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Michael and Kitty Dukakis to Speak at Tufts Genocide Commemoration Event
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By Weekly Staff - on March 5, 2010 -
MEDFORD, Mass. - Tufts University, the Darakjian-Jafarian Chair in
Armenian History, the Department of History, and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will sponsor the
annual Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide at Tufts on Tues., April
6, at 7 p.m. The Tufts Day of Remembrance will feature a talk by
former governor of Massachusetts Michael S. Dukakis and wife Kitty
Dukakis titled, `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 1963-70. He was governor from 1975-79 and from
1983-91. In 1988, he was the Democratic nominee for president.
Currently Dukakis is a professor of political science at Northeastern
University and a 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.
For more information on the lecture, call (617) 489-1610, email
[email protected], or write to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478;
or email Prof. McCabe at [email protected].
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2010/03/05/mi chael-and-kitty-dukakis-to-speak-at-tufts-genocide -commemoration-event/
By Weekly Staff - on March 5, 2010 -
MEDFORD, Mass. - Tufts University, the Darakjian-Jafarian Chair in
Armenian History, the Department of History, and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will sponsor the
annual Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide at Tufts on Tues., April
6, at 7 p.m. The Tufts Day of Remembrance will feature a talk by
former governor of Massachusetts Michael S. Dukakis and wife Kitty
Dukakis titled, `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 1963-70. He was governor from 1975-79 and from
1983-91. In 1988, he was the Democratic nominee for president.
Currently Dukakis is a professor of political science at Northeastern
University and a 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.
For more information on the lecture, call (617) 489-1610, email
[email protected], or write to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478;
or email Prof. McCabe at [email protected].