• The earliest settlers from the European continent, and their entrance into California.
• The period from about 1769 when San Diego was founded and the beginning of the Mission Period and the mapping of Camino Real.
• Finding of gold in California in 1849.
• The brief moment of the California Republic. California's admission into the U.S.A. as a state in 1850.
• The Californios participation and test of their allegiance to the Union in the Civil War.
• Mr. Robert J. Garcia is a native Californian born in Ventura, California in October, 1919. He is a graduate of San Diego State University, is a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam serving more than 32 years in the U.S. Navy.
• This presentation will touch upon a very interesting period of California history. All members are urged to attend this most interesting program.

Art

Interested in an exciting, fulfilling, part-time (sometimes full-time) way to spend your off hours with interesting people? Here at AHEPA we have it all! Chapter and community activities, District events, and National Convention event planning! Forget about time spent wondering "...Hmm, what will I do today?"! We have a number of activities to get involved with, and we need more volunteer assistance. We have rescheduled the next initiation for the May 4th meeting; both new candidates and transfer/reinstatement members will participate.

On May 10th we will hold our annual Golf Tournament and dinner banquet. This is our single largest fund raising event (for our charitable endowment fund) and is thoroughly enjoyed by folks well beyond our own membership. This year's tournament is in honor of our dearly departed brother, John Deveros. Whether or not you are able to golf, at least come join us for dinner in the evening. Recalling all he did for his family, church, AHEPA chapter and community, we realize John's memory continues to inspire us, for everything he did was genuine, loving and kind, and was framed in a deep passion for his beliefs.

Chapter scholarships are now available from Dr. Nick Alexander, Scholarship Chairman, and DA George. Please distribute and promote them to everyone you know who is attending college. We have a collective responsibility to get the word out, so that all may have an opportunity to benefit from the chapter scholarships we currently offer: the AHEPA Chapter 505 & Costas Lyrintzis scholarships.

In this month's TA NEA, you will find a newly developed and more streamlined AHEPA membership survey form. Please take a moment to fill it out, and return it at the next meeting or mail it to our P.O. Box. Your opinion is very important to us because it will help us evaluate our performance over the year and give us additional feedback how to improve our organization.

The May and June meetings will also include a status report on the formation of our Charitable Foundation and policy discussions to inform our delegates on issues that will be voted on at the upcoming District and National Conventions. Please make every effort to attend.

Best Wishes and CRONIA POLLA to the following Brothers who are celebrating birthdays:

• Vince Janikas 5/1
• Laki Vassiliadis 5/12
• Aristidis Boutris 5/21
• Nick Anas 5/29

Happy Anniversary!!! to the following Brothers and their lovely brides who are celebrating wedding anniversaries:

• Nick & Georgia Vourlitis 5/12
• Ted & Mitzi Georgis 5/24
• George & Carolyn Koumaras 5/26
• Ioannis & Rita Kapsis 5/27
• Jim & Pamela Stathes 5/29

Meeting Agenda - The following is the meeting agenda for the next Social/General Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, April 6, 1999:

• Guest Speaker Presentation
• Greek Independence Day Celebration Report
• Supreme Convention Committee Report
• Old Business
• New Business
• Good of the Order

General Business Meetings - General Business Meetings will be held every third Thursday of the month. The next meeting will be Thursday, May 20, 1999, at the UCSD Faculty Club at 7:00 p.m. All elected and appointed officers are expected to attend. Any interested members may attend. Come and see your administrative board at work planning and coordinating for the better function and best events for the membership.

Costas Lyrintzis Memorial Scholarship Fund -

Brothers, we of the Hellenic Community of San Diego must keep Costas' memory alive, and we can do this by instituting a memorial scholarship in Costas' name. Please send your tax deductible contributions, in any amount to: Order of AHEPA, c/o George Polos Chapter 505, P.O. Box 2682, Del Mar, CA 92014.

We need TA NEA Advertisers! - This newsletter is budgeted to be funded and made possible by those that place advertisements into the publication. We have run some issues without Ads and we must not allow this to continue to happen! If we wish to continue this publication we must encourage more advertiser submissions.

Ad space rates are: one full page (8 1/2" by 11") $125 per issue, half page (5 1/2" by 8 1/2") $75 per issue and $25 for business card ads per issue. Please contact Brother D. A. George to place your next ad. All necessary art work will be created for you and as always, readers, please patronize our advertisers. Thank you.

Please Notify Us - Should you know of any Brother recovering from illness or surgery, or known to be hospitalized, please notify Brother Alex L. Rigopoulos at 233-7158 or 469-9239.

Newsletter Entries - Please direct all newsletter announcements for "TA NEA" to the editor: Brother D. A. George, (619) 273-2868, FAX (619) 273-0416 or e-mail: dageo@worldnet.att.net. All entries must be received by the 20th of each month.

K. C. Nicolaou, (Chairman and Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry, and professor at The Skaggs Institute), was honored with the prestigious Order of the Commander of Honor, presented by the Consul General of Greece in recognition of his "revolutionary approach to natural science." Nicolaou also received the Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public interest.

Nicolaou has produced and performed the first total chemical synthesis of several promising new anti-cancer compounds first isolated from rare corals and other marine organisms. To assemble these compounds in the laboratory, K. C. Nicolaou designed a multi-step strategy using such simple chemical building blocks as carvone, an oil readily available from caraway or dill seeds.

A series of recent developments signals growing international support, with accompanying action, for the return to Greece of the Parthenon Marbles removed and sold by Lord Elgin to the British Museum in 1816.

For the first time Greek Deputies in the European Parliament succeeded in obtaining a majority vote, by 339 out of the 626 members, for a formal petition calling for the return of the abducted sculptures. The vote on January 15 now directly involves the European Union in an issue which was previously a bilateral one between Britain and Greece. The petition was sent on February 8 to the Prime Ministers of Greece and Britain, the president of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, and to the president of the European Commission.

Greece's Minister of Culture, Evangelos Venizelos, said that the petition, stating that the return of the marbles "would be a timely act which would contribute to our common European cultural heritage," will facilitate the raising of the issue at the level of the EU's Council of Culture Ministers.

In Britain, where a recent poll showed that a majority of Britons would favor the return of the marbles by a two to one margin, the Europarliament vote was closely followed, on January 20, by the action of a bipartisan group of members of parliament who introduced a motion urging the British government to discuss with Greece the return of the Marbles. The motion proposes the beginning of the new millennium, or at the latest the opening of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, as opportune times for a "gesture of goodwill" which would allay fears that the action might affect other museum collections.

The MPs' motion further argues that the Parthenon Marbles constitute a single "artistic entity" and that their return is supported by UNESCO, which has designated the Acropolis as a world cultural heritage site. Lord Elgin, the motion adds, removed the Parthenon friezes "under terms and conditions which raise questions about his legal title to their ownership and therefore of any subsequent purchaser." It goes on to express concern about the damage caused to the sculptures by cleaning methods in the British Museum, in contrast with the safe-keeping of the ancient treasures which will be guaranteed in the new museum to be built near the Acropolis in Athens.

In Paris, after three days of discussions, a UNESCO committee considering the return of cultural treasures to their countries of origin, adopted on January 28 a recommendation instructing UNESCO's director-general to take immediate steps to promote bilateral negotiations between Greece and Britain on the issue. The committee also calls for UNESCO's participation, through its specialized consultative agencies, in all international scientific discussions on the maintenance of the Parthenon Marbles.

The UNESCO committee on the return of cultural property was established in 1978 and has members from 22 countries. It has succeeded in securing the return of illicitly obtained artifacts to Zambia and Cambodia--the latter from the Metropolitan Museum of New York. In addition to the issue of the Parthenon Marbles, UNESCO is also examining a request from Turkey for the return of an art treasure from Germany. It is noteworthy in this connection that the Paul Getty Museum in California announced on February 4 its decision to return to Italy a Greek terra cotta cup dating to 480 BC, and two second century Greek sculptures which had been stolen and smuggled out of Italy and acquired by the museum.

Meanwhile, British Eurodeputy Alfred Lomas, among the most active advocates of returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, arrived in Athens on February 4 to continue discussions on the issue with Cultural Minister Venizelos and others. Mr. Lomas, who was received by President Stephanopoulos and honored at a reception given by a group of Greek Eurodeputies, said at a press conference that Britain's cultural minister, if he took a walk on the Acropolis "on a day like today" would understand why that was the natural setting for the sculptures. "A popular government" he said, "cannot fail to be aware that the return of the Marbles to their place of origin is certainly an action that it owes to the people of England."

Another prestigious voice calling for the return of the marbles was that of the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who wrote to the British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles. In his letter, Yevtushenko, who is a member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, said: "Greece is the cradle of world culture . . . All of us have to be spiritual columns of the resurrected Parthenon. Each crumb of its ruins has to be given back to the land where it was created."

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you got tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich

This year's celebration of Greek Independence Day was filled with song, poetry, reenactments, and nostalgic tributes. Those present traveled back in time to when the Greeks fought to rid themselves from barbaric tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. March 21, 1999 marked our tribute to those heroes who valiently gave their lives for peace and independence.

The theme of this year's celebration (The War of 1821), was delivered by all the Brothers and Sisters depicted in these photographs. Our sincerest thanks to the following groups,

committees and individuals who made this year's Celebration a success:

• Sts. Constantine & Helen's Greek School
• Myrtali Anagnostopoulos, Feri Bola, Teachers
• Sts. Constantine & Helen's Armonia Dancers
• Tony Petroulias, James Rigopoulos, Instructors
• George Anagnostopoulos Costas Brown
• Athens Market Cafe Pete & Shirley Ellis
• Global Insurance Services Nick Gines
• Mimi Howland George Karetas
• John Koufoudakis James Mellos, III
• Merica Insurance Services Michael "O Papas" Merica
• Christis Michaelides George Pappas
• Art & Hillery Pathe Chris Pathe
• Phil & Carol Pekras James Caldes
• Rev. Father Theodore Phillips Premier Food Services
• Alex & Jeannette Rigopoulos Nick Sacorafas
• Sam's Cheesecake Vangie Sharpe
• Peter Shenas Ellie Theofilopoulos
• Christina Vassilakis Nick & Margarita Zambus
• Evan "O Gero Dimos" Vassilakis
• St. George Serbian Orthodox Church

Who has not heard or read of the Trojan War, of Homer and of Ulysses, that crafty hero of Greek myth and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the most famous works of all time? No civilized man exists who

has not come across the Odyssey--the tale of the wanderings of Ulysses--at school, at university, in plays, poetry, history or geography, who has not learnt of the plights and ploys of 'much-enduring' Ulysses in the ten years it took him to come home after the Fall of Troy.

The Trojan War, waged in about 1200 BC, was a campaign organized by the Achaeans from Greece to bring back fair Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, who had been abducted by Paris, son of King Priam of Troy. Homer describes the siege of Troy in the Iliad and Ulysses' return in the Odyssey. The Iliad and the Odyssey are the first and most celebrated epic poems in the literary heritage of Europe.

Whether the abduction of Helen was really the reason for the expedition against Troy, as Homer says, or whether the city was conquered in the Achaeans' attempt to gain economic and political domination of the coast of Asia Minor, is not the issue that concerns us here. Here we shall follow Homer.

The Center for Greek and European Studies and Education for Tourism of the University of Piraeus, in collaboration with the Greek National Tourism Organization, has taken the initiative of promoting 'Ulysses' Voyage'--nationally and internationally -- as a 'Cultural Route.' Four countries--Greece, Italy, Malta, Tunisia--four Universities and four National Tourism Administrations have decided to bring 'Ulysses' Voyage' to life, to present it to the public, giving today's travellers the opportunity of following the hero's trail in these four lands. In visiting places, where Ulysses came ashore, linked to the epic in folklore, tradition and mythology, discerning tourists will retrace the route of his journey home and enjoy the 'day of return.'

So they will mentally relive the wandering of 'much-roaming' Ulysses, without his trials and tribulations, on a unique trip through reality and fantasy.

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Myth, history, poetry, geography, or imagination? How true are those things sung of by Homer in the eighth century BC, five centuries after the age of Ulysses' Voyage? Is the Odyssey fact or fiction? Do the lands described exist and where?

Four eminent scholars and their collaborators have grappled with these questions. From Greece Professor Phanis Kakridis, president of the Center of Odyssean Studies; from Italy Professor Marcello Gigante, Head of the Department of Classics at the University of Naples; from Tunisia Professor Mhamed Fantar, Head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University Institute of National Heritage; from Malta Professor Anthony Bonanno, Head of the Department of Classical Studies and Archaeology at the University of Malta. To all we are especially grateful. Utilizing ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and modern sources they have tried, as authoritatively as possible, to determine Ulysses' most likely route, drawing on tradition, scientific research and the opinion of various scholars.

History and mythology, geography and folklore, literary texts; all have helped in determining this route. But we should not forget that Homer was above all a poet, that three thousand years have passed since the epics were composed and that many books have been written on the geography of the Odyssey with more than 70 bold theories claiming that Ulysses, starting from Greece, visited the ends of the earth, America, the North Sea, the Black Sea and other remote places.

Nevertheless in this research, from the poetic description and the sources, the positive elements leading to specific lands today appreciably outnumber those that are open to question. It is moreover an astonishing fact that so many place names have survived over the centuries: the hill of Cirec--Monte Circeo, the cave of Calypso, the islands of Aeolus, the rock of the Cyclops, Cythera, Cape Maleas, Ithaca, where Ulysses' voyage began and ended. Impressive too is the vitality of tradition in today's local populations that feel as if they have lived the wanderings of Ulysses.

Let us try and follow him in our imagination.

Ulysses left Ithaca with 12 ships and joined the rest of the Achaean fleet at Aulis in Boeotia. There had been consultations beforehand between the kings of the Achaean cities in different parts of Greece, in Sparta, Pylos and above all 'goldrich' MYCENAE (1), head of the expeditionary force was King Agamemnon of Mycenae.

Following consultations at Mycenae the Achaean fleet massed at Aulis, whence Ulysses came like the other kings. As soon as favorable winds began blowing, after the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the armada set sail for Troy. Sailing eastward the Achaeans dropped anchor at DELOS (2), the sacred isle where Apollo, who with his prophetic powers foretold that the Achaeans would capture Troy in ten years hence and gave them directions on how to reach the city.

The siege of TROY (3) lasted ten years. In the tenth year the Achaeans captured the city using, on Ulysses' advice, the ruse of the Wooden Horse. And then began the voyage home. Ulysses left Troy with his ships and his first port of call was Thrace, the land of the Ciconians, who were allies of the Trojans. He captured their capital Ismaros, now identified as the citadel of Aghios Georgios near present-day MARONEIA (4).

After Ismaros Ulysses veered south, homeward bound. But strong, northerlies around Cape Maleas and Cythera drove him off his westward course for Ithaca, and the stormbattered hero reached North Africa, the land of the Lotus-Eaters, identified as DJERBA (5) in Tunisia.

From the land of the Lotus-Eaters Ulysses sailed on to the land of the Cyclops, which Italian researchers located near Etna, at ACI REALE (6) in eastern Sicily. There Ulysses blinded Polyphemus, incurring the wrath of the Cyclop's father, the god Poseidon, whose vengeful harassments prevented him from reaching Ithaca for many years.

From the land of the Cyclops Ulysses came to the kingdom of Aeolus, custodian of the winds, who welcomed him companions. Homer's description of the island of Aeolia and the other geographical evidence led many scholars to identify it with MALTA, (7) for seen from afar its southern shores with their towering, sharp, bronze-green rocks give the impression of a floating island. Aeolus decided to help Ulysses return to Ithaca. But shortly before reaching their destination Ulysses' sailors opened the leather bag and the winds rushed out. They whipped up a storm that blew Ulysses and his companions back to Malta. Angry Aeolus sent them away and they continued their voyage towards the western tip of Sicily, to the land of the Laestrygonians.

In the Tyrrhenian Sea, north of Sicily and south of Naples, are some small islands which are called after the main one the Lipari islands or the Aeolian islands. Some scholars maintain that Lipari or Stromboli is Aaotia. But the Aeolia described by Homer bears little resemblance to these islands. Nor could Ulysses have arrived offshore of Ithaca from Lipari and Stromboli and the aid of Zephyrus, the west wind, as Homer describes, and then return to Aeolia, because the whole of southern Italy and the Straits of Messina lie between these islands and Ithaca. There is an archaeological museum on Lipari, with some exhibits referred to in the Odyssey. Lipari

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and Stromboli with its volcano are interesting places to visit.

Laestrygonia was Ulysses' next stop, northwest of Malta. Scholars place it on the western edge of Sicily, at MOZIA (8) near Trapani. There the Laestrygonians, fierce giants, destroyed all Ulysses' ships except his own.

The winds led Ulysses in his sole ship northeast to Aia, the land where the sorceress Circe dwelt. Lying between Rome and Naples, this place is still called MONTE CIRCEO (9). Once Ulysses managed to restore his companions to human form, for Circe had transformed them into swine, he descended to Hades to learn from the seer Teiresias when he would reach home. Italian scholars locate the entrance to Hades and the Acherousian Lake at Lake Avernos near Naples.

A lake called Acherousia, a river still called Acheron and a Necromanteion (Oracle of the Dead) exist in Greece, near Parga on the mainland opposite Corfu, and are well worth a visit. Proceeding upstream from the estuary of the Acheron, either by a small boat or by land, one arrives at the river's source and the ruins of the Necromanteion, an especially interesting journey and a unique experience.

From Circe Ulysses travelled southward, bound to the mast of his ship, and with his companions' ears blocked with wax, he passed in front of the Sirens, who are thought to have lived on the GALLIS ISLETS (10) in the bay of Naples. Further south he tried to pass between the terrible Scylla and Charybdis, at the STRAITS OF MESSINA (11) between Italy and Sicily. From there in the mist, the winds and the tempest, tossed by the waves, with a few companions and his ship Ulysses was cast ashore in the kingdom of Helios, at Thrinakia in Sicily, today's TAORMINA (12). There his companions disobeyed him and slaughtered the sacred

cows of Helios, invoking the wrath of Zeus.

On leaving here Ulysses' ship was caught in a storm sent by the enraged Zeus. The vessel sank, drowning all his companions. All alone and shipwrecked, he came to rest on the island of the immortal nymph Calypso, Ogygia, considered to be the small island of GOZO (13) just north of Malta.

Ulysses stayed with Calypso for eight years, until the gods of Olympus decided he had been punished enough by Poseidon and Zeus. When Calypso announced to him that the gods would allow his return to Ithaca, he left Ogygia on a raft. Exhausted, he eventually reached Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians, present-day CORFU (14). There he recounted his adventures to Alcinous, the king, and his daughter Nausicaa, and there his peregrinations ended. Alcinous provided him with a swift ship and sent him to his native ITHACA. Ulysses returned at last, after an absence of twenty years.

That was, according to the most plausible possible approach, the voyage of Ulysses, the Odyssey.

Special Announcement

We would like to offer our heartfelt Congratulations to an addition to our local AHEPA Family! Please join me in congratulating Brother James Rigopoulos and his lovely wife Marianne for their recent blessing, the birth of their healthy baby girl Christiana, born April 2, 1999 at 2:28 p.m. weighing 6 lbs. 10 oz.

Her brother Alexi told us he has a different name for his sister. He named her "Azalea" he likes it better.

Congratulations again and may the good Lord bless.

Note what The New York Times reviewer says in his assessment of David McDowell's A Modern History Of The Kurds:

"The Ottomans used the Kurds, who were willing accomplices, to be sure, in the genocide against the Armenians. By April 15, some one million Armenians had been killed by the Kurds in eastern Turkey. Almost immediately thereafter, the Ottomans turned their might on the Kurds themselves. By the end of 1917, forcible resettlements, famine and disease had killed off as many as half the Kurds in the east. Sulaimaniya, a major Kurdish center, for example, had a prewar population of 20,000. By 1918, it numbered 2,500." The next paragraph of the commentary begins with these words: "But the worst was yet to come ".....

For being hospitable to Abdullah Ocalan, the Turkish president Demirel suggested that Greece be branded "an outlaw nation." The irony is that he said this at the same time as some 30,000 Turkish soldiers were illegally entering the territory of Iraq for the 20th time, in violation of international law and oblivious to Iraqi protests, so as to hunt down Kurdish guerrillas.

A seminar entitled "The Parthenon Marbles: Their History and Purpose" was sponsored in Washington recently by the Society for the Preservation of Greek Heritage. Among the 100 or so participants were New York Times columnist Karl

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Meyer, William St.Clair (author of Lord Elgin and the Marbles), Stanford Law Professor John Merryman, Berkeley's Stephen Miller and the archeologist Alexandros Mantis. Notable among the presentations was Prof. Merryman's statement that Greece should not and cannot claim that the marbles were illegally removed (they were not, by the laws existent at the time). The best approach, he suggested, is for Greece to convince UNESCO and the British that it can protect the marbles within the walls of the new Acropolis museum, where they belong.

"The first Greek Victim of Viagra," smirked the headlines in Greek newspapers. They were referring to a 49-year old farmer who was taken to the hospital with a massive heart attack after he finished enjoying himself with a young Romanian prostitute. Upon being questioned, he told the doctors at the hospital in Patras that he had taken the performance-enhancing pill, even though he was a mild diabetic. Viagra, by the way, is not legally sold in Greece because the price has not been determined by the government. The pills are brought from other countries, however, and they're often sold in the black market.

It is quite something to see ninety-year old Elia Kazan receive an honorary Oscar, after all those years of being ostracized by the Academy for having testified against friends during the Communist scare. Many have condemned the famed director for this, but no one has questioned the man's talent and directorial achievement. Much is being written about giving him the award. Among them, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times (28 Feb.) defended the honored director ("If Elia Kazan had exposed Nazis, would he have been condemned?") while chastising those who have been driven "into orgies of self-righteous frenzy."

U.S. Ambassador to Greece, R. Nicholas Burns, gave an exclusive interview to Robert Caldwell of The San Diego Union-Tribune (28 Feb. 1999) and here are some of the highlights:

U.S. support of the military dictatorship of 1967-74 was "a great mistake in hindsight." A mistake, also, that "we did not oppose Turkey's Cyprus invasion in 1974."

"There were no two more polar opposites than Andreas Papandreou and Ronald Reagan in the 1980's."

"It's an astounding fact to me as a diplomat that between 1994 and the beginning of 1998, a year ago, not a single American secretary visited Athens. This is not Papua, New Guinea, this is a NATO ally, a place where 3 million Greek Americans provide the bridge for the two countries. Not one American visitor which shows you and tells you how poor the relationship was."

"I cannot say that we have helped [Greece & Turkey] to resolve the fundamental problems between them. They persist. It's a big interest of ours."

"We're trying to build an economic relationship that because of state socialism here had driven out a lot of American businesses. In 1998 the lowest level of American investment was in Greece."

"We had five American diplomats killed here in the last 23 years at the hands of the same terrorist group called 17th of November and they've wounded 30 Americans. We spend more money to protect our diplomats here, our diplomatic community in Greece, than in any other city in the world." Regarding the U.S stand on the dispute with Turkey, the Greeks say to me, "even if you are strictly neutral, that neutrality automatically translates to the benefit of the Turks because we have no expansionist aims, we're just trying to preserve the legal status quo. So when the Turks are aggressive and you're neutral, it helps them. I've heard that everyday of my tenure here and I'm sure I'll continue to hear it."

Millyet, the Turkish daily, reports (Feb.27) that Syria is negotiating the purchase of Russian-made S-300 missiles worth $2 billion. Not included in the article was anything about the reaction of the Turkish military to the news. Will they bully and threaten Damascus as they did Nicosia and Athens?

Though the Kurds ransacked our consulates and embassies, still the Greeks came to their aid. Not only did we help the women followers of Ocalan who had barricaded themselves in our embassy in Kenya, but upon their return a score of Greek entertainers volunteered to hold a concert-rally in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle. Then comes this Kurdish woman, a PKK secretary by the name of Semsi Kilic, who was just freed by our intervention in Kenya, and accuses the Greek government officials of betraying Ocalan and of being conspirators in his capture. The ingratitude and unfairness inherent in her charges outraged Mikis Theodorakis who withdrew from the solidarity concert and accused Ms.Kilic of being rude, ungrateful and of insulting Greece. From where I stand, I couldn't agree more. Mr. Theodorakis is not only a most talented composer, but, in my view, he has always been a most judicious and valiant political thinker.

(Re-printed by permission of THE GREEKAMERICAN)

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. S. Maugham

H FWNH THS FILIAS (The Voice Of Philia) DAUGHTERS OF PENELOPE PHILIA, CHAPTER #380

Dear Sisters,

We have had a change of plans again for our next meeting. We will not be meeting at Vangie's for our May 4 meeting and pot-luck as we announced previously. Instead we will be meeting at the Faculty Club at U.C.S.D. the same night as the AHEPA Chapter on May 4 at 7 p.m. If you need a ride, please call someone in your area to carpool.

Our pot-luck will be held at Vangie's on June 1 at 6:30 p.m. Please call me to let me know what you can bring, or sign up at the next meeting. We're hoping you will bring a guest to this meeting. Someone who might be interested in joining our Chapter. Remember that we no longer have to be of Greek heritage or be related to a member of the AHEPA or Daughters of Penelope. That opens it up for any woman of good Christian character. Think about this and let's see everyone come with a guest to learn about our organization and spend an enjoyable evening of good food and fellowship.

In Theta Pi,

Mimi

9 sheets filo dough 1/2 cup grated white chocolate

2/3 cup butter, melted 1/2 cup toasted and ground macadamia nuts

3 ripe bananas Caramel Sabayon Sauce (recipe follows)

Stack three filo sheets, brushing melted butter on each layer before adding another sheet. Cut each of the three layered stacks of filo in half lengthwise. Repeat process until you have six separate stacks of three layers. Cut bananas into 4-inch lengths and split them lengthwise. Place 1 banana half on each strip of layered filo. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of chocolate and nuts over banana. Roll filo around banana once, the fold in sides about 1 inch and continue to roll up. Brush with butter and place seam side down on cookie sheet. Bake banana in preheated 375^o oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with Caramel Sabayon Sauce.

1/2 cup brown sugar 1 cup heavy cream

4 egg yolks 1 cup melted semisweet or bittersweet dark chocolate

In top of double boiler, over hot water, mix sugar and egg yolks. Heat until hot to touch, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Using electric mixer, whip at high speed until stiff and thick. In small bowl, lightly whip heavy cream and fold into sugar mixture. Spread sauce on plate. Place a few dime-size drops of chocolate onto sauce. Run toothpick through sauce and melted chocolate to create an attractive design. Place filo banana on sauce. Drizzle with melted chocolate.