Results of the Nestlé Baby Pictures Contest

Some of the winners in the Nestlé baby-pictures contest

Elie Almajian
Mona Badih Wakim
Julia Jabr
Esther Sfenzi
Roxane Choueiri
Nicolas Georges Hashem
François Salim Khoury

Not all beautiful babies are Nestlé babies — but all Nestlé babies are beautiful babies

Here we are today, keeping our promise and publishing the results of the Nestlé baby-pictures contest, in the order adopted by the arbitration committee of physicians composed of Dr. Hélène Safi and Doctors Philippe Chedid, A. Sahmarani, and Iskandar Choueiri.

Some mothers have voiced their regret that we did not summon the competing children before the arbitration committee and under the eyes of a watching public. But we did not move to grant this wish, which would spread joy in mothers' hearts, for fear of possible contagion among the children when they gather in unsuitable rooms and in weather that is more often than not disagreeable. We have learned this wisdom from our long experience and our practice in holding contests.

And we remind parents that the arbitration committee's choice of the winners was not based on the child's beauty and charm alone, but on the excellence of the artistic execution of the photograph. We also draw attention to the fact that the contest was reserved for small babies, yet many older children took part in it. The committee took this matter into account in choosing the winners, since small babies and older children cannot be set together on one and the same level:

First prize — Elie Almajian — Beirut — 75 Lebanese liras
Second prize — Julia Jabr — Beirut — 50 Lebanese liras
Third prize — Mona Badih Wakim — Jounieh — 25 Lebanese liras, with a prize of honor

And each of the entrants in the contest whose names appear below wins a box of Nestlé chocolates together with a prize of honor:

Beirut: Monique Lefèvre, Jean-Jacques Davidian, Hanan Abyad, Bernard Raad, Jocelyne Choueiri, Didier Corobel, Serge Choueiri, Roxane Choueiri, Ziad Sahmarani, Philippe Zinieh, Mohammad Baalbaki, Aida Nassif, Marco Totah, Marlène Chami, Albert Kayouji, Aline Stambouli, François Salim Khoury, Johnny Salim Mazhar, Esther Sfenzi, Carlos Haddad, Jacqueline Gharib.

Nicolas Georges Hashem (Antelias), Zoya Hayek (Beit Chabab), Jawhar Kourk (Tripoli), Siegfried Keil (Ablah–Zahle).

And a prize of honor was won by each of the children whose names follow:

Beirut: Christian Helou, Jean-Claude Davidian, Colette Pierre Mechaka, Gisèle Chalhoub, Robert Gabriel Sassi, Joyce Torab, Jessy Totah, Iskandar Matta, Perla Menn, Joseph Abi Rached, Abdallah Antoine Khadra, Fadi Metri, Lucianne Ibrahim Kreidieh, Farida Khoury, Robert Charcon, Marie Hashem, Raffi Samenlian, Mona Chalhat, Mohammad Tayara, Kamal Michel Awad, Elie Safra, Fouad Mahmoud Bizri (Sidon).

Theodore G. Theodosiou (Tripoli).

Important announcement

We request the parents whose children have won prizes to collect them at the earliest moment. After the thirtieth of June 1953 they shall have no right to claim them; they will remain the property of the Nestlé Company. Likewise, the photographs are at their owners' disposal, and they may collect them from the offices of the Nestlé Company — Tal'et el-Bour, in Beirut. They may not claim them after June 30, 1953, as is the case with the prizes.

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