S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkLy gREEk-AMERICAN PUBLICATION 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 992 October 15-21 , 2016 c v $1.50 New Democracy Leader Ted Leonsis Explains His Fundraiser for Hillary Kyriakos Mitsotakis Greek immigrant heritage behind his Speaks with TNH support of Clinton By Theodore Kalmoukos state of stagnation, must finally TNH Staff be broken. Today, more than The following is an interview ever it is necessary that we work WASHINGTON, DC – The im - that Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader together to shape a collective migration issue touched a chord of Greece’s main opposition party national vision for Greece. for Ted Leonsis in this election New Democracy, gave to The A Greece that liberates and year. His immigrant grandpar - National Herald during his visit supports by standing next to, ents came to America in search to the United States. not opposite from, the creative of a better life. Changing the forces of our country and espe - family name from Leoutsakos to TNH: What memories come cially the young people Leonsis, they settled in Lowell, to mind with your current visit A Greece that seeks excel - MA and worked in mills. Leon - to Boston? lence and reward in every sector sis’ parents eventually moved to KM: Boston is intrinsically of economic and social life and Brooklyn where the future associated with my college which, in addition to individual mayor of Orchid, FL was born. years. I first came to the city success, forms collective stan - His family’s strong work ethic thirty years ago. I was 18 years dards. was instilled in Leonsis at a old. I had just graduated from A Greece that places the pub - young age and helped him rise high school. I lived here for six lic interest and the functioning from humble working class be - wonderful years. I had the priv - of institutions at the top of the ginnings to prominence as a ilege of studying at one of the political agenda. businessman and philanthropist. world's leading universities. I A Greece which does not for - Politics also interested the made true friends, the kind you get that the "forgotten Greeks" young Leonsis who, after his keep for a lifetime. I met acade - are the focal point of every just first move to DC worked as an micians who left an indelible public policy. Our fellow citizens intern for then-Congressman mark on me for life. I came as who today are isolated and in JONAS EkSTROMER / TT vIA AP Paul Tsongas. The CEO of Mon - teenager and left as a scholar. the margins of economic and so - Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature umental Sports & Entertainment TNH: Could you briefly de - cial life. and majority owner of the NBA’s scribe your vision for Greece? At the core of the “Truth Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius announces that Bob Dylan is awarded Washington Wizards and the KM: The destructive cycle of Agreement,” which was pre - the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature during a presser at the Old Stockholm Stock Exchange Building NHL’s Washington Capitals, economic misery, political dor - sented at the Thessaloniki Inter - in Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Bob Dylan was named the winner of the 2016 among other teams, has made mancy and low expectations, national Fair, lays a critical Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed contributions in the past to po - which has led the country to a premise: only a social market the prestigious award to someone primarily seen as a musician. litical campaigns as well. George economy can generate wealth W. Bush, John Kerry, Rudy Giu - for all, attract investments, cre - liani, Barack Obama, and Bill ate new jobs. And only a strong Bradley are among the candi - and effective state, unburdened dates to whom Leonsis has con - by client politics, can facilitate The Durrells in Corfu Dir. on Greece tributed. The controversial issue the distribution of this wealth of immigration prompted him as fairly as possible. The battle to host a fundraiser for Hillary that we have to fight is a pro - By Eleni Sakellis elist, already lived on Corfu with of World War II. Gerald became Clinton. found ideological battle. A fight his wife. The move had a pro - a famous naturalist, animal-col - Leonsis made his public en - that calls upon us all to redefine As most everyone knows, found effect on the family and lector, and conservationist, au - dorsement of Clinton in June. the framework of the values on Greece is a popular destination on the younger children espe - thoring 37 books. The event on October 14 will be which we structure our eco - for British tourists. The sunshine cially. The story of the Durrells The film adaptation of Dur - held at Leonsis’ Potomac, MD nomic and social life, as well as and the sea often entice tourists in Corfu was first told by the rell’s first book My Family and home. Guests, paying up to our general behavior. A battle to return year after year and youngest of the children, Ger - Other Animals was released in $25,000 to attend the event, through which society and the some even decide to stay for ald, who wrote about the fam - 2005 and broadcast on PBS in will enjoy a performance by economy may revert to the cre - good. The low cost of living is ily’s experiences in three charm - 2006. The Durrells in Corfu pre - James Taylor. He told the Wash - ative values of life. To those val - what drew the Durrells to move ing books- My Family and Other mieres on PBS on October 16. ington Post he has met the for - ues that make democratic soci - there in 1935 when Louisa, the Animals(1956); Birds, Beasts, The series was so popular in mer Secretary of State and is on eties powerful: meritocracy, widowed mother of four chose and Relatives(1969); and The Britain that after the second friendly terms with former Pres - transparency, hard work, cre - to uproot the family from the Garden of the Gods (1978). episode aired, a second season ident Bill Clinton. The event, ative ambition, confidence in in - grey skies of England for the Durrell also wrote short stories was ordered. Filmed on location however, is not a favor to the stitutions, solidarity and cohe - sunny skies of Corfu. based on the family’s years liv - in Corfu, the series is based on candidate, but a way to have a New Democracy Leader Eldest son Lawrence, who ing on Corfu. They returned to Kyriakos Mitsotakis Continued on page 9 would become a successful nov - England in 1939 at the outbreak Continued on page 9 Continued on page 6 Prof. L. Iasemidis Receives A Talk with Onassis Festival Artist From Camping to $6M Grant to Research By Eleni Sakellis NEW YORK – The Onassis Festi - Glamping: A Epilepsy and the Brain val Antigone Now opens on Oc - tober 13. Artist Maria Papadim - itriou and curator of visual arts Story of Love TNH Staff sor of Biomedical Engineering Yorgos Tzirtzilakis spoke with at Louisiana Tech University in The National Herald about the By Aliz Koletas - RUSTON, LA— Dr. Leon Ruston, LA, has received a $6 impressive site-specific installa - Iasemidis- Professor and Fellow million grant from the National tion Laboratory Antigone which of the National Academy of In - Science Foundation (NSF) for focuses on the performance of For Diane and Paul, it was ventors (NAI) and the American his and his group’s ground - the ancient tragedy. The instal - love at first sight…a beautiful Institute of Medical and Biolog - breaking work on epilepsy. lation will be on view through horse shoe-shaped property in ical Engineers (AIMBE), Profes - He gave the following state - December at the Onassis Cultural Kalamata with olive trees and an ment to The National Herald. Center in the Olympic Tower, incredible view of the mountains “The latest $6 million grant 645 Fifth Avenue in Midtown behind them and the sea in front over 4 years to our group from Manhattan. Recorded excerpts of of them. There was no house and the National Science Foundation Antigone read by actress Amalia hardly any money in their pock - Happy 50th (NSF) of USA will further ad - Moutoussi greet the visitors as ets but they had each other and vance our research in epilepsy they enter the installation space. a love for nature, something they and the brain. We feel honored The use of found objects adds found in Greece. Paul had always Belmont Gr. with this trust to our abilities to texture, authenticity, and levels dreamed of going to a Greek is - produce novel fundamental of meaning. A wall painted with land and while this wasn’t an is - findings with practical implica - chalkboard paint features key - land –with Diane by his side, this School tions for the diagnosis and treat - words from the play and space was a dream come true. Both on ment of such a widespread brain for participants to add their own their second marriages, Diane disorder like epilepsy. This grant words in chalk and photograph and Paul were ready to leave TNH Staff is particularly significant as it them. Papadimitriou said that England behind for something constitutes an interdisciplinary every three or four days, the less in terms of materialism pos - BELMONT, CA – The Holy collaboration between the dis - chalk writing will be wiped away session but more in terms of spir - Cross Greek School celebrated ciplines of biomedical engineer - and the process begins again.