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Iran Bethel School

A landmark year was 1921 which brought a unique young American missionary, Jane Doolittle, whose commitment and dedication to Iran would guide the school through the better part of half century.

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Without the Iran Bethel school and the efforts of Jane Doolittle and Frances M. Gray, Damavand College could have never been established and the improvement of the early deprived Iranian women of Qajar and later Pahlavi dynasty could have never been achieved.

Jane Doolittle

Jane Doolittle (1900-?) was the principal of Iran Bethel School; an American Presbyterian missionary school for Girls in Tehran from 1925 to 1968.

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Shortly after graduation from Wells College, Doolittle came to Tehran to respond to an urgent appeal to take the place of another young woman to teach biology at the American Presbyterian School for Girls in Persia -Tehran, although her main goal was to become a physician.

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Jane Doolittle served for many years as the principal of Iran Bethel School for Girls which was the immediate forerunner of Damavand College.

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