President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug - Softcover

Dr. Hagop Martin Deranian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 061584734X ISBN 13: 9780615847344

Publisher: Armenian Cultural Foundation, 2013

Synopsis

"The rug has a place of honor in the White House." President Calvin M. Coolidge, 1925.

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About the Author

Dr. Hagop Martin Deranian was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1922. His parents were both from the town of Hussenig, Kharpert Province, Ottoman Turkish Armenia. He is named Hagop in honor of Hagop Bogigian, his mother s uncle, who was a pioneer rug merchant in America and benefactor of education for Armenian young women. His mother, born Varter Bogigian, who died in 1929, was a survivor of the genocide, having lost six children, her first husband, and parents. His father, Marderos, who died in 1957, arrived in America in 1900 and operated a grocery store in Worcester. His father raised him from the age of seven. Dr. Deranian, a graduate of Clark University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, served as Lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States Navy (1951-53) and has been engaged in the private practice of dentistry while at the same time serving on the faculty of the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. His translation of his father s memoir,Hussenig, The Origin, History and Destruction of an Armenian Town, was published in 1996; an earlier bilingual edition appeared in 1981. His second book, Worcester Is America, the Story of Worcester Armenians, appeared in 1995, followed by Miracle Man of the Western Front: Dr. Varaztad H. Kazanjian, Pioneer Plastic Surgeon, which was published in 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: Armenian Cultural Foundation
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 061584734X
• ISBN 13: 9780615847344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 75