S o C V th ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 10 0 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com a weekly greek-american PublicaTion 1915-2015 VOL. 19, ISSUE 958 February 20-26 , 2016 c v $1.50 Four Distinguished MIT Michael Jaharis, a Great Benefactor, D1ies at 87 Professors Enunciate With Wife Mary, a Lifetime of Support Their Words of Wisdom For the Community By Aria Socratous tion of skin; Constantinos By Theodore Kalmoukos Daskalakis, Associate Professor Founded in 1861 in Cam - in Computer Science and Engi - NEW YORK – Michael Jaharis, bridge, the Massachusetts Insti - neering, a 2012 Microsoft Re - a man of deep faith, family, in - tute of Technology (MIT), re - search Faculty Fellow and has tegrity, philanthropy, and love plete with an array of alumni solved a problem arising from for Hellenism and Orthodoxy, Nobel Laureates, National John Nash’s work that had re - passed away on February 17. An Medal of Science Winners, and mained unresolved for 60 years; entrepreneur, philanthropist, Rhodes Scholars, among other Gregory Stephanopoulos, Pro - humanitarian and distinguished accolades, consistently in the fessor in Chemical Engineering member of the Greek Orthodox U.S. News & World Report’s and also Director of the Bioin - community died in his home Top-10 Rankings, is universally formatics and Metabolic Engi - with his family by his side. He recognized as one of the finest neering; and Sabine Iatridou, was 87 years old. institutions of higher learning Professor of Linguistics, Syntax Jaharis became a model of in the world. and Semantics, who has served how to offer time, energy, intel - Four distinguished Greek as Director of the MIT Linguis - ligence, love, and wealth in professors at MIT who are tics PhD Program for many making the world a better place. among the highest achievers in years. He took after his is generous fa - their respective fields spoke PROF. YANNAS ther, who landed in Boston as a with The National Herald about TNH: In May you were in - penniless Greek immigrant in their academic and scientific ac - ducted into the National Inven - 1908. Cherishing faith, family, complishments, which are inter - tors Hall of Fame as one of the education, and hard work, the nationally acclaimed: Ioannis highest achievers in your field man known affectionately Yannas, Professor of Polymer recognized for inventing artifi - within the family as “Pappou” Science and Engineering, recog - cial skin. Please tell us about set about to rise and prosper. nized for inventing the first re - that honor. The seed was planted in generation template, a collagen IY: I feel very privileged that Michael’s heart. The son took scaffold that induces regenera - my work is being recognized. his father’s example to heart and The term “artificial skin” was built on its abiding spirit to used in the late 1970s and early achieve even greater things for 1980s to describe a fundamen - Michael Jaharis brought passion and class to every endeavor, whether it was endowing museums, the betterment of human health WITH THIS ISSUE tally new treatment for burned helping feed the hungry in Greece, or as Vice Chairman of the Archdiocesan Council. and intellectual and spiritual patients. However, the Hall of well-being. Michael Jaharis was Fame citation correctly identi - a genuine person, unique and fied the true nature of our dis - certainly successful in every covery: We had discovered a way. method for growing back (re - Iordanou Pancyprians’ Man of Year His Eminence Archbishop generating) an organ. Since Demetrios of America, who was these early days, both skin and very close friends with Jaharis peripheral nerves, as well as the By Constantine S. Sirigos doing business, his thoughts of - Iordanou said. and a colleague – Jaharis was conjunctiva (eye), have been re - TNH Staff Writer ten turn to the island nation of “I believe they are moving in Vice-Chairman of the Archdioce - generated. Our work has de - his birth, and to his friends and the right direction,” he noted “but san Council – proclaimed in a scribed the first treatment in the NEW YORK – When the Pan - family in New York. more importantly we are finding written statement attached to new field of medicine, referred cyprian Association presents the When TNH asked Iordanou that there are a lot of capable the official announcement is - to these days as regenerative Lifetime Achievement Award at how he sees Cyprus’ economic people there, which gives us a sued by the Archdiocese that medicine. its annual gala at the New York situation given recent reports that competitive advantage. The qual - “Archon Michael Jaharis was an TNH: Your resume is full of Hilton on March 9 to Constanti - it is making more progress than ity of the personnel we have extraordinary human being en - publications, awards, and hon - nos “Dinos” Iordanou it will he Greece, he began my noting that hired in Cyprus is exceptional.” dowed by God with inex - ors. In 1987 you became a honoring a man who has soared Arch has expressed its confidence Iordanou and the people he haustible energy, amazing cre - Member of the Institute of Med - high but has not forgotten his by investing in Cyprus through just hired are testaments to the ativity and impressive care and icine of National Academy of roots. the establishment of a back office country’s educational system and love for the people, especially Sciences, in 1988 you received Iordanou is the Chairman, in Nicosia in January. There are the determination of its people. those in sickness, distress and the Doolittle Award of the President, CEO, and one of the currently ten people there doing He came to America from suffering. He was a person fully American Chemical Society and founders of Bermuda-based Arch actuarial and financial work. Cyprus in 1969 to study at NYU dedicated to the Church and its Capital. While he praises that is - “We plan to have 20-30 peo - Continued on page 6 land nation as a terrific place for ple there by the end of 2017,” Continued on page 4 Continued on page 8 Moulinos is IMF’s Thomsen Discusses Bailout and Reforms J. Rangos Child Star TNH Staff Given Hon. Poul M. Thomsen, Director In Soccer of the International Monetary Doctorate Fund’s (IMF) European Depart - ment, who is in charge of the TNH Staff IMF’s program in Greece and By Evan C. Lambrou Portugal, recently wrote an up - Special to The National Herald NEW YORK – Peter Moulinos date on the IMF’s blog regarding could not be any more excited ongoing discussions by Greek CRESTWOOD, NY – St. and proud of his 12-year-old son Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Christoforos, who will be par - Europe, and the IMF, for the Seminary awarded John G. Ran - ticipating in the 2015 Mundial - purpose of clearing up any mis - gos with an honorary doctorate ito International Cup soccer perceptions. Excerpts from the during a private ceremony this tournament in Portugal in piece, found in its entirety at past February 7 at the retired March, where he will be playing imf.org, follow. industrialist’s home in Florida, against the youth academy IT MUST ADD UP where he was bestowed with a teams of Europe’s top pro teams. “It is argued that the IMF has Doctor of Humane Letters de - He has the skills and the made its participation depen - gree in full regalia for his phil - mindset to take it in stride, as if dent on socially draconian re - anthropy and service to human - he were still scrimmaging with forms, especially of the pension ity. his older brother, 15-year-old system. This is not the case. Ul - Founded in 1938, St. Stefanos, who led him into “the timately a program must add Vladimir’s is now under the beautiful game,” as it is known. up: the combination of reforms omophorion of the Orthodox “I had no interest in soccer,” plus debt relief must give us and Church in America (OCA) the international community which, in turn, began with a Continued on page 4 reasonable assurances that by handful of Russian Orthodox the end of Greece’s next pro - missionaries in Alaska back at gram, after almost a decade of the turn of the 19th Century. For subscription: dependence on European and Rangos, some of whose an - 718.784.5255 IMF assistance, Greece will fi - Sergey Ponomarev for The new york TimeS, world PreSS PhoTo via aP cestors were Greeks from Rus - [email protected] nally be able to stand on its Haunting Refugee Images Dominate 2016 World Press Photo Contest sia, has been a longtime sup - own. This implies an inverse porter of St. Vladimir’s. He has trade-off between ambition of In this image released by World Press Photo titled "Reporting Europe's Refugee Crisis" by pho - made a number of substantial reforms and strength of debt re - tographer Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times which won the first prize in the General contributions to the Seminary News Stories category shows refugees arriving by boat near the village of Skala on Lesbos, Continued on page 11 Greece, 16 November 2015. Continued on page 3 The NYCB Family of Banks is comprised of New York Community Bank and its divisions: Queens County Savings Bank, Roslyn Savings Bank, Richmond County Savings Bank, Roosevelt Savings Bank, Garden State Community Bank, Ohio Savings Bank and AmTrust Bank, as well as New York Commercial Bank and its Atlantic Bank division. Bank is not responsible for typographical errors. All services not available at all locations. 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