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    WRITER, EDITOR NEVART APIKIAN DIES AT 94

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    August 28, 2012 - 17:08 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Longtime Post-Standard writer and editor Nevart
    Apikian, who wrote about a little of everything in her 56 years
    with the Syracuse Newspapers, died Sunday, Aug 26. She was 94,
    syracuse.com reported.

    Apikian began her journalism career after graduating from Syracuse
    University. She was hired by the Sullivan County Evening News in
    Monticello in the Catskills. She reported on courts and county and
    town governments. She also wrote about the entertainers performing
    at the showrooms of the nearby resorts.

    When she began working at The Post-Standard in August 1942, she was
    a news reporter. Soon she became the theater and movie critic and
    position she held for 25 years. Apikian wrote about the Syracuse
    Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Opera and Syracuse Stage and Pompeian
    Players, among other performing groups. She retired from the
    Post-Standard in November 1998.

    The daughter of an Armenian emigrant, she grew up hearing of the Old
    World through events at the now-defunct St. John's Armenian Church.

    She was part of Syracuse's Armenian community that made sure the public
    remembered April 24, 1915, the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

    In 2002, Apikian was inducted onto the Syracuse Press Club Wall
    of Distinction at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. She was a past
    president of Theta Sigma Phi, a journalism society now known as the
    Association for Women in Communications, and of the Central New York
    Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. She also was
    a member of Civic Morning Musicals.

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