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“The Greek Star has a long and honored history in Chicago and is a powerful influence in the community,” said Diane Adam, editor of the newspaper. “We are excited about our relaunch and to continue our mission as the voice of Chicago’s Hellenic community.”

The print edition is currently available by subscription only. A new interactive website will be unveiled next month, including subscription-only content. Print subscribers will receive digital content for free.  The Greek Star will continue to report news from the local Greek community, as well as news from Greece and the Diaspora. They’ll expand their coverage, exploring Hellenic issues around the globe with more in-depth analysis, and more closely examining the Greek-American experience.

Hours are from 3 to 10 p.m. Friday; noon to 10 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 9 p.m. Sunday.

The church sponsors two Greek festivals each year, explained Rev. Steve Denas. The one beginning Friday will be indoors, he said, at the community center across the street from the church at 401 12th St.

Festival admission is free, but the church charges for dinner and la carte items. The food will all be made on-site, said the Rev. Denas, and will include gyros and souvlakia, which is shish kebab made with pork or lamb. Salads and desserts also will be available. Beverages will include beer, wine and Greek coffee.

Rev. Denas said the festival serves two purposes: to welcome the community in to experience Greek culture and to raise money for the church.

Monastic nuns from Saxonburg, Pa., are expected to display religious icons and artifacts, he said.

Youth dancers will perform traditional dances at 5, 6 and 7 p.m. Friday; 4:30, 6 and 7 p.m. Saturday; and 3:30, 6 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

(Source: Vindy.com)

Aleco Haralampides

As the former President of the American-Hellenic Institute, Miami lawyer Aleco Haralambides had a stake in promoting Hellenism, but says his biggest hope now for his heritage is saving its beloved language, and promoting it not just to fellow Greeks, but Philhellenes and the rest of the world. There are some 50,000 words in English derived in some way or another from Greek, and Haralambides said he wants to make sure their rich history and place are preserved. He helped do it at Archimedean Academy in Miami, a charter school that has Greek as a mandatory subject, and now said he wants to find supporters to start an international foundation to showcase the Greek language and keep it alive outside of Greece.

The formula is working at Archimedean, which now teaches through the high school level and is rated one of Florida’s top schools and successful enough that there’s a waiting list of more than 1,000 students – most not of Greek heritage. Besides instilling self-discipline in students, Archimedean requires them to take classes 2 ½ hours a day in Greek – not just Greek, but other subjects, and it’s a wonderment to see students not from Greek American households conversing in Greek in the corridors and classrooms, and coming to school on Saturdays to participate in projects, a role model for schools around the country. As a charter school,  Archimedean doesn’t charge tuition but receives state assistance as a public school open to students who can get in. On Jan. 30, it was rated Florida’s best middle school and praised for using Greek and mathematics – and teaching math in Greek – as one of the reasons for its achievements.

The Archimedian Acadamy in Miami, FL

When Archimedean students took a proficiency exam in Greek from Thessaloniki University, 44 of 45 passed, he said. Not one was Greek or Greek American. The school has only 70 students with Greek heritage out of an enrollment of 950. “Using the Archimedean model is a proven way to perpetuate the Greek language,” he said in an interview with Greek Reporter. “When you see native speakers talking Greek to these kids who have no background in Greek and they are processing difficult problems and answering in Greek, there just isn’t anybody else out there doing this,” he said. It’s even more astonishing when you realize the students have had no background at all in Greek or Hellenism.

Now, he said, he hopes to get the word out that the model can work in an international foundation, although he knows how tough it is to get Greek Americans together and behind programs. Still, he said, “Once it’s started and promoted you’d have a lot of non-Greeks supporting this and there’s a potential for partnerships with classics programs,” he said, adding he’d like to see the Archimedean model repeated in other charter schools in Florida and across the country, where children could learn Greek – once a stable of great schools such as Boston Latin Academy, and others where Greek and classics were intertwined. “Our goal is not to have a Greek school necessarily, but to have a great school,” he said.

“They aren’t going to come just to learn Greek. They want it to be a very good school academically,” he said. Some parents are not happy with the rigid format, he acknowledged, but said they were a minority.

Haralambides said with a declining birth rate among Greeks, Greek Americans and those in the Diaspora, the need to save Greek is becoming critical because the language is being spoken less. “It’s a mathematical certainty that if we don’t stop that, that it will disappear,” he said. “One way to promote the Greek language and Hellenism is to open charter schools,” he said. Archimedean is applying from further accreditation and said, if granted, “That will allow us to be accredited as a district, which means if we open a school in Alabama, it will be accredited and recognized by colleges.

Like many Greeks of the United States and Disapora, his passion comes from his heritage. “My grandparents were forced to leave Asian Minor because they wanted to maintain their identity as Greeks and Greek Orthodox Christians. They were willing to give up their entire livelihood to maintain their identity. The least we can do is make an effort to preserve it,” he said.

The school’s Chief Executive Business Officer Dimitri Bardoutsos, said the school will admit another 150 students in the next academic year and there is a clamor to attend because he said parents know the students will get a good education beyond Greek too. The school’s charter is with the Miami Dade County public school administration, to which it reports. Classes begin at kindergarten to groom students young. “Our goal is not just to graduate students but those who can enter colleges at the Ivy League level,” he said. “We pay attention to every individual student. We work with parents and students. This is a school of choice. Parents have to offer 300 volunteer hours a year and are part of the school and the process, and they are working together to improve education.”

The school’s President, Founder, and Chairman of the Board, George Kafkoulis, said, “The reason for the success of the school is the commitment to excellence. The school is based on two very important ideas of Greek civilization: language and the dedication to excellence, the rigorous teaching of mathematics and philosophy.” He said many parents weren’t initially interested in Greek, but wanted their children to have the benefit of a good education, but discovered the benefits of the students learning the language. He said the model can work for other schools to emulate. “This can be replicated … it’s a recipe that works in every environment,” he said. Even the Greek Ministry of Education, he said, is studying Archimedean to see how its methods can be used to teach Greek and other courses.

Haralambides said he’s gotten calls from people in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco, among other areas, who want to open an Archimedean-style academy that prepares students for college and teaches them Greek as well. “We need someone to spearhead it and is committed to spending the time to do it.” Sounds like he may be the best candidate for this.

Migrants in the US have ranked the teaching of the Greek language as one of their top priorities ever since leaving Greece to look for new life prospects abroad. According to historic data, the first known Greek school to have ever been built in the US was in 1776 in St. Augustine, Florida.

The first Greeks that set foot on the new found land were led by a Scottish doctor called Andrew Turnbull and his wife, Marica Gracia, who was the daughter of a Greek businessman from Ismir.

Years later, in the spring of 1776, Greek and other migrants moved and settled 70 miles to the north from the first settlements, in today’s St. Augustine. There, carpenter Ioannis Yiannopoulos’ house served as the local school, with Yiannopoulos taking up teaching. To date, the historic house is well preserved and is a cultural attraction to everyone visiting the town, since it is the oldest recorded school that has been built in the US.

Two years ago, Mr. Nikolidakis, who has issued a wide series of studies on the education of the Greeks in America, has reviewed an album entitled “From the lives of Greeks in America”, which aimed at shedding light on the colonial life in different areas of the US.

The first Greek School in NY opened in 1912.

The Delhi Café in Michigan will be holding its third annual food bank fundraiser on January 22, and its owners John and Glekera Christofilis will keep their restaurant open from 1 to 4 pm that day. The donations raised during the event will go to Holt Food Bank, which offers food to the less privileged people of the local community.

The Spyro Grille in Tallahassee, Florida, has already held its own food bank in cooperation with the non-profit Dishing Out Hope organization, which offers about 9,000 free meals per month.

The restaurant’s 38-year-old owner, Dennis Flint, has been working for six months now as a volunteer at Dishing Out Hope, serving people in need with food on a daily basis.

On January 8, Dennis Flint and Dishing Out Hope celebrated the restaurant’s and non-profit’s first year of cooperation, offering Greek food to the needy for free.

Andrew Liveris and Nicole Petallides

Andrew Liveris, Nicole Petallides and Rev. Fr. Charles Joanides will address a prominent crowd of Greek-Americans at the 21st annual Leadership 100 conference which will take place February 9th-12th, 2012 at The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach, Manalapan, Florida. The conference is the most important function of Leadership 100, one of the most prestigious Greek-American organizations.

Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company and a member of Leadership 100, who was appointed in June by U.S. President Barack Obama as Co-Chair of the newly formed Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, will address the Business Forum at the 21st Annual Leadership 100 Conference on Thursday, February 9, 2012.

Constantine G. Caras, Leadership 100 Chairman, said that Leadership 100 was “especially honored to have such a leading businessman and philanthropist with so impressive a record of accomplishments in both the nation and world address our Conference.” Liveris will be presented with the distinguished Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Award for Excellence.

Last July, Liveris launched Dow’s Advanced Manufacturing Plan for America (AMP). AMP calls for action on a number of fronts to lower structural costs that are hindering U.S. manufacturing, and to establish a policy framework that will enable economic growth. In January, Liveris published Make It In America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy, which articulates AMP in detail.

Liveris, at the launch ceremony for the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, said:”Through success in manufacturing, the U.S. can generate meaningful long-term employment in key industries and the support positions that accompany them — every new manufacturing job on average creates five additional jobs. By recovering U.S. manufacturing leadership, the U.S. can also maintain and grow its role as the world’s innovation engine. Success at R&D, and in turn, the production of new ideas as products, go hand-in-hand — they can’t be separated. A vibrant manufacturing sector is essential to our competitiveness in cutting-edge technology.”

The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership includes other major U.S. manufacturers, several top U.S. engineering universities, and key government technology leaders. Key goals of the Partnership will be to build a roadmap for advanced manufacturing technologies, accelerating ideas from the drawing board to production and competitive advantage in the marketplace, and to ensure a vital and globally competitive manufacturing sector. Liveris will be joined by Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in heading the Partnership.

Liveris’ 35-year Dow career has spanned manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, and business and general management. He has been a member of Dow’s Board of Directors and CEO since 2004, and was elected as Chairman of the Board in 2006. Liveris serves on the Board of Directors of IBM, and he is President of the International Council of Chemical Associations, Vice Chairman of the Business Council, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable. Liveris is also a member of the President’s Export Council, the US-India CEO Forum, The Peterson Institute for International Economics, the American Australian Association, and a Trustee of Tufts University.

Mario Frangoulis

Internationally acclaimed Sony Classical recording artist and Greek tenor Mario Frangoulis will highlight the Leadership 100 21st Annual Conference. He will perform at a special concert on Friday, February 10 at The Harriet Himmel Theater, the cultural centerpiece of CityPlace, in neighboring West Palm Beach, according to Conference Chair Cathy Sakellaris, who is a member of the Leadership 100 Board of Trustees.

“We are delighted that a so prominent member and leader of our community as Cathy Sakellaris has taken the lead in organizing next year’s conference,” said Constantine G. Caras, Chairman of Leadership 100. Sakellaris has held positions in sales and brand management with Procter and Gamble, was Director of Sales & Marketing for North America in the Information Systems of ITT Corporation Division, and served as Vice President for Global Accounts for the Nielsen Marketing Research division of Dun and Bradstreet, before devoting herself to civic, cultural and philanthropic activities with emphasis on Hellenic organizations.

Frangoulis, who is often referred to as one of Greece’s “national treasures”, is a dedicated Hellene who thinks of himself as an ambassador for Greece all over the world. He sings in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Greek, enabling him to truly connect with global audiences. He has had the honor of performing with some of the world’s greatest artists, including Placido Domingo, Lara Fabian, Sarah Brightman, Justin Hayward, and Natalie Merchant in addition to collaborating with Greece’s most famous composers, Mikis Theodorakis and Yannis Markopoulos, and world-acclaimed singers, George Dalaras, Alkistis Protopsalti, and Glykeria, to name a few.

Born in what is now the Republic of Zimbabwe to Greek parents, Frangoulis was raised in Athens, Greece. At the age of 17, he attended London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study acting and singing. While at Guildhall he was discovered by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is referred to by The New York Times as “the most successful, influential and powerful producer of our time.” Upon his graduation, he was hired to play the character Marius in Les Miserables in London’s West End. Soon thereafter, he was invited by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber to play the role of Raoul in Phantom of the Opera to great critical acclaim.

During this time, Frangoulis discovered the operatic side of his voice. He won the Maria Callas Prize and, juggling this new-found opportunity in opera with an emerging stage career, he studied in Italy with the world-famous tenor Carlo Bergonzi, and, upon the recommendation of one of his mentors, the legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, with the acclaimed Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus, becoming the only private student the late Kraus ever accepted. He continued his studies at the Julliard School of Music in New York under the guidance of Dodi Protero, solidifying his skill as a vocalist and musician.

Anything but a conventional opera singer, he won the role of Tony in West Side Story at Milan’s La Scala for the New Millennium and appeared in films such as De Lovely with Kevin Kline, on television, and even in epic presentations of ancient Greek plays such as The Birds, Prometheus, and The Bacchae.

A true humanitarian, Frangoulis is recognized all over the world for his charity work, supporting events and organizations such as: Voices for Darfur, José Carreras’ Leukemia Foundation, and organizations addressing AIDS issues, and homelessness prevention and intervention. He is most passionate, however, about any cause pertaining to the protection of “at risk” children. In 2008, he was invited by Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams to be a Global Ambassador for Peace for her organization, The World Centers of Compassion for Children International, and as a result, was invited by the Dalai Lama to sing at his 2009 Peace Summit in Vancouver, Canada. Simultaneously, he became an Ambassador for the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans in support of their goal to provide college scholarships for high-risk, high-potential youth throughout the United States.

Nicole Petallides, Anchor at FOX Business Network, will speak at a Special Program on Business and the Media on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at the Leadership 100 Annual Conference. She will be presented with the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Award for Excellence. Petallides joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in September 2007 as an anchor. She also serves as FBN’s main NYSE correspondent, reporting live daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining FBN, she was an anchor at Bloomberg Television where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange for the nationally syndicated Bloomberg Business Report and Bloomberg Market Update. While at Bloomberg, Petallides also covered weekend news and served as a business news anchor for CW-11’s WPIX morning news program in New York.

Before joining Bloomberg, Petallides served as an assistant producer for CNBC, where she produced daily floor reports from the NYSE. Prior to CNBC, she was a segment producer for Dow Jones Television’s The Wall Street Journal Report with Consuelo Mack and international programs Asian Business News and European Business News. Petallides has also contributed to FOX affiliate WNYW’s morning show Good Day New York, NY1 News, CNN and News 12 Long Island. A Great Neck, New York native, she graduated from American University.

Nicole Anais Petallides was born in 1971 in Queens, New York. Petallides, along with Jenna Lee, were the first two anchors on the air when the FOX Business Network made its debut. Petallides is the daughter of Fannie Holliday and John Petallides. Her mother was the founder and chief operating officer of Proini, a Greek-language daily newspaper, and of The Greek American, an English-language weekly newspaper.

Petallides graduated from American University in 1993 where she studied business and communications. She was also a member of the NCAA DIV 1 Women’s Soccer Team for three years. In 1998, she married Manhattan Prosthodontist Nicholas Tsiolas in a ceremony performed in the Greek Orthodox Church by His Eminence Archbishop Spyridon.

Rev. Fr. Charles Joanides will conduct the Interfaith Marriage Forum, on the subject The Intermarriage Challenge: An Opportunity for Outreach. He currently directs the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America’s ministry to intermarried couples and their families. . Much of his work can be accessed on the Interfaith Marriage web site at www.interfaith.goarch.org.

Father Charles holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, an M-Div. from Hellenic College/Holy Cross, an M.A. in Human Development and Family Relations with a specialty in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies with a specialty in Marriage and Family Therapy from Iowa State University.

He is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) and an approved AAMFT supervisor. He has a small private practice specializing in reclaiming marriages.

Father Charles has authored the following books: When You Intermarry: A Resource for Inter-Christian, Intercultural Couples, Parents and Families, Ministering to Intermarried Couples: A Resource for Clergy and Lay Workers, Attending to Your Marriage: A Resource for Christian Couples and The Journey of Marriage: A Premarital Education Program. His writings have also appeared in numerous professional journals, magazines and newspapers. He teaches marital and family therapy at Nyack College in The School of Human Services Alliance Graduate School of Counseling.

Father Charles was ordained in 1980. He has served several parishes across the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. He and Presvytera Nancy have two children, Stephan, 30, and Sara, 28.

About Leadership 100

In 1984, under the guidance of Archbishop Iakovos, Leadership 100 was created as an endowment fund of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese through which Greek Orthodox leaders were asked to commit themselves to offer $10,000 a year for a total of $100,000 each to maintain the life-sustaining ministries of the Church.

Today, Leadership 100, renamed The Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund in recognition of Archbishop Iakovos’ vision, is a separately incorporated endowment fund supporting the priority needs of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, but broadly dedicated to advancing the Orthodox faith and Hellenic ideals in America.

Leadership 100 disburses grants ranging from scholarship funds for individuals studying for the priesthood, building an information infrastructure and Internet ministries for the Archdiocese, promoting the National Ministries and providing assistance to emergencies such as September 11, Hurricane Katrina, earthquakes and medical needs.

With the initial membership of 100 soon surpassed, Leadership 100 “raised the bar” and grew progressively to 300, doubling its membership to 600 in 2000 and now to 847 members in 2010, including 88 Leadership 100 Partners, young professionals who progress in their contributions as they progress in their careers, and 5 Leadership 100 Junior Partners enrolled by their parents. The membership includes a broad spectrum of Greek Orthodox leaders, men and women of all ages from every field.

Leadership 100 is a driving force to seed and nurture new programs that advance Orthodoxy and Hellenism into the 21st Century.

Louis Mailisand, 17, a senior at Tarpon Springs High School, holds up the second cross thrown during the 2012 Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs

A second cross had to be thrown into the waters of Spring Bayou today after the first one was lost during this city’s 106th annual Epiphany cross dive.
Louis Mailisand, 17, a senior at Tarpon Springs High School, surfaced with the second cross moments after it was tossed. According to tradition, the boy who retrieves the cross receives a year of blessings.

Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Church in America tossed the first cross near the platform at picturesque Spring Bayou at around 1 p.m. The 61 boys swam toward it, but were unable to find it after searching for long minutes in the chilly, murky water.

The archbishop sent the boys back to their dinghies, then tossed a second white cross.

Crowds cheered as Mailisand emerged from the waters with the cross in his hand. His mother, Linda, was shaking as she was escorted to the platform to be with her son.

“Oh my God, I can’t believe this,” she said. “He told me he was going to get it.”

Some of the divers remained in the water to search for the first cross. Miros Petru, 17, also a student at Tarpon Springs High, retrieved that cross and, like Mailisand, was carried on the shoulders of fellow divers to the church for a blessing from the archbishop. Both boys will be named this year’s cross retrievers.

“That’s a double blessing for Tarpon Springs,” said Mayor David Archie.

It was not the first time that more than one cross had to be thrown. Since at least the 1970s, two crosses have been made for the dive because one previous year the only cross tossed could not be found.
(source: Tampa Bay)

His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios (primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America), Metropolitan Alexios of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta, and Metropolitan Nikitas will be blessing the community with their presence at this year’s observance.

The Rev. Fr. Michael Eaccarino, Dean of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, says, “This most holy event, which is not merely a yearly symbolic re-enactment but a ‘real time’ transformation of nature, is a true blessing for the Tarpon Springs area and the entire world as we become recipients of the true metamorphosis of our environment… We are protected from above.”

Leading up to the feast day, the Blessing of the Fleet is Thursday Jan. 5, around noon. Metropolitan Nikitas will bless the fisherman, their vessels, and the water in which they travel, and wish them safe and prosperous journeys. The service will occur at the Sponge Docks on the Anclote River in the heart of Tarpon Springs. The blessing will spread from the river into the Gulf of Mexico and the entire world. Both commercial fishermen and recreational boaters will participate.

On Friday Jan. 6, Epiphany observances begin at 8 a.m. with Orthros (Matins) followed by the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral at 10 a.m. The cathedral is located at 36 N. Pinellas Ave. in Tarpon Springs.

Following the Divine Liturgy, Archbishop Demetrios, hierarchs, clergy, dignitaries and thousands of people will form a litany procession to Spring Bayou. Schoolchildren in traditional costumes, choir members and Greek Folk dance groups from throughout the Tampa Bay Area will lead this procession.
(source: Tampa Bay Newspapers)

Greek percussion workshops are scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4; 1 to 2:30 p.m., Jan. 7-8.

Greek-style violin will be offered from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 4 and from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 7-8.

Classes will only cost $5 each.

Greek percussion:

Musician and ethnomusicologist Panayotis League will explore playing techniques and styles for the touberleki (dumbek), daouli (two-headed drum), defi (tambourine), frame drums, snare drum, and other instruments used in traditional Greek music. Students will learn dance rhythms from various regions, the role of percussion instruments in Greek ensembles, and improvisation within traditional rhythmic structures.

Panayotis League specializes in the intricate traditional music of Kalymnos and Crete. He plays at events in the U.S. and Europe, and lectures in Greek and music at Hellenic College in Brookline, Massachusetts.

All percussionists and percussion instruments are welcome. Students should bring their own instrument. For more information, call 727-937-1130 or 942-5605.

Greek-style violin:

Michalis Kappas will travel from Greece to provide workshops focused on the traditional violin music of the island of Kalymnos. An archaeologist by profession, Kappas was taught by the best traditional Kalymnian players of the older generation and began performing at events (glendia, panigyria, weddings) when he was 17. He has appeared on a recording of traditional Kalymnian music and has performed extensively at festivals in Europe and the U.S.

Students should bring a violin. For further information, please call 727-937-1130 or 942-5605.

The workshops are supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

(source:TBNWeekly.com)

Artists like Futura, Shepard Fairey, the Os Gemeos and many others responded to the invitation and the project was not only granted with success but was also included in the highly important Art Basel Miami exhibition.

Two years after, Tony Goldman and his co-partners decide to bring to Miami artists, who have not had the chance so far of presenting their work to the American public. Among these are two Greek well-known graffiti artists, b. and Stelios Faitakis.

Graffiti works of the two young men have decorated many walls not only in Athens downtown but also in different countries around the world. According to b., “Street art, as people tend to call graffiti, is freedom”. With a highly critical point of view, b. draws his inspiration from the TV and commercials. “Over-consumption and manipulation of the public through the television forces me into properly commenting everyday issues, being ironic about them and expose this side of our reality” points out b., adding that even the architectural design of supermarkets or the way products are being promoted is enough for him to depict on the wall the clear message of guidance.

The whole project has become a documentary film entitled as “Here comes the neighborhood”. With 4minute long videos uploaded in vimeo, the documentary includes interviews of the curators and the artists, pictures of Martha Cooper, who has been covering the Wynwood project since the very start, and impressive shots from the graffiti creation procedure.

Some of the works of b. and Stelios Faitakis: