For Armine and me the university experience profoundly shaped our lives. It revealed vistas of knowledge unknown to us. With an agenda of rigorous study and learning, it gave us proficiency for acquiring an education, and it allowed epiphanies not to be had by any other means.A university provides an arena where truth is the ideal and bias is anathema. The Humanities are particularly suited to provide just such a forum.
Being in an imperfect world, we, born in America of Armenian parents, in our formal education never could find or learn anything about our heritage, that of a people with a continuous history for three millennia!!
Thus, we are indebted to Dean Van Dan Abbeele and the School of Humanities of UC Irvine for their vision for a comprehensive course in Armenian Studies, and we are honored to have the privilege to secure its establishment by lending our philanthropic support to the program.
-Dr. Vahe Meghrouni
Source: UCI Irvine