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MEMORIAL WALKWAY FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CREATED IN ARIZONA
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 13, 2012 - 10:39 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Noubar Armen Manoogian, 17, of Scottsdale, Arizona,
has become the first Boy Scout of Armenian descent to achieve the
rank of Eagle Scout in the state of Arizona.
According to a press release provided by St. Apkar Armenian Apostolic
Church, the completed project was approved by the Grand Canyon Council
and the rank of Eagle was conferred on April 12, 2012 at the Eagle
Board of Review. Nationally, the Eagle Scout rank is achieved by only
5% of the boys that enter Boy Scouts.
For his project, Noubar created a Memorial Walkway for the Armenian
Genocide, which is the first of its kind in the United States. The
walkway is bordered with the words "Martyred For Our Faith In These
Places, Here We Worship Still". The 68-foot long, 5-foot wide concrete
path has stamped into it 113 names of towns where the Armenian
Genocides of 1896 and 1915 occurred. It is located at St. Apkar
Armenian Apostolic Church, 8849 East Cholla Street, in Scottsdale.
The Armenian Genocide Memorial Walkway took 320 man hours to complete.
After many stages of planning, fundraising, work and approvals, it was
completed over three weekends in January of this year. The purpose
of an Eagle Project is for a Boy Scout to show leadership in the
planning and execution of a service project that is the culmination
of his years of training in the Scouts. Noubar led the dedicated
Boy Scouts from his Troop 869, and also from Scottsdale's Troop 411,
in the execution of his project.
2012 is the 100th Anniversary of the Eagle Scout rank. Noubar's Eagle
rank patch will be a special centennial edition that will only be
conferred on those scouts who achieve Eagle in 2012. The Armenian
Genocide Memorial Walkway will be blessed on Sunday, April 22nd,
2012 by Rev. Fr. Zacharia Saribekyan.
The blessing will take place after the church services when the
congregation follows the priest in a vigil Tapor for the Genocide
Martyrs. The Primate of the Western Diocese, Archbishop Hovnan
Derderian, will lead a short ceremony at the Memorial Walkway when he
visits the St. Apkar Parish May 3 to 5 for the Annual General Assembly
of the Western Diocese. It is being held this year in Arizona for
the first time in its 85 year history.
Noubar Manoogian is the son of Dn. Berj and Victoria Manoogian and the
brother of Rossleen. He has been in scouting since age 6 as a Tiger
Scout, then as a Cub Scout when he earned every Arrow Point and the
St. Gregory Religious Medal for Cub Scouts from the Eastern Diocese.
As a Boy Scout, he has earned 51 Merit Badges and the St. Vartan
Religious Medal for Boy Scouts, and he is a member of the Boy Scout
Honor Fraternity, the Order of the Arrow. He has been an Ordained
Acolyte of the Armenian Apostolic Church since age 8 and is currently
the Junior Executive for the Hye-Ways Group and a member of the ACYO.
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 13, 2012 - 10:39 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Noubar Armen Manoogian, 17, of Scottsdale, Arizona,
has become the first Boy Scout of Armenian descent to achieve the
rank of Eagle Scout in the state of Arizona.
According to a press release provided by St. Apkar Armenian Apostolic
Church, the completed project was approved by the Grand Canyon Council
and the rank of Eagle was conferred on April 12, 2012 at the Eagle
Board of Review. Nationally, the Eagle Scout rank is achieved by only
5% of the boys that enter Boy Scouts.
For his project, Noubar created a Memorial Walkway for the Armenian
Genocide, which is the first of its kind in the United States. The
walkway is bordered with the words "Martyred For Our Faith In These
Places, Here We Worship Still". The 68-foot long, 5-foot wide concrete
path has stamped into it 113 names of towns where the Armenian
Genocides of 1896 and 1915 occurred. It is located at St. Apkar
Armenian Apostolic Church, 8849 East Cholla Street, in Scottsdale.
The Armenian Genocide Memorial Walkway took 320 man hours to complete.
After many stages of planning, fundraising, work and approvals, it was
completed over three weekends in January of this year. The purpose
of an Eagle Project is for a Boy Scout to show leadership in the
planning and execution of a service project that is the culmination
of his years of training in the Scouts. Noubar led the dedicated
Boy Scouts from his Troop 869, and also from Scottsdale's Troop 411,
in the execution of his project.
2012 is the 100th Anniversary of the Eagle Scout rank. Noubar's Eagle
rank patch will be a special centennial edition that will only be
conferred on those scouts who achieve Eagle in 2012. The Armenian
Genocide Memorial Walkway will be blessed on Sunday, April 22nd,
2012 by Rev. Fr. Zacharia Saribekyan.
The blessing will take place after the church services when the
congregation follows the priest in a vigil Tapor for the Genocide
Martyrs. The Primate of the Western Diocese, Archbishop Hovnan
Derderian, will lead a short ceremony at the Memorial Walkway when he
visits the St. Apkar Parish May 3 to 5 for the Annual General Assembly
of the Western Diocese. It is being held this year in Arizona for
the first time in its 85 year history.
Noubar Manoogian is the son of Dn. Berj and Victoria Manoogian and the
brother of Rossleen. He has been in scouting since age 6 as a Tiger
Scout, then as a Cub Scout when he earned every Arrow Point and the
St. Gregory Religious Medal for Cub Scouts from the Eastern Diocese.
As a Boy Scout, he has earned 51 Merit Badges and the St. Vartan
Religious Medal for Boy Scouts, and he is a member of the Boy Scout
Honor Fraternity, the Order of the Arrow. He has been an Ordained
Acolyte of the Armenian Apostolic Church since age 8 and is currently
the Junior Executive for the Hye-Ways Group and a member of the ACYO.