RC QUARTERLY FALL / WINTER 2011 ISSUE 41 RC QUARTERLY FALL / WINTER 2011 ISSUE 41 40Years On Looking Back at the Historic Coed Merger I RC Graduates in Art, Literature and Turkey’s New Parliament I Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro for a Cause I Commemorating Nicholas Artamonoff I Meeting Gorillas in Uganda 3Gs 420x280.ai 1 17.11.2011 21:07 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K From the Bosphorus Chronicle of 1971 From the Bosphorus Chronicle of 1971 3Gs 420x280.ai 1 17.11.2011 21:07 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K About the RCQ atching the boys and girls milling about the College today, it is hard to imagine that it was not always so. Up until 1971, boys attended Robert Academy in Bebek, Alumni Journal published periodically by the RC Alumni at what is today Boğaziçi University, while girls attended & Development Office for 10.000 members of the RC the American College for Girls, on this campus. In 1971, community: graduates, students, faculty, administration, due to legal changes, the higher education institution, RC parents and friends. Yüksek, was nationalized and became Boğaziçi University -- this meant the boys were forced to find another home. A Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi frantic summer of construction and moving ensued and in Kuruçeşme Caddesi 87 Arnavutköy, İstanbul September, the Arnavutköy College campus officially became Tel: (0212) 359 22 22/289 coed. e-mail:
[email protected] www.robcol.k12.tr In this issue, we look back at that momentous transformation - one that has been so successful that today, we rarely Editor-in-Chief remember it.