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26
Summer
2014
It was like a Disney movie turned hor-
ror. Remy walks towards his parents,
smiling. He spots his uncle, his cousin
and his cousin’s fiancée – who had just
arrived from abroad - standing next to his
parents. Remy smiles even more broadly.
He continues to walk. Then in one hor-
rific slow motion second, everything
goes wrong. Remy drops to the ground.
The bewildered family runs to him. The
fiancée, who happens to be a doctor, im-
mediately performs CPR.
“Call an ambulance” she yells out.
Remy’s father,
John Rebeiz ‘68
, runs
out from the underground car park in
the downtown area to get a signal on his
phone. Fifteen minutes later, the ambu-
lance arrives but for some reason doesn’t
fit into the entry of the underground
parking. The ambulance workers jump
out and run to Remy. Still, the 21-year-
old AUB student can’t be revived.
Four days later, Remy was pronounced
dead at the hospital. He never regained
consciousness. The usual cardiac tests
didn’t reveal anything abnormal. The
family was left stunned as they tried to
get to grips with the tormenting fact that
their only son died of an unknown cause.
Born in 1992,
Remy ‘10
was the young-
est child of John and Sylvia Rebeiz and the
brother of
Diala ‘00
and
Dima ‘04
.
His extreme love for athletics showed
at a very young age. His passion was
football and he couldn’t seem to get
enough of it. At IC and AUB, he excelled
in the Varsity Football team. At the age
of 16, he co-founded The Football Club
Beirut (FCB) and helped young Lebanese
football players to compete at the an-
nual Gothia Cup football tournaments
in Gothenburg, Sweden. He saw to it
that no student was left behind by rais-
ing enough money to send those who
For
Remy
A family’s
campaign
to save
young athletes