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. 18, ISSUE 921 June 6-12, 2015 c v $1.50 Tsipras Backs Half of Americans Raised Orthodox Stay wi1th Faith Bailout Plan Poll Reveals Religion To Troika as On Decline in US Talks Endure “No Affiliation” Rises TNH Staff BRUSSELS — Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis NEW YORK – An in-depth and Tsipras said early June 4 he extensively-cited study of reli - found a constructive ap - gious affiliation of Americans proach during a showdown published on May 12 by the with creditors in Brussels well-regarded Pew Research and all sides insisted talks Center found that the number to unlock crucial bailout of Americans who identify loans and save the country themselves as Christian is on the from financial disaster decline, while the number of would continue within days. American adults who do not Even though Greece is identify with any organized re - running out of cash and ligion is growing. faces more debt repayments The findings from interviews as soon as June 5, Tsipras with more than 35,000 Ameri - still found a lifeline to keep cans concludes that the percent - the momentum for more ne - age of adults who describe gotiations going. themselves as Christian has “I believe that, in any dropped by nearly eight points case, agreement is in sight – from 78.4% to 70.6% since but we need to conclude the Pew’s last survey just seven discussions with a realistic years ago. The fastest-growing point of view,” Tsipras said. religious affiliation are the French President Fran - “nones” as Pew’s findings call cois Hollande said ahead of them – those who do not affili - the Brussels talks that ended ate or self-identify with any or - around midnight June 3 ganized church or religion. Not that the negotiations were surprisingly, more and more at least heading in the right young adults – millennials – direction: “We are some identify themselves in this days, not to say some hours “none” category. away from a possible agree - The study’s results provided ment.” some interesting insight on the Greece has been negoti - state of Orthodox Christianity in ating for four months with the U.S., as compared to other its creditors over what bud - Community Bids Christian and non-Christian get reforms it should make Farewell faiths, including: to get the 7.2 billion euros • Orthodox Christians have ($8.1 billion) in loans that At Savopoulos Funeral the most wealth, on a per capita are left over in its bailout basis, compared to other Chris - fund. The meetings are part Hundreds of people attended tian denominations. Approxi - of a string of high-level the funeral for the Savopoulos mately 29% of Orthodox Chris - diplomatic efforts to bring family at Saint Sophia tians have a household income the negotiations to a suc - Cathedral in Washington, DC of more than $100,000 per year, on June 1. Above: Family Continued on page 11 members and friends, led by Continued on page 9 daughters Abigail Savopoulos, 19, and her 17-year-old sister Katerina, who were at their boarding schools at the time Verizon AOL of the killings, attended the Minos Papas' services, a traditional Greek Orthodox funeral conducted Grab Riles in Greek and English by Portrait of Archbishop Demetrios of America. Savvas (46) and Huffington Amy (47) Savopoulos and War Via Film their son Philip (10) were taken hostage and murdered, The Huffington Post of Ari - along with their maid, By Constantine S. Sirigos anna Stassinopoulos Huffington Veralicia Figueroa, on May 14 TNH Staff Writer may morph yet again now that during a robbery at their its parent company, AOL, has home. NEW YORK – Sometimes it been acquired by Verizon. takes an artist to bring clarity The news website, which has or a greater sense of urgency to more than 200 million unique the burning issues of the times. visitors a month and helped In the 19th century people like change the face of news distrib - Anthimos of Olympos, Retired Bishop, Passes at 81 Eugene Delacroix through paint - ution and challenge giants such ings such as “Greece on the ru - as the New York Times, has built ins of Missolonghi” helped shift itself on the back of using free By Theodore Kalmoukos elite and mass perceptions; to - bloggers and wire service sto - day, filmmakers like Minos Pa - ries. BOSTON, MA – Retired Bishop pas weigh on war from a differ - But just as it was moving to - Anthimos of Olympos died at ent perspective. ward global expansion – includ - age 81 at his home in West Living in New York, it began ing an office in Athens – and Yarmouth, MA on May 29, prob - to concern Papas that in the City heading toward developing ably from heart failure. one could hardly tell that Amer - more original content while Born as Georges Draconakis ica has been at war for more branching out its fields of inter - in Castelli, Crete on November than a decade. est, came the Verizon deal. 19, 1934 to Nicholas and Those who felt the brunt of With the HuffPost, as it is Kalliope, he was drawn to the the wars were the returning vet - called, valued at about $1 bil - church from a young age and erans, and he wants to tell their lion, Verizon was seen as keen followed the calling of the Lord. story. to use its assets, particularly ad - He was a graduate of the Patri - Papas has been researching archal Theological School of veterans and post-traumatic Continued on page 6 Halki where he received his stress disorder (PTSD) for three Theological degree. years and is preparing for the He was ordained to the Dia - production of a 15-minute short conate in 1954 and to the Holy subject, Tango on the Balcony, Priesthood in 1956. He was ele - which he plans to turn into a Diplomats are vated to the rank of Archiman - feature film. drite in 1959. He served He believes people are not Heading Back parishes in Belgium, where he aware of the full cost of war, not studied at the Catholic Univer - only in terms of deaths, but of sity of Louvain. From 1960 to lives damaged and families shat - To Greece 1969 he was assigned to the tered. Archdiocese of Germany in sev - Alexander Hamilton Chapter Celebrates 90th Anniversary Papas, however, doesn’t want By Demetris Tsakas eral capacities and served to rehash the causes but to shine TNH Staff Writer parishes in Berlin and Nurem - The past and the future were in the spotlight when the Alexander Hamilton Chapter of the a light on hope and moving for - berg before being appointed as Order of AHEPA celebrated its 90th Anniversary at the facilities of Graycliff Fine Catering. Seen ward. NEW YORK – The current Con - with scholarship recipients are Christopher Morgan, Chapter 54 president, Louis Arvanitis, sul General of Greece in New Continued on page 9 Scholarship Committee Chairman, and Andrew Zachariades, Supreme Secretary. Continued on page 6 York, Ambassador George Il - iopoulos, and his predecessor, Ambassador Aglaia Balta, cur - rently serving as Greece’s am - WITH THIS ISSUE bassador to Chile, will be return - Remembering Stratakos, Early Jazz Musician ing to the headquarters of the Greek Foreign Ministry. It is not known when they will leave By Steve Frangos cially remembered, within the ments. sent details of his life that will their current posts. TNH Staff Writer inner circles of jazz musicians Greek-American historical gain in importance as this ac - Balta is warmly remembered and historians, as one of the ear - studies also seem to inevitably count progresses. in New York and Iliopoulos has CHICAGO- Ellis Stratakos was liest proponents of “sweet” and involve of in questions related On December 1, 1903, Ellis earned the community’s respect one of the earliest musicians to so (as the jazz musician’s in- to family. Unexpectedly, for our Stratakos was born in New Or - through his dedication and by play the American created form group slang has it) “hot” jazz. survey here, during the time-pe - leans, LA to Greek immigrant participating in its events and of music now known as jazz. Jazz revival groups such as the riod under review, Louisiana, Louis George Stratakos (b. abt supporting its organizations. Starting as little more than a New Orleans-based New Mississippi and Texas were all 1870) and Ernestine Enoul Li - The decision was made on teenager Stratakos played as a Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Or - states that Greek immigrants vaudias (b. abt 1876). Accord - trombonist in various bands and chestra proudly credit Stratakos with the surname of Stratakos ing to available records Louis Continued on page 10 orchestras throughout his ca - and his Orchestra for a number lived and worked. Given the Stratakos and Ernestine Livau - reer. In time Stratakos headed of their recordings. Yet for all of broad array of news articles we dias were married in New Or - his own orchestra touring back this attention by musicians and must also assume that the resi - leans on September 23, 1896. and forth throughout the Gulf jazz aficionados there is only dents of small towns and cities Louis Stratakos was born in a For subscription: States from Louisiana to Florida. scattered information about this along the Gulf of New Mexico small village near Sparta. At 718.784.5255 A well accepted fact of Jazz his - musician in print and on surviv - shore knew this wider cast of some point in the early years of [email protected] tory is that the Ellis Stratakos ing 78rpm records; we know characters quite well.