Krikor Garabed Koltukian, affectionately known to his children and grandchildren as Pop, Grandpop, and Grandpops, was born in 1892 in the village of Efkere, Armenia, 8 miles northeast of Talas, which is 5 miles northwest of present-day Kayseri, Turkey. He attended the Talas American College, in Talas, and taught there for one year after graduating, until leaving for America in 1912, to study architecture at Penn State University in State College,...