‘DO WE REALLY REMEMBER THE ARMENIANS?’

Watertown TAB & Press
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March 18 2010
MA

WATERTOWN — Tufts University, the Darakjian-Jafarian Chair in Armenian
History, the Department of History and the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research will sponsor the annual Commemoration
of the Armenian Genocide at Tufts on Tuesday, April 6, at 7 p.m. The
Tufts Day of Remembrance will feature a talk by former Massachusetts
Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Kitty Dukakis, "Do We Really Remember
the Armenians?"

The commemoration and lecture will take place in Goddard Chapel on
Tufts’ Medford campus. A reception will follow in the Coolidge Room
in nearby Ballou Hall.

Michael S. Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, studied law at Harvard
University and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from 1963 to 1970. He was governor from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to
1991. In 1988, he was the Democratic nominee for president. Currently
Dukakis is professor of political science at Northeastern University
and visiting professor in the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social
Research.

Kitty Dukakis has served on the President’s Commission on the
Holocaust, on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, on the
board of the Refugee Policy Center and on the Task Force on Cambodian
Children.