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Obituaries
Mohamed Orfali passed away on April 30, 2008 af ter a
year long struggle with cancer. He was 14 years of age.
Mohamed has been at IC since preschool and suddenly
became ill last year. Distraught friends and classmates
remember him fondly as an excellent student who loved
sports. He was a member of the IC football team. Class-
mates say that Mohamed was a gentle boy who didn’t like
anyone to be upset with him. Friends who visited him at
the hospital describe him as continuously cheerful.
“If he saw pity in our eyes, he wouldn’t let us come in,”
said one classmate. “He even told his parents not to let
anyone in who felt sorry for him.”
IC family sends its deepest condolences to the Orfali
family. We will miss him greatly in our classes and on
campus.
My Friend Hanna Hourani
On the 2
nd
of April 2008, IC lost one of its Trustee’s Emeriti Hanna Hourani.
Hanna a self made man peacefully died in his house in Broumana.
Born on June 10
th
1926 in Jdeidet Marjayoun, Hanna studied at IC, AUB, and earned a degree in law from
London University, United Kingdom. For a major part of his life he worked
for the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) in a very high ranking position.
To all the people who knew him, Hanna was a good and genuine friend,
and the saying: “A friend in need is a friend indeed” applies fit tingly to
him.
During the years he managed to overcome his personal suf ferings,
although the loss of both his son and his wife was hardly tolerable. Per-
haps that is why in recent years he developed a sarcastic look upon
life.
As if that was not enough, he later fell sick and spent the last seven
years of his life physically capacitated, and yet he never complained
or grumbled.
He will always be remembered
May His Soul Rest in Peace
Yusuf Kan’an ‘71