Abp. Tiran Nersoyan Vision Award
The Abp. Tiran Nersoyan Vision Award is given to an ACYOA Junior who has established programs that incorporate one or more of the five Circles of the Cross (Education, Worship, Service, Witness and Fellowship), and who has made a lasting impression on his or her ACYOA chapter and/or parish.
Past Award Recipients
2022 - Maral Andonian & Mirei Kuzukyan (Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs, Bayside, NY)
2019 - Emma Daw (St. Gregory the Enlightener Armenian Church, White Plains, NY)
2018 - Diana Margaryan (Holy Trinity Armenian Church, Cambridge, MA)
2017 - Shahe Der Torossian (St. James Armenian Church, Watertown, MA)
2016 - Tanner Asadorian (Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs, Bayside, NY)
2015 - Lucine Boloyan (St. James Armenian Church, Watertown, MA)
2014 - Lucine Dayian (St. Sarkis Armenian Church, Carrollton, TX)
2013 - Hagop Toghramadjian (St. Sahag Armenian Church, St. Paul, MN)
2012 - Taylor Carden (St. Leon Armenian Church, Fair Lawn, NJ)
2011 - Michael Sabounjian (Armenian Church of the Holy Translators, Framingham, MA)
2010 - Lori Ayanian (Holy Trinity Armenian Church, Cambridge, MA)
2009 - Danielle Malconian (Holy Trinity Armenian Church, Cambridge, MA)
2008 - Christine Hovsepian (St. James Armenian Church, Watertown, MA)
2007 - Sarah Badach (St. Leon Armenian Church, Fair Lawn, NJ)
2006 - Tamar Pounardjian (St. Gregory of Narek Armenian Church, Cleveland, OH)
2005 - Arthur Sabounjian (Armenian Church of the Holy Translators, Framingham, MA)
2004 - Arpi Derderian (St. Sahag & St. Mesrob Armenian Church, Wynnewood, PA)
2003 - Gregory Guroian & Jonathan Banks (St. Gregory the Enlightener Armenian Church, White Plains, NY & St. John Armenian Church, Southfield, MI)
2002 - Stephanie Jones (Holy Trinity Armenian Church, Cambridge, MA)
Other ACYOA Awards
Very Rev. Fr. Haigazoun Melkonian Award
Gregory Arpajian Leadership Award
