Lebanese lira for the comfort of the Lebanese army fighting in Palestine.
• Dr. Edma Abouchdid has returned from the United States, after spending two years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and at others of the most famous hospitals, where she specialized in gynecology and
obstetrics, and particularly in the glands and their secretions. We have learned that the American University wishes to engage her as a professor in the obstetrics branch. "The Woman's Voice" welcomes this humane personality and skilled physician, wishing her every success.
• God has blessed our generous friend Professor Philip Semaan, one of the professors of English literature at the American University
of Beirut, and his cultured wife, Mrs. Hana, with a baby girl, whom they have named "Layla." May God keep little Layla in the care of her generous parents.
• The committee for the Golden
Jubilee of the learned scholar Sheikh Ibrahim al-Mundhir has issued an invitation announcing to the Lebanese, resident and emigrant, and to the Arab countries generally, that it has decided to appoint Sunday, August 29, 1948, at four o'clock, as the date for holding the jubilee celebration at Bikfaya. It thanks those who have contributed to carrying out this
souls of the men and women of Tripoli. On the other hand, the charitable societies have sheltered more than forty Palestinian girl children, whom they care for in the Orphan Girls' Home with every tenderness and attention, enveloping them in an atmosphere
brimming with motherly affection; not a day passes but the members of the society press upon one another for the honor of serving these children, and of working to prepare the clothing and food they need and to watch over their comfort.
May God help Palestine out of its ordeal, and reward the benefactors, men and women, for every contribution they offer toward the comfort of our Palestinian brethren.
• Last month the engagement was concluded of the gracious Miss Hind al-Jabiri, daughter of Saad al-Din al-Jabiri, to Mr. Nazmi al-Nashed, at a brilliant party that gathered the friends of the two honorable families. To the two young betrothed, our congratulations...
• The American College for Girls continues to expend great efforts in
presenting splendid artistic pieces, in acting and singing and various colors of art... The people of Beirut have not forgotten the play "Qays
and Lubna" and the success this beautiful play met with. The latest offering of the Girls' College was the play "Al-Abbasa," which met with much admiration and appreciation — which moved the College to perform it a second time... There is no doubt that the refined Beirut public finds artistic pleasure, and a sound and lofty taste, in these various artistic spectacles presented by the girl students of this refined institute...
• The Lebanese Women's League contributed the sum of 200
noble idea... May God lengthen the life of our scholar al-Mundhir until his diamond jubilee.
• It is noticed that the number of ladies who speak from Radio Lebanon is on the increase, which points to a sound national literary renaissance in women's society.
• The National Orthodox Girls' School in Tripoli held, as is its custom every year, its Mothers' Party on the morning of Friday, June 4, 1948. After the student Miss Basima Karimeh had delivered the opening address, the school presented the children in beautiful dances and splendid athletic games. Sweet songs sung by the children were interspersed among the games.
• Miss Edma Jahi, one of the girls of Bishmizzine in the Koura, graduated from the American University with a B.A. in English literature in 1947, and traveled to Smith College at Northampton, in America, to obtain the degree of M.A. Miss Jahi was granted this assistance on the strength
of her excellence in her studies. She obtained the M.A. this year, and will complete her studies in Chicago to obtain the degree of doctor of philosophy. Miss Jahi has undertaken to explain the Palestine question to American public opinion, which is ignorant of a great deal concerning this cause; she has given several talks in university circles, and then the various societies began to invite her to speak. The last of these talks she delivered before the board of the university at which she studies. Lebanon is ever proud of its daughters, who carry it, wherever they alight, in learning, culture, and devotion...
• Miss Loris Ikhlas is one of the cultured women writers of Palestine, and the readers of "The Woman's Voice" know her from the articles of hers that we have published on several occasions. "The Woman's Voice" had the pleasure of a visit from this brilliant writer last month, and it was a happy occasion for becoming acquainted