Surviving the Armenian Genocide as an orphan , after having been forced out of Turkey , in 1919 he returned to Aintab at the armistice with his mother , where he attended the local ' Vartanian School ' . In 1921 he finally settled in Aleppo ( Syria ) , where he continued his studies at the Armenian Evangelical School , which later became the Aleppo College run by American missionaries . Still eager to learn , in 1925 he enrolled in the American University of Beirut where he gained a B.S. degree in Structural Engineering in 1930
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Vahe Vahian