Alice Ketabgian

ALICE KETABGIAN was born and raised in Istanbul , Turkey and is a descendent of Genocide Survivors. She received her childhood education from Aramyan Ounchiyan elementary school in Kadikoy, followed by a high school education at Uskiidar Amerikan Kiz Lisesi in Uskiidar. Upon arrival in Southern California in 1962, she attended La VerneCollege for two years and transferred to UCLA to receive an M.S. in Human Physiology from the School of Medicine in 1968. With a newly-revived interest in Armenian history and literature, she translated Anneannem of Fethiye Cetin to English in 2006 (unpublished). An account of her Pilgrimage to Historic Armenia was published in the Armenian Observer the same year.