Armenian Genocide essay competition winners announced in Detroit

May 30, 2011 - 11:45 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian Genocide Committee of Greater Detroit announced the winners of the fourth annual essay competition. Awards were presented to the winning students at the Hagopian showroom in Birmingham before a crowd of students, educators, family and friends.

The presentations were made prior to a lecture that same evening to be presented by historian and author Raymond Kevorkian, hometownlife.com reported.

The competition funded by the Hagopian Family Foundation and conceived and initiated by the late Edgar Hagopian, recognizes and awards Michigan high school students who have written a successful essay on the Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th century, often called “the forgotten genocide.”

This is the fourth year that the statewide competition has been offered to students with the hope that it will stimulate study of the many aspects surrounding the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, 1915-23.

The Armenian Genocide Committee of Greater Detroit, a group committed to bringing awareness of the Armenian Genocide, is made up of members of the Detroit metro Armenian community including educators, former educators and business leaders.

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