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A series of photographs of the International College, covering 3 decades.
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President, Cass Arthur Reed (center front), with cane/hat in front - Profession Samuel Lee Caldwell (Science and Maths), 2nd Row Center (White Dress) - Rosalind Christine MacLachlan Reed, 1927.
Front Row: 2nd from left - Professor Caleb Lawrence, 3rd from left - President Cass Arthur Reed, 2nd from right - Professor R. F. White, Far right - Professor Samuel Lee Caldwell, 1928.
Front row far left - Cass Arthur Reed, President (Succeeded MacLachlan as President in 1926), fifth from left - Professor Samuel Lee Caldwell (Mathematics & Science), seventh from left (with glasses, hands on child's shoulders) - Caleb Lawrence, woman sitting to right of nun behind Caleb Lawrence - Rosalind Christine Maclachlan Reed (Wife of Cass Arthur Reed), top row - circled woman sitting on far right next to stone wall - Carrie Caldwell (Teacher/Wife of Professor Caldwell), 1930
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Panoramic view of campus housing the gymnasium building (lower left corner), photographed 1919
The institution under construction.
Rev Dr. Alexander MacLachlan (center 3rd row from front in hat), 1914.
Founder & President, Rev Dr. Alexander MacLachlan (center front), Sitting on top Wall (Left) facing - Caleb Arthur Reed (Succeeded MacLachlan as President in 1926), sitting on lower wall (left) holding hat - Caleb Lawrence, woman in center with cardigan sweater - Rosalind Christine Maclachlan Reed (wife of Caleb Reed), Sitting on top wall (right) - Professor R. F. White, sitting on lower wall (right) - Professor Samuel Lee Caldwell (Mathematics & Science), 1914.
College library & music building, Paradise Campus, 1915. Far left - Professor Cass Arthur Reed (Later succeeded Alexander MacLachan as President of International College), third from left - Professor Caleb Lawrence.
British WW1 POW Camp at the International College.
Students with a Professor Samuel Lee Caldwell (with hat), Paradise Campus, 1932.
Walkway along entrance to faculty homes within campus.
Faculty housing within the campus, International College.
Pair of photos of staff family making a return October, 1933, in front of the gymnasium building. Text on back, from left: Joan Reed (later Westra), Zoie, Ros (Rosalind Blackler Maclachlan Reed), Doris Medcalf - née Webber, Howard (Reed). Images courtesy of Joyce Medcalf - additional info: Joan and Howard are the children of Ros and Cass Arthur Reed and I think Joan married somebody Westra.
Text on back, from left: Zoie, Joan, Howard, Cass, Doris Medcalf - née Webber, Ros, Frank Philpott, Jane, Helen and Debby.
Above 4 images showing the building with its new function as the village institute founded in 1937 (date makes it probably one of the first, as the law was enacted in 1940). This was a nationwide republican movement to bring practical education to the rural poor that was later shelved in 1954 for conservative reactionary political reasons.
Rear of photo caption reads ‘Our street, the Tsi, Smyrna’, probably indicating the location of the house of one of the staff of the College.
Click here for a view of the smaller sister institution in downtown Smyrna
Click here to view images of a similar institution in the heartland of Anatolia, of the American College of Aintab [Antep].
Click here to view images of the sister institution, the American College [later University] of Beirut.