Well, we're in the final stretch of the race to the Supreme Convention in San Diego. Many dedicated AHEPANs and Daughters have devoted a considerable amount of time and energy to make this year's convention even better than it was 36 years ago - the last time it was held in San Diego. The probability is high we'll achieve that goal, because many of the same people who worked the convention in 1963 are working it today! Our primary responsibility, at the local level, is to create a successful album book. A well published album can generate significant net proceeds; this is seed money our local AHEPAN and Daughters chapters can use to further their educational and charitable programs. I urge everyone to volunteer and contribute to the extent you are able. Any questions can be directed to any chapter officer or either of the two Convention co-chairmen: Chris Zazas or Alex Rigopoulos. Remember the district convention too; it's the first weekend in June in Los Angeles.

Congratulations to the Golf Tournament committee members for another outstanding athletic event this year. This annual fundraiser was enjoyed by all, and was a tremendous success, judging from the final tally. It allowedus a focused moment to remember and honor our dearly departed brother John Deveros. I know he would have been proud of all of us and feel he was there in spirit with us.

Speaking of all the funds we're raising, we are nearly finished with the draft By-Laws for the charitable foundation. The formation of this foundation, out of our existing endowment fund, is the primary objective of our investment committee. We are pushing to keep the momentum going and plan to have a status review next month.

In June we also plan to have another initiation. Please forward applications for all candidates to D.A. George and he will forward each person an information package. Our scholarships deadline is June 15^th; there is still plenty of time to get them in, so please give them out to all eligible students. Many surveys have been completed and returned, but we still need more feedback. Please take a moment to fill it out and return it either by mail or at the next meeting. Preliminary feedback shows interest in changing our meeting location to a place that is more easily accessible and where we can bring a bit of food to make our meetings more social. To that end, we approached the parish council at Ss Constantine and Helen and were given the OK to use the senior center to hold our AHEPA meetings and the adjacent hall for the Daughters. In addition to the benefits mentioned above, this common meeting location would also allow spouses to car-pool and enjoy the guest speaker portion of the evening. Please note that starting with the June 1^st AHEPA meeting, the new location will be the senior center at Sts. Constantine and Helen.

As this fiscal year comes to an end, we are generating a slate of officers for the new year. Please inform D.A. if you are interested in running for an officer position. I encourage everyone to consider running for an office as well as volunteering on committees. Having had the pleasure and honor to serve as treasurer for two years and now president for two years, I can truly say this is a wonderful way to fully experience the AHEPA at all levels.

Art

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

Nick Sacorafas 6/2

Sam Eulmi 6/8

Nick Gines 6/14

Nikolaos Ioannou 6/22

Georgios Ioannou 6/22

Byron Georgiou 6/22

Nick Vourlitis 6/28

Nick Alexander 6/30

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

Laki & Carol Vassiliadis 6/5

Thanos & Marina Karavokiris 6/8

Steve & Pam Williams 6/14

Nick & Aphrodite Sacorafas 6/17

Tom & Katerine Foster 6/17

Al & Mary Manos 6/17

Mike & Linda Merica 6/18

Craig & Linda Backacs 6/18

Dan & Barbara Regas 6/23

Evan & Catherine Vassilakis 6/27

Meeting Agenda - The following is the meeting agenda for the next Social/General Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, June 1, 1999:

District Convention Committee Report

Supreme Convention Committee Report

Investment Committee Report

Golf Tournament 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, June 17, 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.

The Elgin Marbles taken from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin and now displayed in the British Museum have created much controversy. Greece continues to prtition for their return, claiming that they are an unimportant symbol of Greek heritage, and the British Museum counters with the claim that after almost 200 years in England, the marbles are an integral part of British history and should remain in England. A new poll asked the British Parliament and public: "If there were a referendum on whether or not the Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece, how would you vote?" The results were surprising. In Parliament, 47% supported the return of the Marbles versus 44% who opposed it. The public response was 39% pro returning the marbles, 15% against, and 46% undecided or giving no answer.

The results of a 1996 BBC phone-in poll after a documentary on the marbles, during which almost 93% of the 99,340 people who called in supported the return of the marbles. (Article taken from the Archaeological Institute of America Journal, submitted by Brother Charley Kakos)

Think of all that you have instead of wishing for what you don't.

Be reminded that scholarship applications are due and expected by June 15, 1999. Do any of you members have a son or daughter or even a relative that may be looking to apply for a scholarship? The George Polos Chapter 505 Scholarship Foundation under the direction of its Scholarship Chairman Brother Nick Alexander has set specific parameters for worthy students to apply for the awards planned for recipients. The following is a description of considerations the scholarship committee evaluators will be reviewing:

As a member of the AHEPA Family, you are invited to apply for a scholarship made available through the George Polos Chapter 505, AHEPA Scholarship/Foundation. The purpose of this program is to grant scholarships to worthy college students who themselves or members of their immediate families reside within San Diego County, and who are either Ahepans, Daughters of Penelope, Sons of Pericles, Maids of Athena, or any of the Greek Orthodox parishes of San Diego County and Temecula. All completed applications will be evaluated by an impartial Scholarship Committee.

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP, THE APPLICANT MUST:

1. Be currently enrolled in an accredited university or college with a minimum of 12 units per term;

2. Complete all pages of the application ENTIRELY;

3. Provide one (1) or more recommendations written on official stationery from one of the following:

a. Officer of Ahepa Family;

b. Professor, teacher or counselor; or

c. Member of the Clergy.

4. Write an essay of 500 words or less describing any special circumstances the applicant wishes the Scholarship Committee to take into consideration when evaluating the application. For example:

a. Career aspirations

b. Honors classes/activities

c. Extracurricular/community activities

d. participation In AHEPA and/or church related activities

5. Obtain an official transcript of the applicant's most current semester ended and mail with application;

6. Have an earned Cumulative Grade Point Average of at least 3.0;

7. Must not have been a recipient of a scholarship from this Chapter more than two (2) prior occasions.

TO BE CONSIDERED, SUBMITTALS MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN THE DEADLINE OF JUNE 15, 1999.

Mail to: Dr. Nicholas M. Alexander

8390 Cliffridge Lane

La Jolla, CA 92037

(Scholarship Applications are available from any member of the Scholarship Committee or the Chapter Secretary, Brother D. A. George, Phn: 273-2868 or Fax: 273-0416).

I had reservations about giving Elie Wiesel the Athenagoras Award recently. I had not forgotten that some four-five years ago he had made a silly and provocative statement to the effect that the ancient Hebrew thinkers were prior to those of ancient Greece, a statement that met with some counter-arguments by people who not only vehemently disagreed with him but who accused Wiesel of being pretentious, sanctimonious and of helping to make the Holocaust an industry. During the time of the Athenagoras award, a letter writer in The Orthodox Observer protested, reminding the Greek Archdiocese that Wiesel had done little for peace and nothing for Greece. Now I see in an interview

in U.S.A. Today (12 April) that Wiesel sheds many tears for the Albanians but none for the Serbs. Wiesel, in fact, proves to be an apologist for the NATO bullies. He says of the bombings: "What else could we have done? ... If I say here I approve of the bombing, I hope that civilians will not be hurt. But when they are hurt, they are not victims of America or NATO. They are victims of Milosevic." NATO, NATO Uber Alles.

The American Embassy in Athens has accepted to be a conduit for the recruitment of baseball players from the United States. The Greeks, as you may know, wish to compete in baseball in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and, since baseball is unknown in Greece, they wish to recruit Greek Americans who can really catch and hit a baseball. If you know of anyone who may qualify for Greek citizenship and who can play exceptional baseball, contact David Simons in The American Embassy in Athens. Telephone 011-301-720-2023, or e-mail: usembassy@usisathens.gr

He is from Trikala, in Thessaly, his name Kostas Balanis, and he is thought to be "the father of the Stealth airplane." Balanis, who teaches Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona, came to the United States at the age of 17, married a Greek American and is the father of two daughters. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Ohio, taught at the University of West Virginia (1970-83) and is presently the Director of the Center of Telecommunication Research in the University of Arizona. In an interview in the Athenian daily Eleftherotypia, Dr. Balanis resists the appellation, "father of the Stealth," and says that the Stealth had many fathers of whom he is just one.

U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns presented a replacement of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery in combat, to the nephew of a Greek American hero of World War I. Georghios Rosakis accepted the medal in behalf of his uncle, Pvt. George Dilboy, who was the first Greek American to be awarded the distinct honor. Originally, the medal was posthumously awarded for Dilboy's bravery in the battlefields of France on July 18, 1918. That medal was taken from the Dilboy family home in Crete during the Nazi Occupation in World War II. When Amb. Burns heard of this, he asked the U.S. Army to provide a replacement.

Born in Alatsata, Asia Minor, Dilboy migrated and lived for a period in Somerville, Massachusetts. A statue in his honor (erected by a group of W.W.I Greek American veterans) stands outside the Veterans Hospital in Maywood, Ill. Another statue stands in Nea Erithrea, Greece, erected by the Association of Alatsatians.

Eric Schmitt and Steven Lee Myers writing for The New York Times (19 April) reported the following about Slobodan Milosevic: "Britain's foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, challenged Mr. Milosevic last week to admit to his people that he has bought three villas in Greece. European news reports also have spoken of funds funneled to Swiss banks through French accounts held by Mr. Milosevic's wife, Mirjana Markovic." I read this and sat wondering if it is true, and, if true, does NATO know where those villas are located, and, God forbid, do they have any Tomahawks aimed in that direction....

Carlos Picon, the curator in charge of Greek and Roman art in New York's Metropolitan Museum, is all excited and proud of the institution's revived Greek galleries. Calvin Tomkins, writing for The New Yorker (April 19), quotes the curator as exclaiming during a tour before the formal opening: "'Now look at our kore' Picon said proudly pointing out her long hair and the rounded curve of her buttocks, 'That is one of the best backsides in Greek art, and nobody has ever seen it. Early Greek works can look so contemporary because of their naivete, their joie de vivre, and their spirit of discovery.'"

"Olympia Dukakis: An Intimate Portrait," in the Lifetime Channel had the actress coming across as sensitive, lively, sincere and proud of her family and her ancestry. After a Degree and some employment in Physical Therapy, the famed thespian said that she tried acting and liked it. "Acting enabled me to experience and act out things that would be dangerous to do in real life." I watched this biographical sketch and came to the conclusion that Olympia is a classy trooper.

Lieutenant Mnrlnos Ritsoudis was detained last week after refusing to board the Greek navy destroyer "Themistokles," which was setting sail with NATO forces in the Adriatic. Though the vessel is not directly involved with the attacks in Yugoslavia, Ritsoudis objected to participating in an unfair fight against innocent fellow Orthodox Christians. Speaking in court, the lieutenant explained, "I cannot place the laws of God under the laws of the people." A military court sentenced Ritsoudis to two years in prison, but he has a right to appeal his sentence, which was suspended for three years.

Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis impressed quite a few U.S. politicians who heard him speak. He was especially judicious in arguing the Greek position on Kosovo to a group of scholars, newsmen and several prominent Greek-Americans at the Woodrow Wilson Institutional Center of Scholars. Lee Hamilton, while introducing the Prime Minister, did not omit to add: "The United States is in debt to Greece as to no other country. The debt is so enormous that we cannot repay it, but we can and we should acknowledge it."

In a conference in Athens, the Yugoslavian ambassador to Athens pointed out that the toll from the NATO bombs in his country (as of April 23) is 500 dead and 4,000 wounded, one third of them seriously. He also added, some 500,000 people have been rendered unemployed because of the bombardment. If this keeps up, only the bad guy Milosevic will be the one who is still keeping his job.

It may not make CNN or the national media, but it was reported here in California that Alex Spanos does it again. You may have read of the three young females who were found murdered in the Sierra foothills of Yosemite. One of them, 16-year old Silvina Peloso, was from Argentina, and the funds to transport her body to her native country were

not immediately available but Alex Spanos offered his Stockton-based corporate jet to fly the slain girl's remains. This not the first time that the Greek American owner of the San Diego Chargers has helped strangers in a crisis. Some three years ago he lent his jet to fly a woman from Stockton home after the woman was badly burned during a sojourn to Cambodia.

Kostas Papadopoulos, the brother of the junta strongman, died at the age of 78 in his cell in Korydallos Prison, early on Easter morning. Among those responsible for the dictatorship, the only ones now still in prison are Demetrios Ioannidis and Nikos Dertilis, both responsible for the tragedy of Cyprus and the massacre of the students in the Polytechnic. George Papadopoulos, the major figure in the coup has been in a hospital under guard, in horrible health, unable to move or speak.

Three Music Directors - George Tsontakis, Theodore Antoniou, Dinos Constantinides - conducted their orchestras in Carnegie Hall recently (April 26 - May 11) with numbers either from classical Greek composers (Skalkotas, Christou, Antoniou) or from better known composers of classical music, with pieces inspired by Greece (Ravel, Handel, Debussy, etc). The events were sponsored by the Foundation of Hellenic Culture, in New York, and the Speros Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, in Stockton, California.

Here is what a friend saw among the graffiti on the wall across from a high school in Athens: "We demand a pillow for each student, so as not to get a sore neck when we fall asleep on those damn school desks."

(Re-printed by permission of THE GREEKAMERICAN)

Greece's Prime Minister Costas Simitis and Culture Minister Elizabeth Papazoi attended the inauguration, on April 19, of the newly restored Greek Galleries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art which have been greeted with universal enthusiasm by the public and the city's leading art critics.

In the New York Times Of April 20, chief art critic Michael Kimmelman calls the new galleries "the most spectacular space to be opened in New York City since the renovation of Grand Central Terminal." Centerpiece for the Met`s $150 million plan for the display of its whole Greek and Roman collection, the new gallery, "essentially a passage way between the lobby and the museum's cafeteria is now one of the greatest public places in the city."

In the Wall Street Journal of April 21, art critic Anne Midgette writes: "As someone formerly left so cold by the Met`s old Greek and Roman galleries that it was many years before I discovered the love of Greek art, I was thrilled to see a new state-of-the-art display that draws attention to its beauty and is certain to inspire new love and interest in future visitors."

The new Greek galleries were also greeted with enthusiasm in a New York Times editorial on April 21, commenting that they quite literally let "new daylight in upon the Met's collection of Greek antiquities." And it continues: "The artifacts themselves have been cleaned and beautifully reordered, and if the light that pours in through the skylights, for the first time in more than 50 years, isn't actually Mediterranean, it is revealing enough to see the Mediterranean light that seems latent in the esthetic clarity of these objects."

(Taken from the May, 1999 Greek Embassy of Greece Bulletin).

I've learned that when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money and the man with the money ends up with the experience.

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

Dear Sisters,

Just a reminder that our next meeting will be held on June 8 at Vangie Sharpe's home. We will meet at 6:30 p.m. We will be having a Pot-Luck supper, so please call Vangie to let her know what you are bringing and hopfully the name of your guest you'ii be bringing along. We're looking for prospective members and members who have been inactive. Vangie's phone number is: 760-944-6422.

Mimi

1 3 lb. Red Snapper with head and tail, cleaned 2 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch dice

10 large sprigs parsley 2 tsp. olive oil

3 tbsp. salt, plus more to taste 3 tbsp. fresh lemon juice

1 onion, peeled and halved 1 1/2 cups olive-oil mayonnaise, homemade

2 large red potatoes (about 1 lb.), cut into 3/4-inch dice 1/4 cup drained capers.

1. Put the onion, parsley and salt in a fish poacher and fill with water to a depth of 4 inches. Bring to a boil over high heat. Place the fish in the water on a poaching rack, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.

2. With a sharp knife, remove the head and the tail and set them aside. Continue to cook the rest of the fish until the flesh parts easily from the bone, 5 minutes more. Remove the fish from the water and set aside to cool, about 20 minutes. Discard the poaching water along with the onion and parsley.

3. Meanwhile, place the potatoes and carrots in a small saucepan and cover with cool, well-salted water. Bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and set aside. Remove the flesh from the fish, discarding the bones and skin. In a large bowl, toss the fish with the potatoes, carrots, olive oil and lemon juice. Add 3 tablespoons of the mayonnaise and salt to taste and combine.

4. Place the head and tail of the fish at opposite ends of a large platter and mound the fish mixture between them, reconstructing its shape. Cover the fish mixture with the remaining mayonnaise and sprinkle with capers. Serve at room temperature.