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FALL / WINTER 2014 ISSUE 46 A Century RC QUARTERLY FALL / WINTER 2014 ISSUE 46 on Campus MAVI_ILAN.pdf 1 9/5/14 11:46 AM founding society d members C M Y CM MY CY issue CMY K areas donors WE MAKE MORE THAN SHOES IN AMERICA. We fuel jobs by working with these and other U.S.-based suppliers. Tongue Foam Rogers Foam 1 Somerville, MA 510 employees 3 Laces Sole Choice 2 Portsmouth, OH 41 employees Light Gray Suede Processed by Tasman Leather Hartland, ME 140 employees 4 Vamp Lining Dela & Guilford Textiles Haverhill, MA & Pine Grove, PA 42 & 300 employees 6 Crafted by Ramon G. New Balance Factory Lawrence, MA 1 of our 1,300 U.S. workers 5 Toe Box Reinforcer Bixby International Newburyport, MA 55 employees The 990. Proudly Made in the USA. Where the domestic value is at least 70%, we label our shoes Made in the USA. In 2013, 1 out of every 4 pairs of shoes we sold in the USA was made or assembled here. Some materials shown above are imported. In this issue… RC QUARTERLY FALL / WINTER 2014 ISSUE 46 A venerable institution like Robert College has many milestones to celebrate. The 150th Anniversary events of the past year elevated the RC spirit and served as a wonderful opportunity to reconnect and strengthen RC ties. The year is coming to a close and you can read about the final celebratory event, the very successful 150th Benefit Gala held on November 6, starting on page 32. Alumni Journal published periodically by the RC Alumni We could not let this year pass by without highlighting another & Development Office for 10,000 members of the RC remarkable milestone in the illustrious history of the school. 2014 community: graduates, students, faculty, administration, marks a hundred years on the Arnavutköy campus. The cover story parents and friends. in this issue of the RCQ, starting on page 38, focuses on the very beginnings of the campus funded and built to house the American Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi College for Girls, a century ago. Kuruçeşme Caddesi 87 Arnavutköy, İstanbul Tel: (0212) 359 22 22/289 What is for us today a glorious past was an uncertain future for e-mail: [email protected] Mary Mills Patrick, especially at the onset of World War I, only a few www.robcol.k12.tr months after moving the school to a new campus. Imagine the pride of our founders today, if they could only read about the school and Editor-in-Chief its alumni in the RCQ, as Robert College continues to thrive through Leyla Aktay, RC 72 one milestone after another. Editors Happy reading, Lisa Johnson Çiğdem Yaz›c›oğlu The RCQ Team Mehveş Dramur, RC 96 Banu Savaş Editorial Board Nuri Çolakoğlu, RA 62 RC NEWS 4 2014-15 School Year at a Glance Deniz Alphan, ACG 67 6 A Grand Farewell to the Class of 2014 Nükhet Sirman, RC 72 7 Top Ten Seniors Receive New Award Sedat Ergin, RC 75 8 Where is the Class of 2014 Now? Nur Demirseren, RC 75 10 Alumni Perform with RC Orchestra Elçin Yahşi, RC 79 12 Excellence in Science Award Pelin Seyhan, RC 03 A Visit by Renowned Education Technologies Leader Advertising Managers RC Receives USAID Grant Çiğdem Yaz›c›oğlu 13 RC Summer: The Place to Be [email protected] GIFTS Banu Savaş 14 Hüsnü Özyeğin Girls’ Residence [email protected] 15 Serdar Bilgili Film Editing Center Tel: (0212) 359 22 89 CIP Design & Production 16 Alumni Share the Service Tradition Topprint Esentepe Mah. Atom Sok. Kanyon Apt. 20/1 Şişli, İstanbul ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (0212) 264 33 11 • www.topprint.com.tr 18 The Robert College Alumni Association (RKMD) Newcomer to RKMD Printing 19 What’s New at Bizim Tepe APA UNIPRINT Bas›m San. ve Tic. A.Ş. RKMD Summer Camp Had›mköy Mahallesi 434 Sokak No:6 34555 Arnavutköy, İstanbul RC IN AMERICA Tel : (0212) 798 28 40 • www.apa.com.tr 20 RCAAA’s First Mentees Graduate Welcome to the USA Awards Basım Yeri ve Tarihi 21 RCAAA Spring Dinners İstanbul, Aralık 2014 Yayın Türü Süreli Yayın Periyodu 4 Ayl›k RC IN THE UK AROUND THE WORLD 22 Developments in the UK Alumni Community 50 What is Your Little Paradise Kingfisher? ESSAY GRADUATES IN THE NEWS 54 Vahram Çerçiyan RC 1907: 24 Dikmen Gürün ACG 61 Receives IKSV Honorary Award The Man Who Created Atatürk’s Signature Esra Gençtürk RC 77 Appointed Hüsnü Özyeğin University Rector RC REACHES OUT 25 Sedat Ergin RC 75 at the Helm of Major Daily 58 Design to Improve Migrant Workers’ Lives Newspaper 60 65+ Elder Rights Association Fırat İşbecer RC 98 Takes mCommerce to the Next Level 26 Serap Aksoy RC 74 Discovers Tsetse Fly Genome REUNIONS Arwa Damon RC 94 Wins Prestigious Journalism Award 62 ACG 64 50th Reunion 28 Mehmet Fatih Ceylan RC 75 Appointed Permanent 63 RA 64 Revisits Old Stomping Grounds Representative of Turkey to NATO 64 A 45th Year Dream for ACG 69 Marsel Mesulam RA 64 Receives Lifetime 66 RC 74 Reunion Achievement Award 67 RC 79’s 35th Reunion 29 Rana Özbal Gerritsen RC 93 Discovers 8,400 68 Young at Heart: RC 84 at their 30th Reunion year-old Human Footprint 69 A Night on the Plateau İsmail Ertürk RC 77 Travels the World in Latest Novel 30 Deniz Seviyesi by Esra Saydam RC 04 Sweeps ALUMNI PROFILE Altın Koza Awards 70 Sedef Baykal Dördüncü RC 02 A Story of Gezi through Photos 72 Serdar İnan RC 84: Architect, Businessman and Poet Melis Terzioğlu RC 96: A Guiding Hand Through TH 150 ANNIVERSARY the Art World 32 Istanbul Gala Dinner 36 150th Anniversary Website Wins Prestigious Award 74 ALUMNI NEWS Rave Reviews Continue for the RC 150 Exhibition Catalog FACULTY & FRIENDS NEWS 77 From the Bosphorus Chronicle COVER STORY A Farewell to Retiring Faculty 38 A Campus Turns One Hundred Anthony Baker, Chemistry Teacher 44 Who Was Mary Mills Patrick? 78 Esra Ürtekin Turkish Literature Benefactors of the First Buildings 79 Gülhiz Yüksek, Geography Teacher Nesrin Gülsoy RC 74: A Life Dedicated to RC UNIRC 46 Rainbows at Robert College 80 OBITUARIES ONES TO WATCH 48 Young Singer Hits a Crescendo 49 Creating New Trends in Technology Your feedback on the RCQ matters! Did you enjoy this issue? Write to us at: [email protected] 4 RC NEWS 2014-15 School Year at a Glance uring the 2014-2015 academic year, 1036 students from 48 cities throughout Turkey are attending Robert College. The residences are home to 185 students – 100 boys and 85 girls – from 42 cities. Twenty-five percent of students (263) receive financial aid. Where Students Come From Where Residential Students Come From basketbolimaj ilan 21x28.pdf 1 24.10.2014 11:26 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K 6 RC NEWS A Grand Farewell to the Class of 2014 he 2014 commencement exercises, held also known as “red jacket”. Speaking development, Hays recommended that on Tuesday, June 24, were a spectacular on the 50th anniversary of his own the students appreciate people who are end to the school year. The audience graduation, Betil noted that people different from them, spend time with was made up of family members, who leave an imprint on the world are art and literature, and spend time on a teachers, alumni and trustees who not necessarily those who become practice of self-expression outside of came to see the Class of ’14 graduate. something, but those who accomplish their careers. Speeches were given by businessman- something. He said that as graduates turned-social entrepreneur İbrahim Betil of the best school in the country, RC Student speaker İpek Kahraman, who RA 64, retiring English teacher Michael students have a responsibility to society entered film school this fall, described Hays, and graduating students İpek and the people living on the planet, and her and her classmates' years at RC as a Kahraman and Sıla Küçükosmanoğlu. urged them to reflect on what they can movie script about their class and their do. He added that the main difference strict teacher “Robert”, who the students Headmaster Anthony Jones began the between achievers and others is loved and hated very much “because he ceremony, saying that over time friends, persistence and determination. had pushed them out of their comfort teachers and the school will seem to Betil advised the class that they should zone, taught some life skills, and with change while remaining the same. He strive to blend happiness with success his help, the students were able to make urged the graduating class to maintain while taking interest in what is happing unforgettable friendships.” She closed relationships with them, to embrace in society, be sensitive to what is going her speech saying, “Even though this is change and reach out to new people in on around them, respond to negativity, the final scene of our high school life, it is their class, and to help shape the future and decrease criticism by focusing on only the trailer for the rest of it. You are of the school. recommendations for change. the director my fellow classmates, make it a good one.” The next speaker, İbrahim Betil, stood Following Betil, Michael Hays said that out from the crowd wearing the famous over the past five years, instructors at Student speaker Sıla Küçükosmanoğlu crimson blazer that belonged to a man RC have been working on developing reflected on how her class had changed who had a profound influence on Betil’s different aspects of the students’ during their time at Robert College, life - former RA Headmaster Neil Bull, personalities.
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