On the tenth of last August, Baalbek witnessed a charming family gathering, bringing together the notables of the Choumane and Tanir families and a great cluster of relatives and friends, come to attend the signing of the marriage contract of Miss Karam Tanir to the young Tarek Choumane.
Miss Karam Tanir is an outstanding womanly element of the new generation; she contributes to the editing of this magazine and to
"Woman's Talk" on Radio Lebanon... Her acquaintance with Mr. Tarek Choumane began on the benches of study at the American University of Beirut, and it was an understanding that ended in the noblest that noble relations between a young man and a girl can be.
"The Woman's Voice" raises its warmest congratulations to the two young bridal partners, hoping that their joys may be made complete, and that their life in the future may be a chain of happinesses renewed every day and every night...
• Dr. Edma Abouchdid has returned from Jeddah, where she spent ten days at the special invitation of His Highness Emir Saud bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to perform a surgical operation on Her Majesty the former Queen "Nouf." The operation succeeded completely, and Dr. Abouchdid was the object of the palace's utmost hospitality.
While waiting in Jeddah for Princess "Nouf" to complete her convalescence, Dr. Abouchdid attended a number of princesses, and afterward returned to Beirut to resume her work at her private clinic and at the medical school of the American University of Beirut.
• Khalde airport witnessed last week a throng of great personalities and the daughters of the best families, come to bid farewell to the Misses Alia and Lamia al-Solh, on their way to London and Paris to complete their higher studies. We have learned that Miss Alia is bound for Oxford, and Miss Lamia for the Sorbonne.
"The Woman's Voice" wishes the Misses Alia and Lamia al-Solh a happy journey and a pleasant stay in the lands of the West, drinking from the fountain of genuine learning, and returning afterward, God willing, to carry their message to woman and to
beloved Lebanon.
• Mrs. Ihsan Musharrafieh has left Lebanon for Venezuela, accompanied by her husband, Mr. Adel Musharrafieh. Mrs. Ihsan Musharrafieh is one of our refined ladies and a graduate of the Lebanese Secular College in Choueifat.
"The Woman's Voice," while wishing its friend a happy stay in the Mahjar, asks her to keep up her contacts with the magazine and to send on the news of the Lebanese colony there...