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Damavand College

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Damavand College class ring, 1975

Damavand College (in Persian: مدرسه عالی دماوند‎ Madreseh-ye Ālī-ye Damāvand; later, دانشکده دماوند Dāneshkadeh-ye Damāvand) was a private institution of higher learning for women and in 1974 it became a public college, offering a four-year interculturalprogram in the liberal arts from 1968 to 1979 with the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education of Iran in Tehran. It was a Missionary American institute and the first class was consisting of 62 seniors graduated in 1972 while in 1978 it was increased to 162 graduates.

In 1977-78, the college had over 800 Iranian and international students. According to Dr. Forough Jahanbakhsh, a graduate of 1980, it was one of the last educational centers that closed down preceding the Feb. 1979 Islamic Iranian Revolution. She thinks, it was after the Cultural Revolution that Damavand was amalgamated into what is now Allameh Tabatabai University. The collection of the books are now available at Central Library and the Documentation Center of Allameh Tabatabai University.^[1] All classes were taught in English from the Freshman year on, except those on Iranian culture.^[2]

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Name: Damavand College

Location: Tehran , Iran

Architecture Firm: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation [→]

Architects: William Wesley Peters in collaboration with Nezam Ameri, Kamal Kamooneh, Hormozdyar Khosravi

Date: 1974 -1975

Type: Educational

Until 1974-75, The College was located in the center of Tehran at 13 Kucheh Diba, Char Rah sayed Ali, below the intersection of Manouchehri and Saadi Avenues. During the academic year of 1975-76 the college moved to its new campus, East of Niavaran, Lashgark road. The total campus plan drawn by the Frank Lloyd Wright Associated Architects, William Wesley Peters with its typical rich blending of the building materials and the design blending with the local physical environment. Associated Architecture called for the addition of a student center; gymnasium, athletic fields and residence halls. Peters also designed the Pearl Palace in Iran, and the Kaden Tower in Louisville, Ky. It is noticeable to know that the main building of Marin County Civic Center, just North of San Francisco, was also designed by William Wesley Peters. It very much resembles Damavand College with its distinctive blue tiled roof.

Since 1988 the building is the location of the administrative office of Payame Noor University.

MY DEAR AUNT...SEE YOU IN ETERNITY ....LEFT THIS WORLD IN 14 OCT. 2018

Someone special left us yesterday!

Someone who changed a lot the life of women somewhere in this world which is called Hamedan. Your mother, my aunt, the one who pushed us toward education, to think and get out of the routines of ignorance! You my dear aunt, Maliheh Ghaffari, one of the two major women of my life who were the most important and inspiring for me and for sure for many many other girls and women who became the mothers of many many boys, men, brothers, fathers, husbands...! Maliheh Ghaffari , one of the most independant, the rarest self-made women of Hamedan/ Iran who decided to say NON to sitation of iranian women and reached university degree on philosophy in Tehran while being a mother of two kids in Hamedan! Was it hard 70 years ago to do so, definitly, it was but her determination was stronger than anything else and the parents (our dear grand-parents) quite avant-gardist! Maliheh Ghaffari, became the director of Parvin Etesami High School with the largest number of students and offered later the evening classes for the illitrate women ...I was not only one of the students of this high school but also being her niece, I had a bigger responsibility as her expectations were from me to be a role-model for all the students! I never remembered her voice being loud or shouting on any one as obviousely her authority was in her firm attitude in regards to the education of the future women whom had been trusted to her...! So, her firm look and voice, could hide a natural hidden kindness which could be more felt in her actions prorising the justice! The most even sound of her walk in the corridors of Parvin Etesami High-school announced her arrival and all students kept silence by respect knowing she was coming! Today, after many years of trying to deal with situations to be able to find a balance between my heart and my reason, I understand how hard it had been to be Maliheh Ghaffari with the conviction for being a woman of reasonfor justive! Some tears of sorrow cannot avoid to run from my heart for not being able to see her in this world! I understand and entirly respect her sens of responsibility! One special day, something happened between us that I taught me and I learned that Reason had to have priority on emotions when/once you live in a society that EDUCTION is the most important priority for women as it is air and water to them! I decided from that day to concentrate more on my studings than on my artistic activities as this priority was engraved on the doors of my heart ,' Shahrzad, besides of your responsibility toward yourself, you are responsible to be a role-model to those who will follow you and education is the master key to the freedom of all future women of this country!' No choice left to me, I asked my heart to be patient and use my creativity to flow in the rivers of life and reach to its oceans to be able to be inspiring to the ones who did not have this choice! My dear aunt, despite of your requirements in discipline, I had been always able to feel the endless kindness of your heart! You treasured your mission while trusting your intuition...passing it on to those future women who had the chance to witness understanding and wisdom...! All your family, friends, all those who had the chance to know you, honor your life in time and espace you lived in and will share the seeds of wisdom that you spread to the next ones in the gardens of eternity! With many thanks to you my dear aunt, Mahiheh Ghaffari for being so close to me, to us and being the special ONE you made of yourself to make a big change for many many women! We love you very deepely and will always treasure your gifts in us! Join to the dear ones who had been eager to welcome you, join the eternity and let your beautiful emotions be freely expressed through free laughters...!

BONNE FÊTE À MA TRÈS CHERE MICHELLE

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