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GAEPIS - October 1, 1998

Dimitrios and Georgia Kaloidis - 1998 Phidippides Award Recipients

Dimitrios Elias Kaloidis and Georgia Christou Manolakos were born in Laconia, Greece. They graduated from high school in Athens and emigrated the United States in 1955 and in 1963 respectively [...]

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In 1991, they pledged $400,000 over five years to the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in support of the community's school. The pledge was fulfilled in three years [...]

In addition to the original $400,000 gift, Georgia and Dimitrios offered to match dollar for dollar all donations made towards the elimination of the $1,200,000 mortgage on the Holy Cross Cultural and Educational Center [...]

Dimitrios has been asked by His Eminence, Archbishop Spyridon to head the committee for the unification of the four Greek parochial schools Brooklyn. "If we do not get involved with education, if we do not provide for the present and. future generations of Hellenism, then we have no reason to exist "as an ethnic entity', he says. "Together we can achieve a lot. With harmony, tolerance and determination we have the capability to put together the best and largest school of the area, not only as a model for all Hellenic communities but for all the ethnic communities of New York.

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