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70 Institutional Governance and the Trustees of <strong>Anatolia</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />

All Odds” (caratzas 1986, hereinafter “stephens”). the chronology in stephens,<br />

updated in ccc through 2008 by dr. Phil holland, lists the Institution’s historical<br />

highlights.<br />

MerZIfon to thessalonIKI<br />

anatolia college evolved out of the reorganized Merzifon (Marsovan) seminary<br />

in 1886. Its origins may be tracked back to the “Haystack Meeting” at Williams<br />

college in 1806 and to Bebek seminary, founded in constantinople by cyrus<br />

hamlin in 1840. the seminary portion of the school moved inland to Marsovan<br />

in 1862, while the liberal arts division remained in constantinople and became<br />

robert college (and eventually, the modern-day Bogazici university).<br />

anatolia college itself was founded in 1886 and chartered by the commonwealth<br />

of Massachusetts in 1894. following the forced closure and expropriation<br />

of the Marsovan campus by the turkish government in 1921, the school relocated<br />

800 miles due west to thessaloniki in 1924. Prime Minister eleftherios venizelos<br />

had encouraged then-President George e. White to re-open the school there in<br />

order to serve the city’s increased educational needs resulting from the “Asia<br />

Minor Catastrophe” and massive influx of refugees.

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