"This Week in ECAC Hockey"

[curoadkill]

I believe the weekly show on the YES network debuts this week. It's half an hour and it can be seen:
Thursday at Noon
Friday at 1:30 AM
Friday at 6:30PM

[Greg Berge]

If anybody wants to make a VHS of the show and throw it in the mail, I'll pay for all materials plus a beer carrying charge.

[marty]

Thanks for the heads up.

On an unrelated topic, I received my first  Weekly Hockey Release by Email.  I think I was added to this list because I bought Albany ECAC tickets.

And in an even less related topic my son wrote his first Yale Daily News article.  Check out the topic here:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=21572
:-D :-D :-D :-) :-) :-) :-D :-D :-D

[Al DeFlorio]

Well, his "heritage" is evident, Marty.

By the way, DirecTV's periodic magazine has a one-page article on the Frozen Four in the issue that arrived today.  Picture of Michigan's Eric Nystrom with mention of his Daddy, discussion of Michigan, North Dakota, BC, Maine, and UHN as "perennial powers," and a final paragraph which reads:

"Other contenders to make deep runs into the playoffs include Cornell of the ECAC and the WCHA's Minnesota, Denver, and Colorado College."

[marty]

[Q]Well, his "heritage" is evident, Marty.
[/Q]

I didn't know his mother posted here too!

[jkahn]

Marty -  while you apparently raised him to be a hockey fan, something went wrong in one of the history lessons.  Dryden is class of '69, not '70.  But few at Yale will notice.

[marty]

He should know better.  He has heard the trivia question - the answer to which is Brian Cropper.

And add my name to those that didn't notice.  But I tend to skim to the point of distraction.::rolleyes::

He sometimes reads this board.  I think I'll let it go for a few days.  Thanks for pointing it out though.  He was under strick orders from his dad not to spend more than four minutes writing the thing but still...

[jtwcornell91]

It's also on NESN Friday at 5:30pm and Saturday at 3:30pm.

[jeh25]

You named him after yourself? How vain can you get? Geez.

John Hayes III

(oh wait. nevermind.....)
;-)

[marty]

Actually, uh, kinda - different middle name.  I'm a Jr. even though my grandfather, born in Armenia, was Martin as he had no middle name. ::yark::

[nyc94]

Do you know much about your grandparent's history in the "old country" and travels to the US?  My mother's parents were from Armenia although they left at different times at actually met here.  My mother is now researching their various travels through visa records, ship manifests, etc.

[marty]

I know just a bit.  My grandparents were scared out before the killings began.  I think they came over in 1898.  My grandfather had to borrow money to make it from New York to the Albany area and of course the story goes that he repaid the loan.  But as for the other side, I don't think much history has survived.

Their name  doesn't seem to be listed on the Ellis Island database.  Although alternate spellings make that search a real challenge.  (I found my wife's grandfather's name with a bizarre spelling.  He later spelled it such that there are no other families in the US with that name - Natcharian.)  Our name was shortened by two letters and that makes for some interesting speculation, too.  It seems that all of the Toomajian families originally were known as Toomajanian.  Both last names and variations abound, but why and how the Toomajian's in New York shortened the name the same way that the Toomajian's in MA, MI, and CA did has always fascinated me.

I have grandpa's naturalization papers in which he used the longer name - so the switch was made after some time in the states.  That plus a few photos and stories are all I have as he died before I came on the scene.

I have always conjected that my lack of interest in genealogy may be due to the impossibility of tracking the family history in Armenia.  But one of my grandparents has a French name and was raised in Minnesota and I'm not really interested in tracking that family's history either.  The interest or lack thereof in this type of research has to be partly based on personality type, n'est pas?

[nyc94]

Thanks for taking the time to reply.  Spelling has been a big hurdle in my mother's research as is the hand written entries on census records, naturalization papers, etc.  My grandparents name was Chakerian which in some records was spelled Tchakerian.  Apparently this convention originates with the French and their influence on international postal standards.  And I think the legend of Ellis Island may be overstated.  Several other relatives came through Boston and one landed in Providence.

[Al DeFlorio]

Bill R '94 wrote:

And I think the legend of Ellis Island may be overstated.  Several other relatives came through Boston and one landed in Providence.

Some came through Canada as well (my wife's Irish forebears).  The "name-spelling" issue cuts across ethnic lines, too.  I'm having the same problem tracking down grandparents on the Ellis Island site--Cerato/Cerrato, DeFlorio/DiFlorio, D'Errico/multiple options.

Incidentally, I didn't intend to turn this into an ancestral discussion with my "heritage" comment above--although it has turned into an interesting and worthwhile exchange.  I was referring to young Marty's Cornell hockey "heritage," which I suspect resulted in more Big Red hockey history than would usually be found in a Yalie Daily article.

[curoadkill]

So it's NOT on now.... I always wanted to know how to shrink wrap a hockey stick...