Results of the "My Hobby and Why I Love It" Competition

The committee has received many answers from you, young friends, from various schools in the Lebanese cities. We now have a fine and varied collection about your favorite hobbies, in your own language and over your own signatures. Some of you wrote about music, drawing, reading, handcrafts, and photography, and some of you told us about collecting coins and postage stamps, raising birds, drying flowers, etc. — all of which shows that you know how to use your free time in useful and entertaining things.

The judging committee, made up of four teachers, selected five youngsters from among you (without knowing the names) to receive the prizes. They are:

1 — The pupil Bassam Zaki Shakhashiri, the elementary school at the American University of Beirut, Beirut.
Prize: the book "Amjastun" by Kamil Kilani and "The Donkey Thief" by Kamil Kilani.

2 — The pupil Mona Shaker Nassar: the American School for Girls, Tripoli.
Prize: "Sinbad the Sailor" by Kamil Kilani and "Rima and the Fisherman" by Edvick Jureidini Shayboub.

3 — The pupil Ramzi Zibeh: the elementary school at the American University of Beirut, Beirut.
Prize: "The Golden Fish" by Muhammad Atiyya al-Ibrashi and "The Thieves' Goblins" by Kamil Kilani.

4 — The pupil [...] Najib Abu Salmana, the Oriental College, Zahle.
Prize: "The Woodcutter's Daughter" by Muhammad Atiyya al-Ibrashi and "Sami's Letter" by Edvick Jureidini Shayboub.

5 — The pupil Jeral Fouad Tarazi: the Zahrat al-Ihsan School, Beirut.
Prize: "The Silent Princess" by Muhammad Atiyya al-Ibrashi and the story of "Cinderella."

We welcome your suggestions and letters, so send us whatever stories, news, jokes, and riddles you wish, to the committee's box, American University of Beirut, P.O.B. 276, and watch for the coming competitions.

Edma Shakhashiri
The Committee for the Entertainment of the Young
The Lebanese Public Health Association