Staff Report The CineCulture film series featured a new movie on William Saroyan on Friday, March 26, as part of its Spring 2010 schedule of screenings. Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian introduced “Saroyan’s Will” to an audience composed of CineCulture class students and community members. CineCulture instructor Mary Husain has included films on Armenians as a regular ...

Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program will be joining the College of Arts and Humanities for the Fresno State’s centennial celebration, slated to begin in April 2010 and culminating with commencement in May 2011. The history and programs of the College of Arts and Humanities will be highlighted in October 2010. The Henry Madden Library will be at the center ...

Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program wishes to express its appreciation to two foundations for making generous contributions to the Program during the year. For the fifteenth consecutive year, the Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable Foundation has awarded Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian and the Armenian Studies Program a grant for scholarships and on-going projects. This year’s grant was for $5,000. ...

Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program has made a permanent loan of several Varaz Samuelian sculptures to the Keyan Armenian Community School. These have been placed in a sculpture garden near the entrance of the school on Villa Ave.

Armen Melidonian Staff Writer The Armenians Students Organization (ASO) has had a productive semester, with preparation and planning for activities and events. In March ASO held a fundraiser at Me ‘N Ed’s Pizza on First and Bullard Avenues. The pizza fundraiser was beneficial in assisting the club’s funding of numerous activities. There was a great deal of preparation for the ...

Armen Melidonian Staff Writer The Fresno State campus welcomed a joint lecture by two professors on April 16 at 7:30 pm at the University Business Center. Attendees were treated to presentations by Dr. Bedross Der Matossian, professor of Middle East History at MIT, and Dr. Levon Marashlian, professor of History at Glendale Community College. The event was organized and sponsored ...

Evelyn Demirchian Staff Writer A relatively new rock band has been creating some major underground waves in Southern California this past year. Armenian Space Station, headed up by friends Greg Hosharian and Barrett Yeretsian, with Phil Trujeque and Clint Feddersen, is a hard rock group that takes an interesting twist on metal by combining classical music and Armenian melodies. Hosharian ...

Mari Koshkakaryan Staff Writer Imagine roaming through the streets of your hometown that once was a bright place, where you enjoyed an outing with your family, returning one day to see nothing but destruction, and encountering the corpses of your own family members, whose lives were unjustly taken away along with the lives of 1.5 million others during the Armenian ...

Pateel Mekhitarian Editor Armenian American Cultural Association www.aacainc.org The mission of the Armenian American Cultural Association (AACA) is “to promote cultural, educational, and scientific endeavors between the United States and the Republic of Armenia and to sponsor health and humanitarian projects for the people of Armenia.” The Arlington, Virginia-based AACA is the United States sponsor of the Armenian American Wellness ...

Staff Report This month, Dr. La Porta gave a series of talks to local and regional groups on Armenian topics. On April 13, he spoke at the annual dinner in commemoration of Armenian Martyr’s month for the First Armenian Presbyterian Church Men’s fellowship. He spoke about the significance of martyrdom in the early Armenian Church. He drew attention to the ...