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T H I S W E E K I N
Z E N D A
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The Lighthouse............. The
Critiques of Today's Assyrian Organizations
Good Morning Bet-Nahrain... Turkish
Army Ending its Operation in the North
Assyrian Schools Report from the North
Surfs Up................... "do
not send more propaganda"
Surfers Corner............. My
Cousin Milton
News Digest................ Aho
and Bet-Yosip Poetry Reading in San Jose
Calendar of Events......... No
New Entries
Entracte................... Mtakasta
Party in Canada (July 12)
Intelligentsia............. Classes
& Regular Meetings
Assyrian Surfing Posts..... City
of Nippur
Pump up the Volume......... Enable
and Embitter
Back to the Future......... Rulers
of Lagash and Umma
Massacre in Edessa
Literatus.................. William
Daniel's Tid Bits
This Week in History....... Assyrian
Teacher's Day
Bravo...................... The
First ZENDA Baby
The Directory.............. News
Sources
Bshena..................... New
York, Germany, Bell Atlantic, Citibank
Concorde Optronics & GDT Softworks
Salute..................... Ashur
and Edmond
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THE L I G H
T H O U S E
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CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGERS: 3 CRITIQUES OF
TODAY'S ASSYRIAN ORGANIZATIONS
1. Dorina Golpashin: THE WILL
As some of us are aware, the late Benjamin S. Adams left
a large sum of
money in trust to an American friend by the name of Rhodes.
He instructed
Rhodes to distribute this money to 6 specific Assyrian
organizations, on
certain conditions. These conditions are that the
funds must be applied
either to Assyrian refugee assistance, or to Assyrian
children's education.
For any Assyrian organization to receive such a large
bequest is truly a
rare opportunity. The Assyrian people in general,
must be as interested as
I am in how these Assyrian organizations will implement
Mr. Adams' Will as
per his request.
Although I am not an attorney, I do know that when a Will
leaves money
under specific conditions, this does not mean you can
reply by stating,
"Thank you for your money, but regardless of your specific
conditions, we
will allocate it as we see fit." As has been written
already, deviating
from the deceased's instructions not only is disrespectful,
but illegal.
The six organizations more than likely have been chosen
for their previous
accomplishments and perhaps for their past integrity.
Perhaps the late Mr.
Adams' intention was to utilize the six organizations
to appropriate these
funds directly impacting the Assyrian Communities where
they reside.
This is not a question of past integrity or which previously
established
projects necessitate priority. The late Benjamin
Adams has already
stipulated that the funds are to be allocated to 'childrens
education and
refugee assistance.' It will be interesting to
see how well the six
organizations manage these funds and how many Assyrians
will benefit from
their decisions.
As for letting the Assyrian communities know about these
actions, I agree
this is important. Whether their decisions
impact me directly or not, the
organizations exist for Assyrians and for the preservation
of our culture
and for this reason I have an interest as do many others.
One must note
that Mr. Adams chose to give the money to the six organizations
and not to
his relatives probably because he had the Assyrian people
in mind.
I am hopeful that these six groups will set an example
for others to follow
by their faithful performance. What could be more
welcome than other
Assyrian individuals being inspired to repeat Mr. Adams'
act of generosity.
The possibility of this occurring again will depend on
the six Assyrian
organizations entrusted with these funds and their actions.
Although one
can not speculate solely on the outcome of this one bequest,
the six
organizations are accountable for executing the late
Mr. Adams' wishes
and/or any misappropriation of the $1,000,000.00, if
any. Any outcome,
hopefully all positive, would ultimately influence future
bequests.
The trustee can delay delivery of the funds to any of
the six organizations
which have not yet submitted their specific plan of action.
If the six
groups are not prepared to respond as per the prerequisites
of the trust,
the trustee is obligated by law to delay distribution
of funds. The
trustee should not be given this opportunity by the six
organizations. Two
or more groups could join together on a mutual project;
and one group could
take the funds and turn them over to another group to
perform the Adams
tasks. Should one or more organizations fail to
meet the requirements, the
trustee only has the authority to withhold or divide
their percentages of
the funds and increase the amounts to be received by
the qualifying
organizations previously named.
Although one writer has expressed doubt that some of the
organizations
involved lack awareness of the Will's requirements, personally
I have
confidence that each will assume their responsibility.
Not only will they
meet the requirements stipulated by the late Mr. Adams,
but also consider
establishing programs beneficial to as many Assyrians
as possible. Well, I
want to believe.
Dorina Golpashin
San Jose, California
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2. Ashur Simon Malek: CONFLICT OF INTEREST
In Ontario, specifically within Toronto and Hamilton,
we have over
fourteen (14) Assyrian organizations, in which to my
best of my knowledge
have not achieved much success if any in their development
of our Assyrian
culture, Assyrian needs, Assyrian heritage, Assyrian
media,except having a
name registered. Nevertheless, our current excellent
organization is
"Assyrian Voice of Canada", where Mr. Ashur Shamoun have
been putting money
from his own credit-card, and getting loans from friends
to pay for
continuation
of the only Assyrian radio program in Canada which started
this year.
All the Assyrian organizations in Toronto &
Hamilton have operated within
the personal conflict of interest. I am aware hearing
this news will upset
them all, but the fact, I don't recognize them as Assyrian
organizations
totally, since their existence have killed the development
of Assyrian
community in Canada,. as well their abuses of their organizations'
names
gave a wrong image about our Assyrian culture, for they
have committed
un-ethical acts. It is true, that any organization
is registered, and it
is private! Where as, they use our Assyrian name,
and at the same time we
have no power to correct their acts and stop their abuse.
In order to put a scale and measure their performance,
we need a framework
to be as a watch-dog. Unfortunatly, a year ago,
the new Assyrian
Federation was destroyed by certain people for they have
recognized that
such endorsement will put a line for all their destructive
work, and for
their un-ethical performances.
I call upon Assyrians to examine the mega problem situation
we have in
Canada, and the danger that have been resulting from
acts of "one"
individual in every single Assyrian orgnization.
Below is a list of some Assyrian organizations to be added
to your
telephone directory
Assyrian Aid Society of Canada - Toronto
Zowwa (Assyrian Democratic Party) - Toronto
Assyrian-Canadian National Federation - Toronto
Assyrian Society of Canada - Mississuaga
Assyrian Voice of Canada - Mississuaga
Bet-Nahrain Organization of Canada - Toronto
Milad Assyrian Community Association of Canada
- Toronto
Nineveh Assyrian Club of Hamilton - Hamilton
Shamiram Assyrian Association Inc. - Hamilton
United Assyrian Youth of Canada - Toronto
UR Social Club of Ontario - Toronto
Urhai Committee - Tornoto
Welfare Committee for the Assyrian Community in Canada
- Toronto
Conflict of interest seem to be the only source of income
for those who
lived in poverty, abuse, neglect, and low self-esteem."
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3. Ramin Daniels: A NATIONAL BETRAYAL
Since the subject of the Assyrian American National Federation
(AANF) was
brought up in the last issue of Zenda, I'd like to make
a comment.
The AANF is in no way a national Assyrian organization.
It is an
affiliation of social clubs whose members happen to be
Assyrians. So it's
a big club, and even a terrible one at that. It's
is so idiotically
backwards when you consider that each affiliated club
gets the same number
of votes, regardless of the actual number of its members.
Hence the
Turlock club with its about a thousand members carries
the same weight as
AANF's obscure affiliate in San Francisco with only a
handful of members.
AANF, with all of it members (if one counts the members
of its affiliate
clubs as AANF members at the same time) at best represents
three percent of
the Assyrian people in this country. How can a
club that represents such a
tiny minority claim to be the mouth piece for all of
the Assyrians in the
U.S.? This is the worst Assyrian joke I have ever
heard in my life.
AANF has been our own worst enemy. It has done the
most damage to the
Assyrian nation in this country by neglecting the Assyrian
public and
instead perpetrating the self serving club mentality
and cronyism of a few
amongst us. The AANF has never sought to be a legitimate
organization
representing the Assyrian people in the United States.
Instead of
championing national unity and democracy, the AANF has
been dumbing us with
its club mentality, alienating the Assyrian people and
dividing us along
the lines of members/non-members.
The AANF from its inception should have striven to become
the voice of the
Assyrian people in the U.S. by spearheading the establishment
of Motvas; i.
e. popularly elected Assyrian Assemblies at the local,
state, and the AANF
itself as the Supreme Assyrian Assembly at the national
level. Why
shouldn't we, the Assyrians of the United States, go
to the polls to elect
the board members of the AANF? The AANF has never
submitted to the will of
the Assyrian people. The capital sin of the AANF
has been its total
disregard for the inalienable right of every Assyrian
to participate in
his/her own national affairs. The AANF has opted
to serve its "members",
not the Assyrian people.
I blame every person who has served in the AANF for betraying
the Assyrian
people for the past sixty three years. With "Assyrian"
organizations like
the AANF who have done and continue to do so much damage
to our nation by
promoting the interests of a few at the expense of our
national interests,
who needs enemies?
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G O O D
M O R N I N G B
E T - N A H R A I N
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TURKEY IS ENDING NORTHERN IRAQ OPERATION
(ZNUP: Turkey) Col. Suleyman Canpolat says Turkey
is ending its six-week
military operation against separatist Kurdish rebels
in northern Iraq and
has begun withdrawing most of its forces. More
than 40,000 Turkish
soldiers, backed by artillery and air support, swept
into northern Iraq on
May 14 in a drive against guerrillas of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers
Party. It said the operation was launched at the
request of Massoud
Barzani, leader of the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party,
one of the two
rival Kurdish groups jockeying for control of the semi-autonomous
region of
northern Iraq. Canpolat said they "left a support
group of trained staff
to help coordinate with Massoud Barzani's forces."
He said Turkish forces
had killed 1,912 PKK rebels and captured 132 during the
operation. He put
Turkish losses at 113 dead and 325 wounded. Previous
reports have put PKK
losses at about 3,000 killed and several hundred captured.
Another
military commander said the confessions of some of the
arrested rebels have
"made us believe that Greece has started to pursue
a policy of aiding the
PKK."
ASSYRIAN SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN IRAQ
(ZNDA: San Jose) According to a recent report of
the Assyrian Democratic
Movement presented last week in San Jose the following
information on the
progress of the Assyrian schools in northern Iraq was
delivered:
-The publication of the Assyrian books on mathematics
and science for
students, grades 1 through 5, continues as "permitted"
by the Kurdish
Parliament.
-There are 28 Assyrian schools whose construction efforts
were financed
through Assyrian humanitarian aid. 3000 Assyrians
students attend these
schools.
-11 of the 28 schools teach only Assyrian language; 1800
Assyrian students
study various subjects in the remaining 17 schools (grades
1-5)
-30,000 new books have already been printed in Assyrian
-70 Assyrian university students receive $250.00 per year
to attend college
in the city of Arbil.
Some Challenges:
-training new teachers to instruct in Assyrian
-new books are needed for a growing number of Assyrian
students
-2 Assyrian university students are unable to attend
medical school due to
lack of insufficient funds
-university students need further financial assistance
to complete
post-high school education in northern Iraq
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S U R F S
U P !
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"please do not send any more propaganda. thank you"
Mike Sargis
Vienna, Virginia
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"Hi there! I appreciate the ZENDA's, but this week
I got two copies of it.
Just to let you know. Thanks!"
Timm Erickson
Pakistan
[A simple case of pressing the SEND button one too many
times. Sorry!]
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S U R F E R S
C O R N E R
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ZENDA readers are invited to respond to the following
request(s) by either
directly writing to the author(s) or sending a reply
to ZENDA.
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MY COUSIN MILTON
Born on 29 June, 1936, in the city of Abadan, Iran, Milton
was the eldest
of my Uncle Michael's children. When his sister,
Nora, was born two years
later, his family moved to northwest of Iran and settled
in Urmieh. The
family grew to seven, 3 boys and 4 girls.
After high school Nora went to England for Nursing Training,
as I did
later, and Milton went to Turkey to study medicine.
After two years he
changed his major and came to London to study Electronics
Engineering.
I spent five and half years in England and obtained Nursing
and Midwifery
Certificates and returned back to my hometown of Abadan.
In 1963 I saw my
cousins in London and we spent quality time together
even with our hectic
schedules. Milton was a very nice young man: easy
going, popular, very
handsome. In 1966 when my mother and I went for
a vacation to Europe, we
visited with my cousins again. Milton was 6 feet,
about 180 pounds, brown
eyes and brown hair. The dimples in his cheeks
that showed when he laughed
were his trademark. By then he had finished school
and was living with his
sister.
In August of 1967, Nora came to Tehran for a month's vacation
leaving
behind Milton to tie loose ends in London and follow
her back home to
Tehran. Three weeks passed and there was no sign of Milton.
Nora returned
early to England and started a long period of police,
immigration, special
agencies investigations. Milton had said goodbye
to all his friends, his
girlfriend Shiela, the Landlady, and then had disappeared.
Nora could find
no sign of her brother.
Milton vanished and left a big hole in the hearts of his
family and
relatives. Because of his wonderful nature and
spirit everyone loved him.
My Uncle Michael, my mother's brother, is 88 years old
now and his wife,
aunt Mary, also over 80. Their greatest wish is
to see Milton one more
time. His brother, Mlooan, lives in San Jose with
his wife and son. Every
time he talks with his parents on the phone, they ask
if he has heard
anything. After 30 years they still have hope.
My cousin Mlooan and I think that through this marvelous
communications
miracle of the Internet perhaps someone will read this
story and will have
the answer we have been looking for. We are hoping
that other ZENDA
readers will help us find something about our cousin
and brother, Milton.
Any news is better than no news.
If anyone has even an old news, please contact ZENDA.
And my family will
be forever gratefull.
Germaine Merza
San Jose, California
-Please note that after his disappearance Milton may have
used any of the
following or other forms of his last name: Amrikhas,
Amrikas, Amerikhas,
Amerikas, Americas.
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N E W S
D I G E S T
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PROPHETS OF HOPE READ POETRY IN SAN JOSE
(ZNDA: San Jose) Ninos Aho and Yosip Bet-Yosip
are believers; they
believe in the "Modern Assyrian" and the power of "The
Prayer of Modern
Assyrian." Their belief emanates from such poems they
wrote in the past
quarter of a century and their connection to every Assyrian
community in
diaspora. Aho lives in Syria and Yosip has recently
taken residence in San
Jose, California. Together, they energized a generation
of Assyrian
activists from the war-torn fields in the Middle East
to the lavish
buildings of the Assyrian community centers in the west.
Two weeks ago, on a calm night in San Jose, their poetry
resonated through
the walls of the Assyrian American Association's "Blue
Room." They
produced magic and created a sense of nationalism rarely
felt in these last
days of this century. Indeed they managed to bring
tears to the eyes of a
restless crowd. A sense of truth pervaded the audience
for less than two
hours of poetry reading and suddenly it was over: Ninos
Aho bid everyone
farewell and urged his listeners to continue "believing."
Aho and
Bet-Yosip are once again apart but the resonance of their
poetry lingers in
the still air of hopelessness.
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C A
L E N D A R
OF E V E N
T S
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Jul 1,1997 In the Presence
of the Gods: Art from Ancient Sumer
Mar 8,1998 The Smart Museum
of Art
5550 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago
Free Admission
Jul 7
XLIV Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Arch.
Venice, Italy
Jul 19-20 National
Executive Committee Meeting
Assyrian American National Federation
Sponsored by the Assyrian American Social Club of Michigan
Quality Inn
One West Nine Mile
Hazel Park, Michigan 48030
(313) 399-5800
Rooms are reserved at the rate of $39.95 plus tax.
Jul 20
A Concert by the Assyrian Violinist, David Yonan
Mathaeikirchstrasse 1
Musikinstrumenten Museum, Curt-Sachs Saal
Berlin
11:00 am
Aug 26-Sep 2 Assyrian American National
Convention
Hyatt Regency Dearborn
Fairlane Town Center
Detroit, Michigan
All Single,double,triple,quad rooms: $95 per day
Reservations: (313) 982-6880
Reservations must be made by August 7
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July 5
WBO Super Middleweight Championship
Anwar Oshana vs. Steve Collins
Glagsow, Scotland
July 12 40th Founding Anniversary Party
Assyrian Democratic Association
Ontario, Canada
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A Night Under the Stars: Romance, Dance, & Fine Dining
Open Bar, Dinner, Dessert, & complimentary valet parking
Entertainers: Franco and the Stars
Location: AAA of San Jose BETA (Social Building)
San Jose, California
7:00 pm
$45.00 per person
For reservations contact Caroline Nasseri at (408) 268-7990
Tickets will not be sold at the door
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I N T E L L I G E N T S I A
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CHICAGO Syriac Church History Course
"A New Exposure to the History of Eastern Christianity
Instructor: AbdulMasih Saadi
North Park College
Carlson Tower, Room C43
3225 West Foster Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
June 25-Aug 13
7:00-9:00 pm; weekly (9 weeks)
Registration Fee: $ 80:00 (tax-deductible)
Tuition reduced based on financial need.
1-800-454-8979 or email history@aas.net
Sponsored by the Assyrian Academic Society of Chicago
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Assyrian Athletic Club Soccer Development Program
Ages 7-14
7:45-9:45 pm
Mondays
Warren Park Gymnasium
Western Avenue & Devon Street
HARVARD
1997-98 Syriac Classes Taught by Dr. J.F. Coakley
UNIVERSITY
Elementary Syriac
Instructor: J. F. Coakley
Basic Syriac grammar and syntax with selected readings from
the Syriac Bible and other early texts.
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Readings in Syriac I
Historical and theological texts, and early poetry
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Readings in Syriac II
Special attention to exegetical texts and to reading
manuscripts.
NORTH
Assyrian Boy Scouts
HOLLYWOOD Assyrian
American Association of Southern California
Assyrian Club
5901 Cahuenga Blvd
North Hollywood, California
9:30am to 12:30pm
Sundays
Contact Sargon Gewargis @ fishtale@juno.com
(818) 891-3705 after 7:30 pm
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Assyrian Student
Union
California State University, Northridge
Assyrian American Association of Southern California
Assyrian Club
5901 Cahuenga Blvd
North Hollywood, California
6:00pm
Contact Sargon Gewargis @ fishtale@juno.com
(818) 891-3705 after 7:30 pm
SAN JOSE Nisibin
School
Assyrian Language Classes
Ages 5-14
10:00-1:00 pm
Saturdays
AAA of San Jose BETA
20000 Almaden Road
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Assyrian Language Classes (Adults)
Taught by Dr. Ashur Moradkhan
Sundays
7:00-9:00 pm
AAA of San Jose BETA
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Citizenship Classes
Mondays & Tuesdays
7:00 pm
AAA of San Jose BETA
20000 Almaden Road
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Maestro Nebu Issabey's Nineveh Choir Practice
AAA of San Jose BETA
8:00 pm
Thursdays
TORONTO Nisibis School
10:30-1:30
Saturdays
The Church of the East
Toronto, Canada
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A S S
Y R I A N S U
R F I N G P O
S T S
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Nippur- The Sacred City of Enlil, The Supreme God of Sumer
and Akkad:
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/PUB93/NSC/
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P U M P UP THE V O L U
M E
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English Modern Assyrian
To enable
maam/soo/ye [M]
To embitter
maam/roo/re [M]
____________________________________________________________________________
F = Feminine M = Masculine
P = Plural
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B A C K TO THE
F U T U R E
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B.C. (2380) Uru-inim-gina, the ruler of Lagash in southern
Mesopotamia, is
attacked by the ruler of Umma. The temples of Lagash
are plundered and its
treasures carried away. Umma becomes the dominant
force and its ruler,
Lugalzagesi, begins moving in all directions to control
all of Bet-Nahrain.
His advance is brought to an end by the rise of
Sargon of Akkad (Agade).
<< Babylonians, Saggs >>
A.D. (1146) The Armenians living in the Assyrian
city of Edessa urge the
Frankish ruler, Joscelin, to retake the city. But
the Moslem ruler, Nur
al-Din, brings up his army to Edessa and defeats the
European army of
Joscelin. He then massacres thousands of the native
Edessan Christians.
<< The Age of the Crusades, Holt>>
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L I T E
R A T U
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TID BITS
Like a drop in the ocean of time,
Or the ringing of a tower chime,
One moment's there, then forever lost
Why was it destroyed in its prime?
The next one its twin, but'll not be the same
Same color, same note and same name
But that one is lost forever
Like perfumed breeze of a speeding dame.
<< William Daniel >>
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T H I S W E E K
I N H I S T O R
Y
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July 4, 1980: This day was declared the "Assyrian
Teacher's Day" to honor
the enormous contributions of Raabie Korosh Benyamin.
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B R A
V O
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THE FIRST ZENDA BABY IS BORN IN SAN JOSE
"Auntie" Lena Mushell of San Jose, California wrote us
the following
message last week:
"Do you want to know how important your magazine is?
Okay, my
sister-in-law is due this week any day. My dear
brother calls on Monday
night at 6:30, telling me that he is going to miss his
bus (he works in
Palo alto and lives in south San Jose) because he just
got Zenda and has to
print and read it TONIGHT. So I had to call my
sister-in-law and make sure
that if the new king of the Mushells decided to arrive
tonight she would
call me to take her to the hospital. :-) "
Today, we're happy to announce that a beautiful baby-boy
was born on
Saturday at 8:30 pm to Ramsina and David Eshoe (Lena's
brother). The
future reader of ZENDA was named Pauldin, a name selected
from a List of
the Assyrian Names published in a previous issue of ZENDA.
The staff of
ZENDA wish to congratulate the parents of the seven pounds
and 3 oz Pauldin
Alka Mushell or as his excited aunt noted - the first-generation
Mushell
born in America!
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ZNAD (Assyrian Democratic Organization)
ZNAM (Archeology Magazine)
ZNAP (Associated Press International)
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ZNDA (Zenda: zenda@ix.netcom.com)
ZNMN (San Jose Mercury News)
ZNNQ (Nabu Quarterly)
ZNNV (Nineveh Magazine)
ZNRU (Reuters)
ZNSH (Shotapouta Newsletter)
ZNSJ (San Jose Mercury News)
ZNSM (Shufimafi Lebanese News)
ZNTM (Time Magazine)
ZNUP (United Press International)
ZNUS (US News & World Report)
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Illinois
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Ontario, Canada
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