The 25th Annual Leadership 100 Conference, which convened from February 18 to 21, 2016 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona, began with a Trisagion Service on Thursday, February 18, conducted by His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco in memory of Michael E. Jaharis, a Founder of Leadership 100, Vice President of the Archdiocesan Council and leading businessman and philanthropist who passed away in the Lord on February 17, greeknewsonline.com reports.
The Opening Forum was led by the new President of Hellenic College/Holy Cross School of Theology, the V. Rev. Christopher T. Metropulos and was followed by the traditional Bible Study conducted by His Eminence Metropolitan Savas of Pittsburgh in place of Archbishop Demetrios, who returned directly to New York to be with the Jaharis family.
Special Benaki presentation
The Thursday afternoon Hellenism Forum featured a special presentation on the Benaki Museum by Pavlos Yeroulanos, who served as Greece’s Minister for Culture and Tourism, and included two rooms of Exhibits from the Benaki Museum, a prelude to a tour of the United States. The Exhibits opened with an Agiasmos Service conducted by Metropolitan Gerasimos.
Some 375 members and guests attended the event, which included the annual meeting of the General Assembly on Friday, February 19, following meetings of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. Chris Caras of Palo Verdes Estates, California, a long-time member of Leadership 100 and outgoing member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees was recognized for his distinguished service at the General Assembly.
Yeroulanos is the great-grandson of the museum’s founder, Antonis Benakis. The Benaki Museum exhibits, mounted at the Museum’s expense prior to a United States tour, comprised 40-50 exact replicas from the museum illustrating Greek art from the pre-historic to the contemporary period, a replica of the notable St. Nicholas Icon, and the original album of photographs from the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896.
History and art of Greek Civilization
The Benaki Museum is the only museum in the world that covers the history and art of Greek Civilization from pre-historic times until today with a mission to safeguard and promote Greek culture, to study the links between periods of Hellenism and their interaction with neighboring cultures, and to provide visitors, students and scholars with a comprehensive narrative of the Greek impact on world history.
In response to the economic crisis in Greece, the Museum has renewed its commitment to vigorously promote Greece and Hellenism around the world and has refocused its energy to advance a new and positive narrative for the country and the continuing significance of Greek culture with the objective that all Hellenes, philhellenes and people everywhere may reconnect with or learn of the perennial contributions of the Greeks to all human endeavor.
After presenting a short video on the Benaki Museum at the Grand Banquet on Saturday, February 20, Yeroulanos accepted on behalf of the Benaki Museum the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Award for Excellence.
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