William Planes
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William Planes

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2023 London Hellenic Prize William Planes, for his writing Platanides-Through the Eye of the Storm, has been nominated for the "2023 London Hellenic Award". This prize is an international award committed to promoting Anglo-Hellenic cultural exchange through the recognition of a literary work. The award is made to the author of a book written, or translated into, English which on a subject relating to, or inspired by, Hellenic civilization, culture, history, or literature. The author is the first generation born of a survivor of Genocide in Asia Minor by the radical Muslim troops of Kemal Ataturk in September 1922. His father and mother, following their Greek Orthodox Faith, raised him in the teachings and traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church. Born in New York and raised in Folly Beach, South Carolina and Coral Gables, Florida, he graduated from Coral Gables High School and Florida State University where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and then served in the US Navy. He engaged in the business of acquiring troubled companies, restructuring, and reselling these companies. By way of his upbringings and using the profits he earned from these business activities, he invested these funds in good works, including the good works of his Faith and Christian beliefs. For his contribution, devotion, and work on behalf of the Greek Orthodox Church, Planes was awarded the Gold Medal of St. Paul. He was also elevated to the status of an Akron Notarios of the Mother Church, the Patriarchate and the Order of St. Andrew by His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. He and his wife were the recipient of the 2006 Very Reverend Father Typhon The ophilopoulos Philanthropist of the Year award and the Gold Seal of the State of Florida by the Board of Regents of the St. Petersburg College for their philanthropic service to the community of Pinellas County, Florida. He is a member of Leadership 100 since 2004 and is a Life Loyal Sigma Chi. In the time that he has been home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he questioned if his children and the children of his siblings and cousins really understood the greatness of the freedoms we enjoy in the United States. If they understood how fragile the existence of these freedoms are; the sacrifices of life and blood made by many to preserve these freedoms and this county; and if they even knew what his father and many others went through to give him and all of them the opportunity to have religious freedom and to openly live our Orthodox Christian Faith?
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