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...wanted to win decisively, to dominate. I think we did.” Snyder said, saying that the men’s earlier narrow 6-3 defeat to the Big Red had motivated the team. Junior Sandra Mumanachit continued her solid play at No. 9, defeating Isabella Spyrou 9-2, 9-0, 9-2. Mumanachit, who played anywhere between the sixth and ninth flights last year, has been the Crimson’s most dominant player in the young season. She has won her four matches all by a score of 3-0 and leads the team with seven...
...doctor's son, Athenagoras was born Aristocles Spyrou in 1886 in what is now northwestern Greece. He trained for the priesthood at the Patriarchate's seminary on the island of Halki near Istanbul. By 1922 he was a bishop-bearing the ecclesiastical name Athenagoras -and soon became one of the leading clerics in Greece. Perhaps partly to remove him from contention for the powerful post of Archbishop of Athens, he was sent to the U.S. in 1931 as Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America...
Cetrulo, Keller, and Tatrallyay and their fellow sophomores, Marc Irvings, Pat-Pankhurst, and George Spyrou, will be back next year to give the team needed depth. With Columbia and Penn graduating many of their top stars this year, Marion looks forward to an even better season next year...
...have a nylon Patriarch," said the Turks when Athenagoras, just back from 18 years in the U.S.,' ascended the 1,000-year-old wooden throne in Istanbul's Phanari Cathedral (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). Born a Turkish subject in a village near the Greek-Albanian border, Aristoklis Spyrou was appointed in 1919 to the Metropolitan Church of Athens. In 1930 the Orthodox population of the New World, a diocese of the Istanbul Patriarchate, needed a steady hand and a good brain to untangle a snarl of jealousy and intrigue into which the church had fallen, Aristoklis Spytbu...
...after Pearl Harbor, tall, grizzle-bearded Aristocles Spyrou tried to join the U.S. Army. But he was turned down as too old (56) and so he went back to his duties as Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. Born in a little Greek town under Turkish rule, Athenagoras frequently reminded his U.S. flock of their good fortune. "Just to be here," he would say, "that is happiness...
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