founded in 1947, from which twenty-seven students have graduated, twelve of them finishing this year.
Second — the children's-nurses branch, founded in 1949, in which lessons are given on how to rear the child and watch over him from the day of his birth until the fifth or sixth year of his age. Four students graduated in this art this year.
Third — the aviation branch, in which they study all the matters of health that must be known at the airports and inside the airplane with the travelers, together with knowledge of the construction and the piloting of the airplane in case of need. Six nurses graduated from this branch this year.
Thus the total of those who have graduated from the nursing school of the Lebanese Red Cross holding the final certificate, in the space of six years, is one hundred and eighty-five students, sixty-three of whom finished this year.
This is a summary of what the Lebanese Red Cross Society has done.
The credit for it belongs to the vigilance of the acting president, the Marquise de Freige, who steers the helm of its work with wisdom and energy, supported by the vice-president, Mrs. Faiza al-Solh, and the ladies who are members of the administrative committee, and the directresses of the school and their assistants — to all of whom abundant thanks are due.
I thank the teaching doctors and the doctors of the dispensaries, who sacrifice long hours of their precious time to give the technical lessons and to treat the poor without charge; and I give special thanks to the doctors and nurses of the mobile dispensaries, who endure wearisome journeys summer and winter to fulfill their duty. May God reward them all on our behalf and on behalf of the poor.
Nor do I forget to thank all the benefactors who have supported the society in its charitable work, whether in the homeland or in the Mahjar.
And I, with the whole family of the Lebanese Red Cross, bow in respect before the devotion of the mother of the Lebanese, Her Ladyship Mrs. Laure El-Khoury, honorary president of the Red Cross, who constantly quickens in us the spirit of diligence and energy, gives us counsel in all our works, and intercedes for us in our needs with her consort, His Excellency. May God restore her to us in perfect health.
In all our affairs we turn to you, Your Excellency, for you are the sole refuge of our society and, with your august government, the nourisher of our treasury; and we
hope that you will enfold us in your lofty kindness, that we may always be able to march forward, and that with your help we may raise anew a home worthy of the Lebanese Red Cross in which to shelter it. We ask for Your Excellency long life, and for our dear Lebanon happiness and ease in the shadow of Your Excellency, that our poor may enjoy a life of comfort.
Long live Lebanon and the Lebanese Red Cross, and long live its president, Sheikh Beshara El-Khouri.
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