ABSTRACT
This chapter describes about Sheila and several other friends of Soosan. They were daughters of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) executives, who arrived on the boarding school scene in the late 1960s, partly due to the increase in the price of oil and the economic boom in Iran. Sheila defines herself through her music, her passion. She does not think back much to her boarding school days, but once the interview begins it slowly jars her memory. In an attempt to prompt Sheila to remember more of her experience, Soosan recalled her own experience of listening to Sheila play the piano. She described a narrow staircase from the main auditorium that would lead to a cluster of small, dark, soundproof rooms with very small windows. Sheila's description of the nature of her relationships with people, and her marriage at a later age than was considered normal at the time, raised the question of her relationship with the opposite sex.
