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CLASS OF ’50 - ’59
Dr. Munir Nassa ’51
is now a retired physician; his wife is a
retired nurse educator. They have two children, Ramzi, a
physician, and Rania in marketing. Munir looks back with
fond memories at his high school education, and hopes that
IC will continue to thrive, educating people for this complex
world we live in by nurturing friends from all walks of life,
beyond ethnic and social isolationism.
Hussam Hamza ’56
received his BA in Business Administration
from the Arab University of Beirut in 1963. Afterwards, he
worked in the foreign service of the Saudi Arabia Government
followed by ten years in banking service. Hussam is now Vice
President and General Manager of Modern Arab Contracting
and Trading, working with MAC Group.
Stelio Scamanga ’56
held an exhibition of his paintings on
the May 12, 2006, at Aida Cherfane Art Gallery. Twenty-
eight paintings and ten pastels were exhibited. After his last
stay in Lebanon, during the year 2000, he came back with a
mixed feeling: the nostalgia of the Lebanon he loved during
the happy decades of the fifties and the sixties, and the
vision of a future Lebanon, recovering its original purity
excluding all pollutions. He spent two years, 2002 and
2003, painting these art works. For Scamanga, the Lebanese
mountain embodies that vision: the whole infinite world
stirring our desires is taking form, along with the conscious-
ness of a possible spiritual symbolism, and transcending the
landscape for a dream of the absolute. He quotes Gibran
Khalil Gibran: “When I say Lebanon is a poetic expression,
before being the name of a mountain.”
Edgard Fakhoury ’59,
Attorney-at-Law, Beirut Bar
Association, is also Senior Partner in Youakim & Fakhoury
Law Firm. He is married to Renée Kyriakos’60. They have
three children and five grandchildren.
Abdel-Majid Naja ’59
graduated from AUB with a BE in
Civil Engineering back in 1962, and in 1965 got his MSc
from Cornell University. He lives in Beirut with his wife
Hana Bsat. They have two children, Marwan Naja’86, who
is now living in Geneva, Switzerland with his family, and
Leila Naja ’88, who is residing in Sydney, Australia with her
family. Abdel-Majid works as a consultant for real estate
companies, and is an avid golfer [high handicap].
CLASS OF ’60 - ’69
After working for more than 10 years on developing a novel
drug for spinal cord injury in dogs,
Dr. Charles H. Khouri
’60
discovered that the same drug helps race horses stop
bleeding from the lungs [95% success, 22 out of 23]. Any
race horse that bleeds twice will be automatically retired
from racing. Please visit www.EIPH.org and
www.K9Paralysis.org to see more of Dr. Khouri’s work.
Selim Eskenazi ’61
is now living in Panama City, Republic
of Panama, and has been for past 25 years. He is happily
married to his wife, Rina, and has three children. Selim
graduated from E.S.I.B in Lebanon with a B.E. in Electrical
Engineering and now works in Finances. He hopes to come
back one day to Lebanon and visit both his alma maters,
but until then he sends his best regards.
Dr. Jameel Al-Jishi ’62
is now a retired Industrial Engineer.
He studied at the University of Pittsburgh back in 1974
where he majored in Systems Management Engineering and
Operations Research and Economic Development.
Although he is a consultant on Latin American business and
strategic matters in Chile where he has been living for over
15 years,
Armen Kouyoumdjian ’65
has a side interest in
the arts. Since 1997 he has been sponsoring a 34-strong
choir in the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, and he also
has been attending the Cannes International Film Festival,
as an accredited journalist. In 2005, and now again in
2006, he has been very pleased to see a Lebanese pavilion
at this event, with a young and dynamic crew promoting all
aspects of film-making associated with Lebanon. Having left
Beirut 39 years ago, getting involved with the Lebanese del-
egation has been an emotionally rewarding experience.
After 41 years with MEA, Captain
Ramzi Najjar ’65
retired
from flying on the 31st of May 2006.
Nadim Fuleihan ’66
was awarded the IC Penrose Award for
the French Section. Following his years at IC, Nadim joined
AUB and graduated in 1971. He was privileged to have his
father, the Registrar, call his name to receive a BE with
Distinction, as well as Engineering Honors. He then
received a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from MIT
in 1973, and a Doctor of Science in Geotechnical
Engineering from MIT in 1976 with a grade point average of
5.0/5.0. Nadim credits most of these achievements to his
days at IC and AUB. He then joined the geotechnical firm
of Ardaman & Associates headquartered in Orlando, Florida
in 1976, and has been there ever since. He presently serves
as Senior Vice President and Principal-in-charge of the cor-
porate engineering group of the firm. One of the sinkhole
remediation projects he directed received the 1996 ASCE
Outstanding Achievement Award of Merit. Nadim is mar-
ried to Joyce Assi, and he is the proud father of 8 year-old
Christina Hana, and 6 year-old Antony Amin.
CLASS OF ’70 - ’79
Farouk Fannush ’70
is General Manager of Meed Trading
Co. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia since October 2002. Meed
Trading Co. has more than 200 convenient stores spread all
around the Kingdom, mostly found in gas stations. Farouk is
married to Iman Kozak and they have three children: Dana
(23) who will graduate this year in Industrial Engineering
from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada; Fuad (22)
who is in his 4th year in Mechanical Engineering at
Concordia University in Montreal,Canada; and Jamil (13)
who is in the 7th grade at the British School in Riyadh.
Adib Farha ’71 and his wife, Gayle, and his children,
Nicholas (23) and Candice (16), moved from Lebanon to the
US last July. He is now the Executive Vice President of