WASHINGTON (A.W.)–For those that regularly attend Olympics, it is a great fraternal, Armenian, athletic, and social good time. Apart from the occasional lost or late bus or long waits for elevators on Saturday and Sunday nights, the Olympics generally run like a well-oiled machine.
Think about it. Hundreds of people attend from all over the US and Canada. There are several events from the various dances, athletic events, tours, and more. Some of the events have food. There are buses that shuttle everyone from hotel to events and back again. All these events, venues, and activities need to be coordinated and manned. As a logistics and supply chain consultant, I can assure you this is not a simple task. The reason things work so well is because of the wonderful and dedicated committee that has been hard at work for at least year organizing and making preparation so that everything runs seamlessly when the weekend finally arrives.
Being up early this morning to see the golf and tennis players off, I had a chance to run into several of the committee members already hard at work at 7 a.m. In listening to them, it was clear they were all running on little or no sleep. The prospect of much more sleep before Monday night is not likely for any of them. They work around the clock making sure everything runs on-time and flawlessly. Often, we do not take the time to honor the committee. This is mostly due to the simple fact that they work quietly in the background. Certainly, the committee is listed in the AdBook but most of us, at best, only glance at that list as they peruse the AdBook.
This year we should do something a little different. Let’s honor them early in the weekend. Here is able and dedicated Olympic Committee.
Hratch Najarian – Chair
Chris Hekimian – Co-Chair and AdBook
Raffi Karakashian – Security and Picnic
Sevan Simonian – Social and Medical
Yeghisapet Chouldjian – Committee member and helped everywhere and anywhere
Ara Aprahamian – Treasurer and Transportation
John Altounian – Athletics
This is not the first time for Hratch. It is the third time he has served on the committee for a Washington hosted Olympics. That is an amazing level of dedication and clearly a labor of love. Raffi and Yeghisapet work for the ANC office in DC. Yeghisapet said, “Almost everyone in our office has an AYF heritage, so it is only natural that we got involved on the committee.”
So, if you are here in DC seek out the committee and say hello. Thank and congratulate them for a job very well done.
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