1959, a snowy day on the grounds of the college. I do not remember the nmae of the woman whom I took the picture with and whome I remember was a good frined of mine.
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Friday, 22 July 2011
Teachers Training College, Tehran, 1959
A snowy day in the winter of 1959 on the grounds of college. From right: Nosrat Razavi, me and a Kermani student whom I have forgotten her name. Nosrat was from Bam and much older than us but 
she attended the college the same year as we did. She married one of the students in a ceremoney shortly after the college finished. Both she and her husband became hight school teachers. Later rumours were around that she had joined the SAVAK, the Shah's secret police and got into high positions in the ministry of education. I never sawy her after I left college. As with the other woman, she attended the college with headscarf but when she soon abandoned it and became one of Tehran's high flyers as I heard later. She left teaching to go into business as rumours suggested.
she attended the college the same year as we did. She married one of the students in a ceremoney shortly after the college finished. Both she and her husband became hight school teachers. Later rumours were around that she had joined the SAVAK, the Shah's secret police and got into high positions in the ministry of education. I never sawy her after I left college. As with the other woman, she attended the college with headscarf but when she soon abandoned it and became one of Tehran's high flyers as I heard later. She left teaching to go into business as rumours suggested.
One of the first photos we took in the gardens of the college. From left: Akhtar Bahri, my best friend from Bam and a classmate from Bam Kobra Atarnejad.
Kobra came from a humbe background whose mother was a caretaker at one of the schools. She was clever but few students befriended her in Bam as the city was based on class and family name. She was my friend for many years although not as close as Akhtar. The name Kobra is an old-fashioned religous name where the working class families chose among other religous names in those days . She was always feeling disadvantaged mostly because of ker name. After the Islamic revolution I met her once and she was laughing and making jokes about her name saying that now she enjoys a high degree of respect because of her name!
Kobra moved away from that humble background quickly and became a very high calibre teacher after she graduated from the college.
Photo taken in the winter of 1960.
Kobra came from a humbe background whose mother was a caretaker at one of the schools. She was clever but few students befriended her in Bam as the city was based on class and family name. She was my friend for many years although not as close as Akhtar. The name Kobra is an old-fashioned religous name where the working class families chose among other religous names in those days . She was always feeling disadvantaged mostly because of ker name. After the Islamic revolution I met her once and she was laughing and making jokes about her name saying that now she enjoys a high degree of respect because of her name!
Kobra moved away from that humble background quickly and became a very high calibre teacher after she graduated from the college.
Photo taken in the winter of 1960.
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