AHEPA e-News! - Vol. 11 Issue 40  - Wednesday, October 11, 2017  

AHEPA Radio | Service Dogs for Warriors
The latest AHEPA Radio podcast features AHEPA's Service Dogs for Warriors program. Through the program, AHEPA raises funds to help acquire service dogs for veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD). The cost to train a service dog is $15,000. Download the audio podcast from AHEPA Radio on iTunes or podbean (Android).

Veterans Committee Preps for Veterans Day
As Veterans Day approaches, the AHEPA Veterans Committee is committed to helping AHEPA chapters recognize veterans and active-duty service members. Please visit ahepaveterans.org to register veterans from your community and to order the AHEPA Medal for Military Service. The committee also encourages chapters to submit photographs from events honoring veterans via email, webmaster@ahepaveterans.org. 
Hometown Chapter Honors Supreme President
AHEPA Chapter 209, Middletown, Ohio, hosted a celebratory reception for one its own, Supreme President Carl R. Hollister, Oct. 1, 2017. Proclamations recognizing  Supreme President Hollister for his service to country as a retired U.S. Army Major in the Special Forces and for his service to AHEPA were read. More than 100 persons attended from Buckeye District 11 (Ohio) and surrounding chapters. 

Take Action! | AHEPA Emergency Relief Fund Open
AHEPA has opened its Emergency Relief Fund to provide assistance to hurricane victims. read more  donate online
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16 | AHEPA/AHI Dinner in honor of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Willard InterContinental, Washington, D.C.
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Editor's Note: Editorials, Commentaries, and Opinion pieces are shared for information purposes only and do not necessarily reflect the views or policy positions of the Order of AHEPA, its affiliated organizations, and members.
 
Erdogan's Escalating Feud With U.S. Hammers Turkish Markets
Bloomberg (Oct. 9) 

Markets in Istanbul tumbled after the U.S. and Turkey stopped issuing visas for each other's citizens in a spat related to last year's failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, deepening divisions between NATO members already at odds over the war in Syria.   read more and more reporting here.
 
Greece's Battered Banks Start the Return to Bond Markets
The Wall Street Journal (Oct. 10) 
Greece's National Bank launched a bond Tuesday, the first time a Greek lender has tapped international credit markets in three years, when the country came close to exiting the eurozone.   Other local banks are planning to issue their own bonds, and in July the Greek government  returned to debt markets  after its own three-year hiatus. read more

Greek airline Aegean to add new routes, fleet decision by year-end
Reuters  (Oct. 9) 

Greece's largest carrier Aegean Airlines will add 11 new routes in 2018 and choose between Airbus and Boeing planes by the end of this year to renew its fleet, executives said on Monday.  read more
 
Political parties condemn attack on migrant workers in Aspropyrgos
Ekathimerini (Oct. 8) 
Ruling SYRIZA on Sunday condemned a brutal attack on two migrant workers in the industrial zone of Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, on Saturday.   read more  
 
The Art of Wrath
The New York Review of Books (Oct. 12 )
The two recent translators of the Iliad, both veteran classical scholars, have long inhabited that now largely abandoned category, Man of Letters. Barry Powell has published poems of his own; Peter Green has translated Apollonius of Rhodes, Catullus, Ovid, and Juvenal, and both are novelists. Both now bid (Green avowedly so) to seize the crown of the long-reigning king of Homer translators, Richmond Lattimore, whose Iliad of 1951 remains the standard.1 If either succeeds, I suspect it will be Green, though his competitor is a worthy one.  read more

Modern Greek Studies Association Celebrating 50th Anniversary
The National Herald (Oct. 10) 
On December 27, 1968, a newly formed Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) held its first major meeting at the New York Hilton. Its members had an ambitious agenda: 1) to discuss and approve a constitution for the association, 2) to determine a theme and a discussion leader for the 1969 Modern Language Association conference, and 3) to establish a three-day international symposium focusing on Greek literature and civilization. Since that first meeting, the MGSA has grown from a handful of university scholars to a vast network of scholars and students from around the world who study contemporary Greek (and Cypriot) literature, history, and culture in the modern period. Today, the MGSA is the largest Modern Greek Studies organization in the world, providing an unparalleled opportunity for scholarly discussion among scholars and graduate students alike.  read more
 
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