The Lebanese Women's League

The Lebanese Women's League held its annual meeting at the Lebanese Cénacle on Monday, the first of March. The president opened the session, and Mrs. Nazik Sarkis presented Dr. Habib Rihan, a member of the Board of Trustees and of the building committee, praising his unceasing efforts and his continuous work for the school and the building despite his many occupations, sacrificing not only his time but his health as well for this patriotic work.

Dr. Rihan opened his address by praising the members of the League and their zeal and their endeavors toward achieving the League's two aims: the building of a model school, and the mag-azine The Woman's Voice. He showed the extent of the progress we have reached thanks to their continuous efforts, and recounted in detail what has been collected for the building and how, singling out the president, Mrs. Heneni Tarcha, for thanks, because — over and above her constant work and unflagging effort — she collected thirty-six thousand Lebanese lira on her journey to Brazil. Then he said:

"The League has entrusted certain citizens with forming a Board of Trustees to carry the burdens of the project. And since the school is now in financial deficit, and the Board must pay what remains of the costs of the building, finish certain necessary completions in it, and equip the school with indispensable furnish-ings, the Board has resolved to borrow about thirty thousand lira for the purpose. This loan will be offered in the form of bonds, each of a value of two hundred lira, returning to its holder interest of five percent yearly, and the capital will be repaid in full to

the lenders within six years. The ladies are therefore requested to come forward to buy these bonds and to work energetically for the success of the loan."

The shares were then put up for sale, and the ladies subscribed for fifty-one shares. Committees for the sale of the shares were formed of Mesdames Marie Siryani, Adelaide Rishani, Janet Tadros, Vicky Saad, and Nahiya Ghalmiyeh.

On the occasion of the expiry of the terms of four members of the administrative committee, four were elected by secret ballot, and the winners were the two ladies Afifi Majdalani and Nazik Qazoun and the two Misses Naama Jaroudi and Nahiya Ghalmiyeh. No one put herself forward for the pres-idency despite the expiry of the statutory term, and the members were therefore unanimous that the continuance of Mrs. Heneni Tarcha

as president is essential to the project which she founded and has accompanied from the beginning.

• The most prominent matter to occupy Lebanese circles last month was the news of the meeting of the members of the Lebanese Red Cross, from the various regions, in the UNESCO hall on Saturday, March 6, to elect six members to the administrative council in place of those whose terms had expired.

The delegations began arriving from half past three in the afternoon, and at the appointed hour His Excellency the President Camille Chamoun arrived, accom-panied by Mr. Kazem el-Khalil, Minister of Health.

The ceremony was opened by the president of the Lebanese Red Cross, the Marquise de Freige, who welcomed those present and gave a brief report on the work of the Red Cross during 1953. She was followed by Mrs. Najla Saab, with a fine address on the history of the founding of the Red Cross and its worldwide significance, at the end of which she said:

"The Lebanese Red Cross, a member of the international Red Cross organization, is small in