• 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 organiz-ing and running the conference, and she also takes part in deliv-ering 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 direc-tor 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 edu-cational conference, for teachers of home economics in the gov-ernment 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, thank-ing the members of the committee and its speakers.

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