LOS ANGELES, JULY 6, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. In the city of Glendale (the state of California) with its large Armenian community, Narek Armenian Saturday School is the only educational institution where the language of instruction is Eastern Armenian. The founding headmistress of the school Rima Sarian was recently a guest of the RA Ministry of Diaspora. According to her, the school functions in two sessions and has ten grades where 350-400 pupils study. 25 teachers, who received their education at universities of Armenia, teach the Armenian language and literature and the history of the Armenian people at Narek Saturday School. The school maintains constant contacts with schools and cultural centers in Homeland. The school functions within the framework of the Narek All-Armenian Educational and Cultural Center. The center also publishes "Narek" juvenile monthly, in whose recent issue R. Sarian announced that the 20th anniversary of the foundation of Narek School would be marked at Daghlian Hall in Hollywood on September 27. On the occasion of this anniversary, she wrote: "I am happy and proud that Narek School is so successful. Its activities are aimed at achieving one goal: to dedicate itself to the vital task of the Armenian identity preservation and to bring up the girls and boys in the Armenian spirit". This dedication is expressed in the very oath of the Narek Center's pupils: "I am an Armenian, my Homeland is Armenia where my ancestors were born, lived and died, but I do not live there, I am far from that place. I must love my Homeland more than anything else and must not forget its name. I am convinced that one day I will return there. To achieve my goal, I must always speak Armenian. I must love my Homeland and Church. I must be proud of being called an Armenian. I vow to struggle for my United Homeland. Be Armenia's child, and Armenia will be yours. Live by Armenia, and Armenia will be visible to you from any spot in the world. Think of Armenia and you will find yourself in your mind. I swear to be faithful to Armenia and its traditions and to struggle for my United Homeland".

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