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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BOSTON – The Former president of the Federation of Hellenic American Societies of New England, Miltiadis Athanasopoulos, was saved at the last minute by quintuple bypass open heart surgery.
He told The National Herald during a visit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston that “as I was driving on Route 93 North I felt indisposed. I changed my route and went directly to Winchester Hospital, in the town of Winchester. The doctors there sensed that something very serious was going on and they sent me by ambulance to Massachusetts General Hospital, where I had comprehensive medical tests. I was told that I had a serious problem with blockages in five arteries and that I needed open heart surgery. They set the surgery for Monday, February 4.”
Athanasopoulos said that “the fact I am alive today I owe to the Greek-American doctor, George Tolis. When he saw me on Friday, February 1 he said to me ‘we can’t wait until Monday’ and he operated on me on Saturday. The quintuple bypass operation lasted six and one half hours. I didn’t feel anything. When I woke up I was asking ‘when am I going to have the surgery?’”
Athanasopoulos also said that “Dr. Tolis is not only a prominent and well known doctor, but above all he is a true and authentic human being,” and he added: “I will be forever grateful to him because he saved my life.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.