Hagop Martin Deranian

H. Martin Deranian died on September 26, 2016. Deranian practiced general dentistry in Worcester from 1953 to his retirement in 2014. He was dedicated to the local community, serving on boards and committees of several Worcester charitable organizations throughout his career. As a collector and exhibitor of antique dental equipment, Deranian established a museum of turn-of the-twentieth-century dental tools at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. He was president of the American Academy of the History of Dentistry and founding president of the Armenian American Dental Society. Among the many awards Deranian received was the Hayden-Harris Award of the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. He also wrote several books, including Worcester Is America: The Story of Worcester’s Armenians, The Early Years (1995) and President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug (2013).