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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 – Orestes Demetriades of West Yarmouth, MA, Naples, FL, and formerly of Belmont, MA, passed suddenly and peacefully at the age of 99. He is survived by his loving wife of 69 years, Hloy (Tsoumas) Demetriades; along with his children, Deborah Demetriades Marini and her husband Robert of Naples, FL, their children, Thalia and Ianthe, Theodore Demetriades and his wife Deborah of Scituate, MA, their children, Alexis Demetriades-Spooner and her husband Ian, and Alece, and Peter Demetriades and Nicole McCay of Sagamore Beach, MA, and Peter's children, Thomas and Danielle, along with their mother Lisa (Marney) Demetriades.
Orestes Demetriades is survived as well by many nieces, nephews, and cousins in both Greece and the United States. His long and extraordinary life began on a refugee ship off the island of Lesbos, Greece in 1922. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 at the age of 30, establishing residence in Watertown and then Belmont, MA. He was the founder and long-time host of Grecian Echoes, the longest continuously broadcast Greek radio program in the United States, where he proudly promoted and perpetuated Hellenic culture and heritage. He was also a founder of Orbit Travel and other enterprises, contributed poetry to Greek language newspapers, and was a prolific raconteur and speaker. We will miss his engaging presence, his love of life, and his devotion to family. Funeral Service was held at the Taxiarchae Greek Orthodox Church, 25 Bigelow Ave., Watertown. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the above named church or to St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 1130 Falmouth Rd., Centerville, MA 02632, or to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Burial in Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.