The structure will be financier and corporate execu - Dr. Papadakis, and the entrepre - centers of excellence. The next that it was currently ranked Green Globe certifiable, meeting tive Bennett S. LeBow toward neurial spirit” that was being step toward our goals was a new third for such programs in the worldwide sustainability stan - construction of a new academic nurtured there, Mr. LeBow came building, Dr. Tsetsekos told The U.S. He said he also would work dards. The exterior will be con - center for the College of Busi - back with a gift that was four National Herald. He said he is to increase the international structed of a limestone similar ness, which was named in times greater and re-invested in very thankful that despite the scope of its operations on the to that used in the nearby iconic LeBow’s honor in 1999. LeBow the school,” said Tsetsekos. The global economic crisis, LeBow model of the center for graduate 30th Street Train Station and has now committed a total of new infrastructure will further agreed that this is the right mo - studies they established in the former U.S. Post Office. $60 million to Drexel. The new the goal of gaining recognition ment to proceed. Sacramento, California. He told GREEK SUCCESS STORY gift is the largest to by an as one of the leading business WATCH DREXEL GROW TNH that they have embarked Tsetsekos is a native of Naf - alumni benefactor. LeBow, who on a number of initiatives, hav - plion, Greece. Prior to his ap - received an honorary doctoral ing signed collaboration agree - pointment as dean, he served as degree from Drexel in 1998 is ments with China and other in - Drexel’s Vice Provost and Vice known as a turnaround special - stitutions around the world. President for Academic Admin - ist, “investing in struggling com - Drexel reported that, “Since istration. He was appointed to panies that a less bold business - LeBow’s $10 million gift in LeBow College’s finance faculty man might have avoided,” 1999, the business school has in 1988 and served as professor Drexel’s press release noted. He constructed one building for of finance and director of LeBow The late Dr. Takis (Constan - is Chairman of the Board of the teaching, the Pearlstein Business College’s Risk Management tine) Papadakis, President of international bookseller, the Learning Center; launched full- Center. Currently, he serves on Drexel from 1995 until his un - Borders Group, and Chairman time, online and corporate MBA the Advisory Board of the Fed - timely death in 2009. of the board of Vector Group programs; and grown its stu - eral Reserve of Philadelphia, the Ltd., a private equity firm that dent enrollment in both size and Board of the Penjerdel Council Ph.D in Finance, he was well has focused on real estate and quality. About 70 percent of to - and the Pennsylvania Economic along a path to academia. Its tobacco products. day’s full-time faculty joined League. He studied mechanical now 25 years later, but he said LeBow said: “Drexel’s Col - LeBow College within the past engineering at he National Tech - he still thinks about Greece, its lege of Business is one of the 10 years and its programs have nical University of Athens, his tribulations and what needs to best investments I ever made.” been rated among the nation’s MBA in Finance from Wright be done to weather the eco - His new gift will support con - best by Financial Times, Busi - State University and his Ph.D. nomic storms. He said is anxious struction of a 12-story, $92 mil - ness Week, Princeton Review, in finance from the University to contribute, individually and lion academic center for the Col - Entrepreneur magazine and oth - of Tennessee. He lives in Devon, through the institutions he is as - lege of Business. Tsetsekos said, ers. Pa. with his wife and three sons. sociated with. From his perspec - “Ben’s first gift enabled us to “Our new building will be an They often travel back to Greece tive, the crisis will not be re - transform LeBow College into a incubator of knowledge, a gath - to visit immediate family. solved by sorting out who did national leader in MBA and en - ering place for business leaders, When he first arrived in the right and wrong, he said, adding trepreneurship programs ... the and a high-energy home for U.S. to continue his studies in that Greece has needed to un - new gift will continue our trans - scholars, students and execu - 1980, he planned to stay only dergo critical structural and cul - formation as our new building tives working together to solve one or two years. He said he tural changes for decades and will keep us on a trajectory to - problems and create opportuni - was going return to Greece with sooner or later its governments ward becoming one of America’s ties,” Tsetsekos said. The new what he had learned and apply needed to acknowledge that top business schools.” building designed by Robert it at one of the country’s tech - what was required was conver - Tsetsekos acknowledged the cOurteSy: DreXel uniVerSity A.M. Stern Architects LLP and nology-driven sectors, energy, gence with what happening importance of the role of the Drexel University LeBow College of Business Dean Dr. George Voith & Mactavish LLP will fea - electricity etc. but at one point around the world. Naturally, he late Dr. Takis (Constantine) Pa - Tsetsekos (L) and Bennett S. LeBow celebrate outside the soon- ture a finance trading lab, 300- he realized that he needed to said is very concerned about padakis, President of Drexel to-be demolished Matheson Hall. After a recent $45 million seat auditorium, five-story study finance, and that’s when Greece lagging in education, from 1995until his untimely gift to the college of business by Bennett LeBow a new building atrium, special areas for experi - his life began to shift. After ob - where many developing coun - death in 2009. It was with the will be constructed in its place. ential learning simulations and taining a Master’s degree and a tries have moved far ahead. St. Nick’s Fires Legal Notice at Port Authority For Rebuilding Church

Continued from page 1 Consul of Greece, and Koula dle and spend a few minutes in Sophianou, Consul General of prayer and meditation.” church at Ground Zero after it Cyprus. The Archbishop declared: was crushed by a falling tower Clergy from numerous Greek “The Greek Orthodox Archdio - in the attack on the World Trade Orthodox parishes and those of cese of America and the parish Center on September 11, 2001” other Orthodox Christian juris - of St. Nicholas remain strongly and that in March 2009, the PA dictions stood by the side of St. committed to the rebuilding of “summarily disavowed a long- Nicholas pastor Fr. John Romas. the church at Ground Zero,” but standing agreement” to rebuild Apropos of both the joy and love offered no details about the dis - the church at 130 Liberty Orthodox Christians have felt putes that have blocked the re - Street,” and ‘without permis - towards the miracleworking and building, and no hint of the next sion, notice or any legal justifi - most philanthropic of saints and day’s legal action. He said that cation whatsoever has sent its the spirit of Santa Claus that the building “will stand as a dy - bulldozers onto both the land dominates the celebration of namic testament to the healing owned by the Church at its orig - Christmas in the modern world power of love and be “an ap - inal site...and the land promised – to the delight of children propriate memorial in New York to the Church... and conducted everywhere – many of the Greek City to the 3000 innocent peo - extensive excavation that has Orthodox clergy, including his ple of all Faiths who lost their rendered both sites unbuildable Eminence, were arrayed in their lives that day,” adding it will by the Church.” finest bright red vestments. “also serve as a center of peace The claim under New York Bishop Andonios of Phasiane, and reconciliation.” State law is for actions that in - Protopresbyter Fr. Alexander Karacostas told TNH it was clude trespass, and seeks de - Karloutsos, Fr. Ilias Villis, pastor “overwhelming to see” such a claratory judgments from the of the Church of our Savior in strong show of support by the court pertaining to what it calls Rye, N.Y., Archdeacon Pantelei - community on a bitterly cold a “binding preliminary agree - mon Papadopoulos, Deacon day. He said there were 100 ment” regarding property rights Vasilios Louros and Fr. John Lar - members of AHEPA there. Fr. and “to negotiate in good faith.” das, pastor of St. Constantine Mark Arey said he counted 20 The Church and St. Nicholas are and Helen of Brooklyn, tempo - rows of people 30 across and es - also seeking monetary awards rary home of the orphaned St. timated a total of 700. The Web for “damage to its reputation Nicholas parish, were among site of the Order of AHPEA, caused by the Port Authority’s An estimated 700 Greek Orthodox Christians and their friends braved the cold to honor St. the clergy present assisting His www.ahepa.org contains an on- defamatory statements, and Nicholas and support the rebuilding of the church at Ground Zero in New York. Eminence. line petition where people can damage to its property caused His Eminence’s speech was demand that their public offi - by the Port Authority’s trespass,” the St. Nicholas parish gathered with them for 1 ½ years. Cunha prominent Greek American po - the only presentation at an cials “cut the red tape.” The Very in addition to restitution for un - at Ground Zero on Sunday, De - said the church couldn’t allow litical and business leaders need event that was dominated by Rev. Father Christopher Calin, just enrichment through the tak - cember 5, near the site of the itself to get into a position to participate in the efforts to reverence for St. Nicholas. He Dean of the Cathedral of the ing of its property. Under Fed - destroyed church, to celebrate where the sites are not longer reach a satisfactory resolution. noted that “though opened in Holy Protection of the Orthodox eral Law the document claims vespers for the Feast of St. buildable. He said they are not St. Nicholas Parish Council 1916 by Greek immigrants, the Church in America (OCA) told violation of “the Church’s right Nicholas and to express their at that point yet – they are just President John Couloucoundis church not only served the spir - TNH he was there to lend his to freely exercise its religion un - frustration at the seeming indif - holes in the ground, but he confirmed to TNH that the main itual needs of its parishioners Church’s support to the drive for der the first amendment.” ference of agencies of their own noted that things can change criterion for selecting represen - but was also a sacred space in the immediate rebuilding of St. The Associated Press re - government to their efforts to rapidly. He informed TNH that tatives of the joint committee of which people of all ethnic Nicholas. He added that, “It is ported that the PA responded re-build the only house of wor - it is only NY State law that re - the parish and archdiocesan of - groups and religious back - demoralizing as a New Yorker with a statement, saying: “It ship destroyed by terrorists on quires 60 days notice, but if the ficials working to rebuild St. ground would stop, light a can - to the city is remiss in rebuilding hopes to sit down with church 9/11. PA takes actions detrimental to Nicholas was to secure the very the only house of worship de - officials and reach a deal - but New York State Senator-elect the church's interests they can best firms for the job of protect - stroyed on 9/11.” pointed the finger at the church Michael Gianaris said he was file federal claims where there ing the rights and reputation of Olga Pavlakos, Treasurer of for the dispute over its new impressed with the large crowd are no such restrictions. the church. the St. Nicholas Parish, and her home,” and quoted the Author - at the vespers but he declared, Cunha pointed out that the COMMUNITY PRAYS, mother greeted guests at the ity that “In 2008, we worked “We need to be inside a Church, PA had dealt constructively with STANDS UP candle stand and have been at - hard to come to what we not out in the cold.” He in - the Church through March 2009 The Sunday Vesper service tending St. Nicholas for decades thought was a very generous formed TNH that there have and is hopeful that can happen was held as dramatic clouds while they also worshipped at agreement with church repre - been recent discussions about again, and that the aim of the rolled by against a brilliant blue the Three Hierarchs church in sentatives..." Unfortunately, af - the plight of the parish up to the legal action is to get the relevant heaven reminiscent of the per - Brooklyn. Olga was baptised at ter nine months of negotiation level of Governor-elect Cuomo, parties to sit down to work out fectly blue sky that crowned the Nicholas, in the same font that in which the demands of the Or - who he said is aware of the is - a fair and reasonable deal. Ac - dawn of 9/11 2001, at the was used for her father in 1926. thodox Church continued to in - sues and is sympathetic, but knowledging the importance of southern edge of the now-sa - They deeply appreciated the crease over and above what we suggested critical meetings must the public relations dimension cred site of the most devastating turnout, with Olga saying “they originally agreed to ... we had await Cuomo’s appointment of of the efforts, Cunha told TNH, modern attack on the U.S. main - give us hope.” to make a practical decision to the relevant new officials. "I cannot recall another time land and the principles of Maria Drakos told TNH what move on." The large crowd turned out when so many members of the democracy and religious free - a great thing it was to see so Father Arey informed TNH despite severe weather condi - media” expressed themselves dom. The faithful gathered be - many Greek Orthodox come to that for some months the tions on the coldest day of au - openly regarding a case, saying fore a makeshift open air sanc - the site to honor St. Nicholas Church has sought legal counsel tumn, and the chilly reception “good luck and we’re pulling for tuary set up at the edge of the and to pray, as did Dorothy Poli. regarding its legal and property by the Port Authority of NY and the Church.” Ground Zero construction site. She was thankful for being able rights. Concerns during that NJ – Press cameramen and pho - There is powerful support Archbishop Demetrios appeared to avoid the horrors of 9/11. At time over construction work tographers were at first not per - within the community as well. shortly after 2 p.m. in a proces - the time she worked in a nearby that had begun at the church’s mitted to enter the site allotted Mamie Stathatos-Fulgieri, Pres - sion led by children who carried building but was on vacation original site at 155 Cedar and for the services, and attempts ident of the Hellenic Lawyers some of the remains of the and was spared witnessing the more recently at the replace - were even made to bar the Arch - Association told TNH that “We church: an icon, a piece of the horrors her colleagues saw. ment site at 130 Liberty Street diocese’s own videographer stand prepared to assist in any humble parish’s crushed chan - George Demos, who was a can - led to the advice of their attor - from taping. way,” as it is our faith and our delier, a battered bell which was didate this year for the U.S. neys to serve notice on the Port Mark G. Cunha is one of the community that is being chal - ritually struck to mark the be - Congress in eastern Long Is - Authority. Despite the support attorneys handing the case for lenged.” Another well-informed ginning of the service. land’s 1st Congressional District, and sympathy the Church has the parish and the Archdiocese. Greek American attorney, noting Newly elected State Senator championed the rebuilding ef - received from local elected offi - He is a partner in Simpson that law firms and public rela - and friend of the community forts during his campaign. He cials the PA “dug up both prop - Thacher & Bartlett’s Litigation tions firms are not merely hubs Tony Avella and Assembly - told TNH that the afternoon was erties and our back channel ef - Department. TNH asked Cunha of legal and communications ex - woman-elect Aravella Simotas a testament to the strong sup - forts to communicate have gone about the references, who re - pertise but also centers of polit - were present to give their sup - With what was once named port in the community for the nowhere,” Fr. Arey said, adding sponded that “It is disquieting ical influence, is very pleased port, as were Nicholas Kara - The Freedom Tower steadily rebuilding of the church at that it was a co-incidence that to some in the church that the with the decision to enlist well- costas, Supreme President and rising in the background, a Ground Zero and stated that the action was taken the Feast person in charge of negotiations connected firms such as Simp - Basil Mossaidis, Executive Di - Vesper service for the feast during the Christmas season “its Day of St. Nicholas, the timing with them would be highlight - son Thacher & Bartlett and pub - rector of the Order of AHEPA, day of St. Nicholas was per - important to rededicate our - being dictated by the attorneys. ing his non-belief in a public fo - lic relations powerhouse which helped spearhead efforts formed at Ground Zero on selves to the task and to make 700 GATHER rum.” He stressed that the Rubinstein Associates. He said to bring members of the com - Dec. 5, 2010 in the hope that sure the PA stops dragging its AT GROUND ZERO church is taking these actions he believes that the St. Nicholas munity to the sacred site. the fate of the church that was feet and does the right thing The serving of notice took because the port authority matter must be put it the hands Revered Federal Judge Nicholas destroyed on 9/11 will soon once and for all.” place the day after 700 Greek walked away from an agree - of the city’s top people, whether Tsoucalas was there as well, as be determined and rebuilding Orthodox faithful and friends of ment and has not been in touch or not they are Greek, and that was Evangelos Kyriakopoulos, can begin. [email protected] THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 11-17, 2010 COMMUNITY 5 Nick Gavalas’ Character Was His Fate, Giving is His Mission

By Stavros Marmarinos on hand at this event, and can help with these projects, and ish causes even though I’m not Special to The National Herald praised the work that the Amor - argued that it is easier if there Jewish, in an attempt to inspire gos Society has been doing un - are many people who each con - the Jewish audience members to Ever since he was a boy der Gavalas’ leadership as presi - tribute a small amount rather contribute.” Gavalas maintains growing up in Arkesini, Amorgos dent. Among other things, he than just a handful of donors that those with the financial – an island in the Aegean Sea’s emphasized how pleasantly sur - who make major donations. “We wherewithal must help preserve Cycladic region – Nick Gavalas prised he is at the love the mem - must help churches and other the Greek identity. “These are would go and pray at his vil - bers share for each other and foundations as much as we can,” difficult times,” he said. “Each lage’s church, St. Paraskevi. the close family ties that exist Gavalas said. “If they are not re - person can make a contribution Years later, on the other side of among them, which give every - ceiving public aid, how else are based on what they have.” the world, Gavalas found him - one the opportunity to feel like they going to survive? All of us Gavalas says that the happi - self working as a manager at a he or she is part of one big fam - who have the means must do est times in his life were the Manhattan hotel. On July 12, ily. something about this,” he said. births of his children. “I thank 1979, three people – two men Last month, Gavalas again re - GREEK ROOTS RUN DEEP God for giving me my fair share and a woman – knocked on the ceived words of praise during When asked what differences of happy moments,” he said. door and asked for water. “Just the Amorgos Society’s annual he notices in the Greek Ameri - “We have a good and upright as I was getting them their wa - dance, which was held at Ter - can Community today in com - family, and this is a blessing from ter, they hit me over the head race on the Park in Flushing, N.Y. parison to when he first came to God. I don’t think that there is and in the eye,” he told The Na - In addition to the kind words re - the United States, Gavalas re - anything better than that.” Of - tional Herald in an interview. “It served for the evening’s honoree, sponded that, “I think that we fering some words of advice to was a robbery. They asked me the presiding priest of the St. have changed as the years have the youth of the Greek American to hand over everything. I gave Demetrios Cathedral in Astoria gone by. We have become more Community, Gavalas said that, them money, watches, and other V. Rev. Apostolos Koufallakis, American. I don’t believe that “They should be careful of the items. There was nothing I could Gavalas received his share of ac - things today are as pure and sin - people they associate with in do. Afterwards, they bound my claim. The former parish council cere as they were years ago. To - life. A lot of bad things begin hands and feet, gagged me, cut president of the St. Demetrios day, many people have different when kids start keeping bad the telephone wire, and left me Greek Orthodox Community in ideas. Nevertheless, we have to company. They should not be in - for dead after stabbing me 54 Astoria and current school board keep alive our religion, the fluenced. They should listen to times. I used to keep a couple of President Nick Andriotis ex - Greek language, our customs their parents first, their teachers, coins in my pocket – they hap - pressed the sentiments of love and practices, and the Greek tra - priests, etc.” pened to be on the side where and appreciation that everyone ditions, and we must teach our THE VALUE OF FAMILY they stabbed me. The knife feels for Gavalas. During his ad - children about them. Our faith Today, Gavalas is one of the ended up hitting the coins and tnH/DemetriS PAnAGOS dress to the members of the is stronger than all the rest out most successful people in the most of my injuries were not se - Nick and Eleftheria Gavalas are seen here with their children Amorgos Society, Andriotis there, and we have a duty and Greek American Community, rious. I started thinking about Paraskevi, and twin boys Nicholas, left, and Evangelos. noted that, “Nick Gavalas is one responsibility to keep these tra - and is numbered among many my mother and our parish, St. of your own – a native of Amor - ditions alive.” significant people who enjoy Paraskevi, which celebrated its hails from Crete. They were mar - even more. He makes frequent gos – but his is one of our own Gavalas also took the oppor - wide respect. In light of this, feast day that month – July. I ried in 1981. The couple has mention of his colleagues, whom as well.” tunity to speak about the prob - Gavalas advises young people started to move, and my hands three children, Paraskevi, 19, a he speaks of with respect and LESSONS OF HUMILITY lems that arise in the relations who dream of achieving finan - were freed. I don’t even know student at St. John’s University, gratitude. Andriotis called Gavalas a how this happened. I managed and twin boys, Nick and Evan - CHARITY OF THE HEART mild-mannered man, ready to of - to untie myself completely and I gelos, who are 12 years old. “I am happy with the fer his services to his fellow man stood up. I ran to clean my Gavalas is proud that his chil - progress that our organization at a moment’s notice. He also wounds. The wet shirt stuck to dren attended school at St. has made,” Gavalas said. “We thanked him for his dedication my body and the bleeding Demetrios Greek American are trying to fix certain things, and support to the St. Demetrios stopped. I went to the emer - School in Astoria. For the last 10 and I believe that we will Greek Orthodox Community in gency room the next day, when years, Gavalas has served as achieve our goal. We do not owe Astoria, noting that Gavalas’ chil - I started to swell. In my mind I President of the Amorgos Soci - any money on our headquarters. dren also attended the St. prayed to St. Paraskevi, because ety. Previously, he had served as We have paid off the loan. All of Demetrios School. On his part, I couldn’t speak. I believe this to a board member of the same or - our members contribute to the Rev. Koufallakis, who was the be a miracle.” Ever since that ganization, as well as Vice Pres - organization, and we have love guest of honor, called Gavalas day, when he stared death in the ident. The Amorgos Society and understanding for one an - “an honorable man who knows face and came out alive, Gavalas owns its own headquarters at other. This is a very friendly how to love others,” and referred made a promise to help the St. 26-03 23rd Avenue in Ditmars, group. Our organization has to him as “a good friend,” and a Paraskevi Church and other right in the heart of Greek Asto - made all kinds of contributions “close companion.” Gavalas has churches as much as he could ria. It is located in the same to charitable causes, and contin - served as president of the Amor - every year. building that houses the popular ues to do so every year.” gos Society for the past 10 years, Gavalas, a pious and God store Kyriako’s Deli in its lobby. Aside from the annual dance and offered his services as Vice fearing man, achieved success in Club members go in through the that the Amorgos Society holds President for close to another his personal life and as an en - entrance on 26th Street. he every November, it makes con - five years. Gavalas speaks very trepreneur. Today, he is widely building itself was bought for tributions to hospitals and char - highly of his colleagues on the known in the Greek American $450,000 and was completely itable organizations that take in Amorgos Society board of direc - Community for his philanthropy, remodeled. Two apartments sick children, like the Deborah tors, whom he loves dearly. The kindness, and goodness. He were built on the second floor, hospital in New Jersey and the Board of Directors included Pres - Nick Gavalas is seen vacationing in his native village, together never forgets his birthplace, the along with two halls – one in the Ronald McDonald House in ident Nick Gavalas, Vice Presi - with the former village president Nikos Nomikos, and his niece beautiful village of Arkesini, lobby and the other in the base - Manhattan, whose Greek Divi - dent Elefterios Koveos, Secretary Petroula Zarmakoupi, two sons Nick and Evangelos, and Poly - which he visits every year. His ment. The kitchen is located in sion is led by Niki Sideris. The Nikitas Theologitis, Treasurer carpos Zarmakoupis. native village is located 15 kilo - the first hall, while the organi - Amorgos Society, to which Anna Theologitis, and members meters southwest of Chora, on zation’s office is located in the Gavalas has devoted a large part Eleftheria Gavalas, Mike Sigalas, between Greek Americans. “We cial success in life “to be careful the slope of Mount Korakas, near second hall. The Amorgos Soci - of his life, holds all of its events Nikitas Simos, Marinos Prasinos, need to be more in unison and and love their jobs. There is time the valley of Kato Meria. The few ety spent $100,000 to remodel at its headquarters. A few years Eva Fortes, Michale Fortes, Vio - closer to each other,” he said. for having fun, but work de - residents who remain in the vil - the building, and managed to ago, during carnival season, an leta Smaragda, and Tommy “There is great strength in unity. mands attention and responsi - lage work as stockbreeders and pay off the $200,000 loan it had event was held that was at - Gavalas. And we must be wary not to give bility. They shouldn’t expect that fishermen. taken out for the building in just tended by the former Chancellor The youth of the Amorgos in to partisanship. As a Greek anyone is going to be leaving Gavalas was born in 1946. four years. of the Archdiocese of Athens Society and the entire Greek American Community, we have money right at their doorstep His parents had six children, American Community is a sub - to set aside the differences that just like that. They have to work three boys and three girls. He ject that is never far from cause problems in the relations honestly so they can meet the attended elementary and sec - Gavalas’ thoughts. “Times have between us if we want to get challenges of life.” As a parent, ondary school in the island of changed and have become more ahead.” Gavalas also offered some words Amorgos, and then worked as a difficult,” he said. “We are trying Gavalas is passionate when it of advice to other parents. “We sailor for the merchant marines to bring our young people closer comes to the Greek language. need to have patience with our traveling across Greece and together, and I think that we are “The Greek language – espe - children and to advise them as other parts of the world. He still doing better. I hope that we will cially ancient Greek – is the much as we can about develop - remembers his trips to Brazil, succeed.” Gavalas has been a fi - greatest language in the world,” ing their character. Parents need Russia, Bulgaria, and other nancial supporter of the St. he said. “I don’t understand why to be friends with their children places. There, he had an oppor - Demetrios Community in Astoria so many foreigners study and and to reach an understanding tunity to get to know foreign for many years. He was one of love the language, and so many with them calmly, without caus - lands and gain useful experi - the first people who immediately of us are indifferent when it ing tension that will only serve ences that would prove valuable responded when St. Demetrios comes to keeping it alive. We all to distance them, not bring them later in life. Pastor Rev. Koufallakis told have responsibilities, especially any closer together.” After returning to the home - parish members that the façade parents. My children went to Sharing his dreams and land, he served in the Coast of the St. Catherine’s Church in Greek school, they know how to wishes for the future, Gavalas Guard. Being an islander, it was Ditmars, Astoria needed to be speak and write in Greek, they said he hopes “we stand firm to only natural for the sea to attract remodeled. As he explained to visit Greece every year, they go the best of our ability, because him. And so, he spent a period the people, the church’s exterior to church, and they pray every these are difficult days we are of time working on tugboats that needed to take on a more ap - night. As far as we are con - living in. I want to see my chil - were being used to facilitate var - propriate form, and two bell cerned, my wife and I do what - dren grow up to become useful ious projects being carried out towers needed to be built, to en - ever we can so that our children members of society, lead honor - on seaports. He frequently trans - Nick Gavalas with former NY City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. sure that the church’s Orthodox can learn about their roots and able lives, and walk through so - ported cranes and would go to appearance would be there for hold on to them.” ciety with their heads held high, Nafplio, Crete, and other places Gavalas has offered major fi - Rev. Thomas Synodinos, a top all to see. In addition, an eleva - WHAT PHILANTHROPY just like I did. I want them to in Greece. When they would nancial support on several occa - aide and close friend to the late tor was built to serve parish - MEANS enjoy the love and respect of the visit islands, he and his team sions, and backs every undertak - Archbishop Christodoulos of ioners with special needs. Aside from being honored by people.” Gavalas is an avid would stay for stretches of four ing made by the organization. Athens and all Greece. The Gavalas immediately pledged the St. Demetrios Community in reader of The National Herald, to five months at a time working He says that he feels like the members of the Amorgos Society his help to get the project Astoria, Gavalas has also re - of which he speaks very highly. on building ports and attending Amorgos Society is a part of him, wanted to express their grati - started. He himself had said that ceived honors from the Cypriot “I’ve been reading it since I came to other needs. since he has worked for it and tude for the love Rev. Synodinos ever since he had come to the organization Zenon, a Jewish or - to the Unites States. I want to THE FEAST OF AMERICA contributed to it in many differ - had shown their island and the U.S., he did not like the old ex - ganization, and Touro College congratulate your newspaper for Gavalas came to the United ent ways. Being the humble and projects that began there thanks terior of St. Catherine’s Church on Long Island. “The honor I re - offering so much to the Greek States in 1973. It was September low-key man that he is, he says to his initiative. During his ad - and that he had wanted to do ceived from the Jewish group American Community. Its work 14th when he arrived, the feast he doesn’t feel comfortable dis - dress, Gavalas noted that all the something to help beautify it. He took place during an event held and contribution is invaluable, day of the Holy Cross. “We have cussing his contributions. When members in the organization are also made mention of all the at the Waldorf Astoria in Man - because it brings us all together a Holy Cross Church in Amor - asked about them, he simply an - united and that all the events others who helped with the com - hattan, with 1,200 people in at - like one big family. I hope The gos,” he said. “There is a country swers that he has done his duty they hold maintain a strong fam - pletion of this project, and stated tendance,” Gavalas said. “That National Herald continues to chapel in my father’s property to the best of his ability, and ily-oriented atmosphere. that he was pleased with the cur - same night, $1,250,000 was serve the Greek American Com - in Arkesini. It’s our church. We nothing more. It is evident that The President of the Greek rent appearance of the church raised. During the awards cere - munity and Hellenism every - always go to that church. I re - he does not like talking about American Homeowners Associ - building. In fact, he stressed that mony, the organizers mentioned where with the same exact en - member that my mother used to himself, and dislikes boasting ation, George Kitsios, was also the Greek American Community the fact that I contribute to Jew - thusiasm.” send me to go and light an oil lamp there every day when I was boy,” he said. When he first ar - rived in the U.S., Gavalas found work painting buildings, serving on demolition crews, and pick - ing up other jobs that he would find. Two years later, although he was working for others, he became a partner in a hotel, where he was given a small A wonderful Holiday Gift for food lovers! stake. “I cared a lot about my work and did the best job that I From cooking with Healthy mediterranean Olive Oil could, and so they offered me seven-and-a-half percent,” Gavalas said. “I did whatever I to wonderful aromas of delicious wines! could as a painter, maintenance man, and electrician. My partner – he’s Jewish and he’s a won - “From the Palate to the Spirit” is the gift to give this year derful man – appreciated the work I was doing and wanted DON’T MISS to family and friends. me alongside him at the other jobs he had.” Together with him, today Gavalas is a partner in two Our annual Just call us: 301-8818172 or hotels in Manhattan, the Belnord Hotel and the Newton Hotel, in e-mail us at: [email protected] addition to other businesses. Christmas Special Gavalas began to get more in - or toufidou kaliopi, 6050 california circle #406 volved in construction after December 25, 2010 1981. He has partnered together with others, but he also has his To advertise or to obtain rates : north bethesda, mD 20852 own firm. tel: (718) 784-5255 ext. 101, e-mail: advertising@ ekirikas .com Gavalas’ wife, Eleftheria, 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 11-17, 2010 Former Archbishop Spyridon Has No Regrets, But Some Questions

Continued from page 1 decisions, however recondite outcome of such an attempt have been necessary, i.e. a sys - they may be and to whatever de - would be. For the Archdiocese tem that, together with a mod - every encounter is welcome and gree they might appear tough to to become independent and ob - ern method of teaching Greek, every type of dialogue is bene - outsiders. One must make one’s tain the status of an Auto - would make our children knowl - ficial.” He spoke candidly on a decisions and bear responsibility cephalous Church is easier said edgeable in the fields of Greek range of other issues in the in - for them to the end. than done. The new administra - history and Greek culture. Of terview that follows: TNH: What is your take on tive structure of the Archdiocese course, such an educational sys - TNH: How does it feel to be what is happening at the Saint (Archdiocese-Metropolises) as tem would have to derive di - back in Boston for your friend, Irene Chrysovalantou Monastery well as the new reality created rectly from our local community Leo Condakes’ Memorial Ser - in Astoria? The monastery was by the resolutions of the last school experience. vice? brought under the jurisdiction Pan-Orthodox Conference TNH: Do you think the cur - SPYRIDON: I am grateful to of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Chambesy, Switzerland) feature rent administrative structure of God for making it possible for during your Archepiscopal min - autocephaly as a quasi-unattain - the Archdiocese, based on its me to once again come to the istry in America. able undertaking. Of course, we partition into Metropolises, has beautiful city of Boston. This SPYRIDON: I am saddened all know that for decades the hurt the unity of the Church and time, I came to conduct the by all that is being rumored goods of autocephaly have been our Greek American Commu - memorial service for my loyal about the Monastery. It pains me persistently propagandized in nity? friend and benefactor, the late even more to know that so many certain Church circles. But I per - SPYRIDON: I believed in the Leo Condakes. I consider it a of our believers are being scan - sonally see no benefit from au - past and I still maintain today blessing that during these diffi - dalized by such rumors. I would tocephaly. I can only see a that the current administrative cult moments of grief I was able like to believe that the truth is greater separation from our structure, an Archdiocese di - to be with Leo’s family and, in different from the unverified ru - Church roots and our origins. vided into Metropolises, is not particular, with his wife Eve, for - mors spread around. As a key TNH: You are a young man, the most ideal means to enhance mer president of the National player in bringing the Monastery tnH/tHeODOre kAlmOukOS no doubt with much knowledge the unity direly needed by the Philoptochos Society. under the Patriarchate’s jurisdic - Archbishop Spyridon, formerly of America, is seen leading the and many experiences. Don’t Greek American Community in TNH: Do you miss being tion I am especially sorrowed. funeral procession for the late Leo Condakes, following a ser - you think you don’t have the order for it to survive in such a amidst the Greek American com - My prayer is that passions now vice at the Annunciation Cathedral of New England in Boston. right to remain away from active multicultural melting pot that is munity? running high will be put aside, Addressing the Condakes family, he noted, “Leo did a lot of church service especially during America. SPYRIDON: I happen to be a logic will prevail and peace and good.” Cathedral Dean V. Rev. Cleopas Strongylis (L,) is seen these times where the lack of TNH: What would you sug - genuine offspring of our Greek order will return to the behind the Archbishop. while Rev. George Dragas, Professor churchmen at the Phanar and in gest? American community. I was Monastery. of Patristics at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology the Church overall have become SPYRIDON: I think the issue brought up in the bosom of this TNH: Did you know at that in Brookline, is seen on the right. almost a nightmare? should have been studied at community. time that there were issues of ir - SPYRIDON: I have said it re - length and carefully in all its’ de - Moreover, I entertain numer - regularity such as those now row for our believers, the ones who think the end is near, very peatedly: whatever I had to offer tails. This could have helped to ous contacts with Greek Ameri - brought to surface? who in reality bear the enor - near. I don’t belong to that I have already offered to my develop a comprehensive ad - cans, many of whom are very SPYRIDON: No one had ever mous financial burden of these group. The Patriarchate is a cen - Church. The call now is for ministrative structure: one that close and loyal friends. There - heard the slightest thing, neither indemnities. turies-old institution and such younger people, those who have would promote the unity of the fore, to answer your question di - at the Archdiocese nor at the Pa - In the final analysis, such a institutions cannot be easily dis - a fresh enthusiasm and a new Greek American Community and rectly, I have much love for our triarchate, about what is being fact is yet another indication of mantled just because of contex - sacred zeal for the ministry. The at the same time serve the legit - Greek American family and of persistently rumored at present. the worrisome level that our ec - tual difficulties and adversities future belongs to them. imate ecclesiastico-political goals course I miss it a great deal. TNH: At this point, what do clesiastical life has reached. of political character. I continue TNH: What are your the Phanar is striving to achieve TNH: How closely do you fol - you think should be done at the TNH: What course is our to remain optimistic about the thoughts about the so-called with the current system. low the affairs of our Church Chrysovalantou Monastery? Theological School following to - Patriarchate’s future. I remain “para-ecclesial” organizations in TNH: Archbishop Dimitrios is and our Greek American com - SPYRIDON: I am confident day? confident that it will continue to Greece and in this country? already 83 years old. Who do munity? that the Holy Synod of the Pa - SPYRIDON: The course we carry out uninterruptedly its’ sa - SPYRIDON: As the Greek you think will be his successor? SPYRIDON: I continue to fol - triarchate, that is responsible for all knew and know. We are all cred mission where History and term “para-ecclesial” indicates, Could you name one or two can - low closely and with undimin - looking into the issue and has on the lookout for a few signs of the piety of the people have these organizations, despite the didates? ished interest all developments knowledge of all the details, will some type of academic and spir - placed it. fact that they are composed of SPYRIDON: I believe all within the Church of America come up with the proper solu - itual rebirth. We are all kept TNH: Do you have any sug - members of the Church, exist speculations as to who will be and our Greek American Com - tion. waiting. gestions regarding the future of and operate parallel to the the Archbishop’s successor are munity. I rejoice for every step TNH: What do you believe TNH: What do you think the Patriarchate? Church. As independent, they at this moment indecorous and of progress they make and I re - about homosexuality at all levels about the option that Hierarchs SPYRIDON: My suggestion are not incorporated in our indicate a serious lack of respect gret every setback they experi - of the clergy? who serve in dioceses outside cannot differ from all Orthodox Church structures and their ac - for the archiepiscopal institution ence. SPYRIDON: I believe what Turkey, have to acquire Turkish believers’ prayer: that the Patri - tivities are not organically inter - and the person of the current TNH: Do you now view cer - all Orthodox believers across the citizenship? archate, anchored where the woven into the overall mission Archbishop. However, I am cer - tain things differently, 11 years world believe. I believe in what SPYRIDON: I think a lot of centuries have held it, might of the Church. Such organiza - tain there are many candidates after you left the Archepiscopal is written on such matter in the unnecessary fuss is being made continue to send forth its bright tions could perhaps be merged for the Archepiscopal throne, ministry? What things would Holy Scripture, especially in the about a matter that is really in - light like a lighthouse on a high into the Church one day, espe - from America and Europe as you now do differently and what Letters of Paul to the Corinthians significant. I am unable to grasp rock beaten constantly by the cially those known for their well. And perhaps one should be different decisions would you (I) and Timothy (I). I believe in how this issue has acquired such waves of the ocean. unique services, as this has oc - ready for any unexpected devel - have made? what is decreed in the Sacred importance when in fact it is TNH: Do you think the Patri - curred in similar cases in the Ro - opment. SPYRIDON: Every period is Canons of the Church. crystal clear that hierarchs who archate should create a second man Catholic Church. TNH: How do you view the judged on the basis of its own TNH: Would you ordain a no - acquire the Turkish citizenship headquarters, outside Turkey, for TNH: What does Hellenism situation in Greece today? needs and concerns. At that time toriously known homosexual? do not give up their previous na - instance in New York or Wash - mean to you? SPYRIDON: All Greeks, in the priorities were different. The SPYRIDON: According to the tionalities. They simply acquire ington? SPYRIDON: Hellenism is a Greece and abroad, are con - on-going rapid de-Hellenization Canonical Praxis of our Church, an additional citizenship. SPYRIDON: Of course that way of life and thinking. It is a cerned about the financial situ - of our Greek American commu - a documented case of homosex - TNH: If you were the Arch - could be done as well. Perhaps particular reason of pride and a ation in which Greece finds her - nity was a serious problem back uality constitutes an insur - bishop of America today would a second headquarters would particular calling to incarnate self today. I’m afraid though the then. Another great issue was mountable impediment for or - you become a Turkish citizen make certain things easier on a the noblest ideals that the his - consequences of such financial how to keep our Church from dination. just because that suits the Patri - practical level. It could even tory of mankind has brought impoverishment and bankruptcy coming under the influence of TNH: How would you com - archate and will make things serve the nontransparent about. To be Greek today is a will prove to be even more wor - other religious and worldly re - ment on the fact that, since easier for the election of a new schemes of other major players. challenge as well as a responsi - risome. They will certainly have alities. The decisions taken at 2000, the Archdiocese has de - Patriarch when that moment But this would surely be not bility. a painful impact on the promo - that time were consistent with frayed over $18 million in in - comes? the prologue to the end but the TNH: You once had dreams tion of our so-called national is - our concerns and I don’t think demnities to the victims of pe - SPYRIDON: I would do very epilogue of the end. for Greek Education. What were sues. I would like to believe that they could have been different. dophile and homosexual clerics? whatever works to the advan - TNH: Do you think that fi - those dreams? some useful lessons will be TNH: Are there any things SPYRIDON: I can only be tage of the Patriarchate. nally Autocephaly in America SPYRIDON: We all wanted drawn from such a financial de - you regret you did or didn’t do? profoundly grieved by such a can be avoided? and still want our Greek Ameri - cline so that the country can get SPYRIDON: There is no fact. It damages irreparably the SPYRIDON: No such issue can offspring to be bearers of back on its feet as soon as possi - place for regret when, as a re - prestige and credibility of our TNH: Do you feel the Patri - has been brought to the table as the centuries-old message of ble and trace a new course of sponsible church leader, one is Church. archate is slowly dying out? of yet. But even if it were to be Hellenism. For such a purpose, progress and prosperity for it - called to take grave and difficult I also experience intense sor - SPYRIDON: There are many brought I don’t know what the a new educational system would self. Paisios Escapes Punishment, Bishop Ilia Takes Over N.Y. Monastery

Continued from page 1 The Synod insisted that as soon as the newspaper iden - bot of the Monastery His Grace in 1961. He was ordained to the Vikentios should have been tified itself and then refused to Bishop Ilia of Philomelion who priesthood in Boston in 1962 accept his resignation and re - dwelling in the Monastery as a answer further calls. Bishop serves in America where he served at Holy Trinity move him permanently from the member of the Monastic Com - Vikentios told TNH: “No com - • To send a small broth - Albanian Orthodox Church until Monastery. munity and also as its Deputy ment from me, thank you.” erhood of monks in order to as - August 31, 1983. He pursued The National Herald has Abbot. Both Metropolitan The Ecumenical patriarchate sist the work of the Acting Ab - advanced degrees including a learned that although the Patri - Paisios and Bishop Vikentios issued the following official an - bot Masters of Divinity before being archal Exarchy did not find dur - have been instructed by the nouncement: Late in the afternoon on Dec. assigned as Dean of Student Af - ing its investigation impropri - Holy Synod to remain outside “In its deliberations, the Holy 2, during the Synodal meeting, fairs at Hellenic College and eties against Vikentios, the of the United States. Sources and Sacred Synod revisited the the Chief Secretary of the Patri - Holy Cross School of Theology. Synod requested his resignation told TNH that if either of them issue of the Patriarchal and archate Archimandrite Elpi - He remained there until 1988. on the basis that while he knew defies the decision or attempts Stavropegic Monastery of St. dophoros Lampryniadis called He also held the position as about Metropolitan Paisios’ al - to involve themselves in the af - Irene Chrysovalantou in Astoria, Bishop Vikentios in Athens and Vicar General of the Albanian leged doings he did not inform fairs of the Monastery or the New York. After examining the told him that, “The Patriarch Orthodox Church of America the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Church in general and create report of the commissioned Pa - and the Synod are requesting until May 2002. The Synod did not accept Viken - problems, they will be subject triarchal Exarchy, the Holy and your resignation from the posi - The Holy and Sacred Synod tios’ explanation that for the to punishments under Canon Sacred Synod unanimously de - tion of deputy abbot of the of the Ecumenical Patriarchate last12 years he did not dwell in Law. Bishop Vikentios arrived in cided: Monastery” and Bishop Viken - elected Bishop Ilia Katre as Tit - the Monastery. He stayed at the New York on Dec. to gather his • To accept the submit - tios sent his resignation imme - ular Bishop of Philomelion to Archdiocesan Cultural Center in personal belongings and leave ted resignations of the Abbot, diately. lead the Albanian Orthodox Dio - Astoria while he was its Director from the U.S. permanently ac - His Excellency Metropolitan ACTING LEADER Bishop Ilia of Philomelion. cese of American in 2002, fol - for almost nine years and the cording to the decision of the Paisios of Tyana, and of the Bishop Ilia Katre, who is of lowing the passing of his wife, last two or three years he stayed Ecumenical Patriarchate. Deputy Abbot, His Grace Bishop Albanian origin, was born in ated from Hellenic College and Helen. They were married for at the St. Nectarios Dependancy During a phone call placed Vikentios of Apameia, both of Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. He Seminary at Holy Cross Greek 39 years before her death in in Brooklyn pastoring the St. by The National Herald to Met - whom are henceforth to remain mastered both the Greek and Al - Orthodox Theological School in 2001. Bishop Ilia has two chil - Nectarios and St. Nicholas De - ropolitan Paisios at his home in away from America banian languages while still in Brookline, Massachusetts, with dren, Sotir Mark and Eugenia, pendencies. Athens, he hung up the phone • To assign as Acting Ab - high school. Bishop Ilia gradu - a Bachelor in Theology Degree and three grandchildren. Capital Link Forum Promotes More Investment and Confidence in Greece

By Constantine S. Sirigos crisis - by association with ideas ing structural problems and fail - to the dramatic changes in the New York Stock Exchange Group happening in Greece. TNH Staff Writer that seem new for Greece, and ings. He admitted that the gov - globalized economy. He said and the UK-based Euronext in Markos Kaminis, whose Wall with sounder practices and ernment has taken unpopular and Greece must “seize the day,” and 2007, noted that after the UK, Street Greek blog follows Greek NEW YORK – For about a year, steady reports of progress. grave measures and that crucial noted that Parliament has already Greece has the largest number of developments showed some con - since the disclosure of the depth The Forum was divided into reforms are taking place. He taken action with crucial legisla - companies listed on the NYSE cern however, noting that the of Greek economic problems, the morning and afternoon sessions added, however, “Greece needs tion that has been passed, includ - and said Greece is an important austerity measures may be chok - Papandreou Administration has with panels focusing on the re - a vision for growth based on its ing Fast Track legislation for for - part of NYSE’s global strategy, ing off growth that Greece needs been banging the drum announc - form program and status reports traditional strengths and compet - eign direct investment. He said which was indicated by the par - for its salvation, and hoping the ing a new Greece, but the ques - on specific sectors and industries. itive advantages and will need to more legislation is pending that ticipation of the guests of the Fo - IMF will not exert more fiscal tion in the air at the 12th annual The morning began with opening continue to build relationships aims to cut through red tape and rum in the NYSE’s closing bell pressure, though he agrees that Capital Link Investor Forum – remarks by Vassilis Kaskarelis, with sovereign investment funds to simplify procedures for making ceremony on Dec. 3. the reforms have been necessary. Greece, at Manhattan’s swanky Greek Ambassador to the U.S. and other large investors. investments and establishing new Attorney John Stratakis, Chair - The experience of attorney Metropolitan club on Dec. 3 was: and Daniel Speckhard, the former Greek Minister of State Haris businesses and increase private man of the Hellenic American William Kambas of Withers can Greece get investors to dance U.S. Ambassador to Greece. Pamboukis called the forum “a employment, promote innova - Chamber of Commerce said he Bergman was a good example of to this new beat? Not yet, appar - Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, point of reference for the Greek tion and support sustainable de - was not concerned about the bad the value of the Forum. He had ently, but the measures Greece Executive Director of the Euro - economy and for the identifica - velopment. publicity of the past year, telling good conversations with attor - has been taking may be getting pean American Chamber of Com - tion of opportunities. Greece is There are also include TNH that the phrase “all publicity neys who play a role in foreign their attention. That is the pur - merce, said she was surprised that finally facing its challenges“and stronger economic ties with is good publicity” applies even to investment and deal-making, pose and value of efforts like Cap - some of the presentations were is committed to changing its busi - countries such as China and Greece. He joined others who hedge fund representatives and ital Link and its President not as upbeat as she expected. ness environment and to revers - Qatar and initiatives with Israel noted that if the news from here investment bankers. He found Nicholas Bornozis. The theme of The guests were welcomed by ing the attitudes of investors to - and India. The bright spots con - on is good, Greece will even ben - there was a good mix of Greeks the Forum was Reforming Bornozis who said 1000 people wards Greece,” he said. He also tinue to be tourism and shipping, efit from the criticism by having and non-Greeks. He said he at - Greece: Opportunities and Chal - registered. Chris Vassiliades, City pointed out that Greece’s “banks and renewable energy is the sec - been placed on the radar of in - tended because he is looking to lenges, and at the very least, the Country Officer for Greece, spoke are not broken” and that they will tor that may have the most po - vestors, though Bornozis told expand his practice in Greece, Greek government must hope it and acknowledged that while assist in the Greek recovery. Pam - tential. Dominique Cerutti, Pres - TNH the challenge is to turn cu - and had a good exchange with is gaining some credibility among Greece was hit hard by the global boukis noted that Greece was not ident and Deputy CEO of NYSE riosity into action by providing the owner of with an established financiers – who were wary of financial crisis of 2008, the effect alone in making the mistake of Euronext, the conglomerate of fi - investors with a steady supply of company who wants to open an Greece long before the current was multiplied by its longstand - not responding quickly enough nancial exchanges formed by the quality information about what is office in the U.S. THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 11-17, 2010 ARTS &CULTURE 7

ALL HISTORY George Regas, Man of Movie Disguise, Was Hard to Recognize

By Steve Frangos in any. Whatever research may and marry the girl. TNH Staff Writer report it is clear that once The To prevent all these com - Love Light was released on Jan. mendable plans, the picturesque By 1940, George Regas was 9, 1921, Regas was forever after Savanis plants a pair of his own a veteran stage and film actor an established fixture in Holly - hirelings on the boat. They tam - who had toured Greece and the wood. per with the diving apparatus, Mediterranean long before he A FAMILIAR FACE cut the anchor chain, fiddle made Hollywood his permanent Regas was known or recog - around in the engine room and home. Greek-Americans knew nized as a Greek by the vast ma - even work up a bit of insubor - of their patrioti and avidly fol - jority of Greek-Americans. In the dination among the crew. “But lowed his film career. Nonethe - early 1920’s, much talk was one can’t stop a lad when virtue less this much-respected actor given to patents and who owned and the dialogue writer are on has slipped from the pages of films or filmed events. This led his side. Regas makes the villain Greek-American history. A better to long and complicated legal not only black-hearted, but al - understanding of Regas’ life can battles with the real possibility most human, and that is a feat,” aid in understanding the actual that a single monopoly - or as it the New York Times reported on public standing of Greeks during was known during this time, a Jan. 19, 1934. This image of the 1920’s to 1940’s. While Re - film trust’ - would own and pro - Greek sponge divers in Florida gas, in his over 100 screen ap - duce all Hollywood films. Here continued in 1948, with the film pearances, performed as the is one such news account, point - 16 Fathoms Deep. Here Lloyd leading man on more than one ing to the end of these lengthy Bridges is the hero and occasion and more often than legal battles. “The chances of Creighton Chaney (now calling that as the principle villain, he there ever being a motion pic - himself Lon Chaney Jr.) is the is today best known for playing ture trust become fewer and bad guy, in essentially, the very supporting roles. An added twist grow slimmer everyday. Frank same Romeo and Juliet among to Regas’ roles was that he pre - E. Woods and Thompson the sponge divers plot. It is only dominately assumed the role of Buchanan have withdrawn from in 1953, with the film ‘Beneath “The Native” in the widest pos - the Paramount organization to the Twelve Mile Reef with sible sense of that term acting devote all their time to their Robert Wagner, as the hero, and as an Arab, Latino, Native Amer - own independent productions” Gilbert Roland playing his Greek ican (and/or half-breed,) Pacific … and after mention of other father that Hollywood finally in - Islander, Italian gangster and such ventures we learn … “And troduces some actual ethnic even a Greek. Regas certainly last but by no means least Greek elements into the film. did not always play the villain George Regas, the celebrated Remastered DVDs of any or sneering henchman although An image from the 1940 film Virginia City with the actors (L-R) Moroni Olsen; John Murrel Grecian star, will abandon his number of Hollywood films in film buffs today cite most fre - (rear in cowboy hat;) Humphrey Bogart, Randolph Scott and George Regas, holding the lamp. dramatic work in behalf of the which Regas appears can be eas - quently those portrayals. He biggest producing companies to ily ordered. Among these films also appeared as the police or coming to the United States. Re - Talking Pictures: Redskin, The language production? Pickford head his own unit, which it is are his first silent film success, army lieutenant, fearless pilot, gas claimed that his stage career Wolf Song, Sea Fury, and Ac - immediately hired Regas to ap - rumored, will have the financial The Love Light (1921); as well Indian chief, Hindu in Greece included roles in Re - quitted. How did an American pear in her film The Love Light, backing of about 5000 well-to- as Battling With Buffalo Bill chief/emir/or khan leader, and demption and Ghosts. During audience respond to Regas in as the character Tony. Such was do Greek-Americans, who are (1931) as the leering Breed’ high priest. his tour of North America, Regas these early silent films? As one Regas’ success in this film that proud of their fellow country - Johns or the principal villain Regas is one of less than a reprised his role of Romeo (in a news account reports, “George he was offered the lead role in man’s histrionic triumphs on the Boniface in the Nelson Eddy (as dozen Greek-born actors to ap - Greek-language theatrical pre - Regas, a Greek actor, did so well The Besetting Sin. But, mysteri - screen. the fearless Mountie) and pear in Hollywood films from sentation), which opened to no - in The Wanderer that Para - ously, no record of the film ex - While it is an established fact Jeanette MacDonald (the daring the silent era into the glory table reviews in New York City mount has persuaded him to ists so it may have been of history that a sizable consor - opera singer looking for her years of American cinema. Cu - before traveling across the na - sign on the dotted line.” Most planned, with Regas in the lead, tium of Greek immigrant movie dare-do-well brother in the riously, among students of film, tion. documentation today but never produced. theater owners and stock hold - Canadian wilderness) adventure Regas, for various reasons, is a SILENT PICTURES cites that Mary Pickford There is another contradic - ers backed the involvement of musical Rose Marie (1936); or very well known individual. He Regas appeared in 10 silent (1893-1979,) at the very height tion in the available news ac - Spyros Skouras (and his broth - in his last role as Sergeant Gon - was born Yorgios Regaskos in movies: The Love Light (1921); of her career as the reigning fe - counts of 1921. We hear that ers) at Twentieth Century Fox, zales in ‘The Mark of Zorro’ the village of Goranoi, near The Dangerous Moment (1921); male star of Hollywood, saw Re - Regas “appeared in pictures for Regas’s earlier efforts to estab - Sparta, on Nov. 9, 1890. From Omar the Tentmaker (1922); gas’ stage work and thought he several years without obtaining lish an independent production Regas was much his early youth, Regas appeared The Rip-Tide (1923); Fashion - would be just as good in feature the recognition his talent de - company are still to be investi - in a touring repertoire company able Fakers (1923); The Wan - films. Which theatrical produc - served until he played with gated, yet it is still clear that Re - respected in Hollywood managed by his father. Regas derer (1925); That Royle Girl tion Pickford attended is never Mary Pickford.” Regas’ first film gas was a known actor and fel - which acknowledged him eventually played Romeo in a (1925); Desert Gold (1926); mentioned. This is a key point role was in La Boheme. While low Greek to a sizable number Greek production of Shake - Beau Geste (1926); and The since Regas is not credited with several films, in a number of of Greeks in North America. as an authority speare’s classic. Later Regas was Rescue (1929). Regas’ appear - any stage work, in English, until countries, were made with the HOLLYWOOD REGULAR on Greek drama chosen for the titular part in Son ance in four other films in 1929 1937. Did Pickford, known the title La Boheme during the late Given that Regas appeared of a Shadow, and toured the were all in the new technologi - world over as America’s Sweet - 1900’s and early 1920’s, Regas in more than 100 films, with (1940.) Given the sheer number Mediterranean countries before cal format of sound or so-called heart, go to see Regas in a Greek receives no credit for appearing many uncredited roles, poses of Hollywood films in which Re - some difficulties in any survey gas appeared there are literally of his career. First, clearly Regas dozens and dozens of other such was not afraid to work, no mat - films available. ter how big or small the role. A PRIVATE SIDE GREEK POETRY Ten roles or more a year were Little is publicly known of common, and given that many Regas’ private life. Regas’ Flaskis, and Konstantopoulos - here today, tonight elsewhere deeper yet into Kastoria, were in the uncredited category younger brother Panagiotis Re - Deathfeast no one knows in which church murderers, narks, thieves and a black pestilence on the map, it may yet prove to be the case gaskos came to Hollywood and they were laid to rest, in fornicators, soldiers, Greece's breath rasping - that, on average, he appeared also became a hardworking Tears scorched me as I wrote what ground buried. policemen, householders and we held a count that Easter in de - in a movie every other month character actor under the name alone, what was I, speaking Then I helped him climb out, he'd shopkeepers serted Kozani, over his 19 years as a Holly - Pedro Regas (1882-1974.) like this with fallen backwards in the and many others riding on time's how many stayed on high, how wood actor. Not every role, These men are often confused year upon year quickening the ditch, and as I held him he died back and amongst them many travelled on credited or not, was notable al - in the Hollywood literature so lost faces, and from the in my arms, and the next ruin's daughters stepped out, stone, branch and hill, though Regas has had more cin - care must be taken when re - windows came month his wife smelling of grass, hunger and fever, put up down the dark river. ematic impact than one might searching their careers. Regas glory, dull golden light, benches at noon deep in the against the wall, an ill wind assume. married Reine Davies, a former and tables all about and garden telling her how he died, blew. And there came Prosoras came holding his broken Certainly among Regas’ most vaudeville singer and actress windows mirroring the under - the full dark body rifle, recognized film roles are his por - and was, by all accounts, a world. And they came whimpered on my chest, at night Fanni and Litsa sweet-apple Alafouzos, and Bakrisioris, and trayals of the noble Black Eagle steadfast stepfather to her two dismounting one after the other, the forests would glow trees, Dona came and Nana, Zervos in Daniel Boone (1936); the di - children Charles and Josephine Porporas came and Kontaxis, and the roots would glow, for slim as the wheat, Eleni's maid - approached the gathering. Look, abolical Bokor in Mr. Moto Takes Lederer. Regas was much re - and Markos, and Gerasimos, years and years the voice enhair still green, I shouted, and we a Chance (1938); or the valiant spected in Hollywood which ac - dark hoarfrost on the horses and persisted and. laurels, myrtles, wild vines looked: Sgt. Garcia in The Legion of knowledged him as an authority the day slanting down small lost rivers. a flood of light, the fruitful sun a Missing Men (1937). Regas’ role on Greek drama and that he has through quiescent air, Bilias Moon, moonlight, close days, monument as the Thug Chieftain, in Gunga had several books published on came and Gournas, winter building itself a tower And one morning, to the obscure dead. The years Din (1939) is said, by many its history and technique. Regas gypsies imprinted on the dusk, of stone, sunless and hard, I that morning when I woke the have passed, I told them, sources, to have directly inspired died on Dec. 13, 1940, of a and Fakalos, carrying heard the first knock and the tree had turned all green, our hair's turned grey. Steven Spielberg. The Thuggee heart attack following an oper - mandolins, flutes, guitars, next, at dawn they smashed open I loved it so much that it rose to Tzepetis came, and Zafoglou and leader in Indiana Jones and the ation for a throat infection. He the soul leapt at the sound, the the doors and dragged the sky. Markoutsas Temple of Doom is credited as was entombed, at Hollywood house smelt everywhere us out breathless, "wait here", And there came birds, birds of they settled themselves on the being based directly on Regas’. Forever Cemetery in the Abbey of rain and wood, and when, and so much light was dawning. sunlight and joy, filling the bench What of Regas’ film successes of the Palms Mausoleum (Sanc - only when they'd lit a great blaze place with colours and feathers, while Konstantinos nursed his playing as a Greek? We need tuary of the Refuge) Crypt 720. to warm themselves, There came old men and chil - perwits and felderels and foot at the far end. only read: “The action melo - So far apparently, no study has then only did I call to them. dren. other such fantastic species, skim - drama, although it rarely pops yet examined the lives of those mers and calicocks and The voices gradually grew calm. its shaggy head into the com - Greek immigrants, from the There came Sarris, and How could they survive in such morrowdims, and paratively effete Broadway area, 1890 to 1920 wave of arrivals, Tsakonas, ragged clothes, Gradually, as they had come, has a place of its own among who became notable national Farmakis, Toregas, and how could the children grow up gifts of the Lord, merry birds, they vanished, the cinema delights. Sixteen figures. As researchers from Face pox-scarred, bitter, clawed in such horror? constant slashes in the blue slipped down the valley, scatter - Fathoms Deep, which achieved other ethnic groups fall over the ground with his nails The old ones creaking, taller than sky. And among them came ing in the wind. that accolade at the Mayfair yes - themselves to research the lives by the castle at Akova, he bled, their bodies. terday, is a good swaggering and careers of prominent his - babbled of torture and And the children, Yannis Makris, Petros Kallinikos, For the last time I watched them, specimen, exciting, plausible toric individuals from their cul - debauchery, so dark was he that clutching the axe, the knife, the Yannis the lame. called to them. and a lot of fun. Mr. Savanis, an tural backgrounds, Greeks in the I became afraid, ran hatchet oily rascal who makes the fish - United States continue to ignore stumbling off down the hill. contempt and menace in their We sat on the embankment, The fire sank to the ground and ermen toil and sweat, rates a theirs. It is as if Greeks, in their eyes, nor did they speak. Rouskas took out his pocket-knife from the windows came - punch in the nose on half a drive and endless desire to ad - We took the low road, ashes and cut down the young grass. dozen counts. Sixteen fathoms vance in the world, cannot ac - everywhere, iron, burnt earth, Ditches, wastelands, mothers in How just a single star can make down in the sponge beds is a knowledge the success of other a black X painted on the doors black wailing, whom did And mist over the plain. And you night navigable. long way when Mr. Savanis has Greeks. Even when rediscover - and you knew death had you kill, whom did you kill, how could hear spring poured sand into the gears of ing this shared past can only passed this way, days and nights many have we killed? coming, a door whose wood How in the empty church is the the oxygen machine … the belle add to a fuller more authentic with the machine guns smelt of the sky. unknown dead anointed of the fishing village, Sally history of the activities, accom - reaping and you would hear oh! So much blood and Loukas' his body laid to rest among the O’Neil … is also coveted by Mr. plishments and non-Greek opin - and nothing more. And many hands, and others severed at Then came the days of forty-four flowers. Savanis.” Most of the story de - ions held of our ancestors and came. Before them came Tzannis, the wrist, we'd find them in the and the days of forty-eight. scribes his efforts to get a good community in general. Eleminoglou, Paparizos, gully after months on the And from the Morea up to Takis Sinopoulos haul of sponges for the auction, followed by Lazarithis, and move, Larissa Translated by John Stathatos so that he can buy his own boat [email protected]

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DEATHS n AlvANOS, STAvROUlA n GEORGACAKES, DEAN vice were held at Peterson & Philip Valos, Nicholas Valos, cember 2. Constantin was born SPRINGFIELD, Mass. The Re - GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The n KOSMANOPOUlOS, Patch Funeral Home, 408 N. Tommy Felactu, Tom Drulias, in Matesi, Ileias, Greece on No - public reported that Stavroula Grand Rapids Press reported EFTERPi Sheridan Rd., Waukegan. Fu - and Greg Hanson. Honorary Pall - vember 15, 1936 and immi - "Stella" (Portoglou) Alvanos, 65, that Dean Georgacakes, 83, FLINT, MI – The Flint Journal neral services were held at St. bearers included, Jim Vlamis, grated to Calgary, Alberta in a longtime resident of Spring - passed away peacefully in his reported that Efterpi Kosman - Demetrios Greek Orthodox Mike Huston, Richard Lemucchi, 1966. Soon after, he met and field was called safely home on sleep at Blodgett Hospital on opoulos, 80, passed away peace - Church with Father Cosmas Dr. Peter Plessas, Greg Pierucci, married his bride and they be - Saturday, December 4, 2010. December 1 surrounded by fam - fully on November 27 at her res - Halekakis officiating. George Valos, Harry Chicklenis, gan their lives and raised their She passed into Eternal Life ily. He was born in Grand Rapids idence. Efterpi was a member Tom Savage, Don Galey, Jerry family together. He will be re - from Mercy Medical Center in at Butterworth Hospital on April of Assumption Greek Orthodox n SPiRiDAKiS, GEORGiA Reynolds and Frank Pierucci. membered for his strength of Springfield surrounded by the 1, 1927 to John and Nicoletta Church. She was preceded in NEEDHAM, Mass. - The Need - The family would like to thank body and fullness of heart. Con - care and comfort of her loving Georgacakes, both immigrants death by her beloved husband, ham Times reported Georgia Dr. William Baker and Molly stantin was predeceased by his family and her wonderful care - from Tripoli, Greece. He married Panagiotis in 1998 and her par - Spiridakis, 93, passed away on Waite, PAC-C. The family would parents and his sister. He is sur - givers. She was born in Agia Angeline Paulos on September ents, Kyriakos and Aspasia Paiou November 11 while under the also like to extend their appreci - vived by his beloved wife of 43 Paraskevi Mytilini, Greece on 12, 1948. Dean served in Korea She is survived by her children, compassionate hospice care of ation to the staff of Mercy South - years, Panayiota; his children, January 13, 1945, a beloved and was honorably discharged Aspasia (Yanni) Mavrikos, Chris - the Stanley R. Tippet Home in west Hospital, Calloway Gar - Euyenia (Dave) Nyenhuis, daughter of the late Niko and from the Army in December of tos (Kelly) Kosmanopoulos and Needham. She was born in the dens, Hoffmann Hospice, and a Panayiotis Zolotas, Nikolitsa Maria (Fanara) Portoglou. She 1946. He began his work career Gus (Barbara) Kosmanopoulos; town of Katsifargiana, Chania, very caring nephew, Harry Chick - (Ryan) Kvisle and Tracy Cross; was raised and schooled in at Lear Inc. in Grand Rapids and her grandchildren, Mike (Toni), Crete. She was the daughter of lenis, who was always with his his grandchildren Marika Greece and in 1966 at the age eventually became a restaura - Paul, Angelina, Christina, Gage, Nikolaos and Konstantinia uncle during the good times and Rachel, Joshua Kosta, Elena of 18, she came to the United teur who owned and operated Jimmy, Lily and Patrick; her Drakakis. Upon completing the also in his time of need. Funeral Kristina and Kassandra States from Mytilini with her several restaurants throughout great-grandchild, Journee; her High School of Vamos, Crete, services and a Trisagion prayer Panayiota; and his brothers and husband and daughter and set - his life, his last being Deans' sister, Vaso Babanika; and many she married and immigrated to service were held at St. George many beloved nieces and tled in Springfield, Massachu - Cafe on 28th Street in Grand nieces and nephews. Funeral the United States as a young Greek Orthodox Church with Fa - nephews. Funeral services and setts. Stavroula was employed Rapids. He was an active life - services were held at the As - bride. She resided with her hus - ther Joseph Chaffee officiating. a Trisagion prayer service were as a seamstress and worked at long member of Holy Trinity sumption Greek Orthodox band John and their children, In lieu of flowers, donations may held at St. Demetrios Greek Or - the former Bobbi Fashions in Greek Orthodox Church and Church with Father Angelo Mag - first in the Washington Heights be made to St. George Orthodox thodox Church with the Very Springfield until that company’s joyfully sang in the choir for gos officiating. In lieu of flow - section of Manhattan and later Church (Nick G. Valos Memorial Rev. Dimitrios Rougas officiat - closing and then worked at over 65 years. During his retire - ers, contributions may be made in Sunnyside, Queens in New Fund) or Alzheimer's Disease As - ing. Photos, memories and con - Fleming's in Chicopee until she ment years he especially en - to the Assumption Greek Ortho - York. She worked for many sociation of Kern County, 5500 dolences may be forwarded to retired in 1994. She was a lov - joyed the church Tuesday dox Church. Your condolences years in the garment industry, Olive Dr., 393-8871. Doughty- the family through: www.evan - ing wife, mother, mother-in-law, Group. He also enjoyed playing may be shared with the family while raising a family and tend - Calhoun-O'Meara is in charge of jstrong.com. Donations in mem - grandmother, sister, sister-in- cards and traveling. He was pre - at: swartzfuneralhomeinc.com. ing to the needs of relatives she arrangements. For further infor - ory of Constantin may be made law, aunt and friend. She ceded in death by his sister, brought from Greece. She and mation, visit: to the Alberta Cancer Founda - adored her family and showered Sophia Merkouris and his son- n lOUZiOTiS, MiCHAEl her husband were active in the www.bakersfield.com/obits. tion, c/o Tom Baker Cancer them with her love and affection in-law, David A. Lemmink. Dean SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Cretan Society of New York and Centre, 1331 - 29 Street N.W., which was returned to her a is survived by his loving wife of Salt Lake Tribune reported that the parishes of St. Spyridon and n ZOlOTAS, CONSTANTiN Calgary, T2N 4N2 or at: thousand fold. She truly enjoyed 62 years, Angeline; his children, Michael F. Louziotis, 73, passed St. Constantine. She was an ex - CALGARY, Alberta, Canada - www.albertacancer.ca/memor - being a homemaker for her fam - John George, Paul (Cheryl) away peacefully on November cellent cook and enjoyed telling The Calgary Herald reported ial. Arrangements in care of ily. She loved to cook her fa - Georgacakes and Connie Lem - 30 in Salt Lake City. He was stories drawn from life that that Constantin Zolotas, 74, Evan J. Strong Funeral Services, vorite Greek foods which she mink; his grandchildren, Chris - born on February 26, 1937 in were intended to illustrate a passed away peacefully on De - (403) 265-1199. enjoyed sharing with her family, tine (Tom) Verlin, Nicholas Patras, Greece to Fotis and useful truth or a moral principle. friends and co-workers. During (Christine) Georgacakes, Timo - Goldie Louziotis. He married With her wit, humor, affection - her quiet times at home, she and thy (Austin) Georgacakes, Artie Kamilakis on March 4, ate ways, and engaging person - CLASSIFIEDS her husband enjoyed cultivating Charles Lemmink, Angela Lem - 1962. Michael enjoyed sports, ality, she became an instant their beautiful flower garden mink, Elisabeth, John Lemmink, especially soccer. He was pre - friend to many. She was prede - which was enjoyed by their fam - Christina (Justin) Herpol - ceded in death by his parents ceased by her beloved husband, ily and their neighbors. 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(718) 858-4434 rest at Oak Grove Cemetery, 426 was a faithful steward of An - and Costas; his children, Nina member of one of the original • (800) 245-4872 Bay Street in Springfield. For nunciation Greek Orthodox and George; and his grandson, pioneer Greek families in Bak - those who prefer, Stavroula’s Cathedral for 60 years. Each Dimitri. The family would like ersfield passed away peacefully. family suggests that their year she looked forward to help - to thank Dr. Thomas Tan and Nick was born on September 20, tO PlAce yOur clASSiFieD AD, cAll: (718) 784-5255, memorial donations may be ing in preparing food for the his staff at the Woodlands for 1922 in East Bakersfield to one eXt. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com made in her memory to Saint Greek Festival. Nothing brought providing such compassionate of the first Greek immigrant fam - George Greek Orthodox Cathe - her more joy than to cook for care. Visitation and a Trisagion ilies to reside in Bakersfield. He dral Building Fund, 22 St. her family, friends and those in prayer service were held at the was one of the seven children REAl ESTATE George Road, Springfield, MA need. Haido was preceded in Waters and Hibbert Funeral born to Tom Valos, from Messe - 01104. death by her devoted husband, Home. Funeral services were nia, Greece and Irene Caotusses, George Michael Grivon; her par - held at the Annunciation Greek from Leos, Greece. He was one n GEANOS, FAYE ents, Evangelia and Nikolaos Orthodox Church with Rev. Pe - of the first draftees of Kern LORAIN, Ohio - The Morning Dislianis; and her brother, Yan - ter Papanikolaou officiating. In County and served in the United Journal reported that Faye nis Dislianis. She is survived by lieu of flowers, memorial con - States Air Corp. While working Geanos, 94, passed away on De - her children, Evelyn (John) tributions may be made to the for Fred Pinetta, delivering chick - cember 2 at EMH Regional Med - Hritcko, Frances (George) Had - Greek Orthodox Church. Waters ens, he met the love of his life, ical Center. She was born in Ti - jigeorge and Michael (Marlene) & Hibbert Funeral Home is in Mary Karastathis from Fresno, tani-Corinth, Greece on Grivon; her adored grandchil - charge of arrangements. who became his wife of sixty- November 16, 1916 and lived dren, Nicole Grivon, George four years. During his business in Elyria until 1948. She was a (Maria) Hritcko, George n PATTERSON, GEORGE career, he and his brother, John, homemaker and a member of Michael Grivon, John David AURORA, Ill. - The News Sun started Valos Brothers Poultry. PRINTED EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HERALD St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Hritcko, Nicholas Hadjigeorge reported that George William During this course of time Nick viA THE POST-OFFiCE: Church in Lorain, Ohio and was and Alex Grivon; her siblings, Patterson, beloved owner and along with his brothers John and o1 month $11.00 o3 months $22.00 also a member of the Philopto - Vasilis Dislianis, Iraklis Dislianis operator of Louie's Restaurant George opened up a restaurant o6 months $33.00 oOne year $66.00 chos Society. Mrs. Geanos was and Anastasia Stoikou; and nu - in Waukegan, passed away sud - and bar known as Valos Chicken viA HOME DElivERY (NY, NJ & CT): preceded in death by her merous nieces and nephews. denly on November 29. George House. Additionally, Nick was o1 month for $14.00 o3 months for $33.00 beloved husband, George Visitation and a Trisagion prayer was born on March 19, 1923 in very instrumental in serving the o6 months for $48.00 oOne year for $88.00 Geanos in 1976. She is survived service were held at the Jasek Gargaliani, Greece, the youngest St. George Greek Orthodox by her sons, John (Eileen) Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons. son of William and Helen Pat - Church. From the icemaker in viA HOME DElivERY Geanos and Paul W. Geanos; six Funeral services were held at terson. George immigrated to the Green Hall to the pews in the (New England, Pennsylvania, grandchildren; nineteen great the Annunciation Greek Ortho - the United States at the age of church and all repairs in-be - Washington D.C., viRGiNiA & MARYlAND) grandchildren; and five great dox Cathedral, 3511 Yoakum 14 and learned English while at - tween, Nick was always there to o1 month for $18.00 o3 months for $41.00 great-grandchildren. Visitation Boulevard in Houston. In lieu tending Waukegan schools. He fix anything and everything that o6 months for $57.00 oOne year for $109.00 and a Trisagion prayer service of customary remembrances, had a determined, strong work needed to be repaired. Nick was ON liNE SUBSCRiPTiON were held at the Reichlin the family requests that memo - ethic and studied at Northwest - also a member and served as e www.thenationalherald.com Roberts Funeral Home. Funeral rials be directed to Hellenic Col - ern University. He proudly president of the East Bakersfield nOn SubScriberS: oOne year for $45.95 services were held at the St. lege/Holy Cross, 50 Goddard served during the Korean War, Exchange Club and East Bakers - o6 months for $29.95 Nicholas Greek Orthodox Avenue, Brookline, Massachu - then came back to Waukegan field Progressive Club. He also 3 months for $18.95 Church with the Reverend Fa - setts, 02445. and earned an accounting de - belonged to the Elks, American o

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Onassis Cultural Center Celebrates Opening in Greece The President of the Republic of Greece, Karolos Papoulias, was present for the rise of the pletion of the impressive new building on Sygrou Street. The structure’s exterior is graced with newest star in Athens’ cultural heavens, the Onassis Cultural Center of the Onassis Public modern sculpture (top left), as is the lobby (bottom left). The president of the Onassis Founda - Benefit Foundation. The stellar event, attended by government ministers, diplomats and leading tion, Antonis Papadimitriou, appears with Greek Minister of Culture Pavlos Geroulanos (top cultural and academic figures was dedicated to those who worked for the creation and com - right) and with Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and Theodore Angelopoulos (bottom right). Greece Denies Deal Made To Give Up Marbles Claim

Continued from page 1 the richest permanent displays While there was no response united with the rest of itself … Greece didn’t have a suitable in Western Europe of sculpture, from Greece apart from the if we agree with the Code of home for the sculptures. The Curiously, Geroulanos him - carvings and art from ancient press release, there were more Ethics of the International Coun - new 20,000-square-meter mu - self did not address the report, Greece.” passionate demands from oth - cil of Museums, ownership of seum is near the base of the but his office issued the state - Elgin with the permission of ers, including Australians and material culture, which is the Acropolis and gives visitors a ment denying it was giving up the Sultan of the Ottoman Em - British, who support the Greek result of a transaction with an view of the Parthenon as well. the claim to what Greece calls pire, which then ruled Greece, claim. “Today I call upon the occupying force, in itself is ques - The British Committee for the Parthenon Marbles and shipped to London after the British Museum to conduct itself tionable and unethical.” The the Reunification of the what the British call the Elgin British Parliament agreed to buy as a museum, a contemporary Australian Minister is a member Parthenon Marbles has long Marbles, named after the diplo - them. Greece regards them as museum, and not as some colo - of the government, which has maintained the marbles belong mat who stole them. The Times having been looted, the news - nial power clinging to a prized consistently supported Greek ef - to Greece and part of their man - that “Greece was trying to break paper said. trophy,” Virginia Judge, Minister forts to take back the Parthenon ifesto states that, “The decades of stalemate with The marbles have remained for Arts in New South Wales, Marbles. Parthenon is the most important Britain over the Elgin Marbles in London’s British Museum Australia said. The marbles are a 160-meter symbol of Greek cultural her - by dropping its long-standing ever since and the museum’s cu - Her speech was attended by long strip of marble that itage and according to the dec - claim to ownership of the sculp - rators said in a statement that David Hill, the President of the adorned the Parthenon until laration of universal human and tures in return for the British no new approach had been Committee for the Reunification 1801, before being removed and cultural rights the Greek State Museum sending the Acropolis made, and there was no reason of the Parthenon Marbles. The stolen by Elgin. The sculptures has a duty to preserve its cul - artifacts back to Athens on a to suppose the trustees would Minister added: include depictions of religious tural heritage in its totality, both long-term loan.” The report said change their view that the sculp - “I do not ask the British Mu - and mythological scenes. Greece for its citizens and for the inter - that Greece, in return, would of - tures must stay in the museum, seum to return a vase or some built a $160 million New Acrop - national community. Therefore fer the British Museum some of the Times said. The Parthenon, statue with a missing limb. I ask olis Museum which was de - the request for the reunification eurOkiniSSi its best classical artworks, a temple dedicated to the Greek the British Museum to return signed to be a new home for the of the sculptural elements of the Greek Culture and Tourism "changing the exhibition every goddess Athena, was completed half the Parthenon; return it to Marbles and Greek officials the Parthenon is ipso facto a rightful Minister Pavlos Geroulanos few years to give London one of in 438 B.C. Greece so that it may be re - British could no longer say if not a legitimate request.” Anniversary of Riots, Austerity, Brings Protests, Students in the Streets

Continued from page 1 garbage collectors strike that nancial Times reported. The claimed responsibility for failed created a backlog to be picked clashes erupted after a march to parcel bombings. Two suspects fic and a civil servants’ union up, and protesters pelted police parliament by the protesters were arrested who admitted to called a three-hour strike, and with rocks and petrol bombs as that had been organized by left - being members of the group, ac - two days later all public trans - violence escalated throughout wing political parties. There had cording to police. Most of the 14 portation in the city stopped for the anniversary of the shooting. been sporadic bursts of stone packages found were sent by 24 hours, leaving Greeks to get About 100 protesters were ar - throwing during the day after a courier to European embassies around the city as best they rested, according to Greek me - march by students and teachers, in Athens. One reached the office could. A demonstration also dia. “There are many school kids but the extent of the late-night of Angela Merkel, German chan - took place in the northern city taking part in these protests, not violence appeared to have taken cellor, in Berlin, while another of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second just students and extremists,” police by surprise. was addressed to Nicolas largest. one witness outside the Athens TERROR ARRESTS Sarkozy, French president. Adding to the chaos, protest - polytechnic where riot police The heightened security IMF TOUGH TALK ers set fire to piles of rubbish were firing teargas to disperse showed the socialist govern - The protests came the day left uncollected by a previous a large crowd of youths, The Fi - ment’s determination to prevent before Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a repetition of prolonged street Director General of the Interna - violence in central Athens during tional Monetary Fund, which, 2008 that undermined its con - with the European Union, has servative predecessor’s grip on lent Greece $146 billion to stay power. Student and anarchist solvent but demanded harsh groups took over university austerity measures came to buildings in the city centre – tra - Athens to check on the status of ditionally off-limits to police – as reforms and meet political lead - a base for two weeks of violent ers. In a briefing with the Greek demonstrations following the Parliament’s Economy Commit - teenager’s death. Christos Pa - tee, he considered the possibility poutsis, citizens’ protection min - of the extension of the loan’s re - ister, made it clear the Socialists payment time without new were taking a tougher approach terms as being a foregone con - to street protests. He said in a clusion, but stressed the need newspaper interview that, “We for structural reforms with have to protect freedom of ex - salary and pension cuts since, pression . . . but when violence as he said, there is no other way becomes a political practice, it is for productivity to be balanced. AP PHOtO/AlkiS kOnStAntiniDiS bound to provoke a harsher Strauss-Kahn pointed out Protester attacks a riot police officer during a rally in Athens stance by the state authorities.” that although achieving the tar - on Dec. 6, 2010. Youths hurled rocks and oranges. Earlier that day six suspected get of fiscal restructuring is dif - members of a terrorist group ap - ficult, there are many sectors in degree of justice that it will in - “still broadly on track” but said peared before an Athens prose - which expenditure cutbacks can spire in the people and com - the government should acceler - cutor following the discovery of take place and appeared con - menting on the protests against ate restructuring of loss making explosives and weapons – includ - vinced that if the measures pro - the measures noted that “if I public sector enterprises and the ing handguns, grenades and au - posed by the IMF are imple - were a Greek I might also be in healthcare system. tomatic weapons – in a flat in mented without deviations then the streets.” He further said, “All Revenues are falling behind, the city centre. Greece’s anti-ter - the program will succeed, the must realize the situation and with the finance ministry scram - AP PHOtO/AlkiS kOnStAntiniDiS rorist unit was examining Athens News Agency reported. each to assume his own share bling to raise an extra $8 billion A protester throws a stone as a kiosk burns during a student weapons from similar caches He claimed that Greece had of responsibility,” adding that this month. The government has protest to mark two years since the fatal police shooting of a found in several Athens suburbs no other choice since, as he said, “you must show that in this na - launched a 100-day drive to teenage boy that sparked Greece's worst riots in decades, in and in the western town of “in May when it resorted to the tional effort all are participat - catch up with legislation and central Athens on Dec. 6, 2010. Police closed roads and deployed Agrinion, police said. Last IMF it was on the cliff’s edge” ing.” The IMF declared last implementation of reforms be - several thousand officers around the city, amid event to com - month, a leftwing group known and stressed that the success of month that Greece’s fiscal and fore the next EU-IMF monitor - memorate the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. as Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire the program is linked “with the structural reform program was ing mission in March. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 11-17, 2010

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Debts and contributions And it is no accident that the event at New York’s renowned “It’s sad because it’s a little piece of Dad gone away,” said George 92 Street Y, obviously result of Tenet, the former Director of the CIA, about the closing of Scobbe, the efforts of many, was spear - a diner in Queens, NY, that shut down last week after being in headed by a dynamic duo of AP PHOtO/GiOrGOS niSSiOtiS business for seventy years. Greek and non-Greek descent. Teach Your Children Well Scobbe, under a different name, once belonged to the Tenet Yanni Simonides and Kathryn family, where the twin brothers, George, and William - a well Hohlwein are to be more than Greece’s next generations of graffiti artists get their first lessons drawing on the street until known cardiologist in New York - worked as teenagers. commended, as is the Greek they’re big enough to write on the walls. What’s next - milk bottles into Molotov cocktails? George, according to a story in the NYT, used to visit the place government, who provided fairly often, no doubt in memory of his parents and as a marker on his own incredible journey, one of those “only in America stories”. There are a number of stories recently in the papers about diners that have shut down. Stories that cause the eyes to well up, ΛΟΓΟΣ not only for the loss they constitute for the owners of these estab - lishments and their employees, but for what they represent for most of us. Many of us - including the writer of this piece – remember The Spirit and Deeper Meaning of Dialogue is Here vividly the memories of the days and nights when we also worked in a diner, to pay for tuition or to make ends meet, as a dishwasher, a bus boy, a cashier, a waiter or as an owner. Thousands of Greek With the launching of the modern public ad - pher Martin Hei - ether.” To Philo, the origins of Americans still do. We are fearful, when we hear such news, that Athens Dialogues organized by ministration. Be - degger pointed out: logos as spirit were well docu - this is a sign of a shrinking community. the Onassis Public Benefit Foun - cause I too am “What can logic … mented in the writings of the Certainly there is some truth there. The dramatic reduction in dation a window of opportunity trained academi - do if we never early Greek philosophers and immigration from Greece and Cyprus during the past several has been opened. Dusan Sidjan - cally as a political begin to pay heed theologians of his era. This kind decades shrank the pool of young, ambitions Greeks that would ski, a special adviser to the Pres - scientist and served to the logos and fol - of interpretation of logos re - enter this extremely demanding business of the diner. ident of the European as an elected mem - low its initial un - ceived attention more recently Yet, as the pool of the new diner dreamers is apparently shrink - Commission and one of the ber of the National folding?” To in Karen Armstrong’s bestseller, ing - unless we see a new wave of immigration, given the dire fi - keynote speakers at the Dia - Council of the Heraclitus, this ini - A History of God, in which she nancial situation Greece is in - a new cycle has begun: the children logues, went so far as to say American Society tial unfolding notes that St. John made it clear of the diner owners have gone into the professions – or have moved that all Europeans are Greek. for Public Adminis - viewed the logos as that Jesus was the Logos and up to building fancy restaurants - fulfilling the dream of those who Like the famous quote from the tration, I am fortu - responsible for the that the Logos was God. plunged into this kind of work with the innocence of a child but English Romantic poet Percy nate to have been by Dr. AlEX harmonic order of Herein, lies the difficulty as - the stubbornness and determination of an elephant. Was is it not Bysshe Shelley - We are all able to call him a PATTAKOS the universe, a cos - sociated with engaging people the reason they immigrated? Greeks - the simple-sounding dear friend. I can mic law that de - in authentic dialogue. It cannot There are thousands of people whose parents – fathers, but words of Sidjanski state the ob - say, as I’m sure Pro - Special to clared that “One is happen if we are prisoners of mothers too - sacrificed their lives in the kitchens and counters of vious considering the contribu - fessor Waldo would The National Herald All and Everything our thoughts. You can never the diners so that they could give their children the opportunity to tions Greece has made to too, that the word is One.” enter into a relationship with live a much better life than they did. Western Civilization over the “dialogue” is often misunder - The doctrine of the logos others if you believe you have a The Tenet brothers are definitely such an example. ages while what he said can be stood, misused, and even was the linchpin of the religious monopoly on truth. True dia - Another example is Peter Peterson (Petropoulos) the billionaire viewed as a provocative and ur - abused and real dialogue is thinking by the Jewish philoso - logue will only occur if the par - co-founder of The Blackstone Group, who, in his biography “The gent call to action. With the in - much easier said than done. pher Philo of Alexandria, who, ticipating stakeholders are Education of an American dreamer” devotes whole chapters to his sidious economic crisis plaguing Why? Let’s try to understand while not always consistent in willing to enter the spiritual family. more than just Greece, the idea what is meant by the word dia - his use of the term, established realm of the logos and converse In the book, but also in a recent interview in the NYT magazine that “all Europeans are Greek” logue at its root. As I noted in my it as belonging only to the spir - on this deeper level. Cognitive, - November 28 - he speaks about his dad: “The place wasn’t closed and that “We are all Greeks” has first Logos column on Feb. 14, itual realm. Philo sometimes so-called knowledge-based in - for 25 years. When it came time to close it, there was no key, be - taken on new meaning and sig - 2009, the word dialogue a comes suggested that the logos is the teractions are not sufficient for cause it had never been closed before. He used to say to me:” nificance. from two Greek words, dia, “highest idea of God that authentic dialogue. One must We’re going to buy you the best education money can buy. I want The timing of the first Athens meaning through, and logos, fre - human beings can attain … be open and willing to entertain you to do better than we did.” And Lord knows I did.” Dialogues, designed primarily quently but roughly translated in higher than a way of thinking, a diversity of thought and dis - While words expressing gratitude to those who have benefited as an international conference English as “the meaning.” The more precious than anything cover a common ground by us is very important, actions speak louder. A larger question looms: on Greek culture and its role in various translations of the word that is merely thought.” For going to a higher ground. So Ask not what our immigrant parents did for us, ask what we can modern society, comes at a crit - logos, a common Greek word, re - Philo, the logos was Divine, the let’s hope the Athens Dialogues do for our immigrant parents. ical time - an existential cross - veal that it has deep spiritual source of energy from which the not only bring together thought Have we done something to keep their memory alive, to pay roads - for Greece. As someone roots. The concept of logos can human soul became manifest. leaders in conversation with them back in any way we can for what they have done? who has spent most of his adult be found in most of the great Consistent with the logo-centric each other but enables them to Have we built a school, a library, a cultural center, a museum? life seeking to bridge theory and works describing the history of character of Philo’s thought, “It discover common ground by Do we not have a duty, as the ancient Greeks would say, to honor practice, it remains to be seen Christianity, as well as in the lit - is through the Logos and the going to a higher ground and a our parents? And do we not, in so doing, honor ourselves? how much action results from erature of religion and Western Logos alone that man is capable spiritual level. the thinking, no matter how philosophy. One of the first refer - of participating in the Divine.” lofty and grand, that takes place ences to logos as spirit came Philo’s confidence in the human Dr. Pattakos, author of Fresh thinking on the marbles... in a conference setting. I’ve al - from the Greek philosopher Her - mind rests on the self-assurance Prisoners of Our Thoughts, is ways considered myself to be a aclitus, around 500 B.C. The that intellect is related to the di - co-founder of a business initia - “pracademic,” a term coined by logos of Heraclitus has been in - vine Logos, “…being an im - tive on how to live a meaningful For the last fifty years Greece - and especially Cyprus - have seen the late Professor Dwight Waldo terpreted in various ways, as the print, or fragment or effulgence life inspired by Greek culture. their fortunes suffer because of unrealistic policies espoused by who was a political scientist and logical, as meaning, and as rea - of that blessed nature, or … Readers may contact him at: their politicians and the media for their own ends. perhaps the defining figure in son. But, as the German philoso - being a portion of the divine [email protected]. The most obvious example is the Cyprus problem: the numerous plans for its solution that were presented through the years and were rejected would be looked upon today as heaven-sent. COMMENTARY The Greeks during those decades acted on the basis of emotions, on the basis of what is right and what is moral, but also while ignoring the limitations imposed by the realities of international af - fairs. Theodorakis Has the Real Spark to Rekindle Greece Having made this preface we come to he issue at hand: The Minister of Culture and Tourism of Greece, Panos Geroulanos through an interview with the London Times, proposed to the British The euro is in trouble again. For months, but not the slightest have done. Museum that they loan the so called Elgin marbles to Greece - named What a surprise. After Greece Greek politicians hint of changing the The problem is more than just after the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who grabbed was subjected to the international went about blaming problematic articles a financial crisis. It’s an identity them from the Parthenon - for an “ extended period of time”. ridicule of a modern-day battle their predecessors in the Constitution? crisis. The EU is seen as infallible This is a clear break with the past. Up to now many of us we were of the Caudine Forks, a 321 B.C. in the government No concern about and Greeks are told they are the fighting for the return of the marbles to their lawful owners, the non-battle in which Roman sol - (for doing just as the hooligans who ugly ducklings of the European Greek people. Nothing else would suffice. diers surrendered because they they did before) and wreck Greek univer - family. Until that mentality Now, the new proposal calls for them to be loaned to Greece. were trapped in a waterless looking for sympa - sity property like it changes, Greece will always be When the story broke the ministry of Culture tried, in the usual place, it turns out that Greek sta - thy from their inter - was a sport, labor an easy target for public mockery. silly way, to back peddle on the story, that is, to deny that the tistics is not the worst of the Eu - national partners. leaders who pervert The famous composer Mikis Minister of Culture had said exactly that. rozone’s problems. Ireland’s Prime Minister syndicalism and Theodorakis recently announced In any event , that silly effort aside, we believe that this is a pro - bankers gave ample proof of this George Papandreou turn it into a spring - the formation of an independent posal that cannot be dismissed out of hand. It needs to be examined last month, as the once affluent told an interna - by Christopher board for political citizens’ movement called Spitha and put into effect. Celtic Tiger ended up rubbing up tional conference of TRiPOUlAS office, labor unions (Spark) dedicated to fighting the There is no question that the overwhelming majority of the Hel - against the legs of the Interna - Socialists that Special to who care more austerity measures unilaterally lenes the world over, if given a choice, would opt for the permanent tional Monetary Fund/European Greece was “respon - The National Herald about holding the placed upon the Greek people. return of the marbles to Greece. Count us among them. Union/European Central Bank sible for some very citizenry hostage The composer feels “We’re ceding It must be noted that ever since the actress-turned-politician combo known as The Troika, al - bad practices” but Portugal and and storming Greek monuments national sovereignty to foreign Melina Mercouri brought the issue up, there has been a tremendous though Hydra would be more ap - Spain do not warrant “suspicions, than they do about protecting the powers,” and envisages “a move - mobilization in an effort to pressure the British to repatriate the mar - propriate. It’s almost certain that rumor and maltreatment.” Public rights of the worker, political par - ment to help Greeks express their bles. the troika’s next stop will be Lis - humiliation will get you nowhere ties that defy the very meaning concerns and work up ideas on Still, the British are unmoved. Even today, with the new and glo - bon. And when Portugal sneezes, and it helped those crusty old of democracy through the auto - how to face the crisis.” rious Acropolis museum in place, and even though the designers its far larger Iberian neighbor technocrats in Brussels come up cratic rules of their charters. Theodorakis knows about have left space for the real marbles to be placed in it, instead of the Spain will end up getting sick and with new jokes and with new and None of these factors were struggle. He was exiled for being copies that are there now, the British do not seem to be impressed. throw the euro into a full-blown improved ways of impoverishing deemed to be a priority, because a Communist in Post-WWII Either the pressure brought to bear upon them is not enough or crisis. Belgium is in trouble too. the poorest of Greeks. they can’t be translated quantifi - Greece and again during the they will not bend under the weight of that pressure. Can anyone be - Besides its inability to form a gov - Taxes are skyrocketing, pen - ably onto technocrats’ reports in junta. Still, Theodorakis did not lieve that they will change their minds some time in the future? Not ernment because the Flemish sions and wages decimated, the Brussels and Washington, DC. hesitate to butt heads with the unless we can force them to do so. Can we do that? don’t like the French and vice- cost of everything continues ris - No one is questioning if the Communist party over national Therefore, if we care about achieving results rather than just blow - versa, it also has financial prob - ing, but there’s no justice in sight. financial targets are pertinent any issues. Theodorakis’ music (and ing off steam, we should use the doreion horse method. lems. Everyone’s got problems, What monopolies have been bro - longer, rules adopted before the words) ring louder in interna - Such a solution could be the one Geroulanos proposes. but it seems that Greece still ends ken up, which cartels disassem - euro was in circulation and Ger - tional circles than the noise com - Provided, one, that mother Hellas does not renounce her rights as up being labeled as the only bled? Which public agencies many realized it could attain ing from most Greek politicians, the owner of the marbles. And two, that an extended period of time problem child among the EU’s were punished, or at least pub - dominance over the continent by reporters, or other’ opinion mak - is agreed to, a period of more than 15 years. Les Miserables. Part of this is the licly berated for sadistically tor - bankrupting the weaker ers eager to take on the role of Were the marbles loaned under these conditions, would not Greece fault of Greeks’ themselves, who turing the citizenry? economies of other countries errand boy. Listen to him. Maybe benefit tremendously in national pride and tourism? willingly engaged in more self- Over a year has passed since which no longer had the luxury his words will finally provide the Still there is a good chance the British, in their arrogance, will flagellation than an Opus Dei the election of a new government of devaluing their currency, as spark needed to help Greece rid turn down this sensible proposal. convention planned by Dan with a mandate and enough world powers such as the U.S., itself of much of its political dead Would not Greece still come out looking like a winner? Brown. power to enact sweeping changes Brazil, Russia, India and China weight. THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 11-17, 2010 VIEWPOINTS 11 LETTER FROM ATHENS Corruption in Greece and America, Democracy Betrayal

If Greece Loses The Marbles, By Evaggelos Vallianatos Street. The best and the bright - street in protest but fail to ter - and Latin in both elementary Special to The National Herald est from American universities minate the rule of family oli - and high school; spread public fail to study the Greek classics, garchy. In desperation, many try libraries all over the country; We’ll Get Them Back At its revolutionary moment history, science, and engineer - to join the civil service that put people to work by having in 1776, America recognized its ing. They go straight to law or guarantees a modicum of secu - them manufacture ships, cars, debt to ancient Greece, borrow - business schools and the rity. Small shopkeepers and cot - and weapons; rebuild the uni - Some years ago, chusetts and did ing Greek democracy and wis - bonuses of Wall Street. The re - tage industry offer an alterna - versities to high standards of ex - while sitting with a graduate studies at dom. Thomas Jefferson, sult of this collusion of state, tive but limited future. They get cellence; revitalize the country - group of Greek Harvard and MIT. schooled in Classical Greek academia and Wall Street is a little support from the govern - side with small family American friends in Maybe that Ameri - learning, met the great Greek cannibalistic monster of capital - ment hell-bent on globalization agriculture; abolish monaster - a bar after playing can sojourn washed scholar Adamantios Koraes, who ism devouring democracy and and multiculturalism, two faces ies; tax the church and the basketball, and a the Greek out of his was working in Paris for the lib - civilization for a short-lived ex - of the same corporate monster: rich and strengthen national few too many blood because he eration of Greece from Turkey. travagance of riches for the very wrecking local industry with im - defense. Greeks no longer need ouzos, I hatched a has less fight in him Jefferson advised Koraes how few and abuse and violence for ports and abandoning the parties with their toxic baggage. hare-brained Top - than the Italians the emerging Greek Republic the many. Wall Street nearly an - guarding of its borders. But such They need only look back at kapi-like scheme for did when the should organize itself. Now nihilated the US in 2008. Mil - policy is undermining Greece their history and borrow their us to fly to London Greeks were boot - America is bereft of politicians lions of Americans lost their jobs that can barely support its own ancestors’ direct democracy for and concoct some ing them back to like Jefferson, keeping the and homes. Wall Street execu - people much less hundreds of governing their country. As for kind of plan to get by ANDY Rome in World War Greek Classics strictly in the col - tives responsible for that finan - thousands of illegal foreigners America, the monopoly of the into the British Mu - DABiliS II. They risked – lege classrooms. Politicians cial calamity are not in prison (largely from Africa, Pakistan, two parties and the imperial seum and take back and gave – their dream of empire and wealth. but continue making enormous Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran) presidency fighting perpetual the Parthenon Mar - Special to lives for Greece They, and those who fund them, profits. The administration of crossing into the country from petroleum wars is a recipe for bles stolen by The National Herald while this guy has resemble the oligarchy of the both George W. Bush and Turkey. Meanwhile, Papandreou disaster. They have been emas - British diplomat – allegedly - been Roman Empire. They are ob - Barack Obama bailed out the culating democracy and replac - Lord Elgin from 1801-12. They doing some backroom wheeling sessed with money and security banks that brought the eco - ing it with a corporate-govern - are called the Elgin Marbles by and dealing, begging the British to protect their ill-gotten riches. nomic meltdown on America. The IMF routinely ment-academic agency, what the British because they think to loan Greece its own property? Greeks and other Europeans This catastrophe has been impoverishes national President Dwight Eisenhower they own them. He had been Do they have tar and feather in come to America to learn how the business product of decades economies for the benefit called the industrial-military given permission by the ruling Greece? to make money the American of corruption. Corporate lobby - complex, that resembles an in - Turks to take the stones, think - The Times, citing Ger - way. This moneymaking ma - ists bribe politicians who then of its corporate masters. cipient police state without the ing that justified his claim, the oulanos, first reported that: chine, known as globalization, “deregulate” the government’s storm kind of ruse the British are fa - “Greece was trying to break wrecks national cultures and oversight of corporations. In calls himself and his party So - troopers. America needs an mous for, usually when they’re decades of stalemate with threatens the viability of the fact, deregulation also brings cialist but his Greek and foreign adequate defense force but not colonizing countries. The British Britain over the Elgin Marbles planet. Big corporations are free corporate power within the gov - allies are millionaires. Papan - a Pentagon of hundreds of mili - Museum bought the stolen prop - by dropping its long-standing to do as they please, so they pol - ernment, essentially the govern - dreou mirrors Obama: saying tary bases all over the world, erties from Elgin, whose real claim to ownership of the sculp - lute and undermine life on ment becoming a colony of pol - and doing different things. Pa - mercenary armies, a gulag arch - name was Thomas Bruce, be - tures in return for the British earth. Global warming is largely luters and oligarchs. The spring pandreou’s government is build - ipelago of secret prisons and tor - cause they are masterpieces of Museum sending the Acropolis a corporate product. America’s 2010 poisoning of the Gulf of ing a future almost hostile to ture, and a defense budget that Greek thinking and sculpture, artifacts back to Athens on a preoccupation with money and Mexico by BP was a direct effect Greece: undermining education, is larger than the military bud - unlike the pile of rocks in Eng - long-term loan.” The report said greed is a universal corruption, of deregulation of the oil indus - democracy, the territorial in - get of the rest of the world. This land called Stonehenge. Still, the that Greece would offer the eating away at democracy and try. In Greece, corruption of the tegrity of the country, and na - is where systematic corruption idea of the Brits keeping them British Museum some of its best recreating feudalism. In the case political system has created a tional defense. and danger come from. America got our Greek American blood classical artworks, “changing the of Greece, globalization pushed curious phenomenon of the Americans and Greeks are must abandon its empire and re - boiling and we wanted to get exhibition every few years to the country to its current exis - country being an almost private unlikely to get rid of corrupt turn to its democratic traditions. them back to Athens where they give London one of the richest tential crisis. Evidence of this fiefdom of a handful of families politicians any time soon. Their Empire and democracy don’t belonged. We couldn’t figure out permanent displays in Western crisis in Greece is how the In - producing prime ministers. The only effective antidote to the mix. Unless Americans move exactly how to do it, although it Europe of sculpture, carvings ternational Monetary Fund now American-educated politicians corporate class is democracy, the their country back to democratic seemed like a good idea at the and art from ancient Greece.” manages Greek finances. The have stripped the country of in - more, the better. Greece has sev - armed forces and democratic time to distract the guards by Once the news got out, Ger - IMF routinely impoverishes na - dustry and self-reliance. Greece eral parties but, like America, and just economy, the imperial telling them there was a pile of oulanos started backpedaling tional economies for the benefit even follows America’s terrible only two of those parties take presidency and corporations, in - free fish and chips and pints of faster than the Italian army and of its corporate masters. agribusiness practices. From turns in governing the country. cluding “Too Large to Fail” ale in the front lobby if they’d had his office issue a press re - The Greek kleptocrats have millions of peasants working the With the exception of the tiny banks, will take a hold of the all just go there while we lease stating that, “Permanent the same masters as the IMF. land and growing the country’s Ecological party, Greek parties country for good. The victory of watched the Marbles to make return of the Parthenon Marbles They receive their education in food, now Greece imports food peddle foreign ideas and inter - Republicans in the midterm to the new Acropolis Museum America and do internships at while hundreds of villages are ests. They are a legacy of the elections brings the country an - remains the steadfast demand of the IMF and the World Bank, a ghosts of their former self. Rural French, British and Russian par - other step closer to tyranny. the Greek state.” But it also said: sister institution of IMF. Greek people have flocked to Athens ties foreigners imposed on Both Obama and the Democrats “Greece is prepared to offer the Prime Minister George Papan - and a few other large cities, Greece after the country’s Inde - must fight this danger openly British Museum classic master - dreou was born and educated abandoning the countryside to pendence in 1828. The post- by embracing democracy: end pieces of the country for period - in the US. Former Prime Minis - the toxic grasp of agribusiness WWII division of Greece into the wars in Iraq and ical exhibitions.” ter, Kostas Karamanlis, studied and the church. communist and capitalist fur - Afghanistan; break corporate For the politically uninitiated, at Tufts University outside The Greek government bor - ther intensified foreign influ - power; start manufacturing here’s the translation: Greece Boston. Tufts and American uni - rows continuously but fails to ence in Greek politics. most things at home; and put will give up its claim to the mar - versities are caught in the frenzy tax the rich and the church, the Greeks need to look after the unemployed to work. bles in return for a long-term of money as well. They ignore country’s richest institution and their national interests: invigo - loan, because these kind of de - their mission of educating good largest landowner. Greeks don’t rate tourism with the country’s Evaggelos Vallianatos is author nials are face-saving window men and women. Instead, they trust their government. Instead, glorious classical heritage; teach of This Land is Their Land, and dressing by political cowards model their training after Wall they periodically take it to the Greek students ancient Greek The Passion of the Greeks. and not unlike the owner of a baseball team giving a vote of confidence to his manager, which means you know he’s gone (can anybody say “Billy In The End, You Will Always Go Home to Greece Again Martin?”) IF this deal is done, Geroulanos should worry that the late, great actress, Melina By Helene Liatsos and Corfu. We made the trek ously, this was it. A trip to mountain when the church bells Melina Mercouri Mercouri, the champion of the Special to The National Herald from Athens to the high moun - Greece was now mandatory. My rang announcing the approach - Marbles return and who had real tains of central Greece, outside homecoming took place in ing invading army during the sure no one like us would take Greek defiance and courage, I return home to Greece of the city of Karpenisi. One look 2005. I arrived in Mikro Horio, war. I thought about her stand - them. Then there was the logis - doesn’t rise up from her crypt in every day. After I park the car at my mother’s village, Mikro along with my two nieces and ing behind the bushes, giggling tical problem of how do you Athens’ First Cemetery and walk in the driveway, I walk on the Horio, and I fell in love. The one nephew-in-law. Our first with her friend and looking sneak out of the museum while into his office and spit in his whitewashed flagstones, pass charming Town Square, the stop was my mother’s paternal down at the panigyri taking carrying 247 feet of marble face. Mercouri was once Culture the pots of geraniums lining the small but pretty homes, the cob - home. Showing them the house place in the platia, where she sculptures, half of what was Minister too, someone who pathway, to the front door blestoned pathways, and the tall where she slept, ate and lived first saw my father. She couldn’t once on the Parthenon? fought for Greece and didn’t painted Aegean blue. In the fir trees were picture perfect. was heart-wrenching, the tears go to the party because she did - Nonetheless, we wanted to view the office as something to midst of modern, ranch-style Meeting my grandmothers for we shed were for her and her n’t have a male escort. Her fa - try because the Parthenon and put on your resume, and in one and McMansion homes, my the first time, kept us all in tears legacy to us, which still lived in ther died when she was nine Acropolis are the national sym - of her more famous appearances white house with blue trim is a until my maternal grandmother our blood. The taxi driver who and her brother was away. She bols of Greece, and there are did a video making the case Mediterranean oasis. It is a tes - asked me if we had tomatoes in accompanied us joined us in our met Dad a year later when he plenty of other people fighting what the Marbles mean to tament to my Hellenic roots; it America! Then she chastised my tears because he was so moved worked for her uncle. Dad for their return too, such as the Greece, but maybe Geroulanos honors my mother and father; mother for not making our skirts with our love and appreciation watched and waited as suitor American Committee for the Re - was watching videos of PASOK it represents who I am. Born in longer (mini’s ruled) and that if of our roots. There were only a after suitor was declined by my unification of the Parthenon pep rallies for Prime Minister Greece, my parents carried me she didn’t have enough money, handful of people left who still mother because she wanted to Sculptures, and the great Eng - George Papandreou and missed to America at the age of nine she would give her some. In my remembered my mother and we marry for love. And so, she did. lish-American writer Christopher it. Mercouri has more spirit in months. My older sister, Tina, father’s village, Megalo Horio, sat and talked to them for a long This trip to Greece changed my Hitchens. He, as did I, said one her dead than this guy has alive, and I grew up in New York City my father’s cousin took me by time. We ate in the platia where life in more ways than one. Not of his greatest honors was shak - although someone should check and attended St. Spyridon the hand and in her bedroom we reminisced about all the sto - having married before, I lit a ing the hand of Manolis Glezos, his pulse to make sure he is, or Parochial School in Washington she opened a chest filled with candle in the Panagia Prousotisa who, at age 19 in 1941, with his at least do a blood test to check Heights, located in upper Man - linens. She told me I could have Monastery near my parent’s vil - friend Apostolos Santas, sneaked for Greek DNA. On YouTube, hattan, then a predominantly anything I wanted. Another of “My white house with blue lages and asked to be blessed onto the Acropolis and tore Mercouri, with that signature Greek community. That is where his cousins spent the day gath - trim is a Mediterranean with a wonderful man, as my down the Nazi flag and raised smile that can freeze your blood we learned how to speak, read ering flowers from the fields; parent’s would have wanted for the Greek flag, such was the and melt it again, laid out the and write Greek. It was our first she gave me the glorious bou - oasis. It is a testament to me. And true to God’s promise, meaning of that magnificent ed - case for Greece, so someone language. Everyone in our quet and told me that, “This is my Hellenic roots; it honors I was. We met two weeks after I ifice that rises above Athens. please get in touch with Ger - world was Greek. The butcher, all I have to give you.” I could my mother and father; it returned to California. We went Now they’re all about to possibly oulanos (I tried six times, no an - the baker and the banker were not stop crying and hugging to Greece in 2007 for the first be sold out by Greece, which re - swer) and tell him to watch it. all Greek. Relatives, friends and these women that I had never represents who I am...” time together; we went again portedly was ready to end its With consummate elegance and schoolmates all spoke Greek; we met before. The hospitality and earlier this year and spent 31 long-running dispute with the pride, she said: “What does played with all the neighbor - generosity of the villagers, both ries my mother, their yiayia, told days on Greek soil. We plan to British Museum by saying the Shakespeare mean to England? hood children, but only the relatives and horiani, is some - us. Their favorite was about the go again in 2012 … and again Greek Marbles rightfully belong St. Paul’s Cathedral? What doe Greek ones were invited to our thing I will remember for the little white dog she had who and again, as long as we are to the British – in return for the the Taj Mahal mean to India? birthday parties, along with rest of my life. I went back to yipped and yapped all night able. My husband, Zafiris, is museum throwing Greece the What do the paintings on the their parents. As we grew into Greece 12 times in the course long. One day she awoke and Greek, just like me! bone of a long-term loan of its Sistine Chapel mean to Italy? the high-school years and ven - of 10 years. But back then, be - found the dog dead; someone Some say that they feel own properties, rather like The Parthenon Marbles are our tured out into a wider commu - ing young and vulnerable and got tired of all the barking and Greek in their heart; others say someone occupying your house pride. They are our identity. nity, we wrestled with identity, influenced by my peers, I spent fed it some old meat. It was that they are Greek in their and allowing you to live upstairs They are today’s link with Greek fluctuating between – was I a the weeks and months dancing funny to them because yiayia al - spirit and still others say they for the summer. excellence. They are creations Greek living in America or was in the discos and tanning on the ways acted out the dog barking. are Greek in mind. I am Greek Are there no more Greek synonymous with our concepts I an American of Greek descent? beaches of the Aegean and Ion - It was sad to them because they in my bones. It is the physical fighters left? If this is the deal – of democracy and freedom.” I felt too Greek to be totally ian Seas. The horio was not on have dogs in their homes. We manifestation of my being. I can and no one knows because Those apparently are either alien American and at the same time, the itinerary. went to my father’s village. switch from Greek into English Greek Culture Minister Pavlos or forgotten by today’s Greek too American to be totally And then we moved to Cali - Walking toward his paternal and back to Greek in thought Geroulanos, who, according to politicians, none of who had to Greek. fornia. Careers took off, other home we encountered an old and word and deed, it is not the Times of London, agreed to climb a cave under the Acropolis In my early teens, we visited interests ensued and Greece woman who was hunched over strange for me to make tiropites this cockamamie scheme to fur - and take down the Nazi flag in Greece for the first time. As we seemed a long way, away. I was carrying sticks on her back and from scratch and serve them ther embarrass Greece, denied the shadow of the desecrated drove into Athens from the old Greek to some extent, but it had wearing black from head to toe. with t-bone steaks and corn on it as soon as he heard about it. Parthenon. The British Museum airport, and turned the corner, been pushed into the back - She asked me where were we the cob. It is normal for me to He did so, of course, through a will never relent because the my aunt pointed out the win - ground. Yes, I still spoke Greek going and I said I was looking swing with Sinatra with one CD press release and wasn’t ready Brits like having pieces of dow and said “kita ekei.” I to my parents and their friends, for my father’s house. She told and do the syrtaki with another. to face the Press or the heat al - Greece. The British Ambassador looked out the window and I went to church and the festi - me that she knew where it is, I have learned that I need not though he should have come out lives in a stately mansion in burst out crying. The Acropolis vals, had some Greek friends, and then said I shouldn’t go be one or the other. I can be swinging in person. Since he Kolonaki, Athens’ fashionable in all its glory shined its mag - but as an American I lived an there because “I will be in too both at the same time. There is didn’t, you can bet this is really neighborhood. It sure is a nice nificent light for my first impres - American life. In 1997, my fa - deep.” I paused and thought nothing truly more joyous than what’s being decided with your place, maybe because it was sion of the country of my birth. ther, John Liatsos, died. The about this, she knew that it celebrating both countries, for heritage by politicians. Of built for Greek statesman Eleft - A few days later, we climbed the grieving process was the driving would hurt to see it so she was they have both made me what I course, there’s the big IF, that herios Venizelos, who is to steps and I touched the force bringing me back to my being wise and kind to tell me am today. My country is Amer - being IF that’s the deal because Greece what Churchill is to Eng - Parthenon. It brought to life all Greek roots. I got involved with not to go. But we did and she ica and my heritage is Greece. it’s as unclear as any episode of land. the books I read and all the sto - the various Hellenic organiza - was right. It was very painful As we sit in the back yard, under the TV series Lost. But IF it’s So IF it turns out, as it will, ries I heard back in Greek school tions in Los Angeles, I per - and yet necessary to do. The the growing grapes hanging true, Glezos, 88, and still that Greece will give up the … Greece, the land of the an - formed in live Greek theater kids left and I stayed another over the table, my husband and tougher than most men, could claim to the Marbles when the cients…this was where my jour - where the Greek language week. One day, as I took a walk I contemplate whether or not be dispatched to kick some sense heat dies down, Geroulanos’ ney began. Then the time came rolled readily off my tongue, I around the village I wandered we should make our own wine. into Geroulanos because IF name would be put right next to go to the horio. Before we subscribed to Greek magazines into the churchyard. I sat on the It’s such a Greek thing to do! Greece gives up the Parthenon to Ephialtes. But don’t worry left, my sister and I made my and newspapers and I started to low wall encircling the church Marbles it would be the biggest about the Marbles, I’m on the mother promise that we would feel the pull of visiting Greece and stared up at my mother’s Helene Liatsos-Tsimahides was disgrace and humiliation Greece phone right now to my buddies be in the horio for only two days again. Then my mother, Maria paternal house, which stands born in Lamia, raised in New would face, apart from wars and in Boston and am going to meet – after all, we were from New Priovolos Liatsos, took ill and above the village square. I visu - York City and lives in Los the economic crisis in which real them in London, and we’re not York City – what could the horio needed daily care. She suc - alized my mother as a young Angeles with her husband people are suffering. You’d ex - flying British Air. be for us but boring and dull! cumbed in 2003. If there was woman, grabbing her young Zafiris. She is President of her pect better from a guy who went We wanted to go to the discos ever a time when the thread to cousin and putting him on her own business management to Williams College in Massa - [email protected] that we heard about in Mykonos Greece was hanging precari - back as she climbed up the firm. 12 THE BACK PAGE THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 11-17, 2010 Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Monkish Maestro

Continued from page 1 was discussed by two men who worked and made music with him, - renowned composer Gun - ther Schuller and Stanley Drucker, who played clarinet in the orchestra for 62 years - and two women who have studied his life and career intensely, Philharmonic archivist and his - torian Barbara Haws and docu - mentary film maker Valery Kon - takos. The panel, titled Considering Dimitri Mitropou - los, was part of the Philhar - monic’s Insight Series and was part of a special tribute spon - sored by the Niarchos Founda - tion. Mitropoulos, born in Athens in 1896, was a musical prodigy, making his American 2 debut in 1936 with the es - teemed Boston Symphony Or - 1 chestra and was conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Or - ing,” and added that despite be - chestra from 1937-49. ing often attacked by critics, Everything about the man, some of Mitropoulos’ concerts who seems to have always been received the most fantastic re - filmed or photographed in harsh views he ever saw. light and shadows, is a study in FANTASIA, A LITTLE contrasts, ironies and contradic - STRAVISKY ON THE SIDE tions. Mitropoulos fled the The Mitropoulos enigma in - monastic life that called a num - vites speculation. Schuller told ber of his relatives, yet no one of the powerful experience of lived a more ascetic life in one seeing the movie Walt Disney’s of the worldliest on places on Fantasia in 1940, a masterpiece earth, a penthouse suite on the of early animation that is also ninth floor of a hotel in mid - memorable for its film score town Manhattan. Schuler told filled with classical musical fa - the audience of an almost ritu - vorites. He said that’s when he alistic pattern to his days. After 4 5 he first heard Stravinsky’s Rite a performance, he would flee of Spring and that was when he the spotlights and both the ap - was determined to become a plause and criticism of one of composer. But “Rite” might still the world’s temples of music to 1. A younger Mitropoulos at the piano. 2. On the cover of one be as modern as many music enter the dark spaces of Times of his noted recordings. 3. Mitropoulos' leap into the air sends lovers still will go. Perhaps the Square movie houses where he a powerful message to his musicians. 4. He preferred using his 1950’s was the worst time to watched his era’s B movies, hands but here uses a batton to conduct. 5. He was an intro - ‘overdo’ the moderns. The hor - what he described in an inter - spective man. 6. Cutting one of the orchestra’s records. rors of World II and the Holo - view with legendary newsman caust prepared audiences to re - Edward R. Murrow as his fast- Life article noted. “He talks to ing the Philharmonic, whether ceive music that was not lush food version of the common life, the men as if they were his clos - he showed in or not, with the and lachrymose. On the other which his schedule would not 3 6 est friends, which in fact many faith that that the music’s time hand, they could not let go of permit him to experience. “Like of them are ... Mitropoulos will come. Mitropouolos was the romanticism that the 20th spaghetti out of a can,” the only never conducts an orchestra not just a musical missionary as Century was killing. The terrors nourishment his basic humanity without first memorizing the he and others made him out to and fears of the cold war – shel - tasted the shy musician told the man, and some “political” ity heldin his life, but he was name of every man in it.” be. He was a musical prophet, ter drills and film clips of nu - Murrow whom he so respected, background is required to un - clearly a very spiritual man. In Reports of his life are domi - compelled to follow a lead from clear bombs being tested, the one of the few permitted to in - derstand what was going on. a fascinating Life Magazine ar - nated with stories of the maestro within and ignoring the de - armistice that ended the Korean terview him. During Mitropoulos’ tenure, ticle by Winthrop Sargeant on assisting musicians and others mands of his environs. But he war that could come undone at After the movie, he would be there were bitter battles among Feb. 18, 1946, it was revealed in need, buying instruments and clearly needed those people too. any time, may have required asleep by midnight, only to the orchestra’s Board of Direc - that Mitropoulos “grew up with paying medical bills to the point At one point he told Murrow, Chopin and Strauss as antidotes. wake up again at 4 a.m. Like tors over and Haws said that in the notion that he would be - almost of destitution where he just after speaking about the And Vietnam lurked. For many Orthodox monks who must at - many ways he was, collateral come a monk on Mount Athos, himself needed help with med - solitary Assisi, that “only people patrons the music was not just tend services through the day damage in a war that was really like one of his two uncles.” ical payments – he suffered two who are worshiped and loved edgy, but provoked fears that and night, Mitropoulos was about efforts to oust the orches - Sargeant wrote: “That he failed heart attacks in this Philhar - are worthy of eternity.” That the world was going over the ready for his next ritual: In his tra’s manager, Arthur Judson, to pursue this ambition is monic days. The one consistent strange utterance again suggests edge. Or maybe modern music, study, surrounded by music who was there from 1928. mainly attributable to a native criticism that does not meet with that his Greek and Orthodox whether for physiological, or scores, images of his favorite, if Mitropoulos did not make rebelliousness against dogma much sympathy among musi - background needs further ex - cultural reasons, is an acquired not his patron saint, Francis of things easier for himself. He was and a lifelong love of instrumen - cians is his conducting without ploration, as all his life he had taste whose audience had yet to Assisi, and a crucifix, he would devoted to the music and the tal music, which is not permit - a baton. Drucker explained that heard the words, at funerals and reach a critical mass, which the begin an intensive four hour composers he presented but not ted in the rituals of the Greek he was not the only conductor memorial services “aionia i mn - maestro failed to understand. study of those scores. Schuler defend himself when he was at - Orthodox Church.” The article to do so, but apparently his hand imi” – eternal be his memory. That was more than 50 years said he would often finger his tacked. His concerts featured also mentioned that “Local dig - movements that were related to His detractors were few in ago. Audiences still have their rosary but having spent time on the most modern music, the nitaries of the Greek church (in keeping the beat were too subtle the beginning. The Life article limits, though young musicians Mount Athos, it may well have works of Alban Berg, Anton We - Minneapolis) have long been to be followed by players who was titled A fabulous Greek with now seem to love the stuff been a komboskini, an Ortho - bern and Arnold Schonberg deeply offended because on the were not used to him. Eventually monk-like habits is making mu - Mitropoulos played. Bernstein dox prayer rope. Murrow’s film which added atonality and other few occasions when he attends they caught on, “it really sic history in Minneapolis. The was once quoted saying: “The crew found him gazing at the innovations to the rhythms and services,” he shows a preference worked,” said Drucker, but it panelists noted that Mitropoulos 20th Century was the century stars over Manhattan, lost in dissonances of the early 20th for a local Presbyterian, church caused much frustration. His fascinated and delighted both of death and Mahler was its Mu - solitude. In a sense, he followed century that still did not suite but the maestro said that was hand movements added to the musicians and audiences, just sical Prophet.” Two world wars the footsteps of his uncles, the the taste of many. because he liked the pastor. The Mitropouos experience. They emerging from the horrors of and many of history’s horror monks who lived on a moun - It was not just modern piece described Mitropoulos as were dramatic and passionate, wars, were ready for something shows had to pass before the tain, beneath the stars, only sounds which moved him – “strictly an individualist where matching his facial expressions. new. Bruno Walter never played mainstream could accept his meditating on musical notes Drucker said Mitropoulos loved his religion is concerned, and Drucker said he was very emo - the music of the newer com - music. Perhaps Mitropoulos was rather than the words of “the total landscape of music” quoted him saying, “Music for tional when he conducted, posers and Leopold Stokowski the prophet of the barely-sup - prayers. There was a poignant and turned in brilliant perfor - me is concerned with religious sometimes “crying, pleading, did so only at the end, under pressed angst of the cold war. and ironic moment in the inter - mances composers as early as feeling and mystical expression. saying ‘gentlemen, gentlemen,’” pressure. But over time, New As the international crises view – he was clearly uncom - Monteverdi, and Schuller said It arouses feeling towards God.” begging his musicians to get ex - York, the city Mitropoulos loved, mounted and the nuclear blasts fortable throughout it and he witnessed “incredible perfor - He often prayed in his dress - actly the sound and feeling he fell out of love with him. continued, he may have been Schuller noted he was trying mances of Tosca and Boris ing room before a concert. wanted. Life magazine reported: Schuller said Mitropoulos’ aim the unwelcome herald of a dis - very hard to be relaxed – when Gudunov – but Mitropoulos was Mitropoulos said he had a “Privately he admits he dislikes was “to be of complete service turbing era and was pushed he revealed that he is lucky to powerfully devoted to 20th Cen - mission, and although he did using a baton because it is a to humanity” through his cho - away by a populace that desper - have escaped the fate of his un - tury composers, especially his not take orders from what he symbol of authority.” When sen pieces, “but gradually they ately needed escapism and cles the monks, dying alone in contemporaries whose works called “the Bishops” of the music Murrow asked him about con - turned against him and his mu - could bear music like the Rite their cells. Still, there was a were neglected or maligned. world, it did not seem motivated ducting with his hands, he spec - sic: audiences, press, and even of Spring as no more than an powerful pull from that world Drucker told The National Her - by a need to rebel. Rather, there ulated about himself that he was musicians who resented the mu - occasional spice during a main and he said that, “St. Francis in - ald that in New York, it was ex - was a personal dimension, reaching for their souls, for all sic he was foisting on them.” musical course of Fantasia. spired and guided me practically pected that a great orchestra rooted in his desire to help his they could give, and perhaps Mitropoulos had one more MUSICAL CHRIST OR all my life.” would perform a variety of mu - fellow man, composers in par - even for their love.” passion besides music. He told SOCRATES? POLITICS AND CULTURE sic, but Schuller said Mitropou - ticular, with whom he identified THE EROTIC PROPHET Murrow “some people have pas - Was he a martyr for music? DON”T MIX los overdid it. and helped to the detriment of Schuller said he was almost sions for women, or drinking or One characteristic of the mae - Conflicting reports note he Missing from the discussion his career. Drucker said, “He in an altered state of mind when cars, but he loved mountain stro that his supporters very was revered and disrespected by was an examination of his Greek was ahead of his time, but he conducted and that climbing, and noted he would much regretted was his unwill - his musicians; the performances background and life experiences mainly he tried to give new Mitropoulos’ physical reactions have preferred to live 30 stories ingness to fight back or defend he conducted were spectacular and how that shaped his per - composers a platform.” They to the music could only be de - high. Murrow’s intuition picked himself. Schuller said, “He was and ragged, he was both sonality. A Greek would have deeply appreciated it. Schuller scribed as musical orgasms. So up on the piano in the maestro’s almost a masochist.” He related beloved and unpopular with the brought up the word “pisma”, said he wrote a piece that in - there may have been an element study and he got him to confess the story of an orchestra in full public. Haws acknowledged that stubbornness. Clearly there was cluded a 5/8 rhythm, to honor of the non-rational in the pro - that through the years he had rebellion against him over a the man was irreducibly enig - some of that, but there is a spir - the maestro’s heritage – noting grams he presented, but who is neglected it and that, “I now like piece of music. Mitropoulos matic, but her research yielded itual element too. It was not many Greek songs have odd- qualified to mess with an artist’s to listen better than to play,” bore the insults for a full week, a somewhat coherent explana - clear from the discussion exaclty numbered beats, 5, 7, 9, etc. eros? Mitropoulos may have as - suggesting a now-faded passion and when they finally per - tion for the divergent views of what place Orthodox Christian - “He never swears or scolds,” the suaged his anger over his leav - of a man who was a piano vir - formed it was the most beautiful tuoso. He was always credited performance of Weber Opus 21 with a photographic memory, Schuller said he’d ever heard. but denied it. Mitropoulos told Mitropoulos also loved to read Murrow that he had to work Greek drama and philosophy, very hard to memorize scores, especially Plato and Kierkgaard. but even though he said he no He had some traits in common longer conducted from memory, with Socrates, also done in by Schuller said he continued to his rivals and “the public.” torture himself to memorize Schuller said, reaching to ex - scores almost always right down plain some of the strains Από το 1915 to his last performances. One of Mitropoulos experienced with για τον Ελληνισμό the benefits of this practice was both his orchestras and audi - the amazing speed with which ences, that, “He did not look like his orchestras learned pieces, the other conductors, central causing one participant to com - European or South European.” ment “he must have at least He certainly didn’t resemble the pleased the record companies Greek gods depicted in the paying by the hour.” sculptures at many of the Haws said another myth per - world’s cultural centers. tains to bad blood between Schuller said “Nobody had a Mitropoulos and Bernstein, who face life that.” Life described reportedly pushed or elbowed him thus: He is a wiry man with out the elder maestro through a deeply tanned complexion and his superior political skills. She pale, childlike blue eyes that said that Mitropoulos presented contrast curiously with his his successor with a medallion craggy features and shiny that he wore all his life. scalp.” There was a mystical in - ΤΟΤΕ και ΤΩΡΑ He said that “Music is my tensity to his countenance, and life,” and the recordings of his his outward appearance tran - Εγκυρη και έγκαιρη ενημέρωση με μέτρο concerts are all preserved. scended the beauty-ugly di - Hawes, when referring to the chotomy. But the notion he did criticism that some perfor - not look Greek is puzzling. He (718) 784-5255, 888-547-9527 ext. 108 - 109 • Fax: (718) 472-0510 mances were ragged, said, had roots in Sparta, and the e-mail στο [email protected] • www.ekirikas.com “When you listen to the record - faces of modern Greece are mul - ings you don’t hear that at all. tiform, but Mitropoulos showed Drucker added: “They are amaz - he was in a Pantheon of One.