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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.
To the Editor:
Thank you for the op-ed piece “No Greeks Need Apply” (Aug. 12) by Andrew S. Gounardes and Maria AvgitidisPyrgiotakis, of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, and Hellenic Professional Women, respectively, but I would like to add that the authors forgot to mention that there was earlier settlement of Greeks even before the United States existed.
Dr. Andrew Turnbull, aScottish physician who later served as a British Consul at Smyrna, organized the largest attempt at British colonization in the New World by founding New Smyrna, FL, named for his Greek wife’s birthplace, in 1768.
Turnbull was married to Maria Gracia Dura Bin, the daughter of a Greek merchant from Smyrna in Asia Minor. The colony was located in the province of British East Florida, and was 101,400 acres,almost three times the size of the colony at Jamestown.The St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine, FL is dedicated to the first colony of Greek people who came to America in 1768. The settlers moved north to St. Augustine and established a church, even older than the one in New Orleans.
Soula Z. Pappas
New York, NY
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.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.