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Gina Jelladian Staff Reporter What are the major feast days celebrated in the Armenian Church? What are the four true marks of the Orthodox Church? How often is the Holy Oil (Muron) prepared? What is it used for? These were some of the questions faced by students on a quiz taken during the first session of a weekend class, Armenian ...

Staff Report On Tuesday evening, February 26, the Shoghaken Armenian Folk Ensemble of Armenia performed in concert to an audience of more than 400 in the Satellite Student Union at Fresno State. The eight-member ensemble was on an international concert tour, which began in Paris, and continued in twenty-one cities in the United States, ending March 7 in Los Angeles. ...

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. The Armenian Prelacy, New York, New York, for the book Kronneru Patmutiun [History of Religions] by Professor Puzant Yeghiayan (in Armenian). David Cutting, Germinal Productions, ...

Svetlana Bagdasarov Staff Report Question: “With all the fun Armenian activities that happened this school year, which would you say you enjoyed the most?” Name: Caitlin Tiftick Year: Senior Major: Business Administration “My favorite event was the 8th Annual Armenian Film Festival. I enjoyed watching films related to the Armenian people and Armenian history.”     Name: Erik Rosvold Year: ...

Staff Report The William Saroyan Society held its annual William Saroyan Story Writing Contest Awards ceremony on Thursday, April 12, at the Woodward Park Regional Library. The theme for this year’s contest was “Coming Home.” Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program was the featured speaker at the event, and as he addressed the award winners, parents, and friends, ...

Staff Report Singer Gor Mkhitarian performed in concert at the Armenian Community Center of Fresno on Saturday, March 17. Mkhitarian, who composes and sings his own original songs, performed a series of hits from his recent CDs, Episode and Gor. Among the songs performed were a 12c. folk-song, Sarer, a revised version of a Gomidas Vardapet composition, Shogher Jan, and ...

Staff Report Glendale, CA (United Armenian Fund) – The United Armenian Fund’s 142nd airlift arrived in Yerevan on March 17, delivering over $11 million of humanitarian assistance. The UAF itself collected $10 million worth of medicines and medical supplies for this flight, most of which were donated by the Catholic Medical Mission Board ($8.7 million); AmeriCares ($1.3 million) and C.P. ...

Staff Report Edward Minasian’s new book, Musa Dagh, has just been published in the last week of April. The book is sub-titled “A chronicle of the Armenian Genocide factor in the subsequent suppression, by the intervention of the United States government of the movie based on Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.” Musa Dagh is the first book ...

Staff Report (Office of the Governor of California, Sacramento) Proclamation by the Governor of the State of California Between the years 1915 and 1923, during the chaos of World War I, over one million Armenian men, women and children living within the Ottoman Empire’s borders were killed; forcing hundreds of thousands of Armenians to flee to foreign countries after being ...

Staff Report Prof. Hideharu Nakajima, President of the Japan Armenia Friendship Association, has recently published The Armenian Genocide: The History and Culture of the Armenian People (Akashi Shoten CO., Ltd., April, 2007). Prof. Nakajima dedicated this book to the “memory of over a million innocent Armenian victims killed by the brutal, systematic massacres ordered by the Turkish government [in] 1915.” ...