Letters
A Tribute to Unger Tigran Sarkuni
By Ned (Nishan) Apigian
Tigran,
It seems like yesterday when the entire kazm (body) of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Eastern United States Central Committee attended your wedding in Los Angeles.
Where has all the time gone?
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I met Tigran some 20 years before we were elected to the Central Committee together. Tigran was related to Der Gorun Shirikian’s (Greater Detroit) wife Arpine, a fellow Anjartsi.
While visiting his relatives in Detroit, I met Tigran at a
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I agree with you Ned. He was an extremely intelligent person. When I went to AUB in 1966, I heard about this Armenian who, in the “primitive” days of the computer, had written a program which made the computer show girls dancing the can can. It turned out that genius was Sarkuni. Later, in the US, I got to know and appreciate him better. RIP.
This dude was a slum lord and an awful human being. He screamed at my mom who was visiting me right after she was diagnosed with cancer. He yelled and tried to intimidate women and he kept his apartment in illegally horrible conditions…