Alborz High School

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Mandegar Alborz High School
دبیرستان ماندگار البرز
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Address
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College Crossroad, Enqelab Street

Tehran

Iran
Information
Other namesAmerican College of Tehran, Alborz College
School typePublic
Founded1873; 148 years ago (1873)
FounderJames Bassett
PrincipalMohammad Mohammadi
Grades10–12
Enrollment1,600
AlumniAlborzi
Website[1]

Mandegar Alborz High School (Persian: دبیرستان ماندگار البرز‎) is a college-preparatory high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran. It is one of the first modern high schools in Asia and the Middle East, named after the Alborz mountain range, north of Tehran. Its place in the shaping of Iran's intellectual elite compares with that of Eton College in England and institutions such as Phillips Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Milton Academy in the United States.[1]

History[]

The school was founded as an elementary school in 1873 by a group of American Presbyterian missionaries led by James Bassett. This was in the 26th year of the reign of Nasereddin Shah Qajar, 22 years after Amir Kabir founded the Dar ul-Funun school in Tehran, and 33 years before the Constitutional Revolution in Persia (as it was known back then; later it became "Iran" during the Reza Shah Era).

When Dr. Samuel Jordan arrived in Persia in 1898, he instituted change; subsequently, Alborz became a 12-year elementary and secondary school, with its share of college courses. Thereafter, the institution came to be known as the American College of Tehran.[2]

Dr. Jordan remained president of Alborz for 42 years (1899–1940). During his tenure, Alborz grew from an elementary school to a high school and college.

In 1932, the school received a permanent charter from the Board of Regents of the State University of New York.

McCormick Hall, American College of Tehran, circa 1930. The school received a permanent charter from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1932.[2]

In 1940 and during World War II, by the order of Shah Reza Pahlavi, Alborz was removed from American management and placed under the auspices of the Iranian Ministry of Education as part of Reza Shah's modernization reforms. The school's name was changed from "College" back to "Alborz", and it was reinstated as a high school.

In 1944, Professor Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, member of University of Tehran's faculty, was appointed as the president of Alborz. From then until 1979, and continuing after the Iranian Revolution, Alborz had the most successful period of its history.[citation needed]

Alborz Principals/Deans[]

  • Mr. Howard (1873–1889)
  • Dr. Samuel M. Jordan (1899–1940)
  • Mr. Mohammad Vahid Tonekaboni (1940–1941)
  • Mr. Mohsen Haddad (1941)
  • Mr. Ali Mohammad Partovi (1941–1942)
  • Mr. Hasan Zoghi (1942–1943)
  • Mr. Lotf Ali Sooratgar (1943–1944)
  • Dr. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi (1944–1978)
  • Mr. Hossein Khoshnevisan (1978–1979)
  • Mr. Hasan Pour Zahed (1979–1980)
  • Mr. Naser Naseri (1980–1981)
  • Mr. Ismael Sadegh Kazemi (1981–1985)
  • Mr. Rajab Ali Yasipour (1985–1986)
  • Mr. Naser Molla Asadollah (1986)
  • Mr. Ali Mazarei (1986–1988)
  • Mr. Abbas Feiz (1988–1989)
  • Mr. Hossein Khoshnevisan (1989–1991)
  • Mr. Bagher Dezfulian (1991–1997)
  • Mr. Mahmoud Dastani (1998–1999)
  • Mr. Valiollah Sanaye (1999–2007)
  • Dr. Mazaher Hami Kargar (2007–2011)
  • Dr. Abeth Esfandiar (2011–2012)
  • Mr. Mohammad Mohammadi (2012–present)

Notable Alborz Deans[]

Notable alumni[]

Politicians[]

  • Dariush Homayoon (1928–2011), minister of Information and Tourism
  • Parviz C. Radji (1936–2014), Iranian ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930–1989), Kurdish political activist
  • Mostafa Chamran (1932–1981), minister of National Defence and chief of Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC)
  • Mostafa Mirsalim (born 1947), minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance
  • Alireza Nourizadeh (born 1949), journalist and political activist
  • Mansoor Hekmat (1951–2002), political activist
  • Ali Javadi (born 1953), political activist
  • Tahmasb Mazaheri (born 1953), minister of Economic and Financial Affairs
  • Mohsen Sazegara (born 1955), journalist and political activist
  • Reza Moridi, politician
  • Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (born 1975), political activist

Military personnel[]

  • Mohammad Amir Khatam (1918–1975), commander in chief of Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) (1958–1975)

Scholars[]

  • Solayman Haïm (1887–1970), lexicographer and translator
  • Manouchehr Sotoudeh (1913–2016), professor of geography
  • Mahmoud Behzad (1914–2007), professor of biology
  • Sadeq Chubak (1916–1998), author
  • Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017), mathematician and professor of computer science
  • Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub (1924–1996), author and translator
  • Homayoun Sanaatizadeh (1925–2009), author, translator and entrepreneur
  • Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan (born 1925), poet and author
  • Ali Javan (1926–2016), physicist
  • Bijan Jalali (1927–2009), poet
  • Manuchehr Jamali (1928–2012), philosopher and poet
  • Mohammad Qahraman (1929–2013), poet
  • Jamshid Giunashvili (1931–2017), linguist, Iranologist, diplomat, author and researcher
  • Mehdi Zarghamee, professor of computer science
  • Rahim Rahmanzadeh (born 1934), surgeon
  • Firouz Partovi (born 1936), physicist
  • Dariush Ashoori (born 1938), author and translator
  • Iraj Kaboli (born 1938), author and translator
  • Paris Moayedi (born 1938), entrepreneur
  • Hossein Amanat (born 1942), architect
  • Homayoun Katouzian (born 1942), historian and political scientist
  • Saeed Sohrabpour (born 1943), professor of mechanical engineering
  • Foad Rafii (born 1947), architect
  • Freydoon Shahidi (born 1947), mathematician
  • Mehrdad Abedi (born 1948), professor of electrical engineering
  • Caro Lucas (1949–2010), scientist
  • Abbas Edalat, professor of computer sciences
  • Ali Parsa (born 1951), translator
  • Houchang E. Chehabi (born 1954), professor of international relations and history
  • Cumrun Vafa (born 1960), string theorist
  • Farzad Nazem (born 1960), former CTO of Yahoo!
  • Houman Younessi (1963-2016), professor of computer science
  • Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (born 1963), scientist and physician
  • Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh (born 1971), scientist and inventor
  • Mehdi Yahyanejad, entrepreneur
  • Ramin Golestanian, theoretical physicist
  • David and Paul Merage, entrepreneurs and philanthropists

Artists[]

  • Homayoun Khorram (1930–2013), musician
  • Jamshid Mashayekhi (1934–2019), actor
  • Khosrow Sinai (born 1941), film director
  • Siavash Ghomeishi (born 1945), musician, singer and song writer
  • Amir Parvin Hosseini (born 1967), film producer
  • Behzad Abdi (born 1973), musician

Athletes[]

Media figures[]

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See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "خاطرات مح��دعلی مجتهدی، رئیس دبیرستان البرز: Ibex Publishers, English & Persian (Farsi) Books about Iran".
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Lorentz, J. Historical Dictionary of Iran. 1995. ISBN
  3. ^ "عادل،تنها پسر فوتبالی خانواده فردوسی پور| پارس فوتبال | اولین پایگاه تخصصی فوتبال ایران". Archived from the original on 2007-05-16. Retrieved 2007-05-15.

External link[]

Coordinates: 35°42′09.97″N 51°24′40.59″E / 35.7027694°N 51.4112750°E / 35.7027694; 51.4112750

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