The enduring contribution of a late benefactor

As a boy in the interwar years, Antonis Giouzelis would help his father with the family flock of sheep and goats on the steep mountainsides of Kyparissi in Laconia, in the southeastern Peloponnese. Every so often, he'd ask the time and his father would have to look at the sun to give a rough estimate. A poor man, he had no watch. "When I grow up, I'm going to go to America and make lots of money and buy lots of watches. I'll even send a clock to the village," the boy would say. Indeed, the clock tower at the Church of Koimisis tis Theotokou was built in 1951 with money he donated. Antonis Giouzelis kept his promise - and he hasn't stopped helping his ancestral village since.

He went to America, to Oakland, California more specifically, and got into the restaurant business, where, as Tony Julius, he amassed a fortune that allowed him to offer economic assistance to Kyparissi...