Hovsepian School Principal Shahe Mankerian
PASADENA — Recently, the administration at St. Gregory Hovsepian School saw an opportunity to archive the sounds that students create as they play during morning recess. The principal, Shahé Mankerian, who is an avid listener of KCRW (89.9 FM), the flagship of National Public Radio (NPR), heard about the rare opportunity to record eclectic sounds of Los Angeles. Under the subheading of SoundsLA, the newscasters on NPR’s Morning Edition encouraged listeners to submit sounds they hear in their daily lives with the following tagline: It’s your city. What do you hear? Mankerian thought, “No one should bypass this whimsical opportunity.â€
