Farangis Yeganegi

Farangis Yeganegi
was the Founder and Director of Iranian Handicrafts Organization. She was also Assistant Secretary General of Women's Organization of Iran.
She has built a library in Tehran and named it after her deceased husband,"Ardeshir Yeganegi".

Life

Farangis Yeganegi was born in 1916 in Tehran. Her father Keikhosrow Shahrokh was the Zoroastrians representative in Iranian's parliament, and her mother was Firoozeh Farrahi. Yeganegi started her primary education in Iran school which was for Zoroastrian pupils. She then graduated from sage American College in Tehran. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Literature at the University of Tehran.
After that she traveled to United States and continued her education at USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, obtaining her Master's degree.
In 1933 she married Ardeshir Yeganegi, the couple had three children named Firoozeh, Parviz and Kambiz. She later married the Indian Air Marshal and ambassador to Iran, Aspy Engineer.