Rowan Cabarrus Community College - Spectrum Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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poetry in all its varied aspects . . . at RTI learning is tradition We learned E553 Ejf' fi E e Vt f the meaning of the RTI Way of life. felt its spirit . . . We strive to excel.

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In Memoriam . I never met another person as courteous as Gholamf' Always friendly to everyone. I could never undertake the chore of learning a foreign language on my own from a practical experience. He never met a stranger. Gholam Jarrahi from Tehran, Iran, had been en- rolled at Rowan Tech only eleven months when he met his death in an automobile accident. The above quotations show that in this brief time he endeared himself to faculty and students alike. Arriving in America with only a rudimentary knowledge of written or spoken English, he elected to live away community of Middle Eastern students Q' 2 and to attend school where, as he said, I must learn Ghglam Jambi to speak only English. Gholam visited labs and classes in addition to those he was taking and asked questions so courteously and so eager for knowledge that no one could refuse to help him. Gholam not only tried to learn as much as possible about America, he helped us learn about Iran. As he saw his homeland suffer, he suffered and explained to us the reasons for the suffering. Deeply committed to the Islamic faith, he fasted and prayed for an end to the violence. On the last day of winter quarter, 1978, Gholam asked for extra assignments to be completed during the holiday. He demonstrated how much he had learned by taking exams in written form and making good grades. Thirty minutes later he was killed in a grinding crash, and we were stunned. All who knew him were challenged and enriched by the experience. Wal