Damavand College

Damavand College (

In 1976, the campus was designed by William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) and Nezam Amery of the Amery-Kamooneh-Khosrovi Group.

It was one of the last educational centers that closed down preceding the February 1979 events within the

The first class was consisting of 62 seniors graduated in 1972, while by 1978 the population increased to 162 graduates. In 1977–1978, the college had over 800 Iranian and international students. All classes at the school were taught in the English language, from the freshman year and on, except those classes on Iranian culture.[3]

In 1976, the school's new campus construction was completed at Lashgark Road in Tehran, it was designed and built by William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) and Nezam Amery of the Amery-Kamooneh-Khosrovi Group.^[4][2]

It was one of the last educational centers that closed down preceding the February 1979

From 1968 to 1979, Damavand College was served by three presidents, and Mary C. Thompson was the academic dean all through the years. Under the leadership of Frances M. Gray (1910–2001), Damavand College was established in 1968 and that same year was accredited. From the time of the founding of the college, Gray continued as president until her retirement in June 1975.

Professor D. Ray Heisey (1932–2011), was the second president, serving from Fall 1975 until 1978.^[6][7] In 1978 he return to his position as professor of Rhetoric and Communication at the Kent State University in Ohio.

Carolyn Spatta, a cultural Geographer was the third and the last president of Damavand College that was taken over by the Iranian Government in 1979 when the Islamic Revolution replaced the Pahlavi dynasty. In 1995 with Susan Christine Seymour, she wrote Asian College Women's Aspirations: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Maternal employment in which Damavand College has been named as one of the nine colleges that joined Asian Women Institutes in 1971 and in 1975 the organization to share its concern about women's higher education in Asia.

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Asian Women Institute

In 1975, nine colleges of the Asian Women's Institute including Damavand College that had been founded as Christian Colleges, joined to share their concerns about women's higher education in Asia. Earlier than that in 1971 representatives of those colleges agreed to plan for a joint organization. They are all still active with the same goals except for Damavand College that was closed in 1979 prior to the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Gallery

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  Damavand College class ring (1975)
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  President D. Ray Heisey and the unfinished college building (1975)
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  The unfinished library (1975)
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  The courtyard (1977)
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  The 13 Diba Alley campus of Damavand College (1974)
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  Main building (2021)

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• Account of the final president
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