Miss Samia Elias Makdisi has every right to smile this smile of triumph, for this year she attained the highest average in the examinations for the baccalaureate, part two (mathematics section) — and she is only eighteen years old!
It appears from Samia's academic record that she is a girl of superior intelligence, and her school history bears witness to it: she graduated from Ahliah National College in 1955 with high distinction, and in the same year she obtained the baccalaureate certificate in both its
His Excellency Sami Bey al-Solh decorates Miss Marie Sabri with the Order of Merit...
Beirut College for Women
The commencement exercises at Beirut College for Women were splendid, as usual. They were held on June 26, and the invited guests thronged the college's verdant garden. This ceremony was attended by many official and civic personalities, Arab and Western alike.
The speaker of the ceremony was the great thinker Mr. Albert Hourani, and after the distribution of diplomas to the graduates (they numbered 180 students: 115 sophomores, 65 bachelors of arts, and one student with a bachelor of science), His Excellency Sami Bey al-Solh, the Prime Minister, mounted the platform and surprised those present by decorating Miss Marie Sabri with the gilded Lebanese Order of Merit, in recognition of her distinguished
services in the field of education and instruction.
It is worth mentioning that Miss Sabri has, at Beirut College for Women, a history filled with shining deeds — educational, artistic, and social — and so the government's recognition of these deeds was a gracious gesture...
"The Woman's Voice" extends its warm congratulations to its friend Marie, wishing her decorations higher still.
The General Arab Women's Union, under the presidency of Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura, is preparing for its congress, which will be held in Damascus between September 9 and 15 next.
Taking part in the congress will be Syria, Tunisia, the Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon.
Besides the agenda, an election of the members of the bureau will be held.
Lebanese and French divisions, also with distinction.
Samia spreads her activity over fields other than study: she is a member of the choir of the Lebanese Academy, well versed in rhythmic dance, and takes part in a number of humanitarian activities, chief among them her enrollment in the first-aid corps attached to the Young Women's Christian Association.
"The Woman's Voice" congratulates Samia Makdisi on this brilliant victory.