Alex Bunch Staff Writer The Armenian Students Organization (ASO) began the 2002-03 school year by holding it first meeting in September, with more than 25 members present. A new executive was also elected. The next meeting and get-together was at Dominion Pizza, located at the northwest corner of Cedar and Shepherd. There were a lot of games and things to ...

Chris Tozlian Staff Writer On Tuesday, November 12th, Dr. Barbara Merguerian delivered her second in a series of three lectures on “The Armenian Question in United States Foreign Policy” for the Armenian Studies Program Fall 2002 Lecture Series. Dr. Merguerian, the third Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, spoke on “The Witness of the American Consulates” in Armenia during the ...

Staff Report Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives has released its 2003 photograph calendar titled “Armenian Women: As Never Before Seen”. Each month of Project SAVE’s 16th annual calendar features archive photographs that reflect many aspects of women’s lives from the 1800s to the present, from Sebastia to San Francisco. This year’s calendar photo selections were chosen by reviewing the hundreds ...

Staff Report Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, participated in a major conference on “Rethinking Armenian Studies: Past, Present, and Future,” co-sponsored by NAASR and the Harvard Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, held on October 5-6 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and at the Center of ...

Staff Report The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held its annual membership meeting on November 23, 2002 in Washington DC. The meeting was held in conjunction with the 36th Annual Conference of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA). Founded in 1974, SAS is an international organization which represents more than 200 scholars and teachers involved in the field of Armenian ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Three faculty members from the Craig School of Business at Fresno State: Tom Burns, Diane Decker, and Elizabeth Shields, visited the Faculty of Economics of Yerevan State University in October 2002. Their visit was part of the three-year Newly Independent States (NIS) College and University Partnership Program grant received by Fresno State in 1999. The grant ...

Tamara Karakashian Editor On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, the Armenian Studies Program and the Armenian Students Organization were honored to have His Excellency Leonidas T. Chrysanthopoulos, Ambassador of Greece to Canada, speak as part of the ASP Fall Lecture Series. Ambassador Chrysantho-poulos had been the Greek Ambassador to Armenia in 1993-1994, and after his re-assignment to Ottawa, he started compiling ...

Chris Tozlian Staff Writer An important contribution to Armenian studies, the Album of Armenian Paleography, was published by Aarhus University Press of Denmark in November 2002. The authors of this reference work, Professors Michael Stone, Henning Lehmann, and Dickran Kouymjian, spent twelve years on the production of the Album. Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies ...

Tamara Karakashian Editor For years Armenians around the world have been anticipating the production of a major motion picture on the Armenian Genocide Now they have it in full force. Canadian film director/producer Atom Egoyan has created a masterpiece, which opened at Edwards Theatre in Fresno, on Wednesday, November 27, 2002. Fresno Armenians gathered at 10AM on opening morning to ...

Staff Report College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Bachelor of Science Michael Hrant Harutinian Lisa Ann Shanoian Charles Hagop Sislian College of Arts and Humanities Bachelor of Arts Jason Salvador Anaforian Ronald Lawrence Dzerigian Brian Bruce Ekmanian Aaron Philip Emerzian Kathryn Ann Gulian Rosemary Levon Kalpakian Carlo Paul Kelejian Cydney Denise Omartian David Matthew Shabaglian Jonathan Daniel Shabaglian Maria Elizabeth ...