The next national board meeting is on Wednesday December 3, 2008 at Holy Cross Orthodox Church, Brooklyn, New York. 7:30 PM Coffee etc 8:00 PM meeting. Please make sure that a representative from your unit shows up.
On November 21, 2008 Dr. Larry Sherman will be presented with the Whitney M. Young Jr Service Award. Dr. Sherman will become the Inagural Honoree of this prestigiuos national award from the Boy Scouts of America.
He started his scouting career in 1946 and has been a key advocate for youth in Scouting in the states of Texas, North Carollina, & Pennsylvania. Dr Sherman has been awarded the Silver Antelope, Silver Beaver, Eagle Scout, Prophet Elias, Vigil Honor, District Award, Prof. Emeritus Univ of Scranton, Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry.
The recption will be held on Friday, November 21, 2008 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at the Radisson Hotel, Scranton PA. If you are intrested in attending please contact George Boloukos so that we may reserve a ticket for you. Tickets are $50 a person or $400 per table. RSVP by Nov 12th.
The 48th annual religious retreat was a great success! We had over 150 scouts in attendance and clergy from all over New York & New Jersey came out to support us. Our beloved Tony Triant made sure that the weather was spectacular and his memorial service was very emotional for all that attended. The back road that leads to the campsites has been renamed “Tony Triant Street” and the sign was unveiled for all to see.
The seminarians from Holy Cross did a great job and had some good ideas for next year’s retreat. The EOCS board would like to thank everyone that made this weekend one of the best ever in EOCS history!
If you have pictures please post them for all to see by hitting the comment button below!
From Andy Yiannakos
Rev Fathers, your blessings…
We would like to remind all that at this weekend’s Annual Religious Retreat, we encourage our Scouts and Scouters to bring any older Palms from their household, as well as older/tattered American flags to be retired.
At the Saturday night Campfire, we burn the Palms and Flags in a proper retirement ceremony.
In addition, names of the deceased will be collected, for an Orthodox Memorial at Sunday’s Liturgy. We should continue to remember and memorialize members of our Scouting families that have passed, as well as family members and friends.
Feel free to have your Scouts and Scouters to bring names to the Retreat, an we will add to the list, or you can use the attached form (we started to list names from past EOCS members, our Troop 715 family, District friends and volunteers, for example). May their memories be eternal!
Andrew Yiannakos, EOCS Chair Emeritus
We have been using the old website for a few years already and we have all been wanting change… well here it is!
We have decided to use a blog based website that will allow all EOCS members to add their pictures, stories, news to the site for the world to see….
Please post your comments and let us know what you would like to see on the site…
Please click here to register yourself to be able to post comments and post your news on our site!
SCHEDULE
2008 E.O.C.S. Retreat October 11 & 12, 2008
Retreat Theme “Know that I am God ”
Friday:
8:00 PM Early check - in
11:00 PM Committee meeting with Seminarians
Saturday:
7:00 AM Regular Check - in and registration
10:30 AM Registration and check - in ends
12:00 PM Formation of all units at main house [by the statue]
All Scouts must have their bag lunches with them
12:10 PM Opening Prayer and ceremony
12:30 PM Seminarian program
12:45 PM Fall out into retreat groups and Scouts take their lunch with them
12:45 PM Retreat program begins
1:00 PM Confession begins at Saint Basil Chapel
2:00 PM Adult program by Holy Cross Seminarian or leader
4:00 PM Confession and retreat program ends
5:00 PM Vesper Services at Saint Basil Chapel, in full uniform
6:30 PM Dinner in the gym
8:00 PM Campfire program with songs and skits by Scouts & Seminarians
9:00 PM Rap sessions divided into groups for older age Scouts with the seminarians
10:00 PM Cracker Barrel for all unit leaders
Sunday:
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy in Saint Basil Chapel
11:00 AM Closing ceremonies, recognition’s, thank yous and closing prayer
12:00 PM Sunday brunch at rear of main house
1:00 PM Break Camp
Mark your calendars!
The annual Northeast Region retreat is set for Columbus day weekend at St. Basil’s Academy in Garrison, NY.
This will be a extra special retreat with the passing of our retreat chairman, Tony Triant. We will try to do something special to honor him for his dedication and support to our program.
We are currently working on a retreat patch which will be posted as soon as we get it.
This year’s theme as decided by the Holy Cross seminarians is : “Know that I am God”
EOCS NEWS RELEASE
The Eastern Orthodox Committee on Scouting [EOCS], a SCOBA agency, announces the selection of the winners of the sixteenth annual Scout Scholarships. The 2008 winners are Anastasia C. Markiw, of Pittsburgh, PA and the runner-up Samuel C. Ely of Merrillville, IN. who received $1,000 and $500 respectively.
The eligibility requirements for these awards are: be a registered active member of a Boy or Girl Scout unit, have earned the Eagle Scout Award for boys or the Gold Award for girls, be an active member of an Eastern Orthodox Church, have earned the Alpha Omega Religious Scout Award, and a senior in high school.
They are evaluated on their participation in their church, school, community and Scouting unit. The emphasis is on their scholastic achievement and not on financial need.
This was a banner year for applicants from throughout the United States. The committee was impressed with the high caliber and number of applicants.
For further information and 2009 applications, write:
EOCS Scholarship Chairman,
862 Guy Lombardo Avenue
Freeport, New York, 11520
GEORGE N. BOULUKOS
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
A beloved friend of ours has passed away. Mr. Anthony Triant fell asleep in the Lord on Saturday July 19th. Tony was a member of Troop 25 in New Jersey and a founding father of EOCS. He ran every Religious Retreat we have ever had and was a friend and “Scoutmaster” to everyone that knew him.
Viewing will be on Monday & Tuesday July 21&22 7PM -9PM
At Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home
109 Darlington Ave. Ramsey, NJ 07446 (201) 327-0030
The Funeral will take place at St. Nicolas Greek Orthodox Church in Wyckoff NJ on Wed, July 23rd at 10am.
In place of flowers his wife Christine wishes that donations be made to:
Tony Triant Memorial Scholarship Fund to be sent to:
St. John the Theologian
353 East Clinton Ave
Tenafly, NJ 07670
Fr. Anastasios Pourakis has been assigned as our new spiritual advisor. You might remember “Ernie” from his days as a scout at St. Demetrios Troop 23, or as the Youth Director for many years with St. Demetrios Astoria… More recently he was the cubmaster of Pack 568 @ St. Paul’s in Hempstead LI.
