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Kevin Cork, in April 1997, at his son Stuart's graduation. Biography of Kevin Cork (20/10/1946 - 13/3/1998) Conserver of the Hellenic and Kytherian Cinema Heritage in Australia. [A very special thank you to Merle, Julie...

[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 gro...

George Miller Order of Australia, 1996. MBMS (University of New South Wales.} HonDLitt, Honorary Doctor of Literature, Doctor of Letters. World-reknowned Film Producer, Director, and Script Writer. Parental Background D...

Nationality: Greek Date of birth: 11th October 1971 Work address: Department of Philosophy University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: 0141-330 3243 (direct line) Fax: 0141-330 4112 E-mail: e.leontsini@philosophy.arts.gla...

Pastel painting of Lady Bowen; 1867, by (?) Allen. On fine paper marouflaged to linen. Kindly made available by the Principal, All Hallow's School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Compiled by Dr Owen Harris Chairman, H...

Peter Frilingos......Legend 1944-2004 Funeral, Monday, May 10th, 2004, St Andrews Cathedral, Sydney, CBD. The Frilingos family has asked that donations be given to the Heart Foundation in memory of Peter and in lieu of f...

THE HONOURABLE GEORGE SOURIS MP B.Ec., Dip.F.Mgt.,F.A.I.M., F.C.P.A. Born Gunnedah, New South Wales, 12th July, 1949. [Son of Theothosios Souris, (parachoukli - "o Layos" - "the hare"), and Kanella Vernardos. Theo and Ka...

Theodore Pascalis (Magoulas) was born in 1897 at Pitsinades, Kythera. He left Greece, with his father Antonis, on a French ship, and arrived in Sydney in 1909, at the age of 12. They lived at 200 Castlereagh Street where...

Arriving in Australia in 1911, George Vamvakaris/Bambakaris (Harris) was a pioneer Greek Australian in the butcher shop business. George was born on the island of Kythera on 31 July, 1888. George's parents were Panayoti...

Ted Sofios, a Greek American, was owner and proprieter, along with his brother John, of the Berkeley, California, restaurant "Aitos Greek Folkdance Taverna," a converted U.S. post office and had a huge hardwood dance fl...

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...

This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on the 17th of November, 2003. We were not able to contact the authors, who are also the subject's children, for their permission, but hope that they will have no objec...

This article was originally published in the Greek Australian VEMA in TO BHMA (December 2001) Prof Manuel James Aroney 31st August 1932 - 15th February, 2011 Dimitrios James Aronis ('Beys'), who was born in Aroniadika, K...

From left to right: John Malos, his sister Violet, their mother Mrs Malos, their father Mr Paul Malos, and my father Dimitrios (Jim) Aroney. The family of Paul Malos, originally from Kythera, resided for many years in M...

Levkadios Hearn. 1850-1904. Let’s go back to Japan in 1904. A Buddhist death ceremony has just taken place. Ask the average man in the street, just returning from the ceremony, and he will tell you sadly that the well k...

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. Ther...

- and “The Golden Cross of St Andrew” This article was written for "The Kytherian" (February 2002) and is reprinted with the permission of the editor. Humility, hard work and the absence of a search for glory are ideas t...

This life story was taken from Peter Vanges' "Kythera - A History". Many thanks to Peter and the Kytherian Association of Australia for their permission to reproduce it here. Nicholas Anthony Aroney (Anastasopoulos) was...

Professor Harry George Poulos was born in 1940 in Katoomba, Australia, the second son of George Poulos (Tzortzopoulos) and Elene (nee Zantiotis), originally of Karavas, Kythera. His father George had come to Australia f...