Article: Heritage and history.(City/Region)(Local Armenians form a club to help preserve their culture)

Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

"In the last week, I just discovered five more Armenians," says Sophia Malkasian, pointing to the handwritten names on the back of her typed club list that has now grown to 30 names. "They're just coming out of the woodwork."

It is April 5, and the Eugene native is sitting around a table of lavash, pilaf, stuffed grape leaves and other Armenian favorites at the home of Annette Gurdjian and Dennis Clay in south Eugene.

Malkasian and Gurdjian are part of a group they've helped start called the Armenians of Eugene Club. It began last fall when they and a few other local women of Armenian descent got together ...

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