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Tom Vartabedian
Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as
a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.
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I lived across the street from John and we were friends from 4th grade on. I went to many Armenian dances and picnics and even to the Olympics one year. I think of him often.
Mr Kushigian(John) was part of the school system I attended in middle school. He was always polite and respectful but the most important thing to him was always absolute inclusion. Division, of any kind, really bothered him and he worked to fix it
I was in 6th grade when the announcement came over the PA system that he had passed. It was absolute stunned silence in that room. We were all so shocked.
He was a very honorable man. RIP Mr Kushigian