A DREAM NEVER DIES!

When talking about this school, we’re not talking about a usual school of the world. We are talking about a school that is very small but its value is extremely immense. A school whose citizens are very few but their feelings about their school are very strong. A school whose history is glamorous and will remain forever glamorous

This is Melkonian- a place where the Armenian feeling is continuously being born in the hearts of its ‘citizens’ for about 80 years. Even as its citizens come, live and go, Melkonian continues to stand there proudly and never moves. No new schools, Armenian clubs or camps around the world can replace Melkonian. Melkonian is a place where Armenians from all over the world, come and learn Armenian, come and learn about their country, its history, its culture and traditions. Here, they learn to be right Armenians. After all, that was the main reason it was built. In addition, here they are educated perfectly for their later lives.

Well, that’s Melkonian. And no one can know and value this school as much as we can. Our experience here has made us more Armenian, and enhanced our love for our heritage.  We’ve had an opportunity that not many other Armenians of the Diaspora have had.

The hurting truth: we are thousands. We’re so many because we love our school. Because we appreciate what it has given to us, from the Armenian feeling to the everlasting friendship. We admire the teachers that you claim don’t do their job properly. We admire the Melkonian Educational Institute as a whole, we admire this school that you claim doesn’t fulfil its mission. We admire every inch of our school, every room, every stair, every grain of sand in its football field. We appreciate every useful word, advice, joke and lesson from its people. We admire its books, its lockers, its tables and chairs. We admire its newspaper, its exam room, its bathrooms, its windows and its buildings. But most of all, we admire and appreciate Melkonian’s everlasting benefactors, Krikor and Garabed Melkonian, who opened this school after the Armenian Genocide for the Armenian orphans to come, and for the next generations of Armenians.

That is Melkonian. We are linked to it and it is linked to us and nothing can destroy this friendship! We have great difficulty believing the fact that this jewel will actually be closed, and this difficulty of understanding will remain in us forever until the decision is reversed and Melkonian is left open. Until its understood that we are tough and we will NOT give up, and we’ll do whatever it costs to save this treasure. We strongly believe that Melkonian will still be able to serve its mission if you could just open your eyes and look around. With a few benevolent acts towards the school we will have more than a jewel and you will be more than satisfied at the success of the school.

Melkonian is a dream and a dream never dies. Melkonian will stay forever alive and its rays will be seen in all parts of the world, wherever there is an Armenian living. Its rays will make the new Armenians, the new generations. A dream like Melkonian, never dies…