1. Sevasti Qiriazi was enrolled in the Americans' school and graduated with the equivalent of a high school diploma in July 1888.
17 Facts About Sevasti Qiriazi
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Sevasti Qiriazi was admitted as a sophomore and graduated in 1891 with a class of eight women and received a Bachelor of Arts degree, becoming the first Albanian female to complete a college education.
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Gjerasim Qiriazi invited the influential Albanian Frasheri brothers to attend Sevasti's graduation.
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Sevasti Qiriazi was a "Bible Woman" and was financed by the ABCFM's Woman's Board of Missions and the Bible Lands Missions' Aid Society.
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Sevasti Qiriazi referred to herself as a missionary when traveling to the USA to visit Ellen Stone and John Henry House in 1904.
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When Gjerasim Qiriazi died in 1894, Sevasti Qiriazi assumed full responsibility for the Girls School.
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Sevasti Qiriazi shared leadership over the following years with Luka Tira, Fanka Efthim, Thanas Sina, Grigor Cilka, Gjergj Qiriazi, and Gjon Ciko, and she eventually solicited the help of the American Protestant missionaries Phineas and Violet Bond Kennedy, who arrived in Korca in 1908.
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In summer 1904, after serving 13 years as director of the Albanian school for girls in Korca, Sevasti Qiriazi traveled to the United States.
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Parashqevi Sevasti Qiriazi became director of the school in her absence.
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Sevasti Qiriazi arrived in New York in August 1904, and visited friends in New York, Boston, and Chicago, speaking about Albania at various women's societies.
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Sevasti Qiriazi resided for one month with Ellen Stone and visited Jane Addams and Hull House.
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Sevasti Qiriazi recruited Dako to prepare the first Albanian textbooks in mathematics.
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In 1908, Sevasti Qiriazi was invited to represent her Girls School at the Congress of Monastir, which aimed to settle the Albanian alphabet question.
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In 1909 Sevasti Qiriazi was invited in her role as director of the school to take part in the Congress of Elbasan which aimed to address national education in Albania.
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Sevasti Qiriazi was married to Kristo Dako on August 4,1910.
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Together with her husband Kristo Dako and her sister Parashqevi Qiriazi, Sevasti founded a new institution of female education in Tirana.
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Sevasti Qiriazi refused to allow the premises of the school to be rented by the Red Cross for humanitarian work or to be used for anything other than its original purpose for the education of women.