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Prof. John Freely :
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"Robert College survived the Balkan War, the 1st WW... It was like a miracle. " |
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____________________________________________Cyrus Hamlin
Prof. John Freely began his speech by giving some examples of change occurred in the previous Robert College, the current Boğaziçi University: He pointed to the increased number of women at the University nowadays, adding that his chairman is a woman (in the department of physics), that his dean is woman etc..
He also talked about the major nationalities of students in the foundation years of RC, where most of the students were Bulgarians, Greeks and Armenians by adding that the first two Prime Minesters of Bulgaria graduated from RC.
Mr. Freely continued his speech as follows :
In the foundation years [1960's] there was a bektashi tekke at Hisarüstü. Nafi Baba Tekke was built before Mehmed The Conqueror’s conquest of Istanbul. Therefore some graduates of RC have a relation with the bektashi order. For example; Süheyla Artemer's husband. An other case is Nuri Eren, consul in US, who is also a descendant of the bektashi order.
Nafi Baba
I can also give the example of a Bektashi master, when his sons immigrated to the USA, they got American names, adding "Baba" as their surnames, such as John Baba, Michael Baba.
Süheyla Artemer
I was born in Brooklyn, NYC. My father was a tram driver, he lost his job and went back to Ireland. My grandfather was an Irish soldier, he went to Constantinople at the Crimean War, and two years before his death he wrote a book called “ Victorial Journey around the World”.
I arrived in Istanbul in 1960, at that time RC was a part of American Missonary Board. This was a chain from the Middle East extending to China. But RC was not a conventional missonary school.
It had founders , such as Cyrus Hamlin, who was an idealist dedicating his life to the education of young men and women. These founders worked for a very mediocre salary like 200 USD.
Cyrus Hamlin was independent. Before RC, he gave seminars in Bebek to the Armenians & Greeks. His project was to enlighten Greeks, Armenians etc...
The main difference between RC and BU is, in RC, teachers and students were living together in campus, while in Boğaziçi University now, teachers are just coming to campus during their office hours and lectures.
In RC, there were some permanent non-academic staff like the barber, the carpenter etc, who were mostly from minorities. Haçik was the first barber in RC. When I came back to RC in 1993, he visited me, he was retired. Badroz was an Armenian too. Those were the most interesting communities in Istanbul at that time, and they were all living in Hisarüstü.
Haçik Eğin
Fevzi Çakmak's son Ahmet Çakmak was in RC too; he was retired five years ago. Hüseyin Pektaş was the 1st Turkish student in RC, he graduated around 1904- 1906. He was a secratary in Lozan Treaty.
In 1958, RC became “Yüksek Okul”, and started to be accepted official by the State, as well.
A false assumption about BU is that only rich people go to BU; whereas, the truth is definitely not like this: I myself can give examles of a farmer and a butcher who educated their sons at BU.
Untill 1950's no catholic was accepted to RC, hence this shows that American Board had severe problems with other missionary groups, unlike with muslims. They were not fithing with muslims, no competion with them.
Cyrus Hamlin was working hard just for the sake of enlightenment, therefore conversion was small; we do have a negligible number of conversion to christianity in RC.
I worked as physicist in Princeton, where there were no blacks, no jews, no women, this kind of prejudice were! Think about the multicultural, multiethnic society of RC.
I come from Long Island. In Long Island we have a saying “autoguida” , means self educated people. I am one of them. I define myself as an autodidact learner, who has worked on varying subjects and who gets high pleasure about it.
I have now become the oldest professor in Boğaziçi University as my colleague, Mr. Ercüment Atabay, retired 5 years ago.
Ercüment Atabay
When we speak about change to a state university in 1970s , the main reason was fiscal. WASP people have one main principle : “do not waist capital”. The last seven years of RC were very difficult. It was Nihat Erim's time, I forgot the name of the minister of Education. I found the documents in NY.
While writing my book, I worked in the archives in NY. I can easily say that Hamlin was successful. Robert College survived the Balkan War, the 1st WW... It was like a miracle.
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Söyleşinin sonunda Başkan Osman Eroğlu, Prof. John Freely'e Üniversitemize olan hizmetlerinden dolayı bir teşekkür plaketi sundu.
Prof. John Freely ve kitapları ile ilgili bilgi için tıklayınız:
www.johnfreely.com
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RC/BU kitapları :
- Cyrus Hamlin, Among the Turks, 1878
- Cyrus Hamlin, My life and times, 1893
- Aptullah Kuran, Bir kurucu rektörün anıları, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi 2002
- Keith M. Greenwood, Robert College : American founders, BU Press, 2003
- John Freely, Historic Buildings on the South Campus, Boğaziçi University, 2005
- John Freely, History of Robert College, YKY, 2000
This is the story of two American schools in İstanbul -Robert College and American College for Girls- both of them founded in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.
The story takes the two schools through the last half-century of the Ottoman Empire and the first halfcentury of the Turkish Republic.
The last part of the book tells story of the founding of Boğaziçi University on the campus of the old Robert College in Bebek-Rumeli Hisarı, and the establishment of the new co-educational Robert College on the campus of the old American College for Girls in Arnavutköy.
The principal characters in the story are the men and administrators, and the students who studied there, many of them going on to distinguished careers, including two prime ministers of Turkey and two of Bulgaria.
Boğaziçi University and the new Robert College, both founded in 1971, continued a tradition that has now linked east west for over a century, perpetuating bonds of culture have endured through wars and the fall and rise of nations. (İç Kapaktaki tanıtım yazısından)
Robert Kolej ve Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Başkanları
1. Cyrus Hamlin (1863-1877)
2. George Washburn (1877-1903)
3. Caleb Frank Gates (1903-1932)
4. Paul Monroe (1932-1935)
5. Walter Livingston Wright (1935-1943)
6. Floyd Henson Black (1944-1955)
7. Duncan Smith Ballantine (1955-1961)
8. Patrick Murphy Malin (1962-1964)
9. Dwight James Simpson (1965-1967)
10. John Scott Everton (1968-1971)
11. Prof.Dr. Aptullah Kuran (1971-1979)
12. Prof.Dr. Semih Tezcan (1979-1982)
13. Prof.Dr. Ergün Toğrol(1982-1992)
14. Prof. Dr. Üstün Erguder (1992-2000)
15. Prof. Dr. Sabih Tansal (2000-2004)
16. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Soysal (2004-2008)
17. Prof. Dr. Kadri Özçaldıran (2008- ...)
RC/BU kısa tarihçesine ulaşmak için tıklayınız :
www.boun.edu.tr/about/history_tur.html
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YORUMLARINIZ (5)
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Osman Eroğlu
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6/18/2009 5:30:32 PM
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Sayın Freely'nin konuşması gerçekten çok değerli idi. Bilgisayar sektöründen biri olarak eğer yanlış anlamadıysam İlk bilgisayar ENIAC'ı kullandığını anlatması gerçekten çok ilginçti.
Kendisine tekrar teşekkür ediyorum.
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M. Fatih MİNTAŞ
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6/19/2009 6:04:08 AM
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Bize, tarihe mal olmuş böyle değerli bir insanı dinleme fırsatı verdiği için Bura'ya teşekkür ederim.
Ayrıca Freely'nin beni tanımasına da hem şaşırdım hem sevindim, bu kadar yaşlı bir insanın dersini almış bir öğrenciyi tanıması benim için büyük bir onur...
Kim bilir belki ben de onun gibi 34 yaşımda doktoramı almış olurum...
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Sunusi
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6/19/2009 12:37:42 PM
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konuşma muhteşemdi; freely de çok memnun oldu, ayrılırken beni yanaklarımdan şapur şupur öptü.
(veya bunca senedir istanbul da yaşamaktan dolayı alaturka bir amerikalı olmuş!) .. acaba hangisi gerçek?
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Ali Yaşar Aydoğan
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6/23/2009 5:26:42 PM
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Freely'i BURA'da dinlemek güzeldi hakikaten. Ben de kendisine "RC'yi kuran Hamlin'in asıl amacının Fatih'in fethettiği İstanbul'u Türkler'den geri almak olduğu; bu yüzden de Rumeli Hisarı sırtlarındaki bu tepeyi özellikle tercih ettiği..." şeklindeki malum iddialarla ilgili görüşünü sordum. Cevaben; "RC'nin kurulduğu dönemde Hamlin ve Amerika'daki kurucu ve destekçilerinin Protestan Hristiyanlar olarak İslam'a karşı fazla önyargı ve husumet beslemelerinin pek söz konusu olmadığı; o devirde Protestanların daha çok Katolik'lerle ve Papalıkla mücadele içinde oldukları.." mealindeydi.
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Abdullah Ocak
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7/7/2009 2:36:50 AM
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Tavsiye kitaplar bolumune ayrica Kolejin ikinci baskani George Washburn'un yazdigi "Cennetin Sonbahari" adli Robert Kolej anilarini da ekleyebiliriz. 26 sene koleje baskanlik eden Washburn'un anilarini okurken adamlarin yasadiklari zorluklara ve bu zorluklar karsisinda kendilerini motive edislerine gipta etmistim.
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