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.