Standing at the ready — The director of the School of Nursing places the "cap" on the head of one of the students — Christina Shtilian delivering her address
The School of Nursing at the American University of Beirut held its traditional annual ceremony at eight o'clock on the evening of Friday, the sixth of last April, in the assembly hall.
This celebration symbolizes the entry of the students — twenty-one in number — into the arena of nursing life, and marks their confirmation as nursing students.
Miss Elizabeth Moser, director of the School of Nursing, opened the ceremony. She was followed by Miss Daisy Bridges, executive secretary of the International Council of Nurses, with a general address on the mission of nursing. Then Miss Mary Somogyi, director of education at the School of Nursing, presented the students, and Miss Widad Hamdan, the class advisor, performed the lighting of the candles.
Finally Miss Christina Shtilian, president of the nursing students' society, spoke a gracious word in which she welcomed the new students, and the responsibilities that will fall upon their shoulders in the future.
An atmosphere of order and good arrangement prevailed over the ceremony.
A delegation from the Girls' Refinement Society in Beirut, made up of Mrs. Claire Mirhij, Mrs. Fikki Saad, and Mrs. Salwa Salmoun, and Miss Zahia Njeim, visited the village of Hasaniyya, stricken by the earthquake. The village consists of 30 houses, all of which were destroyed, and its people are living together in tents. The ladies distributed to them thirty-two bundles of clothing, macaroni, soap, and three hundred Lebanese lira.
On Sunday, April 22 last, Mrs. Zahia Salman, president of the Children's Welfare Society, traveled to France to represent Lebanon at the conference organized by the United Nations for the care of children in the preschool years, through nurseries and public gardens, and for the guidance of mothers in these matters...
The conference will convene in the last week of April. Word has reached us that Syria is the second Arab state represented at this conference, in the person of Miss Quwatli, proprietor of a children's nursery in Damascus...
On April 18 last, Mr. Charles Saad, president of the National College in Choueifat, and Mrs. Leila, his wife, returned from a journey to Europe that lasted a month.
The trip of Mr. Saad and his madame to Europe was not merely for recreation alone, despite the delightful sightseeing tours through the splendid spring weather that punctuated it; rather, the purpose was to make contact and become acquainted with English teachers of the language.
Notice of the Removal of Dar al-Kitab and the Offices of "The Woman's Voice"
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