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| Pylos, Sandy |
Student Body President at Mount Athos College in Corfu, New York [St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 91]; sent Vatican III a protest letter signed by members of the National Catholic Student Synod (NACSTUS).
Bowen explains that if you've ever read a translation of the Iliad or the Odyssey, you may remember that Nestor, the oldest and wisest of the Greek kings, rules a place named Pylos, and that the usual Homeric formula for it is sandy Pylos. "Having turned this into a name, John in turn gave the college a Greek name and put it in a city with a Greek name."
Mt. Athos is a sacred area that is chock full of Greek Orthodox monasteries.
Corfu is the name of a Greek island.
Both Myers and Bowen assume National Catholic Student Synod (NACSTUS) is nothing more than a Bellairsian invention, though Bowen adds, "Notre Dame had a Student Senate, which this sort of echoes, but I wouldn't read too much into that." Synod is Latin for "meeting, assembly."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfu
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