Two great men

In the final week's festivities, the interns were lucky enough to visit two great Armenian men of the community and gain an insight into their work and their lives.

Firstly, the interns had the great honour of visiting the Library of Congress where they met with an Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist, Dr. Levon Avdoyan. He showed the interns around the historical building and then sat them down for an in-depth discussion on Armenian issues and the library's link with Armenia.



The next meeting was with Dean V. Shahinian, Senior Counsel on the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Mr. Shahinian treated the interns to an hour long briefing in a Senate hearing room, giving the interns a chance to find out about his sector of work, whilst of course simultaneously discussing many important Armenian issues.