Friday, May 29, 2009

Lambros Papantoniou, Greek Journalist Died.


May 28, 2009 - Lambros Papantoniou of Washington D.C. passed away peacefully this morning.

He was 63, weeks shy of his birthday on July 4th, the American holiday which filled this proud immigrant son of Greece with immense honor.

Mr. Papantoniou, known to official Washington for decades as "Mr. Lambros," was the Washington diplomatic correspondent for the Greek daily newspaper Eleftheros Typos, Radio Thessaloniki, and the U.S.
weekly newspaper Greek News.

He was born on July 4, 1945 in Mandra Xanthi, a village in Greece's Western Thrace region. His parents were refugees, who fled from Asia Minor in 1922 to settle in Greece.

He studied law at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, and arrived in the United States in 1973. He studied international law and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained his Master's Degree and Juris Doctorate.

In 1975, after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, he began working as a journalist, specializing in U.S. foreign policy issues relating to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and the Balkans. Over the course of a prodigious career, he was correspondent to many Greek and Greek-American Media, and participated at numerous foreign policy conferences and panels in the United States, Greece, Cyprus and Australia.

A member of St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C., he is survived by three sisters and one brother in Greece, one brother in Boston, and his beloved nephew Stavros Stavrakis, who resides in Philadelphia with his wife Vasiliki and their children Prometheus, Aristotle and Elektra Cynthia.

Friday, May 22, 2009

STATE DEPT., PSEKA-SECRETARY CLINTON








Ο Αρχιεπίσκοπος Αμερικής Δημήτριος και ηγετικά στελέχη της Ομογένειας είχαν συνάντηση με την Υπουργό Εξωτερικών των ΗΠΑ Χίλαρι Κλίντον στο Στέιτ Ντηπάρτμεντ, και της απένειμαν ειδικό βραβείο, στο πλαίσιο του 25ου ετήσιου συνεδρίου της ΠΣΕΚΑ και της «Ενιαίας Συντονιστικής Προσπάθειας -CEH» σήμερα Παρασκευή 22 Μαϊου 2009. Στη συνάντηση παρέστησαν ο πρόεδρος της ΠΣΕΚΑ Φίλιπ Κρίστοφερ , ο πρόεδρος του CEH, Ανδρέας Μανάτος, ο πρόεδρος της Κυπριακής Ομοσπονδίας Αμερικής Πανίκος Παπανικολάου, ο πρόεδρος του UHAC και επίτιμος πρόεδρος του ΣΑΕ, Ανδρέας Αθενς, και οι Πρέσβεις της Ελλάδος και της Κύπρου στις ΗΠΑ, Αλέξανδρος Μαλλιάς και Ανδρέας Κακκουρής, αντίστοιχα. GANP/ ANA-MPA/ DIMITRIS PANAGOS
www.panagos.com

Friday, May 1, 2009

My Life In Ruins, Actors, NY



Nia Vardalos and Alexis Georgoulis arrived in New York and met with members of the press to promote their new movie My Life In Ruins which will be screened at the closing of the Tribeca Film Festival on May 2, 2009. The film was shot in Greece which Greece is getting the publicity it deserves by famous artists of Greek descent. Alexis Georgoulis was happy to meet with us, Revekka Papadopoulou , Greek News Community Editor and myself. Greek Photographer Dimitrios Panagos photographed this private event today May 1st, 2009 ijn New York City's London Hotel.

Nia Vardalos and Alexis Georgoulis in New York



Nia Vardalos and Alexis Georgoulis arrived in New York and met with members of the press to promote their new movie My Life In Ruins which will be screened at the closing of the Tribeca Film Festival on May 2, 2009. The film was shot in Greece which Greece is getting the publicity it deserves by famous artists of Greek descent. Alexis Georgoulis was happy to meet with us, Revekka Papadopoulou , Greek News Community Editor and myself. Greek Photographer Dimitrios Panagos photographed this private event today May 1st, 2009 ijn New York City's London Hotel.