"And there was always the encouragement of meeting or corresponding
with former students who were making good use of what Anatolia had
given them. For example: Timothy Bishop, the last of our students to
receive his B. A. from Anatolia in Asia Minor, was a representative
of a considerable number of our students in Chicago. Dr. A. P. Pilides
was an able dental surgeon in Detroit, where his work with a Club
gripping hundreds of boys of that bewildering metropolis was such
that Detroit was called, "The city where boys *had been* bad". In
Cleveland, Mr. A. H. Tashjian was a leading architect; who, when
he was a teacher the next year after graduating in 1902, had sent
across the Anatolia campus the first wireless telegram ever sent in
Turkey. In Philadelphia, Dr. D. H. Kabakjian, a professor in the
University of Pennsylvania, was one of the outstanding men among a
group of our graduates, and Dr. Edward Bedrossian, a physician in
the city, was another. Dr. V. S. Babasinian was a ranking professor
in Lehigh University not far away. In New York, everyone who knew
the Near East knew and respected Rev. Prof. J. P. Xenides, and in
Boston, next door to our trustees, was Dr. Raphael S. Demos, who
had entered Harvard University as a post graduate student on his
Anatolia diploma, had taken his Ph. D. in three years, taking prizes
every year and then was invited to remain as an instructor. In 1927,
he had just received a Guggenheim appointment for advanced study in
Europe with leave of absence from Harvard. He had summed up his early
experiences in our College with its threadbare equipment in the words,
"We lived abundantly". On the Simplon Orient Express across Europe,
I found among my fellow passengers from Lausanne to Greece, a committee
of three men going out from the League of Nations to investigate and
then authorize a loan of nine million pounds to the Greek government.
One of the committee was a Britisher, one a Frenchman, and the third
was one of our Anatolia graduates, Mr. Athanase Aghanides. Of course,
he had taken advanced studies in Constantinople, Paris, and London,
before receiving his appointment as a secretary of the League of
Nations in Geneva. But Anatolia gave him his start."
[From: George E. White's "Adventuring With Anatolia College", p. 137
(Herald-Register Publishing Company, Grinnell, Iowa, March 1940)]