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OF HIS DEATH

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05Η ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΜΕΤΑ

ΤΙΣ ΦΩΤΙΕΣ

16ΕΤΖ ΗΑΥΥΙΜ

ΤΗΕ TREE OF LIFE

30UTAH CHAPTER

GOT A NEW HOME

[λογοτεχνεία]Νίκος Καζαντζάκης:

Η ¨Ελένη Κατσουλάκη αναλύειτον αγωνειώδη στοχαστή

[ρεπορτάζ]Παγκόσμιο Συνέδριο Κρητών

Οι στόχοι των Κρητών όπου γής

[chapter news]News from our local chapters

Nikos Kazantzakis:The 50th Anniversary of his death

[scholarships] The 2007

PAA Scholarship Recipients

[poetry]

[donations]

[KPI-KPI]News from our Youth

[month in photos]Photo calendar from events

OFFICERS OF PAA

NATIONAL PRESIDENT: EMMANUEL E. VELIVASAKIS, P.E.

220 DELHI ROAD, SCARSDALE, NY 10583

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FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: JOHN S. SARGETIS, Esq.


SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: JOHN G. MANOS


THIRD VICE PRESIDENT: LEFTERIS DRAMITINOS

Tel. (714) 606-5051 •[email protected]

GENERAL SECRETARY: ERASMIA NOVOTNY

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TREASURER: TOM LANTZOURAKIS

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WOMEN’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: CAROL TRAVAYIAKIS


GENERAL SUPERVISOR: Dr. JAMES SAKLAS


LEGAL ADVISOR: JOHN A. KOKOLAKIS, Esq.


AUDITOR GENERAL: ANTONIOS DOGIAKIS


PYA PRESIDENT: MARIA KIAGIAS


YOUTH SUPERVISOR EAST COAST: GREG MANOUSELIS


YOUTH SUPERVISOR WEST COAST: GEORGE LIODAKIS


DISTRICT GOVERNORS

District 1: EMMANUEL SIFAKIS


District 2: VASILIS MARANGOUDAKIS


District 3: JAMES DENNEY, Esq.


District 4: NICK VERIKAKIS


District 5: GEORGE TSOUTSOUNAKIS

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District 6: STAMATIS ZOUMBERAKIS


District 7: JOHN DATSERIS


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CULTURE & EDUCATION CHAIR: TAKIS PSARAKIS


INVESTMENTS CHAIR: Dr. MANUEL G. RUSSON


SCHOLARSHIP CHAIR: REMA MANOUSAKIS


IT CHAIR: GEORGE KOKONAS


PANCRETAN ENDOWNMENT FUND CHAIR: MARY VASILAKIS


PHILANTHROPIC FUND CHAIR: ROXANNE KOSTON


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[president’s message]

Provincialism or “Topikismos”,a syndrome we should try to disspell at any cost!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Greetings.

Several months ago, you may recall that I tackled thattopic of alcohol abuse at our Cretan functions! This month Iwould like to take on the subject of provincialism, or“topikismos”.

Topikismos, a Greek word, is the “syndrome” that an indi-vidual suffers from, when he or she, believes that it’s them andnobody else! And that people from their particular village, cityor “nomo”, or town are better than anyone else!

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I am “thrilled” to report to youthat the syndrome of topikismos is thriving among a perhapsnot so small minority of our people, and in my opinion thesituation may be getting worse by the day! It’s not enough thatsome of us brought our prejudices from Crete all the way toAmerica and have managed to keep them intact and vibrantfor so many years, but worse yet, we are transferring thoseprejudices to our children!

I would like to think that in the old days, back in the villagesand mountains of Crete, what drove people to their topicalbeliefs, may have been the lack of knowledge, or even fear ofthe unknown! After all, they had even developed sayings whichmemorialized and readily expressed those beliefs, such as,“Papoutsi apo ton topo sou kias ene mpalomeno”! “ Ðáðïýôóéáðü ôïí ôüðï óïõ, êé’áò åßíáé ìðáëùìÝíï”

In today’s world however, what gives someone even the“poetic” license to think that Cretans from one part of Crete,i.e. Iraklio are “better” than those from another, i.e. Chania, isbeyond seriousness and comprehension! Those from Sfakia, attimes half-jokingly claim that their town is the “center of theUniverse”! And of course, those from Mylopotamo may wishto claim that they are truly the fastest guns in Crete? We allhave heard those assertions and at least I have always consid-ered them as good innocent “Cretan humor”! But after somerecent incidents, which I happened to have experience myself,I am seriously starting to have doubts and to think that theinnocent Cretan humor about “topikismo” may actually be notso innocent after all, and that it may be rooted deep into oursubconscious mind, something that worries me a great deal!

Several months ago, some by all other standards good andactive members approached me during a social gathering andout of the blue, started to express their ultimate disappointmentwith and disapproval of, the holiday CD that the PAA had pro-duced and sent to all our members as a Christmas gift last De-

cember. The reason I asked? “Because the CD contained onlytunes and songs from the eastern part of Crete and nothingfrom the Chania-region” they said! A few weeks later, anothergood and active member of our Association and ex-officer ofthe PAA, raised this same matter during a meeting, which heapparently brought up for discussion and from what I heard,demanded that a resolution be passed to reprimand the PAAPresident (perhaps for his ultimate “dereliction of duty”!), in notincluding in the CD any tunes from Apokorona, Selino, or Kissamo,etc.! This good Cretan apparently also thought it appropriate to“return” his CD back to the PAA along with a message of disap-proval! (I surmise that this gentleman may have conveniently for-gotten the saying which goes: “If someone gives you a horse,you should not look at its teeth”!) Luckily, cooler heads prevailedat the said meeting and at the end of a fruitless discussion, noresolutions were passed, nor was the CD accepted for return!

And how could we forget some rather comical and tragicscenes from the last PAA Convention, where several “elec-toral-cooks”, a.k.a. “eklogomageres”, perhaps in desperation,were openly making the argument that “…it was incomprehen-sible and perhaps sacrilegious to them, for people to make thesame mistake twice, by again electing an Iraklioti, as PAA Presi-dent, especially since such a person, regardless of qualifica-tions, was not capable of properly representing their “uniquecauses” and (skewed?) point of view!” Needless to say againthat “better sense prevailed” and the overwhelming majorityrejected such an absurd argument!

This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a clear indication of therather “sad state” of our affairs! These are things that some ofus, luckily few, choose to cultivate, rather than doing some-thing constructive for our benevolent Association! An organi-zation which I would like to think represents ALL Cretan-Ameri-cans and their descendants, without regard to their particularplace of birth or origin, or color of their eyes!

I believe that its time for us to get serious! I proclaimthat this type of behavior should NOT be tolerated any longer,and that we should stop judging a person by his or hers placeof origin, or color of their eyes, and instead judge them on theirachievements, ideas, and abilities to lead and to do good deedsfor the benefit of all!

Let us all embrace one another as Cretans, brothers andsisters. Let’s become and behave like true Pancretans! Besides,we have so much in common, and so much more stuff thatshould unite us, rather than divide us!

Sincerely,

Manolis VelivasakisNational President, PAA

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“Τοπικισμός” είναι ένα σύνδρομο που πρέπει όλοι μας ναπροσπαθήσουμε να αποβάλουμε, πάσει θυσία.

Êõñßåò êáé Êýñéïé, ãåéá óáò.

Ðñßí ìåñéêïýò ìÞíåò, óßãïõñá èá èõìÜóôå ðùò Ýèéîá ôïèÝìá êáôÜ÷ñçóçò áëêïüë óôéò ÊñçôéêÝò/óõëëïãéêÝòåêäçëþóåéò ìáò! Áõôü ôï ìÞíá èá Þèåëá íá èßîù ôï èÝìá«Ôïðéêéóìüò». Ôïðéêéóìüò, ëÝîç ÅëëçíéêÞ âÝâáéá, åßíáé ôïóýíäñïìï áðü ôï ïðïßï äéáêáôÝ÷åôáé êÜðïéïò åðåéäÞ ðéóôåýåéüôé ï ßäéïò, üðùò êáé ïé Üíèñùðïé áðü ôï óõãêåêñéìÝíï ÷ùñéü,íïìü Þ ðüëç åßíáé áíþôåñïé áðü ïðïéïíäÞðïôå Üëëï!

Ëïéðüí, áãáðçôïß ìïõ êõñßåò êáé êýñéïé, óáò áíáêïéíþíùüôé ôï óýíäñïìï ôïõ «Ôïðéêéóìïý» äåóðüæåé óå ðïëëïýòðåñéóóüôåñïõò äéêïýò ìáò áäåëöïýò áð’ üôé èá íüìéæå êáíåßòêáé êáôÜ ôç ãíþìç ìïõ ç êáôÜóôáóç åðéäåéíþíåôáé ìÝñá ìå ôçìÝñá! Äåí áñêåß ðïõ ìåôáöÝñáìå ôéò ðñïêáôáëÞøåéò ìáò áðüôçí ÊñÞôç óôçí ÁìåñéêÞ êáé ôéò äéáôçñÞóáìå æùíôáíÝò ôüóá÷ñüíéá, áëëÜ ôï ÷åéñüôåñï åßíáé üôé áõôÝò ôéò ðñïêáôáëÞøåéòôéò ìåôáäßäïõìå êáé óôá ðáéäéÜ ìáò!

ÈÝëù íá ðéóôåýù üôé ôá ðáëéÜ ôá ÷ñüíéá, óôá ÷ùñéÜ êáéóôá âïõíÜ ôçò ÊñÞôçò, áõôü ðïõ ïäçãïýóå ôïõò áíèñþðïõòóôéò ðåñéïñéóìÝíåò áðüøåéò ôïõò, Þôáí ç Ýëëåéøç ãíþóçò Þáêüìá êáé ï öüâïò ãéá ôï Üãíùóôï! Åß÷áí áêüìá êáé ðáñïéìßåòãéá ôÝôïéïõ åßäïõò áðüøåéò üðùò : «Ðáðïýôóé áðü ôïí ôüðïóïõ, êé áò åßí’ êáé ìðáëùìÝíï»!

Óôï óçìåñéíü êüóìï üìùò, ôï ôé äßíåé ôçí «ðïéçôéêÞ» Üäåéáíá ðéóôåýïõí ïé Êñçôéêïß áðü ôç ìßá ðåñéï÷Þ ôçò ÊñÞôçò, ð.÷.áðü ôï ÇñÜêëåéï, üôé åßíáé «êáëýôåñïé» áðü áõôïýò áðü Üëëçðåñéï÷Þ, ð.÷. áðü ôá ×áíéÜ, åßíáé áêáôáíüçôï êáé äåí Ý÷åé ß÷íïòóïâáñüôçôáò! ¢èñùðïé áðü ôá ÓöáêéÜ, êÜðïéåò öïñÝò ìéóï-áóôåéåõüìåíïé äçëþíïõí üôé ôï ìÝñïò ôïõò åßíáé åßíáé ï«Ïìöáëüò ôïõ Óýìðáíôïò»! Êáé öõóéêÜ, áõôïß áðü ôïÌõëïðüôáìï, ìðïñåß íá ðéóôåýïõí üôé åßíáé ôá ðéï «ãñÞãïñáðéóôüëéá» ôçò ÊñÞôçò!

¼ëïé ìáò Ý÷ïõìå áêïýóåé ôÝôïéïõò éó÷õñéóìïýò êáé åãþôïõëÜ÷éóôïí ðÜíôá ôïõò èåùñïýóá êáëü «Êñçôéêü ×éïýìïñ»!ÌåôÜ üìùò áðü êÜðïéá ðñüóöáôá ãåãïíüôá, ôá ïðïßá Ýôõ÷åíá âéþóù ï ßäéïò, Ý÷ù áñ÷ßóåé íá Ý÷ù áìöéâïëßåò êáé íá ðéóôåýùüôé ôï êáëïðñïáßñåôï Êñçôéêü ÷éïýìïñ ãéá ôïí «Ôïðéêéóìü»ßóùò ôåëéêÜ íá ìçí åßíáé êáèüëïõ êáëïðñïáßñåôï êáé üôé ßóùòíá åßíáé âáèåéÜ ñéæùìÝíï óôï õðïóõíåßäçôü ìáò, êÜôé ðïõ ìåáíçóõ÷åß ðÜñá ðïëý!

Ðñéí áðü áñêåôïýò ìÞíåò, êÜðïéá áîéüëïãá êáé äñáóôÞñéáìÝëç ìå ðëçóßáóáí óå ìßá êïéíùíéêÞ åêäÞëùóç êáé îáöíéêÜÜñ÷éóáí íá åêöñÜæïõí ôçí áðïãïÞôåõóÞ ôïõò êáé ôçäõóáñÝóêåéÜ ôïõò ãéá ôï ÷ñéóôïõãåííéÜôéêï CD ôçò ÐÅÁ, ðïõåß÷å óôáëåß óå üëá ôá ìÝëç ùò ÷ñéóôïõãåííéÜôéêï äþñï ôïí×åéìþíá ôïõ 2006. «Ï ëüãïò;» ñþôçóá. «ÅðåéäÞ ôï CD åß÷åìüíï êïììÜôéá áðü ôçí áíáôïëéêÞ ðëåõñÜ ôçò ÊñÞôçò êáé

ôßðïôá áðü ×áíéÜ!», ìïõ åßðáí. ÌåñéêÝò åâäïìÜäåò áñãüôåñá,Ýíá Üëëï êáëü êáé äñáóôÞñéï ìÝëïò ôçò ¸íùóÞò ìáò êáé ðñþçíóôÝëå÷ïò ôçò ÐÅÁ, Ýèåóå ôï ßäéï èÝìá óå Óõíåäñßáóç, ôï ïðïßïóõæçôÞèçêå êáé áð’ üôé Üêïõóá, áðáßôçóå íá ãßíåé áõóôçñÞåðßðëçîç óôïí Ðñüåäñï ôçò ÐÅÁ ãéá ðáñÜëçøç êáèÞêïíôïò,ðïõ äåí óõìðåñéÝëáâå óôï CD êïììÜôéá áðü ôïí Áðïêüñùíá,ôï ÓÝëéíï Þ ôçí Êßóóáìï! Áõôüò ï êáëüò Êñçôéêüò æÞôçóåìÜëéóôá íá åðéóôñÝøåé ôï CD ôïõ óôçí ÐÅÁ ìáæß ìå Ýíá ìÞíõìááðïäïêéìáóßáò. ÌÜëëïí èá îÝ÷áóå ï êáëüò ìáò Üíèñùðïò,ðùò üôáí óïõ äßäïõí äþñï Ýíá ìïõëÜñé äåí ðñÝðåé íá ôïêïéôÜæåéò óôá äüíôéá! Åõôõ÷þò, åðéêñÜôçóáí ïé ðéï øý÷ñáéìáóêåðôüìåíïé ôçò óõíåäñßáóçò êáé óôï ôÝëïò ôçòáíáðïôåëåóìáôéêÞò óõæÞôçóçò, ïýôå åðßðëçîç Ýãéíå, ïýôåäÝ÷ôçêáí íá åðéóôñáöåß ôï CD!

ÅîÜëëïõ ðùò èá ìðïñïýóáìå íá îå÷Üóïõìå ÜëëùóôåêÜðïéåò ôñáãåëáöéêÝò, êáôáóôÜóåéò áðü ôï ôåëåõôáßï óõíÝäñéïôçò ÐáãêñçôéêÞò, üðïõ áñêåôïß åêëïãïìÜãåéñåò, ðéèáíüí óåóôéãìÞ áðüãíùóçò, åðé÷åéñçìáôïëïãïýóáí áíïéêôÜ ëÝãïíôáòüôé «…åßíáé áäéáíüçôï íá êÜíïõí ôï ßäéï ëÜèïò äýï öïñÝòåêëÝãïíôáò ùò Ðñüåäñï ôçò ÐÅÁ Ýíáí Çñáêëåéþôç, åéäéêüôåñáüôáí áõôüò ï Üíèñùðïò áó÷Ýôùò êáé áíåîáñôÞôùò ôùíðñïóüíôùí ôïõ äåí åßíáé éêáíüò íá áíôéðñïóùðåýóåé ôïõò«ìïíáäéêïýò óêïðïýò» êáé (ßóùò ðåñßåñãåò) áðüøåéò ôùí!»Ðåñéôôü íá áíáöÝñù üôé óôï ôÝëïò åðéêñÜôçóå ç øõ÷ñáéìßáêáé óïâáñüôçôá êáé ç ìåãÜëç ðëåéïøçößá åèåþñçóå ôÝôïéïåðé÷åßñçìá ìç óïâáñü!

ÁõôÞ áãáðçôïß êõñßåò & êýñéïé åßíáé ðñáãìáôéêÜ ç èëéâåñÞêáôÜóôáóÞ ìáò! Áõôü åðéëÝãïõí êÜðïéïé, åõôõ÷þò ëßãïé áðüåìÜò, íá êáëëéåñãÞóïõí áíôß íá êÜíïõí êÜôé äçìéïõñãéêü ãéáôçí ¸íùóÞ ìáò! Ìßá ¸íùóç ðïõ èÝëù íá ðéóôåýù ðùòáíôéðñïóùðåýåé ÏËÏÕÓ ôïõò Êñçôéêïýò êáé ôïõò áðïãüíïõòôïõò, áíåîÜñôçôá áðü ôï ðïý ãåííÞèçêáí Þ ìåãÜëùóáí, Þ ôé÷ñþìá ìÜôéá Ý÷ïõí!

Ðéóôåýù üôé åßíáé þñá ãéá üëïõò åìÜò íá óïâáñåõôïýìå!Äéáêçñýóóù áõôïý ôïõ åßäïõò ôç óõìðåñéöïñÜ ùò ìç áðïäåêôÞðëÝïí êáé ôïíßæù ðùò ðñÝðåé íá óôáìáôÞóïõìå íá êñßíïõìå ÝíáíÜíèñùðï áðü ôïí ôüðï êáôáãùãÞò ôïõ, åíþ ðñÝðåé íá ôïíêñßíïõìå áðü ôá åðéôåýãìáôÜ ôïõ, ôéò éäÝåò êáé ôçí éêáíüôçôÜ ôïõíá ðñïâáßíåé óå êáëÝò ðñÜîåéò, ðñïò üöåëïò üëùí!

Áò åíáãêáëéóôïýìå üëïé ùò Êñçôéêïß, ùò ÁäÝëöéá! Áòãßíïõìå êé áò óõìðåñéöåñèïýìå ùò ðñáãìáôéêïß Ðáí-ÊñÞôåò!Óôï êÜôù-êÜôù, Ý÷ïõìå ôüóá êïéíÜ êáé ðïëëÜ ðåñéóóüôåñá ðïõìáò åíþíïõí, ðáñÜ ðïõ ìáò ÷ùñßæïõí!

Ìå áäåëöéêïýò ÷áéñåôéóìïýò,

Ìáíþëçò ÂåëçâáóÜêçòÐñüåäñïò ÐÅÁ

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Αν υπήρξε κάτι παρηγορητικό και αισιόδοξο από τηνπύρινη καταστροφή στην Ελλάδα, είναι η έμπρακτησυμπαράσταση απ’ όλο τον κόσμο -και ιδιαίτερα τουαπόδημου Ελληνισμού- και το αίσθημα αλληλεγγύης τωνΕλλήνων σε περιόδους κρίσης.

Αυτό δεν μετριάζει όμως το μέγεθος της καταστροφής.Η μισή Πελοπόννησος κάηκε μαζί με ανθρώπους, δάση,καλλιέργειες, ζώα. Οι φετινές φωτιές στην Πάρνηθα, τοΠήλιο, την Αχαΐα, την Κόρινθο, την Αιγιάλεια, την Αρκαδία,την Ηλεία, την Εύβοια, τη Λακωνία είναι εγκλήματα στοπεριβάλλον και την ισορροπία της Φύσης είτε είναι έργοεμπρηστή, αδιαφορία και άγνοια, είτε αποτέλεσμα τηςανυπαρξίας του κράτους, έλλειψη πρόληψης καιανεπάρκεια μέσων καταστολής και συντονισμού.

Ο κίνδυνος, τώρα, είναι η αμέλεια, η αδράνεια, οισκοπιμότητες, τα συμφέροντα, οι λάθος νοοτροπίες. Ο πρώτοςμεγάλος κίνδυνος είναι τα καμένα δάση, ή προστατευόμενεςπεριοχές, που δέχονται χρόνια τώρα οικιστικές πιέσεις, ναγίνουν σπίτια ή ξενοδοχεία. Xωρίς δασολόγιο και κτηματολόγιο,η «πόρτα» ανοίγει εύκολα στους καταπατητές. Να στραφούνοι κάτοικοι στο «εύκολο κέρδος» του τουρισμού και να χαθείη παραδοσιακή οικονομία της περιοχής. Να διαρρεύσει προςτις πόλεις μεγάλο κομμάτι, κυρίως του νεαρού πληθυσμού.Τέλος, με τις πρώτες βροχές, να προκληθούν πλημμύρες,κατολισθήσεις και περαιτέρω καταστροφές.

Ολοι αυτοί οι κίνδυνοι μπορούν να αποσοβηθούν. Μεποιο τρόπο; Με έγκαιρη παρέμβαση και σχέδιο. Ηεφημερίδα «Καθημερινή» αναλύει τα πιθανά αίτια καιειδικοί μιλούν για το τι πρέπει να γίνει τώρα:

Οι περιοχές που κάηκαν στους νομούς Ηλείας,Μεσσηνίας, Αρκαδίας, Λακωνίας και Εύβοιας, μαζί με εκείνεςτων νομών Αχαΐας και Κορινθίας που έγιναν στάχτη τονΙούλιο, είχαν μόλις μπει στο πρόγραμμα κτηματογράφησης

Οι επιπτώσεις, οι απειλές και οι λύσεις

Η Ελλάδα μετά τις φωτιές

και σύντομα θα είχαν οριοθετηθεί αμετάκλητα δάση καιδασικές εκτάσεις. Με λίγα λόγια, όσοι εποφθαλμιούσανδασικές και δημόσιες γαίες είχαν φέτος το καλοκαίρι τηντελευταία ευκαιρία για να σβήσουν τα ίχνη των δασών...Σατανική σύμπτωση ή στοιχείο που εξηγεί πολλά;

Η πύρινη καταστροφή απειλεί να οδηγήσει σεεσπευσμένες και λανθασμένες αλλαγές της χρήσης γηςστις πληγείσες περιοχές και στην επιβολή ενός μηβιώσιμου μοντέλου οικονομικής ανάπτυξης. Οι αγρότεςπου είδαν τα χωράφια τους να καίγονται μπορεί ναοδηγηθούν σε εγκατάλειψη ή σε πώληση της γης τους,προς όφελος χρήσεων (κατοικία, τουρισμός, υπηρεσίες),που δεν θα ωφελήσουν μακροπρόθεσμα τον τόπο τους.

Αλλες απειλές είναι η εκτός σχεδίου δόμηση και ηανάπτυξη με άναρχο τρόπο υποδομών υπηρεσιών πέριξτων νέων μεγάλων οδικών αξόνων που σχεδιάζονται στηνπεριοχή (Ιονία Οδός, άξονας κεντρικής Πελοποννήσου κ.λ.π).

Όλα δείχνουν πως -αν δεν ληφθούν άμεσα μέτρα- ηΠελοπόννησος και κυρίως τα ορεινά χωριά της θαγνωρίσουν μια ακόμη περίοδο ερήμωσης. Πριν από μίαδεκαετία περίπου η Πελοπόννησος ήταν η περιοχή με τουψηλότερο ποσοστό φυσικής μείωσης του πληθυσμού στηχώρα, μετά το Βόρειο Αιγαίο. Αιτία, η υπογεννητικότητακαι η γήρανση του πληθυσμού στις αγροτικές περιοχές.

Αυτό που οι πολίτες πρέπει ν’ απαιτήσουν και το κράτοςνα συντονίσει είναι οι συμβουλές των ειδικών - προληπτικήπροστασία του δάσους (ζώνες πυροπροστασίας, δασικούςδρόμους πρόσβασης, καθαρισμούς, εγκατάσταση πυρήνων«πρώτης αντίδρασης», με δεξαμενές νερού κ. λπ.). Μεάλλα λόγια, πρέπει να αλλάξει η νοοτροπία και ναεπαναπροσδιοριστούν προτεραιότητες έτσι ώστε νααποφευχθεί μεγαλύτερη καταστροφή στο μέλλον καιεξάλειψη των δέντρων που απομένουν.

Του Γιώργου Ζορμπά

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Sixty five people lost their lives,an estimated 4,000 people lost theirhomes and thousands of mostly forestand farmland acres were destroyed bythe unprecedented forest fires that rav-aged Greece in August.

The fires blackened hillsides andraced through towns and vil lagesprompting a massive relief effort butalso criticism of Greece’s governmentfor allegedly responding to the crisisslowly and failing to safely evacuatevillages before they were burned.

The government, seeking to de-flect criticism, has blamed arson, ar-resting several people suspected ofsetting various fires. The Greek newsmedia also spread conspiracy theo-ries — including one that the fires werestarted as a hostile act from abroad.

Although forest fires are commonduring Greece’s hot, dry summers, thecountry has one of the worst recordsin Europe on forest protection. Greeklaw protects the country’s forests fromdevelopment, but there is no nationalregistry of forest land. Fires are some-times set to circumvent the law andclear land for development before for-estry officials could document claims

Greek forest firesthat would protect the land.

In addition to the initial handouts,the government has pledged more than$400 million to rebuild farms, businessesand villages. It also seeks emergencyaid from the European Union. Thou-sands of Greeks in Greece and abroadhave donated millions of euros forreconstruction efforts and flood-preven-tion measures were being implementedin some of the affected areas in theevent of heavy rain.

Experts agree that changes in theforestry service (the Greek Governmentmoved responsibility for rural fire man-agement from the Greek Forest Serviceto the city-based Greek Fire Service)have made forest fire fighting a purelyreactive process in Greece, with evi-dent results. What actually happens is aloss of prevention emphasis, less will-ingness to listen to local expertise, anincrease in costs, a decrease in effec-tiveness and a loss of environmentalvalues, rural livelihoods, and even life.

Ultimately, Greece must develop along-term plan for saving its naturalspaces and take a long, hard look attheir emergency procedures in thewake of a disaster. Many experts also

question Greece’s reliance on tacklingthe fires from the air with water-bomb-ing planes and helicopters in prefer-ence to using firefighters on the ground.

Successful rural fire management,experts agree, is based on what areknown as the ‘four Rs’ – risk reduction,maintaining readiness, response, andrecovery – within a structure which val-ues communication, cooperation withpeople who understand land manage-ment and vegetation fires, local knowl-edge and the spirit of volunteerism.

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The 50th anniversary of his death

Íikos Kazantzakis

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loved Crete, Nikos Kazantzakis has notachieved the recognition in the UnitedStates that he so richly deserves. Manypeople have only heard of his novels Zorbathe Greek and The Last Temptation ofChrist, both of which have been adaptedinto films. Novelist, playwright and jour-nalist; disciple of Nietzsche, Bergson andBuddha; admirer of Christ and Lenin;praised by Thomas Mann, AlbertSchweitzer and Albert Camus, his worksare the external expression of an inwardcry that seeks answers to the most pro-found questions of existence.

Kazantzakis was born in Iraklion in1883 and studied in Athens before mov-ing to Paris to study under the influentialFrench philosopher Henri Bergson. It wasin Paris that he nurtured his love forNietzsche and soon afterwards Buddha.As well as his interest in philosophy anddramatic works, his journalistic commit-ments led him to compose travel-booksabout his visits to Italy, Spain, Russia,Japan, China and England. His magnumopus, translated as The Odyssey: A Mod-ern Sequel consists of a monumental33,333 verses and was completed in1938. The latter part of his life saw hisconcentration focus primarily upon thecomposition of novels, most notably theworks translated as Zorba the Greek,Freedom and Death and The Last Temp-tation of Christ, which was placed on theRoman Catholic Index of Forbidden Booksby the Pope in 1954. Due primarily to thewidespread condemnation of the book,his body was refused permission to lie instate in Athens after his death, before

The Eternal Thirst

being taken to Crete. His humble graveoverlooks his beloved Iraklion.

Although he came close, he wasnever awarded the Nobel Prize, narrowlymissing out to Juan Ramon Jimenez in1956. However, it is poignant that, afterhis death, his wife received a letter fromCamus, awarded the Prize in 1957, in

which he claimed that Kazantzakis de-served the honor “a hundred times more”than himself. The letter, dated March 16,1959, shows the affection Camus feltfor the Cretan: “I have always nurturedmuch admiration and, if you permit me, asort of affection for your husband’swork. I had the pleasure of being able togive public testimony of my admiration inAthens, at a period when official Greecewas frowning upon her greatest writer.The welcome given my testimony by mystudent audience constituted the finesthomage to your husband’s work and actscould have been granted. I also do notforget that the very day when I was re-gretfully receiving a distinction thatKazantzakis deserved a hundred timesmore, I got the most generous of tele-grams from him. Later on, I discoveredwith consternation that this message hadbeen drafted a few days before his death.With him, one of our last great artistsvanished. I am one of those who feel andwill go on feeling the void that he hasleft.”

As Camus notes, Kazantzakis hadsent him a telegram congratulating himon his Nobel Prize. This telegram was sentfrom a clinic in Freiburg, Germany, whereKazantzakis spent his last days, cheeredby a visit from Albert Schweitzer, beforehe passed away on October 26, 1957.

Camus, who was eager to find atheatre to stage Kazantzakis’ play Mel-issa when the two met in Paris during1947, had attempted to find a meaningto life when one accepted the renuncia-tion of the existence of God and eternalvalues in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus

(1939). In his interpretation of the myth,in which Sisyphus is condemned to eter-nally roll a rock up a hill that no soonerreaches the top rolls down to the otherside, Camus asserts that the hero pro-vides a way to proceed beyond the pa-ralysis of nihilism. As Sisyphus is consciousof the futility and hence absurdity of his

action, he is able to transcend the de-spair that might easily have followed. ForSisyphus, the value in life is to be foundnot in its inherent meaning, but in one’sattitude towards it. This attitude is oneof revolt, the refusal to be paralyzed bythe consciousness of the absurdity of ourexistence.

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In a similar way, Kazantzakis sees thisapproach of Sisyphus as a way beyondnihilism and despair. In a letter dated Oc-tober 21, 1947, he wrote to his friend,the Swedish politician Borje Knos: [‘Whatis the right path?’, an Indian proverb asks.‘The path of God’. ‘And what is the pathof God?’ ‘The uphill path!’ Humanity willonce again take the uphill path, likeSisyphus].

Kazantzakis’ aphoristic work TheSaviors of God: Spiritual Exercises, cap-tures the essence of his philosophicalideas. A highly complex and difficult work,was greeted with accusations of nihilismand pessimism in its initial publication inGreece in 1927. It was a new and re-freshing approach to the relationship be-tween matter and spirit and the ultimatequestion of God.

Kazantzakis referred to himself as a“tragic optimist” which, according to hiswife Eleni, describes someone who “has

confidence in man, who looks straightat the demon of destruction, hates it, butis not afraid of it, because he knows thatall destruction is but the preparatory stageto a new creation”. This emphasis ondestruction as a “preparatory stage to anew creation” is based on Kazantzakis”belief in his present epoch as a transitionalage, an age that must seek to “create anew channel for the spirit”, and movefrom a “middle age” to a “renaissance”.

Using his own idiosyncratic languageand philosophy, Kazantzakis claims thatin working with matter, the artist cre-ates the “channel for the spirit” that isrequired if the “uphill path” is to be con-tinued. In Kazantzakian terminology, hu-manity must become “The Saviors ofGod”.

In his epic The Odyssey: A ModernSequel, the hero Odysseus begins hisjourney by saturating himself with theexcesses of sensual pleasures. However,

after the destruction of what Odysseussaw as his ideal city, in Book XV of theepic, he realizes the futility of all thingsbefore all-conquering death and seeksaesthetic withdrawal on a mountain tocommune with his “God”.

Kazantzakis felt the pulsating rhythmof life pumping through his veins and wasable to transfer this rhythm into his works.He penetrated to the core of human pas-sions, hopes and fears and managed todistil this into the very marrow of his char-acters. Whether it be the fierce and fear-some Captain Michael in his self-sacrifi-cial struggle for Cretan liberation describedin the novel Freedom and Death, or thestrong-willed yet scared Manolios, cho-sen to represent the figure of Christ in avillage play in the work Christ Recrucified,or even the loveable, larger than life AlexisZorba, we are greeted by characters whoepitomize Kazantzakis’ desire for bothpolitical and spiritual freedom. Some of

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the last words he spoke to his wife cap-ture his attitude to life: “I’m thirsty”, helamented. Like his perpetually searching,experiencing and homeless heroOdysseus, for whom the goal of Ithacais the journey itself, Kazantzakis wouldhave scorned the idea of resting in peace.

The TemptationsKazantzakis’ Christ Recrucified is the

story of Manolias, a fair-haired timid youngman chosen to play Christ in a Passionplay. He wants to avoid the burden; but,having accepted it, he becomes steadilymore Christ-like. Crowds of dispossessedGreeks come to live outside the village,and the villagers hate them; Manoliastakes their part. Eventually, Manolias isritually murdered by his own villagers; the‘dispossessed’ villagers have to move on.

Kazantzakis works out his parallelwith Christ in some detail, the Turkish Agabeing Pilate, the village ‘pope’ Caiaphas,etc. The power of the book lies in thebreadth of its canvas, its hundreds of char-acters, all made to live. It causedKazantzakis some trouble; the GreekChurch wanted to excommunicate him.When he died, the Greek archbishop re-fused to allow his body to lie in a church;he was later given a hero’s burial in Crete.(Although he had irritated the Cretanswith Captain Michalis, which was re-garded as a libel on the Cretan charac-ter.)

Having got into trouble with ChristRecrucified, Kazantzakis promptly re-peated the offence with The Last Temp-tation, this being an immense novel onthe life of Christ. Unlike other novelistswho have dealt with Jesus, Kazantzakiswas not intent on creating a sinless god.He wanted to create Christ in his ownimage — tormented by everlasting temp-tation, a Promethean Jesus, learning,step by step, to cast off the fetters ofthe family, the body, the ego, etc. On thecross, the devil sends him a final tempta-tion: he imagines that he had chosen theeasier road of men, had become a re-spected and happy old man, with his fam-ily about him. He thrusts aside this temp-tation to approve the human road, anddies with the sense that he has accom-plished his mission, taught men that thereare greater values than mere ‘living’. Thenovel is an amazing achievement, simplyas a piece of historical re-creation.

Kazantzakis perhaps wanted to con-vince himself that all his own sufferingsand temptations had somehow been jus-tified: he may have suspected that, after

all, he had flagellated himself a little toovigorously. One is too aware that hisJesus is a piece of self-defense, an apo-logia.

Perhaps the nearest literary-relative ofKazantzakis in English-speaking countriesis, surprisingly enough, W. B. Yeats. Yeatshad the same admiration for men of ac-tion, the same mystique of the wanderer,the same self-division, the same obses-sion with ‘fire and blood’ and sex. Yeatsalso had this idea of the man of geniusas a self-consuming flame, and the long-ing for a mystic vision that would destroythe hunger of the flesh.

In the years before his death, recog-nition had begun to come to Kazantzakis.His books were translated into many lan-guages, but were not widely read.Schweitzer, Thomas Mann and Camushailed him as one of the greatest Euro-pean writers. In 1953 he contracted leu-kemia, and dictated parts of his St Francisnovel when in great suffering. In 1956,he was awarded the Soviet Peace Prize(although most of his books were bannedin Russia, and he had never been a Com-munist Party member). It was his incorri-gible need to travel that finally broughtabout his death at seventy-four. He ac-cepted an invitation to visit China, andwas accidentally given a smallpox vacci-nation in Canton. He died in Germany inOctober 1957.

‘What Purpose?’ Kazantzakis asks,in a letter, ‘What do we care? Don’t ask,fight on! Let us set ourselves a purpose .. .’ ‘We must conquer the last, the great-est of temptations — that of hope.’ ‘Wesing even though we know that no earexists to hear us; we toil though there isno employer to pay us our wages whennight falls. We are despairing, serene andfree. This is true heroism . . .’

On Kazantzakis’s tomb in Crete areengraved the words: ‘I do not hope foranything. I do not fear anything. I am free.’It is significant that his epitaph should bea Buddhist expression of nihilism.

Captain Michalis

(Freedom or Death)Captain Michalis is important to a full

understanding of Kazantzakis. Its originaltitle was My Father, and it deals with theunsuccessful rebellion of the Cretansagainst the Turks in 1889. Kazantzakiswas old enough to remember this clearly,as well as the final rebellion of 1896,when the Turks were finally expelled. Cretehad been oppressed by the Turks for ahundred years, and there had been many

bloody uprisings and endless violence. Onone occasion, a monastery was besiegedby Turks; as they rushed into the court-yard, a young fighter fired his rifle into theopen powder-barrels in the basement. Sixhundred women and children were hidingthere; the monastery and everyone in itwas blown to atoms. In these risings, bothsides were completely merciless; womenwould be raped and murdered, childrenbayoneted, the men often tortured todeath.

The novel is a huge, leisurely affairthat reminds one sometimes of War andPeace, sometimes of Dylan Thomas’sUnder Milk Wood in its detailed and amus-ing description of the private lives of thepeople of Megalocastro. Its hero is the‘wild beast’ Captain Michalis(Kazantzakis’s father was also CaptainMichalis, and was also known as ‘the wildbeast’; but he was not, like the hero ofthe novel, killed in 1889.) He is a typicalKazantzakis figure, of immense physicalstrength, taciturn, brooding, completelybrave. He is obsessed by a beautifulCircassian girl, the wife of his blood brotherNuri Bey, a Turk; but, being a self-dividedman, he never gets around to sleepingwith her, although she would have beenhappy enough. The novel is full of seduc-tions, sex and slaughter; it would be veryeasy to parody it in the manner of ColdComfort Farm, with its strong, silent menand sensual women. But one only hasto read fifty pages of it to realize that,whatever Kazantzakis’s faults as a manhe was the greatest European artist sinceTolstoy. But in one respect he falls belowTolstoy. He never seems to questionwhether all this slaughter is worthwhile,or whether his heroic men are only hot-headed fools. His power as a writer is sogreat that the reader is not aware of thiswhile he actually reads the book. But atthe end, when Michalis and his followersallow themselves to be slaughteredmerely because they are too proud tosurrender, one feels that there was some-thing seriously lacking in Kazantzakis if hedidn’t feel the futility of the whole thing.Shaw said: ‘When the shooting starts, Iget under the bed’; one wishesKazantzakis’s heroes had half as muchsense.

This brings up another point aboutKazantzakis. He was all his life ashamedof being a ‘pen pusher’, and hankered af-ter the life of action. This again reveals acurious immaturity. In the novel, Michalis’snephew is also a poet and a ‘pen pusher’who lives abroad; he returns to Crete atthe end of the novel, and dies with his

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uncle in the final act of resistance. Onesuspects that Kazantzakis saw himselfas the nephew, and was somehow try-ing to propitiate his father’s ghost.

Odyssey, A Modern SequelAfter Nietzsche, Christ, St Francis,

Gautama and Lenin, Kazantzakis turnedto Odysseus, and began his greatestwork, the epic poem in which Odysseusleaves Ithaca for the second time andgoes in search of ‘God’ or a meaning forhuman existence.

Odyssey, A Modern Sequel, is prob-ably the greatest journey in modern lit-erature. It is impossible to offer an ad-equate summary of the poem here.(There is an excellent book about it bythe author’s friend Prevelakis, Kazantzakisand His Odyssey). It begins when Ulyssesre-sheathes his sword after killing thesuitors. But he finds life in Ithaca a bore,and decides to set out again on his trav-els. He renounces human happiness in theform of Nausicaa, but marries her to hisson Telemachus, and then leaves Ithacafor the last time. He takes five compan-ions, with such curious names as Cap-tain Clam, Hardihood, Kentaur, Orpheusand Granite, selecting them for their dif-ferent qualities. He sails to Sparta andsteals Helen of Troy again from Menelaus;the violation of hospitality, which involveskilling a guard, symbolizes his Nietzscheanrejection of ‘morality’. In Crete, the homeof Kazantzakis, he takes part in a sexualorgy, and ends by setting fire to the pal-ace. He deserts Helen and goes on toEgypt. There he takes part in a worker

revolt, and comes close to being ex-ecuted; however, he dances in front ofthe king wearing a horrible wooden god-mask, and Pharoah sets him free. He nowdecides to found the ideal city-state atthe source of the Nile. After battles witha local tribe, Odysseus has a vision of Godon a mountain, and then they build theirIdeal City. It is only just completed whenan earthquake destroys it. Odysseus ex-periences total despair at the destructionof all his companions, but now feels thathe is fully aware of the illusory nature ofthe world. But he rejects the temptationto suicide and travels on. In subsequentbooks he meets figures who are thinlydisguised versions of Gautama, DonQuixote and Christ. In Don Quixote he ‘sa-lutes a madness equal to my own’, butrejects his vision as he has rejectedGautama’s. Odysseus is ultimately the life-affirmer, the lover of the earth. He makeshis last voyage towards the South Pole ina boat, and the last three books are oc-cupied with a description of this voyage,ending with an impressive evocation ofthe snowy wastes (for which Kazantzakisdrew on his memories of Russia’s tundraregions). Odysseus climbs on to an ice-berg, where the spirit of his old compan-ions join him, and he finally dies. The end-ing is as noisy as the end of a Wagneropera and as rhetorical as the last sceneof Faust, but it does not give one theimpression that Odysseus has found whathe set out to find.

Such a summary can do no justiceto the poem, which has been superblytranslated by Kimon Friar, but it may givesome idea of the sheer excitement of its

wide sweep. It produces the ‘effect likemusic’ that someone once described asthe effect of War and Peace.

The Odyssey was written seven timesbetween 1924 and Christmas 1938,when it finally appeared in Greece in alimited edition. The critics were puzzled.The poem was immense — 33,333 lineslong. The spelling was peculiar —Kazantzakis was like Shaw in his desirefor a reform of the alphabet — andKazantzakis dispensed with most of theGreek accentuation. The seventeen syl-lable lines were not easy to grasp on afirst reading. Undismayed, Kazantzakiswent on to write his series of great nov-els. Captain Michalis (translated as Free-dom or Death) was begun in 1936, Zorbathe Greek was written in 1942 (published1946), Christ Recrucified in 1948, TheLast Temptation in 1951, and The PoorMan of God in 1953. There is also a novelwith the curious title: ‘He says he wantsfreedom, kill him’, and an early novel aboutRussia, Toda Raba. The ‘ascetic exercises’,The Savors of God, are also of consider-able importance.

At the Palaces of KnossosBlending historical fact and classical

myth, the author of Zorba the Greek andThe Last Temptation of Christ transportsthe reader 3,000 years into the past, toa pivotal point in history: the final daysbefore the ancient kingdom of MinoanCrete is to be conquered and supplantedby the emerging city-state of Athens. Thefamiliar figures of King Minos, Theseus andAriadne, the Minotaur, Diadalos and

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Ikaros—fill the pages of this novel with lifelike immediacy.Written originally for an Athenian youth periodical, At the Palaces of Knossos is

a gripping and vivid adventure story, recounted by one of this century’s greateststorytellers, and peopled with freshly interpreted figures of classical Greek mythol-ogy. We see a new vision of the Minotaur, portrayed here as a bloated and sicklygreen monster, as much to be pitied as dreaded. And we see a grief-stricken andembittered Diadalos stomping on the homemade wax wings that have caused thedrowning of his son, Ikaros.

On another level, At the Palaces of Knossos is an allegory of history, showingthe supplanting of a primitive culture by a more modern civilization. Shifting the set-ting back and forth from Crete to Athens, Kazantzakis contrasts the languid, decay-ing life of the court of King Minos with the youth and vigor of the newly emergingAthens.

Protected by bronze swords, by ancient magic and ritual, and by ferocious-but-no-longer-invincible monsters, the kingdom of Crete represents the world that mustperish if classical Greek civilization is to emerge into its golden age of reason andscience. In the cataclysmic final scene in which the Minotaur is killed and King Minos’ssumptuous palace burned, Kazantzakis dramatizes the death of the Bronze Age,with its monsters and totems, and the birth of the Age of Iron.

Στις 26 Οκτωβρίου 1957 ο ΝίκοςΚαζαντζάκης έφυγε από τη ζωή.Πενήντα χρόνια μετά τον θάνατό τουεξακολουθεί για πολλούς να παραμένειένας μύθος. Το έργο του είναι πλούσιοκαι απλώνεται σε πολλούς τομείς:θέατρο, ποίηση, δοκίμιο, ταξιδιωτικά,μυθιστόρημα, μεταφράσεις, φιλοσοφία.Τα κυριότερα έργα του είναι Αναφοράστον Γκρέκο, Ασκητική, Οδύσσεια (έπος,αποτελούμενο από 3333 στίχους), Βίοςκαι Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, ΟΚαπετάν Μιχάλης, Ο Φτωχούλης τουΘεού, Ο Χριστός Ξανασταυρώνεται, ΟΤελευταίος Πειρασμός, Ταξιδεύονταςκ.ά.

Πέρα όμως από τις βιογραφικέςμαρτυρίες δύο γυναικών που τονγνώρισαν και έζησαν κοντά του, ηΓαλάτεια και η Ελένη Καζαντζάκη, δενείναι πολλές οι μελέτες που έχουμεγια το έργο του, για τον τρόπο σκέψηςτου, για την κοσμοθεωρία του και τωνπροβληματισμών που τον απασχόλησαν.

Ο ίδιος ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκηςπεριέγραψε τον εαυτό του το 1950με τα εξής λόγια: «Με θαρρούν λόγιο,διανοούμενο, γραφιά. Και δεν είμαιτίποτε απ’ αυτά. Τα δάχτυλά μου, ότανγράφω, δεν μελανώνουνται ,

Íßêïò ÊáæáíôæÜêçòΗ Ελένη Κατσουλάκη αναλύει τα πρόσωπακαι τρόπο σκέψης του αγωνιώδη στοχαστή


αιματώνουνται. Θαρρώ δεν είμαι παράτούτο: μια απροσκύνητη ψυχή».

Για τον ρόλο της γυναίκας στηζωή και το έργο του, ο ίδιος σημείωνεστην Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο:«Αγάπησα γυναίκες, στάθηκα τυχερός,εξαίσιες γυναίκες μου έτυχαν στοδρόμο μου, ποτέ οι άντρες δε μουέκαμαν τόσο καλό και δε βοήθησαντόσο τον αγώνα μου όσο οι γυναίκεςτούτες. Κι απάνω απ’ όλες μια, ητελευταία. . . Γενναία συναθλητίνα,δροσερή πηγή στην απάνθρωπηερημία... παρηγοριά μεγάλη».

Ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον έχει ημελέτη της Ελένης Κατσουλάκη,δημοσιογράφου και συγγραφέα, πουδίνει πολύπλευρες εικόνες τηςπροσωπικότητας του Καζαντζάκη. Ησημαντική της έρευνα για τοναφορισμό του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη πουέγραψε το 1972 και απαγορεύτηκε ηδημοσίευση από την στρατιωτικήΧούντα είδε το φως της δημοσιότηταςχρόνια αργότερα και μεταφράστηκεσε 15 γλώσσες.

Η Ελένη Κατσουλάκη μίλησε στοΚΡΗΤΗ για τον Νίκο Καζαντζάκη, τοέργο του και επιστολές που προσπαθείνα μεταφράσει από τα Γερμανικά τις

οποίες είχε ανταλλάξει ο συγγραφέαςμε μια μεγάλη του αγάπη, τη Ραχήλ,που εμφανίζεται στην “Οδύσεια” ως ηλαϊκή αγωνίστρια Ράλλα.

Από μικρή διάβαζα πάρα πολύΚαζαντζάκη, λέει η Ελένη Κατσουλάκη.«Αλλιώς βέβαια τον έβλεπα τότε καιαλλιώς τώρα. Τον είχα σαν θεό τότε.Δεν έπαψα να τον διαβάζω. Η μόνηπροίκα μου όταν ήρθα από την Ελλάδαήταν τα βιβλία του στη βαλίτσα μου.

«Για μένα», λέει η ΕλένηΚατσουλάκη, «ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκηςείναι ο καλύτερος συγγραφέας τουκόσμου, με τον τρόπο που γράφει,ίσως επειδή είμαι Κρητικιά και πιάνωτην ψυχοσύνθεσή του. Υπάρχουν οικρητικές λέξεις, ένας που δεν είναιΚρητικός αποκλείεται να καταλάβειτον Καζαντζάκη τόσο καλά, και οιξένοι που κάνουν τους experts καιδιαβάζουν τα έργα του στ’ Αγγλικά…εάν δεν ξέρεις την Κρήτη και τηνψυχοσύνθεση του Κρητικού, δενμπορείς να τον καταλάβεις τονΚαζαντζάκη, ούτε την ψυχολογία του.Η Κρητική νοοτροπία τον έχει πλάσειτον Καζαντζάκη, τον έχει επηρεάσειβέβαια και ο πατέρας του.»

-Προτερήματα και ελαττώματαποια θα λέγατε ότι είχε;

Ο Καζαντζάκης είχε πολλάπρόσωπα, λέει η Ελένη Κατσουλάκη.«Δεν ήταν και εύκολος άνθρωπος,ήταν άνθρωπος ερημικός, ασκητικός,λιγόφαγος. Δεν εξέφραζε τααισθήματά του-μπορεί να έλεγε κάτιαλλά δεν σημαίνει πως το εννοούσε,σπάνια έδειχνε συζυγική στοργή καιζεστασιά στις δυο γυναίκες πουπαντρεύτηκε.

«Δεν έλεγε πάντοτε την αλήθειαγια τον εαυτό του. Ας μην ξεχνάμεότι ο Καζαντζάκης ήταν χωριατάκι,δεν είχε τις παρέες ή κοινωνικέςεπαφές, δεν ήταν καθόλου κοινωνικός.Πρίν πεθάνει, είχε κάνει σχέδια πώςνα γραφτεί η βιογραφία του, είχεδώσει οδηγίες στην Ελένη(Καζαντζάκη) πώς να τη γράψει καιγι’ αυτό η Ελένη τον μυθοποίησε στην

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βιογραφία του, Ο Ασυμβίβαστος«Αγαπούσε πάρα πολύ την Κρήτη, άσχετα αν ήταν

μακριά της. Η Κρήτη όχι μόνο τον ζύμωσε αλλά του έδωσεκαι μύθους για παλικάρια και ήρωες και για να το ξεπεράσεικαι να τιμήσει το σόι του έπρεπε ο Καζαντζάκης να γίνεικάτι μεγαλύτερο , για να μην ντροπιάσει το σόι. Αλλά οΚαζαντζάκης ήταν εκ φύσεως ντροπαλός, δειλός, δεν ήτανάνθρωπος της ένοπλης δράσης. Ο Καζαντζάκης ήτανγραφιάς, πάει τέλειωσε και δεν μπορούσε να γίνει αυτόπου ήθελαν οι άλλοι. Και μέσα από τα έργα του, αυτό πουήθελε να γίνει –υπεράνθρωπος μεγάλος – το έκανε μέσααπό τα έργα του.

«Ο Καζαντζάκης βάζει λέξεις πολύ δυνατές. Οι λέξειςτου έχουν δύναμη. Τι θα πεί ‘θαρραλέος’ ; Βάλε‘λεοντόκαρδος’… Τι διαφορά έχει! Λεοντόψυχος, ατρόμητος,απροσκύνητος. Πολλές φορές όμως, όπως στην Οδύσσειάτου χάνεσαι μέσα στις δυνατές λέξεις και δεν ξέρειςπου το πάει.. Χάνεσαι μέσα στα πολλά επίθετα, σε έναλαβύρινθο των λέξεων. Η Οδύσσεια δείχνει την δική τουπορεία και τις δικές του αγωνίες –όπως ο Οδυσσέαςέψαχνε την Ιθάκη, ο Καζαντζάκης έψαχνε το θεό.

«Ο Σπύρος Σκούρας, παραγωγός στο Χόλυγουντ, τουείχε προτείνει να γράψει σενάριο για κινηματογραφικήταινία. Ο ίδιος ο Καζαντζάκης δεν το είχε ζητήσει επειδήήταν πολύ ντροπαλός, είχε ζητήσει όμως από άλλους ναμιλήσουν γι’ αυτόν στον Σκούρα. Τότε ήταν η αίγλη, ηχρυσή εποχή του Χόλυγουντ και α Καζαντζάκης έγραψεσενάριο για ένα μικρό χωριό στην Ελλάδα, ένα ψαρονήσι,με δίχτυα και ψαρά, την γυναίκα του και τις κατσίκεςτους. Το σενάριο βέβαια απορρίφθηκε αμέσως..

Τις επιστολές Καζαντζάκη-Ραχήλ ανακάλυψε η ΕλένηΚατσουλάκη σε Κιμπούτς όπου έμενε για ένα διάστημα η

Ραχήλ. Ο ίδιος ο Καζαντζάκης είχε εκμυστηρευτεί σε φίλουςότι την αγάπησε αυτή τη γυναίκα. Μπορεί να έζησε και μετη Γαλάτεια και με την Ελένη Σαμίου, αλλά το ότι αγάπησεαυτή τη γυναίκα είχε ένα ιδιαίτερο χρώμα, το χρώμα εκείνουτου ριζικού έρωτα, που σπάνια, μία φορά ίσως, παρουσιάζεταιστη ζωή του ανθρώπου.

«Αλληλογραφούσε με τη Ραχήλ για χρόνια, στο Κιμπούτςπου επισκέφτηκα μου είπαν ότι είχαν μεγάλη αγάπη μεταξύτους», λέει η Ελένη Κατσουλάκη. «Η Ραχήλ μιλούσε για τονΚαζαντζάκη, είχε ένα αγόρι το οποίο ονόμασε Αλέξανδρο -ήταν λίγο κουζουλό και πέθανε 54 χρονών. Διάβαζε τηνΟδύσσεια και όταν τον ρώτησαν που βρήκε το βιβλίο, έλεγεότι του το έστειλε ο Καζαντζάκης, ο ‘φίλος της μητέραςτου’, όπως τον έλεγε. Και η ίδια η Ελένη Καζαντζάκηαλληλογραφούσε με την Ραχήλ και μετά τον θάνατο τουΚαζαντζάκη σαν να ήταν αδελφές, ή οι καλύτερες φίλες.

Η Ελένη Κατσουλάκη γεννήθηκε και μεγάλωσε στηνεπαρχία Αποκορώνου του Ν. Χανίων. Σε ηλικία 14 ετώνάρχισε να συνεργάζεται, ως ελεύθερος αρθρογράφος, μετην εφημερίδα “Παρατηρητής” των Χανίων. Σε νεαρή,επίσης, ηλικία έγραψε τα μυθιστορήματα: “Τα λουλούδιαδεν ανθίζουν στο χιόνι” και “Λυροπαίχτης”. Σπούδασεδημοσιογραφία στην Αθήνα και συνεργάστηκε με ξέναλογοτεχνικά περιοδικά και εφημερίδες. Ακολούθησανσπουδές σεναρίου στο Λονδίνο, παραμονή της γιατέσσερα χρόνια στο Ιράν (όπου συγκέντρωσε το υλικότου μυθιστορήματος “Ο τυφλός θεατρίνος”) , καισυνεργασία με έντυπα της Αυστραλίας και της Αμερικής.Σήμερα εργάζεται ως δημοσιογράφος, συγγραφέας καιως ομιλήτρια για θέματα ελληνικής λογοτεχνίας σεπανεπιστήμια του εξωτερικού.

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êáé ôçí õðïóôÞñéîç åèíéêþí æçôÞìáôùí.Ï ðñüåäñïò ôïõ ÐÓÊ áíÝöåñå áêüìá

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Óôï óõíÝäñéï óõæçôÞèçêáí åðßóçòõðïãåííçôéêüôçôá, ç ðñïóôáóßá ôïõðåñéâÜëëïíôïò, ç ðïéüôçôáò êáé ùöåëéìüôçôáôùí Êñçôéêþí ðñïúüíôùí, ôï êáéíïýñãéïâéâëßï éóôïñßáò ôçò ÓÔ´ ôÜîçò ôïõ ÄçìïôéêïýÓ÷ïëåßïõ, áôìïðëïúêÞ êáé áåñïðïñéêÞóýíäåóç ôçò ÁëåîÜíäñåéáò ìå ôçí ÊñÞôç.

¢ëëåò åéóçãÞóåéò êáé ïìéëßåò Ýãéíáíìåôáîý Üëëùí áðü: ôï Ãåíéêü ÄéåõèõíôÞÅèíéêïý Éäñýìáôïò Åñåõíþí êáé Ìåëåôþí«ÅëåõèÝñéïò ÂåíéæÝëïò» ê. ÍéêüëáïÐáðáäÜêç, ãéá ôç äéáôÞñçóç êáé áíÜðôõîçôçò ðïëéôéóôéêÞò êëçñïíïìéÜò, ôï ÃéþñãïÓôáóéíÜêç, Ðñüåäñï Äéåèíïýò ÅôáéñåßáòÖßëùí Íßêïõ ÊáæáíôæÜêç ðïõ åðéêÝíôñùóåôï èÝìá ôïõ óôçí áðÝñáíôç ãíþóçÊáæáíôæÜêç ãéá ôçí ÊñÞôç êáèþò êáé óôçóçìáóßá ôçò åëåõèåñßáò ãéá ôïí ìåãÜëïóõããñáöÝá, ôïí óêçíïèÝôç ÃéÜííçÓìáñáãäÞ, ãéá ôï éóôïñéêü ôçò ôáéíßáò ElGreco, óôçí õðïóôÞñéîç áðü ôïðéêïýòåðé÷åéñçìáôßåò åíþ ðñïâëÞèçêáíáðïóðÜóìáôá ôçò ôáéíßáò, ôïí ðñüåäñïôçò ÐÅÁ Ìáíþëç ÂåëéâáóÜêç êáé ôçíÅðüðôñéá ôùí ãõíáéêåßùí ôìçìÜôùí ôçòÐáãêñçôéêÞò ¸íùóçò ÁìåñéêÞò, ×áñÜÔñáâáãéÜêç, ðïõ áíáöÝñèçêå óôï ñüëïôçò ãõíáßêáò óôçí ÐÅÁ.

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Ï Ìáêáñéüôáôïò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò Áëåîáíäñåßáò êáé ðÜóçò ÁöñéêÞò åõëïãåß ôï äåßðíï ðïõ ðñïóÝöåñå ç ÍïìÜñ÷çò

Çñáêëåßïõ êá. Å. Ó÷ïéíáñÜêç

ÌåãÜëç åðéôõ÷ßá óçìåßùóå ôï «ÓõíÝäñéï Êñçôþí ¼ðïõ Ãçò» ðïõïëïêëçñþèçêå óôçò 3 ìå 5 Áýãïõóôïõ óôï ÇñÜêëåéï. Ôï ÓõíÝäñéï ðïõïñãáíþíåôáé, áðü ôï ÐÁ.Ó.Ê, áíÜ ôñéåôßá Ý÷åé óôü÷ï äçìéïõñãßáò ìéáòáìöéêôéïíßáò Êñçôþí áðü üëç ôçí õäñüãåéï ìå èÝìá óõíåñãáóßáò ãéá ìéáóýã÷ñïíç êáé æùçñÞ ìçôñïðïëéôéêÞ ÊñÞôç ðïõ èá åßíáé ç áóôåßñåõôç ðçãÞáíèñùðéÜò êáé óôáèåñïý óçìåßïõ áíáöïñÜò üëùí ôï Êñçôþí ôçò õäñïãåßïõ.

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ê. ÊåãêÝñïãëïõ, ôçí Åôáéñåßá Ã. ÄåôïñÜêçò, ãéá ôçí óôÞñéîÞ ôïõò óôï ÓõíÝäñéï.• Ôïí ê. Íßêï ÓêïõëÜ êáé ôïí ê. ÉððïêñÜôç ÌðåëáäÜêç ãéá ôéò áíåêôßìçôåò

õðçñåóßåò ôïõò óôçí äéïñãÜíùóç êáé äéåîáãùãÞ ôïõ óõíåäñßïõ.

Στόχοι Για το Μέλλον Της Κρήτης!

Συνέδριο Κρητών Όπου ΓηςΗράκλειο Κρήτης 2007

Cretans in Greece and abroad as wellas local residents met for three days, Au-gust 3, 4 and 5 at Iraklion, to discuss thedevelopment of Crete and issues of edu-cation, history and culture. The conven-tion is organized by the World Council ofCretans and the Regional District of Crete.Its goals include closer ties between theCretans around the world and their co-operation to help effectively their placeof origin and promote Cretan culture.

“Crete is bigger than what we see onthe map,” World Council of Cretans Presi-dent Stavros Semanteres pointed out inhis welcome speech. “Crete is whereCretans live, in the diaspora, in Africa, Aus-tralia, Europe and America. That’s whereCrete ends. It is very big and in today’sworld we need to collaborate and com-municate with the support of the Church,the Prefectures, the Municipalities andCommunities and the Higher Institutions”.

The convention accepted the pro-posal by the Pancretan Association ofAmerica, as presented by Dr. JohnNathenas, for a Central Road that will con-nect the island and will contribute to thegrowth of all its regions. For the first time,Mr. Semanteres said, the proposal wasmet with enthusiasm and a lot of sup-port and the expedition of a cost analy-sis was announced.

Crete, Mr. Semanteres pointed out,was excluded from big constructionprojects in Greece until today and it isimperative that all Cretans demand par-ticipation and consideration for futuregrowth and support works like the rail-way that will connect Chania-Iraklion ina less than half an hour trip.

A proposal was also adopted for thecreation of a virtual University as a means ofon line Greek studies, the acquisition of a de-gree recognized by the Greek state but alsofor the projection of Greek culture and thesupport and promotion of national issues.

The chairman of the World Council ofCretans reported in the convention thepossibility of digitally recording via Googlethe library of the University of Michiganand the need to send books by Cretanauthors and any books related to Crete inorder to be included in the library and beaccessible via the internet in the future.

In the convention, the low birthratein Crete, the preservation and promotionof the island’s cultural legacy, the protec-tion of the environment and the quality ofCretan products were also discussed.

The World Convention of Cretans at Iraklion

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Only eight years have passed since Etz Hayyim Syna-

gogue in Chania was renovated and re-dedicated in 1999.

The entire renovation of the synagogue was the result of

hard work of Dr. Nikos Stavroulakis, the founder of the inter-

nationally acclaimed Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens.

Chania had two synagogues dated from the Middle Ages

until 1941, the Beth Shalom and Kal Kadosh Etz Hayyim. In that

year during the bombing of Chania by the Nazis, Beth Shalom

was destroyed. The site of the destroyed synagogue is known

today as Konaki Restaurant at the south end of Kondylaki

street in the Jewish Quarter, Ovriaki, of the Old City.

In May of 1944 the entire Jewish community of Chania,

approximately 270 people, was arrested by the Nazis and

after short imprisonment were sent by convoy to Herakleion

where they were herded onto a ship, the Tanais. This ship

was torpedoed by a British submarine and Cretan Jews

found a less painful death than that at the crematoria of

Auschwitz and Treblinka.

Since the destruction of the Jewish community in

Chania, the site of Etz Hayyim became a convenient spot

for dumping neighborhood rubbish, its walls pock-marked

by shells and shrapnel and in imminent danger of collapse.

The indifference of the Jewish community in Greece to

this relatively minor incidence of horror along with the

local non-Jewish indifference to the tragic death of co-

citizens, made the devastated Etz Hayyim to stand as a

monument in itself.

Despite the financial difficulties, the opposing rhetoric

of the then Nomarch of Chania George Katsanevakis, and

other reactionary voices to progress, the synagogue opened

its doors and it was re-dedicated on October 10, 1999 in

the presence of Mr. Constantine Mitsotakis, the Ambassa-

dor of the Federal Republic of Germany, the then Mayor of

Etz Hayyim, The Tree of LifeBY GEORGE A. PAPADANTONAKIS, Ph.D.

Dr. Nikos Stavroulakis (center) with Dr. Robert J. Gordon (left) Head of the Chemistry

of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Mrs. Evvy Gordon (right) in Etz Hayyim’s

courtyard.

Chania Mr. Tzanakakis, the Capuchin Friars of the nearby

Roman Catholic Church and more than 250 people.

Not long after the dedication, a number of local Chris-

tian ladies appeared one morning in the synagogue asking

Dr. Stavroulakis if they could light candles in memory of

some of their Jewish friends who had died in 1944. Dr.

Stavroulakis stated that “...nothing was said, nothing more

was done than to provide them with a basin of olive oil set

in front of the Ehal, though I remember distinctly that they

left behind them a flickering and strangely supportive sense

of community.”

Quite apart from the religious role, Etz Hayyim has a

library with many seldom books and plays a role in the

contemporary life of Chania as a venue for lectures, con-

certs, and meetings. It stands as a vibrant statement of

reconciliation, culture, prayer and resource center.

Etz Hayyin Synagogue, before reconstruction

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Koutsoupakis Paula-Anna

General


College Undergraduates 2007

Zanic Christina

Nicholas Varouh

Varypatakis Gregory

Costas & Mary Maliotis

Trillis -Williard Sophia

General

Stathoudakis Stavros

Hedwig Varouh

Sophinos Andrew

General

Smith Peter

George & Margo Chryssis

Skoulas Maria

Emmanuel & Orsa Velivasakis

Rozakis Kiriaki

Nick Delis Family

Papamarkakis Kostas

Hedwig Varouh

Paladino Derek

General

Nikolakakis Maria-Eleni

General

Nikolakakis Maria-Angela

Anna Vavagiaki

Marsh Nicholas

Nick Kalmer

Makridakis Sophia

General

Vasilakis Aristaia

Rev. & Presv. Kostakis

Skendelas Stephen

Nicholas Varouh

Tschetter Jennifer

Nicholas Varouh

Stavrakis Stavros

General

Kopassis Eleni

Joanne Ahladiotis

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[scholarships]

Faklis Elizabeth

Arthur Platsis

Kopasakis John

Nick Stefas

Katsanevas James

Nick Delis Family

Filos Hrisoula

Hedwig Varouh

Elefter Konstantinos

General

Bitetzakis Christopher

General

Dormas Paul-Steven

Ganakis-Vidalakis Family

Dagadakis Marissa

Michael A. Svourakis

Castro Alexandra

General


College Undergraduates 2007

Ôsiskakis Loretta

General

Taxakis Elias

Hedwig Varouh

Tsahakis Katherine

Joanne Ahladiotes

Sophinos Andrew

General

Manolis Michael

General

Rodoussakis Emmanuel

John & Anna Bobolakis

Zevlakis MichalisJohn & Anna Bobolakis

Kiagias EkateriniChristina Pavlakis

Adronis EftihiosHedwig Varouh

Kampetis Kristen

Nicholas & Mary Paterakis

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High School Senior 2007

Pappas M. Kirk

Nicholas Varouh

Manolis Maria

Nicholas Varouh

Katakis Elpida

John & Anna Contorakis

Triphon Julianne

Michael A. Svourakis

Pallas Elizabeth

Christina K. Tsiskakis

Kosmas A. Matthew

Nick Kalmer

Kantilierakis Argie

General

Semanderes Nikolis

General

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Fiotakis Eleftheria

Joanne Ahladiotis


College Graduates 2007

Kalogridakis Stylianos

General

Stamatiou Regina

General

Kalogeropoulos Aspasia

General

Barchini Sadie

General

Novotny Stephanie

General

Bogdanos DemetriaMary Siradakis

Giannetakis MontanaGeneral

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¸íáñîç Óõíåäñßïõ

ÁðïíïìÞ ðïéìåíéêÞò ñÜâäïõ óôï ôéìþìåíï ðñüóùðï Ìáêáñéüôáôï ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç

Áëåîáíäñåßáò êáé ðÜóçò ÁöñéêÞò, Èåüäùñï.

Óôïí ôï äåßðíï ôïõ ê. Ãåíéêïý. Áðü áñéóôåñÜ: É. ÌðåëáäÜêçò, Ê. ÌðáíôïõâÜò, É.

ÓìáñáãäÞò, ê. Ãåíéêüò Ó. Ôóüêáò, Ó. Í. ÓçìáíôÞñçò, Â. ÓêïõëÜò, Í. ÓêïõëÜò

From a gathering at Terra Marris Hotel

Heraklion, Crete - August 2007

World Council of Cretans Conference

Heraklion, Crete - 08/3,4,5/2007

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Cretans Association Omonoia Dance Group and musicians John Koutsoupakis laouto, Antonis and

Alekos Marmatakis lyra and laouto at Athens Sq. Park in Astoria, NY September 23. The event

was organized by the Greek Aid Awareness to raise awareness supporting Greece in the aftermath

of the destructive fires.The adult women dance group at Kritiko Spiti of Omonoia

Cretan Association OMONOIA Pic-nic

New York- 06/17/2007

Fathers Day celebration at the picnic Fathers Day celebration at the picnic

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[poetry]

Η συνάντησηÓ’ Ýíá óôåíïóüêáêï ôïõ Çñáêëåßïõ

áíôáìþóáíå Ýíá ôáîß êé Ýíá DATSUN. Äåíå÷ùñïýóáíå íá ðåñÜóïõíå êé ü÷é ìüíïðßóù äåí Ýêáíå êáíåßò ôïõò, áëëÜáðåéëþíôáò ï ìåí ôïí äå åðëðóéÜóáíåôüóï, ðïõ ôïõ åíïýò ï ðñïöõëáêôÞñáòáêïõìðïýóå ôïí Üëëï. ÊÜðïéá óôéãìÞåâãÜëáíå üîù ôá êåöÜëéá êé áñ÷ßóáíå ôïâñéóßäé ïé ïäçãïß. Óáí å÷ïñôÜóáíå âñßóéìï,åêÜôóáíå áíáðáõôéêÜ óôá êáèßóìáôáôïõò êé åðåñéìåíáíå íá óðáóïõíå ôáíåýñá ï ãåéò ô’ áëëïý.

Ï ôáîéôæÞò Ýâãáëå áðü ôïíôïõëáðÜêé ìéá åöçìåñßäá êé Üñ÷éóå íáäéáâÜæåé ìå ôï ñá÷Üôé ôïõ ðñïóðáèþíôáòì’ áõôü ôïí ôñüðï íá äåßîåé óôïí Üëëï

ðùò äåí ôïõ êáßãåôáé êáñöß. ¸ëá ìïõ üìùò ðïõ êé ï Üëëïò Ýóêáãå ãÜéäáñï. ÁöïýåêáôÝâçêå, åðÞãå äßðëá óôïí ôáîéôæÞ êáé ãåëþíôáò ôïõ êÜíåé:

- ÊïõìðÜñå, Üìá ôÞíå ôåëåéþóåéò, íá ìïõ äþóåéò íá ñßîù ìéá ìáèéÜ!!!

ΕπιστράτευσηÔéò ìÝñåò ôçò ôåëåõôáßáò åðéóôñÜôåõóçò êñáôþíôáò ôçí êëÞóç óôá ÷Ýñéá åðÞãå

ï ôá÷õäñüìïò óôï óðßôé íá âñåé ôï ÃéÜííç.- Å, èåéá, åßðå óôç ìÜíá ôïõ, ðïý åßíáé ï ãéïò óïõ;- Óôï êáöåíåßï èá åßíáé, åßðå íåõñéêÜ åêåßíç. ºíôá ôüíå èåò;- Óôï óôñáôü ôüíå êáëïýíå, èåéá, êáé ðñÝðåé áýñéï ôï âñÜäõ íá ðáñïõóéáóôåß.Êé ç ìáýñç ç ãñá áìÝóùò:- Íáé, ôçí êüðñá Ý÷åé óôï á÷ýñé êáé óôóïé äéáüëïõò èá ãëáêÜ!!!

Η οξείδωση¸íáò Êñçôßêáñïò äõï ìÝôñá åðÞãå óôï óôñáôü êáé õðçñÝôçóå ôç èçôåßá íôïõ

ΗΛΙΟΥ ΦΩΣÖùò Þëéïõ, ìïó÷ïðáßäé ìïõ,êáìÜñé ôçò øõ÷Þò ìïõöÝããå ôïõ íïõ ô’ áðüóôñáôá,ôçò ãíþóçò êáëíôåñßìéá,ëáããÜäéá öÝããå êáé âïõíÜ,ôéò ñßæåò êáé ôïõò êÜìðïõò,êáé ôç äéêÞ ìïõ ôçí êáñäéÜäéðëÜ öåããïâïëÜ ôçí.

ΕΛΠΙΔΑÐïýëéá ìáæß êé Áõãåñéíüò,ôïõ ÉïñäÜíç ô’ Üóôñá,óõñôü ÷ïñüí áñ÷ßóáíå,óïýóôá êáé ðåíôïæÜëçêé áíáãõñßæïõí êáé ðçäïýí,ìå óÜëôá êáé ôóáëßìéáãýñù óôç ÌÜíá, ðïõ óêõöôÞâõæáßíåé ôçí åëðßäá.

ΗΡΩΙΚΟÁçäüíéá êáëïëÜëçôáêé üìïñöá êáñäåñßíéá,ôñáãïýäé ëÝãáí’ üìïñöï,ôçò ëåõôåñéÜò ôñáãïýäé.Êé Ýíáò ëåâÝíôçò Êñçôéêüò,áöÝíôçò êáðåôÜíéïò,ìå ôçí êáñäéÜ áêüíéæåóðáèéÜ ãéá ôçí ðáôñßäá

ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑÁãÜëé áãÜëé ãßíïíôáéïé ðåèõìéÝò ôñáãïýäé,ðïõ ôñáãïõäïýíå óôá âïõíÜñéæßôåò ðáëëçêÜñéá,ðïý ‘÷ïõí áãñßìéá óõíôñüöïõòêáé áåôïýò ãéá ößëïõòêé áíôß êáñäéÜ óôá óôÞèéá ôïõòÝ÷ïõíå ôçí ðáôñßäá.

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Áðü ôï âéâëßï ôïõ Ãéþñãïõ Âéôþñïõ «Ôçò ÊñÞôçò ìáò ôá óüñäéíá»

Ï Ýñùôáò äåí åßíáé áíèüòíá ìáñáèåß íá ðÝóåéìüíï’ íáé âÜôïé êáé êëáäéÜêé’ áëßìïíï ðïõ ìðëÝîåé

¸ñùôá êÜíåéò ôïí êáëüìá’ óáé êáôáñáìÝíïòêáé äåí áöÞíåéò Üíèñùðïíá’íáé ãáëçíåìÝíïò

ÊáñäéÜ ðïõ äåí áãÜðçóåÝñùôá äåí áéóèáíèåßåßíáé ðçãÞ äß÷ùò íåñüðåñéâüëé äß÷ùò Üíèç

Ï Ýñùôáò åßíáé ôñåëüòêé’ üðïõ âñåèåß ÷ïñåýåéêïðÝëéá êïðåëéÝò îåãåëÜêáé óôï ÷ïñü ôïõò óÝñíåé

Êé’ ï êáôå÷Üñçò ÷Üíåôáéóôïõ Ýñùôá ôóé óôñÜôåòáðïý’ íáé óôçí êáëïâïëéÜì’ áóðÜëÜèïõò ãåìÜôåò

Äå öôáßåé áõôüò ï Ýñùôáòðïõ üëïé ôüíå ìéóïýíåöôáßíå ôá ìÜôéá êé ïé êáñäéÝòðïõ ôüíå ðñïêáëïýíå.

ÊÜèå ìåãÜëïò ÝñùôáòÝñ÷åôáé êáé ôåëåßùíåéùóÜí ôï ÷éüíé ðïõ’ñ÷åôáéï Þëéïò êáé ôï ëéþíåé

Ìéá æõãáñéÜ ôïõ Ýñùôáãõñåýù í’ áãïñÜóùíá ôïí æõãéÜóù ôáêôéêÜìç öýãåéò êáé óå ÷Üóù

¸ñùôá åßóáé ôñõöåñüòêáé Ý÷åéò ôüóç ãëýêáìáò ôõñáííÜò êáèçìåñéíÜêáé ðñïðáíôüò ôçí íý÷ôá

ÊÜëëéï ìéá óöáßñá ðéóôïëéïýíá ’ñèåé íá óå óêïôþóåéðáñÜ ôïõ Ýñùôá êáçìüòðïôÝ ìçí óå ðëçãþóåé

Το βλέμμα σου μελαχροινήτον ήλιο σκοτεινιάζεικι αν είχε ο έρωτας μορφήέπρεπε να σου μοιάζει

Κι αντάρτης να γενεί κιανείςτου έρωντα δε γλυτώνειγια δεν τόνε θωρεί ποτέτην ώρα που ξαμώνει

ìå ôï âáèìü ôïõ ëï÷ßá.ÊÜðïôå áðïóðÜóôçêå óôçí Êüñéíèï, üðïõ áõôüò, ï íôßðé áãñÜììáôïò, Ýðñåðå

íá êÜíåé ìÜèçìá óôïõò ôåëåéüöïéôïõò ôïõ ãõìíáóßïõ êáé ôïõ ðáíåðéóôçìßïõ!Ìéáí çìÝñá äéäÜóêåé ìå èÝìá ôï «ÌÉ» êáé, óáí åôåëåßùóå, ñùôÜ:- Ìðïñåß åäÜ êáíåßò óáò íá ìïõ ðåé ãéÜíôá ôï ëáäþíïõìå ôï íôïõöÝêé;-Ãéá íá ìçí ïîåéäïýôáé! åðåôÜ÷ôçêå Ýíáò.- Íáé, ìðñå, åßíáé êé áõôü, åßðå ï ëï÷ßáò. Ôï ðåñéóóüôåñï üìùò åßíáé, ãéá íá ìç

óêïõñéÜæåé!!!

Χοχλιδοβραδιά...Áðü Ýíá ÷ùñéü ôïõ Çñáêëåßïõ åîåêßíçóå êÜðïéïò ÌáñôáðñéëéÜäåò êáé ìå ô’

áåñïðëÜíï åðÞãå óôçí ÁèÞíá. ¹ôáíå ðñþôç öïñÜ Üðïõ Þñ÷ïõíôïíå óôçíðñùôåýïõóá êáé, óáí Ýöôáîå ìå ô’ áåñïðëÜíï íý÷ôá ðÜíù áðü ôç ÂÜñêéæá êáé åßäåêÜôù ôá öþôá, å÷ôýðçóå ôá ìåñéÜ íôïõ.

- Ù, áíÜèåìá ôóïé ôóïé êåñáôÜäåò, áí áöÞóïõíå ÷ï÷ëéü ãéá ÷ï÷ëéü áðüøå!!!

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[PASIPHAE]Óõã÷áñçôÞñéá

óôï ËåõôÝñç Óôñá-ôïõäÜêç (çëåêôñï-ëüãï ìç÷áíéêü,ðñþçí áíôéðñüåäñïPYA êáé íõí ðñüåäñïôçò ÌåéêôÞò Åêðáé-äåõôéêÞò ÅðéôñïðÞòôùí êñçôéêþí óõë-ëüãùí ÍÕ êáé NJ) êáéóôçí ÅéñÞíç Öñá-ãêéáäÜêç (äéêçãüñïÇñáêëåßïõ) ãéá ôïíáññáâþíá ôïõò ôïíðåñáóìÝíï Éïýëéïóôï ÇñÜêëåéï ÊñÞôçò. Óôïõò ãïíåßò Íéêüëáï ÓôñáôïõäÜêç (óõí/÷ï ìç÷áíïëüãï ìç÷áíéêü) êáé Ìáñßá (ðñþçí ðñüåäñï ôçòÐáóéöÜçò) êáé óôïõò Ìé÷Üëç ÖñáãêéáäÜêç (äéêçãüñïÇñáêëåßïõ) êáé ÅëÝíç(öéëüëïãï) åõ÷üìáóôå íá ôïõò æÞóïõíêáé ðÜíôá ÷áñÝò. Ï ãÜìïò ðñïãñáììáôßæåôáé ãéá ôéò 27 Éïõëßïõ2008 óôï ÇñÜêëåéï ÊñÞôçò. Íá æÞóåôå êáé êáëÜ óôÝöáíá!

We would like to welcome back our members from theirsummer vacation and we hope that the rest of 2007, will be aproductive year for all. On October 7, we will be having aFundraiser Luncheon for the Fire Relief at 1:00 PM at the CretanHouse.

Our sympathy to the family of Tarsi Katsoulakis for the pass-ing of her mother Fofo Zisou and her brother Theodore Zisou.

Some of our members’ children got married this summerand we would like to congratulate them and welcome thenewlyweds to our chapters. We wish the newly weds, happi-ness, health & prosperity. Na Zisoune.

Congratulations to Theodoros & Katerina Drivas on theirmarriage on September 9, 2007. Katerina is the daughter ofCosta and Elpida Fradelakis. Elpida is our Treasurer and Katerinawas a past Vice-President.

Congratulation to Manoli & Erasmia Sbirakis they weremarried on July 27, this summer in Crete. Manolis is the son of

ASTORIA, NY

[ OMONOIA ]Radio personality,

Manolis Kouroupakis is taking on the air interests andthemes of the events in Greece and the cretan-greek-american population in America, every Tuesday at 8 pm atthe ‘Kritikes Athivoles’ radio program. Minders of same is-sues enjoy the chat and call often from all over. The pro-gram accessible through the Internet, links to Omonoia’sweb site www.nycretans.org

The Dance Group of Omonoia was invited and per-formed for the Newyorkers outdoors, in a hot summer eveningof August 24. The music ensemble of Marmatakia andYianni Koutsoupaki vibrated the cretan sounds in the wholearea of Athens Square in Astoria, New York. The presidentMr Fasarakis along with other members of the associationenjoyed along in the crowed area

Special dance-guest, the Dance Group of Omonoia,invited and performed at the three-day fair organized bythe Assumption of Theotokos Church in Port Jefferson,New York on August 26. Another show-time was enjoyedon September 15 at the fair organized by the Holy TrinityChurch in New Jersey.

Áðü ôï óýëëïãï ìáò ïñãáíþèçêå ôï êáëïêáßñé, óôá ×áíéÜ,ôï Äåýôåñï ÁíôÜìùìá ôùí Áðüäçìùí Êñçôéêþí, óôéò 4

Áõãïýóôïõ. Ç åêäÞëùóç ðÞãå ðÜñáðïëý êáëÜ êáé åß÷áìå óõììåôï÷Þ ðïëýêüóìïõ. ´Ôçí ìïõóéêÞ åðÝíäõóç ôçòâñáäõÜò åß÷å ï ËéëéêÜêçò ï ÁíäñÝáò ìåôï óõãêñüôçìá ôïõ. Ïé ÅôåïêñÞôåòôñáãïýäçóáí ñéæßôéêá ôñáãïýäéá êáé÷üñåøå ôï óõãêñüôçìá ôçò ÑïõìáôéáíÞòÐáñÝáò êáé ôï óõãêñüôçìá ôïõ ÓõëëüãïõÊñçôþí Ïìüíïéá ôçò ÍÝáò Õüñêçò. ÊáôÜôç äéÜñêåéá ôçò âñáäõÜò ôéìÞèçêå ïðñþçí Ìçôñïðïëßôçò ÊéóóÜìïõ êáéÓåëßíùí ãÝñïíôáò Åéñçíáßïò ÃáëáíÜêçòãéá ôï Ýñãï ôïõ êáé ôç ðñïóöïñÜ ôïõóôç ÊñÞôç êáé óôïí áðüäçìï åëëçíéóìüãåíéêþôåñá. Ôçí ôéìçôéêÞ ðëáêÝôá

George and Afrodite (Toula) Sbirakis, board member. Erasmia isthe daughter of Michael and Eleni Frangadaki.

Congratulations to Nick & Chrissy Kournidakis on theirmarriage, September 7, 2007. Nick is the son of Elefterios &Maria. Chrissie is the daughter of our past Vice-President Maroand Agamemnon Stefanakis.

Congratulations to John and Artemis Koutsoupakis theywere married in July in California. John is the son of our pastPresident Katerina & Spyro and Artemis is the daughter of St-rati and Pagona Varvatakis.

Congratulations to our Board member Anthoula and herhusband Antoni Kaloudakis, their daughter Eleni gave birth to ababy-boy, Pavlo, May God Bless Him.

Athena Marangoudakis, KPHTH Magazine Correspondent

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ðáñÝäùóå ï ðñþçí ðñüåäñïò ôïõ óõëëüãïõ ìáò ÍßêïòÔóáãÜêçò êáé ôçí ðáñÝëáâå ëüãù áäéáèåóßáò ôïõ ãÝñïíôá ïÌçôñïðïëßôçò ÊéóóÜìïõ êáé Óåëßíïõ Áìöéëü÷éïò. ÁíÜìåóáóôïõò ðáñåõñéóêïìÝíïõò ðïõ ôßìçóáí ôç âñáäõÜ Þôáí êáé ïéôÝóóåñéò âïõëåõôÝò ôïõ íïìïý, ïé íïìÜñ÷åò ×áíßùí êáéÇñáêëåßïõ, ï äÞìáñ÷ïò ×áíßùí êáèþò êáé ïé óôñáôéùôéêÝò êáéäéêáóôéêÝò áñ÷Ýò ôïõ íïìïý êáé ðëÞèïò êüóìïõ. Íá ðïýìå üôéç åêäÞëùóç ÁíôÜìùìá ôùí Áðüäçìùí Êñçôéêþí êáèéåñþèçêåóôï ðñüãñáììá ôçò ÄçìïôéêÞò Åðé÷åßñçóçò ×áíßùí êáé èáðñáãìáôïðïéÞôáé êÜèå ÷ñüíï. Åðßóçò ôï ÷ïñåõôéêü ìáò å÷üñåøåóôï ÇñÜêëåéï, óôéò 3 Áõãïýóôïõ, óôç óõíÜíôçóç ðïõ åß÷åôï Ðáãêüóìéï Óõìâïýëéï Êñçôþí ìå ìåãÜëç åðéôõ÷ßá. Åðßóçò,ôï ÷ïñåõôéêü ìáò óõìåôåß÷å êáé ÷üñåøå óôá ‘ÔæáíéäÜêåéá’ óôéò11 Áõãïýóôïõ óôï ÑÝèõìíï. Ðéóôåýïõìå üôé ïé äéáêïðÝò ìáòåß÷áí ìåãÜëç åðéôõ÷ßá åöÝôïò, éäéáßôåñá ëüãù ôçò ðáñïõóßáòôïõ ÷ïñåõôéêïý ôçò Ïìüíïéáò óôç ÊñÞôç. Èá èÝëáìå íáåõ÷áñéóôÞóïõìå üëïõò üóïõò âïÞèçóáí ãéá ôçðñáãìáôïðïßçóç áõôþí ôùí åêäçëþóåùí óôç ÊñÞôç áðü ôáìÝëç ôïõ óõëëüãïõ ìáò, ôïõò ÷ïñåõôÝò, ôï äÜóêáëï ÷ïñïý.Éäéáßôåñá íá åõ÷áñéóôÞóïõìå óôç ÊñÞôç, ôï óõãêñüôçìá ôïõê. ÁíäñÝá ËéëéêÜêç êáé ôç ó÷ïëÞ ×ïñïý ôïõ ê. ÐáðáóéöÜêçðïõ ìáò öÝñèçêå Üøïãá ìå ôï íá ìáò äáíåßóåé ôéò óôïëÝò ãéáíá ÷ïñÝøïõí ôá ðáéäéÜ. Åðßóçò, åõ÷áñéóôïýìå ôï ÄÞìï êáé ôçíÍïìáñ÷ßá ×áíßùí êáé Ñåèýìíïõ êáé üëïõò ôïõò êñçôéêïýò ðïõìáò êáëïäÝ÷èçêáí.

Ìáíþëçò ÊïõñïõðÜêçò, ÁíôáðïêñéôÞò Ðåñéïäéêïý ÊÑÇÔÇ

ANCHORAGE, AL

[ CRETANS OF ALASKA ]

On May 20, 2007, the anniversary day of the Battle ofCrete another milestone was achieved in the history of the PAAwith the induction into our organization of the Cretans fromthe State of Alaska.

Cretans are proud that from our tiny island in the middle of theMediterranean we have reached nearly every corner of the earth.PAA has now reached its hand out to the farthest region of ournation, the State of Alaska, to organize the newest chapter of ourassociation, proudly named the Cretans of Alaska. On Sunday May20, 2007, the Board of the PAA inaugurated the officers of ournew chapter at a dinner celebration in Anchorage, Alaska. Earlier inthe morning the Board attended church services at the Holy Trans-figuration Greek Orthodox Church in services performed by FatherLeo Scherfe where a memorial was offered by the PAA for thosewho fell defending the island of Crete. Our National PresidentEmmanuel Velivasakis gave a speech to the Congregation on the

history of the Battle. Following brunch, the PAA Board conductedits last official meeting prior to the Springfield National Convention.On Sunday evening, a beautiful dinner was held at the Villa Novarestaurant where the Cretans of Anchorage met to sign up asmembers. We are happy to report that the PAA now has 30 newmembers. President Velivasakis gave a speech thanking all thoseinvolved in the formation of the new chapter followed by Vice Presi-dent John Sargetis issuing the oath of office to the following chap-ter officers: President Nick Malembianakis; Vice President, BobbyAlefantinos; Secretary, Chrisy Armstrong and Treasurer, AndreasAlefantinos. The swearing in was follows by a Cretan dance per-formed by the youth of Anchorage.

The groundwork to form this chapter was initiated by JohnRaptakis, past President of the Zeus Cretagenis Chapter of Sac-ramento, California on one of his trips to Anchorage. WithJohn’s charismatic personality, he lit a fire amongst his friendsto form a PAA chapter. We give special thanks to GregoryGiannulis and Maria Baskous, Parish Council President for coor-dinating and organizing the events and to Bobby Alefantinosfor hosting the PAA Board for a dinner at his restaurant.

On Sunday May 19, 2007, several PAA board members alongwith some of the newest Pancretans went on a fishing expeditionout of Seward, Alaska, three hours out to Montague Island forhalibut and black bass. Every fisherman and two ladies Mary Vasilakisand the Mary Coutoulakis, caught the limit of halibut and rock fish.Nearly 100 fish were pulled out of these Alaskan waters in this

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CHARLESTON, WV

[ MOUNTAINEER CHAPTER ]

CLEARWATER, FL

[ ORANGE BLOSSOM]Congratulations to Peggi M. Kokolakis who graduated Cum

Laude from the University of Florida. She is studying at SUNYcollege of Optometry in NYC.

Congratulations to Phil Xanthoudakis and Andreas Lagos.Both young men graduated from Palm Harbor University HighSchool. Phil Xanthoudakis is now studying at the University ofFlorida in Gainesville, Florida. Andreas Lagos is now studying atSwarthmore College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We would like to inform all our Cretan friends and to invitethem to our Annual Dinner Dance, February 2, 2008. Also,our youth will have a dance, Saturday, December 1, 2007.They would like to extend an invitation to all youth groups.

Justine Nicolacakis, KPHTH Magazine Correspondent

The Mountaineer Chapter hosted its Annual Cretan Picnicon Sunday, September 16th, at Coonskin Park in Charleston,WV. It was a beautiful day and many Cretans came out toenjoy the good food and good company. It was great to seeso many kids in attendance enjoying gift bags donated by Chap-ter President, Xrisanthi Hess.

Stelios Vitakis, District III Lt Governor and President of the Cleve-land, Ohio, Chapter joined us with his wife and three beautiful daugh-ters. We were also joined by our District III Governor and President ofthe Mahoning Valley Chapter, Jim Denney, and his lovely wife. Wewould like to thank them for taking the time to drive all the way toCharleston to help us celebrate our Cretan heritage.

The Mountaineer Chapter would like to recognize theBirurakis Family for all their help in organizing the event andbringing some delicious dishes. A special thanks to Mike Birurakisfor doing a great job at the grill!

A portion of the picnic proceeds will go to benefit thePAA Greek Fire Relief Fund. The fund was established by thePAA Board in response to the devastating fires that ravagedGreece this summer.

The Mountaineer Chapter would like to invite everyone tojoin us in our upcoming events.


CHICAGO, IL

[ CRETAN LADIES AMALTHIA ]

Ç Ðñüåäñïò Åõáããåëßá ×ïìðéôÜêç êáé ôï óõìâïýëéï ôçòóõã÷áßñåé ôïí Ìáíþëç ÂåëéâáóÜêç ãéá ôçí åðáíåêëïãÞ ôïõóôï Ðñïåäñåßï ôçò ÐáãêñçôéêÞò.

Óõã÷áßñïõìå êáé ôïí ÃéÜííç ÌáíïõêáñÜêç ãéá ôçíåðáíåêëïãÞ ôïõ óôçí èÝóç ôïõ 2ïõ ÁíôéðñïÝäñïõ. Åõ÷üìáóôåóå üëï ôï óõìâïýëéï ôçò ÐÅÁ êáëÞ åðéôõ÷ßá óôï Ýñãï ôïõò.

Åðßóçò óõã÷áßñïõìå êáé ôçí åðüðôç Ãõíáéêåßùí ÔìçìÜôùíôçò ÐáãêñçôéêÞò êá. ×áñïýëá ÔñáâáãéÜêç ãéá ôçí åðáíåêëïãÞôçò.

Éäéáßôåñá èÝëïõìå íá óõã÷áñïýìå ôçí Ìáñßá ÊåãéÜò ðïõåêëÝ÷ôçêå Ðñüåäñïò ôçò Íåïëáßáò ôçí ÐÅÁ. Ç Ìáñßá ÊåãéÜòåßíáé êüñç ôïõ Ãéþñãïõ êáé Áöñïäßôçò ÊåãéÜò, ìÝëç ôùíóùìáôåßùí ìáò. Ôçò åõ÷üìáóôå êáëÞ äýíáìç êáé åðéôõ÷ßá óôáêáèÞêïíôá ôçò.

Ç Ðñüåäñïò Åõáããåëßá ×ïìðéôÜêç, ç ÁíôéðñüåäñïòÅõáããåëßá ÁëïõðïãéÜííç êáé ç ÃñáììáôÝáò ÊáôåñßíáÇëéïðïýëïõ óõíáíôÞèçêáí óôçí ÊñÞôç êáé åðéóêåýèçêáí ôïíôÜöï ôùí ÂåíéæÝëùí óôá ×áíéÜ

Óõã÷áñçôÞñéá óôïí Íßêï êáé Ìáñßíá ÖñáãêéáäÜêç ãéá ôïõòãÜìïõò ôçò êüñçò ôïõ Óïößá ìå ôïí Ôüíõ ×ñõóôïöýëç óôéò25 Áõãïýóôïõ 2007.

Óõã÷áñçôÞñéá óôïí Âáóßëç êáé Öùôïýëá Ìïíïãéïý ãéá ôïõòãÜìïõò ôïõ ãéïý ôïõò Ãéþñãï ìå ôçí ÐáñáóêåõÞ Ìåëá÷ïýñçòóôéò 22 Óåðôåìâñéïõ 2007. Óôïí êïõìðÜñï ôïõò, ¢ñçÊõäùíÜêç åõ÷üìáóôå ðÜíôá Üîéïò êáé óôá äéêÜ ôïõ.

Êáôåñßíá Çëéïðïýëïõ, ÃñáììáôÝáò

unforgettable experience. We again thank Gregory Giannulis whothrough his business cleaned, froze and packed each of the Boardmembers fish in boxes ready for their flights home.

The PAA welcomes our Cretan brothers and sisters andtheir friends into our organization.

John Sargetis

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DISTRICT NEWS

[ DISTRICT 6 ]On May 5, 2007 we held our biannual district conference and

election of new officers. It was hosted by Ommonia of Orange Countyand it was a very well attended conference and very productive.

I am happy to announce that we now have a new districtgovernor, Mr. Stamati Zoumberakis. After the conference wegathered at St. Johns the Baptist Hall in Anaheim and had awonderful party with music from Crete.

As the outgoing governor of the district I would like tothank each and every member from the district for giving methe opportunity to represent them the last four years on thenational board and for all the love and hospitality that wasprovided to me everywhere I went.

I would also like to thank them for their generosity on twoparticular fund raisers that we held within the last year. One ofthem was for a needy family which was connected with thePAA Philanthropic Chair, Roxanne Koston. We collected $4,300.00for this family that has given me their appreciation and their thanks.

For such generosity I would personally like to thank thefollowing chapters: Southern California Cretans Association($1,000.00), Epimenidis ($500.00), Lefka Oree ($400.00), Sis-terhood of Eleftheria ($450.00), Ikaros ($500.00), Polirinia($500.00), Ommonia of Orange County ($750.00).

The other fund raising was regarding Zoodohos Pigi Monas-tery and St. Nicholas Ranch. This was for honoring and continu-ing the work of our late beloved Metropolitan Anthony. Again Iwould like to give my personal thanks to the following familiesand chapters for their dedication, love, and generosity: JohnRaptakis family ($1,000.00), GR Trucking Company- families ofAntonio Marangakis and Panagiotes Rozakis ($1000.00), NickDelis & Vandarakis ($1000.00), Strarvos Semanderes ($1000.00),George Liodakis ($500.00), George Tzikas ($1000.00), JohnSargetis ($1,000.00), Nicholas Boyios ($1,000.00), EleftheriosDramitinos ($1,000.00), John Kordazakis ($500.00), MikeVasilomanolakis ($200.00), Tom Lantzourakis ($500.00), GusPallios ($500.00), George Mavrakis ($500.00), Steve Manolakis($50.00), Manuel Katotakis ($100.00), Stamos Cocolas ($50.00),Jim Stamos ($50.00), Zeus Creatagenis ($1,000.00), MinoanChapter of Las Vegas ($500.00), Ikaros ($1,000.00), Epimenidis($1,000.00), Lefka Oree ($500.00), Christo Daskoulakis ($100.00),and Joe Lissak in the memory of Ted Bizakis ($250.00). I wouldalso like to convey thanks from the Abbott Markella and fromSt. Nicholas Ranch for helping to try to finish several phases forthat important project.

There are not enough words of appreciation to describethe last four years and I can’t thank you enough for that. Iknow that you will extend the same courtesy to the newdistrict governor and the new board.

I would also like to mention to you one of the highlightswas of creating another chapter in our district in Alaska and Iwish to welcome them in our great organization.

Eleftherios Dramitinos, District 6 Governor

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Êáëïêáéñéíü ÐéêíßêTç ÊõñéáêÞ, 12 Áõãïýóôïõ, ôåëÝóôçêå ìå ìåãÜëç åðéôõ÷ßá

áðü ôï Óýëëïãü ìáò ç åêäñïìÞ óôçí åîï÷Þ óôï Óôüíé ÊñéêÌÝôñïðáñê, óôï ÓÝëìðé ÔÜïõíóéð. Ôï ðéêíßê áõôü Þôáí êáé çáöïñìÞ íá åïñôáóôåß ç ÅðÝôåéïò ôçò éäñýóåùò ôçò ÁäåëöüôçòÊñçóóþí «ÊÑÇÔÇ». ÌåãÜëïò Þôáí ï áñéèìüò ôùí ðáñüíôùí, ïéïðïßïé áðüëáõóáí ìå êÜèå ôñüðï ôç êáëïêáéñéíÞ åêåßíç çìÝñá.

ÃÜìïòÔï ÓÜââáôï, 25

Áõãïýóôïõ, êáé óôïíÅëëçíéêü Ïñèüäïîï Íáüôçò Áãßáò ÔñéÜäïò óôïÓßïõ÷ Óßôé ôçò Áúüá (Iowa),åíþèçêáí ìå ôá äåóìÜ ôïõãÜìïõ ç ÓôÝëëá Ìé÷áÞëÊáóóùôÜêç, êüñç ôçò êá.Ìáíùëßáò êáé ôïõ ê.ÍéêïëÜïõ ÊáóóùôÜêç, ìåôï Êùíóôáíôßíï Ìáíïõ-óáêÜêç, ãéï ôçò êá. ÅëÝíçêáé ôïõ óõã÷ùñåìÝíïõ ê.ÉùÜííç ÌáíïõóáêÜêç. ÔïíÝï áíôñüãõíï åß÷å ôç ôéìÞíá óôåöáíþóåé ï íåáñüòëáïõôéÝñçò ÃñçãüñéïòÌáíïõóåëÜêçò. ÌåôÜ ôçôåëåôÞ áêïëïýèçóå ôñé-êïýâåñôï ãëÝíôé óôï ÷þñï åêäçëþóåùí ôïõ îåíïäï÷åéáêïý÷þñïõ Ìáñßíá ºíí óôï ÓÜïõè Óßïõ÷ Óßôé. Ïé ðñïóêåêëçìÝíïé,åñ÷üìåíïé áðü ôï Ìßóéãêáí, ôï ÊáíáäÜ, ôï ÓéêÜãï, ôïÉíôéáíÜðïëéò, ôï Ï÷Üéï, ôç ÍÝá Yüñêç, êáèþò êáé áðü ôçíÅëëÜäá, äéáóêÝäáóáí ìå æùíôáíÞ ÊñçôéêÞ ìïõóéêÞ áðü ôïí×ñÞóôï ÖáóáñÜêç óôç ëýñá, êáé ôïí Ôüíç ÃåñãéáííÜêç óôïëáïýôï áíôßóôïé÷á. Óõã÷áñçôÞñéá, íá æÞóåôå åõôõ÷éóìÝíïé êáéêáëïýò áðïãüíïõò!

ÂÜöôéóçÔï ÓÜââáôï, 9 Éïõíßïõ, êáé

óôï éåñü íáü ôïõ ÁãßïõÃåùñãßïõ óôï Ìðëïýìöéëíô×éëò, ç ¸ñéí êáé ï ÉùÜííçòÉáêïâßäçò âÜöôéóáí ôïðñùôüôïêï ãéï ôïõò ÷ïñï-óôáôïýíôïò ôïõ Áéäåóéìï-ôÜôïõ ÐÜôåñ ÍéêüëáïõÐÜèåíïò. Ôïí ìéêñü ÁâñáÜìÁíäñÝïõ Éáêïâßäç åß÷áí ôç ôéìÞíá âáöôßóïõí ç ÈáÀò êáé ïÌé÷áÞë Óôáìáôüðïõëïò áðü ôï¼ñïñá ôïõ Éëéíüúò. ÖõóéêÜ, áðüôçí ôåëåôÞ áõôÞ äåí èáìðïñïýóáí íá ëåßøïõí ïé


DETROIT, MI

[ PSELORETES ]

ãïíåßò ôùí ãïíÝùí, ç êá. Ìáñßá ÁíäñÝïõ (ÓðáíôéäÜêç) êáé ï ê.ÁâñáÜì ÉùÜííïõ Éáêïâßäçò, ìáæß ìå ôç êá. ÑüæìåñçÌáêÍôüíáëíô, óýæõãïò ôïõ óõã÷ïñåìÝíïõ ê. ÓôßâåíÌáêÍôüíáëíô. Óõã÷áñçôÞñéá óå üëïõò óáò, íá óáò æÞóåé êáéíá ôïí äåßôå üðùò åðéèõìåßôå!

ÄéáêïðÝòÊáëùóïñßæïõìå ðßóù ôç êá. ÂáñâÜñá ÐáôåñÜêç, ç ïðïßá

ðÝñáóå ôéò äéáêïðÝò ôçò óôç Óïýãéá ôùí ×áíßùí.Êáëùóïñßæïõìå ðßóù êáé ôï ðñüåäñï ôïõ óõëëüãïõ

«Øçëïñåßôçò», ôïí ê. Ãåþñãéï ÓôåöáíÜêç, ï ïðïßïò ðÝñáóå ôéòäéáêïðÝò ôïõ óôï ÑÝèõìíï. Óõã÷ñüíùò, ôïõ åõ÷üìáóôå ôáèåñìÜ ìáò óõëëõðçôÞñéá ãéá ôçí áðïâßùóç ôçò ìçôÝñáò ôïõ,ôç êá. Åõáíèåßá ÓôåöáíÜêç, ç ïðïßá áöÞíåé ðßóù ôçò 2 ðáéäéÜêáé 7 åããüíéá. Ç êçäåßá ôçò ôåëÝóôçêå óôï ÷ùñéü Êïõñïýôåò,Áìáñßïõ. Êáé ðÜëé ôá èåñìÜ ìáò óõëëõðçôÞñéá!

FarewellThe Cretan Ladies

Society of Detroitand the AKN mournthe loss of AthenaAndrews (neeMarangak is ) Athena Andrews, age85 died August 25,2007 just months af-ter her belovedhusband of 59 years,J o h n . Athena wasa founding member ofthe AKN and a longtime member of theCretan Ladies Societyof Detroit KPHTH. She was active in the Philoptochos Society, the Daughters ofPenelope, founded the St. Nicholas Cub Scout Pack, and volun-teered at Henry Ford Hospital West Bloomfield, Michigan.Athena will be missed by many, and her passing creates a deepvoid for all that knew and loved her. Athena was devoted toher family and friends, a wonderful cook and baker, and an allaround good Greek lady. She is survived by her 2sons, Nicholas and George Andrews, and by her sister Stella(Cristo) Ristas.

ÐåñáóôéêÜÅõ÷üìáóôå ðåñáóôéêÜ êáé ãéá ìéá ãñÞãïñç áíÜññùóç óôç

êá. ÅëÝíç ÌáíïõóáêÜêç êáèþò êáé óôç êá. ×ñõóïýëáÊïõñïõâÝóç.

Äéüñèùóç

Óôï ôåý÷ïò ÊÑÇÔÇ, Éïõëßïõ- Áõãïýóôïõ 2007, ÝãéíåáíáöïñÜ óôï ãÜìï ôïõ æåýãïõò Ëßíóëé êáé Íéêüëáïõ×ïõóôïõëÜêç. Ôï æåõãÜñé åß÷å ôç ôéìÞ íá óôåöáíþóåé çäåóðïéíßò ÅìáíïõÝëëá ÍéêïëáêÜêç. ÆçôÜìå óõãíþìç ãéáïðïéáäÞðïôå ðáñåîÞãçóç Ý÷åé ðñïêëçèåß.

Óôáýñïò Måëáìðéþôçò, ÃñáììáôÝáò

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PITTSBURGH, PA

[ ARKADI-MALEME ]

The Arkadi-Maleme Chapter hosted a “Cretan” picnic atthe Gus Barbish Memorial Hall in Langeloth, Pa. in late August.Over 200 visitors experienced an afternoon and evening ofgames for the children, face painting, dancing, door prizes andfood prepared by Mr. Gyro’s of Washington, PA. The Greek and

Cretan music was provided by the band “Panigiri”. The Seniorand Junior dance troups were the highlite of the evening beingenthusiastically received by those in attendance. HeleneSemanderes and Kalliope Roumbakis are the dance troup co-ordinators. Our president Faith Trillis Williard was the master ofceremonies recognizing dignataries such as Stavro Semanderes,past president of PAA, and current Cretan World President.James Denny, Disrtict 3 Governor, Mary Vasilakis, Chairpersonof PFA, and Dr, Petro Maropis, treasurer, PFA.. The membersand guests are looking forward to next years annual CretanPicnic.

Dr. Peter. J. Nikas, KPHTH Magazine Correspondent

On Febraury 28,2007, Monica Maridakis-Alvarez gave birth to ababy girl, Nicolette....

The proud Grandfa-ther is Nick Maridakisand the proud GreatGrandparents are Alexand Jean Maridakis”.

Our deepest sympa-thies to the family ofGeorge Kounalakis, aEpimenides member,who passed on may 12, 2007. The Kounalakis family havebeen active dedicated members of Epimenides. His son MarkosKounlakis has been an active member. His brother AnthonyKounalakis served as president for several terms and he is nowserving on Epimenide’s board. His daughter in low TheodoraKounalakis is serving on the board. His niece Diana Kounalakis-Baxter has also served as president and she is now serving onthe Epimenide’s board.

Epimanides welcomes six new members from the familyof late Nick Dalis Sr who was one of the early National PastPresidents of PAA. They are Mrs Pearl Dalis his wife, KarenVandarakis his daughter, Stephanie Delis his daughter in low,Dessie Delis his grandson’s wife, Katina Blasingame his grand-daughter, and Dave Blasingame his granddaughter’s husband.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

[ EPIMENIDES ]

Ðñïò ôçí êá. ÁããåëéêÞ Ôñßêáò áðåõèýíïõìå ôá èåñìÜóõëëõðçôÞñéá ãéá ôïí èÜíáôï ôïõ ãáìðñïý ôçò, ï ïðïßïòáðåâßùóå óôá ×áíéÜ ôç ÊñÞôçò.

Áò åßíáé áéùíßá ôïõ ç ìíÞìç

Óôçí êá. Ìáñßêá ×áìçëÜêç åõ÷üìáóôå ãñÞãïñç áíÜññùóçáðü üëåò ôéò êõñßåò ôïõ óõëëüãïõ ìáò. ÐÜíôá ãåñÞ êáé äõíáôÞ.

SPRINGFIELD, MA

[ CRETAN LADIES PROODOS ]

TEXAS, AZ

[ CRETANS OF ARIZONA ]Second Lieu-

tenant SelectLydia EleniBigelow, gradu-ated this May30th, 2007 fromthe United StatesAir Force Acad-emy with a Bach-elor of ScienceDegree in History,a Minor in Rus-sian and a Com-mission into theUnited States AirForce. After fouryears at the AirForce Academy,Bigelow hascompleted pro-

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL

[ CRETAN VOICE ]

grams such as Basic Cadet Training, Combat Survival Training,earned her jump wings in the Academyýÿs Freefall Parachutingcourse, and completed the Academy Flight Screening Programwhich includes local area solo flights. She graduated as a dis-tinguished graduate with honors and ranked 77th of 987 gradu-ating. She received recognition on the Dean’s andCommandant’s list for all four years of attendance.ýÿ She hasparticipated in language immersions programs to both Russiaand Ukraine, and has earned a varsity letter all four years as anNCAA Division I athlete competing for the Air Force FalconFencing Team. Lydia was captain of the Fencing team and wasvoted Most Valuable Player in her fourth year at the Academy.After graduation she has traveled throughout Europe and vis-ited with her relatives and YiaYia Eleni Kasselakis in Skines,Xania, Kriti. This fall she has started her career with her nextassignment in the United States Air Force.

Patricia Cristie, KPHTH Magazine Correspondent

Congratulations to the following chapter students and re-

cipients of PAA Scholarships: Maria Manolis – freshman year

attending Univ. of Florida in Gainesville, FL majoring in Medicine,

Eftihios Andronis – sophomore year attending Florida State

Univ. in Tallahassee, FL majoring in International Business and

on the Dean’s List the entire freshman year, Michael Manolis –

junior year attending Univ. of Florida in Gainesville, FL majoring in

Civil Engineering and on the Dean’s list, & Andrew Sophinos –

sophomore year attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ. in

Daytona Beach, FL majoring in Aviation Business Administra-

tion and on the Dean’s list. Our chapter wishes them Best of

Luck in their studies and is honored to have such successful

students! The PAA scholarships were presented to the stu-

dents in church on August 12th by Chapter President, Costas

Kontodaskalakis.

Congratulations to Nicholas Manolis who graduated on

May 4th with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engi-

neering from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Nicho-

las is the son of Vasilios and Eleni Manolis - members of our

chapter.

Our chapter is honored to have a great graduate and wishes

Nicholas the Best of Luck in his future career!

Get Well wishes are offered to chapter members: Mrs.

Sophia Manolis and Mr. Emmanuel Kanellakis who are slowly

recovering.

Our chapter members extend prayers and sympathy to Trea-

surer, Mrs. Eleni Manolis whose beloved father, Mr. Harisis

Delonis passed away on August 10th in Mavropoulo Ioanninon

Epiros. “Zoe sai sas” Eleni & Vasilios, and to your family, Nicho-

las, Michael, Theodore, Harisis, & Maria, Also prayers and sym-

pathy from our chapter members to the family of Mrs. Pigi

Kontekakis of Springfield, MA and to the family of Mr. Michael

Beladakis of Chicago, IL. “Zoe sai sas” to your families.

Dianne Maragoudakis Sophinos, Secretary

DATE

10/27/2007

11/03/200

11/10/2007

11/10/2007

11/17/2007

11/17/2007

11/24/2007

12/02/2007

02/02/2008

02/02/2008

05/03/2008

05/23-25/2008

EVENT

Cretan Brotherhood of NY Annual Dance

White Mountains Annual PILAFI event

Knossos Chapter Dinner Dance

Christopher Janus book presentation

Árizona Cretan Association Annual Dance

Cretan Fraternity of Chicago Annual Dinner Dance

CMBA Annual Dinner Dance

Cretan Sisterhood Christma Spectacular Luncheon

Orange Blossom Annual Cretan Dance

White Mountains Annual Dinner Dance

Arkadi Youth of New Jersey Dance

District VII Conference- Hosted by Ariadne Chapter

CONTACT

Elena Lambrakos - 718-339-8409

George Papadakis - 732-887-2203

Katerina Verganelakis - 267-307-8958

Xrisanthi Hess - 304-722-4858

George Christie - 623-214-3363

George Papadantonakis - 312-485-3423

Stelios Vitakis - 216-524-4285

Helen Tzagarakis - 718-745-6745

Tom Kostakis - 727-791-8000

George Papadakis - 732-887-2203

Alekos Marmatakis - 732-777-0104

Eleftheria Winters - 210-393-0522

[calendar]PLACE

Brooklyn, NY

New Brunswick, NJ

Cherry Hill, NJ

Charleston, WV

Phoenix, AZ

Chicago, IL

Cleveland, OH

Brooklyn, NY

Tarpon Spring, FL

New Brunswick, NJ

New Brunswick, NJ

San Antonio, TX

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DONATIONS TO PAA April 1, 2007 - August 31, 2007

DONORS

JSemanderes Stavros

Siganos Management

Polirinia Chapter of Marin

Vasilakis Mary

Cretan Assoc Nikos Kazantzakis

Akrotiri of Merimack Valley

Minos Youth Clearwater

CretansofConneticut

OrangeBlosom

Zombanakis George

Chryssis George

Propodos

Cretans Arizona

Cretan Ladies Society - KPHTH

Arkadi-Maleme

Pseloretis Detroit

Cretan Sisterhood - Ariaddne

Cretan Assoc. West Palm Beach

Diktamos Cretan Association

Brokos Emmanuel


Chryssis George

Chryssis George

Velivasakis Emmanuel

Velivasakis 3Emmanuel

Velivasakis Emmanuel

Kefalogiannis Ismini

Kefalogiannis Ismini

Spirakis Ernest

Simvoulakis Helene

Wren Martha

Wolf Thomas

Johnson Bruce

Bruce Burger Realty

Micheletos Bill

Jones Mary

Ferris Audrey

Williard Faith

Politis Mariellena

Pologeorgis George

John Christopher

Peros Pete

Balale Michael


NPD Investments Delis

Varanakis Nick E.

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Semanderes Stavros

Tzitzikas George

Raftopoulos Steve

Rotary Club Denver

Bobolakis John G.

Bobolakis John G.

TOTAL

AMMOUNT

2,500.00

5,000.00

500.00

100.00

100.00

200.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

150.00

200.00

200.00

100.00

100.00

500.00

1,000.00

200.00

500.00

100.00

250.00

100.00

100.00

1,000.00

100.00

100.00

50.00

50.00

100.00

100.00

50.00

100.00

25.00

500.00

50.00

25.00

100.00

100.00

25.00

100.00

50.00

150.00

50.00

150.00

500.00

25.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

150.00

100.00

1,000.00

1,200.00

19,350.00

COMMENTS

Donation Cultural & Education-Kazantzakis Translations

Donation Cultural & Education-Kazantzakis Translations

Philanthropic Endowment Fund - General-Dist 6th Family

Philanthropic Endowment Fund - General Rent for Olga Theodorakis - Philanthropic


Philanthropic Endowment Fund - General







Philanthropic Endowment Fund - Rent for Olga Theodoraki




Philanthropic Endowment Fund - Olga Theodorakis

Philanthropic Endowment Fund -Olga Thedorakis

PPEF - Van

Scholarship General Donation

Scholarship General Donation

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Kariotakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Pavlakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Byron Ieronimidis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Emmanuel Pavlakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Emmanuel Kariotakis


Scholarship Memorial Fund-Emmanuel Kariotakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Zachary Stavroulakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Emanuel Pavlakis














Scholarship Memorial Fund-Eugenia Dematriades

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Emanuel & Christine Pavlakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Emanuel & Christine Pavlakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Pegi Kontikakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Michael Beladakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Eleftherios Liodakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Steve Zaharias

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Mike Stamatakis


Scholarship Memorial Fund-Markos Psihoundas

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Byron Ieronimides

Scholarship Memorial Fund-John Vasialkis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Mike Kariotakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund-Eleftherios Liodakis

Scholarship Memorial Fund- Mike Pavlakis


Scholarship Named Donors

Scholarship Named Donors

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