Santa Barbara AHEPA Chapter 243

ORDER OF AHEPA
SANTA BARBARA CHAPTER #243
Established October 17, 1929
“Promoting the Harmony of Greek Culture, Service, and Community”
“Keeping the Spirit Alive”
http://www.Ahepa20.org/~chapter243/
www.ahepa20.org/chapters (easier for some)
**E-mail: ahepa243@gmail.com **
“Let’s get our projects in line in 2009”

MINUTES OF MARCH 24, 2009

From “the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People-“The early Greeks had a magnificent philosophy embodied in three sequentially arranged words; Ethos-your personal credibility/character, Pathos-the feeling/your relationships, Logos-logic/reasoning…first to understand and then to be used in presentations.

A little humor- I want to die while asleep like my grandfather,
Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

HAVE YOU VISITED OUR WEB SITE RECENTLY?

REMINDER: 2009 Ahepa Dues are now requested so we can pay our bills. Our Treasurers will Thank You!!

President Jim Arger called the meeting to order at 6:40 PM with 18 members and 1guest (George Fakinos) present.

The OPENING PRAYER -was presented by Bill Poulis

TREASURER’S REPORT-by Chris Compogiannis
-Savings acct=$9338, (Add $409-Happy Dollars) =$9747, then we paid out $1000 to the church (see last meeting), $285 for deposit to the park for the picnic in May, then monies to the District and National Ahepa for 14 memberships, and Fr. Simon ($729.76) and our resulting true balance is $1924.29.
We have a membership of 32 but have received 2009 dues for only 14 members.









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OLD BUSINESS-
Next month we will initiate four new members into our chapter.
President Arger will replace George Papazacharioudakis (who is ill) as chairman of the Independence Day celebration on March 29th. We discussed the program which will be along these general lines: City Mayor Marty Blum will arrive at approximately 11:30 AM. She will have a proclamation of Greek Impendence by the City Council and possibly by the Chamber of Commerce. Pheadon Kirakidis who is a professor of geology at UCSB will present the program of the day. He along with Voula will entertain us with folk music and instrumentals. The children of the parish will present their programs. We will present the food-Cod, rice salad, coffee, punch, and soda The DOP will provide the dessert. Cost is $10/adult, and $5/ child. Members volunteered for assignments to make this event successful. We Thank all who volunteered.
Brian Iorio reported on the May 16th BBQ. The park is reserved. The DOP will help. This should be a lot of fun for everyone. Benefit for the Sunday school. Brian suggested a $25 donation from members to purchase the food. Response from the members present was generous. If you wish you can donate at the April meeting. See Brian.

NEW BUSINESS-
Chris Compogiannis- Brought up the idea of sponsoring a golf tournament possibly at the San Marcos Golf Course. He suggested the month of October. He would like to discuss this with the church as this was their event up to two years ago. The motion was passed to explore this idea.
There may be a District 20 Visitation the week after our Easter. Details will be forth coming.
The DOP requested $100 or less to assist in the May 7th Bagels, and Baklava event with the Armenian, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish communities to be held at our Orthodox Center. We voted to contribute $50.
May 17th will be Ahepa Sunday. We share the costs with the DOP, and provide the koliva. We need to contact Carol Stathopoulos and give her the name of our recently departed brother, Peter Demourkas. We should have a display of Ahepa History. Jim Chachakos will oversee this aspect. We voted to spend only up to $100 dollars.
PDG Costa Frangos reported that we are working with the Kolendrianos family to set a date for the Rett Syndrome fund raiser. Our District and actress Melina Karakenides are ready. This will happen next year. Hopefully this evolves into a nat’l project.
President Arger led us in the closing prayer and closed the meeting at 8:05 PM.
April Birthdays: Chris Hartman (4/25), Gregory Pantages (4/16)
May Birthdays:George Alexiades (5/6),Alex Haimanis (5/3), Geo. Papazacharioudakis (5/11), Nic A. Pappas (5/22), Bill Pertsulakis (5/7), Bill Poulis (5/2).
OUR NEXT MEETING –APRIL 20TH AT HARRY’S PLAZA CAFÉ-BE THERE!
Respectfully Submitted,
(Brown), James Brown, Chapter Secretary.