[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 30, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E50-E51]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CROSBY KAZARIAN HONORED

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                         HON. E. CLAY SHAW, JR.

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 30, 2001

  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment to recognize the 
life-long contributions of Crosby Kazarian to his community and church. 
Due to his record of service. Mr. Kazarian was honored recently with 
the Pontifical Medal of St. Nersess Shnorhali by His Holiness Karekin 
II, Supreme Patriach and Catholicos of All Armenians, at St. David 
Armenian Church of Boca Raton, Florida. The presentation of the medal 
and the Patriarchal Encyclical, reached here from Holy Etchmiadzin, the 
Holy See of the Armenian Church, were made by His Eminence Archbishop 
Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church 
of America.
  Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Crosby Kazarian was praised for his 
widespread services in the Armenian Church, the Dioces, the

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Knights of Vartan, the Armenian General Benevolent Union, and the St. 
Nersess Armenian Seminary in New York.
  As an American born Armenian, Crosby was one of the rare members who 
was very fluent in Armenian, both liturgical and conversational, whose 
participation as an ordained deacon in the Armenian Church, and a 
member of the church choir in Providence since 1944, was an outstanding 
accomplishment.
  Mr. Kazarian was a member of the Parish Council, and a Diocesan 
Delegate. He was chairman of the Diocesan Assembly in 1976-78, and was 
on the Diocesan Council from 1979-83. He has been a member of the St. 
Nersess Theological Seminary Board of Directors, and since 1985 has 
served on the Armenian Church Endowment Fund's Board of Trustees.
  A phenomenon in an individual's life was Crosby Kazarian's election 
as the Grand Commander of the Knights of Vartan, an International 
Armenian Fraternal organization, which was hailed as the youngest among 
his predecessors during 1983-85. Presently an active member of the 
Brotherhood, Crosby is also a member of St. David Armenian Church, 
being one of its Godfathers on the consecration day in 1988, and still 
serving the same church as an Arhdeacon, Mr. Kazarian and his wife of 
forty-years, Araxie, are the parents of two sons, Gregory and Ara.

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