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Metropolis to Sponsor Greek Letters Day Celebration
His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos invites you to attend the First Greek Letters Day Celebration presented by the Hellenic Education and Culture Committee (HECC) of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco. This event will be held on Sunday, January 29, 2012 from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. and will be held at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church, 900 Alameda de las Pulgas in Belmont, California.
The program will feature a presentation by Dr. Tom G. Papademetriou, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Dr. Papademetriou is the Constantine and Georgeian Georgiou Endowed Professor of Greek History, and Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies.
Students from the Bay Area Greek Language Schools have also been invited to participate in a writing contest, with awards being given for the best story or poem. Prizes will be awarded for the top three entries in the contest.For information on how to participate and to RSVP your attendance at this event, please contact Theodora Kounalakis – HECC Director at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Archimandrite Apostolos Koufallakis – Metropolis Chancellor at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). In addition to these festivities, His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos will also lead the traditional cutting of the Vasilopita, followed by a reception for all attendees. This will be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the Feast of the Three Hierarchs – Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory the Theologian, and Saint John Chrysostom – and honor their tremendous contributions as teachers, writers and theologians for our Orthodox faith.
About Dr. Papademetriou: A graduate of both Hellenic College (BA, 1988) and Holy Cross School of Theology (M. Divinity, 1992), Dr. Papademetriou received his Ph.D. in 2001 from Princeton University. From 1999 to 2000, he was in residence as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center and Library, Washington, DC and from 2000 to 2001 served as Lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. As a member of the Historical Studies faculty at Richard Stockton College since 2001, he is actively engaged in building a strong Hellenic Studies program in which he teaches courses on the history of the Tourkokratia, Modern Greece, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
