[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 36 (Monday, March 19, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E389]
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 IN HONOR OF KRIKOS ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR ANNUAL DINNER, AND THEIR 
                    HONOREE MR. COSTAS ATHANASIADES

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 19, 2001

  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
the Hellenic organization KRIKOS and Mr. Costas Athanasiades, who the 
organization will honor at their annual dinner on March 11, 2001. 
KRIKOS was founded in 1974 to foster and promote cooperation and 
fellowship among Hellenes and phil-Hellenes throughout the world. 
KRIKOS also aims to preserve and enrich Hellenic heritage.
  In their attempts to spread the understanding of Hellenic issues, 
KRIKOS has organized more than forty conferences throughout the world 
and frequently publishes reports of their proceedings. Among the 
subjects various conferences have examined include: the Philadelphia 
conference on biotechnology, the Athens conference on 
telecommunications, and the New York conferences focusing on issues 
such as the impact of globalism and the Greek response to the 
Yugoslavian Civil Wars.
  KRIKOS has provided guidance to college and college-bound Hellenic 
youth in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Additionally, 
KRIKOS has made it possible for students to visit abroad through a 
world-study program. In keeping with its dedication to scholarship, 
KRIKOS donated five thousand (5,000) books to the Polytechnic 
University in Athens.
  KRIKOS was instrumental in documenting the artistic and historic 
treasures located in St. Catherine Monastery on Mt. Sinai. For hundreds 
of years St. Catherine's has been a prime destination for pilgrims to 
the Holy Land and KRIKOS helped computerize its properties.
  Costas Athanasiades was born in Kalavasos, Cyprus on March 3, 1921, 
and studied in Italy where he received a degree as an agriculturalist. 
In 1938, he returned to his native Cyprus and spearheaded the effort to 
organize farmers into economically potent cooperatives. He undertook 
similar initiatives with the formation and development of trade unions. 
Mr. Athanasiades served valiantly with British Commander Montgomery's 
Cypriot troops during the second World War. His dream of freedom and 
``Enosis'' (union with motherland Greece) was looked upon as subversive 
and revolutionary by the British colonial authorities.
  Accordingly, a British military court condemned Mr. Athanasiades to a 
two-year detainment at a barb-wire prison camp in Egypt. In 1949, he 
emigrated to Australia and in 1958 he married the former Maria 
Pavlidou, his wife of 43 years. During his years in Australia, he 
nurtured and developed Hellenic institutions of his new homeland, much 
as he did in his native Cyprus. In 1959, he came to America, where he 
briefly was employed by the National Herald, a Greek American daily 
newspaper. Mr. Athanasiades purchased the Campana Newspaper in 1961. In 
conjunction with his Campana newspaper, Mr. Athanasiades has authored 
more than a dozen books expounding social, political, and economic 
commentary. He has been cited and acknowledged by many prestigious 
institutions, including the National Library of Congress and the United 
Nations, for his insights and contributions.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in acknowledging the 
wonderful work of Costas Athanasiades, a philologist, author, and 
contemporary voice of Hellenism in the United States.

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