It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Anthony Robbins (1968-)
This is where people of Kytherian decent who have contributed to their community in an extraordinary way will be featured. They need not be "famous" is the usual sense of the world, simply extraordinary.
submitted by Dr. Marika A. Leibrandt on 19.06.2014
Andrew Peter Sourry was born in Glen Innes, NSW in 1920. Both of Andrew’s parents were born in Kythera, Greece. His father, Panayioti (Peter), who was from Agia Anastasia, first arrived in Austalia on the boat 'Australia' in 1900. Peter returned to Greece to visit family and to fight in the Balkans War in Epirus, in North Western Greece, in 1912-1913. On this visit he met and married Andrew's mother, Marika Coroneo, from Potamos and together they emigrated to Australia in 1914 from Potamos, Kythera. ...
submitted by Kytherian Art World on 30.09.2011
Emmanuel Andrew Cavacos was born in Potamos, Kythera, on February 10th, 1885. He emigrated to the United States of America, when he was sixteen years old, and settled in Baltimore, in the suburb of Hampden, where his brother Constantine was living. Another brother Theodore also chose to live in Baltimore. (Theodore was married to fellow Kytherian Pothiti Chlentzos). In Baltimore he formed a close friendship with Charles Fitzpatrick, ...
submitted by George Crethar on 19.03.2011
WAS WELL KNOWN KYTHERIAN HIS FATHER VICTOR WAS THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN THE FAMILT HOME WAS DONATED TO THE VILLAGE AND IS NOW A KINDERGATONWITH A PLAQUE SAYING SO
submitted by Kytherian Historical Record on 11.10.2011
(1894-1973), coffee merchant, was born on 23 October 1894 at Mylopatamo (Potamós), Kythera, Greece, youngest of eleven children of Damianos Nicholas Andronicus, fisherman, and his wife Vassiliki, née Karidis. The pressure of population on limited resources encouraged migration, as it had done in Greece for centuries. John followed five of his brothers to Australia, reaching Sydney in the Bremen on 10 November 1908. ...
submitted by Epsilon Magazine on 05.11.2006
Professor Minas Coroneo and the bionic eye. Epsilon Magazine. Vol 1. Issue 14. October 2006. pp. 1, 22-29. Professor Minas Coroneo talks about the bionic eye, the latest breakthrough in the field of ophthalmology, the pros and cons of medical research in Australia, and growing up Greek in a Kytherian household in the Hunter Valley region in the early sixties.
submitted by Tasso John Conomos on 23.10.2006
President Anastasia Condas accepts a philanthropic award on behalf of the Kytherian Society of California and the West for its many contributions to the Gerokomio of Kythera over the years. These donations have included a convection oven, dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, an most recently, an electrocardiograph instrument. From The Hellenic Herald, California, March, 2003. The ...
submitted by Anastasia Baveas on 23.11.2006
Stavros Baveas (Tears fill the eyes of Anastasia Baveas as she talks, much moved, of one of the greatest men she ever knew, her father.) Stavros Baveas left Kythera, like many Greek men of his time, at a very young age to work in Australia. In his first years there he worked on a farm owned by the Kordatou family, and later, having saved up enough from his wages he opened his own establishment, the ABC ...
submitted by George Poulos on 04.08.2005
[John Conomos's village of origin on Kythera is Potamos.] Toyota Australia chief set to join big boys By Ian Porter Melbourne AGE April 13, 2004 Toyota Australia is poised to join the top echelon of the giant Toyota group with the proposed naming of John Conomos as a managing officer, reporting directly to the board. Mr Conomos has been slated for election ...
submitted by James Gavriles on 20.01.2004
State Bar Mourns the Loss of Former Justice Theodore Souris State Bar leaders have expressed deep sadness on the death of Theodore Souris, a former justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who succumbed to leukemia on June 21st, 2002 in Chicago. He was 76 years old. Souris was first appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court in January 1960 by former governor G. Mennen Williams, and elected in November the same year to a term expiring in 1969. At age 33, he was the youngest justice to ...
submitted by James Gavriles on 25.04.2016
WW II. My first cousins. Picked to be in a Greek-American magazine. They all survived the war, and we were very proud of all of them. There are 3 Panaretos' whose grandfather was from Smyrna and before that Potamos. There are 2 Panaretos' whose grandfather was from Potamos and mother was an Aronis. There is one Gavrilis - his father was my dad's brother, and his mother was a Coucoulis, and there is one Nomecos whose mother was my aunt and was a Panaretos also.
MY Great Grandmother was Maria Cassimatis and there is a lot of Cassimatis in our Family but...
I know of a Nickolas Stathis who lived in Ipswich and later West End. He had about...
Hi Ellisanna I think we are cousins my mother's family were also lazzaretti from Newport mother's name...
mmm translate-type-error happend... I ment bar Astikon! Excuse me : )
About 5 minutes into the program Ada Margariti, who is an Attorney at Law, speaks about how she came to...
Interviewed during his visit to Australia, 2013.
August 17, 2010 103.2 HOPE - radio station You’ve heard of PhDs in science, medicine and education but have you...
Brisbane kytherians at paliochora excursion ..exploring the wonderful site and seeing all the churches .. this one is called ' e...
Gorgeous Ruby! Ruby's father was Evangelo Megaloconomos born 7 September 1891, died 29 January 1983 Ruby was born 16 September...
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