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SUMMER
2011
‘53
Abdur-Rahman Saghir
, Ph.D. partici-
pated in the World Congress of Parasitic
Plants which was held in Martina Franca,
Italy June 7-12,2011. He will also visit
FAO and IFAD Headquarters in Rome
after the congress to discuss future consul-
tation missions in weed management for
the Middle East.
Zuhair Mehio ‘53
retired two years ago af-
ter a long service in the UN and for the UN.
‘60
Serge Kotovsky
currently lives in Dubai
and sends the following picture of a Bac-
caleaureat 1ere partie graduation group
picture in 1959 around Mr Robert Cour-
son (maths teacher).
From left to right: Jean Heneine (outside
IC friend of the Group), Serge Dou-
bine (now in France), Serge Kotovsky
Robert Courson (maths teacher), Yazbek,
Edwin Beylerian (now in the USA),
Pierre Tufenkji.
‘64
BassemNaamani
left his work at
Internat’l Finance co. Lebanon-SAL
and was appointed “Resident Financial
Controller” at Dar Al Fatwa , by the com-
mittee in charge of Reorganizing Dar Al
Fatwa Departments and related institu-
tions/entities, a very sensitive and chal-
lenging position I hope to fill successfully.
‘70
Sarmad (Sam) Rihani
P.E., F.ASCE has
been elected President of the Structural
Engineering Insti-
tute (SEI) during the
Institute’s last Board
of Governors meeting
held in April. He will
assume his new role in
October 2011. Rihani is Principal of REI
Structural Consultants of Reston, Vir-
ginia, a structural engineering consulting
firm serving the Eastern United States.
During his 33 year professional career, he
has specialized in the structural analysis
and design of steel framing systems and
buildings, and acted as the lead structural
engineer on more than 700 projects. He is
a licensed professional engineer in several
states, and is a Fellow of the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a
prestigious honor held by fewer than 4%
of ASCE members.
‘71
Marwan M. Hajjar
graduated from AUB
with a BA in psychology and diploma in
education in 1981. He taught for three years
at various schools in Lebanon before leaving
in 1984 for Saudi Arabia with his wife and
first born son to work at Najd National
School (NNS), which had just been found-
ed by the late martyr Sheikh Rafic Hariri.
He has worked there for 27 years and is still
going strong. As for his interests and hob-
bies, he earned a black belt in taekwondo in
1974, and passed intermediate levels in chi
kung and tai chi. In addition, he feels com-
fortable and euphoric on horseback, jog (ob-
sessively and compulsively), plays the guitar
(passable) and the piano (quite impressive),
writes English poetry (about to get his first
collection published), and last but definitely
not least, he is addicted to reading. “I thank
you profusely for allowing me this oppor-
tunity to get in touch with this ‘ivy league’
academy to which I will remain grateful for
the rest of my life,” he writes.
‘75
Dr.
Nora Bedrossian
continued her stud-
ies in AUB, where she obtained a degree
of BS in Biology-Chemistry (1979), then
an MS degree in Medical Microbiol-
ogy (1981), and finally a Ph.D. in Basic
Medical Sciences (Medical Microbiology
subspecialty Virology) (1986).
She is currently a professor of Medical
Microbiology at the medical school at the
Lebanese University, the Hadath Campus.
She also has ongoing research in her field.
‘84
Fouad Osseiran
and
Mariane Maasri
‘94
enjoyed the
traditional celebra-
tions of Fallas in
Valencia with their
two children Shireen
and Rayan. During the Fallas, which took
place from March 15 - 19, shireen and
Rayan were dressed with the traditional
costumes of Falleros!!
Shirine Maktabi
is now running family
business Iwan Maktabi (Ashrafieh, Ver-
dun and Phonicia). Shirine recently added
a new section in the business, modern
and recycled carpets and it is a hit. She
is the mother of three children. Her son,
Sherif Maktabi ‘09 is currently at AUB
Mechanical Engineering and he is giving
an elective course at IC, Ghida at LAU
and Wassim student at IC (4ème).
Dania Dbaibo Darwish
After graduating from AUB with a BBA
in 1987, Dania worked in Sales and Mar-
keting at Spinneys Lebanon. Her career
took a halt due to marriage and shifting
residence repeatedly
to different countries.
Dania, re-enrolled
at AUB years later
to graduate with a
Masters in Psychol-
ogy in 2007. She was
directly recruited by AUB and has been a
psychology instructor since then. Cur-
rently, she also runs her own practice as
life coach, counselor, hypnotherapist, NLP
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