WAISer John Brademas

John Brademas holds various WAIS records, among them the number of honorary degrees and awards. In May at the commencement ceremonies at Fairleigh Dickinson University he received the first Global Education Achievement Award, having received an honorary degree there in 1988 from the university's founder, Peter Sammartino. It has a campus in Wroxton, England and works closely with the UN. Then John Brademas flew to his ancestral home, Greece, where at the Academy of Athens, of which he is a corresponding member, he gave a talk on "Universal Values and World Peace". John said his father came from Kalamata, a port in southern Greece, Greece? I have over my desk a picture of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Meteora. It is a fantastic place, a monastery perched on top of a rock with a drop of hundreds of feet on all sides. It must have been an incredible job to build it. My guess is that the monks, like those on Mount Athos, wanted to get away from the world. Have John Brademas, Jon Kofas, or Harry Papasotiriou ever climbed up to the monastery? If not, I advise them to do so. In either case we would appreciate an account of that human crow's nest. From Greece John flew to Austin, Texas, and spoke at a conference on "Congress and American History". I wonder if any WAISers at the University of Texas attended the conference?