WASHINGTON (A.W.)--At the AYF Olympics this year, you may have seen fifteen or so people wearing navy blue polo shirts with an Armenian flag logo and the words: Kharpert Country Club.
These are all members of the Gavoor, Merian, and Mardoian Clan. Of course, there is a
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I just loved this. Many thanks !
Mark, I enjoyed your comments about the “Kharpert Country Club” because my Grandmother and Grandfather grew up in Harpoot/Kharpert. We also heard stories of the “old country” and how they missed it. So, thank you for honoring your Grannie in this way.
fantastic I,too, am a Kharpetsti. I would be very pleased to be a member of the Club and wear the shirt! Movses
Let me be the first of many to ask — can I get a golf shirt like yours?
If you sold them as a fundraiser, we might yet get a Kharpert Country Club!
By the way, please post when your music ensembles are performing — well before the date — I’m always chagrined at the descriptions of wonderful events AFTER they happen…
A very nice story that will continue to bring smiles. The shirts were a good way of remembering your Grannie.
Sonny Gavoor wore his shirt to our latest Detroit Armenian Boys Thursday Breakfast club meeting. It was suggested that all of the Kharpetzis join their funds to buy Pebble Beach Golf Course in California.