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'News of estimable retired teacher
Orhan Seyfi Ari's death has caused us deep sorrow' |
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Secondary Teachers' Syndicate
~in Birlik -19 December 1992
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There'd been only one secondary in whole of
Cyprus for his community, and one education department for the entire colony under British system of education then -except for language taught in; teacher Ari was their choice to head one of only three recently opened secondaries. |
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Under the British system, in 1941at Morphou College, at Agricultural College, then heading in Arodez , then at Nicosia
English School & heading Paphos & Loudrijina secondaries -which then grew to include teaching & other graduates from universities. in Turkey & in England as members of his teaching staff; in late 1959 wanting various private tuition for a son in Nicosia where the following year a headship was to open he agreed to teach at Bayraktar secondary, occassionly at Haydarpasha Lycee ~in mid. 1960 Cyprus became independent with a Turkish Education Dept., and intercommunal troubles following in 1963 he later taught at English School again until mid.1974, after the war deciding against teaching in England, also at Ataturk & at Girls' Technical Institute, 1979 retiring at 60, offered a teacher's, on a head's pension. |
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Prof Dr S Karaali ~Istanbul Univ, Turkey -2 Feb 93
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'Condolences to the Turkish community'
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Appreciation of him by schools he taught & didn't
Plaque from the 'English School', in Greek sector;
tray, from Bayraktar Secondary, Turkish sector...
In one he did not teach at, Bayraktar College, in
2001, a student's research project was about him |