Floyd Henson Black 1888 - 1983 A Remembrance By His Son

The biography of Dr. Floyd Black, the President of Robert College and the American College for Giris in Istanbul, Turkey between 1942-1955 was written by his son Cyril Edwin Black, upon the death of his father. Cyril Black was the eminent historian of Russia and founder of the comparative modernization series in Princeton University in the United States after the Second World War. The unpublished manuscript which was meant for the members of the Black family an friends, is an interesting accound of the fruitful carear of Dr. Black which began in Sofia Collahe in Bulgaria, and continuned in Robert College and the American College for Giris, in Istanbul, Turkey. Bogazici University which is a Turkish state university that has inherited the educational legacy of Robert College since 1971, has received the unpublished manuscript about Dr. Floyd Black which was typed by his son, from the kind offices of Alice Berkeley the daughter of Lynn Scipio, the well-known and respec founder Mechanical Engineering in Robert College, who donated it to the Cul Heritage Museum in Bogazici University.