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WRITER, EDITOR NEVART APIKIAN DIES AT 94
PanARMENIAN.Net
August 28, 2012 - 17:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Longtime Post-Standard writer and editor Nevart
Apikian, who wrote about a little of everything in her 56 years
with the Syracuse Newspapers, died Sunday, Aug 26. She was 94,
syracuse.com reported.
Apikian began her journalism career after graduating from Syracuse
University. She was hired by the Sullivan County Evening News in
Monticello in the Catskills. She reported on courts and county and
town governments. She also wrote about the entertainers performing
at the showrooms of the nearby resorts.
When she began working at The Post-Standard in August 1942, she was
a news reporter. Soon she became the theater and movie critic and
position she held for 25 years. Apikian wrote about the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Opera and Syracuse Stage and Pompeian
Players, among other performing groups. She retired from the
Post-Standard in November 1998.
The daughter of an Armenian emigrant, she grew up hearing of the Old
World through events at the now-defunct St. John's Armenian Church.
She was part of Syracuse's Armenian community that made sure the public
remembered April 24, 1915, the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
In 2002, Apikian was inducted onto the Syracuse Press Club Wall
of Distinction at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. She was a past
president of Theta Sigma Phi, a journalism society now known as the
Association for Women in Communications, and of the Central New York
Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. She also was
a member of Civic Morning Musicals.
PanARMENIAN.Net
August 28, 2012 - 17:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Longtime Post-Standard writer and editor Nevart
Apikian, who wrote about a little of everything in her 56 years
with the Syracuse Newspapers, died Sunday, Aug 26. She was 94,
syracuse.com reported.
Apikian began her journalism career after graduating from Syracuse
University. She was hired by the Sullivan County Evening News in
Monticello in the Catskills. She reported on courts and county and
town governments. She also wrote about the entertainers performing
at the showrooms of the nearby resorts.
When she began working at The Post-Standard in August 1942, she was
a news reporter. Soon she became the theater and movie critic and
position she held for 25 years. Apikian wrote about the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Opera and Syracuse Stage and Pompeian
Players, among other performing groups. She retired from the
Post-Standard in November 1998.
The daughter of an Armenian emigrant, she grew up hearing of the Old
World through events at the now-defunct St. John's Armenian Church.
She was part of Syracuse's Armenian community that made sure the public
remembered April 24, 1915, the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
In 2002, Apikian was inducted onto the Syracuse Press Club Wall
of Distinction at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. She was a past
president of Theta Sigma Phi, a journalism society now known as the
Association for Women in Communications, and of the Central New York
Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. She also was
a member of Civic Morning Musicals.