WATERTOWN, Mass.—The Tekeyan Cultural Association’s (TCA) Central Board of Directors recently appointed Aram Arkun as executive director of the association, headquartered in Watertown.
“We are glad and fortunate to be able to appoint such a talent to fill our vacant post of executive director in Watertown, and we are looking forward to work with Mr. Arkun to fulfill and advance our cultural and educational programs in the United States, Canada, and Armenia,” said Dr. Haroutiun Arzoumanian, president of the TCA Central Board of Directors.
“The work the Tekeyan Cultural Association carries out in the promotion of Armenian culture is significant,” Arkun said. “Organizations like Tekeyan are especially necessary in the diaspora to provide a gathering place and forum for writers, readers, and all those interested in Armenian creative expression. I hope to be able to help the organization expand its cultural activities and to continue its fine tradition of supporting Armenian schools. I also am very happy to be able to contribute to the Armenian Mirror-Spectator,” he said. “I look forward to working with Tekeyan members and others in the Armenian community, and hearing their ideas about future activities.”
Arkun, a respected scholar, has a master of arts degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania, among many other higher education diplomas. He has served as editor-in-chief of “Ararat” quarterly; assistant director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center, Armenian Diocese; and adjunct assistant professor at New York University. In addition to English, Arkun speaks classical and modern Armenian, French, Ottoman and modern Turkish, and some Persian, Russian, German, and Arabic.
Tekeyan Cultural Association, Inc. is a non-profit and tax exempt cultural and educational organization founded in 1969 in Massachusetts. It has many chapters throughout the United States and Canada, owns the Arshag Dickranian Day school in Los Angeles, cultural centers in Altadena, Calif., and Montreal, Canada, as well as rented facilities as cultural centers in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and Toronto, Canada. The association publishes the trilingual weekly newspaper “Abaka” in Montreal, sponsors teachers in five TCA schools in Armenia and Karabagh through its “Sponsor a Teacher” program, and publishes many literary books in Armenian and in English.
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Congratulations on your appointment! They are fortunate to have you as their Executive Director. Best Wishes, Virginia Mintanciyan Benemio
You have received a notification of a meeting scheduled for this Wednesday, April 15th at 7 p.m. to meet with the school’s Board of Trustees. We strongly urge you to please attend this meeting in support of our school.
Arshag Dickranian, the founder, had a vision of preserving the Armenian culture by educating our future generations. Don’t let this 100 year commemoration of the Armenian Genocide also be the termination of another Armenian educational entity that is shot down.
We are urgently asking you please attend the meeting and voice your opposition to the closure of our school. We need and have to continue educating our future generations, embed in them values of our culture. Arshag Dickranian has done so for 34 years and has encouraged the different generations to be proud of their roots and to remember the reason we continue to honor the memories of all those who perished 100 years ago by not giving up their heritage.
Please come and join us to fight for our kids and our school!
Sincerely,
Sarkis & Maria Paronyan