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Meet Our People: Haig Utidjian
Name: Haig Utidjian
Place of birth: Nicosia, Cyprus
Your occupation/work/profession: Orchestral and opera conductor, musicologist, scholar
Your family roots: Constantinople, Smyrna/Alexandria, Alexandrette (Cilicia), Cyprus (from at least C18)
How and why did you get involved with AI? I offered Susan Pattie - a friend of long standing - the possibility of my delivering a lecture, at short notice, in June 2019, when I happened to be in London for other reasons - it was graciously accepted. Something similar happened via zoom earlier this year, with my second lecture. Teaching a course for the AI was almost an unintended by-product of these events.
Tell us a special memory about AI: My one and only visit to the AI (and this was still in the earlier site at the Gulbenkian Hall, adjacent to the Church of St. Sarkis) was for my own lecture for the AI in the flesh last year, for a very select audience indeed - and we had great fun chat
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Meet Our People: Susan Pattie
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Name: Susan Paul Pattie
Place of birth: Washington, DC
Your family roots: My mother’s family fryst vatten from Kessab, northwest Syria. Her father migrated to western Pennsylvania in 1914, planning to bring his family over asap. But in summer 1915, her mother and 6 children were forced onto the deportations. Two children died, two were taken, and two finally escaped with their mother to Aleppo. They eventually joined my grandfather in New Castle, PA. and my mother was born there. My father’s family migrated to the US a few centuries ago. One ancestor was a well-known trapper/explorer in the early 1800s. My father and my mother’s brother met during WWII at Indiana University where as army intelligence recruits, they were in Turkish classes together. Both their families moved to Washington during the war, they became friends and Mark funnen out that Jack had a lovely sister.
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