The harvest month... Before me on the desk is a pile of cards, all of them inviting me to commencement celebrations at which diplomas are distributed to those who have earned them, women and men alike...
Diplomas in the higher professions... university degrees... secondary and elementary certificates... and parties for kindergartens too... In the last part of June the educational institutes are in a bustle beyond all bustle, and the invitations are in full swing, knowing no truce...
Meanwhile the family makes ready for the ascent to the mountain, and the preparations that go with it have neither beginning nor end.
The Woman's Voice extends its congratulations to all its friends and readers who have won a diploma of some kind in this harvest season, wishing everyone success and steady advancement...
This school held its annual celebration on June 19, joined by the kindergarten, which is likewise attached to the university. The celebration was delightful and the attendance great; present were the wife of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Madame the wife of Dr. Charles Malik, the Honorable Director of National Education, and other prominent personalities. The celebration was interspersed with beautiful rhythmic dances performed by the pupils. The speaker of the occasion was Mrs. Faiza Maalouf Antiba, who delivered an address well
The graduating class, boys and girls
The wife of His Excellency the President of the Republic pins the decoration on the breast of Miss Alice Abdelnour.
suited to the moment, which made the loveliest impression. Then the Honorable Director of National Education, Mr. Fouad Sawaya, distributed the diplomas to the graduating boys and girls, and finally the wife of His Excellency the President of the Republic decorated Miss Alice Abdelnour, the school's directress, with the Order of Education, First Class, in appreciation of her many services in the field of education.
The General Arab Women's Union and the League of Women's Organizations gave a luncheon at the Bristol Hotel at noon on Wednesday, June 6, in honor of Lebanon's guest at the time, the Indian leader Kala Devi Chattopadhyay, attended by more than one hundred and sixty ladies representing most of the women's organizations in Beirut and beyond. The gracious guest was welcomed, in the name of the League of
Women's Organizations, by its president, Mrs. Laure Tabet, who drew the honoree's attention to the conduct of the Indian Mrs. Kala Danfra at the congress of the International Women's Union in Geneva last April, and her support of Israel — deploring that conduct and asking for a clarification of it. Likewise,
Mrs. Ellen Rihan delivered