Vartan Gregorian – a trailblazer from a different era

Vartan Gregorian who has just died was once described as “the impossibly distinguished one-man academy of arts, letters, and the humanities” and a “visionary and a living example of the modern man of letters, for whom education and knowledge is the key to opportunity and peace.”  He was a shining example of America’s immigrant policies of yesteryear.  Born 8 April 1934 he was born in northern Persia to Christian Armenian parents and after his mother died w