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Students in Washington lobby for Armenian Genocide stamp issue
May 4, 2011 - 09:13 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net -
If the United State postal authorities ever get to mint a postage
stamp commemorating the Armenian Genocide centennial in 2015, much of
the credit could very well go to a small class of world history
students at Wilmington High.
Two dozen of them are lobbying feverishly to get such a commemorative
issued by designing their own illustrations and forwarding them with
essays to Postmaster General John E. Potter in Washington, D.C.
The students belong to a class called `Facing History and Ourselves,'
taught by human rights activists Lisa Joy Desberg and Maura Tucker.
The idea stemmed from presentations made by members of the Merrimack
Valley Armenian Genocide Curriculum Committee, and chaired by Dro
Kanayan, over the past four years.
Some sketches depicted a religious symbol. Others showed families
hand-in-hand. One illustration showed Yerevan's Genocide Memorial,
Tsitsernakabert, with its eternal flame, surrounded by flowers on
April 24 against a blue sky. Another depicted a mother with a baby
strapped to her back and another child in hand making her way across
the desert sands, The Armenian Weekly reported.
From: A. Papazian
May 4, 2011 - 09:13 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net -
If the United State postal authorities ever get to mint a postage
stamp commemorating the Armenian Genocide centennial in 2015, much of
the credit could very well go to a small class of world history
students at Wilmington High.
Two dozen of them are lobbying feverishly to get such a commemorative
issued by designing their own illustrations and forwarding them with
essays to Postmaster General John E. Potter in Washington, D.C.
The students belong to a class called `Facing History and Ourselves,'
taught by human rights activists Lisa Joy Desberg and Maura Tucker.
The idea stemmed from presentations made by members of the Merrimack
Valley Armenian Genocide Curriculum Committee, and chaired by Dro
Kanayan, over the past four years.
Some sketches depicted a religious symbol. Others showed families
hand-in-hand. One illustration showed Yerevan's Genocide Memorial,
Tsitsernakabert, with its eternal flame, surrounded by flowers on
April 24 against a blue sky. Another depicted a mother with a baby
strapped to her back and another child in hand making her way across
the desert sands, The Armenian Weekly reported.
From: A. Papazian