[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 29, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E440-E441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING DICKRAN KOUYMJIAN

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                         HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 29, 2000

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Dickran 
Kouymjian for being named ``Man of the Year'' by the Armenian National 
Committee of Central California. The Armenian National Committee is a 
grass-roots organization, which deals with any and all concerns of both 
Armenian nationals and Armenian-Americans.
  Dr. Kouymjian was selected to be ``Man of the Year'' as a result of 
his many outstanding accomplishments. Kouymjian earned a B.A. in 
European History from the University of Madison, Wisconsin. He earned 
an M.A. in Arab Studies from the American University of Beirut, and a 
Ph.D. in Armenian Studies from Colombia University. In 1977, Dr. 
Kouymjian was invited to Fresno from Paris, to establish a new program 
in Armenian Studies at the California State University, Fresno. There 
he reorganized the Armenian Studies Organization and founded the Center 
for Armenian Studies

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as well as the Armenian student newspaper, Hye Sharzhoom.
  Since 1988, he has served as the first incumbent of the Haig & Isabel 
Berberian Endowed Chair of Armenian Studies at Fresno State. Dr. 
Kouymjian has taught a wide range of subjects: Armenian, Islamic, 
Classical, and Byzantine history and art, Western and Oriental 
humanities, film, genocide and Saroyan studies. He also serves on the 
editorial boards of five publications in Armenian studies and the Board 
of Scholars of the Zoryan Institute, NAASR, and the Armenian Film 
Foundation.
  Dr. Kouymjian has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Lectureship by the 
United States government to teach in the Department of Foreign 
Languages and Literature at Yerevan State University in Armenia. Along 
with his many other accomplishments, he has been given the highest 
honor bestowed by the Armenian church to scholars and writers, the St. 
Sahag and St. Mesrob medal, by Catholicos Karekin I.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate Dr. Dickran Kouymjian for being 
named ``Man of the Year'' by the Armenian National Committee of Central 
California. I urge my colleagues to join me in wishing Dr. Dickran 
Kouymjian many more years of continued success.

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