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Volume 8, No. 2 The newspaper of the California State University, Fresno Armeni~n Students Program PAID FEBRUARY 1987 Organization and Armenian Studies Program CSUF, Fresno 93740 Permit No. 262

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Armenian Studies Program announces the the National Institute for Armenian Cult- School of Social Sciences Dr. Peter Klas- Editor opening of a campaign to establish an ure, Mrs. Anoush Chamlian announced a sen, and Director of Development Richard : Endowed Chair in Armenian Studies in the _$5,000 pledge from the organization. Francois. · ~ Tufts University Art Historian Lucy School of Social Sciences. The goal is to Additional pledges were made by the CSU The announcement of the drive for the Der Manuelian was in Fresno December 7, raise $300,000 to endow the positio:1 and Fresno Armenian Students Organization, endowed chair was enthusiastically re- 1986 to present a lecture titled "Ani: enable the university to undertake an the Armenian Alumni Association and the ceived by the members and friends of the The Fabled Capital of ". international search for the best candidate Armenian National Committe of Fresno. Armenian Studies Program who were pres- The lecture which took place on the CSU, to fill the new position. Within -weeks of the announcement of the ent. Fresno campus, included a series of slides The exciting news was announced by endowment drive, Mr. and Mrs. Arnie The future of the CSU Fresno Armenian of Ani. An array of slides made of Armenian Studies Program Director Dr. Avedian of Fresno donated $15,000, add- Studies Program will be enhanced by this watercolor paintings by Arshag Fetvadjian ~ Dickran Kouymjian at the tenth anniv- ing new impetus to the campaign. second position. The position promises to ersary banquet for the Armenian Studies University officials present at the bring new recognition and attract students Program held on 27 OctOber 1986. As a announcement of the endowment drive to the field of Armenian Studies. "' ~" ~"' ~~ H~ ~~ ~" ~~ ~ Kouymjian is the kind of person who has I aspired for the higher things in life, and has achieved them. And I think it is a very ASP 1Oth ANNIVERSARY wonderful accomplishment." He then presented Dr. Kouymjian to the CELEBRATED IN FRESNO appreciative guests. Dr. Kouymjian thanked the numerous by perish. Annenians shall not perish. We are guests for their presence at the anniversary Armenians and though we are eight or nine banquet. He noted that many of the guests The Armenian Studies Program marked thousand miles away from where we were were former students of his in the its tenth anniversary under the , direction of born,· we are still in Armenia. We are still Armenian Studies Program. He said, " The Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, at a gala banquet there, and this very place, this patriotic greatest tribute that you can make to me is res no coffeehouse, is Armenia.' And so to the to acknowledge that I represent learning, campus, Monday October 27, 1986. An Armenian faculty members and the education, and scholarship, that I am the overflow crowd of students, faculty, and community at large, we . thank you for representative for you on thjs campus of the Fresno Armenian community celebrated keeping that vision alive." an academic discipline. And if I am to the activities and the achievement of the Richard Francois, Director of receive rewards in life, · I have received Armenian Studies Program. Development at CSU Fresno, in remarks them already, by the participation of you Guests were greeted at ·the door by about the Leon S. Peters Business in my classes, and that means more to me Dr. Lucy Der Manuelian members of the CSUF Amienian Studies Building, said, · " What is important is not than everything, including this banquet." Organization who invited the guests to the building, but what goes in there. If the Commenting on the history of the enjoy the cheese and wine served before next generation can train but one more Armenian Studies Program Dr. Kouymjiari. was also included. Dr. Der Manuelian re­ dinner. Former ASO member Tim Kara­ Leon S. Peters, we know the valley will be remembered the late Dr. Louise ceived her B.A. degree from Radcliffe gozian enchanted the guests with selection richly blessed. I am pleased the Armenian Nalbandian, " She was the pioneer of Ar­ College, and her Ph.D dissertation on played on his kanon. A display table in Studies Program is in the new building. It menian Studies on this campus. It was her ArmenilPl art was the first ever written in the foyer · eXhibited the publications is terrific to have the 1986 Outstanding work ten years before I came, her the United States on that subject produced by the Armeriian Studies Program Professor of the Year working in a InSIStence that Armenian history be Ani was the 9th century capital of the over the past years. The display included · building with Leon. S. Peters name on it." taught, and ultimately Annenian Studies Bagratids and is located on the border the published works ' of · Dr. Dickran California State University, Fresno which she engineered, that allowed my between Eastern Turkey and the Soviet Kouymjian, Diiector of the Armenian President Dr. Harold Haak then awarded the coming, and my building on that Union. Because of Ani's precarious Studies Program. Highlighting the pub­ plaque for the _1986 California State foun:dation. She died tragically in the location, docwnentation, excavations, pho­ lications was his latest · book William University, Fresno Outstanding Professor middle of her career, but I had the tographing, and other information­ Saroyan: An Armenian Trilogy, of the Year to Dr. Dickran Kouymjian. privilege. of meeting her twice and getting gathering tasks are even more important published by the CSU Fresno Press. The Commenting on Dr. Kouymjian's accom­ to know her well, . long before I had any while difficult to undertake. Der book was edited by Kouytnjian, a close plishments, Dr. Haak said,"... Dickran Manuelian's rich presentation however, See BANQUET, page 4 friend of Saroyan's, and also includes an was filled with much of the available introduction written by Kouymjian. Also information on the city. exhibited were back issues of ' Hye ' The city of legend, built before Gothic Sharzhoom with pictures and stories of architecture, was commisioned by an the last eight years of activity crf the Armenian queen. It is · situated in a Armenian Students Organization and the romantic setting perched atop a hill and Armenian Studies Program. protected on three sides by cliffs. Because Two easels were set up with schematic of the location, the city withstood the ' enlargements of the proposed Center for worst of sieges. The location and wealth Arnienian Studies which will be located in of Ani fed into the ever-present fables of the new Leon S. Peters Business Building heroism, treachery, heresy and mystery. and the Valley Business Center .which will · · Der Manuelian explains these fables as be completed in fall of 1988. being mistruths and misrepresentations. Present at the banquet were CSUF Ani has been written about for it's President Dr. Harold and Mrs. Haak; the architecture, often refered to as the city of Dean of the · School of Social Sciences, Dr. 1001 churches. It is the slides of some of and Mrs. Peter Klassen; and Mrs. Marian these churches which represent the true Bagdasarian a trustee of the Califonia State· vision of Ani. Crumbling structures of the University system:- The program was once people filled churches now stand conducted by CSUF Armenian Studies decaying with age, the -wounds of Program lecturer Barlow Der Mugrdechian. invasion, and the new damage from current Dr. Klassen, addressing the achieve­ dynamite blasting by invaders from Ani's ~ents of the ASP during the past years eastern (Turkish) side. It is amazing to see said, "The Armenian Studies Program that among 95% of these churches shown, continues to establish its significance and there remains some wall . or ·roof still reputation. A character in William CSUF President, Harold Haak, presenting Dr. Kouymjian .with intact, still · stubbornly standing. Der Saroyan's play Armenwns expressed "Outstanding Professor of the Year" award. Manuelian pointed out that this was due to sentiments incarnate in the Annenian See DER MANUELIAN, page 8 Studies Program. 'Armenia shall not ._ Page2 HYE SHARZHOOM FEBRUARY 1987 MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION REACHES TWENTY SOCIETY FOR ARMENIAN STUDiES PANEL EXPLODES TURKISH PROPAGANDA

Poland: "Who nowadays remembers the The Genocide was the culmination of fittingly and conclusively put to rest the By Barlow Der MugrdecWan annihilation of the Armenians?" The centuries of persecution of the Armenian allegations of people such as Lowry. The Advisor statement demonstrates the German leader's people in the Ottoman Empire. The insistence and belligerience of the Turkish knowledge of the Armenian Genocide massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman apologists is incredible in the face of The twentieth annual meeting of the perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish Empire in 1894-1896 was to be only ~ facts. Middle East Studies Association of North · government in 1915. By admitting that prelude to the mass destruction begun in The results of the MESNSAS annual America (MESA) was held in Boston, the Armenian Genocide was a forgotten 1915 by the Young Turks and concluded meeting are being written about today to November 20-23, 1986. MESA is a event by the world powers only twenty­ by the Turkish Republic of Kemal Ataturk alert the public to the constant, insidious professional scholarly organization de­ four years after its perpetration, Hitler in 1923. The present day rulers of Turkey · pressure by the Turkish government to voted to the study of the Middle East sought to lay the groundwork for his own cannot escape the culpability as inheritors close th~ Armenian question forever. The including Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Ara­ campaign of murder against the Polish and continuers of the same policy. Todays question has been opened again by events bic, and Armenian studies. · History, pok people and later against the Jews and other Turkey must take the responsibility to which have unfolded over the preceding . itical science, literature, sociology, lang­ minorities. The fact that the Ottoman make sure that the Armenian people are seventy-one years. The efforts of scholars uage, and art are the specific areas of government could plan and execute an act returned to the land from which they Ca.me. to study the causes and the effects of the investigation for MESA members who of Genocide against the Armenian people The academic setting of the SAS panel Genocide must be widened. The efforts by come from throughout the United States. :md not be punished set the precedent of MESA conference was disturbed by the Turkish ·propagandists is to argue the A major part of the annual conferences which Hitler would later use. He understood presence of such a noted fipologist of the occurrence of the Genocide and thus to bog is the presentation of panels on diverse that the unpunished genocide of 1915 Turkish government as. Heath Lowry, down the question of the Armenian Gen­ themes in the field. Panel 73 of this year's showed that any ·people could be sacrificed Director of the Institute of Turkish Studies ocide to one of numbers and conditions conference was entitled Responses to for political and national gains. based in Washington,D.C. (and funded by rather than to the central issue, the rest­ the Genocide: The Armenian Case. In my opinion, the Armenian Genocide the Turkish Government). Bardakjian in itution of Armenian lands to the people The chainnan was Dr. Richard Hovannisian has special significance because it was his presentation on the validity of Hitler's that liv.ed there for three thousand years. of UCLA. Three papers were presented. I perpetrated on the historic homeland of remark regardirig the Armenian Genocide will examine ·the one by Dr. Kevork the Armenian people. Because the Gen­ Bardakjian of Harvard University entitled ocide was committed on Armenian soil and~:'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ Adolph Hitler on the Armenian because it was successful in removing the Genocide. This was a synopsis of the native population it had far reaching conclusions reached in his book Adolph consequences. An indifferent world could Saroyan Armenian TriiC?gy Review$ Hitler and The Armenians (Zoryan, allow other genocides to take place. As Institute, 1985). The main thesis of the for the Armenians, the tragedy of a people work is the proof of the 1939 statement living in a Diaspora is the unwritten saga. "The plays in William Saroyan's Armenian Trilogy, av~ab).e for the first time in made by Hitler to a select group of his No one can calculate the loss of Armenian book form, dramatize his deep-felt concern for his own people, "the Armenians. commanders on the eve of the invasion of creativity to the world. Armenians, which takes place in Fresno, California in 1921, explores the tragedy of _ LETtERS TO THE EDITOR the Armenian genocide while still fresh in its victims' memories. Bitlis picks up the story four decades later, when old memories are further Dear Editor, Dear Editor, complicated by new concerns. (Bitlis was that very ·Armenian town--now part of Congratulations on your publication, As a former president of the Armenian Turkey--where the Saroyan family originated.) Hye Sluirzhoom, I look forward to Students Association (1976-77), it is every issue. Unlike San Francisco, I left indeed heartening to see the progress and Haratch reflects on the subsequent Armenian dilemma, which in a larger sense is the my heart in Fresno fifty-nine plus years commitment your. ·students have made to dilemma of all dispossesed and persecuted peoples. The scene of this final play is the ago and always welcome publications from your organization and to the Armenian Paris of 1979, where Saroyan has established a second residence. that direction. I feel very proud that Studies Program, th,e newspaper, and most Fresno has come a long, long way since I . important of all, their culture. Your paper, Armenian Action is always inter­ In a penetrating Introdl;lctory Essay and meticulous 'Glossary, Dick:ran Kouymjian called Del Rey home. Please use- the situates these plays in Saroyan's literary career, and simultaneously provides the enclosed donation as needed. esting and an important asset to the program. personal and historical background for each character. He shares with the public his _intimate knowledge of the life and habits of the author and describes in detail the Sincerely, Zabel Harabedian LeaMond Wishing you continued success, writing and inspiration behind each work." E. Hanover, NJ The Press at California State University, Fresno Paulette Boghosian Kalebjian Fresno, CA

Dear Editor, Dear Editor, ... The Armenian Trilogy is not a fragment but one of Saroyan's very best works and far more Armenian in content than anything else he ever wrote." · / Keep up the good work. Yvonne Sahag­ We are so proud of our Armenian Youth. ian's Antranig Means Andrew was Thanks for all the past issues. touching. Enclosed is a humble donation. Good luck! Ara Baliozian Sincerely, Sincerely, Anne & Bob Kevorkian Tamar Manjikian Fresno, CA ... These plays are the last will and testament (thus far) of a man who had deep Studio City, CA sympathy for his people and was aware of their difficulties ... .. Lemyel Amirian ·r------,I ORDERFORM I WILLIAM SAROYAN: AN ARMENIAN TRILOGY I 1.195 pages, 57 illustrations I $21.95 cloth, $12.95 paper I I Please send me __ copy(ies) of William Saroyan: An Armenian Trilogy, ed. I Dr. Dickran Kouymjian. I prefer the hardcover/paperback edition(s)@ $__ .

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Check or money order must accompany all orders. Part of the proceeds of books bought through the Armenian Studies. Program will benefit the Program. Please make checks out to: Armenian Studies Program California State University, Fresno LFresno,------California 93740-0100 J FEB,RUARY 1987 HYE SHARZHOOM Page3 -Editorial ©®00 ~©[f ~Uuncill®ITUU ~®ui!D©n[p)®UD©ITU 1987 marks Hye Sharzhoom's lack of) that p1aces a strain on the coursework, etc. What is different about our own local area. It is satisfying to eighth year of publication. ·an this same already skeleton c1ew staff responsible this staff is the choice they make -- to this staff to provide a newspaper of our impressive note, olir newspaper is also for Bye Sharzhoom's publication. care about themselves as Armenians and community and campo~ to fellow the only Armenian student's newspaper in The total staff is made up of a handful of all that encompasses that; the politics, Armenians in fll!away places, and receive the United States. Past issues of our stlJdents and advisors each of whom does the individuals, and the events which comments and contributions because of newspaper reveal the impressive and the work of three people without much change and affect the Armenians in their it. determined work of the Armenian student complaint. Yet, it isn't surprising to hear . commUnity, campus, and world. As Armenian people we are known staff of that time. An indication of their a chorus of tantrums when a deadline is Seemingly signifigant numbers of to ·be hardworking, innovative; and sucesss was the abundance of material near, requiring of the staff to work late Armenian students enrolled in this stubborn as hell. We didn't become this written, which covered the in

--Yvonne Sahagian Minassian

BOOK An Urgent Appeal for the Release REVI·EW of Dr. Hagop Barsoumian It has now been· nearly one year since the disappearance in Beirut, Lebanon, of Dr. Hagop Barsoumian, a member of . By Dickran Kouymjian the Society for Armenian Studies, and a dedicated teacher of Armenian history. Advisor Dr. Barsoumian was professor of history at Haigazian College of Beirut, when he was abducted on January 31, 1986. Through his teaching and various publications, he has greatly contributed to the understandittg of Armenian Kevork Bardakjian, Hitler and· the · Ar­ history, and had embarked on significant research projects, which remain incomplete because of his long ordeal. menian Genocide, The Zoryan Institute, We are all united in our pursuit of justice for the Armenian people, and every Armenian can bring his or her share Special Report No3, Cambridge, MA: to this national endeavor. We are certain that Dr. Hagop Barsoumian's captors appreciate the contribution that he Zoryan /nstitute,1985 Fayerweather, Cam­ may bring to the Armenian Cause when he is set free to· resume his work. bridge, MA 02138 . . 1985, 81 pages, As concerned scholars with an abiding interest in the advancement of Armenian studies and the 'welfare of the paper, $5.00 Armenian people, we appeal to his captors - on humanitarian grounds - for the immediate release of om colleague. We pray that Dr. Hagop Barsoumian will be reunited with his family before the end of 1986. The monograph is an · exhaustive examination of Adolph Hitler's now well Concerned scholars, known statement: "Who, after all speaks SOCIETY FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES: Scholars who have signed the appeal for the release ofHAGOP _of the annihilation of the Armenians?" BARSOUMIAN Dr. Levon A. Saryan • Technical Director Dr. Khatchig Tololyan The Fuhrer used the query in the speech to Dr. Richard Hovannisian Industrial Toxicology Laboratory Professor of Near Eastern and · Armenian Professor of English military commanders o August 22, 1939, Wesleyan College West Allis Memorial Hospital History just before his inv~ion . of Poland. Rouben Adalian ua.A Dr. Dickran Kouymjian Ralph Setian Because the text of the speech has not Assistant Professor of History Dr. Vahakn N. Dadrian· Director, Armenian Studies Program Pasadena, California California State University, Fresno been preserved verbatim, detractors ~ave Chainnan, Armenian Studies Department Professor of Sociology American Armenian International College State University of New York, Geneseo Dr. Nikola B. Schagaldian gone so far as to suggest that the University of LaVerne, CA Rev. Fr. Krikor Maksoudian Senior Poltical Scimtist statement was never made in it. Harvard Barlow Der Mugrdechian Priest of the Annmian Church The Rand Corporation based scholar, Dr. Kevork Bardakjian, has Dr. Joseph Alexanian Lecturer in Armenian Studies , Chairman of the Divison of California State University, Fresno Dr. Chake Minassian Lome Shirinian, MA. meticulously examined all available Biblical Studies Professor Universite du Quebec Lan~age Instructor .documents on the speech to show that Trinity College, lli. Armine Dikijian a Montreal Department of Second Languages Journalist, Armenian-English Press College Militaire Royal Hitler said it more than once and made AramArkum New York Loretta Topalian Nassar other remarks about the Armenian's Teaching Assistant Director, Society of Fellows in the Humanities Dr. Frank Andrews Stone UCLA Annen Garabedian Columbia University • New York Professor of International Education tragedy. Bardakjian also provides the Publisher-Editor The University of Connecticut historical context behind Hi~ler's Dr. Artin Aslanian Tadclt-Barth Publications The Rev. Dr. Nerses Vrej Nersessian Curator for Christian Middle East awareness of the Armenian case (and its Vice Presidmt and Dean Dr. Ronald Grigor Suny Behnont Abbey College Salpi H. Ghazarian and Armenian at Alex Manoogian Professor abandonment by the world powers) Behnont, North Carolida Director of Resources the British Library of Modem Armenian History through contacts with fellow Germans who Zoryan Institute University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Dr. Fred Assadourian Archbishop Ttran Nersoyan were witness to the unfolding · o~ the Chairman, Editorial Board of Ararat Dr. EricP. Hamp of the Annmian Church Dr~ Abraham Terian Armenian Genocide. Visiting Professor ofElectricla Engineering Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Professor of Intertestammtal and Pratt lnstitute Service Professor of Linguistics and Dr. William Newell Early Christian Literatures; Visting This is the kind of precise scholarship Behavioral Sciences Professor of Anthropology Professor of Armenian Studies University of Sydney, Australia that the m;pleasant reaiity of Armenian Dr. Hovhannes Bezazian University of Chicago Andrews University; The Univ. of Chicago history of the tWentieth century is crying Assistant Professor of French North Carolina State University , Dr. Peter Jeffery Dr. Nile it Ordjanian out for to counter the well financed and Assistant Professor Chairman of the Armenian Center Dr. Anahide Ter Minassian University ofDeleware Columbia University, New York orchestrated-'hi.storical revisionism the Abraham Boghigian Maitre de Conferences a lUniversite Teaching Fellow de Paris Turkish government is engaged in. UCLA Dr. Joseph A. Kechichian Dr. Vahe Oshagan nardakjian hl!:S given us the entire dossier Associate Scholar in Residence •University of California at John G. Thomas Dr. Ani Atamian Boumoutian Woodrow Wilson Department of Berkeley, Extension Program Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ~ A' lively, yet serious style. The seven Director of Pre-Professional Program Government and Foreign Affairs appendices at the end of the book provi~ and Assistant Dean" of General Studies University of Virginia Dr. Bernard Outtier Dr. Robert W. Thomson · Director of the Caucasian Library the reader with ··the original sources; Columbia University. New York Professor of Armenian Studies Dr. Jerry G. Keshian Harvard University extensiv ~ footnotes document his research' Dr. George Boumoutian Coordinator, English/Language Arts Annm Haig Ovhanesian Director ofDumbarton Oaks step by step. If anything, Dr. Bardakjian Director ofFmancial Aid and Lecturer Valley Stream Public Schools Instructor in History Elizabeth Seton College, New York Valley Stream, New York Henry Ford Cooununity College Hagop Jack Touryantz and the publishers are too modest aobut Dearborn, Michigan Candidate of Scimces his achievement in saying, ''Through me­ Dr. Elisha B. Chrakian Arpine Khatchadourian Former Senior Researcher Emiritus Professor of Philosophy Graduate Teachi."lg Assistant Dr. Dennis Papazian Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia ticulous research Dr. Bardakjian has traced Northeastern University, Boston Department of English Professor of History Director, Cooter for Annmian Studies the likely· source of the document." There University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dr. Gabriele Winkle~; The University of Michigan, Dearborn is nothing likely about his work. The Dr. S. Peter Cowe Professor of Liturgical Studies Assistant Professor of Armenian Language Dr. Haig Khatchadourian St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn. reader is left with n9 doubts. and Literature Professor of Philosophy Helen Anahit Sahagian lnstituto Orientale, Rome, Italy Columbia University, New York University of Wisconsin, MUwaukce Columbia University, New York Page4 HYE SHARZHOOM

Congratulatory Dear Dickran: I would like to take this opportunity to Gifts Highlight End of·Year extend my heartiest congratulations to you ·Notes on your selection as CSU, Fresno's The California State University, Fresno Hardee of Fresno(her husband Jerry also a Dear Dickran, Outstanding Professor fQt _1986. Armenian Studies Program has been the Fresno State graduate), Joan . Najarian l am delighted to see that your dedicated beneficiary of several donations of Moore of Bakersfield, and Elbert Matthew We extend our heartfelt and warm efforts to education have been recognized ~ollections at the end of 1986, Significant Najarian of · Sebastopol. A granddaughter, congratulations on the occasion of. the in this way. I am truly sorry that my numbers of books, records, photographs Beth Najarian of Fresno, is also a graduate lOth Anniversary of CSUF Armenian schedule did not allow me to be in the and other archival material has been of CSU Fresno and a former member of the Studies Program and personally to you for district on October 27, to join with your received with great appreciation. Armenian Students Organization. your devoted - service as coordinator of many friends in celebrating the tenth The John 0. Najarian collection was Mr. Khoren Davidson of Fresno has Armenian Studies Program and as the anniversary of the Armenian Studies donated by his wife, Mrs. Helen Najarian donated a Kodak slide projector machine, rightful recipient. of the "Outstanding Program at CSUF, and to add my own of Fresno. The collection consists of a two empty carousels, two projection Professor of 1986" title. Keep up the good personal words of congratulations. variety of English and Armenian language screens, and two carousels of slides. The work--we are proud of you. With best -wishes, books and series of periodicals from the· slides are from the region of Zeitoun and early thirties and forties. depict the Armenian heroes who· lived in Archbishop Mesro\> Ashjian Sincerely, Jolm 0. Najarian was born March 15, that region. The Armenian Studies Program Eastern Prelacy of the Aqnenian Church 1882 in Kharpert. He moved to the United thanks Mr. Davidson for his generous Tony Coelho . States in 1910 and lived in the Boston · contribution which will greatly benefit the Member of Congress area serving in the U.S. Navy before CSU Fresno Armenian Studies Program. It is a 'pleasure to congratulate Cali­ movmg to California in the 1920's. He The family of the late Dr. Souren H. fornia State University, Fresno, on the Dear Professor Kouyrnjian: moved to Fresno in 1927 where he worked Tashian of Seattle, Washington has Tenth Anniversary of the Armenian Studies for his brother, Matthew, who . owned donated a collection of his books. The Program and especially -Professor Dickran Congratulations, Dickran, on your Carpenter's Hardware at 1133 Van Ness. In Armenian and English language books are Kouyrnjian for his role in development ~d Fulbright lectureship to the Soviet Union 1936 he bought the store from his on a variety of topics. Also in the enlivening the program and for his next spring. This is another outstanding brother, . sold it in 1948 and purchased collection are records and maps. recognition as an outstanding teacher. I example of your stature and recognition in Blackstone Hardware, which had been Mrs. Grace Paul of Fresno has donated ·extend all good wishes with the hope that the area of Armenian studies. founded on Blackstone Avenue near Olive two books written by her father, the late the campus community and . the Armenian Students at Erevan State University are in for a_ mind-expanding -experience, ~enue in about 1930. Rev. Arsen Goergizian, who was a native community of the San Joaquin Valley will Najarian was an Armenian law school of Van. Mrs. Paul has been a generous avail themselves of the many opportunity particularly those' who attend your Saroyan graduate and a former president of the supporter in the past years with numerous to be enriched by the history and culture lectures. Armenian Democratic League and a member donations of books to the Armenian of the Armenian people. Best wishes . alw~ys. of the Armenian General Benevolent Studies Program. Union and he died on July 3, 1986 in The Armenian Studies Program Richard G. Hovannisian Sincerely, Fresno. welcomes the donation of books, Professor of Armenian & Near Eastern W. Ann Reynolds He is survived by four children, all of . photographs, and archival material History Chancellor of the California State whom are graduates of California State especially material dealing with the life of University of California, Los Angeles University- University, Fresno: John 0. Najarian, Jr. Armenians· living in Fresno. of San Anselmo, Alice Louisa Najarian tne"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•"•nenenenellenenellenellenenenene.nenene,,e I Charles Dowsett is Calouste Gulbenldan Professor of Armenian at Pembroke College, i ! Oxford University, England. A very erudite linguist and philologist, his books and S t articles have dealt with various aspects of Armenian civilization particularly those ! Sneglected or overlooked by other scholars. His translations are T)Otedfor their precision i ! and grace. In the past decade he has taken to writing odes in Armenian, classical and! t modern, and illustrating them with his own drawings or caricatures. Hye e ~ Sharihoom and the Armenian Studies Program are honored to publish the poem ! ! written especzally on the occasion of Dr. Dickran Kouymjian's receiving the! t Outstanding Professor of the Year award for 1986 at CSU, Fresno. • e= ! A CONGRATULATORY ODE ~ I TO DICKRAN KOUYMJIAN t ! ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BEING AWARDED THE ! ~ TITLE OF i t OUTSTANDING PROFESSOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF I • = e CALIFORNIA, ! t FRESNO CAMPUS 1986 I ' Greeting to our friend Dikran, .e ' Of the like of Kouymjian, e ASO members celebrating at the ASP 10th Anniversary ' Proclai.IJled by Fresno's assessor .; Banquet '• Annual Outstanding Professor. e= ; Most aptly, too, not before time, ' ! For how often, when from a distant clime I BANQUET, is ! His Air France plane was late in landing, e continued from page 1 The Armenian Studies Program ~Have colleagues cried, "Dikran's outstanding!" ! . . . planning a community wide campaign to ; I of Oxford's nondescript crew, ! Idea of commg here. W1thout her work and support the proposed Chair in Armenian ! ~mighty proud.that him I knew ! sacrifice we wouldn't be here today." Studies at California State University, ! · ! Speaking about the Program Dr. Fresno. Hye Sharzhoom with its na- 'd, i= When he was mortal,, . . like me and you. !i K ouymJlan.. sat "In ten years more than tional and international circulation will ! How many years tis .smce we took a walk e fifteen hundred students have taken also play a vital role in the campaign. ! Down the East Stde of New York, e Armenian Studies courses. It is a re- Many guests from . the campus ~ Talking of ish~han and atabeg, t markable number of students. There is community were present at the banquet ; To be narrowly missed by a rotten egg. ~ ! nothing in the country ·that can compare demonstrating the close· contacts Dr. · t Chucked by a Katzenjammer.Ki~ ~ with it These students are the link Kouyrnjian has developed on campus over ! Behind some tenth-storey curtam htd! e between the first and the third . generations the years. Faculty present at the banquet ! Although we made much argument ! of the Armenians in Fresno. In order to included the Acting Coordinator of the ~ As to for what the -egg was meant.- i strengthen this Program it is imperative Ethnic Studies Program, Dr. Lily Small !_= For my British English, too dam posh, •.= that .we build it up, an.d the wa~ to build it and her husband Rev. Sylvester Small. ty " This fall another anniversary banquet ! Or his Groucho Marx moustache ._= up Is to guarantee JO b s.ecun 1or? our • d £ Wh ill do th An will be held and the event promises to = (I call it that, though every man know'th Than the common run of humankind. i secon pro essor. at w . at. . become an annual fixtur· e m· the Arrnem·an ! . . . ' · 1 ! endowment for the Arrneruan Studies . . . ! Annemans have pnor clrum to the growth, . And then -pardon me if I boast. - ! Program on this campus. 1 _think we have community. There are .many activities I For is not the famo~ £?~vie man _I am more ~o~ate than most, i arrived at the right moment to establish sponsored by the ~enian . Studies = Not know as Palabtyikian?)- bemg co-enshrined m a Work of Art, t this endowment: The endowment, a chair '\Program each year which contnbute to ~ We never then could agree Having played a small, subordinate part ! in Armenian Studies, will guarantee a the ·education of the California State ! If the egg was thrown at him or me. In a diptych of the Chinese School I secorid position in Armenian Studies. It is University, Fresno stu~ents in g~neral ! But now I see I must take the. blame Of the ambidextrous South G~rgian . rule. i the intent of myself, professor Der and also to· the ~em an .commuruty ?f I For that disrespectful aim, I regret I could not attend the Feast ! Mugrdechian, and the officers of this ~res~o. The ~~ru~ Studi~s Program m ; Since the alternative would be Given in his honour, but at least ! university to start that endow~ent this Its diverse activ.ltles lS a pomt of ~ontact = · · ! " between Arrneruan and non-Arrneruans as ! A shocking case of lese-majeste - I send this Ode of Congratulation t year. .. · well as Armenians and Armenians. ! U thinkabl •· '11 F r all he's done for the Armenian Nation, ! Dr. KouymJlan concluded ~Y thanki?g e n e, as an sap 0 . , . • the supporters of the Arrneruan Studies The evening came to an end with guests i_ Confinn, in folk of the Big Apple, Of which hes a worthyds . SCIOn. and true. e_ Program . 10r" their continued encour- meeting with Dr. KouymJ'ian and the ! - Renowned for manners more refined Air France .sen Its greetings, too. ! agement special guests of the everung. eneneneneneueneneneneneneueueueueueneneneneneneneneneneueuenenenenenenenenenen• FEBRUARY 1987 HYE SHARZHOOM Pages

by Barlow Der Mugrdechian

The California State University, Fresno Toronto; Dickran Kouymjian of Fresno; Armenian Studies Program became a reality Chake Minassian of Montreal; Frederic with the hiring of Professor Dickran Kou­ Feydit from Paris; Aram Tolegian of Los ymjian in the fall sem~ter of 1976. Angeles; Charles Dowsett of Oxford; Leon Although Armenian Studies had been Sunnelian of Los Angeles; Arpine Khatch­ taught for many years at CSU Fresno prior adourian of Milwaukee; Earl Anderon of to Kouymjian's arrival, most notably under Cleveland, and V ahe Oshagan from the able leadership of Dr. Louise Nal­ Philadelphia. This set of distii,lguished bandian, it was with his arrival to scholars discussed the folk-epic of the specifically fill the post of Director of the Armenian people. A seminar on David of Armenian Studies Program that the pres'!llt Sassoun was held in conjunction w~th a Armenian Studies Program took form. In s:Ymposium on the following day with the the years since his arrival the Armenian participation of artist V araz Samuelian, Studies Program has developed into a composer Earl Robinson, and professor of center of international repute in terms of Theater Arts at CSU Fresno, Edward Armenian Studies Lecturer, Barlow Der Mugrdechian left, with ASP the scholarship produced and quality of EmanuEL Coordinator, Dr. Dickran Kouymjian at the ASP lOth Anniversary BanQuet. teaching. In the variety and excellence of In 1981 the Armenian Studies Program commemorated the Centennial of the programs and courses offered the CSU Future of Armenian Studies Armenian Studies Program by adding a Fresno Armenian Studies Program has been Armenian community in Fresno: The second teaching position. The Index of unique. A chronicle of the achievements of first . hundred years (1881-1981) The future of the Armenian Studies Armenian Art will be housed in the new the Armenian Studies Program would show with a series of events including a William the interrelationship of the program to the Saroyan Festival, and the special Saturday Program is based on the firm belief in the Center for Armenian Studies along with Armenian community of Fresno,the wider class The Armenians in Fresno. The mission of the Program, to inform and the valuable archives which will be open community in California, and the entire two week festival included a showing of educate the community. With the con- to scholarly use in ~e the Center for Diaspora. Saroyan films, dramatic readings of his struction of the Leon ~- Peters Business Armenian Studies. The next five years plays, and a symposium on the works of Building and Valley Business Center promise· to be exciting ones for the Courses William Saroyan. · expected to be completed in fall of 1988, Armenian Studies Program arid the Fresno the Armenian Studies Program will have community. With the support of the Kouymjian has been assisted in the new offices to show the community the Fresno Armenian community in particular, instruction program through tr..e )ears by a Annenian Studies Program extent of the growth of the Armenian the Armenian Studies Program will con­ group of outstanding teachers. Flora Archjyes Studies. An Armenian Endowment fund has tinue to meet the high st~dards it has set Tchaderjian, Hagop Karamanlian, Mark been started to fund a chair in Armeirian for itself, enriching the lives of all those Malkasian, Serpouhi Messerlian, Dr. Arra The archives of · the Armenian Studies Studies with the purpose of solidifying the who live in the San Joaquin Valley. Avakian, Hagop Terjimanian, and Ralph Progam are rich in the variety of materials Setian have taught · Armenian language, which have been donated over the years. history and Armenian studies. Over the Film archives ~ the Index of Armenian Art, past two years, in the spring semesters, the Saroyan archive, and the collections of AVEDIAN DONATION while Dr. Kouymjian has gone on leave to books and photographs have enriched the complete research projects and this year research activities of the Armenian Studies as a Fulbright scholar he has been replaced Program. The Index of Armenian Art was KIGKS GFF ENDOWMENT by Acting Coordinator Barlow Der organized by Dr. Dickran Koumjian as a Mugrdechian, a graduate of UCLA working research tool to aid Armenian art hist­ Mr. and Mrs. Arnie and Nectar Avedian walking from Van to Erevan with his · on his Ph.D. in the field of Armenian orians. The purpose of the IAA is to of Fresno have donated $15,000 to the family . . literature. Over the past ten years over document the appearance of manuscript California State University, Fresno In 1921 Avedian was able to join his 1,500 students have taken Armenian all Armenian Studies Program Endowment for brother in Fresno. He worked as an appren­ illuminations ~d later to encompass > Studies courses at California State photographic art prior to the 20th century. a chair in Armenian Studies. In grateful tice cabinet maker for fourteen years until University, Fresno. The core of the The large project is an ongoing one for recognition of this gift the University has he was able to open his own cabinet shop. Armenian Studies Program is the study of the Armenian Studies Program. agreed to name . a room in the proposed Always interested in education he has Armenian history, language, and an Center for Armenian Studies in the new taken courses at California State Uni­ introductory course on Armenian Studies. Leon S. Peters Business Building. The versity, Fresno while conducting his Courses on Willi~ Saroyan, Armenian Avedian Archive Room will house the business. Armenian Studies Program Guests architecture, and A.rn)enian art . have been growing number of rare books, per­ Mr. Avedian married Miss Nectar taught regularly over the past ten years. A iodicals, and maps .which have been do­ Azadian in 1930 and they have two sons, varied group of one unit classes has been nated to the CSU Fresno Armenian Studies Norman and Richard. offered on Saturdays to' the campus and the The CSU Fresno campus has always Program over the past few years. The Avedian have been active in the community at large. The Armenian Studies been an attraction for the numerous guests Mr. Avedian was born in Van, the Armenian General Benevolent Union, the Program has always been active in the of the Armenian Studies Program. Among youngest of ten children in the Markar and Knights of V artan and the First Armenian community promoting the study of the many. guests have .been John Serpouhi Avedian family. Avedian escaped Presbyterian Church. Armenian topics and bringing an Guiragossian, Foreign Minister of the 1915 genocide of the Armenians by awareness of Armenian issues. Armenia; Karekin II Sarkissian, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia; Programs Congressman Charles Pashayan, Arch­ bishop Tiran Nersoyan, Archbishop International exhibits have made their Torkom Manoogian, Archbishop Vatche stops at CSU Fresno through the years. In Hovsepian, Aram Saroyan, Arthur October of 1981 it was the Interna­ Tcholakian, · Levon Keshishian, Jack tional Exhibition of Armenian Antreassian, Set Momjian, Leo Hamalian, Architecture (fourth to the . eighteenth Jack Goddard, Robert Edwards, and century) shown at the Conley Art Gallery numerous other educators, religious on the CSU Fresno campus. The exhibit leaders, and community le,aders from was conceived and prepared by a team of throughout the world. Italian and · Armenian architectural historians in Milan, Italy. It was Lectures acclaimed throughout the world · as a model of its kind, bringing to the western public a comprehensive view of the church Dr. Kouymjian through the excellence architecture of an Eastern Christian of his scholarship has been invited to people, the first to accept Christianity as speak and participate in conferences in a state religion in the early 4th century. such cities_ as New York; San Francisco, The exhibit ·was ·shown in various cities in ­ Boston, Cambridge, Yettem, Reedley, France, Belgium, Portugal, . Austria, Washington, Princeton, Paris, Erevan, Germany, Lebanon, Iran, Argentina, and Berne, Amsterdam, Milan, Venice, Athens, most major cities of Italy, before coming · London, Detroit, Philadelphia, · Ann Arbor, to Fresno. and Chicago. He has served as the In November of 1978 an international Chairman of the Administrative Council of symposium on David of Sassoun: ~he Armenian Folk Epic after a the Society for Armenian Studies and been Century was held on campus. on the board of various other professional Participating in the symposium were organizations and the editorial board of a Ashough Hovnani, a troubador from large number of periodicals and journ.als. Pages HVE SHARZHOOM FEBRUARY 1987

certain bond to fcna between Sarcyan and the imagined or fictional version of Pres­ the town. In "The Summer of the Beautiful no versus the reality uf Saroyan's life in SAROYAN'S White Horse," he says, "the world was full . the community. There may h_ave been of every kind of magnificence, and life periods when life was grim and harsh, and was still a delightful and mysterious less comedic than when viewed in MESSAGE dream .... " Not surprisingly, these retrospect. B~t time can smooth the roug!i emotions are inseparable from the place in edges, . and perhaps did with Saroyan, and The following essay was written for Dr. Diclo·an Kouymjian's one unit Saturday class, William Saroyan and Fresno, which was offered in the fal/1986 semester. which they occurred. thus allow a nostalgic recounting of the Paradoxically, Saroyan's portrayal of essential goodness, disappointments, and the world at Fresno is conducted on the ironies of life. about Fresno. The locale for the stories smallest of scales. The even~ he describes Ultimately, the bOolC·- ~- this "story of an By Kenneth Zech is, to be sure, Fresno and environs, but are not those of which significant mo- American boy named Aram Garoghlanian"-­ Contributor the storie~ are· about life and about people. ments in history are made. Nor are , his is as the author suggests. "Nothing That Saroyan's memories of Fresno are characters of prominence in the world or extraordinary is going to happen in it. " William Saroyan's view of his pleasant is confirmed by ·his sentimental even in their community. Nevertheless, it Saroyan says ofMy Name is Aram. hometown of Fresno in My Name is (in the best sense of that word) and lyrical is an expression of the human condition And n?thing extraordinary does happen, Aram is hardly a concealed message. storytelling throughout the collection. as important and as valid as the affairs of nor is anything extraordinary said of One needs to look no further than the first · For Saroyan, Fresno was a place where a geopolitics. Fresno. Saroyan's thoughts and feelings twelve words of the · preface to glean the child could enjoy simple pleasures, The impatience Saroyan alluded to in are simple and to the point. He is fond of essence of Saroyan's perspective. 'The confront the difficulties of life, survive, his preface is indeed absent from his the town. He appreciates Fresno for the writer returns these pleasant memories to and grow from the experiences. It was a stories although we do wonder whether "A meaning it has to him. He sees in Fresno the world at Fresno, California. .. " Of place where young Aram could escape the Word to Scoffers" is not a curious the world. course, we do look further. The preface dreary classroom of the ineffectual Miss inclusion in the collection1 ·and perhaps. a Ultimately, the book --this "story of an becomes an essay on the theme expressed Flibety when the circus came to town. Of suggestion of other themes. But even this American boy named Aram Garoghlanian"-­ -- in the frrst few words. His thoughts here course there were certain to be consequeces story, which takes him away from Fresno, is as ·the author suggests. ''Nothing extra­ are explicit. But in the stories that· for this truancy. But Aram is pleasantly is an examination of life and the ordinary is going to happen in it, " Sar­ follow, Saroyan's thoughts are implicit, surprised that the severity of the observation of behaviors that vary little oian says of My Name is Aram. And btit equally clear. One could safely skip punishment is "modulated," so to speak. form place to place. nothing extraordinary does happen, nor is anything extraordinary said of Fresno. the preface and reach the same conclusion. Aram is left free to eagerly anticipate the Saroyan's stories often revolve around Saroyan's thoughts and feelings are simple In his preface "Note", Saroyan tells us County Fair, and another escape. the conflict between man's aspirations and and to the point. He is fond of the town. three very important things about Fresno. Fresno was also a place where Aram and the reality of life. There is a parallel to He appreciates Fresno for the meaning it He tells us that one can find "the large his cousin Mourad could appropriate a be found in Saroyan's writing and that is has to him. He sees in Fresno the world. comic world" in Fresno. But this is not a neighbor's beautiful white horse, and when braggart's claim. Rather, it is the author's discovered by the neighbor, be gently philosophical perspective that life in Fresno is much like life anywhere. shamed into returning the animal without a Towns, large or small, are microcosms of word of confrontation. Arf~?enian Trilogy Boo~ Signing the world at large. This is a pleasant and humane world for Saroyan does, however, believe there is AraiT\. but it is a world of sorrow too. For something special about Fresno. He says his Uncle Melik, a man "too imaginative that Fresno is "as good a town as any in and poetic for his own good," the vision the world for the writer to be born into" to of vast orchards of pomegranates becomes _have those things needed to feed "the a reality of loss and sadness when Melik spirit of the growing writer." In fact, in fails to make his farm productive. In his Fresno he finds "an abundance of material Uncle Khosrov, Aram sees the sorrow, by nature... rich in the elements of dispair, and loneliness that is caused when comedy ... " his uncle's Arab friend dies. And so the My Name · is Aram is a collection stories go. Stories of the trials, comedies of short stories, an~ a recapitulation of the and pleasures of life--stories of people. preface themes. It is important. though, To have come of age in Fresno, and to to understand that the stories are not really have had his spirit· nurtured there, caused a

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Annen ian Studies Program 1Oth Anniversary Banquet Donors By Lynette Zerounian would do a book of Saroyan plays, because Staff Writer the Press knew I had worked with Saroyan material before." Mrs. Araks V. Tolegian · Sherman Oaks, CA William Saroyan: An Armenian When asked how the response was to Mrs. Araxia M. Hovespian Atherton, CA Trilogy, edited by Dickran Kouymjian. the publishing of the · bo<;>k, he stated "It Toros and Zabel Gosyan San Francisco, CA It is a set of three plays having to do with was excellent, much better than I had Spurgeon Avakian Santa Cruz, CA Armenians and is enriched with fascinating imagined. Those people who have read the Haig Beloian Fresno, C~ pictures. It is a remarkable book filled book spoke warmly of it When I spoke Dr. Martha Googoian -Ensher Fresno, CA with style and humor. recently about the book before audiences Berge and Alice Bulbulian Sanger, CA In 'an interview with Dr. Kouymjian, in Los Angeles and the East Coast, the Dr. and Mrs. Ara Hairabedian Fresno, CA which was conducted at a book signing book represented a personal view of Dr. Dennis Papazian Dearborn, MI given by the California State University, Saroyan himself. People can identify with Mary Mirigian · Fresno, CA1 Fresno Kennel Bookstore on P~mber Saroyan's material because of the joy and ~rs. Nevart Karagozian Saratoga, CA 3, 1987, I asked him what motivated him sorrows present in it and also because of Stephen J. Elm~ian Providence, RI to do this kind of book. He said, "I the present day concerns of Armenians Edward J. Terzian and Virginia Santa Rose, CA thought it would be the most interesting which are in it." Ernest and Allee Hosepian Fresno, CA material Saroyan had written explaining A sincere bravo to Dr. Kouymjian· for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Aslanian San Francisco, CA his concern with being a member of a having edited this book and presenting to June and Kathleen Demirdjian San Leandro, CA minority group in America" Kouymjian the public the work of perhaps the best Mr. and Mrs. Davidian' Fresno, CA dso said," The CSUF Press asked me if I known Armenian writer . Mrs. Alice Peters . ·Fresno, CA A.S. Kasparian San Bruno, CA Khoren K. Davidson Fresno, CA Harry Berberian Southfield, MI Patricia Peterson Hansen Sacramento, CA ::ESSAY CONTEST Hapet J. Kharibian Palo Alto, CA Dr. and Mrs. H.A. Yeni-Komshian Chevy-Chase, MD The Armenian Students Organization is pleased to announce an essay ...... _ Mrs. Flora Donlan Pasadena, CA contest open to all college students. The first prize winner will receive Gia Aivazian Los Angeles, CA $200.00 which has been contributed by a donor from New York. Zareh Samurkashian Santa Clara, CA John Zerounian Fresno, CA How to resist assimilation? Mr. and Mrs. AI Kabrielian Fresno, CA Mrs. Vanoobie J. Jurian Fresno, CA The essay. can be in Armenian or English, and must be typed, double Y ervant Aghishi~ Granada Hills, CA spaced, and be no less than three and no more than five pages long. The Gladys K. Peters Fresno, CA deadline for essays to be received is April 1, 1987. All submissions must be Rev. and Mrs. Roger Minassian Fresno, CA sent to: Helen Anabit Sahagian Arlington, Mass. ASO Essay Contest Agnes and Hovsep Onanian Toronto, Ontario c/o Armenian Studies Program · Hagop and Mrs. and Mrs. Khoubesserian Willowdale,Ontarlo - California State University, Fresno Canada Fresno, California 93740 Albert and Harvey Nalbandian San Francisco, CA Mrs. Wesley M. Williams Fresno, CA The essays will be judged by a panel of the Armenian Students Oranization Mrs. Anoush Cbamlian Fresno, CA and the Armenian Studies Program. Winners will have their work published in Thomas J. Ebert Clovis, CA Hye Sharzhoom. Hranoosh Hussian · , · Fresno, CA Sponsered by Mr. and Mrs. Babken and Anabld Khanjlan L------~~------~ FEBRUARY 1987 HYE SHARZHOOM Page7 Armenian restaurant captures Old Fresno flavor

George's downtown eatery MANUFACTURING

By Greg Eritzian Staff Writer

It's noon time. You walk in and sit at the counter. At once you smell the aroma of grilled peppers, onions, and tomatoes along with the familiar scent of tender: chunJss of skewered lamb being prepared by a young Mexican American chef who greets the customers saying "Parev, eench EMK combination dewattdng & air a ..n lng unit. bes es?" (Hello, how are you?). In the kitchen behind the counter the voice of Designers and manufacturers of quality . Gevorg is heard (better known to the machinery for the food industry Fresno community- as George) along with 2655 S. Cherry • Fresno, CA 93706 his wife lskouhi. (209) 264-1552 George Koroyan, a Soviet-born im­ migrant, is the proprietor of the locally famous George's Shish l{ebab located at 2405 Capitol Street, north of the convention center in Fresno. Since 1979 when the original George's first opened, SUPPORT the restaurant has become a local landmark, obviously because of it's fine food and strong reflection of the Fresno -HYE community. . George immigrated to Fresno in 1977 SHARZHOOM with his family, except for one brother whom George is still trying to bring over Proprietor George Koroyan, left, at new location preparing for the daily noon from the Soviet Union. It was there in the rush. • Soviet Union George first learned the restaurant trade and the art of preparing shish kebab. He worked for a government kanian eats at George's three times a day. owned and operated restaurant which was He loves the shish kebab and keyma (a highly regulated by government controls. raw ground. beef dish similar to steak THE In 1979, George opened the original tartare). George's Shish Keb~b which was It isn't surprising to see people lined . up HYE CLASS • :'1·• • located on the corner of L and Ventura at 6:00 in the morning when · George is Streets. It was a small brick building and just opening up for breakfast. He serves the inside counter and cafe-type tables the traditional breakfast dishes in addition BAND were often full, emphasizing the obvious to shish kebab with eggs which are ~ OLD STYLE need for expansion. When asked about the outstanding. For lunch, customers have a INSTRUMENTATION difference between working in . the United choice of peda and "Hye" burgers, shish States and Soviet Armenia, George had kebab, salad, or pilaf, or the daily special - ~ · this to say, "Here it is more exciting and I which changes everyday. * like working. There are no controls. You George stops serving at 3:00 p.m. but \:~: : KA~OON can open and close whenever you want and continues working, often until 7:00 in the * OUD the money you make is yours." evening. On nights of basketball games In 1986 George decided to change the he stays open late for the fans. Saturday * CLARINET location of the restaurant. The old place is his busiest day and he says the new was too small and since business was restaurant. is already feeling too small. doing so well the rent wai quadrupled. Since relocating he uses up to fifteen P.airs * DUMBEG - George moved into the larger location on of legs of lamb, compared to three pairs at Capitol street which he had custom ·his old location. He marinates the meat designed to fit his needs. The new himself, with an old family recipe. When George's includes a much larger kitchen, things settle down (which is hard to a long shiny coun~ with· bar sto

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DER MANUEUAN, On the Origins continued from page 1 Churches were built in valleys, on mountains and cliffs. All were built in the heavy stone used for building in stone and had stone domes, a revealirig, of the Armenians addition to the architectural design which very high tech method for Ani's time. The included double walls and round towers sculpture and design on the churches varied _ The following essay was written for seems to be perpetuated in the medieval which were stronger than common square · from slide to slide. For example, one Armenian ·History 108A, Armenian History­ and modern texts as a name for the towers. highly regarded church, the church of the Origins to the Mongol Invasions, which Armenians in general. Following the fall Ani's · highly advanced military Holy Cross on Akhtamar island on Lake was taught in the fall semester of 1986 by of Urartu and the Median invasion,. there architecture has been the topic of several Van was highly sculptured, bearing human Dr. Dickran Kouymjian. was further fusion and intermingling of all studies. For example, Ani's double wall figures at the church'~-.~J).traJlce. these tribes, so that "hai", "Armen", · and system offered a well fortified system · In the capital, eight churches remain, "Sokhmi" became more or less synon­ whose features have been copied in the each established by a different royal by Zepur Karakazian ymous. The Armenians themselves adopted West & in Cilicia where castles were bl;lilt family as their way of symbolizing gra­ the form "hai", the Georgians "Somekhi", during the Cilician Armenian kingdom. titude to God and to reflect the importance It is rather difficult to compare in details while the Iranians took over the form Ani's other architectural highlights include of building churches. the .theories of LM. Diakonoff on the "Armina", which in Greek or Latin turns the great staggered gates which were built Der Manuelian told the story of one origins of the Armenian nation with that into the familiar "Armenian". in order to deter invaders in the case of church's inception. The church, simply of Boris B. Piotrovsky's because each Diakonoff dismisses this logical idea of one being destroyed. The stone walls of named Shepherd's (Hoviv) Chapel after its writer has approached and analyzed the "Hayasa" by saying that "the connection the fortress were highly polished, builder, a shepherd, who one Sunday question from a different perspective. of the Armenian nation and language with decorated on the inside. and built with moniing not finding room in any of the Diakonoff dwelled on the linguistic basis, Hayasa is not provable and in its very extreme care -- a care which Der Manuelian other nearby churches, decided to build whereas Piotrovsky used historical and essence not probable." He approaches the sums up as."... built to be a thing of one. archaeological facts. Furthermore, question as follows: the Old Armenian beauty as well as a fortress." · The lecture concluded with a question Piotrovsky put little emphasis on the pre- was brought to "Armenia" from the outside According to- D.er Manuelian, about two and answer period followed by a reception. history of Armenians and mainly discussed because the Old Armenian is not related to dozen churches, thus · far, have been The talk was sponsored by the Armenian the period of the 6th century B.C. of the language of the aborigines of the documented from findings through Students Organization, the Armenian Urartu and the rise of the Armenian nation; Armenian Highland--the Hurrians, Urar­ excavations. Yet she emphasized that Studies Program, and the Fresno Metro­ Diakonoff, on the other hand, discussed the tians, etc. Also, since it doesn't belong to much JllOre Jemains yet to be uncovered. politan Museum. origins of Prato-Armenians which went any of the branches of Indo-European back to 12th century B.C. and tried to family which penetrated into Western Asia identify the · origins of the Old Armenian in the 3rd or first half of the 2nd language. millennium B.C., it must have appeared Acording to Piotrovsky, after the fall of before or after that time. After various Najarian to Speak in Fresno Urartu its place was taken by new logical processes of elimination, he comes countries which had formed part of the to the conClusion that the only branch of Author Peter Najarian of Berkeley will Urartian kingdom. Thus, on the western the Indo-European language family to lecture on the . California State University periphery of Urartian territory, there grew which Old Armenian can be related is Fre~no campus on .Friday, March 13, an alliance of tribes headed by the Thraco-Phrygian and therefore, the most 1987. The author 'of the recently published Armenians, and by the middle of the 6th probable date for the appearance of the Daughters of Memory . (City Miner century B.C. a considerable area of Urar- Prato-Armenians in the Armenian High­ Books, 1986) will be in Fresno to address tian territory was occupied by the Ar- land is 12th century B.C., the century the Armenian Students Organization and menians. This was indicated by the _ol~ . when there actually is historical evidence the campus community. Later that day he Persian inscriptions of Darius the Great of great migrations. will speak to the Armenian community of where the Armenians were mentioned in In sununary, the Prato-Armenians Fresno. his list of victories as "Armine." Also, migrated from the area of ancient Phrygia Najarian is an instructor in English at in the Babylonian text of inscriptions, the to the Armenian Highland where they San Francisco State University and same area was referred to as Urartu in the mingled with other tribes and nations, received an M.A. in creative writing from Babylonian form of "Urashtu." namely Hurrians, the Urartians, and .the San Francisco State in 1970. Up in the north, in the old land of Luvians and gave rise to the Armenians He is the author of two novels, Hayasa (a -Hittite province), the remnants and Armenian nation. · Voyages (Pantheon Books, 1971) and of the Hayasa . people formed a tribal One common factor in both of the Wash Me On Home, Mama (Berkeley federation whose language was evidently theories is that the Armenians and the Poets Press, 1978. He has written nu­ related to the ancient Indo-European lan- Armenian nation that we know today is a merous short prose pieces and articles. guages of Asia Minor, namely -Hittite, mixture of tribes (and possibly nations) Najarian was awarded a Stegner Fellowship t from Stanford University in 1967-1968. ~..:;_ ___.:.....;.__....:!L---__:. ~---"" Luvian, Lydian, Lycian, and Phrygian. who lived in Asia Minor for at least three Although after the fall of Hittities empire millennia. Piotrovosky's theory is easier . Rachel Hadas of the New York Peter Najarian the name "Hayasa" disaPP:e3fed from the to grasp and Understand and of course is Times, in a recent review of Daughters of historical record and was replaced by .very logical; Diakonoffs theory, although Memory said, "We have an appetite for "Sukhmi" or "Sokhmi",the Hayasa tribes logical, · is harder to follow and requires language • like hunger or lust, and Mr. Watch for · additional information federaf.ion . gave rise to the forms "Haik", vast knowledge of history and linguistics Najarian's use of language is what lifts concerning the specific times and places artd "Hayastan", used by the Armenians to make any decent commenL this book above the level of memoir, of the appearance of Peter Najarian m· today. "Sokhmi'' was also applied to journal or scrapbook- all genres Fresno. tribes living along the upper Euphrates, Daughters of Memory embraces but ------transcends." HYE SHARZHOOM THANK YOU! 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