2008 Recipients of the Archbishop Demetrios Years Of Service Award

for Choir Directors of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

In 1988, a distinctive Archdiocesan award was inaugurated to honor church musicians who had completed twenty-five or more years of service as choir directors of Greek Orthodox parishes. Since that time, the National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians has been pleased to assist His Eminence in identifying and recognizing the church musicians who have showed such exemplary commitment. In all, 297 choir directors of the Archdiocese of America have received this honor.

On National Church Music Sunday, October 5th, 2008, the following five choir directors received the Archbishop’s Years of Service Medal for their dedicated and steadfast stewardship.

 

Name	Church	City/State	Years of Service
Lee Kotsambas	St. Athanasios	Paramus, NJ	31
Nicholas Kyrus	St. Katherine	Falls Church, VA	25
Pamela Cramer	Annunciation Cathedral	Houston, TX	25
Michael J. Orfanopoulos	Ypapanti	East Pittsburg, PA	25
Zoe Bookas Zollo	Archangel Michael	Roslyn Heights, NY	25