Mrs. Faiza Maalouf Antiba receives the M.A. degree from President Penrose

• Among those who won a warm storm of applause at the American University's degree ceremony was the striving Mrs. Faiza Maalouf Antiba, wife of Mr. Fadil Antiba, for this year she received the M.A. degree in education, after a year spent dividing her energy between her work at Beirut College for Women and her duties as a wife and as mother to Umayma (15 years) and Adel (12 years).

That Mrs. Faiza Antiba should win this high degree, in her well-known circumstances, is a clear victory for woman, and for what woman can do once she knows what she wants and rises at once to carry out her will.

Our warmest congratulations to our friend Mrs. Faiza...

Run by the Young Women's Christian Association

The Young Women's Christian Association spends an ample share of its effort and of its budget on the night schools for working girls who have had no chance to complete their studies,

and for illiterate girls who have been denied the pleasure of learning.

The association has three night schools: one in Furn el-Chebbak, the second in Nahr, and the third with its center at the Cooperation

A group of the members of the Young Women's Christian Association and of the workers in the night schools.

Club, Fakhry Bey Street. Over each of these schools an official appointed by the association keeps watch, and the teaching is carried on by a select group of students of the American University of Beirut, who give this service free of charge for the sake of raising the level of these girls.

The number of pupils who regis-tered their names in 1953–1954 was about 200, with an average attendance of 125. It is hoped that this number will grow in the coming year.

• The Lebanese Union for Child Welfare called its annual meeting at the Union's office on Hamra Street.

At this meeting the president of the Union, Dr. Jamal Karam Harfush, presented a statement of the Union's work during the past year; she was followed by the secretary and trea-surer, Mr. Jawad Osseiran, with a financial statement; and finally, indi-vidual assistance was distributed under the patronage of the following personages: the First Lady, Mrs. Zalfa Chamoun; His Excellency President Alfred Nakkash; His Excellency Adel Osseiran; His Excellency Hamid Frangieh; His Excellency Rashid Karami; and the Honorable Professors Nazem Akkari and Nadim Harfouch.