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Ahepa District 20 - Chapter 505 - Ta Nea Newsletter - November 1999
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NEXT MEETING TUESDAY DECEMBER 7, 1999 7:00 p.m. Meeting SS. CONSTANTINE and HELEN GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH'S SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER Merry ChristmasPresident's Message Thanksgiving can and should often be viewed from different perspectives. In an international sense, AHEPA has much to be thankful for, after toppling the Greek Earthquake Relief Fund Drive scales over $175,000 in little over a month! Many individuals and chapters are to be congratulated for the effort it took to raise this amount in such a short period of time. It demonstrates what we can accomplish for an important cause and in short order. To my knowledge, at least $1,200 was raised within George Polos chapter 505 from combined chapter and individual member contributions. If you have not found time to contribute yet, please do so now and send your donation to our local chapter #505. Closer to home, many tend to view the upcoming stretch between Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years as the most chaotic period of the year - and this year especially! No doubt, work can get crazy and there seems to be a million social activities vying for our time. So how can we possibly expect to do everything? Beats me! If you figure it out, please tell me! All I can say is that this should be a time to gather and enjoy each other's company, and to appreciate and be thankful for it. As Mac Davis sings " ¼ you gotta stop, and smell the roses¼" I highly recommend you do so at our annual chapter Christmas Party on December 12th. Details can be found in this issue. George Pappas is working hard to prepare a great evening event!For the second year in a row, AHEPA and the Greek American community has an opportunity to participate in a longstanding American tradition - the Tournament of Roses Parade. The 1999 - first ever - Hellenic Float won the distinguished Queen's Trophy for best use of roses. A tremendous amount of work was done by a nucleus of visionary AHEPANs to get us into this exclusive parade. That really was the hard part, and we are ever thankful for their devotion to see it through. It would be a shame for us to 'lose our spot'. I think the best thanks we can give is to See PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE page 2 CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS Best Wishes and CRONIA POLLA to the following Brothers who are celebrating birthdays:Stavros Kondilis 12/10 Demetri Zambus 12/10 Nick Zambus 12/14 Evan Vassilakis 12/20 Peter Chaconas 12/25 Thanos Karavokiris 12/27 Emmanuel Theodorakis 12/30 Happy Anniversary!!! to the following Brothers and their lovely brides who are celebrating wedding anniversaries: Mehran & Alexandra Aram 12/1 John & Georgia Ronis 12/5 Peter & Shirley Ellis 12/8 Chris & Joanna Pathe 12/29 Bill & Patricia Moises 12/29 Meeting Agenda - The following is the meeting agenda for the next Social/General Chapter Meeting, being held at Ss. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church's Senior Citizen Center, Tuesday, December 7, 1999: m Foundation By-Laws Reviewm Greek Independence Day 2000m Christmas Partym Rose Bowl Float Decorationsm Old Businessm New Businessm Good of the OrderGeneral Business Meetings - General Business Meetings are held every third Thursday of the month. The next meeting will be Thursday, December 16, 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. 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. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE (Continued from page 1) ensure this event continues annually and becomes a permanent Hellenic tradition. We should all do our part by raising money and volunteering to decorate the float. One fundraiser being planned is a bus trip to one of the Indian gaming reservations. Details will follow shortly from the San Diego AHEPA chapter #223. Another event is a bus trip to go up to Pasadena for a day and decorate the float. Our chapter #505 is organizing this event for Wednesday, Dec 29th. This is a fun field trip for all ages (above 13), and one that I would expect to see particpation from AHEPANs, GOYANs and Hellenes throughout San Diego county. Details will follow shortly. We strive to keep our monthly social meetings short, interesting and fun. And we thank all those that attend. Last month, we enjoyed a masterful presentation by our very own Mike Merica. His talk encapsulated key periods of Greece's history with a theme on ancient Greek warfare. I encourage anyone with a favorite topic - preferably Hellenic or Orthodox, in nature - to please contact Charlie Kakos or Costa Brown to be included in our monthly programs. Future programs include Fr. Theodore Phillips, the film 'Greeks In America Part II', and possibly a dramatic presentation and book signing by Agape Stassinopoulos on her new book "Conversations with Goddesses". This month I will give a presentation on the IOCC, the International Orthodox Christian Charities. It is one of the charitable organizations our chapter is donating to this year, so I feel the members may be interested to learn more about all the good things this organization undertakes. I hope you will attend. Plans are underway for next year's Greek Independence Day celebration. Mike Merica, this year's chairman, will give a brief overview on the venue and will be looking for volunteers. Special thanks and perastika to D.A. George who just returned home from the hospital and is recovering well from an illness. With all that he just experienced, he still found time to get the newsletter published! Art Pathe Chapter 505 Gives Scholarships The Chapter through its Scholarship Committee has awarded $3,000 in scholarships to six very worthy students. The Scholarship Committee under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Alexander selected five applicants for the Chapter awards and one for the Costa Lyrintzis Memorial Scholarship. The recipient of the Lyrintzis award of $500.00 was Ms. Megan Cannis. The recipients of the Chapter awards of $500.00 each were: Ms. Angeline Anastasopoulos; Ms. Kallie Tsoukos; Ms. Cora Regas; Ms. Ann E. Dakis; and Ms. Nicole Cannis. Please join us in congratulating these fine young people and it is hoped that these monetary awards will help them, not only in achieving their academic goals, but to also honor them in achieving the highest values in American citizenship and the best in Hellenic ideals. QUICK QUOTE "Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best." Bob Talbert Happy Holidays Of All Things Greek By Prof. Minas Savvas A fter a 1,600-year delay, Egypt will be replacing the legendary Library of Alexandria. The new library will be surrounded by a granite wall engraved with inscriptions from the world's major civilizations. What will be missing are the thousands of scrolls, texts and papyri destroyed by the Crusaders and other forces of barbarism.W hile digging in a farm at Philippi, in Kavala, workers came across a tomb that is believed to date back to 11th century Byzantium. The archaeologists who surveyed the area speculate that there is a large cemetery in the region from the Byzantine and perhaps even the Hellenistic periods. Not far from the newly discovered tomb, archaeologists had excavated sarcophagi dating from the earlier centuries of Christianity.T he Panepirotic Federation of America, Australia and Canada has urged the Greek government to "intervene immediately and decisively [in Albania] so as to insure the peace and security in the region." The kidnappings, thefts and attacks in Northern Epirus, says the Federation, have made the lives of the Greeks in the region so unbearable that they have come to the point of locking up their homes and running to Greece to find security and peace. Moreover, the Federation requests that the Greek government urge the other European nations and NATO to send peacekeeping troops in Southern Albania, as they did in Kosovo.T he Greeks of Australia arranged to have a 12-hour radiothon (from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on a Sunday) on behalf of the victims of the earthquake in Athens. The fundraising program was broadcast through SBS in Melbourne, a network that can be heard everywhere in Australia, the neighboring smaller islands and New Zealand. No report on what amount was raised by the contributions of the Australian omogeneia, but the effort is worth noting since it was unprecedented in the "Land Down Under."A few days later, as if to surpass the Australian effort, the Greeks Cypriots of Britain organized an 18-hour radiothon on London's LGR station. The LGR earthquake project made connections with several Greek and Cypriot stations as well, and many prominent personalities in the arts, in politics and in business participated.A n international Lawrence Durrell conference is scheduled in Corfu (the island Durrell loved and where he sang) from July 2 to July 7 in the year 2000. Some of the general topics to be explored are "Durrell as Translator and Translated,""Greece as Source and Resource," "Growing into the Great Novels," and "Teaching Durrell." Those interested in participating or those who would like additional information should contact, Anna Lilies, Co-Director, International Lawrence Durrell Conference, University of Central Florida, P.O.Box 161346, Orlando, FL, 32816. I n what may be the wave of the future in America, St. Sophia's Cathedral in Los Angeles held its annual festival (Sept. 25-26) with a fusion of Latino and Greek cuisines, of Mexican and Greek music and a Greco-Latino public. Greek inspired lamb tacos were served with a Latino twist of lime; gazpacho was served with pita and tzatziki, and The Hellenic Sounds followed an all-female mariachi group called Las Alondras. It helped, of course, that the Dean of the St. Sophia Cathedral, the Rev. John S. Bakas, is married to a Chilean. The intermingling of the two cultures is the result of the evolution of the St. Sophia neighborhood--often called the Byzantine-Latino Quarter--which is predominantly comprised of Spanish-speaking immigrants from Latin America. Festival-goers, could even purchase "The Best Recipes of St. Sophia Cathedral and the Byzantine-Latino Quarter" which included recipes for melitzanosalata as well as Chilean albondigas. Buena orexi!D irector Ron Sossi's ambitious project, entitled "The Greeks," is showing four days a week at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. With the Trojan War as its focus, the two part, 6-hour, production ("The Blessed," 3 hours and 5 minutes and "The Cursed," 3 hours) relies on Homer and the Greek tragedians to convey the passion, the pathos and the philosophy inherent in a select group of Greek classics. It weaves together various plays and myths with history, involving Achilles, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Menelaos, Helen, Electra, Orestes and the rest. The reviews have been mixed, but thus far everyone has praised the grand scheme and the noble intentions. The Los Angeles Times called the production an insanely uneven enterprise." In any case, if anyone is interested in seeing the "The Greeks," the last performance will be on December 5.S eventy-seven years after the Asia Minor disaster, some 200 people from Mytilene (Lesvos), most of them descendants of the unfortunate Greeks who came in poverty to the island in 1922, made a nostalgic journey to Avvali in Turkey. With the permission of the now-mellower Turkish government, the sounds of Byzantine hymns resounded once again in the church of Taxiarchai sending shivers down the spines of those in the congregation.W hen Atlanta won the 1996 Olympics over Athens, that delightful MeIina Mercouri shouted it, and, in fact, the whole Greek delegation had charged that it was all because of insidious politics, bribery and Coca Cola money. The accusations were dismissed as those of "sore losers." The sore losers, who were finally appeased by being given the 2004 Olympics, appear to have been vindicated. Decrying a "culture of corruption" surrounding Atlanta's bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics, a House chairman said he intends to do whatever is necessary to make the International Olympic Committee clean up its act. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) will conduct hearings in October on Atlanta's bid and will invite IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch to testify. If Samaranch does not appear voluntarily, Upton said a subpoena is quite likely.A report submitted to the Congress by former Attorney General Griffin Bell clearly shows that not only did IOC members accept gifts but also that they solicited them. A quaint reduction center in Thessaloniki was shut down recently by the police and a few too many corpulent men have been left in despair. The police arrested 38-year old Ioanna Demertzi and five other women from Greece and from Moldavia for running a house of prostitution that advertised itself as a weight-reducing enterprise. Though Demertzi and a male partner charged each customer $65-$70 dollars for each weight-loss session, they only gave the girls $10.D ora Bakoyanni, one of the leaders of the New Democracy party, charged the PASOK government with deluding the people about Greece's prosperity.Consumer debt, Bakoyanni said, has increased in Greece by 770%; a Eurostat survey, she added, shows that 21 out of 100 Greeks live under the poverty level, while the average Greek's salary is 60% lower than that of the average European. Also, she said, nine of the 13 regions of Greece are included in the 25 poorest in all of Europe. T he detente between Greece and Turkey cancelled this year's theatrical re-creation in Smyrna of how Kemal's troops routed and punished the Greeks in 1922. Stephen Kinzer, writing in The New York Times early in October about the warmth of relations between the two neighbors, informs us that, "Normally the anniversary of the Turkish triumph at Smyrna, now known as Izmir, is marked by Turkish troops dressed in period costume who symbolically bayonet actors playing Greek soldiers, throw others into the sea and lustily tear down and trample the Greek flag. This year there was only a muted ceremony limited to a wreath-laying and playing of the national anthem."S telios Kazantzidis turned down an invitation to appear with a dozen other entertainers in a benefit concert for earthquake victims. Actually, he has not appeared on stage for over 30 years. Not wishing to give the impression, however, that he is indifferent to the plight of the victims, he offered several precious gold watches and other jewelry for auction. He added that his voice will not render the songs he loves the way he wishes the world to remember them.(Re-printed by permission of THE GREEKAMERICAN). AHEPA Issues Statementon President Clinton's Visit to Athens WASHINGTON. AHEPA Supreme President George J. Dariotis has issued the following statement on President Bill Clinton's visit to Greece following a conference call held today with National Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger, White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Public Liaison Mary Beth Cahill and leaders of the Greek-American community: "AHEPA is pleased President Clinton has worked with the Greek Government to reschedule his visitation for November 19 - 20, 1999, in Athens. We regret that the demonstrations may have created problems regarding the Clinton visit to Greece. Certainly it is the right of citizens in a democracy to demonstrate peacefully, and the annual commemoration of the courageous November 17, 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship, in which students were killed, has a significant place in modern Greek history. "AHEPA is confident President Clinton will be warmly received with traditional Greek hospitality for this important meeting between two nations who have been allies in every major military conflict this century. "It is our hope the meetings will result in the strengthening of relations between the United States and Greece. The Simitis government has performed effectively and valiantly to prepare Greece for entry into EMU in early 2001 and Greece is poised to solidify its leadership role in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. This course is in the best interest of the Greek people and the Greek nation and it must not be deflected at this time. "We sincerely hope the issues causing conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean, the occupation of Cyprus and encroachment of Greek territory in the Aegean, will be seriously discussed during President Clinton's visit to Athens. It is time for serious movement on these issues and pressure must be applied to those parties who up to this point have been inflexible and recalcitrant." Dariotis will visit Athens on the occasion of President Clinton's visit and attend events scheduled for the President of the United States and leaders of the Greek-American community. WORDS OF WISDOM Self conceit may lead to self-destruction. Most people would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Force has no place where there is need of skill. Herodotus
H FWNH THS FILIAS (The Voice Of Philia) DAUGHTERS OF PENELOPE PHILIA, CHAPTER #380 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Dear Sisters, Our next meeting will be held at Vangie Sharpe's home on Tuesday, December 7, 1999 at 7:00 pm. Please make every effort to attend this meeting and bring a new, wrapped Christmas gift for either an adult female or a child. Please mark the gift appropriately, i.e. male child, female child, or adult female. These gifts shall be distributed to the E.Y.E. Center. We are also having a cookie exchange. If you want to participate, please bring two or three dozen of your favorite cookies, in return for an equal amount of someone else's special cookies. Either homemade or store bought - the choice is yours! See you at the next meeting! Joanna Pathe KORMOSA Holiday Party Log (Holiday Party Log) (Filling) 4 eggs 1 box Vanilla pudding, (or homemade) 1 cup butter 3 tbs. strawberry jelly 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. cinnamon 1 cup flour 1 tsp. baking powder Mix all the above ingredients on need. Spread until smooth in texture. Roll out dough on aluminum foil. Bake at 350o for 15 minutes. Let cool for one and a half hours. Mix pudding with jelly and spread on dough. Roll up log slowly and firmly wrap in aluminum foil and refrigerate for one hour. Cut up log with aluminum foil. Remove foil from each piece. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon. >>> Calendar Of Coming Events <<< December 12, 1999 - Christmas Party, Sunday, UCSD Faculty Club, 6:00 p.m. December 29, 1999 - Bus Trip AHEPA Rose Bowl Float, Wednesday, 7:00 a.m. |
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