| Nouasseur American School, a DoDDS
facility, opened on October 1, 1951, at Nouasseur Air Force Base, a U.S.
military installation which was located eighteen miles south of Casablanca,
Morocco, from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. Classes were held in
a collection of leaky, four-sided, wooden prefabricated buildings called
"dallas huts" in a remote corner of the base through the first
semester of 1953. In January 1954 the school moved to larger quarters
in TCV, an area originally built to house Corps of Engineers and Atlas
Construction personnel. Many of the original students lived in TCV and
others commuted from the Casablanca area. Dormitory facilities were available
for students who came from other nearby cities and bases like Rabat and
Sidi Slimane. In June of 1953, eight students participated in the first
American high school graduation in Morocco. On May 30, 1956 (graduation
day), the school was officially renamed the Nelson C. Brown School in
honor of the school officer who was killed that year during the Moroccan
revolt for freedom. The school shut its doors in 1963 with the closing
of the base and with a graduating class of twenty-seven. The school building
is no longer standing. What was Nouasseur Air Base is now the site of
Casablanca's Mohammed V International Airport. |