GREEK CHILDREN’S FUND CELEBRATES TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
With “Cyprus Night” on February 8, 2003

Astoria, NY, January 13, 2003 ? The Greek Children’s Fund (GCF) is kicking off its twentieth year with “Cyprus Night,” a dinner dance hosted by The Cathedral of St. John the Theologian in Tenafly, NJ and the Lampousa Cypriot Organization. “Cyprus Night” will take place on Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 6pm, at the Cathedral of St. John the Theologian, 353 East Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, NJ. Entertainment will be provided by Nicos Nicolaides with the Cosmopolitan Band and the Lampousa Youth Group.

The purpose of this event is to benefit GCF and to celebrate its commitment to enhancing the lives of children with life threatening diseases from Greece and Cyprus over the past twenty years. “We’re very excited about ‘Cyprus Night’ and we invite the entire Greek-American community to join us in celebrating GCF’s twentieth anniversary,” said Sam Matthews, President of GCF.

During “Cyprus Night,” GCF will honor Grace Christ, Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University, an expert on childhood bereavement, for her role in spearheading the development of the organization twenty years ago. “Ms. Christ inspired me to learn from my experience and to help others,” said Stanley Matthews, Founder of GCF, “for this, I will always be grateful to her.” The event will be dedicated to “Hope For Life,” the Young Adult Division of the Greek Children’s Fund (GCF YAD) for their tireless efforts in fundraising and in bringing comfort to pediatric patients and their families by coordinating monthly visits, holiday parties and much, much more.

“Cyprus Night” will be the first in a series of dinner dances, concerts and other fundraisers GCF plans to host in 2003 to commemorate its commitment to the pediatric patients and their families and to the Greek-American community. The press is welcome to attend all of these events, for more information contact Mona Zisimopoulos at mzisimop@aol.com.

The Greek Children's Fund affiliated with Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and Schneider Children's Hospital (SCH) provides financial assistance towards the daily, non-medical needs of Greek, Cypriot and Greek-American children and their families who are treated at MSKCC and SCH. One of the primary objectives that the fund has achieved is an endowed program at MSKCC that will secure its services to Greek and Cypriot patients in perpetuity. More information about GCF is available at www.greekchildrensfund.org.