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Welcome, Citizen! NY Reception Honors Prof. Rouben Mirzakhanian SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXVI, NO. 11, Issue 4405 $ 2.00 NEWS INBRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Consul General Visits After A NY Reception Aleppo Orphanage and Nightmarish Honors Nursing Home ALEPPO (Public Radio of Armenia) — On the occa- sion of Armenia’s Independence Day, Armenian Childhood in Prof. Rouben Consul General to Syria Tigran Gevorgyan visited the Armenian home for the elderly in Aleppo. Antoura, Hope Mirzakhanian Gevorgyan toured the nursing home accompa- nied by its director, members of the board of And Salvation Receives Award at Southern trustees and the leader of Syria’s Armenian evan- gelical community and talked to the elderly people Conn. University that live there. By Alin K. Gregorian The consul general congratulated them on the Mirror-Spectator Staff 24th anniversary of Armenia’s independence and By Arpiar Hagopian assured that the issues of the Syrian Armenians, especially the aged people and children, are always WATERTOWN — Most children do NEW YORK — Prof. Rouben a part of the focus of attention of the Armenian not have clear ideas about their par- Mirzakhanian, president of the Khachatur authorities. ents’ childhoods. They might hear Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical Gevorgyan expressed gratitude to the staff of the bits and pieces and use their imagi- University, has been visiting the United nursing home for their devoted work. The same day nations to color in the lives of their States since September 9 at the invitation he visited the Armenian orphanage. He congratu- parents as children. Perhaps few can of Southern Connecticut State University lated its young residents on the occasion of the imagine the stories of Goodbye, (SCSU). Dr. Mary Papazian, president of start of the new academic year and wished them Antoura, the memoirs of Karnig Panian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide SCSU, awarded Mirzakhanian with the every success in their studies. He assured them Panian’s memoirs were first published in Armenian in 1992 by Hamazkayin highest honor of her university on that the consulate general would continue to assist Cultural Association and the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia. Now the September 10 at the John Lyman the orphanage. Gevorkyan and the leadership of volume has been translated into English, and pub- Performing Arts Center Gallery at SCSU the orphanage discussed the possibility of organiz- lished this year by the Stanford University Press, see HONORS, page 8 ing the summer vacation of the children in with a foreword by Dr. Vartan Gregorian.It has Armenia. received great reviews both in the US and Lebanon. Panian was born in Gurin in 1910. He was 5 when his mother and a younger sister and brother Armenian Defects to perished during the forcible marches. His father had been among the men who had been rounded Azerbaijan up by the authorities in a previous sweep. BAKU (RFE/RL) — An Armenian man has defect- His story is at once astonishingly sad and yet hope- ed to Azerbaijan. ful.A boy who shifted between four orphanages, one Vahan Martirosian, the head of the non-govern- of which, Antoura, was a proverbial hell on earth, mental organization Internal National Liberation became an erudite and educated man who married Movement, told reporters in Baku on September and had children and eventually became the vice prin- 18 that he had requested political asylum in cipal at Djemaran, the Armenian Lyceum, in Beirut. Azerbaijan. Karnig Panian The contents were at times shocking for Prof. Rouben Mirzakhanian receiving at He slammed the policies of Armenian President see ANTOURA, page 9 Southern Connecticut University award from SCSU President Dr. Mary Papazian Serge Sargisian, calling them anti-Armenian, and said Azerbaijani media are the only sources offering “truthful information” about the current situation in Armenia. Settlement with Armenia Marks Martirosian claimed that he had been persecuted by Armenian authorities for his political activities Armenian Church Independence and therefore decided to defect to Azerbaijan together with his wife and their toddler son. Allows Getty YEREVAN (Combined The Armenian Investigative Committee said on Sources) — On September 21, September 17 after reports about Martirosian’s Museum Keep Armenia marked the 24th defection started circulating in regional media that anniversary of its independence. Martirosian had been added to a wanted list. Prized Bible Pages A total of 94.99 percent of Sona Truzian, an adviser to the Armenian Armenian citizens said a res- Investigative Committee’s chairman, said that olute “yes” to independence by Martirosian was suspected of stealing the equiva- means of a referendum in 1990 lent of $4,000 in Yerevan. By Mike Boehm in favor of secession from the Truzian also said that Martirosian had filed a Soviet Union. Two days later, on complaint claiming that he and his wife had been September 23, the Supreme LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles Times) — attacked by the security personnel of an Armenian Council of the Armenian Soviet The Getty Museum will keep eight brilliant- President Serge Sargisian, Catholicos of All lawmaker but never showed up to talk to investi- Socialist Republic declared the ly illustrated table of contents pages from a Armenians Karekin II and other dignitaries gators. see INDEPENDENCE, page 3 750-year-old Armenian Bible after settling a long-running lawsuit brought by an American branch of the Armenian Independence Day Celebrated in New York City Apostolic Church. NEW YORK — The 24th anniversary of the independence of Armenia was cele- INSIDE The church contended they had been ille- brated on September 20 at St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral under the auspices of gally separated from the rest of the book Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of amid the Armenian genocide during World America (Eastern) and Amb.of the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations War I. Zohrab Mnatsakanyan. The organizer was Noyan Tapan, with the Armenian Welcome, The Getty and the Western Prelacy of the Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavars), Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA), the Armenian Apostolic Church of America Knights and Daughters of Vartan, and the Armenian Assembly of America serving jointly announced the settlement Monday. as cosponsors. Speakers Citizen! Both sides said they were happy with the included Knights’ Grand outcome, but for very different reasons. Commander Steve Page 5 The Getty gets to keep the art, and the Kradjian, Armenian As- church gets recognition that all along it has sembly Executive Direc- been the rightful owner of the pages, which tor Bryan Ardouny, TCA were separated about 100 years ago from a of Greater New York INDEX complete Bible called the Zeyt’un gospels. Chairman Hagop Arts and Living . 10 The rest of the book is at the Vartivarian, and Mnats- Armenia . 2,3 Matenadaran, a museum and library for akanyan. Archbishop Community News. 5 manuscripts in Yerevan, the capital of Yeghishe Gizirian made Editorial . 14 Armenia. The Getty bought its pages in the closing remarks. The International . 4 1994 from an Armenian-American family above photo includes for $1.5 million in today’s dollars. participants in the pro- see SETTLEMENT, page 16 gram. S ATURDAY, S EPTEMBER 2 6 , 2 0 1 5 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR 5 Community News Celebrating New St. Nersess Armenian Rev. Kesablyan Seminary Campus To Be Feted on ARMONK, N.Y. — “After years of planning, Decade of dedication and faith, supporters of St. Nersess Armenian Seminary will celebrate the semi- Church Service nary’s move to its new Armonk, New York cam- pus on November 22, at the Rockleigh Country CHELMSFORD, Mass. — The parish Club in Rockleigh, New Jersey,” states fundrais- of Sts. Vartanantz Armenian Church ing chair Haig Ariyan. “The Sunday evening will honor Rev. Khachatur Kesablyan banquet, which will be presided over by on the occasion of the 10th anniver- Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the sary of his ordination into the Holy Eastern Diocese and President of the St. Order of Priesthood. Nersess Board of Directors, will honor grand The event will be held on Sunday, benefactors Haig and Elza Didizian of London, October 4 with Archbishop Khajag England. Through their generosity and vision, a Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of new chapel and the Karekin I Theological the Armenian Church of America Center, which will include offices, classrooms (Eastern) presiding. The day’s events and a library, are being constructed. The new will begin with the celebration of the facility will provide seminarians a place to learn, Divine Liturgy, and will be followed by study, and prepare for service in the Armenian a banquet and program to be held in Church for years to come.” the Kazanjian Memorial Pavilion. The St. Nersess Board of Directors invites New citizens at Faneuil Hall Kesablyan has spent the past nine clergy, alumni, faculty, summer conference years in the United States, and began alumni and supporters and friends of the semi- his ministry here as an intern at Holy nary to attend the gala dinner. Trinity Armenian Church in Since its founding 54 years ago, St. Nersess New Citizens’ Welcome Cambridge. In 2008, Kesablyan has continued to provide clergy and lay leaders became pastor of Sts. Vartanantz to the Armenian Church throughout America Armenian Church where he has served and the world. This has been achieved while Reception at Armenian the spiritual needs of the parish. In respecting and perpetuating the ancient tradi- addition, he has been the visiting pas- tions of our Armenian Church. In addition to tor for the Armenian Church of Cape the thorough curriculum and course work Heritage Park to Feature Cod since 2009, and just completed required to graduate, the seminary has recently his second summer as a co-director of added unique offerings, including an Dr.
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