Glimpses of His Life

* Born in Fih, Koura, 1914.

* A graduate of the Frères school, Tripoli, and of the Jesuit university, Beirut.

* Teacher of literature, language, and thought at the secondary school of the American University of Beirut for thirteen years.

* The nation lost him on the morning of the fourteenth of December, 1951, after five months of pain and suffering, of the physicians' bewilderment, and the exhaustion of their knowledge.

* He left behind in this world, in his home, a life's companion, Josephine, and three fledglings like the tenderest drops of dew: Rabi', Walid, and Wisam.

* The Lebanese government awarded him the Order of Education, First Class, in appreciation of his efforts in the service of Lebanon's rising generation.

* The Permanent Committee for the Perpetuation of His Memory is holding a ceremony in his remembrance in the Assembly Hall of the American University of Beirut on the tenth of February, at four o'clock in the afternoon, and Radio Lebanon will broadcast the ceremony.

* Published today, the firstfruit of his writing: "The Moon's Path" — a collection of his literary essays. Mikhail Naimy wrote its introduction; some friends gathered the pieces and supervised their printing; and Messrs. Buhairi Brothers, owners of "Dar al-Ahad," undertook its publication in elegant form, in honor of the memory of the departed man of letters.