• At the beginning of the month of December Miss Edma Bayyoud, president of the board of directors of the Young Women's Christian Association, left Beirut for the United States to spend her annual holiday; it is hoped that she will return to us in the middle of next February.
Miss Bayyoud will pass by the Association's world office in Geneva to discuss with the responsible officials the question of employing the Arab refugees in eastern Jordan.
And in New York Miss Bayyoud will approach the higher authorities to raise a subscription for the erection of a new building for the Young Women's Christian
Association — so we wish her a blessed journey and a return crowned with success.
• The "Ahl al-Qalam Society" convened on Friday, December 11, to elect the president and those members of the administrative council whose terms had expired.
The election of the president was taken up first, and the former president, Mr. Salah Labaki, won by acclamation.
The election resulted in the success of: Dr. Zahia Kaddoura, Dr. Jabbour Abdel Nour, Dr. Ali Saad, Mr. Victor Hakim, and Mr. Abdul Latif Sharara.
At a second meeting, held by the administrative council of the Ahl al-Qalam Society on Wednesday, December 16, to elect the officers of the bureau, Mr. Salah al-Asir won the vice-presidency, Mr. Jamil Jabr the treasurership, and Mrs. Emily Fares Ibrahim the general secretaryship.
• The Lebanese Cénacle continues its accustomed activity, organizing valuable lectures by the leaders of thought and letters, through the energy of the Cénacle's founder, Mr. Michel Asmar. On December 15 Dr. Jamal Karam Harfush lectured on the subject "From Social Differentiation to National Unity"; she analyzed her theme with fine precision, and gave it its full due of study and statistics. On this occasion we call the attention of our readers, men and women, to
the fact that The Woman's Voice will proceed, beginning with the next issue, to publish Dr. Jamal's lecture, in its concern to spread it among those circles which, for various reasons, were unable to hear it at the Cénacle.
• On December 18 the Lebanese Women's League issued a general invitation to a lecture by Mrs. Laure Tabet, president of the League of Women's Organizations in Lebanon, on "Woman's Work in the Municipality." In her lecture she answered a question long repeated on people's tongues since woman's entry into the last Municipal Council, in the persons of three women members: Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura and Mesdames
Laure Tabet and Ellen Rihan. The lecturer succeeded in tracing the stages through which the Municipal Council has passed until it finally reached a state of stability and organization that gives it the possibility of improving the present condition of the city of Beirut, by training the police and preparing them technically to perform their task as it should be performed...
We feel the delicate and arduous position through which our three women members of the Municipal Council are passing, but we believe most firmly in their skill and their sincerity in work — for this is their very task, and they are the best fitted for it.
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