Metropolis of Boston Scholarship Opportunities
2026 Applications Launching February 15th
The Metropolis of Boston Proudly Announces its
2026-2027 Academic Year Scholarships
St. George’s Hellenic Benefit Society of Tsamantas, Greece Scholarship Fund
The St. George’s Hellenic Benefit Society of Tsamantas Scholarship was established in 2020 in memory of the pioneering sons and daughters of the village of Tsamantas, Thesprotia, Epirus, who emigrated to Worcester, MA at the turn of the 19th century.
The Tsamantas Scholarship Fund awards three scholarships annually: The Stavros Bellos Scholarship, which carries a $7,500 award, and the Arthur Athanasiou Scholarship, which also provides an award of $7,500.
The first scholarship is named in honor of Stavros Bellos, the village’s greatest benefactor. Stavros was born in 1913 in Tsamantas, Epirus, near the Greek-Albanian border. He lost both parents early in life and was raised by his grandparents. The poverty of his hometown forced Stavros to immigrate to the United States in 1939. He was a peaceful, unobtrusive, and modest man. He never married and spent countless hours at the Worcester Public Library. When he passed at the age of eighty-five, the Worcester Greek community learned this humble Greek immigrant had been a wise investor. Stavros bequeathed his estate for the betterment of the people and village of Tsamantas, but also earmarked a sum to the St. George’s Hellenic Benefit Society of Tsamantas and St. Spyridon Cathedral in Worcester, MA.
The second scholarship is in memory of Arthur Athanasiou, a sixty-one-year member of the St. George’s Society who served multiple tenures as the Society’s President and on its Board of Directors. Arthur was the driving force in establishing the Society’s first scholarship program in 1999. Additionally, during his long tenure with the Society, Arthur led, developed, or organized a range of religious, historical, and economic programs aimed at the conservation or restoration of many public and religious institutions in his ancestral village.
Charles C. Condes Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Charles C. Condes Memorial Scholarships are offered annually from funds granted to the Metropolis from the trust of Charles Constantine Condes to provide college student aid. This year, six scholarship recipients will each receive $8,000.
Charles Condes was born in Chicago, Illinois to Constantine S. and Harikleia (Yiannias) Condes, emigrants from Niata, Lakonia and Alea, Arkadia. The Great Depression affected millions of Americans while Condes was growing up, but this didn’t stop Charles’ ambition to be successful and at the age of 16, he opened his own dairy store. Charles received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology as a first-generation college student and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a meteorologist, attached to the RAF. He was stationed across North Africa, the Middle East, and Cyprus. After the war, he worked as an engineering consultant, including as a bridge design engineer for the City of Chicago.
Charles was happily married for 25 years to the late Phyllis Holik. He was a highly principled man devoted to his family and his faith. An astute investor and philanthropist who donated to many charities and churches, he was a great believer in the power of education and an admirer of all things Hellenic. Through his endowment of scholarships, he chose to demonstrate his pride in the Greek-American students who represent the future of Hellenism and Orthodoxy in the U.S.
Metropolis of Boston 2026 Scholarship Committee
John Anton and Nicholas Kourtis, Esq. Co-Chairpersons,
Nicholas Athanasiou, Leah Kofos, Esq., and Teena Lenis.