https://www.farusa.org/annual-reports "The earthquake that struck Gyumri and Spitak brought three special members of the Armenian Diaspora—Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, Kevork Hovnanian and Dr. Edgar M. Housepian—together to mobilize emergency humanitarian assistance for victims of the disaster. At the time they did not realize what would be born from this effort. Their work transporting emergency supplies to the then-Soviet Republic of Armenia would be Fund for Armenian Relief’s first mission."
mirrorspectator.com
https://mirrorspectator.com/2015/03/12/in-memory-of-dr-edgar-housepian/ "He was one of the three founders of the Diocesan Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR), which quickly aided our compatriots in the disaster zone of the great Armenian earthquake of 1988... created upon the initiative of the Primate of the Armenians of the Eastern United States, Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, with the participation of Armenian philanthropist Kevork Hovnanian and prominent physician Dr. Edgar Housepian"