S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A wEEkLY GREEk-AMERICAN PUbLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 17, ISSUE 883 September 13-19, 2014 $1.50 Campbell, OH Has 2nd The Greek Secret: Video About “Philotimo” Highest Percentage of OXI Foundation’s Film about Uniquely Greeks in United States Greek Word is “Viral” By Constantinos E. Scaros larger and better-known By Constantine S. Sirigos Youngstown, in Northeastern TNH Staff Writer CAMPBELL, OH – The New Ohio. York Metropolitan area in gen - WHY CAMPBELL? NEW YORK – The earth is lit - eral, and Astoria in particular, Why such a high concentra - tered with the remains of na - has the largest population of tion of Greeks in Campbell? Fr. tions that have had their mo - Greek-Americans anywhere in Steve Denas, the pastor at the ment in the sun but whose the United States in terms of that city’s Archangel Michael names are long forgotten. The sheer numbers. But the highest Greek Orthodox Church, re - Greeks are among the handful percentage of Greeks anywhere layed the main reasons to TNH, of nations that have endured. in the United States is in Tarpon and wrote a good deal of the Why? What is responsible for Springs, FL. community’s history in a seg - their achievements and sur - None of that is particularly ment available on the Church’s vival? surprising: anyone who has website: A short film that has gone vi - been to New York City – and es - http://archangelmichael.oh.goa ral titled The Greek Secret, pro - pecially to Astoria – knows that rch.org. It all began around the duced by the Washington OXI Greeks are abound. And virtu - 1870s, he writes, but peaked Day Foundation – named for Oc - ally no one familiar with Tarpon during the mass exodus from tober 28, 1940, when Greece Springs would dispute that aes - Asia Minor in 1922 by Greeks stood up to the fascist powers thetically, climatologically, and who wanted to escape the holo - – suggests a single word says it even innately, there is no place caust at the hands of the Turks. all: philotimo. in the United States that feels Most were young, single men, The film’s directors, John more Greek. Denas writes, who wanted to Kinhard and Mike and Andy But a great number of start a new life in the United Manatos asked prominent Greeks, particularly those not States. Greek-Americans across the from Ohio or from the Midwest Campbell’s steel mills pro - country what philotimo means in general, are probably not vided steady work, and so a to them. aware that the second-highest community was born. “It was Beginning with the literal percentage of Greeks in any very similar to Pittsburgh with translation "love of honor,” the American city, according to the the steel mills here in Camp - MINISTRY OF CULTURE participants also spoke of find - demographer ePodunk, is bell,” he told TNH, emphasizing Two caryatids of exceptional artistic value according to experts were discovered last weekend at ing pleasure in sacrificing for Campbell – a small city near the that the “b” is silent; the locals the Hellenistic tomb in Amphipolis that is undergoing excavation and is yielding more and more the good of others; doing the pronounce it “Camel.” clues that it is linked to the family or colleagues of Alexander the Great. right thing; improving them - SISTER CITIES, selves and their families; and SISTER CHURCHES seeking respect and love from Interestingly, the majority others, but it is more than that. were from two Dodecanese is - Who is Buried in Amphipolis Tomb? Industrialist Dennis Mehiel lands, Kalymnos and Symi, said “The Ancient Greeks were which also comprise the bulk of smart enough to find a single Tarpon Springs Greeks’ ances - TNH Staff likely yield a “major find.” atids, large marble columns word that described things that tral heritage. In Tarpon, how - With Greece still mired in a sculpted in the shape of women are subtle, that have nuances.” ever, those immigrants were ATHENS- As Greek archaeolo - long and crushing economic cri - with outstretched arms – which There have been 350,000 able to ply their sponge-diving gists inch closer to opening the sis, its political parties at each may have been intended to bar hits to date, and Andy and Mike trade in the warm, sponge-filled largest ancient tomb ever found other’s throats, the discovery has intruders from entering the Manatos have received calls waters of the Gulf of Mexico. in Northern Greece, history buffs turned attention away from mis - tomb’s main room. from excited people exclaiming: There was not a similar oppor - around the world are trying to ery to wonder about the find “I don’t know of anything “This is what it means to be tunity in landlocked Campbell, guess who’s buried there – and that dates to the era of Alexan - quite like them,” Philip Freeman, Greek… I am so proud… I am however, and so it was the steel if it could be Alexander the der, from 325 to 300 BC. a Professor of Classics at Luther going to show it to my non- mills that provided plenty of Great himself. The National Geographic said College in Decorah, IA told the Greek friends, to my kids…” jobs for eager, hardworking The dig at Amphipolis has the team led by Katerina Peris - magazine. The video opens with a beau - Greeks new to the “land of op - fascinated fellow archaeologists, teri already has found clues that The finely crafted floor, Ian tiful sequence showing a young portunity.” historians, scientists, and people it could contain royalty, from the Worthington, a classical scholar woman walking through the Li - The steel industry in Camp - said to be laying bets on the rich mosaic floor to stone Sphin - at the University of Missouri in brary of Congress and finally bell collapsed in 1978, Fr. Denas identity of the deceased, and led xes and now the revelation that Columbia and the author of two looking up the word in a dictio - The Archangel Michael Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, also acting as symbolic guards Church, in Campbell, OH. Continued on page 4 who visited the site, to say it will of the interior were two Cary - Continued on page 9 Continued on page 5 Kikis and his Colleagues OCL’s Questions for Sept. 15 Bishops Assembly Mine Cannabis for Cures TNH Staff [The following introduction TNH Staff juana. and corresponding questions were The process that leads to submitted by George Karcazes, NEW YORK – The search for FDA-approved medicine is long, Executive Committee Member of substances that will cure or al - but the hopes of many people the Orthodox Christian Laity, in leviate disease – whether they for relief from their illness lies anticipation of the Assembly of are found in nature or synthe - not only in doctors, but in en - Bishops scheduled to convene in sized by scientists – is urgent trepreneurs like Greek-Ameri - Dallas, TX on September 15.] and potentially lucrative. No cans Thoma Kikis and Dean stone is being left unturned, in - Petkanas. The company they The Chambessy documents of cluding once-universally banned started in 2010, KannaLife, un - the Meeting of the Auto - plants like cannabis – mari - dertakes both the scientific re - cephalous Churches in 2008 au - search and communication with thorizes the Bishops in the terri - government officials. tories outside of the territories Kikis is motivated by the de - of those Churches to meet as “As - sire “to create an enterprise that semblies of Bishops” and chal - The Greek- is in a new space as a young lenges those Assemblies of Bish - Greek entrepreneur, but after ops to meet and develop prompted to do research in or - blueprints “to bring the Church American der to help family members who in their respective territories into were suffering, he is committed Canonical Order.” What does this to “helping a lot of people.” mean in the context of the Kafeneion The initial concept for the United States of America, where company was born of his re - we have overlapping “jurisdic - search on how to help his cousin tions” based on Old World ethnic By Steve Frangos Dr. Steven Kazianis, melanoma ties and multiple bishops in the TNH Staff Writer researcher in his late 30s who same “cities” or territories? himself was suffering from a Chambessy declared: “Come up CHICAGO- Donald Mellet had brain tumor. Kikis was looking with a plan…or else we (the ex - The Assembly of Bishops will convene in Dallas, TX on September 15. In anticipation of the just parked his car in the garage. for alternative therapies for him event, the Orthodox Christian Laity prepared advanced questions, particularly concerning the Arriving home a little after mid - and recommended he try Continued on page 3 issue of overlapping jurisdictions, and asking for clarification on where authority rests. night, Mellet stepped out of the cannabis. garage walking toward the A different family member kitchen door. Shots rang out suffered from hepatic en - with two killing Mellet immedi - cephalopathy (HE) which re - ately and several others pepper - sults from liver malfunctioning Joakim Lagouros: A Tribute to a Living Legend ing the kitchen door. His wife and produces Alzheimer’s like and two daughters barely es - symptoms. Kikis later learned caped injury or death as the that patients can benefit from By Constantine S. Sirigos despite the expense by earning In 1959 Laguros went back stray bullets traveled through Cannabidiol (CBD), one of 85 TNH Staff Writer scholarships, Lagouros re - to Ames and earned a PhD.