1984_11 Hye Sharzhoom Newspaper November 1984

              November, 1984
Hye Sharzhoom
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Gifts to
Armenian Studies
By Dickran Kouymjian
Once again it is our pleasure to thank
those who during the past year have made
donations of books, archival papers, and
supporting funds. Among the latter were
Mrs. Helen Manoogian and the Selma
Chapter of Triple-X. This is not the first
time the Triple-X has donated to the
maintenance of the program. Indeed,
such annual contributions help Armenian
Studies provide a variety of services and
lectures to the community throughout the
school year.
While it is true that the salary funding
for Dr. Kouymjian and his language assistant Hagop Karamanlian is entirely paid
through the university budget, state
funds, the situation is quite different from
all other Armenian studies programs (Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, Michigan and
Pennsylvania) which operate with sizable
private endowments contributed through
the benevolence of the Armenian public or
certain individuals. The Fresno State
Armenian Studies Program has no supplementary funds, just a few hundred dollars
recently allocated for supplies, student
assistant, and operating expenses. Without donations it is simply impossible to do
all the things necessary to keep the program active and visible. We encourage all
organization to consider giving annually
to the Armenian Studies Program, even a
modest sum regularly received allows planning. Of course individuals are also urged
to give their financial support. Checks
should be made out to "CSUF-Armenian
Studies"and send to the Program, CSUF,
Fresno, CA 93740.
A nice collection of Armenian books
including important political and historical titles was donated to the program by
Beatrice Ermoyan Bandirian and Suren
Ermoyan in memory of their mother
Dorothy Ermoyan who passed away this
summer at 100 years of age. We thank
them for thinking of the Program to
preserve not just their mother's memory,
but important tools of study and research.
Michael Sohigian has once again contributed several boxes of Armenian pamphlets, periodicals and newspapers.
Carl Mahakian, the well known film
editor from Saugus and Burbank, has just
donated a large collection of books and
periodicals on Armenian history and literature, rich in hard-to-find material on the
Genocide and post-Genocide periods, as
well as an important collection of Saroy-
anana.
Walter Karabian sent a very special
archival document: a map made by his
father of the old Fresno's Armenian town
from Fulton to N Street and Ventura to
Los Angeles Street. The map, which originally appeared in J. Michael Hago-
pian's film "Strangers in A Promised
Land," identifies the names of shops and
residents lot by lot in the whole area. As
most people know, lawyer Karabian is
originally from Fresno and keeps close
ties with the city like so many others from
the M street area who have moved to
Rachel King Martin and Edward F. Martin in the early 1920's. Photo: Martin Archive.
other places. The hand sketched map has
been enlarged onto a 4x6-foot panel. We
hope to reproduce it in Hye Sharzhoom so
that readers can make corrections or
additions. The panels will be deposited
along with other Armenian items in the
Henry Madden Library Special Collections.
By far the most important archive the
Armenian Studies Program has received
in the past two years is a collection of
clippings, letters, documents, and photographs from Ted and Dan Martin of
Martin Enterprises. Their mother, Rachel
King Martin, and father, Edward F.
Martin, both worked in Turkey and especially western Armenia, in the period immediately after the Genocide as nurse and
administrator for the American Commission for Relief in the Near East.
The couple met and married in Turkey
while giving aid to sick and homeless
Armenians. From 1918 to their departure
in 1924, there was hardly a major city in
Asia Minor that wasn't visited by one or
the other or both of them. They even
worked in Alexandropol in Soviet
Armenia in the desperate year of 1923.
Rachel Martin was quite an accomplished
writer; her accounts and her stories appeared in newspapers in the United States
and in periodicals of the Near East Relief.
Many were the Armenians who would later
write to Mrs. Martin in gratitude for the
kindness and comfort which enabled them
to survive.
We hope to provide more details on the
archive and publish some of its photographs and contents in future issues of
Hye Sharzhoom. We would especially like
to thank Ted and Dan Martin for choosing Fresno's Armenian Studies Program
as the proper repository.
Destroyed and burned Armenian village in Anatolia, circa 1919. Photo: Martin Archive    Armenian orphans, students of the Armenian Industrial School, Talas, Turkey circa
1920. Photo: Martin Archive
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Editor:
Vahe K. Messerlian
Assistant Editor:
Randy Baloian-
Staff:
Don Arax
Beth Najarian
Sharon Toroian
Photographers:
Massis Chahbazian
Aram Messerlian
Ad Manager:
Jim Malkasian
Advisors:
Dickran Kouymjian
Hagop Karamanlian
Hye Sharzhoom is the official publication of the CSUF Armenian Students
Organization and Armenian Studies Program and is funded by the Associated
Students. Articles may be reprinted provided Hye Sharzhoom its acknowledged.
Hye Sharzhoom welcomes, prose, poetry, articles, manuscripts and other material from its readers. For further information concerning the newspaper or the
Armenian Studies Program, contact the
Armenian Studies Office (209) 294-2669
or the Ethnic Studies Office (209)294-2832.
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Fresno, CA 93740
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