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RC QUARTERLY FALL / WINTER 2014 ISSUE 46 FALL / WINTER 2014 ISSUE 46 A Century on Campus
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A venerable institution like Robert College has many milestones to celebrate. The 150 th 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 150 th Benefit Gala held on November 6, starting on page 32. We could not let this year pass by without highlighting another remarkable milestone in the illustrious history of the school. 2014 marks a hundred years on the Arnavutköy campus. The cover story 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 College for Girls, a century ago. What is for us today a glorious past was an uncertain future for Mary Mills Patrick, especially at the onset of World War I, only a few 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 its alumni in the RCQ, as Robert College continues to thrive through one milestone after another. Happy reading, The RCQ Team Alumni Journal published periodically by the RC Alumni & Development Office for 10,000 members of the RC community: graduates, students, faculty, administration, parents and friends.
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In this issue… RC QUARTERLY FALL / WINTER 2014 ISSUE 46
RC NEWS
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2014-15 School Year at a Glance 6
A Grand Farewell to the Class of 2014 7
Top Ten Seniors Receive New Award 8
Where is the Class of 2014 Now? 10
Alumni Perform with RC Orchestra 12
Excellence in Science Award A Visit by Renowned Education Technologies Leader
RC Receives USAID Grant 13
RC Summer: The Place to Be GIFTS 14
Hüsnü Özyeğin Girls’ Residence 15
Serdar Bilgili Film Editing Center CIP
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Alumni Share the Service Tradition ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 18
Newcomer to RKMD 19
RKMD Summer Camp
RC IN AMERICA 20
RCAAA’s First Mentees Graduate Welcome to the USA Awards 21
Your feedback on the RCQ matters! Did you enjoy this issue? Write to us at: alumni@robcol.k12.tr
RC IN THE UK 22
Developments in the UK Alumni Community GRADUATES IN THE NEWS 24
Esra Gençtürk RC 77 Appointed Hüsnü Özyeğin
University Rector 25
Sedat Ergin RC 75 at the Helm of Major Daily Newspaper
Fırat İşbecer RC 98 Takes mCommerce to the Next Level 26
Serap Aksoy RC 74 Discovers Tsetse Fly Genome Arwa Damon RC 94 Wins Prestigious Journalism Award 28
Representative of Turkey to NATO
Marsel Mesulam RA 64 Receives Lifetime
Achievement Award 29
Rana Özbal Gerritsen RC 93 Discovers 8,400 year-old Human Footprint
İsmail Ertürk RC 77 Travels the World in Latest Novel 30
Deniz Seviyesi by Esra Saydam RC 04 Sweeps Altın Koza Awards
A Story of Gezi through Photos 150
TH ANNIVERSARY 32
36 150
th Anniversary Website Wins Prestigious Award
Rave Reviews Continue for the RC 150 Exhibition Catalog
COVER STORY 38
A Campus Turns One Hundred 44
Who Was Mary Mills Patrick? Benefactors of the First Buildings UNIRC 46
Rainbows at Robert College
ONES TO WATCH 48
Young Singer Hits a Crescendo 49
Creating New Trends in Technology AROUND THE WORLD 50
ESSAY
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Vahram Çerçiyan RC 1907: The Man Who Created Atatürk’s Signature
RC REACHES OUT 58
Design to Improve Migrant Workers’ Lives 60
65+ Elder Rights Association REUNIONS 62
ACG 64 50 th Reunion 63
RA 64 Revisits Old Stomping Grounds 64
A 45 th Year Dream for ACG 69 66
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RC 79’s 35 th Reunion
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Young at Heart: RC 84 at their 30 th Reunion
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A Night on the Plateau ALUMNI PROFILE 70
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Serdar İnan RC 84: Architect, Businessman and Poet Melis Terzioğlu RC 96: A Guiding Hand Through
the Art World 74
ALUMNI NEWS FACULTY & FRIENDS NEWS 77
A Farewell to Retiring Faculty
Anthony Baker, Chemistry Teacher 78
Esra Ürtekin Turkish Literature 79
Gülhiz Yüksek, Geography Teacher Nesrin Gülsoy RC 74: A Life Dedicated to RC 80 OBITUARIES 4 Where Residential Students Come From RC NEWS Where Students Come From 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. 2014-15 School Year at a Glance
C M Y CM MY CY CMY K basketbolimaj ilan 21x28.pdf 1 24.10.2014 11:26 6 RC NEWS
he 2014 commencement exercises, held on Tuesday, June 24, were a spectacular end to the school year. The audience was made up of family members, teachers, alumni and trustees who came to see the Class of ’14 graduate. Speeches were given by businessman- turned-social entrepreneur İbrahim Betil RA 64, retiring English teacher Michael Hays, and graduating students İpek Kahraman and Sıla Küçükosmanoğlu. Headmaster Anthony Jones began the ceremony, saying that over time friends, teachers and the school will seem to change while remaining the same. He urged the graduating class to maintain relationships with them, to embrace change and reach out to new people in their class, and to help shape the future of the school. The next speaker, İbrahim Betil, stood out from the crowd wearing the famous crimson blazer that belonged to a man who had a profound influence on Betil’s life - former RA Headmaster Neil Bull, also known as “red jacket”. Speaking on the 50 th anniversary of his own graduation, Betil noted that people who leave an imprint on the world are not necessarily those who become something, but those who accomplish something. He said that as graduates of the best school in the country, RC students have a responsibility to society and the people living on the planet, and urged them to reflect on what they can do. He added that the main difference between achievers and others is persistence and determination. Betil advised the class that they should strive to blend happiness with success while taking interest in what is happing in society, be sensitive to what is going on around them, respond to negativity, and decrease criticism by focusing on recommendations for change. Following Betil, Michael Hays said that over the past five years, instructors at RC have been working on developing different aspects of the students’ personalities. To continue this development, Hays recommended that the students appreciate people who are different from them, spend time with art and literature, and spend time on a practice of self-expression outside of their careers. Student speaker İpek Kahraman, who entered film school this fall, described her and her classmates' years at RC as a movie script about their class and their strict teacher “Robert”, who the students loved and hated very much “because he had pushed them out of their comfort zone, taught some life skills, and with his help, the students were able to make unforgettable friendships.” She closed her speech saying, “Even though this is the final scene of our high school life, it is only the trailer for the rest of it. You are the director my fellow classmates, make it a good one.” Student speaker Sıla Küçükosmanoğlu reflected on how her class had changed during their time at Robert College, and said, “during the last five years we A Grand Farewell to the Class of 2014 İbrahim Betil RA 64 wearing former RA Headmaster Neil Bull's legendary red jacket The famous red jacket as worn by its original owner, Neil Bull RC NEWS 7 were always given responsibilities that exceeded our capabilities, and this is the hardest one. The School tells us to say ‘good bye, bid farewell to the Plateau where you enjoyed the best view, to the second floor of the library where you fell asleep while reading poetry against the view of the Bosphorus, to the Forum where the cats rubbed against your leg, to the forumball tournaments, and to the wisteria whose smell captured the whole school.'" The ceremony ended with a lively reception at Konak where students, families and teachers enjoyed one last opportunity to mingle. İpek Kahraman RC 14 Sıla Küçükosmanoğlu RC 14 Headmaster Anthony Jones Established by the Koç Family on the 150 th anniversary of Robert College, the Koç Family Award was given for the first time this year during graduation to the top ten senior students with the best academic average throughout their entire Robert College career. The award was presented by Erdal Yıldırım, General Manager of the Vehbi Koç Foundation, to Göksenin Akdeniz, Afşar Onat Aydınhan, Mert Dilek, Elif Magemizoğlu, Mert Uşşaklı, Emre Tayakısı, Tülay Çalışkan, Ecenur İzzete Derelioğlu, Ege Bıçaker and Gamze Büşra Kaya. The students received a personalized key holder and a letter from Semahat Arsel ACG 49, Chair of the Vehbi Koç Foundation. Arsel wrote to the students, “We wanted to embellish this gesture, which makes us extremely happy, with a small but special gift. Today you graduate from here with an ‘important key’ in your hands. As you pass through each stage of your life, you will be given another key, and I’m certain that with this equipment you will become a very successful and happy person. So, on this occasion, we would like to present you and your friends with a personalized key holder. I hope you will enjoy using it.” Top Ten Seniors Receive Koç Family Award 2014 Koç Family Award recipients at graduation Faculty in their graduation gowns on the steps of Gould Hall 8 RC NEWS
Similar to previous years, 64 percent of the Class of 2014 will remain in Turkey and 31 percent will study abroad. Five percent of this year’s graduates were not able to enter the program of their choice and have decided to retake the entrance exams next year. Similarly, 2013 graduates who retook the entrance exam this year were all placed in the program of their choice. Of the 219 members of the Class of 2014, 149 students were successfully placed in Turkish universities and 83 received one or more acceptances to universities abroad. Twenty students were accepted to both Turkish and foreign universities. Turkish University Acceptance Results Fifty-four percent of students continuing their education in Turkey are attending private universities, while 46 percent are studying at public universities. Fifteen graduates scored among the top 1000 in the 2014 YGS exam, and 91 graduates scored among the top 1000 on the LYS (the language section is included in this number). The preferred programs of RC 14 graduates are: Engineering (50), Medicine (34), Law (22), Business Administration (21), other programs including Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, Foreign Languages, Architecture and Dentistry (22).
A total of 67 graduates are attending universities in North America and Europe. Of the 16 graduates who are studying on scholarship, 10 of them were scholarship students while at RC. Where is the Class of 2014 Now? BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY 20 5
25 İSTANBUL UNIVERSITY 12 2
14 İSTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 11 1
12 MARMARA UNIVERSITY 5
5 GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY 2
2 MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 2
2 YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 2
2 EGE UNIVERSITY 2 1
3 TRAKYA UNIVERSITY 1
1 ANADOLU UNIVERSITY 1
1 KARADENİZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 1
1 CUMHURİYET UNIVERSITY 1
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58 11 69 KOÇ UNIVERSITY 8 1
4 43 SABANCI UNIVERSITY 2 1 8 11 YEDİTEPE UNIVERSITY 3
4 7 ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY 3 3 1 7 İSTANBUL BİLGİ UNIVERSITY
5 5 OKAN UNIVERSITY 2
1 3 İSTANBUL MEDİPOL UNIVERSITY
1 1 İHSAN DOĞRAMACI BİLKENT UNIVERSITY 1
1 İSTANBUL BİLİM UNIVERSITY 1
1 UNIVERSITY OF TURKISH AERONAUTICAL ASSOCIATION 1
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21 5 50 4 80 TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS PLACED 95 54 149 Name of University Without Scholarship Robert College 2014 Turkish University Results Accepted Overseas Accepted Overseas TOTAL With Scholarship University Name Art Center College of Design 1 Barnard College 1 Universita Bocconi 1 University of Bristol 1 University of British Columbia 1 Brown University 2 Bucknell University 1 University of California, Berkeley 1 University of California, Los Angeles 1 Carl Benz School of Engineering 3 Carnegie Mellon University 2 University of Chicago 1 Columbia University 3 Cornell University 2 Duke University 5 Franklin and Marshall College 2 Georgia Institute of Technology 2 Harvard University 1 Illinois Institute of Technology 1 Imperial College London 1 Jacobs University 1 Lafayette College 1 Lehigh University 1 University College London 1 University of Manchester 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 McGill University 1 University of Michigan 2 New York University 1 Northwestern University 1 University of Nottingham 1 University of Pennsylvania 1 Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University 1 University of Southern California 2 University of St. Andrews 1 Swarthmore College 1 University of Toronto Undergraduate Only 1 Tufts University 4 University of Oxford 3 Vancouver Film School 1 Vanderbilt University 1 University of Warwick 1 Wellesley College 1 Williams College 1 Yale University 3
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