In Society

• Dr. Salwa Nassar, head of the Physics Department at the American University of Beirut, left us for Italy in the course of last month as Lebanon's delegate to the International Conference on Nuclear Physics, which will last two weeks.

Lebanon boasts, and rightly so, of having someone like Dr. Salwa Nassar, to hold its head high among the nations of the earth, and to have a respected voice in a science whose depth and complexity stand at the farthest point this age has reached... And this Lebanon wishes its delegate to the International Conference on Nuclear Physics every success and good fortune...

• For the first time in her life, Miss Eleanor Kamar is founding this summer a model private kindergarten on the ground floor of her home on Sadat Street in Ras Beirut, equipping it with the most modern equipment and playthings, indoors and in the garden.

Miss Eleanor Kamar has a history rich in work with children. She served in the government of Iraq and in Lebanon, and hers was the leading opinion, enjoying absolute confidence, in a number of founding projects for children, the most important of which was the kindergarten of the Lebanese Women's League, which she supervised for a number of years. It was thanks to this fine reputation she has won in refined Lebanese circles that parents have flocked to her new kindergarten, their hearts full of faith that their children will receive the most modern educational guidance and the best of care. We wish our friend Miss Eleanor Kamar every success and good fortune in her educational project, which is truly the finest seed for the rising generations...

On a green hill in Dhour el-Choueir, in the shade of the lofty pines, our girls take shelter, drawing inspiration from the magic and charm of nature, slipping free of the city's bonds for a while, to live with the earth, the woods, and the open air.

The committee in charge has divided the camps into five successive periods, beginning on the second of July and ending on the twelfth of September, during which they welcome students and working women of various ages and backgrounds.

We call the attention of public opinion to the encouragement of such athletic and social movements, which accustom our girls to freedom and self-reliance, so as to form a personality that loves work and nature!...

• On Saturday, July 3, the third automobile show, which had lasted a month in the Sanayeh Garden, closed with a dance for the election of "Miss Automobile" for 1954. Some 40 girls took part, and in the end Miss Rita Thabet won the title of "Miss Automobile."

• On the first of July, diplomas were distributed to the nurses of the Lebanese Red Cross school and to air hostesses, at the UNESCO Palace, under the patronage of the First Lady of Lebanon and the Marquise de Freige, president of the Red Cross, with the diplomatic corps and official and civilian figures.

• Miss Milia Jabr, president of the Social Aid Association and an official at the Ministry of Social Affairs, has traveled to Canada, delegated to represent Lebanon at the International Conference of Social Work held in Toronto (Canada) beginning June 26 and continuing for two months or more, after which Miss Milia Jabr will return to resume her work in Beirut. We wish her a blessed journey and precious benefit to be gained for our social institutions in this country.

• Miss Widad Abu Nader, the social worker at the office of the Union for the Protection of Juveniles in Lebanon, has received a grant from the Ford Foundation for a journey to France, England, and America, extending some two months. On her way, Miss Abu Nader will attend the Conference of Social Work in Toronto. She has our deepest wishes for a pleasant journey.

• The Young Women's Christian Association has begun the activity of its summer camps for this year!

• On the twenty-sixth of last June, the marriage of Mr. Iskandar Khoury to Miss Janette Nahra was contracted, in a celebration confined to the families of both parties. The wedding ceremonies were conducted according to the Catholic rites; the bride's matron of honor was Mrs. Antoinette, wife of Dr. Awwad, and the groom's best man was Mr. Shukri Shammas, one of the owners of the Contracting and Trading Company.

The Woman's Voice congratulates the young bride and groom, wishing them a long life ruled by happiness and contentment.

• This child is "Fouad," son of the magazine's friend Mr. Mukhtar Shamli. We publish his picture on the occasion of his reaching his fifth year on June 24. His father celebrated his birthday amid a gathering of family and children.

To little Fouad go the warmest congratulations of The Woman's Voice.

• The Medical Students' Society at the American University of Beirut has organized a trip to Europe for one month, beginning July 21. A full program has been drawn up for the trip, with visits to ancient sites and famous cities, and it has reached our ears that the number of those who have registered their names has come to 34, among them twenty ladies, of whom we know Mrs. Anissa Rawda Najjar and Mr. Michel Khalifeh and his wife Mrs. Najla — both ladies being among our gracious subscribers. We wish everyone a successful journey and refreshment of soul and body on this delightful trip, and we remind Mrs. Anissa Najjar of her promise to us to favor The Woman's Voice with an illustrated report on the trip to Europe — until we meet again in the next issue.

• The Lebanese woman is engaged this summer vacation in tangible educational activity, contributing effectively to the summer conferences convened for teachers, men and women, at the School of Arts and Crafts in Beirut by the Ministry of National Education in cooperation with the education division of the American Point Four. Woman has an important role in organizing and running the conference, and she also takes part in delivering the lectures and directing the studies. The aim of this conference is to train a group of government schoolteachers, men and women, in modern methods of education; its direction and organization are supervised, in addition to the responsible director Mr. Hanna Ghalib, by Miss Nahla Marwa, while Mrs. Sabiha Faris and Mrs. Faiza Antiba take part in the studies and the delivery of lectures.

• There is also a second educational conference, for teachers of home economics in the government and private secondary schools of Lebanon, convened at Beirut College for Women under the supervision of specialists from the American Point Four. The aim of this conference is to train the teachers of home economics in the principles of sewing, drawing, and home decoration; in how to dry fruit and the methods of preserving it for the days when it is scarce; and in practical methods of preserving vegetables and preparing them for sale, and other things that assist the work of the housewife.

A number of ladies and young ladies of specialized training are contributing to this conference, among them Mrs. Sophie Wakim Qawa Yusuf, Mrs. Salwa Rawda Shoucair, Miss Ruth Hambekides, Miss Alya Hallawi, and others.

These summer conferences are meeting with approval in educational circles, and those responsible pin great hopes on them for the future, since they are expected to have a tangible effect in presenting modern educational methods to educators and training them in their use, so as to raise the level of education in Lebanon.

• On the twenty-fourth of last June, the annual memorial was held for the late Clarice Malik, principal of al-Nahda School in Choueifat. During the ceremony Bishop Elia Karam conferred upon her the Order of Saint Mark in the rank of Commander, and the celebration closed with a hymn in her memory and with a word from her son, Mr. Victor Malik, head of the school, thanking the members of the committee and its speakers.