1980_11 Hye Sharzhoom Newspaper November 1980

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Hye Sharzhoom
November, 1980
'Dinner get-togethers'
key to Alumni success
By Bill Erysian
The newly-formed CSUF Armenian
Alumni Association is becoming one of
Fresno's fastest growing university
organizations and represents the largest
Armenian alumni group outside Soviet
Armenia.
The AAA, an affiliate of the CSUF
Alumni Association, has boosted its
membership to 110 with the help of two
successful "Dinner Cet-Together" programs held earlier this year.
At the organization's inaugural
dinner in May, CSUF President Harold
Haak expressed his support for the
Armenian alumni group and applauded
the accomplishments of the CSUF
Armenian Studies Program.
The dinner, which drew more than 100
people, also included speeches from
Leon Peters, a notable leader of the
Armenian-American community, and
Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, coordinator of
the Armenian Studies Program.
Kouymjian stressed the significance of
CSUF to the Armenian community and
pledged unity between the alumni and
the Armenian Studies Program. He also
added an appeal to the community for
support in building the proposed multi-
million dollar Armenian National
Museum.
Peters recalled the history of Fresno's
Armenian community and cited many of
its achievements.
"The Armenian heritage is a rich part
of America's ethnic heritage and should
be preserved in a positive manner,"
Peters said.
The   Armenian   Alumni   held   their
second dinner-program in September
which included nominations and elections of the executive board. The new
officers are: President, Richard
Pandukht; Vice-President, Arlene
Srabian; Treasurer, Armand Gougasian;
Secretary, Gayane Artenian; and
Parlimentarian, Eileen Ohanian. Other
members of the executive board are:
Edie Bear, Janice Emerzian, Bryan
Bedrosian, Stan Gajarian, Richard
Kassabian, Joyce Kierejczyk, Oscar
Kasparian and Ron Shapazian.
Following the dinner, an audience of
nearly 100 alumni patrons were entertained by three Armenian alumni who
spoke on Armenian life on campus, each
from his own perspective. The speakers
were Nick Dokooslian, a 1952 graduate;
Dr. Ara Hairabedian, professor of
physical education at CSUF since 1953;
and Bryan Bedrosian, a recent graduate.
Members of the ad hoc organizational
committee, who, essentially, are
responsible for the birth of the CSUF
Armenian Alumni Association, are
Howard Atamian, Marvin Baxter,
Nick Dokoozlian, Janice Emerzian,
Armand Googasian, Allan and Rosemary
Jendian, Oscar Kasparian, Richard
Kassabian, Eileen Ohanian, Richard
Pandukht, Arlene Srabian and Dr.
Dickran Kouymjian.
Membership fees for the AAA are as
follows: New CSUF graduates - $6;
CSUF graduates - $10; and non-CSUF
graduates - $15. Any persons who join
during this academic year automatically
become charter members. For further
information, contact Richard Pandukht
at (209) 439-5821.
Language class size doubles
By Shell! Andranigian
and
Leon Coorabian
Interest in learning the Armenian
language at CSUF has doubled since
last year with some 23 students enrolled
in Dr. Dickran Kouymjian's Armenian
1A class as compared to 10 in 1979-80.
Kouymjian attributes the gain to
increased awareness of the Armenian
Ethnic Studies Program at CSUF.
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Armenian 1A is designed to enable
students to learn to read, write and
speak the Armenian language after a
year's time. Students are also acquainted with structure and pronounciation.
"It's the most challenging language
I've ever taken," said Ted Jones, a
language student. "And I love it. I would
like to go more in-depth in the course."
The class atmosphere appears easygoing and sometimes humorous, though
the class studies are industrious.
According to Kouymjian, this year's
group is doing "very well" and is "as
well or better" than last year's.
Even though several of the students
speak Armenian fluently, they
are enrolled in the course to
strengthen their grammar and
writing skills or to learn the Western
Armenian dialect.
Miss Flora Tchaderjian, a CSUF
senior, conducts a lab every Thursday
for the class. The lab aids the students
with speaking the language through
tapes that complement the lesson.
Tchaderjian also provides as a substitute for Kouymjian occasionally.
Pashayan
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Pashayan responded: "It's something
that we should sit and talk about.
I'm not convinced that that's the case
with Armenians." After a brief pause,he
added, "Well, now that we've settled
the Armenian question, who's got
another one?"
Another topic that had a similarity
interesting discussion dealt with Pashayan's vote to give aid to Turkey.
Pashayan admitted that he and "a lot
of other congressmen" do not like the
way that the Turkish government treats
minorities. "Especially the Christian
minorities," he said. "Greeks and
Armenians, I suppose, being leading
among them."
Since Turkey occupies a strategic
location in the NATO alliance, Pashayan
felt that should the United States lose
whatever influence they have over
Turkey, it would be worse for the
minorities in Turkey. "For the sake of
the minorities, the United States should
remain in the position of as much as
possible influencing the domestic policy
of the Turks toward the minorities that
may at some point require more money
going to the Turks," Pashayan said.
"Else the Turks will turn and get their
money from the Soviets. I should think
that the minorities would be worse off."
Again, Kouymjian thought differently.
"I'm not so sure in terms of these two
minorities (Armenians and Kurds),
which are the two largest and the ones
that have been the most dispossessed;
that their treatment, with regards to
their control over Turkish policy, would
result in anything being worse for the
minorities than the present situation."
Following another extended discussion, Pashayan confessed that he cannot
make any sort of promise, saying that
he would never vote against arms
going to Turkey because we have
to keep the NATO alliance intact.
"If anything, we must strengthen
the NATO alliance, so that they (Turkey)
may be willing to take some of the
missiles and then that sort of thing,"
he suggested.
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"Well, I'm just giving you my opinion
that we've got to strengthen the NATO
in general," Pashayan added. "But
unfortunately, or fortunately, that
includes Turkey.
Pashayan said that he has also written
letters with regard to Armenian participation in the President's Holocaust
Council.
"I should like to see Armenian
participation there obviously, and I
should think that it ought to be clear that
the Armenian Genocide was the first
of the twentieth century, which is a
historical fact," he stated. As of press-
time, though, Armenian Action had not
received their request made on Oct.
28 to obtain copies of those letters
Pashayan wrote.
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to be clear that
the Armenian
Genocide was the
first of the
twentieth century'
Other subjects Pashayan fielded in
the speech included cruise missiles,
American policy with India and Pakistan,
ERA, valley smog, small business
loaning money to multi-national corporations, and what the Reagan Administration would do vs. the Carter Administration in handling the Middle East
conflict.
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