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Zaven Mahdesian, longtime LI educator, dead at 95
Zaven Misak Mahdesian knew the value of a good education.
The child of Armenian immigrants, he worked his way through college, a master's degree and a doctorate, and had a hand in shepherding some Long Island schools and districts through the suburban growth of the 1950s and 1960s.
Though his long educational career included serving as a professor and a dean at St. John's University,...
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