PRESS RELEASE
Assistant Director of Communications and Public Relations
Jason Mollica
Niagara University
PO Box 2039
Niagara University, NY 14109
Phone: 716-286-8584
Fax: 716-286-8581
Niagara University graduate Nerses Krikorian (class of 1943) will be
presented with an honorary doctor of science degree at the 2005 Niagara
University undergraduate commencement ceremony.
Krikorian was born in 1921 to Hachig and Lucia, as they began their
flight to freedom in Canada, as exiled Armenians, during the genocide by
the Turks at the decline of the Ottoman Empire. His mother and father
carried their possessions in two suitcases, walking most of the way to
Greece. The family remained in Athens for six weeks, while awaiting
passage to Marseilles, France, aboard a steamship. From there, they
traveled on to Cherbourg, then to Canada, where Krik’s father’s oldest
brother lived. The journey was complete, sort of. The family stayed in
St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1924, before finally settling in Niagara
Falls, N.Y., in 1925.