ՀՄԸՄ-ի Գործունէութիւնը Մայր Հայրենիքի` Հայաստանի Հանրապետութեան Մէջ. 1918-1927

Նոր Գիրքերու Հետ. ՀՄԸՄ-ի Գործունէութիւնը Մայր Հայրենիքի` Հայաստանի Հանրապետութեան Մէջ. 1918-1927 ՝ Հեղինակ Յարութ Չէքիճեան։

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Նոր Գիրքերու Հետ. ՀՄԸՄ-ի Գործունէութիւնը Մայր Հայրենիքի` Հայաստանի Հանրապետութեան Մէջ. 1918-1927 (Հեղինակ Յարութ Չէքիճեան): https://www.aztagdaily.com/archives/657798?fbclid=IwY2xjawMRTMJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuVQoVSeDZdovxzIzMY8HOPGkvUEQJVlKPpdsq299tzutoh_GpzxDFEpxtnS_aem_ZfLKk4WVZ1XbM_RIsoVvSA

The relief aid for the nascent republic

 Vaհe H Apelian

The title  of this blog  pertains to the relief aid, the United States of America rendered to the nascent Republic of Armenia at a crucial time of the republic.

Anyone who has read about the founding of the Republic of Armenia in Wikipedia, would have come across the following paragraph: “By the time relief aid reached Armenia, some 150,000–180,000 refugees (20 percent of the population) had perished due to famine, exposure, or hunger. According to a report from February 1919, 40 percent of the inhabitants of the district of Sardarapat had died. By April 1919, 40 percent of the inhabitants of eight villages near Etchmiadzin and 25 percent of the sixteen villages in Ashtarak perished. During the winter, the population of the district of Talin declined by 50 percent, and nearly 60 percent of Armenians in Surmalu died of starvation. American historian Richard Pipes writes that Soviet estimates place the number of Armenians who perished due to famine and disease at 300,000. In 1919, 19,000 inhabitants of Yerevan contracted typhus and 10,000 died from exposure, famine, and pestilence. By mid-1919, 200,000 inhabitants of Armenia had perished; according to Hovannisian, there were 8.7 births and 204.2 deaths per 1,000 persons, yielding a net loss of 195.5—"it was verily a land of death". According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 192,000 people died due to the typhus epidemic and famine by the summer of 1919.”

What was the relief aid that reached Armenia?  Who provided the relief aid? How did the relief aid get to Armenia?

Given the extraordinarily harsh situation in Armenia, the Armenian government dispatched a delegation to the United States of America headed by the Prime Minister Kachaznouni to solicit aid. The delegation’s efforts were supported by the Armenians in America.  This is what Kachaznouni has said at a reception given in honor of the delegation in New York in December 1919.

“At the cost of immense sacrifices, untold sufferings and deprivations, bloody battles and persistent work, the Republic of Armenia has been established today on and around the Ararat Valley.

- Today, it is the Republic of Armenia where we must seek and find our salvation, the fulfillment of our centuries-old desires. This is where the Armenian race must focus all its attention, its mind and soul, all its creative potential.

- The enemy of the Republic is the enemy of Armenians.

- An Armenian who dares to look at the Republic with a critical eye is a traitor to the great Armenian cause.

- To rally, sincerely and unconditionally, around the Republic, to give it strength and vitality - this is the demand of the day, this is the sacred duty of every Armenian.

- The Republic is in a period of organization. It needs goodwill and "effective aid, especially when it is organized in such hellish conditions, the like of which history has perhaps never seen.

-This is the help we have come to seek in distant America." (see note no 1)

How did the Armenian delegation effort pan out? This is wheat Simon Vratsian has written:

«The government’s delegation, the appeals by the government and the support of the Diaspora eventually were heard and aid was quickly dispatched. This time around it was the United States of America, the director of the U.S. Food Administration, Hoover, the one who salvaged Europe after the war, who became the real savior of the people of Armenia. Whatever happens, however we regard America’s role in the Armenian Question, we do not forget nor should we forget the U.S. humanitarian assistance to Armenia and the provisions they provided.   

The first American boat arrived to Batumi on March 21 carrying 125,000 sacks of flour. A week later another shipment of 600,000 sacks of flour arrived. To transport the provision, the American government requested from the Armenian Government 579 train wagons and 14 locomotives at a time when all that the Armenian Government had was 16 locomotives and 520 train wagons. The intervention of the American and the British governments was needed. For four days human traffic over the Armenian rail lines was halted and all facilities were appropriated for the transpiration of the flour only.

With the arrival of the American flour, the famine slowly started receding. The country started to embark on its normal course. The people and the government started to devote themselves towards reconstruction and structuring of the governance.” (Republic of Armenia, 2nd edition, Lebanon).» (see note no. 2)

The rest is history unfolding right in front of this generation interconnected like no time before.  

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Note 1:  Credited to Avo G Boghossian’s posting on his Facebook page on Sunday August, 17, 2025. The quote if form Kachaznouni’s collective writings by ANI Armenian Research Center.

Note: Credited to Garo Armenian’s posting on his Facebook page on February 23, 2019. The quote is from Simon Vratsian’s book “Republic of Armenia”

 

Historically America has been good to Armenia

Vaհe H Apelian

The Armenian delegation to the United States in 1919.Top row (left to right): A. Piralyan, M. Ter-Poghosyan, S. Melikyan, Armen Garo, H. Bonapartyan. Bottom row (left to right): Artashes Enfiajyan, Jaques Bagratuni, Hovhannes Katchaznouni, Andranik Ozanian, A. Der-Hagopian

Historically America has been good to Armenia. 

Anyone who has read about the Republic of Armenia in Wikipedia, would have come across the following paragraph.

“By the time relief aid reached Armenia, some 150,000–180,000 refugees (20 percent of the population) had perished due to famine, exposure, or hunger. According to a report from February 1919, 40 percent of the inhabitants of the district of Sardarapat had died. By April 1919, 40 percent of the inhabitants of eight villages near Etchmiadzin and 25 percent of the sixteen villages in Ashtarak perished. During the winter, the population of the district of Talin declined by 50 percent, and nearly 60 percent of Armenians in Surmalu died of starvation. American historian Richard Pipes writes that Soviet estimates place the number of Armenians who perished due to famine and disease at 300,000. In 1919, 19,000 inhabitants of Yerevan contracted typhus and 10,000 died from exposure, famine, and pestilence. By mid-1919, 200,000 inhabitants of Armenia had perished; according to Hovannisian, there were 8.7 births and 204.2 deaths per 1,000 persons, yielding a net loss of 195.5—"it was verily a land of death". According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 192,000 people died due to the typhus epidemic and famine by the summer of 1919.”

What was the relief aid that reached Armenia?  Who provided the relief aid? How did the relief aid get to Armenia?

Given the extraordinarily harsh situation in Armenia, the Armenian government dispatched a delegation to the United States of America headed by the Prime Minister Kachaznouni to solicit aid. The delegation’s efforts were supported by the Armenians in America.  This is what Kachaznouni has said at a reception given in honor of the delegation in New York in December 1919.

“At the cost of immense sacrifices, untold sufferings and deprivations, bloody battles and persistent work, the Republic of Armenia has been established today on and around the Ararat Valley.

- Today, it is the Republic of Armenia where we must seek and find our salvation, the fulfillment of our centuries-old desires. This is where the Armenian race must focus all its attention, its mind and soul, all its creative potential.

- The enemy of the Republic is the enemy of Armenians.

- An Armenian who dares to look at the Republic with a critical eye is a traitor to the great Armenian cause.

- To rally, sincerely and unconditionally, around the Republic, to give it strength and vitality - this is the demand of the day, this is the sacred duty of every Armenian.

- The Republic is in a period of organization. It needs goodwill and "effective aid, especially when it is organized in such hellish conditions, the like of which history has perhaps never seen.

-This is the help we have come to seek in distant America." (see note no 1)

How did the Armenian delegation effort pan out? This is wheat Simon Vratsian has written:

«The government’s delegation, the appeals by the government and the support of the Diaspora eventually were heard and aid was quickly dispatched. This time around it was the United States of America, the director of the U.S. Food Administration, Hoover, the one who salvaged Europe after the war, who became the real savior of the people of Armenia. Whatever happens, however we regard America’s role in the Armenian Question, we do not forget nor should we forget the U.S. humanitarian assistance to Armenia and the provisions they provided.   

The first American boat arrived to Batumi on March 21 carrying 125,000 sacks of flour. A week later another shipment of 600,000 sacks of flour arrived. To transport the provision, the American government requested from the Armenian Government 579 train wagons and 14 locomotives at a time when all that the Armenian Government had was 16 locomotives and 520 train wagons. The intervention of the American and the British governments was needed. For four days human traffic over the Armenian rail lines was halted and all facilities were appropriated for the transpiration of the flour only.

With the arrival of the American flour, the famine slowly started receding. The country started to embark on its normal course. The people and the government started to devote themselves towards reconstruction and structuring of the governance.” (Republic of Armenia, 2nd edition, Lebanon).» (see note no. 2)

The rest is history unfolding right in front of this generation interconnected like no time before.  

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Note 1:  Credited to Avo G Boghossian’s posting on his Facebook page on Sunday August, 17, 2025. The quote if form Kachaznouni’s collective writings by ANI Armenian Research Center.

Note: Credited to Garo Armenian’s posting on his Facebook page on February 23, 2019. The quote is from Simon Vratsian’s book “Republic of Armenia”

 

  

Hagop comments (3): It is about giving Armenia a chance to have a future.

This is the third time I post a comment Hagop made in the Armenian Weekly, I post in my blog. His first comment was on June 4, 2025, to “Profane and unbecoming”, Church leaders condemn Pashinyan’s attack on Clergy” article. The second comment I posted was on July 2, 2025 to “Victory has no alternative’: Armenian authorities raid church, arrest cleric amid escalating tensions” article. This comment pertained to “Trump’s “peace route” raises alarm over Armenian sovereignty” article on August 14, 2025 by Hoory Minoyan as well. Vaհe H Apelian 

“Let’s be clear: this deal was not about bending the knee — it was about making sure Armenia still has knees to stand on. For more than three decades, Armenia has been locked in a cycle of wars, blockades, and isolation that have cost lives, forced more than 1.3 million Armenians to flee the homeland, bled the economy dry, and left Armenia more vulnerable each year. Standing still was not an option. Signing this agreement was the only way to break that deadlock and open a path to actual stability.

People screaming “sellout” seem to forget Armenia lost the 2020 war and that the battlefield reality since then has been brutal. You don’t negotiate from a fantasy; you negotiate from the ground you’re standing on. And the ground was shifting against Armenia. Armenia had a choice: either secure a deal that locks in peace, brings in major U.S. investment, and opens Armenia to trade routes — or keep feeding its young people into another unwinnable war while the world moves on without us.

The so-called “Zangezur corridor” hysteria? Here’s the truth — it’s not a foreign-controlled strip carved out of Armenia. It’s infrastructure under Armenian sovereignty, regulated by Armenian law, and built with funding that will boost our economy. We’re not giving away territory; we’re monetising geography. Azerbaijan can’t just roll trucks in without our say-so, and anyone suggesting otherwise is deliberately fearmongering for political gain.

As for the constitution change — let’s stop pretending this is some unique betrayal. Every serious country in the modern world recognises internationally defined borders. Bringing the Armenian constitution into line with reality removes a constant excuse for Azerbaijan to escalate and puts Armenia on firmer legal ground internationally. That’s called statecraft, not surrender.

Yes, the deal doesn’t solve every single issue today — no peace agreement ever does. Prisoners of war, displaced persons, cultural heritage — these are ongoing negotiations, and they have a far better chance of resolution when Armenia is not under fire and when it has open channels to talk.

The loudest critics here aren’t offering an alternative beyond “fight more, lose more.” That’s not strategy — that’s emotional grandstanding dressed up as patriotism. Armenia chose a different path: one that keeps Armenia alive, opens its borders, strengthens its economy, and brings in allies we can actually rely on. It’s not perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the alternative: national ruin and loss of statehood wrapped in the flag.

The peace framework is not about giving up Armenia. It is about giving Armenia a chance to have a future. It is about protecting Armenian sovereignty and territorial integrity, it is about placing Armenia on a sustainable path and chartering a trajectory to becoming a viable state."

The debate I will never forget

Vaհe H Apelian

This blog is not about rendering a judgement. It is about the encouraging the young to think for themselves and be critical, as we were invited in our youthful days to do so.

The Ottoman Bank, those who took part in the occupation, Papken Siuni, Armen Garo

The debate I will never forget is the debate we had in my youth about the occupation of the Ottoman Bank led by Papken Siuni. According to Wikipedia “on Wednesday, 26 August 1896, 13:00 o'clock, 26 Armenians from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, armed with pistols and grenades and led by Papken Siuni, attacked and occupied the Ottoman Bank of Constantinople.” However, Tatul Hakobyan, in ANI Armenian Research Center, posted about this historical event on August 14, 2025 headlining it “ARF’seizure of the Ottoman Bank: August 14, 1896” («ՀՅԴ-ի կողմից Օսմանյան բանկի գրավումը. 14 օգոստոս, 1896». When I brought the date to his attention, he said it is because of the old Armenian calendar that differs from the standard calendar by 13 days.

My father enrolled me in the Papken Siuni Badanegan (Youth) Myoutyoun (Association), early in my youth. We held our meetings on Wednesday and Saturdy afternoons in the Beirut's ARF  Community Center that remained central in our lives until the unset of the Lebanese Civial War in 1975, when Ara  Yerevanian community came about in 1972. 

Every year we debated, maybe more than once, whether Papken Siuni led occupation of the Ottoman Bank was justified or it was a reckless act. None of us wanted to be in the team that debated against the occupation. A representative from the ARF Zavarian Student Association oversaw the Badanegan (Youth) Myoutyoun (Association). He took the matters into his hand and assigned a few  of us to the team that would argue against the occupation. 

Over sixty years have come and gone by from my youthful days as a member of Papken Siuni Badanegan (Youth) Myoutyoun (Association). I have vivid recollection of not only the debate but also of the room we had our meetings and held the debates. That corner room became the Central Committee's office in late 1960s or early 1970s. And for the very first time we were stunned to know that the CC had an executive secretary, who was once the principal of Sourp Nshan School, Hagop Iskenderian. 

I also remember the debate for the uneasiness to be in the team debating as the rest of the members remained seated in the room and watched us take turn to present our case. In 1972, Badanegan (Youth) Myoutyoun (Association) came to an end and the Lebanese youth Association came about as part of YOARF (Youth Organization of ARF). 

The occupation of the Ottoman Bank took place some 130 years ago. . This blog is not about rendering a judgement. It is about the encouraging the young to think for themselves and be critical, as we were invited in our youthful days to do so. Honestly, I wonder if members of YOARF nowadays are encouraged to question history and are urged to debate historical events without being concerned for backlash or the ridicule they may face. Of course in my days there was not the social media we have nowadays. But I can attest that the social circle we had, was as all-encompassing and as wide as social media is nowadays. It was the world we knew.

The Bank of Ottoman occupation's leader Papken, who was killed during the mayhem, beame an idol. It would not surprise me that Catholicos Coadjutor Papken Gulesserian was named in honor of Papken Siuni, much like Catholicos Aram I is most likely named in honor of Aram Manougian. My childhood friend Papken (Apelian) Bedirian is surely named after Papken Siuni.

Over the years, here and there, I have come across about the Ottoman Bank, its occupation. Here are some tidbits about the bank

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The Ottoman Bank was a European conglomerate. It was Ottoman by name only. Greeks and Armenians used it as a metaphor, being Ottoman by name only but otherwise disfranchised.  The Ottoman authorities, the Sultan's Sublime Porte  would have cared the less that the Ottoman Bank was occupied. 

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The Ottoman Bank put an end to the glorious era of the Armenian Amiras, the Rothschilds of the Ottoman Empire who for almost two centuries became trusted financiers of the Sultan and functionaries of the Ottoman Empire, until the Europeans put an end to their prominence.

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Protestant missionaries wrote about the occupation of the Ottoman Bank. I quote the following: 

“Who originated this plot I do not know, but it is certain that the Turkish government knew all about it many days before, even to the exact time when the bank was to be entered; and the Minister of Police had made elaborate arrangements, not to arrest these men or prevent the attack on the bank, but to facilitate it and make it the occasion of a massacre of the Armenian population of the city. This was to be the crown of all the massacres of the year, one worthy of the capitol and the seat of the Sultan, a final defiance to the Christian world. Not many minutes after the attack on the bank the bands of Turks, who had been organized by the Minister of Police in Stamboul and Galata, commenced the work of killing every Armenian they could find, protected by large bodies of troops, who in some cases took part in the slaughter.” (Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College. Front Cover. George Washburn. Houghton Mifflin, 1909 – Turkey – 316 pages)

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“The Ottoman government again unleashed the mob. Softas and thugs started attacking Armenians in Haskoy, Tophane and Galata. The army and the police stood by, or assisted. Most people shut themselves up in their houses or behind the heavy iron doors.

An official of the Ottoman Bank, Louis Rambert, wrote in his diary: 'All Armenian houses are attacked and their little shops, people enter and pillage everything. It happens almost without a sound [since the killers used clubs, not guns]. Every Armenian found in the street is killed' - even on the Grande Rue de Pera. Carts took the corpses away. With his own eyes he saw the murder of rowers of a kayik, watched with visible pleasure by a large crowd on Galata bridge.” — Philip Mansel

 

 

Raffi and Momofuku Ando

Vaհe H Apelian

Raffi is the soul of the nineteen century Armenian renaissance.  Momofuku Ando was instrumental in coming with an a unexpensive durable food that may be stored for long for the post WWII Japanese, whose country was devastated by the war. The two reflect on hunger and poverty. Momofuku Ando is credited to have said that “peace will come to this world when the people have enough to eat.”

Recently I read an article in Darperag 21 with the following title in translation “Poverty: Armenia’s National Calamity” (“Աղքատութիւնը՝ Հայաստանի Ազգային Աղէտը”). The author Arayik Mkrtumyan (Արայիկ Մկրտումեան), cited the following from Raffi addressed to Grigor Artsruni: “I completely confirm your opinion about me (as you have been gossiping to many that I have now become a materialist). Poverty has taught me this. From the most bitter experiences of my life, I have become convinced that nothing can be built on an empty stomach, and the day, if I have a ruble in my pocket for lunch, my written work on that day comes out more beautifully. After suffering such heavy blows, have you not also become convinced that money is a good thing?”

A query I made in the Internet about poverty in Armenia, read the following: “Poverty in Armenia is a significant issue, with a national poverty rate of 23.7%.... Rural populations, particularly those in border areas, mountainous regions, and earthquake zones, are especially vulnerable.”

I cited below a few passages from Arayik Mkrtumyan’s article. Those interested may read the article. It is in Armenian. I have attached the link below.

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“Tens of thousands of people in Armenia still remain poor. Official figures usually fluctuate between 23-25 percent, but that has never shown the real picture…... Poverty is the monster that continues to devour the lives of the inhabitants of the republic and daily, makes the present miserable and keeps the future in uncertainty. The future is no longer a period of desired changes and anticipation, but an inevitable expectation of new shocks and stress. Poverty is the terrible axe that cuts people's hope from faith in the future.”

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“The overwhelming majority of the population of the republic is drowning in bank loans. Even the most ordinary loans do not finish paying off for years. Thousands of people are almost always on the "credit default blacklist", tens of thousands are chained by debts.”

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“Poverty has not allowed the Armenian to live. It constantly keeps him tense and pessimistic. Poverty in Armenia has so bent a person that he does not think about anything else except the desire to live for a month and his only concern is to pay off the debts and expenses for that month and be satisfied if he does not go into debt that month.”

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“Armenia, the homeland and the state of Armenia suffer in the grip of poverty. Many may interpret it differently, justify it differently, and disagree, but the fact remains unchanged. Poverty is destroying Armenia. Social tension is rising; enthusiasm and hatred are intensifying. People are dissatisfied and stressed. Many children are left without education and without prospects for progress. Poverty kills the person and the future of the homeland. A frightened society, never satisfied with its social situation, cannot think about victory. How can you think about victory when your daily life is a defeat? When the Security Service of Armenia (SSNA) reports the news of another betrayal for only 200-300 dollars, does that not remind you of anything?”

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“There are times when poverty is a social issue, and times when it is a matter of national security. In the case of Armenia, poverty has invisibly but firmly chained our minds and souls.”

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Nowadays the peace deal Armenia signed is the talk of Diaspora social media. Concerns are raised. Analysis is made. Social wheels are discovered anew. What would Iran think? How would Russia react? Surely these are valid concerns and surely too, the Armenian government officials were aware and remain aware of these issues as the Armenian pundits on the social media are. Although I doubt that the Armenian government officials who set the political course likely entertained the ramification of the Panama Canal America built and operated for long to the peace deal they signed.

The Armenian pundits, alluding especially to those who reside in the West,  rarely study how the citizens of  Armenia perceive the peace deal. As the Armenian saying goes, "the satiated does not understand the hungry”,  "Կուշտը սովածին չի հասկանա"` «կուշտը քաղցածին չի հասկնար։» 

Links

1.“Raffi, The Prophet From Payajuk By Murad A. Meneshian» - https://vhapelian.blogspot.com/2023/06/raffi-prophet-from-payajuk-by-murad.html

2.“Աղքատութիւնը՝ Հայաստանի Ազգային Աղէտը” - https://darperag21.net/%d5%a1%d5%b2%d6%84%d5%a1%d5%bf%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%a9%d5%ab%d6%82%d5%b6%d5%a8%d5%9d-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%ab-%d5%a1%d5%a6%d5%a3%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%ab%d5%b6-%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%a7/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMK2Z1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHphvjcdpFkJ21CHtXug5gCYvoB4XPGKxfRmcsLcsvIAzX9OEf_hTcRz35L0V_aem_QasMB4wMd5IKPak73lGSwQ

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Երէկ, ֆէյսպուքի messenger-իս մէջ ստացայ վերը տեղադրած նկարները։ Ղրկողին անունը Hrayr Essayan - Հրայր Եսայեան է։ Առաջին ակնարկով չկրցայ պատկերացնել թէ ո՞վ կրնար ըլլալ ան, եւ ինչ էր իր կապը Սօնա անունով տիկնոջ մը հետ որուն նուիրած էր մայրս այդ Սուրբ Գիրքը՝ եւ ձօնած այդ յուշագրութիւնը։

Հրայր Եսայեանին ֆէյսպուքի էջը պրպտելով դժուար չեղաւ ինծի համար պատկերացնել Հրայրը։  Աւելի քան յիսուն տարիներու վրայ երկարող պատմութիւն մը կայ հոն՝ Անթիլիասի մէջ, Սիմիթեաններուն կառուցած «Գեղարդ» շէնքին մէջ, Սոմունճեան ընտանիքին հետ։ Պատմութիւնը ընթացած է ընդհանրապէս իմ բացակայութեանս ընթացքին, բայց մտապատկերիս վրայ միշտ թառմ մնացած են  անոր պատահարները եւ հոլովոյթները։

Սօնան, Ապրոյին քոյրն էր, տէր եւ տիկին Սոմունճեաններուն զաւակները։ Անոնք չկան այլեւս՝ Ապրոն քանի մը տարի առաջ մահացաւ։ Սօնան որ իր կրտսերն էր, վաղաժամ մահացաւ շուրջ երկու տասնամեակներ առաջ։ Հրայրը Սօնային զաւակներէն մէկն է։

Շէնքին մէջ, կեանքի ընթացիկ առօրեային մէջ, արդէն հետեւցուցած էի  որ Սօնան սիրելի էր մօրս համար, բայց չէի գիտեր, թերեւս ալ մոռցած եմ որ մօրս աշակերտուհին ալ եղած էր։ Սուրբ Գիրքին նկարէն դատելով, գրադարանի մը մէջ պահ դրուած գիրքի մը տպաւորութիւնը չի ձգէր։ Ակնյայտ է որ գործածուած է։ Մօրս յուշագրութիւնը, մօրս առօրեայ գեղեցիկ ձեռագրով, հետեւեալն է՝ «Շատ սիրելի Սօնա՝ Ընտանիք կազմելը ամենանուիրական շնորհքն է որ Աստուած պարգեւած է մեզի։ Զայն դարձնենք Աստուածային առաքելութեան շտեմարան մը, որպէս ուղղեցոյց կեանքի. քեզի կը կտակեմ Սաղմ. 119:105-ը։ Վաղեմի դաստիարակուհիդ ու միշտ նոյն հարազատ Աբելեան Զուարթ ---25.11.1982Պէյրութ. Անթիլիաս»։

Հետարքրութեան համար փնտռեցի նշուած Սաղմոսը որ կ՚ըսէ՝ «Քու խօսքդ իմ ոտքերուս ճրագ է, Ու իմ շաւիղներուս՝ լոյս։»

Կրնամ վկայել որ ուսումը եւ հայեցի դաստիարակութիւնը  նոյնացուցուցին մօրս աշակերտները որպէս իր հարազատ զաւակները։ Կը գրէ՝ «անանուն բոլոր խռովքներն ու ցաւոտ ժամերս խնդութեան վերածողը եղած է միայն ու միայն աշակերտը, եւ մի՛շտ աշակերտը, եւ մի՛շտ աշակերտը։ Գրեթէ անկարելի կ՚ըլլայ թուել դէպք մը, որով աշակերտը ինծի համար տառապանք ստեղծած ըլլար։ Այս ժամանակաշրջանին, մենք կրցանք դառնալ աշակերտ-ուսուցիչ բարեկամներ, ու ջանացինք տեսնել աշակերտին մէջ եւ մտքի տղան, եւ կեանքի տղան, եւ իտէալին աղջիկը, եւ տան մը բարի հարսը կամ տանտիկինը։»

Անակնկալ չեղաւ ինծի համար որ մայրս Սօնային ամուսնութեան առթիւ Սուրբ Գիրքը նուիրած ըլլար։ Մօրս համար իր աշակերտ ու աշակերտուհիներուն կատարելիութիւնը եղաւ անոնց ընտանիք կազմելը։ Միեւնոյնը կը վկայի իրեն պաշտօնակից Տիկ. Քասունին։ Մօրս Ս. Սահակ – Ս. Մեսրոպ Շքադրութեան առթիւ՝ ձեռամբ Գարեգին Ա. Կաթողիկոս Ամենայն Հայոցին, այսպէս գրած էր՝ « Զուարթ Աբէլեան կը պատուըի ամէն անգամ երբ նախքին աշակերտ մը կը վազէ մօտը. «Զիս ճանցա՞ք, ինծի սիրցուցիք Հայերէնը. Զաւակներս  հայերէն գիրք կը կարդան, հայ աղջկայ հետ ամուսնացայ, երջանիկ բոյն կազմած եմ, ձեր թելադրութիւններուն վրայ, զիս ներշնցած էք հայու ոգիով....»։

Օրինակ մը եւս՝ իր երբեմնի վաղամեռ աշակետուհիին՝ Սօնա Սոմունճեան եսայեանին դաստիարակութեամբ մեծցած, եւ իր վաղամեռ մօրը իտիալներուն հաղորդ մնացած  փափկանկատ զաւակը՝ Հրայրը։

Այո, ուսուցիչները կը շարունակեն ապրիլ իրենց մահուընէ ետք։