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LOVSAPYR LOOSAPER Sovrp Bydros Ha3asdanya3x Ygy.yxi ST. P ETER A RMENIAN C HURCH 100 T ROY -SCHENECTADY R OAD , PO B OX 196, W ATERVLIET , NY 12189 MARCH -APRIL 2013 St. Peter Armenian Apostolic Church 100 Troy-Schenectady Road P.O. Box 196 Watervliet, NY 12189 Phone: (518) 274-3673 ~ Fax: (518) 274-3103 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stpeterarmenianchurch.com * Join us on facebook * SUNDAY WORSHIP: Morning Services 9:15 a.m. Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m. sharp OFFICE HOURS: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Rev. Fr. Stepanos Doudoukjian , Parish Priest Rev. Fr. Garen Gdanian , Pastor Emeritus 839 Pearse Road 1 Cindy Lee Court Niskayuna, NY 12309 377-7448 Latham, NY 12110 785-4816 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Garo Derian , Chairman Rhonda Boyajian 560 Rt. 9W 35 Riverview Road Glenmont, NY 12077 436-7447 Clifton Park, NY 12065 371-3024 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Gilbert Chorbajian , Vice Chairman Leon Kaiser 6011 Baneberry Drive 81 Old Coach Road Schenectady, NY 12303 356-5363 Clifton Park, NY 12065 383-3266 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Willard Martin , Treasurer Yervant Kutchukian 90 Wagon W. Trail 2003 Brookview Road Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 587-4706 Castleton-on-Hudson, NY 12033 732-7486 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] John ‘Frenchie’ Ekmalian , Assistant Treasurer William T. Nevins, Jr. 11B Ledgewood Drive 43 Wolfert Avenue Albany, NY 12205 421-1970 Menands, NY 12204 465-9409 Ronald P. Kaiser , Secretary E-mail: [email protected] 11 Clove Court Daniel O’Keefe Clifton Park, NY 12065 371-2809 63 Corrit Drive E-mail: [email protected] Delmar, NY 12054 Breann Parseghian , Assistant Secretary E-mail: [email protected] 54 Spruce Street Joanne Scaringe Clifton Park, NY 12065 371-4258 6 Chestnut Hill South E-mail: [email protected] Loudonville, NY 12211 463-5004 Robert Bedian E-mail: [email protected] 2 Carol Place Wynantskill, NY 12198 283-9110 E-mail: [email protected] DIOCESAN DELEGATES: Edward A. Belemjian Charles Tutunjian 10 Orchard Grove 9 Dyke Road Loudonville, NY 12211 465-3029 Latham, NY 12110 785-9423 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] CHURCH ORGANIZATION CONTACTS : PARISH COUNCIL LIAISON : ACYOA Jrs. Lena Guleserian-Hoglund . 227-1979 Yervant Kutchukian ACYOA Srs. Jonathan Dadekian . 346-1819 Yervant Kutchukian Armenian School Anahid Altounian . 463-2625 Garo Derian Bible Study Elsie Vozzy . 373-0242 Yervant Kutchukian Choir Director Dn. Rafi Topalian . 272-2000 Ron Kaiser St. Peter Adult Fellowship Ara Baligian . 279-3583 Edward Belemjian Sunday School Lori Khachikian Brown . .355-1051 Leon Kaiser Women’s Guild Mary Panjarjian . 729-4493 Rhonda Boyajian Bookstore Charlotte Sevazlian . 274-6527 Garo Derian All articles must be submitted on a timely basis by following the “Schedule for Publication” listed below: MAY / JUNE SCHEDULE FOR PUBLICATION Articles Deadline Monday, May 20 Typing and Proofreading Mon, May 20 - Fri, May 31 To Printer Friday, May 31 Mailing Wednesday, June 5 The Loosaper constitutes a vital and an historical record of the life of the St. Peter Church Community. Therefore, it is important to make every effort to preserve and maintain the continuity of this publication. In order to do this, we need help. Any parishioner interested in being a reporter or assisting the editorial staff with this publication should call the church office. Church Secretary, Lori Payette, is responsible for compiling and typing this issue. A volunteer group performs editorial tasks such as: proofreading, layout, writing, and editing of articles. All materials submitted are subject to editing by the Editorial Staff. The mailing of the Loosaper is also handled by volunteers. If you find errors in this edition of the Loosaper, please understand that, while perfection is always our goal, it is one that may remain forever beyond our reach! CURRENT VOLUNTEER STAFF: Editorial: Sonia Hachigian, Joyce Kenosian & Philip Natcharian Photographers: Maria Derian & Charlotte Sevazlian Please forward all articles to the church office. LOOSAPER DONATIONS There is an outlay of approximately $450 for publishing and mailing each issue of the Loosaper . Any contribution sent to defray part of this cost will be gratefully appreciated. Names of donors and contributions will be listed in the Loosaper , unless we are requested not to do so . Many thanks to the most recent donors who answered our call to help offset the costs of our church publication: $141.42 - Mary DerArakelian Endowment Fund; $40 - Mr. & Mrs. Girard Kasparian (CA); $25 - Shakeh Young; $10 - Josephine Speanburg. Please use the form below to send your donation to: “St. Peter Armenian Church” PO Box 196, Watervliet, NY 12189 PLEASE ACCEPT MY DONATION FOR THE LOOSAPER in the amount of $ Name: Address: Check box to send the Loosaper to the following e-mail address: Discontinue sending the Loosaper to my postal address: Yes or No Additional Comments: Torkom Manoogian (93) Armenian Church Leader The New York Times Obituaries, Sunday, October 21, 2012 — by PAUL VITELLO gilded 120-foot-tall dome, was Archbishop Manoogian nian Church of America.” consecrated in 1968 in a cere- enlisted the American Catholic “He was a witness to the Archbishop Torkom mony attended by the city’s Conference, the American genocide,” Mr. Zakian said. Manoogian, the longtime civic and religious leaders, Jewish Committee and the Is- “And — not saying this to di- leader of the Armenian ortho- including Mayor John V. lamic Center of Washington to minish his dignity and stature dox church in the United Lindsay. join in demanding that Turkey in any way — he was also a P. States and a savvy communi- In April 1975, to mark acknowledge the atrocities. R. genius.” cator who used his pulpit in the 60th anniversary of the Gov. Hugh L. Carey of New Torkom Manoogian was New York to broaden public start of the Armenian blood York signed a proclamation born on Feb. 16, 1919, one of awareness of the Armenian bath, Archbishop Manoogian demanding the same. six children of Nargiz and Va- genocide, died on Oct. 12 in sponsored a series of public The historian Barbara W. han Manoogian. His parents Jerusalem. He was 93. events, including one at Madi- Tuchman, whose grandfather owned a photography studio in He had been hospitalized son Square Garden, that Henry Morgenthau Sr. was the a southeastern Turkish town since January with cardiac brought new attention to the United States ambassador to near the Iraq border. He was problems, church officials said mass deaths and the Turkish the Ottoman Empire in 1915, sent to school in Jerusalem at in announcing his death. government’s continued re- related his eyewitness account 12 and ordained as a priest in From 1966 to 1990, fusal to accept responsibility of the massacres before a 1939. Archbishop Manoogian was for them as acts of genocide. standing-room-only crowd at He arrived in the United primate of the Eastern Diocese Like many ethnic Arme- the Felt Forum in Madison States for the first of several of the Armenian Church in nians in the United States, Square Garden. church assignments in 1946, America, the larger of two dio- Archbishop Manoogian was a Peter Balakian, author of serving in California and ceses in this country, where descendant of the large Chris- “The Burning Tigris: The Ar- Pennsylvania. He was primate most of about 700,000 church tian population that was ex- menian Genocide and Amer- of the Western Diocese in members live. (The Western pelled from what is now Tur- ica’s Response,” said the scale 1962 and named a bishop the Diocese comprises Arizona key in a campaign of ethnic of the 1975 commemoration same year. He became an and California.) cleansing undertaken by the was groundbreaking and well archbishop in 1966, soon after A skilled fund-raiser, the Ottoman military between timed. he arrived in New York. archbishop led the final phases 1915 and 1923. An estimated “Holocaust studies and a After the 1988 earth- of construction of St. Vartan’s one million Armenians were new American human rights quake in Armenia, which Cathedral, the first Armenian killed or starved to death. The culture had emerged in the killed more than 50,000 and cathedral in North America. A archbishop was born in an Ar- ’60s and ’70s,” he said, and left many more homeless, he work in progress on the East menian refugee camp near “the archbishop was astute in spearheaded church relief ef- Side of Manhattan (Second Baghdad after his parents fled seizing that moment” to place forts in the United States. Avenue at 34th Street) since their Turkish town during the the Armenian genocide In 1990, Archbishop the 1950s, the cathedral, with a killings. “within the new arc of Ameri- Manoogian was appointed pa- The Turkish cans’ commemorative mem- triarch of Jerusalem, a primar- government ory.” ily diplomatic post that he held maintains that Several days of 60th- until his death. many died on anniversary observances cul- Archbishop Manoogian both sides of an minated in a march from St. was an authority on Armenian ethnic conflict Vartan’s Cathedral past the sacred music and on the work between Arme- United Nations and into St. of the musician-priest Komi- nians and Turks Patrick’s Cathedral. There, in tas, who became mentally ill during World his sermon, Archbishop during the Armenian genocide War I, but that Manoogian addressed an audi- and is considered one of its Turkish au- ence of survivors, their de- martyrs. He died in 1935 in thorities never scendants and other support- Paris. The archbishop also adopted a pro- ers.