3 April 2009
American-Armenian Scouts Remember
Posted by admin under: International .
When I first started this blog I had to talk about it with someone. As it happened, there was another person at work who was trying to get his own website started. Raffi is proud of his Armenian heritage and started a site designed to get Armenians to date, talk, and discuss news items of interest. So when I showed him www.boyandgirlscouts.com he had to show me www.armenianhotspot.com in return. We talked about various ideas of driving traffic and all the other stuff administrators will talk about when they’re geeking it up, but I didn’t think our worlds would collide until I saw a story about the 40th anniversary of Armenian Boy Scouts in Pasadena from the Pasadena Independent.
Approximately 350 people attended Saturday’s reunion of Armenian Scouts and their families in Pasadena Saturday evening.
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This particular scouting group celebrating 40 years was founded by Shahen Vartanian in October of 1968 in Tehran at a local AGBU elementary school called Nevart Gulbenkian.
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The group was headed by Jemma Ghazarian who is now the honorary head of the group in Tehran.
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In April 1997, the Armenian National Scout Movement was accepted into WOSM, becoming the 144th member. There are approximately 20,000 Armenians in the San Gabriel Valley and Glendale’s Armenian population has surged by 65 percent since 1990, with more than one in four of Glendale’s residents now claiming Armenian descent Glendale, which has the highest concentration of Armenians outside Armenia, is now home to over 52,000, up from 31,402 in 1990.
The story discusses the history within Iran and France of these Scouters who simply wanted to be part of the world-wide fraternity of Scouting. Once again, America has proven to be the place where anyone from anywhere in the world can come to celebrate their heritage and Scouting all at the same time.
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