Peter V. Nychis, 94, died on December 25, 2008. He was born in Asklipios, Rhodes on September 14, 1913 shortly after Rhodes was ceded to Italy by Turkey. He was educated at the Venetokleio of Rhodes in Greek and Italian and at the Teachers Academy of Rhodes before he came to the United States, where he received a Master's Degree from Boston University and started doctoral work at Columbia. Before emigrating, he taught the school children of many of the villages on Rhodes, including Asklipios, Lardos, Kalathos, Salakos, and Soroni, insisting on teaching them in their native Greek, contrary to the wishes of the Italians, whose displeasure eventually lead to his decision to emigrate, in one of the many waves of immigration from the island. He left in 1939 on the last boat to depart Greece before World War II. He continued his work as a teacher of Greek in the United States, and concentrated his efforts as a president of the Pan-Rhodian Association of the United States to reunite Rhodes and the Dodecanese with Greece. During this time, he was appointed by then Archbishop Athenagoras and Bishop Kavadas to teach at the new Greek Orthodox Theological Seminary in Pomfret, Connecticut. He taught Greek, and at time Byzantine Music to generations of prients from the early days of the Theological Seminary in Pomfret, until his retirement, long after the school relocated to Brookline, Massachusetts. He was devoted to the Greek language. He is survived by his wife, Amelia, a daughter, Panetha Theodosia Nychis Ott and her husband Stephen, and Grandson, Spencer Panaghiotis Florence. Also survived by his son-in-law Brian Florence, his sister-in-law, Barbara Botsaris and many relatives and priests of the Greek Orthodox Church. He was predeceased by his daughter Caylee Tharene Nychis-Florence and his siblings, Maria, Theodosis, Stergoula, Aphrodite, Dikaia and George. In lieu of flowers donations in his memory may be made to St. Demetrios Scholarship Fund, 57 Brown St., Weston, MA 02492 or to the Metropolis Of Boston Camp and Retreat Center, 329 Camp Merrimack, Contocook, NH 03229.