The Lebanese Red Cross, Tripoli branch, held a dance under the patronage of His Excellency the President of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Beshara El-Khouri, in the garden of the Sporting Bloc in Tripoli on Saturday, July 7, 1951, at ten o'clock in the evening. His Excellency the President was represented by the Minister of Justice, His Excellency Mr. Rashid Karami. The party was brilliant and most successful.
The charity lottery was drawn, and His Excellency the Minister won the first prize, an artistic piece representing the columns of Baalbek which the Marquise de Freige had presented to the Red Cross in Tripoli.
* From Miss Minerva Ghorayeb, secretary of the Lebanese Red Cross society, Tripoli branch, we have received the following word:
The Lebanese Red Cross (Tripoli branch) held a general meeting to elect the administrative committee under the supervision of a mission from the central committee in Beirut composed of
Mesdames Laure Tabet, Najla Saab, and Chafica Diab, and Mr. Emile Riff. The winners were Mesdames Charlotte Georges, Minerva Ghorayeb, Eva Faddoul, Rida Shammas, Aziza Habib, Fadwa Abdel Wahab, Lodi Nawfal, Victoria Halim, Helene Nahas, Helene Azar, Pauline
Lutfi, Labiba Ghorayeb, Isaf Yahya, Marie Boulos, and Armine Bilarian. This committee then elected the bureau and the officers, after the committee delegated by the head office had announced the name of the delegate, Mrs. Iqbal Zouk. Mrs. Victoria Hakim was elected deputy delegate, Mrs. Minerva Ghorayeb secretary, Mrs. Eva Faddoul treasurer, Mrs. Fadwa Abdel Wahab corresponding clerk, Miss Aziza Habib director of the Mina dispensary, Miss Helene Azar director of the town dispensary and director of the nursing school, Mrs. Labiba Ghorayeb director of the workshop, Mrs. Lodi Nawfal director of parties and festivals, and Mrs. Isaf Yahya director of the traveling dispensary.
In the center appears His Excellency the Minister; on his right Mrs. Laure Tabet, representative of the Red Cross in Beirut; then on his left the delegate Iqbal Izz al-Din Zouk; then the Governor of the North, Brigadier Nur al-Din Bey al-Rifai; then Lieutenant Colonel Abd al-Mun'im Fawwaz, commander of the gendarmerie of the North, with Madame Tabet on his right; then the consul general of France, de Beaumont; then Mr. Hector Klat.
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