GEORGE PAPADANTONAKIS
Former PAA Presidents Ted Manousakis and Constantine Stamis, award
recipient Helene Moussouraki-Nakis and PEF Chair George Papadantonakis
Nakis was elected by the PEF Board unanimously
and she represented the PEF at the World Council
of Cretans convention last July in Chania, Crete.
In addition, Ethel Stamis donated $1,000 to the
PEF in memory of Ted Pavlakis, son of the late former PAA President Emmanuel Pavlakis, with the
designation of donation to be directed to the Botanical Park in Chania. We are grateful for her continued support. K
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ormer Women’s Executive Director Helene
Moussouraki-Nakis was bestowed the medal
of the Friend of the University of Crete by former
PAA President Costa Stamis while former PAA
Presidents Manny Velivasakis, John Manos and
Ted Manousakis and the Pancretan Endowment
Fund (PEF) Chairman Dr. George Papadantonakis
watched. The ceremony took place during the general meeting of the 43rd National Convention in
Akron, Ohio, last July.
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Photo Courtesy Helene Moussouraki-Nakis
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Andy Manatos Receives
AHEPA Public Advocacy Award
(Left to right) AHEPA Supreme President John Grossomanides,
Andy Manatos, AHEPA Chairman of the Board Nick Karacostas.
A
ndy Manatos was honored with the Outstanding Public Advocacy Award by the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association (AHEPA) in
recognition of his decades of work in Washington on
behalf of Hellenic and Orthodox causes.
The award was presented at AHEPA’s 40th Annual
Congressional Banquet on May 22, before an audience of Greek-American community leaders and
members of Congress. Other award recipients that
evening included U.S. Representative Albio Sires
( D-NJ); Ambassador Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, president of the 2004 Athens Olympic organiz-
ing committee; Colonel Steve Pisanos, retired World
War II flying ace; and Father Alex Karloutsos, assistant to the archbishop for public affairs.
For more than five decades, Andy has advocated
for Hellenic and Orthodox causes, first during his
service as the youngest U.S. Senate committee staff
director and youngest assistant secretary in the
Carter Administration, and for the last 30 years as
president of Manatos & Manatos, a consulting and
public policy firm, which provides provides services
for these causes.
Some of his major policy accomplishments for
Hellenism and Orthodoxy have included securing
a meeting for the Greek-American community with
every president for 27 straight years; securing the
signatures of 90 senators and 291 members on a
letter to the president regarding the religious freedom of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; leading the
effort that resulted in the Ecumenical Patriarch receiving the Congressional Gold Medal; and working
with President Bill Clinton and Dick Holbrooke to
reverse the vote of Germany and France to allow Cyprus to accede to the European Union. K
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