DECEMBER 2002
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St. Nicholas Church Part of 9/11 Memorial Effort The New York Times reported on Nov. 15 that the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has appointed two committees to oversee the 9/11 memorial effort, as part of what the agency’s chairman called a “new phase” in rebuilding downtown. One of the committees includes the Rev. Alexander Karloutsos who will represent St. Nicholas Church, which was across Liberty Street from the trade center and was destroyed in the collapse of the twin towers. The public will be able to see exhibits in December showing the new plans for the World Trade Center site. After focusing for much of the last year on the design of the trade center site, officials have recently moved to integrate that planning with similar efforts for the memorial. One of the memorial committees, with 10 members, will oversee the drafting of a mission statement, outlining the memorial’s purpose and the experience that planners want the site’s visitors to have. A second committee, with 11 members, will draft a plan for the memorial, outlining its general content, including the names of victims and any desired features or exhibits. Seven of the 21 committee members are relatives of people killed in the attack on the trade center last year, and 12, includ-
ing most of those relatives of victims, are members of various advisory committees appointed by the development corporation in January to assist the rebuilding effort. Other members include representatives from the Police and Fire departments who worked at the site during the rescue and recovery effort, downtown residents and business owners. The new designs for the trade center site from seven teams of architects will be displayed to the public in an exhibition in the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center. Officials of the development corporation, which is overseeing the rebuilding effort, have refused to comment on any of the details of the work being undertaken by the seven teams, which were charged with conceiving designs for the trade center site and nearby areas. But they have promised that the work will not resemble the renderings of six site plans that drew nearly universal disdain when they were unveiled last summer. One architecture team has said it needs a room with an 18-foot ceiling to display its model, said two rebuilding officials. Another design team has a scale model of Lower Manhattan that measures roughly 20 feet in length.
New Trustees Appointed to St. Photios Foundation ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The Very Rev. Nicholas Graff, executive director of St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, recently announced the appointment of the 2003-2004 St. Photios Foundation Board of Trustees. The officers of the foundation are: Archbishop Demetrios, chairman; Bishop Alexios of Atlanta; president; Harry Cavalaris of Charlotte, N.C., vice president; Maria Carantzas of Jacksonville, Fla., treasurer; and Anthony Megas of Jacksonville, secretary. Diocesan representatives are: Archdiocese District, Andre Gregory and Aspacia Melis; Chicago Diocese, Fr Anargyros Stavropoulos and Joanne Stavrakas; San Francisco Diocese, Paul Sogotis; Pittsburgh Diocese, Fr. George Pappas and Angelo Koukoulis; Boston Diocese, Fr. Paul Pantelis and John Grossmanides; Denver Diocese, Fr. Constantine Pavlakos and Harry Plomarity; Atlanta Diocese, Peter Carantza, Cina Daskalakis, George Parandes, Dr. Steve Poulos, and Dr. Manuel Tissura; Detroit Diocese, Fr. Nicholas Pathenos and George Reganis; and, New Jersey Diocese, Christopher D’Anna and Christopher Skenteris. The ex-officio trustees are Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos, Archdiocese coor-
dinator; Dr. Anthony Limberakis, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate-Order of St. Andrew; Georgia Skeadas, National Ladies Philoptochos Society; Andrew Athens, United Hellenic American Congress (UHAC); Dr. James Dimitriou, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA). Ex-officio trustees: from Holy Trinity Church in St. Augustine, Fr. Nikitas Theodosion and Mike Gaetanos; from St. Demetrios Church in Daytona Beach, Fr. Nicholas Manousakis and George Pappas; and from St. John the Divine Church in Jacksonville, Fr. Graff and Nicholas Furris. Emeritus board members include: Chairman Emeritus Archbishop Iakovos, President Emeritus Bishop John of Amorion, Peter Bouras of Florida, Eula Carlos of Georgia, Dr. George Croffead of South Carolina, Charles Masterpolis of Georgia, Ted Pappas of Florida, and honorary member Ernest Villas of Massachusetts. Trustees will hold their annual meeting in St. Augustine on Feb. 1-2. Fr. Graff said, “We serve to the glory of God, in faithfulness to our Holy Orthodox Church, and in total fidelity to our beloved St. Photios Shrine, our Archdiocese, and our Archbishop.”
CLERGY U P D A T E Ordination to the Diaconate: Andrew N. Tsikitas, by Metropolitan Maximos at Holy Cross Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. 05/25/02 Philippe Mousis, by Metropolitan Methodios, at Taxiarchai Church, Watertown, Mass. 09/30/02 Ryan Gzikowski, by Metropolitan Maximos, at Holy Cross Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. 10/12/02 Ordination to the Priesthood: Dn. Nicholas Georgiou, by Metropolitan Iakovos, at Holy Apostles Church, Westchester, Ill. 08/18/02 Dn. Alexander Chetsas, by Metropolitan Anthony, at St. Sophia Cathedral – Los Angeles 09/01/02 Assignments: Rev. Deacon Alexander Chetsas to
St. Sophia Cathedral, Los Angeles (assistant) 08/01/02 Rev. Economos George Bessinas to St. John the Baptist Church, Des Plaines, Ill. (assistant) 11/01/02 Rev. Economos George Daskalakis, to Annunciation Cathedral, Boston 11/15/02 Rev. Presbyter Michael T. Stearns, to St. Demetrios Church, Fort Worth, Texas 11/16/02 Rev. Presbyter Nicholas Georgiou, to Holy Apostles Church, Westchester, Ill. 11/17/02 Returned to layman status: V. Rev. Archimandrite Gregory Constantios 07/01/02 Suspensions: Rev. Michael C. Poplos 05/01/02
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