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March 2014 Vol California State University, Fresno Armenian Studies Program Non-Profit and Armenian Students Organization U.S. Postage 5245 N. Backer Ave. M/S PB 4 PAID Fresno, CA 93740-8001 Permit No. 262 Change Service Requested FRESNO, CA HYE SHARZHOOM th Armenian Action FA| <ARVOUM 35Year March 2014 Vol. 35, No. 3 (125) Ethnic Supplement to The Collegian Hye Sharzhoom-Reflections by Editors on Harutyunyan Brings Song & 35th Anniversary of the Student Newspaper Dance Workshop to Fresno issue of Hye Sharzhoom, elements of Armenian culture can be observed. Our curiosity, boldness, pride, love, and all that is unique to Armenians exist in the newspaper. Hye Sharzhoom is a microcosm MA RINE VA RD A NY A N providing students with an of Armenian nature, as described EDITOR instrument to transmit ideas and by the great Armenian-American issues important to the Armenian writer William Saroyan. “It is simply in the nature of community and to expand Thirty-five remarkable years Armenian to study, to learn, to awareness about the dynamic have been achieved by the question, to speculate, to discover, Armenian Studies Program and assiduous work of the editors, to invent, to revise, to restore, to Armenian Students Organization. staff writers, photographers, and preserve, to make, and to give.” - For thirty-five years Hye advisors. Though students are William Saroyan. Sharzhoom has sustained its in college for a relatively brief Only two years after the mission. It has enabled individuals time, their contributions to Hye Armenian Studies Program was to share ideas, develop opinions, Sharzhoom are everlasting. established, Hye Sharzhoom create connections, and preserve Hye Sharzhoom celebrates Photo: Barlow Der Mugrdechian was launched in April of 1979, Armenian values. In each unique its 35th Anniversary with a look Hasmik Harutyunyan, left, leading students at the “Armenian back and interviews with previous Song and Dance Workshop,” held Saturday, February 1. ASO Balances Work with Fun editors. non-Armenians. The Saturday, RUZ A N ORKU S Y A N February 1, “Song and Dance Bill Erysian STAFF WRITER Workshop,” sponsored by the Editor: Fall 1979-Fall 1980 Armenian Studies Program and For the third year in a row, Armenian Students Organization How did you become Hasmik Harutyunyan, member of offered an unforgettable afternoon interested in joining the staff of the world renowned Shoghaken of traditional Armenian music, Hye Sharzhoom? Why did you Folk Ensemble, captivated dances, history, and wisdom. The decide to become editor? and engaged her audience of Workshop was partially funded by SEE HYE SH A RZH oom PA GE 4 young and old, Armenians and SEE H A RUTYUNY A N PA GE 7 Leon S. Peters Foundation Gift of $30,000 to ASP ST A FF RE po RT Program at Fresno State for 2014. study trip, and general support for This continues the tradition of the the Program. Armenian Studies Program Peters Foundation in supporting Leon S. Peters was respected Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der the Armenian Studies Program as a businessman, civic leader, Mugrdechian announced that Annual Lecture Series, as well and philanthropist who lived and the Leon S. Peters Foundation as a variety of other activities, worked according to the highest Photo: Barlow Der Mugrdechian has made a generous donation of including scholarships, outreach ASO Armenian Genocide Commemoration committee. $30,000 to the Armenian Studies activities, an Armenia summer SEE PETER S GIFT PA GE 6 MA RINE VA RD A NY A N only a month away, a number of Armenians in Middle East Focus of Presentation EDITOR meetings have already taken place today on the campus of Fresno to prepare for the 99th Anniversary State. Professor Barlow Der A pleasant balance of work and of the Armenian Genocide Mugrdechian, Coordinator of the leisure has preoccupied members commemorative activities. Armenian Studies Program, served of the Armenian Students “The meetings are very serious, as a guest speaker for the MES10 Organization as the Spring everyone seems very focused and class, “Introduction to the Middle Semester rapidly approaches East,” to address the impact of its halfway mark. With April SEE ASO PA GE 4 Armenians in the Middle East. His talk “The Armenians in the Middle The California State University, Fresno East and Diasporan Armenian Armenian Studies Program Communities” detailed the history of the Armenians in the region, 26TH ANNU A L BA NQUET how these communities formed, and the future of Armenians in the welcoming Middle East. FRE S N O ST A TE PRE S IDENT DR. Jos E P H I. Cas TR O Professor Der Mugrdechian A ND IR S T A DY A RY as TR O was invited to speak as part F L M C Photo: ASP Archive ASP Photo: of the Middle Eastern Studies A ND C ELE B R A TING THE 35TH ANNIVER sa RY Lecture, Performance & Film Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian with Dr. Partow Hooshman- Series organized by Dr. Partow O F HYE SH ARZ H OOM drad, Coordinator of Persian Studies at Fresno State. Hooshmandrad, Roshan Endowed Graduating seniors receiving an Armenian Studies Minor and DENI S E ALT O UNI A N Syria, Iran and Egypt. Dating Faculty in Persian Language ASP Scholarship recipients will be recognized. STAFF WRITER back to their first interactions & Culture, and Coordinator of with Arab Muslims in the 7th Persian Language and Culture Sunday, March 2, 2014 The Armenian people have century, Armenians have had Studies at Fresno State. Reception-5:00PM Dinner-6:00PM a long and storied history in the almost constant contact with the The Middle East Studies Middle East. Armenians have left Middle East in the centuries that Program was founded in 2009 Ft. Washington Golf & Country Club • Fresno a legacy of success and hard work followed. in countries such as Lebanon, This partnership continues SEE MIDDLE Eas T PA GE 7 2 Hye Sharzhoom March 2014 Armenian Studies Program Book/Video/CD Archival Gifts California State University, Fresno Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Prof. Sergio La Porta, and Armenian Studies Program the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, Fall 2014 Schedule of Courses and archival gifts, either offered personally, or to the Program. Course Units Time Day Instructor Vrej-Armen Artinian, St-Laurent, Québec, Canada, for a copy of his new book Im Oughebadoumuh (My Travelogue/Mémories) • Arm 1A-Elementary Armenian 4 10:00A-11:50A MW B Der Mugrdechian (Montreal, 2013), 317pp., in Armenian. (Class #71267) Dr. Vahé Baladouni, Falls Church VA, for a copy of the book Hmayeak Shems: An Anthology (Yerevan, Armenia: Literary General Education-Breadth, Arts, Area C1 and Art Museum, 2013), 302pp., in Armenian. An anthology of • ArmS 20-Arts of Armenia 3 11:00A-12:15P TuTh B Der Mugrdechian poems and other works by Diasporan author, teacher, community organizer, and literary critic Hmayeak Shems. (Class #72094) Haig & Elza Didizian, England, London, for the gift of the book Religious, Theological, and Armenian Studies Works, by Karekin I, Upper Division Armenian Studies Courses Catholicos of All Armenians, Vol. 10 (Armenian Series) (London, • ArmS 108A-Arm History I 3 9:30A-10:45A TuTh B Der Mugrdechian England: Haig & Elza Didizian Fund, 2013). Edited by Vazken (Class #71269) Ghougassian. 292pp., in Armenian. Sergio La Porta, Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies, Fresno State, for a copy of his new book, Negotiating Co- General Education-Breadth, Area D3 existence: Communities, Cultures, and Convivencia in Byzantine • ArmS 10-Intro Arm Studies 3 12:00P-12:50P MWF Staff Society (Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, (Class #71268) 2013) eds. Barbara Crostini and Sergio La Porta, 299pp. The • ArmS 10-Intro Arm Studies 3 3:30P-4:45P MW Staff book includes an article “Re-Constructing Armenia: Strategies of Co-Existence amongst Christians and Muslims in the Thirteenth (Class #79404) Century,” authored by La Porta. Knar Manjikian, Studio City, California, for a copy of the book Defying Fate, the memoirs of Aram and Dirouhi Avedian (California: H. & For more information call the Armenian Studies Program at 278-2669 K. Manjikian Publications, 2014). 30pp., in English. This is Volume or visit the ASP office in the Peters Business Building, Room 384. 5 in the Genocide Library series of Manjikian Publications. Aram and Dirouhi Avedian were survivors of the Armenian Genocide Get a Minor in Armenian Studies. Check on requirements and the memoir details their difficult journey and eventual survival for the Minor in Armenian Studies in the current catalog: of the Genocide. The book was edited, annotated, and with an http://www.fresnostate.edu/catalog/subjects/armenian-studies/armenia-mn.html introduction by Knar Manjikian. Malia Mooradian, Fowler, California, for a CD of an oral interview conducted with her husband Thomas Mooradian’s grandmother, Oghda Boghosian, who was a Genocide survivor. HYE SHARZHOOM Helene Pilibosian, Watertown, MA, for the gift of her new book, My Literary Profile: A Memoir (Watertown, MA: Ohan Press, 2010), 311pp., in English. This is an account of the author’s Armenian FA| <ARVOUM immigrant parents, their life in historic Armenia, as well as their journey to America. It is the highly personal account of the author’s Editor Staff Writers own life journey. Serina Babigian Rosenkjar, Simi Valley, California, for the biography Marine Vardanyan Denise Altounian of her grandmother Serpoohi Babigian, as well as for a variety of Menas Arisian Layout Armenian language books. Andrew Esguerra Barlow Der Mugrdechian Kloian Armenian Genocide Collection Tatevik Hovhannisyan Available in Special Collections Photographers Tamar Melkonian Staff Report them for the general public. Suren Oganessian Kloian published The Armenian Vartush Mesropyan The Armenian Studies Program Genocide: News Accounts from Barlow Der Mugrdechian Ruzan Orkusyan and Special Collections of the the American Press, 1915- Advisor Emma Shaljyan Henry Madden Library announce 1922, an important work in the launching of the Kloian bringing together the important Barlow Der Mugrdechian Armenian Genocide Collection.
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