{"id":846,"date":"2013-12-22T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T03:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helleniclink.org\/?p=846"},"modified":"2013-12-24T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T17:44:39","slug":"bulletin-no-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helleniclink.org\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin No. 112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  var _gaq = _gaq || [];\n  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-33274910-1']);\n  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);\n\n  (function() {\n    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true;\n    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Lomis, Gerasimos Merianos, Panagiotis Siskos <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Contributing Editor<\/span>:  Evangelos Calamitsis  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Associate Editor<\/span>: John Angelidis, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Acting Editor:<\/span> Costas Efthymiou<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>No. 112, December, 2013 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Editor\u2019s Note. In the November issue of the Bulletin (#111), the vitally significant for everyone matter of salvaging the environment from the threatened horrors of climate change was focused on the eternal spiritual values expressed in the Message of Patriarch Bartholomew to the International Conference held on the topic in Warsaw, Poland. In this issue, we return to the matter with a similar message of dire warning and a call to remedial environmental action, coming from a surprising yet familiar to Hellenes source: the world renowned Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> In this connection, we are grateful to Professor Thanasis Maskaleris  for bringing to us through his systematic research the deep and articulate concern of Kazantzakis for the bleak future of Earth in the hands of the greedy and senseless, corruption-driven, contemporary man. \u201cThe Terrestrial Gospel of Nikos Kazantzakis- Will the Humans Be Saviors of the Earth?\u201d is the Anthology of Professor Maskaleris , a comprehensive report, based on the feelings of Kazantzakis for the beautiful but threatened environment, expressed throughout his works, in Greek of course, translated into English by Professor Maskaleris.  We are happy indeed to help bring to public awareness the prophetic quotations of the giant of Greek Literature, chosen for presentation in the Introduction of Professor Maskaleris\u2019 Anthology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <\/span> <em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Terrestrial Gospel of Nikos Kazantzakis\u2014<br \/>\n Will the Humans Be Saviors of the Earth?<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTRODUCTION<br \/>\n By Thanasis Maskaleris<\/p>\n<p>Nikos Kazantzakis was not only the cosmic mind that absorbed philosophies and cultures and recreated them in his vast work&#8211;in visions arising from the flaming crucible of his mind-spirit. Throughout his life he was an intellectual-spiritual, political, humanistic and terrestrial human being&#8211;an inspiring exemplar for today\u2019s un-integrated humans, fragmented by the sweeping onslaught of technological invasions.<br \/>\n Kazantzakis was solidly rooted in the primal ground of Nature, as the passages of this Anthology substantiate. Without this terrestrial vein he could not have composed these hymns to Nature; he could not have painted this abundant flowering of the Earth. The passages I have chosen to anthologize can only arise from his profound connection with the natural world, a connection enriched by the inexhaustible spring of Greek mythology, the Nature religion of the Minoans and, above all, by the peasant life of Crete which nurtured him during his childhood years.<\/p>\n<p>Crete, until its recent, perhaps lamentable, touristic development was a primeval garden inside which its inhabitants lived, growing the fruits of the soil\u2014Demeter\u2019s gifts, Athena\u2019s olive, Dionysos\u2019 grape, the almond, the fig&#8211;and raising the donkey and the goat; here the Cretan children grew up with them as brother\/sister creatures\u2026 And it was in Crete that old timers used to say: \u201c My grandfather planted this house in the year \u2026\u201d Even today we find the Cretan earth-bound mark on things: a Caf\u00e9 bearing the  name  \u03a6\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03c3\u03bf\u03c6\u03b9\u03b1 (Phyllosophia=leaf-wisdom}. Throughout his life, Kazantzakis  thirsted for the Cretan life that he so powerfully recreated in his writings. And then there is the magnificent  Cretan goat, the kri kri,  chosen for the cover of this book, which embodies the Cretan survival force and perfectly symbolizes Kazantzakis\u2019 gripping of the Earth, and his passion to \u201cascend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 1945, on a painful journey across Crete, a homeland devastated by the Nazi occupation, he met a centenarian villager and, in conversation, asked him: \u201c\u2019How was your life, your hundred years, Grandfather?\u2019  \u2018Like a cool glass of water\u2019, he answered. \u2018And are you still thirsty, Grandfather?\u2019   He looked at me intensely with his clouded eyes, raised a huge hand, and said with a cursing gesture: \u2018Damned be the man who looses his thirst!\u2019\u201d Kazantzakis\u2019 last words on his deathbed, as his wife Eleni tells us, were: \u201cWater!\u2026Water!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And in the Prologue of Report to Greco he orchestrates his own ritual return to the Earth:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, brain. Night has fallen, the day\u2019s work is done. I return like a mole to my home, the ground. Not because I am tired and cannot work. I am not tired. But the sun is setting\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cast a final glance around me. To whom shall I say farewell?  Mountains, the sea, the grape-laden climbing vine over my balcony? Virtue, transgressions?  Refreshing water? Futile, futile! All these will descend with me into the soil\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI extend my hand, I grasp the earth\u2019s latch to open the door and leave, but I hesitate on the threshold just a little while longer. My eyes, my ears, my bowels find it difficult, terribly difficult, to tear themselves away from the world\u2019s stones and grass. A man can say to himself:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am satiated, in peace; I have no more wants; I have fulfilled my duty and am ready to leave.\u2019 But the heart resists. Clutching the stones and the grass, it implores: \u2018Stay a little longer!\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n All of Kazantzakis\u2019s works contain an abundance of passages about rocks, soil, seeds, rain, air, rainbows, the sea, flowers, and flowering. Possibly no other modern writer has written as extensively about the cosmogonic energies of Nature, with as much poetic brilliance. And what is more, Kazantzakis constantly integrates the terrestrial, the material womb of life, with human life in all its manifestations&#8211;and this with insights and a dynamism that only mythology can surpass. Human life, he passionately declares, is rooted in the soil and its growth parallels the essential life of Nature.<br \/>\n For Kazantzakis, the central drama in Nature&#8211;seeding, growth, fruition&#8211;is the supreme model for human development; and the agrarian life, because of its closeness to the earth, is the best teacher for humans and their communities; cultivation of the soil&#8211;cultura in Latin&#8211;is the most the  authentic culture. Earth life provides both the impetus and pattern for human growth&#8211;for health and excellence. And Kazantzakis passionately seeks this nurturing source:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u0399 condense into a lightning moment the seeding, sprouting, blossoming, fructifying, and the passing of every tree, animal, man, star, and god. All earth is a seed planted in the coils of my mind.\u201d (1) Recalling his earliest experiences of the soil, the sea, mother\/woman, and the starry firmament he writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now still, in the deepest moments of awareness, I live inside me these four marvelous elements&#8211;in the same unchanged way I did when still a baby.  And furthermore:  each emotion of mine, even the most abstract and intellectual activity, contains these four primordial elements of my life; and the most serious metaphysical problem acquires a vital physical quality that smells of the sea, the soil and human sweat. Logos, in order to touch me, must first become such flesh. (2)<\/p>\n<p>This catalytic absorption of Nature, that began with the Cretan landscapes in Kazantzakis\u2019s childhood, led to the frequent presence of the Cretan natural environment in many of his writings. Two of his greatest works &#8212; Freedom or Death and Zorba the Greek &#8212; teem with Cretan life, from fragrances to garments, olives, peasant breads, and weapons in the struggle for freedom. And Kazantzakis\u2019s connection with the natural world was broadened and deepened as he turned his vision to the world of mythology, where the primordial images of the terrestrial realms abound, along with the creative evolutionary leaps of the planet\u2019s and humankind\u2019s epic transformations. The Minoan religion was another rich Cretan source that Kazantzakis mined with un-diminishing passion; the religion that deified the snake&#8211;because its entire body touches the Earth at all times&#8211;and the \u201cnatural culture\u201d it spawned became for him a rich source of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>One of the central themes and life-long preoccupations in the life and work of Kazantzakis is the ethical principle of becoming&#8211;evolving\/\u201dascending.\u201d Here again, he establishes the basis of this principle, and its vitality, on a natural base. Speaking about the future of humanity in one of his letters he writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026but  on into the future, the most remote moment will be supremely luminous. I am certain the human race has not yet actualized all the rich inside it possibilities; the  womb  of the earth is still full of eggs\u2026and these eggs must be saved.\u201d (3)<\/p>\n<p>The gifts of the Earth, as Kazantzakis depicts them, are boundless: there is the great joy of the senses, the heart and the soul, as they take in her beauty; then there is her gift of nurturing all living things and sustaining all growth. But Kazantzakis does not stop there; he derives from Nature, and especially from those who work the soil, essential lessons that can become foundations in building individual character and communal life. Together with the fruits of the Earth comes  the earth-hewn wisdom of farmers, shepherds, artisans, and all those who work the Earth\u2019s infinite matter. As one of his critics has observed: \u201cThe literary creation<\/p>\n<p>of Kazantzakis always has reality as its source; it is based on observation of the environment and reflection on the relationship<br \/>\n Of man and the earth.\u201d (4)<\/p>\n<p>A few examples from the body of his earth-hymning passages would reveal more than my description or assessment of this Kazantzakian realm. In a letter, written when he was 65, he observed: \u201cI look at the world from these two little windows and never get enough of it. What a miracle this world is!\u201d (5)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe day shone like a diamond in the rough. As we climbed the soul climbed too, cleared up. Once again I was experiencing the value for the soul of pure air, of easy breathing, of the great expanse of the horizon. You would think that the soul, too, was a wild animal with lungs and nostrils, needing lots of oxygen\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow perfectly everything is harmonized on this earth, I thought! How well the earth is harmonized with the human heart!\u201d (6)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy children,\u201d cried priest Fotis, \u201cit is here on this rough mountain-side, that with God\u2019s strength in us we shall take root\u2026Man is like a tree; he needs soil. This is where we will plant ourselves, will take root again\u2026\u201d  (7)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night he {St. George} came in my dream; he stretched out his arm and placed in my hand the seed of a village&#8211;a tiny village in my palm, with its church, its school, its houses and gardens&#8211;and he said to me: \u201cPlant it!\u201d (8)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this time the earth below and the sun above were working without rest to ripen the grain. The ears of corn, swollen with milk, began to harden. The plain had turned red with poppies. The singing birds had gathered hair, straw and mud and had built their nests; the female, with outstretched wings, was warming up the eggs. In front of her, perched on a branch, the male sang to give her courage. From time to time longed-for, rare showers brought some coolness, but soon the sun re-appeared and, chasing away the clouds, went on with his task, old as the world, of helping men and birds.\u201d  (9)<\/p>\n<p>These quoted passages, and the rest that follow in this Anthology, are a part of Kazantzakis\u2019 \u201cterrestrial gospel.\u201d They were written more than a half century before concerns about the effects of climate change and the need to save the earth surfaced. And what he expressed came from his own profound reverence for Nature and his humanistic vision, not from external alarms. Yet what he tells us constitutes a relevant and valuable standpoint for ecological meditation and engagement, if we relate to its spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Let us reflect: too many people on our planet live in cities, cut-off from Nature\u2019s healing presence. Our environment and many people across the globe live in extreme conditions, plagued by severe poverty or threatened by disasters caused by climate changes. Flooded with excessive, soulless technology and driven by greed, our world desperately needs the teachings of Kazantzakis: the harmonization of people and Nature, guided by his humanistic ethical principle that is based on dutiful service and responsibility (\u03c7\u03c1\u03ad\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03c5\u03b8\u03cd\u03bd\u03b7).  Every kind  of  organized  mobilization  is needed in the struggle to reverse the present catastrophic course. Passages like the following from: Spiritual Exercises: The Saviors of God may significantly spearhead a new wave of ecological concern and much needed environmental action:<br \/>\n \u201c This vineyard, the earth, is ours&#8211;our own flesh and blood. We cultivate and prune it, we gather and tread its grapes, we drink its wine, we sing and weep; ideas and visions rise in our heads.\u201d  (10)<br \/>\n \u201cEvery man has his own circle made up of things, trees, animals, humans, ideas \u2013 and he is duty-bound to save this circle. He, and   no one else. If he does not save it, he cannot be saved.\u201d(11)<br \/>\n &#8220;Live deeply, not as ideas in your head but as flesh and blood.<\/p>\n<p>You are a leaf of the great tree of humankind; keep feeling the soil rising from the dark roots, becoming branches and leaves.<\/p>\n<p>What is your goal?&#8211;the struggle to keep firm your grip to the tree; and&#8211;whether as leaf, flower or fruit&#8211; to keep the entire tree inside you, breathing and renewing itself.&#8221;<br \/>\n \u201c Love responsibility.  Say: It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it\u2019s not saved, then I am to blame.\u201d (12)<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you, Reader of this \u201cterrestrial gospel\u201d of Kazantzakis, will be touched by his reverence   for Nature, by the beauty of his hymns to Her, and will be inspired to join the environmental struggle that our planet needs today to attain its survival. Kazantzakis, the great combatant, would certainly join today\u2019s fighters for our Earth, since he believed that \u201cthe saviors of God\u201d must first be saviors of the Earth.<br \/>\n Perhaps, only if we feel reverence and love for the Earth, as fervently as Kazantzakis did, we will be able to save Her.<\/p>\n<p>A NOTE ON REFERENCES:<\/p>\n<p>All selected passages in this Anthology are translated by the editor from the original Greek of Kazantzakis. They are in separate groups to indicate their origin by book title. Since the editor&#8217;s intention (and hope) is that these passages are read as a poem-hymn to Nature, it was thought best not to include footnotes and specific references to sources&#8211;with the following exception:<\/p>\n<p>References to quoted passages in the \u201cTranslator\u2019s\/Editor&#8217;s Introduction<\/p>\n<p>1.   \u00ab\u03a0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1 \u03a7\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b7\u00bb (\u201cChildhood Years in Crete\u201d)<br \/>\n \u039d\u03b5\u03b1 \u0395\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b1 (June 1, 1942)<br \/>\n 2.      Ibid.<br \/>\n 3.   Letter to Borje Knos\u2014 In \u0395\u03bb\u03b5\u03bd\u03b7 \u039a\u03b1\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b6\u03b1\u03ba\u03b7:\u039f \u0391\u03c3\u03c5\u03bc\u03b2\u03b9\u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2<br \/>\n (Helen Kazantzakis: Nikos Kazantzakis-A Biography Based<br \/>\n on his Letters)<br \/>\n 4.   Andre Mirambel : &#8220;\u0393\u03c5\u03c1\u03c9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u0395\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u039a\u03b1\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b6\u03b1\u03ba\u03b7&#8221; )<br \/>\n &#8220;On the Work of Kazantzakis&#8221;) \u039a\u03b1\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1 \u0395\u03c0\u03bf\u03c7\u03b7 (Autumn 1958)<br \/>\n 5.   Borje Knos :\u00ab\u039f \u039d\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2 \u039a\u03b1\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b6\u03b1\u03ba\u03b7\u03c2 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u00bb (\u201cMy Nikos<br \/>\n Kazantzakis\u201d) \u039a\u03b1\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1 \u0395\u03c0\u03bf\u03c7\u03b7 (Autumn 1958)<br \/>\n 6.  \u0392\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u0391\u03bb\u03b5\u03be\u03b7 \u0396\u03bf\u03c1\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1 (Zorba the Greek)<br \/>\n 7.  \u039f \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u039e\u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9&#8211;(Christ Recrucified\/The<br \/>\n Greek Passion)<br \/>\n 8.  \u0391\u03c3\u03ba\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7&#8211;Salvatores Dei (The Saviors of God:Spiritual<br \/>\n Exercises)<\/p>\n<p>Professor  THANASIS MASKALERIS<\/p>\n<p>Thanasis Maskaleris was born in Arcadia, Greece and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 17. He studied Philosophy and English at the University of Oklahoma, and Comparative Literature at Indiana University and the University of California-Berkeley. He has written original poetry in Greek and in English, and has translated contemporary Greek poetry and prose extensively.<br \/>\n He taught Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, until his recent retirement. At SFSU he was also the Founding Director of the Center for Modern Greek Studies and he spearheaded the establishment of the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair.  One of his recent publications (co-edited\/translated with Nanos Valaoritis ) is : An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry( Talisman House Publishers)<\/p>\n<p>Recently published: The Terrestrial Gospel of Nikos Kazantzakis \u2013Will the Humans Be Saviors of the Earth?&#8211;<br \/>\n an anthology of  passages about Nature, hymns to the Earth and to Crete, intended to inspire ecological action.<br \/>\n ( Zorba Press ; Amazon)<\/p>\n<p>\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03cc\u03b3\u03bb\u03c9\u03c3\u03c3\u03b7 \u03a0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1: \u0394\u03c1\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u2019\u0395\u03bc\u03c0\u03bf\u03b4\u03af\u03c9\u03bd<br \/>\n \u03a0\u03c1\u03bf \u03bf\u03bb\u03af\u03b3\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u03b2\u03b4\u03bf\u03bc\u03ac\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd, \u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03ba\u03b5\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd 27\u03b7\u03bd \u039f\u03ba\u03c4\u03c9\u03b2\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 2013, \u03b7 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\u0395\u03c5\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03af\u03bf\u03c5, Ph.D.<br \/>\n \u03a0\u03c1\u03cc\u03b5\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd \u03a3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b4\u03ad\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5<br \/>\n \u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c2 \u03a3\u03c5\u03bc\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae\u03c2 \u03a0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b4\u03ad\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5<\/p>\n<p>A New Academic Leader Joins the Advisory Council on Hellenic Education<br \/>\n Following the announcement in the Novembetr issue of the Bulletin that Dr. Stella Tsirka has taken her seat as regular member to reinforce the work of the Council with her experience in the Life Sciences, we are equally happy to announce that another leading academic teacher, researcher and administrator, working in New York City has now joined the Council:  Zoe Petropoulou, Ph.D., Chair person, Department of Languages &amp; Literatures, St. John\u2019s University, Associate Professor of French, will collaborate with her colleagues in the Council, who are specialists in various fields of the Humanities, to plan and implement<br \/>\n innovative educational activities in their fields.  Dr. Zoe Petropoulou was born in Athens, Greece. She received her BA in French and Greek Literature from the University of Athens. She received her MA in French Literature from the University of Sorbonne, Paris IV and her PhD in French Literature at the University of Paris III. She has published a book on Albert Camus, and she has presented at several Conferences in Europe and the USA. Dr. Petropoulou has received several fellowships by the French Government; also, in 1995 she received an NEH grant to pursue her research of 18th Century French literature. Her current research interests focus on the role of French women writers during the Enlightenment, and on issues of International Education at the University level. From 1996 to 1999 she was instrumental in grant-funding of Title VI grants at SJU.<\/p>\n<p>From the Planning Realm of Hellenic Education<br \/>\n The Advisory Council on Hellenic Education of the Hellenic Link met recently in New York in its new expanded composition (for the new Members who joined the Council, see this Bulletin above and Bulletin 111). The Council\u2019s Meeting Agenda was preoccupied by a wide array of themes, which briefly included the following:<br \/>\n \u00b7\tReport on the Byzantine Resource Guide Project, which is entering a stage of collaboration of a dozen authors  and of active efforts to secure funding needed for completion.<br \/>\n \u00b7\tConsultation for development of  requested proposals advising legislative action by the Greek Parliament in support of Hellenic Education abroad.<br \/>\n \u00b7\tConsideration of additional measures to advance formation of an infrastructure for Hellenic Education in America.<br \/>\n \u00b7\tActivities focused on the new era being established with the adoption of national standards for the teaching\/ learning of Modern Greek language and culture in American schools.<br \/>\n \u00b7\tOpportunities to use public communication media to reach the community for purposes of its educational advancement.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Directors, The Advisory Council on Hellenic Education and all Members of The Hellenic Link, Inc. wish to our compatriots whereever they live and especially those in Greece and Cyprus, that the Peace, Joy, and Light of Christmas abide with them, and that the New Year 2014 bring forth justification to their sacrifices  and struggles for a life of dignity in freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On-Line Course in Modern Greek Offered Free<\/strong><br \/>\n In cooperation with the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)\/<br \/>\n \u201cAthena\u201d Research  Center, the Hellenic Link, Inc. is offering as a service to the community a series of Greek language lessons on its Web site: http:\/\/www.helleniclink.org ( on a 24\/7 schedule)<br \/>\n On the home page of the site, upper left corner, click on \u201cLearning Greek,\u201d<br \/>\n to be introduced to a series of fifteen lessons of the philoglossia+ courseware.<br \/>\n <strong>Please inform anyone who would be interested in learning Greek of this service.<br \/>\n THE HELLENIC LINK,  Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A NON PROFIT CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION<br \/>\n OF HELLENES AND PHILHELLENES<br \/>\n INCORPORATED IN DELAWARE<br \/>\n Suite No. 278, 38-11 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, New York 11105<br \/>\n Web Site: http:\/\/www.helleniclink.org             Email: info@helleniclink.org<br \/>\n Contact Telephone: (718) 217- 0430<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HELLENIC LINK, Inc. 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