President Adel Osseiran receives honorary membership in the International Association of Policewomen
A journey around the world:
Between the 21st and 24th of last February, Beirut was visited by a singular feminine personality of world renown in police work — Dr. Lois Lundell Higgins — in the course of a journey around the world to survey how far woman has gone, in the countries of the West and the East, in joining the police force!
Who is Dr. Higgins? — This lady holds the post of director of the Crime Prevention Bureau of the State of Illinois, in Chicago, in the United States. She is president of the International Association of Policewomen and a member of the international institution of police chiefs; she has written works on crime and the means of suppressing it, and she serves with special interest the cause of juveniles, particularly delinquents, through lectures and radio programs. She holds, besides, several official capacities of great importance.
A charming, elegant lady: Despite the twenty years Dr. Higgins has spent on the police force, she has remained that elegant lady, complete in her femininity. In her fifth decade, she is full of vitality and charm, and insists that she will stay young however far her years advance. She does not smoke at all and takes no spirits, even at cocktail parties. She loves dancing and singing and does both well; at the start of her life she took up singing on the radio, and she still yearns for it. Of dances she prefers the calypso! She is happy in her marriage, and has a son of 21 and a daughter of 16.
The talk of Captain Youssef Harakeh:
Captain Harakeh came to know Dr. Higgins in 1955, when he was a student at Purdue University in the State of Indiana. She was lecturing on the work of women police, the problems of juveniles and the supervision of their conduct, the suppression of the crimes they commit, and the combating of the crimes of deviant and delinquent women.
Captain Harakeh affirms that Dr. Higgins is a double personality: alongside her femininity, her gentleness, and her charm — evident to everyone who has known her and knows her in social life — there appears, while on duty, a strong personality. Her students dread her authority, for she is firm and resolute, bent on carrying out the law to the letter, and permits no fault or laxity however slight. Her country relies on her activity in police work, values her gifts, honors her and respects her.
The guest of Captain Fawzi Fawwaz:
Captain Fawwaz made Dr. Higgins's acquaintance at two international police congresses, the second of them last October in Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands. The two of them told us together, laughing, how the policewomen received them at the airport and buried them in garlands of flowers... and in kisses, the better to honor them both and to celebrate her!
In Honolulu, Captain Fawwaz made Dr. Higgins eager to visit Lebanon, and she accepted his invitation. He organized a program for her and introduced her to
a select company of Lebanese at a
Captain Fawwaz, Dr. Higgins, Edvick Shayboub, and Nahla Fawwaz entering the American University Alumni Club