1986_11 Hye Sharzhoom Newspaper November 1986

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Hye Sharzhoom
November 1986
SAS Returns to Boston
In 1974, the Society for Armenian Studies was founded in Boston. The Society
will celebrate the historic occasion with a
Gala Reception and Dinner on Friday
evening, November 21, 1986 beginning at
6:00 p.m., at the First Armenian Church,
380 Concord Ave., Belmont,Mass. During
the reception, there will be a special
viewing of the Armenian Library and
Museum of America's newly-opened exhibit of the Paul Bedoukian Collection,
The dinner will be served upstairs in
Nahigian Hall. Guest speakers will include
founding members of the Society, and
several professors who hold chairs in
Armenian Studies. The price is $30.00 for
members of the Society and $40.00 per
person for non-members. Guests and
friends are most welcome.
Administrative Council members of the
SAS serving for 1986-1987 are: Chairman,
Dr. Dickran Kouymjian; Secretary, Arpena Mesrobian; Treasurer, Levon Mar-
ashlian; and at large members Dr. Lucy
Der Manuelian, Barlow Der Mugrdechian,
Eliz Sanasarian, and Nikola Schagaldian.
The Annual membership meeting of the
Society for Armenian Studies will take
place on Thursday, November 20,1986, in
conjunction with the annual meeting of
the Middle East Studies Association. The
SAS is sponsoring four panels at the
MESA convention.
On Friday, November 21, 1986 from
10:30-12:00 noon the panel Armenian
Music from Antiquity to the Present will
be held.   Panel  members are  Gabriele
Winkler, The Early Form and the Evolution of the Sharakan; Krikor Maksoud-
ian, Armenian Hymnal (Sharaknots);
Ohannes Salibian, The Advent of Professional Music in Armenia.
The second panel will be Response to
Repression and Trauma in Armenian Literature on Friday November 21 from 2:00-
3:30p.m. Participants will be Gia Aivazian,
Paganism in Daniel Varuzhan's Poetry,
Rubina Peroomian, Jewish and Armenian
Responses to Trauma; Abraham Boghig-
ian, Meloyan Influence on the Menk
Generation; and Hasmig Tashjian, An
interpretation ofFrik 's Poem Reproaches.
Reponses to Genocide: The Armenian
Case will be the third panel on Saturday,
November 22 from 8:00-10:00a.m. Panel
members will be Gerard Libaridian, The
Ottoman Courts-Martial and the Case
Against the Young Turks; Kevork Bardak-
jian, Adolph Hitler on the Armenian
Genocide; and Donald Miller, A Rupture
in the Moral Order.
The final panel will be Armenia and the
West in the Crusader Period at 2:00-3:30
p.m. on Saturday, November 22, 1986.
Panelists will be Lucy Der Manuelian,
Carved Images in Armenia and the West:
Relationships and Influence; M.J. Connolly, Confitor and Xostavanim: Liturgy
Between Armenia and the West; Helen
Evans, Cilician Manuscripts and their
Sources in the Crusader Era; and Sylvie
Merian, Armenian Medieval Bookbinding:
Description and Comparisons. Panels will
have a chairman to moderate the discussion
following the presentations.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
Just a quick note to compliment you on
the super issue of Hye Sharzhoom. I was
deeply moved by several of the articles.
I cannot understand apathy- I want my
heritage back so badly, and contact with
birth relations and other Armenians. I
never knew any Armenians where I grew
up (Lansing), and there are none here. I'd
come to those dances- but I live too far
away. I could shake those young people
who take heritage for granted!
Your paper is tremendous- keep up the
good work. I appreciate all your work-
hope you'll print more recipes.
Many thanks,
Mary L. Foess
Vassar, Michigan
Dear Editor,
I receive almost regularly your paper. I
appreciate your initiative, and enjoy reading it. Thank*#o|# A graduate from the
American University of Beirut, and a
former senior researcher from the Academy of Sciences of Erevan, Soviet Armenia, the last two decades I am a permanent resident of New York City. Since
my retirement I keep myself busy writing
articles for our community newspapers, in
major part in English, in that number:
Ararat, the Armenian Reporter, Nor-
Gyank, etc. Some of my articles are
controversial, occasionally refused by the
editors. Yet, to this date about seventy of
them have appeared. I have also a great
number of my works published in Armenia
by the Academy of Sciences. Having said
that, I would wish, occasionally, to contribute to your paper also.'
Dear Editor,
Enclosed is a check for the Hye Sharzhoom. 1 enjoy your paper very much,
especially the articles and maps of the old
'Armenian Quarter.' I lived there since I
was six years old, first on 'L' Street and
then on 'M' Street near Santa Clara on the
property shown on the map, and attended
Emerson, Longfellow and the old Fresno
High Schools, graduating in 1921. I remember my father and mother working
very hard for the building of Holy Trinity
Church.
Yours very truly,
Kaspar G. Kasparian
Sacramento,CA
P.S. I have been living in Sacramento
since 1936, and frequently visit Fresno.
C e.itlemen.
Cordially yours,     Dear Editor,
I look forward to each edition with
enthusiasm. Your generation of Armenian-Americans have proven to the rest of
us 'middle-agers' that what we thought
was only a spark was really a flame.
You may use the enclosed donation as
you see proper.
Sincerely,
Martin Agegian
San Leandro, California
Hagop Jack Touryantz
Flushing, New York
Dear Dr. Kouymjian,
I've been pleased to receive Hye Sharzhoom for awhile now, including the issue
noting your selection as 'Professor of the
Year/Congratulations, and my best wishes
to vou on the selection state-wide.
With best wishes,
Harold Takooshian, Ph.D.
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Whenever I read Hye Sharzhoom I am
impressed with the quality of the writing,
the logic which supports it and the unerring
historical facts advanced. I can think of no
other publication by Armenians in English
which gives me such hope for the future of
our culture and such faith in the younger
generation. I am proud to number among
my friends Dr. Kouymjian, who gives
such telling impetus to the Armenian
Studies Program at CSUF. Truly Fresno
should be happy that such a scholar gives
leadership and brings focus to things
Armenian.
Please accept my check to help defray
the postage problem now facing you and
Hye Sharzhoom.
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Monterey Park, CA
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Some time ago I was pleased to receive
the April issue of Hye Sharzhoom, which
allowed me to find several items to think
about and analyze.
I would like to congratulate you for the
efforts you made for the Genocide exibit. I
think it has been a good opportunity to
show non-Armenians a reality that most
probably was unknown to most of them.
Congratulations also to Prof. Kouymjian
as 'Professor of the Year.'
Good luck in your work.
Your sincerely.
Vartan" Matiossian
Buenos Aires
Dear Editor,
Bravo! Getz-tzess! for Marc E. Ag-
abashian and for his 'Armenian Linear
History' (Hye Sharzhoom, April, 1986)
the editorial page gem.
It was the most welcome reminder
during the 'Month of Remembrance' to all
of us to shake the 'terrible things happened
to us'syndrome from our collective psyche.
In between'Commemorations'we tend to
remove these issues from our agendas. My
hope is that it doesn't happen to the issues
Marc has raised. It should be recalled that
the lamentations of our first immigrant
generations were a major contributing
factor to the backlash that caused the
alienation of the generation that came
after. Since then we have shaken off a few
of the complexes that have plagued these
wounded souls. There are ample reasons
to be positive and proud of our heritage,
our history and Marc's article points to
the right direction.
There's more! taking refuge in the Genocide affair is not the only national proclivity
we seem to be nurturing with no real effort
to go beyond the surface. And only recently
we have begun to explore the multidimensional nature of the disaster. Even
our positive attitudes and assertions do
not pass beyond a childish recitation of
the fact that 'Armenian was the first
nation to declare Christianity the religion
of the state.' So what! Then what? We
have a lot to learn and Marc has done a
good job of reminding us of the task ahead
of us.
Intended or not, the article also sounded
like an outline for a possible book or
booklet which awaits to be written. Would
someone pick up the challenge? How
about you Marc? Go for it!
Prayerfully,
Fr. Vertanes Kalayjian
St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church
Washington, D.C.
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