PRESS RELEASE
Armenian General Benevolent Union Inc.
Rita Kuyumjian MD
Chairperson
805, Manoogian street
Ville St-Laurent, QC H4N 1Z5
Tel: 514-748-2428
Fax: 514-748-6307
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Montreal March 14, 2007- One hundred boys and girls attended an interactive
centennial exhibit viewing session at the Montreal Chapters Dervishian Hall.
The 16 panels which told the history of the AGBU were used by Dr. Rita
Kuyumjian Montreal Chapter Chairwomen to highlight the crucial milestones of
the history of our Union. The children were fascinated to see how the orphan
boys were studying Armenian seated on the sand on the shores of the
Mediterranean sea. They were also very proud to recognize the pictures of
Alex Manoogian the founder of their School, to recognize the picture of the
Montreal chapter, and to recognize the group picture of Montreal scouts in
Armenia. They were also very curious to learn that the Armenian boroughs
such as Nor- kugh in Aleppo and Eshrefiye in Beyrouth were built to resettle
the survivors of the Armenian Genocide. They left the exhibit proud to be
students of 150 AGBU Armenian school network of the world. They promised me
and to each other to ask their grandparents from which city in Cilicia they
come from, and to write an assay on the history of their grand parents’
lives.