The First Lady surrounded by the members of the society
Her Excellency the enterprising First Lady, Mrs. Zalfa Chamoun, accepted the invitation of the Child Care Society in Zahle and visited its project, the "Children's Home." The members of the society awaited her at the entrance of the house, which had been decorated with Lebanese flags, laurel leaves, and flowers, and the children stood in rows in their formal dress, singing like a choir of angels.
The president of the society, Dr. Antoinette Maalouf, delivered a well-turned address in which she welcomed the great guest and thanked her for her honorable
stands, for her tender concern for humanitarian projects, and for accepting the society's invitation. She then described briefly the society's works and the progress of its project, the Children's Home, which takes in 120 homeless and orphaned children and provides them with schooling, food, and clothing at a cost of about 20 thousand lira a year. She went on to mention the great benefactor Mr. Najib Zalaqit, who gave his house over to the project, and said that the greatest credit for the founding of this noble humanitarian project belongs to Mrs. Emily Nasrallah.
After the children had recited some pieces and songs, the guests were invited to a buffet where they took refreshments and sweets. Mrs. Chamoun then made the rounds of all the rooms and departments, and was pleased by the order and thoroughness she saw; she praised the society and its officers and presented it with a thousand Lebanese lira, and this kind gesture had its effect on the hearts of the members.
She was then bidden farewell as she had been received, with every honor and hospitality. Before leaving Zahle she stopped at the school of the Antonine Sisters, at the Zahle branch of the Red Cross, and at the kindergarten of the Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah society, where she was received with welcome, speeches, and songs.
The First Lady at the Zahle branch of the Red Cross, with Mrs. Linda Gharra at her side, together with Dr. Antoinette Maalouf, president of the society, and Mrs. Emily Nasrallah
On the forenoon of the eighth of last June, death carried away a noble womanly figure, Mrs. Hetty Jureidini Ibrahim. It snatched her away in the dawn of her mature years, struck down by a baffling disease that defied medicine. The news of her death fell hard upon her family, those who loved her, and those who knew her worth, for she was known for a rare intelligence and a lofty energy, which all her life she employed as a support for the weak and a tender refuge for every needy and wretched soul.
The virtuous deceased was from Choueifat. She leaves grieving for her a noble husband, Mr. Abd al-Razzaq Ibrahim, Director General of Social Security and Labor in the Iraqi Ministry of Social Affairs, and four children: Mr. Michel Jureidini, Dr. Amin Jureidini, Mrs. Helen Jureidini, and Mrs. Edvick Jureidini Shayboub, as well as a great number of relatives and friends.
The Lebanese Women's League asks mercy and rest for the soul of the departed, and patience and fair consolation for her family, singling out among them her daughter, the editor-in-chief of this magazine, and the departed's sister, Mrs. Nazik Sarkis.