Dr. Arra Avakian Donates Slide Collection to Fresno State

STAFF REPORT

Professor Arra Avakian of Fresno,

retired professor of Armenian Studies

at Fresno State, has donated his

entire library of color slides to the

Armenian Studies Program.

The collection constitutes more than 12,000 slides taken over forty years of

travel by Dr. Avakian.

The slides cover a wide number of places visited by Dr. Avakian, especially

slides of important monuments and sites, such as Etchmiadzin, Mt. Ararat,

Khor Virap, and Sardarabad, in the Republic of Armenia.

Dr. Avakian has also visited historic Armenia several times, and his slides of

Van, Arapgir, Adana, and many other locations in historic Armenia, are of

great historic value and interest.