It was a great evening and we were able to raise over $35,000 for the OIA Scholarship Trust Fund . Thankful to all the Donors and Supporters; proud of our Scholarship Comm Members who worked tirelessly and put together a great program ; and to all Board members who helped raise funds . To our keynote speaker Prof Levon Marashlian as well . Tavit Samuelian for his wonderful performance and inspiring songs . At the end of the day we will be able to help more meritorious students and that is what it is all about !!! —

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Ari Citak:

Congrats to everyone, and all of us. on a highly successful fundraising night. Thanks for everyone for their time and contribution to this cause. The outcome has exceeded all our expectations. We’ve made a history for a Scholarship Fund group by raising a record amount of dollars at one event. Considering this event felt a bit rushed, was rescheduled several times over the past 5 months, and got squeezed among all other priorities and other events, this has been an enormous success. We can now have even more ambitious goal for next year. 50K in 2016!

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Jibid Cinar Esq.:

Very proud of our OIA Scholarship Committee, who helped raise over $30,000 for the upcoming year’s applicants… It was a successful evening. Thank you to all who came out and donated. And to all the Armenian undergraduate and graduate students, make sure to submit your OIA scholarship next year. — feeling proud with Aret Binatli, Olga Demirjian, Pierre Cinar, Melissa Hosboyar and Vace Kilavuz.