Networking Was Theme of the 22nd
Hermes Expo International Young Professionals Initiative
By Catherine Tsounis
“It’s all about your Networking” was the theme of the Hermes Young Professionals Initiative of the 22nd Annual Hermes Expo International at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Hotel, Atlantic City. The conference took place on Saturday afternoon, April 13th, from 2-4 p.m. Speakers Maggie Stavrianidis, Spiro Mantzavinos and Kostas Alexakis spoke on networking purposes. They gave valuable career advice in a broad range of industries. Art Demopoulos, publisher of Odyssey magazine added inspiring thoughts.
Gloria Sfiroudis Honored by UFT
Gloria Sfiroudis was honored by the United Federation of Teachers at the UFT Scholarship Dinner on April 25th at Russo’s on the Bay. She was presented with a plaque by Rosemary Parker, UFT District 24, Representative which reads as follows, “In Recognition for Your Union Activism and Untiring Commitment to the Student at P.S.229.”
She is a teacher for fifty years, having taught all grades from K to 6th grade. She held positions as Assistant Principal, Corrective Reading, Talented and Gifted, Educational Enrichment and Teachers College Writing and Reader’s Workshop. Presently, she is a Teacher of Library/Technology. In this capacity, she has conducted numerous workshops, staff development and curriculum writing for teachers.
Project Rebuilding Saint Nicholas Church to complete by 2014
New York, NY---The Metropolitan Engineering Societies Council and the Hellenic American Technical Chamber sponsored the Engineers week celebration gala at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Brooklyn on Wednesday February 13, 2013. Engineers’ Week is an annual celebration to recognize the achievement of engineers in New York, across the United States and around the world.
During the event, Nicholas Koutsomitis, a prominent Greek-American and Principal of Koutsomitis Architects PC in New York City spoke about the design and construction challenges faced in the replacement of the Saint Nicholas Church at the World Trade Center which could open by 2014. Greek immigrants founded the original Saint Nicholas Church in Lower Manhattan, in 1922 at 155 Cedar Street. During the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, Saint Nicholas Church was destroyed by falling debris from the World Trade Center’s South tower. After ten years of legal struggles with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a settlement was finally reached to build a new church. This church will include a nondenominational bereavement center of the WTC site. The Port Authority will build this platform at the corner of Greenwich and Liberty Streets at the site of the former Deutsche Bank Building.
