From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9311302141.AA23241@primavera.MIT.EDU>
To: e-club@MIT.EDU
Cc: tk@ai.MIT.EDU, kirmani@gwuvm.gwu.edu
Subject: Memorial for Greg Gargarian, Thu, 2 Dec, 7pm in Bartos;
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 16:41:58 EST


A Memorial for Gregory Gargarian is scheduled for this coming
Thursday, 2 December, at 7pm, in the Bartos Theater, on the lower-level 
of The Media Lab.  All of his old and more recent friends are welcome.
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It is my sad duty to report the recent death of Gregory Gargarian,
well-known behind-the-scenes around The MIT Entrepreneurs Club
among students, alum, members and friends working on music, media 
and k-12 education projects, especially those in the LOGO domain.

Greg was a personal friend of many many years, who was a very
close friend of Professor Seymour Papert since the founding days 
of Logo Computer Systems (LCSI), who was the business manager of
the Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory during that exciting start-
up period, and who provided consulting services, great networking
assistance and true friendship continuously even throughout his
busy days as a graduate student in Professor Papert's Learning and
Epistemology Group at The Media Lab, all the while also being
a devoted husband and father of his young family.

Greg obtained his MSVS in Professor Papert's group, as well as
his PhD just this past January, and was busily travelling in Brasil
and in Central America working on numerous k-12 educational
development and new schools start-up projects when he was forced to
return to Boston to address his health concerns, which sadly 
turned out to be serious enough to prevent him from continuing
with his life's mission.

During the last few years Greg had worked on such projects and visited
others under-development in France, Armenia, Ireland, Great Britain,
Senegal, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Brasil.  He had shared ideas with
us for new k-12 educational initiatives in other African and South
American countries, and we had many long discussions about his
interest in Russia and Russian early education, and how he might
help with the development of the E-Club's Moscow Office, and possibly
new start-ups involving music, computing and business in the former
Soviet Union.

His last trip was with his wife Jacqueline Kaaraslanian and children
Anna and Mark to Paris, and onward with Jacqueline to Armenia during 
late August and early September, in search of alternative and perhaps
yet-to-be-discovered processes of healing for what had last spring
been mis-diagnosed, in a foreign hospital, as pancreatitis.

Greg died a few weeks ago, and was buried from Saint James' Armenian
Apostolic Church of Watertown, and is now in Cambridge's Mount Auburn Cemetary.

The funeral services were attended by a great number of friends and
colleagues from around MIT, and especially The Media Lab, and a wide
variety of foreign lands.  He would have been very pleased to know
that he would be missed by so many, whom he originally helped to
get to know each other through their research and teachings, and that
so many responded to pay their last respects.

Finally, in lieu of other responses, donations in Greg's memory may best
be made in the form of contributions to his two children, in-care-of
Greg's long-term colleague and best friend, Dr. Howard Austin, MIT course 6,
1976 and PhD, and now of Concord, Massachusetts, who is the manager of the
Anna and Mark Gargarian Trust Fund.  If you are interested and able
to participate please call Howard directly at area code 508-369-3894.

For further details, please also inquire of Howard.

	- richard shyduroff
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