March 25th - I

John received a flyer in the mail about the March 25th Parade which will take place on the 22nd of March in Philadelphia.

The honorary guests at the parade will be Danielle Kousoulis' parents, Zoi and George.

Below is an article from philly.com about Danielle:

After graduating cum laude from Villanova University, the Haddon Township native had worked her way up to the top ranks of a prestigious brokerage firm in New York, obtaining a master's degree along the way.

She also had mastered the New York City Marathon, and was training for another major long-distance race.

Miss Kousoulis, a bond broker and vice president at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, is among the roughly 3,000 people presumed dead ...

As they look back on her life, family and friends said, they see a young woman whose success went far beyond achievements in academics, athletics and career.

With a gregarious personality, a quick smile and an unfailing generosity, Miss Kousoulis, they said, managed to touch, in some way, everyone she met.

"Danielle could walk into a room and light the place up," said her boyfriend, Chris Mills, 29. "She would meet a person one time, and they'd be talking about her."

"She was kind to the last minute," said Mills, who was the last to hear her voice, about 10:15 am.

Even as Miss Kousoulis stood on the 104th floor of the North Tower, in a building about to collapse beneath her, she was thinking of others. As smoke filled the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, she hung up with Mills so colleagues desperate to reach loved ones could use her cell phone.

That is "typical of Danielle," said Teresa Aregood, Miss Kousoulis' friend since both were four.

"She was always there for you whenever you needed her," Aregood said. "If you were worried about anything, she would put your mind at ease."

Miss Kousoulis attended Stoy Elementary School and Haddon Township High School, where she was active in gymnastics and softball and was her class salutatorian. Soon after graduating from Villanova with a degree in economics in 1993, she moved to Hoboken, N.J., and joined Cantor Fitzgerald.

After a move to Manhattan in 1996, she began taking courses part time at New York University and received her masters in business administration.

"She would come back to Haddon Township, and she was our same Danielle," Aregood said.

At Cantor, Miss Kousoulis was active in a mentoring program for new brokers. And she always had time for friends and family.

"She was so generous and had a real enthusiasm for life," her sister Eleni Kousoulis said.

Miss Kousoulis is survived by her parents, Zoe and George; a brother, Peter; and another sister, Faith Hagerty.