Peter N. Yiannos
"Panayotes"
Peter passed away at home on July 2nd, surrounded by his loving family, following a battle with thyroid cancer.
Peter was born in the tiny village of "Ayios Sostis" in Southern Greece on November 27, 1932. He attended high school in Andritsena of Olympia and graduated from an Athens high school. He arrived in the United States on May 2, 1951 as a displaced person via the Truman Doctrine, because of Communist uprising resulting in his mother's death and destruction of their village home. He was sponsored by his mother's brother, Peter G. Valos, who was living in Alton, IL, and supported him through his first four years of college at Missouri University, where he graduated with a B.S. degree in
By Catherine Tsounis
“When good men die, their goodness does not perish,” – Euripides. A community makes or breaks a church. Worshippers beautify the service with their sincere religious faith. His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Church of America, accompanied by Deacon Aristidis Garinis, celebrated the liturgy for the third consecutive year on Sunday, August 3rd, at the Transfiguration of Christ Church in Mattituck, Long Island, New York. An inspired choir gave the performance of a lifetime. Their ill choirmaster, Demetrios “Jimmy” Talas passed away hours before at Peconic Bay Hospital, Riverhead. His Eminence said, Demetrios Talas left us to chant with the angels in Heaven.” The hymn, “Soson Imas Yie Theou” (Save Us, O Son of God) was sung with passion unheard of on former Sundays, in memory of their beloved choirmaster.
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Greek Summer 2012: The American Farm School’s
Work and Travel Odyssey for U.S. Teenagers
The American Farm School’s renowned program for U.S. teenagers, “Greek Summer,” is now in its 42nd year of continuous operation. This year the program was based in the small farming village of Agios Antonios on the border of the prefectures of Thessaloiniki and Halkidiki in northern Greece.
The village is famous for its Women’s Agricultural Cooperative, whose members hosted the American teenagers. Each girl or boy lived with a different family, while as their community service project they built – with concrete and fieldstones – a small park adjacent to the Cooperative’s outdoor Coffee and Sweet Shop. Here the teenagers enjoyed making and feasting on the perek and other Pontian flat breads and pastas that the women in the Cooperative distribute in gourmet and specialty shops throughout Greece.
