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Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Armenian enology students Zaruhi Muradyan, Armen Kakosyan, and Tigran Khachatryan spent three weeks, September 23 through October 13, 2001, at Fresno State as United States Department of Agriculture Cochrane Fellows, specializing in wine-making. The Cochrane Program provides funding for overseas agriculture students to study in the United States. The Fresno State Viticulture and Enology Research Center ...

Nazik Arisian Staff Writer On October 13, 2001, the Women’s League of the Armenian Community School of Fresno (ACSF) and the Arne Nixon Center Advocates (ANCA) of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature held a luncheon at the Smittcamp Alumni House on the campus of California State University, Fresno. The Arne Nixon Center is housed at ...

Tamara Karakashian Staff Writer Yerevan. Khor Virap. Etchmiadzin. In August 2000, these were merely locations on a map of our homeland. In July 2001 these historical places became part of thousands of young peoples’ lasting memories. The Armenian Church Youth Organization–Western Diocese (ACYO–WD) sponsored a pilgrimage to Armenia during this Jubilee year, marking the 1700th anniversary of the proclamation of ...

Anne Visser Staff Writer Dr. Robert Hewsen, the Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor for the Armenian Studies Program delivered his second of a three-part lecture series on “The Conversion of Armenia to Christianity” on Thursday, November 1. Dr. Hewsen’s lecture entitled “The Conversion of King Trdat: Reading Between The Lines” detailed the early 4th century king’s life and his ...

Staff Report Hye Talk successfully completed taping its Fall 2001 season of nine shows, on Tuesday, November 20. The television interview program, produced by the Armenian Studies Program and Department of Mass Communications and Journalism at Fresno State, had its premiere on Thursday, October 18, featuring an interview with Dr. Robert Hewsen, Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno ...

Robert Torosian Staff Writer 2001 marks the 1700th year anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity as the State Religion of Armenia and the Fresno State Armenian Studies Program is doing everything it can to help educate students about this important event. The ASP organized a three-part lecture series this Fall, “The Conversion of Armenia to Christianity,” to be given by ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held its annual membership meeting on Saturday, November 17, 2001, in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual conference held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. At the SAS meeting, election results were announced for two positions on the Executive Council. Elected were Christina Maranci, of ...

Staff Report Berge Bulbulian’s The Fresno Armenians is being reprinted by Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press, Inc., with the book expected to be ready by November 1. The new edition has a forward by Professor Dickran Kouymjian, Haig and Isabel Berberian Chair of Armenian Studies at Fresno State. The second edition has been updated with added information. Click Here to ...

Staff Report Dr. Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos and archival gifts. His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the See of Cilicia for the copies of his books, In Search of Ecumenical Vision. Lebanon: Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, 2000 and L’église Face Aux Grands Défis., ...

Editors Michael Harutinian Sevag Tateosian Staff Nazik Arisian Tamara Karakashian Ara Mekhitarian Arpik Paraghamian Chris Tozlian Photographers Dikran Chekian Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Barlow Der Mugrdechian Hye Sharzhoom is a supplement of The Collegian and the newspaper of the C.S.U.F. Armenian Students Organization and the Armenian Studies Program and is funded by the Associated Students. Articles may be reprinted provided ...