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By Michael Kloster English Department, UC Berkeley On November 15th an international conference “Saroyan Plus Fifteen” was held on the University of California, Berkeley campus to commemorate the work and life of William Saroyan. The gathering was jointly sponsored by the newly established William Saroyan Chair of Armenian Studies, the English Department, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, ...

Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Y. Chamirian, Fresno CA Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Gazarian, Fresno CA John & Jane Havoonjian, Yorba Linda CA Mr. & Mrs. Shavarsh Hazarabedian, Moraga CA Mr. & Mrs. Hagop Khoubesserian, Willowdale CA Rafik Simonyan, Areni Armenia

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian Yerevan Women’s Choir of Armenia. MEG Recordings, P.O. Box 412, Cambridge, MA 02338. 69 minutes, 18 seconds. Cambridge, Massachusetts based composer and musician Dr. Ohannes Salibian has been producing a series of digitally recorded compact discs, one of the latest of which is called Yerevan Women’s Choir of Armenia.The choir is under the direction of Artur ...

By Bill Erysian For the newly-arriving visitor to Armenia these days, expectations about the state of an economy in transition can be uncertain, but it does not take very long after your plane lands to see there are lots of bright spots on the horizon especially for Armenian agriculture. That’s the consensus from a team of Fresno agriculture specialists who ...

By Jacqueline Arikian Armenians. A group of people whose stories are a reflection of their suffering and survival throughout time. A group of people whose wars, according to William Saroyan, “have been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard, and whose prayers are no more answered.” On the evening of November fifth, ...

By Crissi Jelladian In the city of Fresno there is so much to be done and many people that can use extra help in various activities. With this knowledge the Armenian Students Organization has taken time out to assist our friends at the Fresno Armenian Community School. This school educates children of Armenian descent grades K-6. The one problem that ...

By Crissi Jelladian The semester is coming to an end and the Armenian Students Organization (A.S.O.) is providing a relaxing weekend of fun to give students a break before finals. The trip is going to be on the weekend of December 6,7, and 8th at Bass Lake. Not only does this trip provide students with a break from the academic ...

Staff Report hye talk, a half-hour television program produced by the Armenian Studies Program of Fresno State began its second year of broadcasting in November. hye talk airs on Thursdays from 8:30-9:00 p.m. and on Fridays from 6:00-6:30 p.m. on Continental Cablevision Channel 4. New shows will be broadcast every week through the months of December and January 1997. Barlow ...

by Barlow Der Mugrdechian “But in 1915, total war went a terrible step further…” With this ominous introduction, the PBS special “The Great War,” began an eight minute segment entitled “Genocide,” which covered the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The segment was part of the eight-hour documentary on World War I which aired nation-wide in the United States on the Public ...

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian The Music of Armenia: Volume Three: duduk (71’35”) and Volume Four: kanon/Traditional Zither Music (70’15”) Celestial Harmonies, P.O. Box 30122, Tuscon, Arizona 85751 The third and fourth volumes of the excellent series The Music of Armenia   have recently been released by Celestial Harmonies. Composer David Parsons has   continued his exploration into the sacred and folk traditions ...