Armena was a wonderful and charming person and classmate. While I too am sorry to belatedly learn of her passing via this class website, I am happy to read in her on-line obituaries that she enjoyed her career as a piano teacher and her rich family life with husband Ron Suny and their daughters.
Armena was a great person--wonderful teacher, pianist, mother to two brilliant daughters, and life partner to Ron Suni. I reconnected with her in SF in the early 2000's after seeing and hearing her play piano on an alumni event program. We decided to collaborate on a program of her husband's grandfather's music--Grigor Suni: http://websites.umich.edu/~rgsuny/suniproject/index.html. She dedicated much of her music career to this amazing project featuring Armenian compositions by Grigor, a composer and conductor who had immigrated to the US.. I was really devastated to hear of her passing from cancer, very quickly it seems. The music was "classical" and featured his compositions inspired by folk melodies--incredibly beautiful. She was a joy to play with in this concert. I regret that we did not make a recording, but there are recordings on the website above.
David Howe
Armena was a really nice person. I did not know her well, but we struck up a friendship freshman year and I always thought highly of her.
Harriet Abrams (Wade)
Very sad to read this. She was a very lovely person.
Wellesley Foshay
So sorry to learn of this. I knew her through our common job at the Oberlin Inn. She was a delight.
Jan Ting
Armena was a wonderful and charming person and classmate. While I too am sorry to belatedly learn of her passing via this class website, I am happy to read in her on-line obituaries that she enjoyed her career as a piano teacher and her rich family life with husband Ron Suny and their daughters.
Jane Lenoir
Armena was a great person--wonderful teacher, pianist, mother to two brilliant daughters, and life partner to Ron Suni. I reconnected with her in SF in the early 2000's after seeing and hearing her play piano on an alumni event program. We decided to collaborate on a program of her husband's grandfather's music--Grigor Suni: http://websites.umich.edu/~rgsuny/suniproject/index.html. She dedicated much of her music career to this amazing project featuring Armenian compositions by Grigor, a composer and conductor who had immigrated to the US.. I was really devastated to hear of her passing from cancer, very quickly it seems. The music was "classical" and featured his compositions inspired by folk melodies--incredibly beautiful. She was a joy to play with in this concert. I regret that we did not make a recording, but there are recordings on the website above.