DR.VARTAN GREGORIAN TO BE HONORED AS THE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR

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Sep 23, 2009

LOS ANGELES-Dr. Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, will be honored by the Armenian Professional Society on
November 7 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Gregorian will be in Los Angeles to discuss the economic
challenges of obtaining higher education in the United States and
possible solutions.

As President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Dr. Gregorian
strives to help students obtain a higher education. In a recent
interview with PBS correspondent Bill Moyer, Gregorian proposes a
twenty-year plan to help re-engineer and re-ignite its workforce by
educating its leadership.

Dr. Gregorian has worked diligently "to promote the advancement
and diffusion of knowledge and understanding by providing grants to
support programs of higher education" through the Carnegie Corporation.

Dr. Gregorian has recently been appointed by President Barack Obama
to the Commission on White House Fellowships and is responsible for
recommending exceptional young men and women as White House Fellows
who will ultimately gain experience working in the federal government.

Dr. Gregorian is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts of
Sciences. Gregorian is the author of The Road To Home: My Life And
Times, Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith, and The Emergence of Modern
Afghanistan, 1880-1946.

The Armenian Professional Society was formed in 1958 for the
advancement of education and fellowship among Armenians.

The APS acknowledges the achievements of outstanding individuals,
encourages students who have attained university education to proceed
to post-graduate studies, and has awarded scholarships to graduate
students in the United States and grants to institutions of higher
learning in Armenia.