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24
WINTER
2010
Sincere and awkward apologies to the Torossian family. As it turns out,
Joseph
Torossian ‘55
is still alive and well.The picture below sent in by
Nabil Najjar ’54
shows the two men (Torossian is on the piano) in Vienna rehearsing Schubert’s
“Winterreise”, to be performed on 7th August 2020 at the concert hall of the
Wiener Konzertverein. (A Joseph Torossian did pass away – as stated in the winter
newsletter - but he was not an IC alumnus). IC newsletter wishes Torrossian and
Najjar the best of luck at their recital!
Sincere
apologies,
Ziad Yamout ’57
has four children (not
three as noted in the previous newsletter):
Sani, Sawsan, Karim and Salah who is
a General Manager in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia.
I graduated from IC Elementary School in
1945 and from the Prep in 1949.
After my Sc. D. from MIT, my career was
spent at AUB as professor, Chairman of the
Nutrition and Food Sciences Dept., and as
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural
and Food Sciences. I retired in 2009 and at
present I share an office at AUB.
My days at IC were of the most exciting
and happy days. While I enjoyed reading
about the great Mehio era, of whom my son Izzat Tannous (IC
1984) may have been a loser or a gainer, I feel an urge to tell you
about the Hatab era of our time. Mr. Hatab stood at the entrance
of IC for many years selling “Fraisco”; a ball of crushed ice which
he pours on a paper coming from an algebra quiz or a history
notebook which the students gave him.
Then the fun intriguing part comes for us when we have to select
a syrup to add on top of the ice. He had several colored bottles,
containing orange, green, or yellow liquid, not realizing exactly
where these flavors came from. We loved it. Of course the little
ink coming from the quiz papers added to the exquisite flavor.
It may be timely, but a little late because of the loss of our dear
teacher, the late Mr. Shafik Jeha, who passed away recently, and
appears, in the enclosed picture taken sometime in 1945 (see
page 30). Several classmates may enjoy reading this, but not our
loved teacher, whom we shall miss always.
Dr. Raja Izzat Tannous ‘49
Courtesy of Dr Raja Tannous ‘49
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