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By Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor A group of ten teachers and administrators from Gyumri, Armenia were in Fresno for a two and a half week training and observation program, which was funded by the United States Information Agency and managed by California State University, Fresno. Dr. Bill Mallios of the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department was the director of ...

* President Clinton Signs Fiscal Year 1998 Foreign Aid Bill as Approved by Congress – $87.5 Million Earmarked Aid for Armenia – $12.5 Million Approved for Direct Humanitarian Aid to Nagorno-Karabagh * Armenia Fund, Inc. (Hayastan Pan-Armenian fund) Holds Successful  National Giving Telethoní97 on Thanksgiving Day – The Goal is to Rebuild and Strengthen  Artsakh (Karabagh) – 14,000 people donate more ...

Staff Report The Armenian Community School held the official opening of its Middle School Classroom at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, September 16, 1997, on the grounds of the school. More than one hundred students, parents, teachers, and friends gathered to celebrate the occasion. This year, for the first time in the twenty-year history of the school, a seventh grade class ...

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian The exhibit “Ani in Armenian Painting,” which was dedicated to the 1700th anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity as the National Religion of Armenia, opened on August 20, 1997 in the National Gallery of Armenia, co-sponsored by the State Museum of History of Armenia. His Holiness Karekin I, Catholicos of All Armenians, was present to bless ...

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian The UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History completed its first year at Yerevan State University in the Spring 1997 semester. Bishop Garegin Hovsepian had established a Chair of Armenian Art and Archaeology at Yerevan State University in 1919 during the period of the First Republic of Armenia. After the establishment of Soviet rule, the Chair was ...

The following is the first in a series of student essays to be published by Hye Sharzhoom.  If you have an essay about any aspect of Armenian life or culture that you would like to publish in Hye Sharzhoom, please contact Dr. Kaprielian in Social Science Room 216 or call her at 278-6493 or the Armenian Studies Program office at ...

Dear Editor: We got introduced with your newspaper Hye Sharzhoom via the representative of USDA in Armenia Jim Richardson, and we are interested very much. We would like to collaborate with the editor of Hye Sharzhoom. Editorial centre Agropress  is the news agency of the Ministry of Agriculture of Republic of Armenia. In our editorial centre TV and radio programs ...

By  Arakel Arisian ASO President For many years the Armenian people have been talking about the reunification of the Armenian Apostolic Church.  The visits of both Catholicoi to Fresno, in 1996, were filled with words of unity and cooperation between the Diocese and the Prelacy.  Unfortunately, the split still exists and many argue that the gap between the two sides ...

By  Arakel Arisian ASO President The Armenian Students Organization (ASO) is well into its 24th year of existence.   Coming off a successful year, the newly elected executive is focused and committed to making the organization even better.  The ASO of California State University – Fresno was founded in 1974 in order to encourage students to learn and appreciate Armenian history, ...

By Arakel Arisian ASO President Almost half way through the year the Armenian Students Organization (ASO) is well into its many activities.  This semester has had many exciting, fun and productive events.  More importantly, the composition of the ASO membership has become very diverse with students from all walks of life, yet all of them are tied together by a ...