ONE MORE YEAR, ONE MORE MEMORIAL
Melkonian graduates and friends gathered in Nicosia on Sunday for the annual memorial service (parerarnerou hokehankisd) of the founders of the Melkonian Educational Institute, the benefactor brothers Krikor and Garabed Melkonian.
A church service was held after Sunday mass and the group of Melkoniantsi and friends later went to the founders' monument (tampan) where they laid flowers and prayed, led by Rev. Der Momig Habeshian. Following the 'Hayr Mer', Vartan Tashdjian led those present with the school's hymn.
The most senior Melkoniantsi graduate, Haroutioun Dedeyan (1936), symbolically laid flowers and led those present in a moment of silence.
After the brief ceremony, many wandered around to see for themselves the state the school buildings have fallen into and the statues that have been defaced or allowed to erode.
This year, too, the AGBU decided not to honor its greatest benefactors of the past 100 years by not sending a representative or at least a wreath or flowers.
Melkoniantsi and members of the Armenian community of Cyprus are hopeful that this year will see the removal of the Greek name of "Gymnasion Aglandjias" and the Armenian language will once again be spoken within the school grounds.
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By Aghavni Haroutiunian, translated by L.H.At the meeting with the EU Commissioner on External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who arrived in Armenia January 19 in the framework of the regional visit, Armenian ...ONE MORE YEAR, ONE MORE MEMORIAL
Melkonian graduates and friends gathered in Nicosia on Sunday for the annual memorial service (parerarnerou hokehankisd) of the founders of the Melkonian Educational Institute, the benefactor brothers ...
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Translated by L.H.ONE MORE YEAR, ONE MORE MEMORIAL
PACE TO DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF 1609 AND 1620 RESOLUTIONS JANUARY 27
- 1878 Birth of writer and public figure Vahan Tekeyan in Constantinople. He was a classic Western Armenian poet and a famous Diasporan writer.
- 1921 Degrees and ranks among Armenian citizens are abolished in favor of only one title for the Armenian population: Armenian Citizen.
- 1921 Degrees and ranks among Armenian citizens are abolished in favor of only one title for the Armenian population: Armenian Citizen.
- 1924 V.I. Lenin dies.
- 1928 Publication of the first issue of the anti-religious, political, scholarly, popular, and literary illustrated publication called "Anastvatz" (atheist).
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