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Winter
2013
Another school year has begun
and I’m so proud to report that it
has started off beautifully with our
Elementary school children happily
adjusted in their new buildings.
All the new buildings have now
been named and inaugurated - with
the latest being The Talal and Maha
Shair Building. How wonderful to
actually walk into the Hisham Jaroudi
building, The R & G Irani auditorium, the A. Tayeb gym, the Maher Saidi Mul-
tipurpose Room, the Imad Taher Court, the Wael O. Bayazid Center Garden,
the Anwar Mulla gym and the Chalhoub Group library. These names gave our
buildings life and meaning. It is the names of alumni and parents who loved
the school and cared enough to give back. These are names that will go down
in IC’s history. Rockefeller, Sage and Thomson can now stand side by side with
Jaroudi and Shair and the others.
Now our new adventure begins: the building of a new Middle school and
Pre-school and new additions to our Ain Aar campus. Yes, indeed, our Part-
nership for Excellence continues. Our goal, this time, is to raise an additional
$45m in two years. Can we do it? Yes, we can - with your help and support of
course.
And your help has been invaluable. On every fundraising trip I find myself
mesmerized at the way our alumni reconnect. These dinners are networking
opportunities and I am happy to see our alumni taking advantage of them.
The mood is so jovial and relaxing. Your unflinching affinity to your alma
mater is commendable.
Thanks to you, all too soon, our Middle and Preschool children will soon
have their own, new state-of-the art classrooms.
In this newsletter, we explain the need for a new Middle and Preschool,
how the new gym has changed the face of athletics and how IC continues to
expose its students to the plight of less fortunate people.
As always, we highlight the stories of two amazing people giving back to
society. One is an IC graduate who is fighting tooth and nail to install wind-
mills in Akkar and the other is an IC mom who managed to close off Hamra
street to give children a special time on Halloween.
Once again, thank you for being there.
Here’s to a great New Year!
Best regards,
Moufid Beydoun
Vice President
Alumni & Development
International College
Board of Trustees
William H. Turner, Chairman
Fouad Malouf ‘56, Vice Chairman
T.M. (Mac) Deford - Treasurer
Donald J. Selinger, Assistant Treasurer
Richard S. Ward, Secretary
Mona Bawarshi ‘67
Wael O. Bayazid ‘70
Jonathan (Jon) A. Conner
Frederik O. Crawford
Walid Daouk ‘77
Bayard Dodge
Farid Fakherddine ‘85 (Ex-Officio)
Ford Fraker
Peter H. Gerard
Amal A. Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour ‘63
Anthony Jones
Yusuf A. Kan’an ‘71
Gerrit Keator
Marwan A. Marshi ‘79
Safwan Masri
John G. McCarthy, Jr.
Azmi Mikati
Anwar Al Mulla ‘63
Mirna B. Noujaim
Aida (Luce) Reed
Ian Reed
Matthew A. Reynolds
Mu’taz Sawwaf ‘69
Talal K. Shair ‘83
Issam Shammas ‘63
Mohammed S.H. Al-Soleiman ‘59
Imad Taher ‘58
Ahmed Tayeb
Maya (Nassar) Tohme
Trustees Emeriti
Makram N. Alamuddin ‘61
Dr. RaymondW. Audi
Said Darwazah ‘76
Everett Fisher
Thomas W. Hill
Anne R. Hotchkiss
Saeb N. Jaroudi ‘47
William H. Kent
Stanley M. Smith
Khalid Al-Turki ‘61
Administration
John K. Johnson – President
Mishka M. Mourani – Senior Vice President
Peter H. Gerard – Director of Development
Moufid Beydoun – Vice President, Alumni &
Development
Diana Abou Lebdeh – Director, Upper
Elementary/Middle, Ain Aar
Hiba Chaaban – Director, Human Resources
Wadad Hoss - Director, Middle School
Talal Jundi - Vice President &
Chief Financial Officer
Lina Mouchantaf – Director, Pre-School/
Lower Elementary, Ain-Aar
Julia Kozak - Director, Elementary School
Ghada Maalouf – Director, Pre School
Paula Mufarrij – Director, Secondary School
Dr. Mahmoud Shihab – Director, Educational
Resources Center
Note
from the
Editor
Editor-in-chief: Moufid Beydoun
Editor/Writer: Reem Haddad
Production coordinator: Sana Yamout
Design: Nazha Merabi
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