All events at the Marriott Hotel & Marina by the San Diego Convention Center. Prepaid reservations a must for the Grand Banquet
prior to June 29, 1999. The Saturday night Greek Glendi, and the Grand Ball Tuesday night pay at the door. Mail your check and
reservation card (see next page) to the address: Victoria Square, 222 Ash Street, San Diego, California, 92101.
For more information contact: Kitsa Koutsoukos (619) 447-4424 or Jannette Rigopoulos (619) 469-9239
NEXT MEETING
TUESDAY
JULY 13, 1999
7:00 p.m. Meeting
SS. CONSTANTINE and
HELEN GREEK
ORTHODOX CHURCH'S
SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
Greek Men serving Greek Community
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President's Message
At the onset of summer, people usually start thinking about
vacations, and laying back and relaxing as the days get longer
and warmer. The national AHEPA, in keeping with the spirit,
is preparing a great summer convention over July 4th weekend.
This is an opportunity to participate in an international Hellenic
event right here in San Diego. If you haven't done so already,
please send in your convention registration or, if you plan to
only attend the social events, your RSVP. And tell your friends
too! You don't have to be an AHEPAN to attend (although
we'd love you to join!) For information call Alex Rigopoulos
or Chris Zazas.
Congratulations to our newly elected chapter officers for
1999-2000. Costa Brown, 1st VP, George Pappas, 2nd VP,
D.A.George, Corresponding Secretary, Nick Gines, Treasurer,
Harry Koutrouvelis, Recording Secretary, and yours truly, as
President (thanks again), are excited and have started planning
for the upcoming year. We need your help looking for fresh
ideas for social events, fundraisers and charities suitable to our
organization's mission. We are taking our cue for ways to
improve our chapter from the surveys we've received thus far;
please take a moment to fill it out and send it in.
A big change is our meeting location. With the exception of
the July meeting, we will now meet at Ss. Constantine and
Helen in the senior center on the 1st Tuesday (SOCIAL/business
meeting) and on the 3rd Thursday (BUSINESS/social meeting);
the July meetings will be held one week later due to the
convention, i.e. the 13th and the 22nd. The meetings will start
at 7:00 pm and we will endeavor to keep them interesting and
to 2 hours maximum; we will not go dark over the summer
months. The Daughters will also meet the same evening
(Tuesdays only) in an adjacent meeting room; this way spouses
can ride together to their respective meetings. We also plan to
offer something light and tasty to nibble on at our meetings, so
we hope to see more of you attend.
On a social note earlier this month, we had the pleasure and
honor of witnessing the marriage of Despina George and
Angelo Georggin. The ceremony was beautiful (as was the
bride) and the reception magnificent. Please join me in wishing
D.A. and Vasiliki George congratulations for their daughter's
wedding. Na mas zissoune!
See ya'll in town at the national convention!
Art
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of
people: those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less
competition. Indira Gandhi
CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Best Wishes and CRONIA POLLA to the following Brothers
who are celebrating birthdays:
Charley Kakos 7/1
Angelo Mylonas 7/3
Mehran Aram 7/4
K.C. Nicolaou 7/5
John Frangos 7/8
John Hrissikopoulos 7/10
Marinos Drakos 7/17
Harry Anthony 7/28
D.A. George 7/29
Happy Anniversary!!! to the following Brothers and their
lovely brides who are celebrating wedding anniversaries:
Mike & Marianne Pekos 7/2
Louis & Nancy Regas 7/7
Jim & Elizabeth Cappos 7/10
K.C. & Georgette Nicolaou 7/15
Paul & Ketty Anest 7/18
Kim & Lenore Trigonis 7/21
Peter & Connie Fellios 7/27
D.A. & Vasilia George 7/29
James & Marianne Rigopoulos 7/29
Meeting Agenda - The following is the meeting agenda for the
next Social/General Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, July 13, 1999:
District Convention Committee 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, July 22, 1999, at SS. Constantine and Helen
Senior Citizen Center at 7:00 p.m. All Officers and appointed
officers are expected to attend. Any interested members may
attend. Come and see your administrative board at work
planning and coordinating for better functions 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.
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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
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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
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20th of each month.
Greeks Bearing Gripes
By THOMAS O'DWYER
JERUSALEM POST (May 26) Everyone has at least one
friend whose capacity to earn admiration is balanced by an
equal ability to be infuriating. I have a simple word for the
type. Greeks.
Few nations are as adept at infuriating their best friends and
admirers. Lord Byron, still ubiquitous to this day in street
names and statues all across Greece, ranted and raved against
them as he died in a swamp while trying to help them fight for
independence. He called his Greek doctors a "damned bunch of
butchers" - tragically correct, for they bled him to death trying
to cure his fever.
H.D.F. Kitto, the Bristol University scholar who wondrously
dissected the mind of ancient Greece in his now classic
best-seller The Greeks, crept out of Athens after his first visit
in the 1950s, muttering "this is not my Athens, and these are
not my Greeks. During the 1960s and early '70s a junta of
fascist colonels ruled Greece.
In 1974, the junta expanded its plotting to the point of
destroying the government of peaceful little democratic Cyprus,
giving the opportunist Turks a great excuse to rip up the
carcass.
Mutter mutter
I used to fume then that the Greeks may have invented logic
and democracy, but for 2,000 years since had practiced neither.
They may be OK on democracy now, but the logic front still
looks distinctly shaky in the only NATO member state whose
people openly champion the enemy, Slobodan Milosevic.
A blind policy of "my nation right or wrong" transferred to"
my friends, especially when wrong" seriously clouds moral
choice in a world already sadly lacking moral courage.
Irate e-mails still arrive at this column reminding us that
Serbs saved Jews during World War II. So that means we must
wear blinkers now while Slobodan kills and cleanses? The
virtues of grandfathers are no more genetically transferable to
grandsons than their sins. Israelis in general (even in General
Sharon) have at least muted the disgraceful public apologia for
Serb atrocities, even if they still mutter under their e-mails.
Household cleanser
Not so the Greeks. The bonds of Christian Orthodoxy and
cultural brotherhood forged in the long Balkan struggle against
the enslaving Ottoman empire are still Immensely powerful.
But this is where Greek logic also breaks down - the ancient
wars for liberty were justified, the enemies of the enemy were
friends in need and in deed. But Bosnian and Kosovan Moslems
are not despotic pashas, they are wretched victims of the
wretched Milosevic and his twisted notions of a greater nation
of "racially pure" Serbs.
It would be nice if some Greeks as noisy as the Milosevicniks
would stand up and say so. The Greek junta of colonels claimed
to be heir to the greatness that was Greece - a case of the bleak
trying to inherit the earth.
Enough heroic Greeks were found to oppose this great lie.
Where are they now? Milosevic, too, has hijacked the greatness
that was the Serb nation and sent it to do his squalid little
household cleansing of humans he regards as cockroaches.
In Greece, opinion polls show near unanimous opposition to
the air strikes on Yugoslavia. This NATO member has refused
to take part in military actions against Serbia - although in
fairness to the official line, it allows the alliance to use Its
ports, and is providing logistical support.
Beam me up
Logistics! It's a long way from the nation that actually
invented smart weapons and sent the first military scientist,
Archimedes, to help an ally, the king of Syracuse.
The Romans besieged Syracuse in 213 BCE and Archimedes
not only deployed his newly discovered levers to catapult rocks
at the fleet, but rolled out a death ray - the Burning Mirrors of
Syracuse, huge concave reflectors that turned the suns rays on
the ships and mariners.
Unlike Milosevic, Marcus Marcellus collapsed under the first
Archimedean assault. (However, more like Arnie "I'll be back"
Schwarzenegger, he returned a year later, stormed Syracuse,
and accidentally killed Archimedes.)
Another Grecian news item last week also raised questions
about this religion the Greeks cite as a shared culture with the
Serbs.
The entire community of monks on historic Patmos Island
mutinied, took their abbot hostage, and barricaded the
monastery to protest against being collectively punished by the
Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate. Their sin? Actually, it's
sins, and lots of them - womanizing, misappropriating church
funds, buying a fleet of Mercedes, building villas instead of
cells.
It's a somewhat unorthodox Orthodoxy to say the least, and
the monks absolutely declined to repent. No poverty, no
chastity, and obedience? Bite me! "Repent, thy doom is nigh!"
is particularly appropriate here, and the monks have outraged
less "religious" Christians who are fiercely proud of the holy
ground of Patmos.
It was on Patmos that John, the "beloved disciple" of Jesus,
as an old man wrote the Book of Revelation. That's the last
book of the Christian Bible, and graphically details the
apocalypse at the end of days.
What's the matter with you Greeks? Has Glory now left with
Logic to booze it up with a couple of chicks in a monastery
villa and wait for the apocalypse?
Your friends are trying to win a fight for logic and
democracy out here.
RESPONSE:
Logic has abandoned Thomas O'Dwyer, I am afraid, not the
Greeks for objecting to the bullying of NATO and the
nearly-indiscriminate bombing of Yugoslavia. Why bomb
Yugoslavia because of the intransigence of Milosevic? Is
Milosevic Yugoslavia? Aren't the Serbs who were killed by
NATO bombs as innocent as the expelled Kosovars for whom
they shed so many tears? Why does not NATO protect the
victims of ethnic cleansing in its own backyard--the
Kurds of southeastern Turkey? The "cleansing" of the Kurds
(over 3,000 villages wiped out) has been going on for 15 years
and with crucial military help by the U.S. This is the hypocrisy
the Greeks resent; this is the unreason they oppose. What did
the NATO bullies achieve by the bombing, Mr.O'Dwyer?
Milosevic has not been dethroned and his popularity has, in
fact, improved. The expulsion of the Kosovars did not cease;
in fact it was accelerated (and vindictively) because of the
bombing. Meanwhile all of the Balkans are destabilized,
hundreds of Kosovars and Serbs died, thousands of innocents
suffer and will suffer, while China and Russia have been
alienated and angered--all because of the rational bombs of
O'Dwyer. His and NATO's is "the great lie," his and NATO's
is the unreason, not of the Greeks who have been asking for
negotiations, not death, for peaceful resolutions, not for the
destruction of a nation that fought on our side in two world
wars.
Prof. Minas Savvas
Did You Know . . .
Have you ever heard of the "PAP SMEAR"? Have you ever
wondered where it came from or how it came to be? The
following is a brief biography of an outstanding Hellene, Dr.
George N. Papanicolaou who discovered this amazing discovery
that is so important to women today.
We thank Brother V. E. "Bill" Haloulakos for making us
aware of this most interesting Greek pioneer.
George Nicholas Papanicolaou, born Kimi, Greece, 13 May
1883; died Miami, Florida, 19 February 1962.
The son of a physician, George Nicholas undertook the study
of medicine and received the M.D. from the University of
Athens in 1904. After postgraduate work in biology at the
universities of Jena, Freiburg, and Munich, from which he
received his doctorate in 1910, he returned to Greece and
married Mary Mavroyeni, the daughter of a high-ranking
military officer.
Papanicolaou decided to forgo the practice of medicine in
favor of an academic career, in which his wife served as his
lifelong associate. En route to Paris, Papanicolaou stopped for
a visit at the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco and accepted
an unexpected offer to join its staff. He worked for one year as
a physiologist and then returned to Greece upon the death of his
mother. After serving for two years as second lieutenant in the
medical corps of the Greek army during the Balkan War, he
immigrated to the United States.
In 1913 Papanicolaou was appointed assistant in the
pathology department of New York Hospital, and in 1914 he
became assistant in anatomy at Cornell Medical College. Until
1961 he conducted all of his scientific research, devoted almost
exclusively to the physiology of reproduction and exfoliative
cytology, at these two affiliated institutions, each of which
named a laboratory in his honor. He was designated professor
emeritus of clinical anatomy at Cornell in 1951. In November
1961 Papanicolaou moved to Florida and became director of the
Miami Cancer Institute, but died three months later of acute
myocardial infarction. The institute was renamed the
Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute in November 1962. An
indefatigable worker, Papanicolaou is said never to have taken
a vacation.
Papanicolaou is best known for his development of the
technique, eponymically termed the Papanicolaou smear, or
"Pap test," foe the cytologic diagnosis of cancer, especially
cancer of the uterus-second only to the breast as the site of
origin of fatal cancers in American women.
The history of cancer cytology dates from 1867, when Beale
observed-tumor cells in the smears of sputum from a patient
with carcinoma of the pharynx. He suggested the microscopic
examination of desquamated cells for the detection of cancer of
other organs, including the uterus and urinary tract.
Friedlaender noted, in his subsequent microscopic examination
of fluid exuding from ulcerating cancers of the uterus,
distinctive cellular elements that helped establish the diagnosis.
In 1908 Koniger called attention to the striking differences in
the size and shape of cancer cells obtained from serous cavities,
the abundance of vacuoles and fatty droplets in the cytoplasm,
the enlargement of the nucleus, and the presence of multiple
nucleoli within it.
Papanicolaou was invited by Charles R. Stockard, chairman
of the Cornell Medical School department of anatomy, to join
him in his work in experimental genetics. In 1917 he began a
study of the vaginal discharge of the guinea pig, with the hope
of finding an indicator of the time of ovulation; he would thus
be able to obtain ova at specific stages of development. He
sought traces of blood, as seen during estrus in certain other
species, such as the cow and bitch, and in the menstrual
discharge of primates and women. In the course of his daily
examination of the guinea pig vaginal fluid, obtained through a
small nasal speculum, Papanicolaou saw no blood. He noted
instead a diversity in the forms of the epithelial cells in a
sequence of cytologic patterns recurring in a fifteen- to sixteen-
day cycle, which he was able to correlate with the cyclic
morphologic changes in the uterus and ovary. Papanicolaou
thus established the technique that became the standard for
studying the sexual (estrous) cycle in other laboratory animals,
especially the mouse and rat, and for measuring the effect of
the sex hormones.
In 1923 Papanicolaou extended his studies to human beings
in an effort to learn whether comparable vaginal changes occur
in woman in association with the menstrual cycle. His first
observation of distinctive cells in the vaginal fluid of a woman
with cervical cancer gave Papanicolaou what he later described
as "one of the most thrilling experiences of my scientific
career" and soon led to a redirection of his work.
His early reports on cancer detection, however which
appeared from 1928, failed to arouse the interest of clinicians.
Cytologic examination of the vaginal fluid seemed an
unnecessary addition to the proven procedures for uterine
cancer diagnostic--cervical biopsy and endometrial curettage.
In 1939, while collaborating with the gynecologist Herbert
Traut, Papanicolaou began to concentrate his studies on human
beings. Their research culminated in the publication of
Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear. This
monograph encompassed a variety of physiologic and
pathologic states, including the menstrual cycle, puerperium,
abortion, ectopic pregnancy, prepuberty, menopause,
amenorrhea, endometrial hyperplasia, vaginal and cervical
infections, and 179 cases of uterine cancer (127 cervical and 52
corporeal). The work was instrumental in gaining clinical
acceptance of the smear as a means of cancer diagnosis, for
superficial lesions could thus be detected in their incipient,
preinvasive phase, before the appearance of any symptoms.
The Papanicolaou smear soon achieved wide application as a
routine screening technique. The death rate from cancer of the
uterus among women aged thirty-five to forty-four who were
insured under industrial policies by the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company was almost halved in the decade from 1951
to 1961, decreasing from 16.0 to 8.2 per 100,000; while the
corresponding reduction in the death rate from cancer of all
sites was from 74.0 to 66.0.
Although the Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology lists the criteria for
malignancy in the shed cells, Papanicolaou used to state that he
could not explain how he recognized a smear as positive for
malignancy any more than he could explain how to recognize
an acquaintance by describing his facial expression. Yet he
taught thousands of students how to detect cancer cells under
the microscope, and they carried his teachings to all parts of the
world: Papanicolaou's technique was rapidly extended to the
diagnosis of cancer of other organs from which scrapings,
washings, or exudates could be obtained. The principal value of
the Papanicolaou smear lies in cancer screening, but it is also
applied to the prediction of cancer radiosensitivity, the
evaluation of the effectiveness of radiotherapy, and the
detection of recurrence after treatment.
It has been suggested that Papanicolaou's work ranks with the
discoveries of Roentgen and Marie Curie in reducing the
burden of cancer. Cancer of the uterine cervix is nearly 100
percent curable when recognized in its incipiency.
Of All Things Greek
By MINAS SAVVAS
A study of the AIDS epidemic in Greece, reveals some
interesting facts about the sexual habits of middle class Greeks.
One hundred and eighty-four people (With a relatively active
sexual life) were interviewed from 1995 to 1997 under the
supervision of head epidemiologist Argyro Polihronopoulou.
Here are some of the findings: 6 out of 10 Greeks have never
used a prophylactic; 18 percent of those interviewed had at least
one homosexual relationship; while 5 percent said they were
gay.
NATO's Serbian adventure seems to me to be a reckless
blunder. Not only did we not stop the expulsion of the
Albanians of Kosovo, but we have worsened our relationships
with Russia and China. Not only have we destroyed bridges and
factories in Yugoslavia, but we have killed innocent Serbs and
Kosovars. And not only have we not weakened Slobodan
Milosevic, but we have made him stronger and more than ever
the Yugoslav patriot. Let us not mention the monetary costs for
everyone involved...
Antonis Karayannis, writing in Kathimerini (13 May),
lamentably informs us that several recently-built hospitals in
Greece with meticulous attentiveness to construction - and
usually accompanied by the usual Hellenic superlatives, "the
best in Europe." etc. - are not matched by the required well-trained personnel and the know-how necessary for their proper
operations. Advanced computers dialysis machines and state-of-the-art surgical equipment are in need of people
who know how to operate them. Failure in finding such people
has kept some of these hospitals closed. As examples,
Karsayannis cites the Papageorgiou Hospital in Thessaloniki
and the Regional Hospital in Larisa.
best in Europe,"
Yasar Kemal the Kurdish-Turk author, who is celebrated
among lovers of literature around the world, will have his
newest novel, Story Of An Island published in a Greek
translation by Themelio Publishers. The novel is a chronicle of
the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey, and
it relates the plight of Greeks and Turks, who, after living
peacefully for many generations, had to be uprooted from their
ancestral homes into a life of uncertainty, poverty and discord.
"Who created war may never know Paradise," one of his
novel's characters cries out. Kemal achieved fame in the world
of storytelling, and his books have been translated into 26
languages.
In Omonoia Square of Athens and elsewhere, recruiters from
Albania and Kosovo are busy trying to entice young men to join
the Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA, The Greek press has
reported that the promises for payment are generous since, as
widely alleged, the leadership of the KLA is heavily involved
in heroin trafficking. Meanwhile, according to U.S News and
World Report, the strategists of NATO are planning to use the
KLA as clearing-out front-line in the event that NATO deploys
ground forces.
To Periodiko, a Greek Cypriot journal, published a cute photo
of a boy and a girl with their arms around each other. They are
both about 4-5 years of age. The photo is accompanied by the
story of Ljutko Popic, who claims that he is the boy in the
picture and that the chubby little girl is U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright. Popic says that Albright' family was
sheltered by his family while the Albrights were escaping Nazi
persecution. Madeleine, he says, was his "first love" and he
wrote to her last month, mailed the photo to her, and asked her
to stop the bombing. She has not replied, Popic added.
An asparagus war has commenced between Greece and
France. A French asparagus association urged its members to
avoid Balkan asparagus because it was contaminated by the
fallout of the bombs in Yugoslavia. Since studies have shown
that at least Greek agricultural products have not been tainted
by the bombs, Greece's Agriculture Ministry protested to the
French and the European Union authorities, stating that "NATO
bombings may cause loss of fife and property, but offer no
excuse for 'a commercial war' on Greek agricultural products."
"We salute your talent," exclaimed in Athens the French
Ambassador Bernard Kengian, to 90-year old Dido Sotiriou,
as he gave the aged writer his country's Medal of the Legion of
Excellence. Sotiriou studied and lived is France for several
years, wrote dispatches from France during the war for several
leftist newspapers, studied under the celebrated Octave Merlier,
befriended Malraux, and wrote poetry and tales in various
Greek and French literary journals. Her famous last work is the
chronicle of the Greeks of Turkey, "Farewell, Anatolia.
"We put an X on the map, but we put the X in the wrong
place." This is how an American official explained the bombing
of the Chinese Embassy. Yet, if anyone followed the
consequences of the bombing closely (that convoy of 64
Kosovars that were blown to bits, for example) s/he will have
to conclude that a few too many Xs were "put in the wrong
place" in these state-of-the-art bombing missions. As of May
12, at least 14 bombings reportedly struck civilian targets - Xs
in the wrong place!
The Turkish daily Cumhuriyet was taken aback by a comment
made by Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou in Der
Spiegel magazine. The German publication asked him what he
thought of Ocalan being made an honorary citizenship by the
City Assembly of the region of Olympia. The Minister replied
that "The Ocalan issue has two sides. Turkey views Ocalan as
a terrorist whereas most Greeks consider him a warrior for
democracy and freedom. There are traces of truth in both
attitudes." Judicious though the comment may have been, it
"shocked and saddened" the Cumhuriyet columnist.
Since the Azeris are a Turkic people, the Turks of Istanbul
and beyond were disappointed and angry when the Azerbaijan
Football Federation chose Southern Cyprus (as the Turks prefer
to call it), and not the occupied north, to train its national
soccer team. "Shame!" exclaimed the Turkish sportswriters. "If
Azerbaijan wanted a warmer climate in which to prepare for
their Euro qualifier against Portugal," wrote The Turkish
Times (1 May), "they could have trained on the Turkish
Riviera in Antalya, just 40 miles north of the island of Cyprus.
Interestingly, Azerbaijan ignored Turkey and went out of its
way to select the so-called 'Republic of Cyprus.'"
Three thousand Athenians have a license to carry guns, while
some 40,000 others have applied to do so. The applicants are
mostly businessmen, afraid of the rise in property theft, but
there are also a good number of applications from simple
citizens of all genders, age and social station. Incidentally,
some 94 percent of those Greeks who do have a license to carry
a weapon, never used it.
Next June, Oxford University will pay homage to Greece's
national poet Dionysios Solomos. The celebration will coincide
with the publication of a volume of new select translations of
the poet's verse by author and translator Peter Thompson. The
volume's piece de resistance will be a double CD attachment of
songs composed by Yannis Markopoulos and based on
Solomos' masterpiece "The Free Besieged." Markopoulos was
invited by the University to conduct his orchestra in a world
debut of his new Solomos-inspired composition.
(Re-printed by permission of THE GREEKAMERICAN)
H FWNH THS FILIAS
(The Voice Of Philia)
DAUGHTERS OF PENELOPE
PHILIA, CHAPTER #380
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear Sisters,
Our July meeting will be postponed until the second Tuesday, July 13, 1999, because of the National Convention. We'll meet at the
Church at 7:00 p.m. and the agenda for the evening will include election of officers. The nominating committee will present their slate
of officers, but nominations will be accepted from the floor. If you are interested in running for an office, please contact Vangie Sharpe,
Chairman of the nominating committee. See you at the meeting.
Mimi
LEMON YOGURT CAKE
(Keik Lemoniou)
3 cups all-purpose flour Syrup:
1 tbsp baking powder 1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp. baking soda 1 1/2 cups water
1/2 tsp. salt 1/3 cup Metaxa or any brandy
1 cup softened unsalted butter Additional yogurt for serving
2 cups sugar Lemon rinds for topping
3 lg. eggs, separated
1 3/4 cups plain yogurt
Grated rind of 2 lemons
1 tsp. vanilla
Heat oven to 350o. Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt cake pan. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
Cream butter and sugar in large bowl of electric mixer on high speed. Add egg yolks, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Stop the mixer; add yogurt, lemon rind and vanilla. Mix just to combine. Fold in dry sifted ingredients. Beat egg whites in a clean bowl
until they hold soft peaks; gently fold into batter. Transfer to prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean,
about 1 hour. (Watch so top of cake does not get too dark.) Meanwhile, for syrup, combine sugar and water in a saucepan. Heat to a
boil; lower heat and simmer 20 minutes. Remove from heat and add Metaxa. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 15 minutes. Brush with
syrup, adding it only as fast as it is absorbed. Cool cake completely in its pan. Invert onto cake plate. Sprinkle top with powdered sugar
and add lemon rinds in center, or you can leave it plain and cut in slices and serve with a dollop of yogurt, if desired.
Highlights of the John Deveros
Memorial Golf Tounament
Art Pathe presenting flowers to Toula Deveros in honor of her
departed husband Brother John Deverous.
Brothers George Varvarousis and D.A. George getting Brother John Anas registered to play golf.
Hillary and Arthur Pathe caught in the serving line.
The foursome of Brothers Nick Gines and Peter Shenas and friends.
Dedicated to all AHEPANS, Daughters of Penelope, Maids of
Athena and Sons of Pericles, and all those who in thought
and deed hold high the great name of Hellas and do honor to
whatever part of God's creation they call home.
The Re-planting of the Olive Tree
By Michael Merica
With heavy hearts and open minds, they sailed.
In ships of blood and sweat and toil.
They reached a foreign, friendly soil.
And this, their new "patrida" hailed.
Sons they were and daughters of Hellas.
They crossed the great divide, battered by wind and water.
And when they reached the other side,
a foreign tongue they heard, one they could only falter.
Time's hourglass piled high its sands, and in its passing,
Greatness they achieved.
Away from home, far away, their laurels they received.
And yet, despite the years, the toils, life's failures and successes.
Despite their virtues, vices or excesses,
these children, Brothers and Sisters bound to one another,
always returned, if not in fact, in thought,
to Greece, their common mother.
And so it is today that we are bound to one another
as they once were, in mirth, in dance.
Sister to sister, brother to brother all of us God's beings.
Hand in hand, our heads held high, ever forward we advance,
We proud Hellenes!
Petrou Foods, Inc.
MADE IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
Producers and Distributors of Olives, Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar
The Petrou brand name has become well known in San Diego
County, and beyond, as a gourmet producer of bottled olives,
olive oil, and balsamic vinegar.
The excellent reputation of these products are due to ancient,
curing methods uniquely formulated in the high plateaus of
Delphi in Greece. Only natural ingredients are used and the
olives are aged in wooden barrels like fine wine.
Cholesterol-free and with no artificial additives, the Petrou
products are a healthy taste treat which should become a part of
everyone's daily dining experience.
PETROU FOODS, INC. 7930 Arjons Drive, Suite B, San Diego, California 92126
(619) 271-9983 -- Fax (619) 271-9183
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