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IC graduate receives PepsiCo
Inc. top honors
IC alumna directs a
children’s play
NicoleKatul ’87
launches a children’s play,
Holka Polka. The spectacle is a musical
modern fairytale inEnglishwrittenbyDM
Bocaz-Larson and directed by Nicole. It is
performed by the Junior LPS Drama Club
(students ages 9-14) for ages five to 85.
The play encompasses characters of the
classical tales such as Cinderella, Pinoc-
chio, Humpty Dumpty, and theWolf from
Little Red Riding Hood. The humor in the
play is witty and sarcastic for youth and
adults to comprehend and the play itself
is enjoyed by
kids as well
as adults.
The show
was
per-
formed at the LPS
theatre in May. Nicole is the head
of the drama club at LPS and has writer
and directed several musical comedies
in English which were performed at LPS
and Monnot Theaters.
Did you
know?
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Alexander MacLachlan’s
founded IC but also founded two
other institutions: Tarsus College
in 1887 – 1888 and Athens Col-
lege in 1923-1925.
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IC established the first Meteo-
rological observatory in Smyrna
in 1903. This provided such ac-
curate time that the local Otto-
man authorities, railways and by
1910 even visiting British Royal
Navy ships were advised by the
Admiralty to set their chronom-
eters by the daily noon signal
from the tower of International
College.
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IC was able to survive the
WWI years (increased costs, in-
flation and sharply reduced in-
come from tuition) because Ma-
cLachlan had wisely invested all
available funds in gold in addi-
tion to donations from Mrs Ken-
nedy and Cleveland H. Dodge.
*
After moving to Beirut (1936),
IC teachers took the lead in pre-
paring textbooks for the newly
independent Lebanon’s schools
which were primarily private
and unregulated from 1946 until
1956 when they had to conform
to national standards.
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IC was one of the first six
schools which founded the In-
ternational Baccalaureate Pro-
gram in Geneva in 1968.
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IC library currently has 70,000
titles and increasing
PepsiCo Vice President
Talal El-Khalil
’81
was honored at a gala dinner in Can-
cun, Mexico on April 4 as one of the top-
performing teams from PepsiCo’s inter-
national businesses. El-Khalil was accom-
panied by his wife
Roula Abou Dargham
’88
.
“This is the night we honor our most
distinguished achievers from across Pep-
siCo and our international bottling sys-
tem -- the best of the best,” said PI CEO
Mike White.
The annual presentation of the Don-
ald M. Kendall Awards and Bottler of the
Year Awards was attended by leaders of
businesses from across PI as well as Latin
America and Canada.
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