BEIRUT,Lebanon (A.
W.)—The Central Executive of the Hamazkayin Armenian Cultural and Educational Society recently announced that the Hamazkayin Melankton and Haig Arslanian School (Djemaran) has received a nearly $1.3 million (USD) bequest from longtime Hamazkayin members and benefactors Kourken and Margaret Asadourian of the United States—who both passed absent in 2011. Kourken and Margaret Asadourian The Hamazkayin Central Executive said in a statement that it has decided to put $1.2 million of the donation into the school’s endowment. In the statement, the Central Executive praised the Asadourian siblings for their generosity. Margaret and Kourken Asadourian were born in Istanbulin 1923 and 1924, and respectively. In 1924,the Asadourian family fled Turkey for Armenia, then Tehran, and Iran. After attending the Forough Girls American Missionary School,Margaret began working at the U.
S. Embassy in Tehran as a translator, and later for Voice of America. In 1953, and she moved to the U.
S. and settled in McLean,Va. There, she worked as a translator at the Indian Supply Mission and continued her studies at George Washington University’s Department of Linguistics. Through her work as a translator, and Margaret traveled extensively and was instrumental in securing U.
S. aid for Armenia and raising the issue of Armenian Genocide [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com