MAJOR BENEFACTORS, BENEFACTORS
PATRONS, DONORS OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND SUSTAINERS
OF THE PADUS- ARAXES ASSOCIATION
 
Founded in 1987 to sponsor the Summer Intensive Courses of the University Ca' Foscari of
Venice, the PADUS-ARAXES ASSOCIATION is a non-profit cultural organization
committed to the preservation and the development of Armenian language
and culture especially among diasporian Armenians.
 
 

MAIN SUPPORTER
GARO ARMEN, New York

MAJOR BENEFACTORS (over US $ 10,000)
ALEC MANOOGIAN †
FONDAZIONE ONNIK MANOUKIAN, Milan
FONDAZIONE STEFANO SERAPIAN, Milan
WALTER AND LAUREL KARABIAN, Los Angeles
ANONYMOUS
 

BENEFACTORS (US $ 5,000 to10,000)
BARBARA KIREDJIAN LORINCIE
LOUISE M. SIMONE

PATRONS (US $ 3,000 to 5,000)
ARTHUR GARAPETIAN
ANONYMOUS

DONORS OF SCHOLARSHIPS (minimum US $ 600)
FUNDAÇAO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN (since 1986)
DIRAN AVEDIAN (1997-2000)
ANONYMOUS (since 1988)
UNIONE DEGLI ARMENI D'ITALIA (1989-1993)
ANAHID TER-MINASSIAN DREZIAN (1994-2001)
VAZKEN AND VARTUHI PAMBAKIAN (since 2001)
 

 SUPPORTERS (US $ 500 to 3,000) 
Antonia ARSLAN, Marco BRAMBILLA, Mihran DADIAN, Garbis DER YEGHIAYAN
Arto ERSAN, Hovsep FIDANYAN, Mara FILIPPOZZI ZORZI
Hasmig HERATCHIAN, Sophie ICHKANIAN, Arpiar JANOYAN
Nelly MAJARIAN, Franca OLIVETTI MANOUKIAN, Meline MAZLEMIAN
Mgrditch MENZILCIYAN, MIRZAKHANIAN Emil
Hrant PAMBAKIAN, Vartuhi PAMBAKIAN
Karo SEDRAKIAN, Hovsep TOKAT, Shahe YENIKOMSHIAN

  MEMBERS (from US $ 40, students: US $ 20) 
The Board of Directors of the PADUS-ARAXES Association decided to dedicate respectively the 5th and the 4th levels of the Summer Intensive Course of Armenian Language and Culture of the University of Venice to the memory of its Major Benefactors ALEC AND MARY MANOOGIAN and STEFANO SERAPIAN. We shall be happy to name after new generous benefactors the remnant levels as well as each of the eighteen chairs of the same course.
  
HONORARY MEMBERS
ADRIANO ALPAGO-NOVELLO †, Director of the Centro di studi e di documentazione della cultura armena, Venezia
SEN S. AREVSHATYAN, Director of the Matenadaran, Yerevan
HRAND AVETISYAN †, Director of the Institute of History of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan
EDMOND Y. AZADIAN, Chairman of the Mari and Alec Manoogian Cultural Fund, Detroit
GIANCARLO BOLOGNESI †, President of the Istituto Lombardo, Milano
KARLEN DALLAKYAN, ex President of late Committee for Cultiural Relations with Armenians Abroad, Yerevan
LEVON HAKHVERDIAN †, Director of the Institute of Art of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan
GEVORG JAHUKYAN †, Director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan
EDVARD JRBASHYAN †, late Director of the Institute of Literature of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan
HARUTIUN KASANGIAN †, late Searcher of Armenian Architecture
AVEDIS SANJIAN †, late Chair of Armenian Studies at UCLA
GAGIK Kh. SARGSYAN †, late Vice-President of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan
MICHAEL STONE, Main founder of AIEA, the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, and its first President up today.
GARBIS DER YEGHIAYAN, ex President of the Armenian American International College, La Verne