Alborz High School
| Alborz High School دبیرستان البرز |
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| College Crossroad, Tehran Tehran, Iran |
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| School type | Public |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Shia Islam |
| Founded | 1873 |
| Founder | James Bassett |
| Principal | Dr. Abeth Esfandiar |
| Grades | 6-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,600 |
| Alumni | Alborzi |
Alborz High School (in Persian:دبیرستان البرز), is a college preparatory high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran. It is named after the Alborz mountain range north of Tehran.
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[edit] History
The school was founded as an elementary school in 1873 by a group of American 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 various changes; 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.[1]
Dr. Jordan remained president of Alborz for 42 years (1899-1940). During his tenure, Alborz grew from an elementary school to a renowned and established high school and college.
In 1932, the school received a permanent charter from the Board of Regents of the State University of New York.
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. Additionally, 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.
In recent years Alborz continues to be one of the best schools in Iran. However, it no longer carries the distinction of having an undisputed number one ranking. Its fall is mainly attributed to the steady rise of national schools for boys and girls. Even so, Alborz continues to rank consistently among the best schools in Iran.
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Alborz High School entrance
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Main building, recent photo (2007)
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McCormick Hall, American College of Tehran, circa 1930. The school received a permanent charter from the Board of Regents of the State University of New York in 1932.[1]
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Dr. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
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Alborz staff (pre 1979 Revolution era)
[edit] Alborz presidents and their serving terms
- Mr. Howard 1873 - 1889
- Dr. Samuel M. Jordan 1899 - 1940
- Mohammad Vahid Tonekaboni 1940 - 1941
- Mohsen Hadad 1941
- Ali Mohammad Partovy (Monee-ol-Molk) 1941 - 1942
- Hasan Zoghi 1942 - 1943
- Lotfali Sooratgar 1943 - 1944
- Dr. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi 1944 - 1979
- Mr. Hossein Khoshnevisan 1979-1990
- Bagher Dezfulian 1991- 1997
- Mr. Dastani 1998 - 1999
- Valiollah Sanaye 1999 - 2007
- Dr. Mazaher Hami Kargar 2007 - January 2011
- Abeth Esfandiar (present)
[edit] Notable Alborz deans
- Dr. Mahmoud Behzad
[edit] Alumni
- Hossein Amanat, architect of Azadi Tower in Tehran
- Mehdi Bahadori, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Mostafa Chamran, cabinet minister and revolutionary leader of Iran
- Abbas Edalat, computer scientist
- Kamran Elahian, entrepreneur and investor
- Adel Ferdosipour, Iranian football commentator [2]
- Siavash Ghomeishi, Iranian singer and music composer
- Dariush Homayoon, Journalist and minister of information and tourism (1977-1978)
- Ali Javan, physicist and creator of gas laser
- Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, physician scientist and proponent of the reverse epidemiology hypothesis
- Caro Lucas, Professor at University of Tehran
- Paul Merage, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Jamshid Mashayekhi, actor
- Mostafa Mirsalim, former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance
- Farzad Nazem, was CTO of Yahoo!
- Saeed Sohrabpour, President of Sharif University of Technology
- Khosrow Sinai,intellectual and film director
- Cumrun Vafa, One of the leading 'String' theorists in physics
- Houman Younessi, Professor and director of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Initiative in Systems Engineering
- Lotfi Zadeh, inventor, creator of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Lorentz, J. Historical Dictionary of Iran. 1995. ISBN
- ^ عادل،تنها پسر فوتبالی خانواده فردوسی پور | پارس فوتبال | اولین پایگاه تخصصی فوتبال ایران
[edit] External links
- Alborz High School alumni website
- Alborz High School website
- Dr. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
- Alborz Conference
- Encyclopedia Iranica's entry about "Alborz College", p.821-823
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Coordinates: 35°42′09.97″N 51°24′40.59″E / 35.7027694°N 51.411275°E
