Armen Postoyan Staff Writer Website Address: www.TeachGenocide.org Categories: Home, Video, Survivor Accounts, Books, Teaching Guides, Website, Documents & Maps and History of Genocides Brief Summary: This website was established at the beginning of 2004 by the San Francisco Armenian National Committee. This website was developed to inform high school teachers throughout California on the Armenian Genocide and to teach them ...

Staff Report Fresno State alumnus Deacon Armen Devejian was ordained a priest in the Armenian Apostolic church on Thursday, February 19, becoming the first American-born clergyman ever ordained in Holy Etchmiadzin. Deacon Armen Devejian had first visited Armenia in 1990, while a student at Fresno State, participating in an Armenian study tour under the direction of Barlow Der Mugrdechian of ...

Staff Report A branch of the Friends of Yerevan State University, Inc. has been established in Fresno following the visit of Yerevan State University President Dr. Radik Martirosyan to Fresno in February. The purpose of the Friends of Yerevan State University is to develop and advance the educational curriculum at Yerevan State University, to promote the educational and scientific training ...

Editor Sevag Tateosian Layout Barlow Der Mugrdechian Photographers Dikran Chekian Barlow Der Mugrdechian Copy Editor Hakop Tataryan Staff Writers Gevork Aristakesyan Zhanna Bagdasarov Dikran Chekian Marine Ekezyan Carina Karakashian Nyrie Karkazian Mitchell Peters Hakop Tataryan Chris Tozlian Advisor Barlow Der Mugrdechian

Staff Report Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, and archival gifts either offered personally or to the Program. Sylvia Agémian, Archives Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Catalogue, vol. I, Bibliothèque arménienne de la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Antelias: Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, 2003, 351 pages. A ...

Zhanna Bagdasarov and Marine Ekezyan Staff Writers One might think that taking a weekend class would be time consuming and that you might lose a weekend of relaxation. However, taking the Armenian Studies 120T-Armenian Church class offered by the Armenian Studies Program during the weekend of October 10th and 11th proved to be an atypical experience. As soon as the ...

Hakop Tataryan Staff Writer On Wednesday, November 19th, 2003 a large audience attended the last of the three-part Armenian Studies Program Kazan lecture series on “The Quest for Mountainous Karabagh.” Dr. Ara Sanjian, who is the Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies this fall, lectured on “The Armenian Church in Mountainous Karabagh Under Soviet Rule.” The first two lectures in ...

Staff Report Vol. 1, No. 1 April 16-24, 1979 Editors: Mark Malkasian, Mark Najarian Staff: Bryan Bedrosian, Dale Tatoian, Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Patty Torosian Advisor: Dr. Dickran Kouymjian Vol. 2, No. 1 November 2, 1979 Editors: Mark Malkasian, Bill Erysian, Mark Najarian Staff: Dick Ashjian, Warren Paboojian, Maro Kechejian, Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Bryan Bedrosian, Bill Sahatdjian Advisor: Dr Dickran Kouymjian ...

Armenian Bar Association Website address: http://www.armenianbar.org/ Topics: Professional links, Newsletter, Committees, New York Life insurance litigation update, Member news Brief Summary: The Armenian Bar Association is the largest organization of Armenian judges, attorneys, and law students outside of Armenia. The Armenian Bar Association was formed in 1989 to provide an arena for lawyers of Armenian heritage and other interested individuals ...

Virginia Meltickian of Fresno, California, has donated an archive of photos and articles about the Armenian community in China. Her “Memory” Album encompasses the time period from the beginning of the last century to the 1950s, when the Armenians had to leave China due to the change in political situation of that country. Some Armenians went to Armenia, others to ...