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ARAM E. PERUMEAN
A
Lion par excellence, Aram E. Perumean served in 1960 – 1961 as the deputy
district governor of the Foothill Region of Lions District Number 412,
comprised of sixty clubs ranging northward to La Crescenta and southward to
Belmont Shores. He was president of the
San Gabriel Lions Club in 1958 – 1959, and chairman of Zone C of this district
from 1959 – 1960. He received the Master
Key from the Lions for outstanding work in 1960. A very likeable man, he is the owner of the
Perumean Investments, in affiliation with the Thrift Investment Company, with
six employees, at 4049 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.
Mr.
Perumean worked for two years with the mayor and the city council on the San
Gabriel Planning Commission, during 1958 and 1959, when the San Gabriel Police
Building, now under construction, was only a fond dream. Mr. Perumean was honored by the San Gabriel
Community Chest with its Outstanding Service Award in 1959.
Born
in Tiblis, Russia, on March 18, 1912, Aram E.
Perumean is one of the five children of the late Edward Perumean and Anna (Noraganian) Perumean, who lives
in Alhambra with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Ruth Fareshetian. An uncle, Simon Perumean, was the second
pilot in the Russian Air Force in 1913.
The family came to the United States when young Aram was eight years
old. He attended Second Street
Elementary School in Los Angeles and graduated from George Washington High
School in 1929. After spending one year
at Los Angeles Junior College, Mr. Perumean attended night classes for three
years, studying law at Polytechnic School, a private school in Los
Angeles. He also studied at the
University of Southern California and at the Los Angeles Police Academy.
A
member of the Los Angeles Police Force for one year, in 1943 he established the
Perumean Trucking Company which was in operation for twelve years.
Mr.
Perumean’s religious affiliation is with the First Armenian Pentecostal Church
in East Los Angeles, where he and the former Miss Pauline E. Minasian were married on March 22, 1940. Both Mr. and Mrs. Perumean are active in
church work. Mrs. Perumean has been in
Parent-Teachers’ Association work for twenty years and is second vice president
in charge of public welfare in the Alhambra Parent-Teachers’ Association
Council. She is a member of the board of
the Granada Elementary School PTA in Alhambra; a Marymount Mother; was a
precinct worker during the 1960 presidential election and was a volunteer on
the fund raising campaign for the Alhambra Community Hospital. Mrs. Perumean was legislative chairman of the
bond drive for Granada School and has been associated with the United Fund,
March of Dimes, and Lions Club activities.
The Perumean’s have a daughter and a son. Valerie Ann is a graduate of Alhambra High
School where she had a leading role in the senior play; she won the Allied Arts
Scholarship in music. She attended
Pasadena Junior College for one year and Marymount College in Palos Verdes for
two years. Daniel Edward attends San
Gabriel Christian School.
Mr.
Perumean is a hunting and fishing enthusiast.
He also plays handball regularly and has quite a gun collection. A boat owner, named Val-Dan, he has been a
member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary for four years and is an official
inspector-water policeman.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 740-742, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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