athletics, special occasions, and outdoor activities. In manifold ways the album's documentary evidence illustrates how the College provided an effective space for its teachers and students with different social and community backgrounds to participate in educational modernization and reform. On the whole the memorial album offers valuable glimpses into the social and educational aspects of the early Pahlavi Iran. Ali Gheissari graduated from Alborz High School and studied Law and Political Science at Tehran University and History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He teaches at the University of San Diego and has research interest in the intellectual history of modern Iran.