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AGBU Press Office
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022-1112
Phone: 212.319.6383, x118
Fax: 212.319.6507
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.agbu.org
PRESS RELEASE
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Reveals State-of-the-Art Renovations at the
Marie Manoogian Institute in Buenos Aires
With great excitement and anticipation, on Monday, March 19, 2012,
parents, students and faculty gathered in the Buenos Aires AGBU Marie
Manoogian Institute to celebrate the unveiling of two brand new
classrooms for its Serpuhí Ekshian Nursery School.
Providing high-quality education and resources to youth around the
world has always been a key component of the organization's mission,
and the Institute's new classrooms are a testament to that
commitment. Designs for the renovations were finished in record time -
ground was broken this past January and the work was completed
according to schedule so that the improved facilities could be taken
advantage of during the current school year. As planned, one of the
classrooms increased by 70%, while the other almost doubled in
size. Each room boasts state-of-the-art projectors, computers and
stereo systems, and is complete with modern furniture and desks.
At the inaugural event, family and friends had the opportunity to tour
the new space and watch a video highlighting the extensive demolitions
and months of tireless work that made the transformation
possible. Mr. Ruben Kechichian, Buenos Aires Chapter Chair and AGBU
Central Board member, thanked the project's many advocates, chief
among them Juan Ignacio Balian, an Institute alumnus and member of
both its Board and Educational Committee. Kechichian also praised the
teachers, who, under the leadership of Director Noemí Fourmentel, and
with the support of AGBU's local committees, helped make 2012 the year
the school reached the highest level of enrollment in its history,
with almost 400 students from pre-kindergarten to the twelfth grade.
Following Kechichian's remarks, Archbishop Kissag Mouradian, Primate
of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Argentina and Chile, performed a
blessing over the two rooms. He was joined by the project's
benefactors, Jorge and María Rosa Kalaidjian, and Souren and Nelly
Youssefian, along with other supporters who cut the ribbon together,
officially opening the classrooms amidst enthusiastic applause.
AGBU Marie Manoogian Institute's nursery school inauguration marks
just one of the many milestones that it has celebrated in the past few
years as it continues to develop its premises and
curriculums. Recently, the school added two multimedia rooms and
acquired modern equipment for the swimming pool in the "Alex
Manoogian" Culture, Education, Social and Sports Complex. It is there,
in the Nazarian Hall, that the school hosts its weekly community
dinners to fundraise for the annual student trip to Armenia. This
year's will travel to the homeland from July 21 through August 3 to
learn more about their heritage and strengthen their connection to
their ancestral roots.
Established in 1906, AGBU (www.agbu.org) is the world's largest
non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
lives of some 400,000 Armenians around the world.
For more information about AGBU and its worldwide programs, please
visit www.agbu.org.
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022-1112
Phone: 212.319.6383, x118
Fax: 212.319.6507
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.agbu.org
PRESS RELEASE
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Reveals State-of-the-Art Renovations at the
Marie Manoogian Institute in Buenos Aires
With great excitement and anticipation, on Monday, March 19, 2012,
parents, students and faculty gathered in the Buenos Aires AGBU Marie
Manoogian Institute to celebrate the unveiling of two brand new
classrooms for its Serpuhí Ekshian Nursery School.
Providing high-quality education and resources to youth around the
world has always been a key component of the organization's mission,
and the Institute's new classrooms are a testament to that
commitment. Designs for the renovations were finished in record time -
ground was broken this past January and the work was completed
according to schedule so that the improved facilities could be taken
advantage of during the current school year. As planned, one of the
classrooms increased by 70%, while the other almost doubled in
size. Each room boasts state-of-the-art projectors, computers and
stereo systems, and is complete with modern furniture and desks.
At the inaugural event, family and friends had the opportunity to tour
the new space and watch a video highlighting the extensive demolitions
and months of tireless work that made the transformation
possible. Mr. Ruben Kechichian, Buenos Aires Chapter Chair and AGBU
Central Board member, thanked the project's many advocates, chief
among them Juan Ignacio Balian, an Institute alumnus and member of
both its Board and Educational Committee. Kechichian also praised the
teachers, who, under the leadership of Director Noemí Fourmentel, and
with the support of AGBU's local committees, helped make 2012 the year
the school reached the highest level of enrollment in its history,
with almost 400 students from pre-kindergarten to the twelfth grade.
Following Kechichian's remarks, Archbishop Kissag Mouradian, Primate
of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Argentina and Chile, performed a
blessing over the two rooms. He was joined by the project's
benefactors, Jorge and María Rosa Kalaidjian, and Souren and Nelly
Youssefian, along with other supporters who cut the ribbon together,
officially opening the classrooms amidst enthusiastic applause.
AGBU Marie Manoogian Institute's nursery school inauguration marks
just one of the many milestones that it has celebrated in the past few
years as it continues to develop its premises and
curriculums. Recently, the school added two multimedia rooms and
acquired modern equipment for the swimming pool in the "Alex
Manoogian" Culture, Education, Social and Sports Complex. It is there,
in the Nazarian Hall, that the school hosts its weekly community
dinners to fundraise for the annual student trip to Armenia. This
year's will travel to the homeland from July 21 through August 3 to
learn more about their heritage and strengthen their connection to
their ancestral roots.
Established in 1906, AGBU (www.agbu.org) is the world's largest
non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
lives of some 400,000 Armenians around the world.
For more information about AGBU and its worldwide programs, please
visit www.agbu.org.