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Article: LOOKING IN ON AN ARMENIAN AMERICAN SCHOOL.
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- Cobblestone
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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At 8:30 A.M., Miss Vecchione's third-grade students, dressed in their uniforms, file into their classroom. They attend the Hovnanian Armenian School in New Milford, New Jersey. The school combines American elementary and middle school instruction with an opportunity to learn the language, history, and culture of Armenia. The school is preparing for an assembly to celebrate the eighth anniversary of Armenia's independence from the Soviet Union.
Miss Vecchione takes attendance. Some of her eight-year-olds have popular Armenian names. There are two boys called Vatche and three girls called Talin (one spells it Taleen). The other students have distinctive names, too, ...