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270:– also known as Jenanyan College (founded in 1892) as academic Dean. He was appointed Director of the Institute and later promoted to the presidency until his death. Through his efforts, the standard of the Institute was raised to that of a college and was later incorporated as the Apostolic College. In 1907, the Board of Trustees obtained incorporation for the Apostolic Institute under the laws of the
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Matilda Surpouhi Garabedian (1879-1968) on July 14, 1902. She was the daughter of prominent Armenian Evangelical pastor Rev. Dikran Lazarus Garabedian and Anna Kaprielian. They had six daughters, Mary (1903-2002), Daisy (1905-1987), Lily (1907-1970), Nelly (1909-2006), Pansy
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Matilde Mehagian (1903-2002) Daisy Araxie Haigazian (1905-1987) Lily Anna Amadooni (1907-1970) Nelly Cecilia Constantian (1909-2006) Pansy Arpine Irish (1911-2010) Arminé Ruth Strachan (1917-2002)
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Years later, with a donation of 25,000 USD by his daughter Mary and son-in-law Avak (Steven) Mehagian and with the help of
Stephen Philibosian, Haigazian College was founded on October 17, 1955, by the
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and survived the atrocities committed by the
Ottoman Empire, returning after several weeks. Upon the insistence of parents the Institute reopened in September 1919 with three hundred students enrolled.
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Institute was closed in 1915, following the mass deportation of the Armenian population from Konia at the start of the
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camp. After the government delayed his admission to the hospital, his health deteriorated dramatically. Eventually, they granted permission to admit him to the
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University Congregational Church. That same year he returned to Turkey and joined the faculty of the Apostolic Institute in
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Harpoot on June 20, he was already near collapse. He had contracted typhus while being deported with a group of influential Armenians and
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