ARGENTINE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SERGIO NAHABETIAN VISITS TCA ARSHAG DICKRANIAN SCHOOL
AZG Armenian Daily
09/12/2008
Diaspora
During his weeklong tour of Southern California as the guest of
California state Sen. Jack Scott, Sergio Nahabetian, Argentina’s only
Member of Parliament of Armenian descent, visited the Tekeyan Cultural
Association’s Arshag Dickranian Armenian School on Monday, November 24.
Accompanied by several members of the Armenian Rights Council of
America (ARCA), the coordinators of Nahabetian’s tour, he was first
greeted at the school entrance by the principal and several members
of the Board of Trustees. Nahabetian was then led to the conference
room for a briefing about the Dickranian School and Armenian day
schools in California in general.
Since his visit took place around noon, Nahabetian got the opportunity
to mingle with the students at the playground while touring the campus,
spending three times as much time as he had previously planned. At
the end of the visit, Nahabetian joined the upper-grade students who
had gathered at the Walter and Laurel Karabian Hall to meet and talk
with him. The students were impressed to hear the guest speak in their
mother tongue about the Armenian community of Argentina, their schools,
cultural centers and daily life. During the question-and-answer period,
the students also learned how Nahabetian, soon after being elected,
had single- handedly embarked upon — and succeeded– passing a
resolution in the parliament there recognizing the Armenian Genocide.