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Staff Report California State Senator Charles “Chuck” Poochigian was awarded California State University, Fresno’s Distinguished Alumnus Award at the 52nd Annual Top Dog Alumni Awards Gala held on Thursday, Oct. 28. The Distinguished Alumnus Award is the highest honor given by the university’s Alumni Association. The Alumni Association has been honoring a distinguished alumnus since 1953, when Robert Greelis, Class ...

Hakop Tataryan Editor Ambitious Fresno State students who are taking Armenian Studies courses have something to look forward to in the Fall of 2005. An Honors Program has been approved for students taking upper division classes in the Armenian Studies Program. The Honors Program will also offer numerous benefits to its participants. All students who apply to the Armenian Studies ...

Staff Report The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) celebrated its 30th anniversary with a series of celebratory activities in the month of November. Dr. Richard Hovannisian, left, receiving a plaque from SAS President Barlow Der Mugrdechian. The award recognizes Hovannisian’s role as one of five founders of the SAS. The SAS was founded 30 years ago in Boston by Dr. ...

Zhanna Bagdasarov and Marine Ekezyan Staff Writers It is customary that the fall semester of every new academic year begin with an official election of executive officers for the Armenian Students Organization (ASO) and this year was no different. On the evening of September 16, elections were held at six o’clock in the Bedrosian Conference Room of the Peters Business ...

Alex Bunch – Staff Writer The ASO executive decided to have a “getting acquainted” party, by holding an awesome picnic at Woodward Park, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The turnout was great and so was the food. What is great about an Armenian picnic is that there are no sandwiches. Instead, we had salad, rice pilaf, and plenty of barbequed ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Friend and colleague Ara Hairabedian, a champion athlete, coach and educator died on September 8 at age 77. Hairabedian joined the Fresno State faculty as a physical education professor in 1953 and coached football, gymnastics, swimming and diving, and water polo. He resigned from his final coaching job, water polo, in 1977 and retired from the ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Saturday, September 18, marked a special day in the life of the university, when a panel discussion was held to formally announce the donation of the public papers of former Assemblyman Walter Karabian to the Central Valley Political Archive. The Fresno State Armenian Studies Program cosponsored the event. Mr. Karabian served in the State Assembly from ...

Gevork Aristakesyan Staff Writer On Thursday, September 23, the Armenian Studies Program and the Armenian Students Organization hosted Dr. Hans-Jürgen Feulner, who gave a lecture on the development of the Armenian Divine Liturgy. Dr. Feulner is a university professor for Liturgical Studies and Theology of the Sacraments at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Vienna and the Director of ...

Staff Report Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program was awarded the Outstanding Advisor Award for 2003-2004. Der Mugrdechian has been the advisor for the Armenian Students Organization (ASO) for the past twenty years and was nominated by the ASO. The Fresno State Leadership Program at California State University Fresno engages students in learning the foundations of leadership, enriching ...