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...fund to establish a chair for Armenian studies--the first in the United States--has reached $250,000 of its projected $300,000 total. No one has yet been chosen to fill the chair...
...present, the University offers only a few elementary courses in Armenian. "When the chair is established," Gibbnoted, "a full selection of courses will first be offered on the graduate level. Eventually, we expect that Armenian will be an undergraduate field of concentration...
...pointed out that studies of Armenian history are particularly important for a full understanding of social and economic developments in Asia. Courses in medieval history, church history, and linguistics will be offered in correlation with Armenian, he noted...
...debut in Manhattan's Town Hall, Armenian-born Mezzo-Soprano Doloukhanova, 39, strode onstage aglitter with diamonds, and swathed in pink silk wrappings. Her program included Russian songs (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff), Armenian folk songs, Schubert and Strauss lieder, operatic arias from Rossini and Mozart, even one English air-Cyril Scott's Lullaby. Noted for a repertory of 500 works by 100 composers, in five different languages, she displayed a solidly centered, richly colored voice of moderate power, smooth as cream in the lower register, clear and unforced in the upper one. She was able to pay out a prodigious...
...ambassador's welcome for Gregory Cardinal Agaganian, the Vatican's proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, i.e., boss of the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide missions. The first man in that post ever to visit the Far East, Armenian Cardinal Agaganian came straight to the point in his airport press conference. Plainly referring to the 3,000,000 Chinese Catholics under Red rule, he said: "I pray that God will shower his blessings over the Chinese people-everywhere. I send them love and affection, and assure them of my continual prayers...