Watertown’s Natalie Tenekedzhyan earns Tough Choices in History Book Award and Hartunian scholarship

WATERTOWN, Mass. —  Natalie Tenekedzhyan of Watertown High School has been selected by the school’s guidance department as the recipient of the Tough Choices in History Book Award and Tough Choices in History Rev. Vartan Hartunian Scholarship.

She was recognized for her exemplary high school academic record, successful completion of her first college semester and an award-winning essay based on the memoir Neither to Laugh Nor to Weep, written by Rev. Abraham Hartunian and translated by his son, Rev. Vartan Hartunian. The account chronicles the survival of a people and family from the 1915-1922 Armenian Genocide, beginning in Marash and concluding with the burning of Smyrna.