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March 2005
Vol. 26, No. 3 (89)
Supplement to The Collegian
U. S. Ambassador to Armenia
John Evans Visits Campus
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Left to right: Ambassador John Evans, ASO Vice-President
Zhanna Bagdasarov, ASO President Hakop Tataryan, ASP
Director, Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, and Barlow Der Mugrdechian.
STAFF REPORT several years as part of various
Fresno State projects.
Ambassador Evans was visiting
Fresno as part of a nation-wide
visit to a number of Armenian communities in the United States and
engaged in an open conversation
with the faculty and students in
attendance at the Fresno State reception.
The Honorable John M. Evans,
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic
of Armenia was a guest at a reception held at Fresno State on Friday,
February 18, hosted by Dr. Jeri
Echeverria, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Invited
guests included faculty, administrators , and students on campus who
had visited Armenia over the past
see Ambassador page 5
"William Saroyan and His World"
Friday, March 11 • 7:00 PM
Industrial Tech. Building,
Room 101
A panel discussion on the life
of Fresno's native-son, author
William Saroyan
Co-sponsored by the William Saroyan Society, Armenian
Studies Program, and Armenian Students Organization
The lecture is free and open to the public
Moderated by Dr. Dickran Kouymjian
Director, Armenian Studies Program
with an Introduction by John Kallenberg
President, William Saroyan Society
Berge Bulbulian- "Fresno in the Time of Saroyan"
Fresno author/historian
Barlow Der Mugrdechian-"Saroyan the Writer"
Armenian Studies Program
Ed Hagopian-"Reminiscences and Recollections"
Writer and friend of William Saroyan
William Seerest, Jr. -"Collecting Saroyan"
Fresno County California Collection Librarian
and Book Collector
Fresno State Alum Charlie Keyan Donates
$150,000 for Scholarships to Fresno State
Barlow Der Mugrdechian
Advisor
A former Fresno State football team athletic manager has
donated $150,000 to California
State University, Fresno.
Fresno State alumnus and retired businessman and farmer
Charlie Keyan of Indio, California has established two endowed
scholarships, one in the Armenian Studies Program for
$100,000 to establish the Charlie
Keyan Endowed Scholarship in
Armenian Studies. Income from
the endowment will be used to
provide scholarships for students
at Fresno State who enroll in Armenian Studies courses, with
preference for freshmen.
At the same time, Mr. Keyan
established a second endowed
scholarship of $50,000 in the
Athletic Department of Fresno
State. The income from this endowment will be used for scholarships to student-athletes in the
Fresno State football program.
Why make a donation to
Fresno State? Mr. Keyan's goal
for most of his adult life has been
to help young people who need
help to go to college and to com-
6th Annual
Armenian Film
Festival
Friday,
April 1,2005
7:00PM
Alice Peters Auditorium,
Room 194
Univerity Business Center
Sponsored by the Armenian
Students Organization
and
Armenian Studies Program
Fresno State
Partially funded by the
Diversity Awareness Program
ofthe
University Student Union,
Fresno State
plete their education. He had
been assisted when he was in college, and now he wants to help
others stay in college.
Mr. Keyan chose to give to
Fresno State and in particular to
the Armenian Studies Program,
because he had heard from
former classmates and friends
how well the Armenian Studies
Program has been doing under
the leadership of Armenian Studies Program director Dr. Dickran
Kouymjian and Barlow Der
Mugrdechian. A conversation
with old acquaintances and
former classmates Berge
Bulbulian and Aram Garabedian,
led to the generous endowment.
In the future Mr. Keyan plans to
add more to the existing scholarships and establish a separate endowment to benefit students
studying agriculture at Fresno
State.
Mr. Keyan has recently made
other generous donations to California university Armenian studies programs and Armenian high
schools. He hopes that his donations will set an example for others to follow.
Mr. Keyan was born in
Fresno to Ohan and Jouhar
Keyahian. Ohan Keyahian was a
native of Karachor (Kharpert)
and Jouhar Keyahian was from
Hussenig.
Mr. Keyan graduated from
Malaga Grammar School, Fowler
High School, and began attending
Fresno State in 1944, graduating
with a major in history and physical education in 1948. He enjoyed his years at Fresno State,
fondly remembering how he enjoyed the social life. Fresno State
in 1944 had a student population
of less than 1,000 students. It was
a small school where everyone
knew each other and Mr. Keyan
made lots of friends. He worked
at the old Hanoian's market on
Railroad Ave., while in high
school and college and worked
summers in the grape shipping
business with Cy Mouradick.
After graduation Mr. Keyan
planned to go to Hawaii, where
he would have worked importing
sunflower seeds, toasted nuts,
melons and cantaloupes and exporting pineapples to the mainland. But instead, he went into
the liquor business with his
brother-in-law in Los Angeles.
see Keyan page 8
Course Studies Armenian Churches
Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, standing center, with students of the
Armenian Studies 123, Armenian Architecture weekend
course.
Hakop Tataryan
Editor
Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno State, Dr.
Kouymjian began the semester with
an architecture class in Armenian
Studies. This year, 18 students took
three weekends out of their spring
schedule and invested it in the study
of Armenian Architecture with Dr.
Kouymjian. After some delays dealing with faulty slide projectors and
the lack of outlets for students with
laptops, the class began.
The main objective ofthe class
was to teach about the Armenian
churches that have been erected in
the last seventeen hundred plus
years. Sub-topics ranged from re-
viewing plans of the churches, to
discussing the architectural innovations used to build them. However, with Dr. Kouymjian teaching
the class, students were treated to
see Architecture page 3