Campus Caravan, Vol. XXXV, No. 8

              Campus
Caravan
Vol. XXXV, No. 8
Student Publication
Wednesday, January 13, I960
AUC Press Established by University
Dr. Nowaihi, Mr. Manucher Visit Alumni at Amman and Jernsalem
Pair Are Honoured By Recent And Old Alumni
To the alumni of the future, Campus Caravan dedicates this issue. You will read on this page a more or less full presentation of what you may be doing in your future career. Mr. Manucher Moadeb Zadeh, Public Relations Director in our university, contri b u t e d greatly to the appearance of this feature article: He, together with Dr. Mohammed El Nowaihi, visited some AUC alumni at their home country, Amman, Jordan, on December 21, 1959. They were back at AUC on December 28.
Upon arriving at Amman airport, Mr. Manucher and Dr. Nowaihi were received by Mr. Michael Jame’an who is a 1942 graduate and is working as assistant under-secretary for the Civil Service Department in Jordan. They also were received by Mr. Youssef Kawalit and His Excellency Mukhtar Muhyidin, Charg6 d’Affaires of the Indonesian Legation at Amman. Eighteen other AUC alumni also were waiting to receive them.
In four cars, Mr. Manucher, Dr. Nowaihi, accompanied by the alumni, moved to the Amman Hotel Club where they had a short stay.
On their first evening in Amman, some twelve young alumni moved to the Dead Sea Hotel (400 meters below sea level) where an unofficial dinner was served.
By that time, AUC alumni living in Amman were telephoning the hotel to make sure whether AUC men had arrived. It was then the second day of their stay in Amman. An official dinner was served at the Orthodox Hotel. Some thirty tv/o alumni were present to participate in a ‘man’s affair’ discussion.
“I was so busy, that one morning I had breakfast at the home of Mr. Samir Ha-bash, a 1956 graduate. I had lunch at Ramallah; had tea in the Indonesian Legation at Amman; then cocktails from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and dinner at the house of Mr. Abul Wafa El Dajani (uncle of Wafai Da-jani) to which forty alumni were invited”, says Mr. Manucher.
Mr. Abdul Hamid Yassin, dean of the Teacher’s College at Amman, and a 1933 graduate, invited Mr. Manucher and Dr. Nowaihi to dinner.
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, Creswell Bibliography Slated as First Item To Bear the Label of the New Organization
A University Press will be established immediately by the American University at Cairo, it was announced recently by President Raymond F. McLain upon his return from the ITnited States and the annual Fall meeting of the Board _________________________ of Trustees.
Mr. Manucher delivers a speech in the Alumni meeting at Orthodox Club.
A brief Survey of :
Our AUC Alumni in Lebanon
The A.U.C. Alumni, in Lebanon, during the last few 3'ears, have scattered all over the world. Some of them have gone to the United States of America, others in the neighbouring countries, probably because Lebanese like to travel. But all are doing well.
A number of our graduates were met in Beirut. Of the older groups Mr. Olof Hoddad of the “19!^” class, and a journalism major, is busy in Television-Radio and other works in the field of journalism. He is also the advertising Manager of “Al-Kolia” published by A.U.B. Mr. Haddad is married and has two children.
Mr. Samir Sukie of the journalism sequence of the class of 1939 is preparing the foreign report on political and economic situations of the Middle Eastern countries. He is specially interested in oil problems. His office advises different oil companies and has already three branches established in Beirut, New York and Tokyo. Mr. Sukie was formerly the correspondent of News-Week in this area. He is married and has two children.
Mr. Fuad Ettoyein again of the journalism sequence of the class of 1952, after seve ral years of work with ARAM CO in Dahran, decided to de tach himself from that organ ization and start “The Mid die East Research and Pub lishing Center”, in Beirut. He pulishes the “Weekly Mid die East Economic Survey’ and he has one hundred and fifty subscribers, . all from among the Oil Companies. He occupies a large flat in the Badie Boulos building (his brother in law) in Sin-el-Fil near Beirut.
Mr. Ettayem aside from his weekly paper, or report, translates books on oil problems
from Arabic into English, usually the books which are critical and may be of use to oil people in the United States.
Our Alumnus was very enthusiastic about his Alma Mater and praised specially highly those students who graduated from the journalism sequence. He further stated that our school of journalism has always been well reviewed by many people, and the holders of degrees in this particular field are doing exceedingly well in all of the Middle Eastern countries.
Fuad is married and has Jumana who is two and a half years old and Waleed who is only two months old.
Mr. Salim Nossor of the journalism class of 1955, is doing fine in Dar el Sayyad. He is really the second man in command in that elaborate establishment, a huge seven story building, very much like Dar el Akhbar el Yom in Cairo. Selim is one of the editors of A1-Anwar, the daily paper.
He is Editor in Chief of El-Shabaka, a weekly paper published by the same “maison.”
Aside from work in this area, Salim writes rather extensively. Only, very recently he has sold a novel to Lob-na Abdel Aziz, a film star in Cairo and another of our own graduates, to be filmed. The novel is called “At Five O’clock”. The Scenario writer for this story is Mr. Richard Bear of Hollywood. Another
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“The Proof
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating” and the measure of a University is its alumni. All the buildings, books, schedules and paraphernalia of education are proved a waste of time if graduates of a University are no different for having been there. And the “difference” must be on the good side.
A graduate must be a credit to his society to prove that a University is a good one. To the degree to which the graduates are responsible citizens, unselfish in their interests, constant in their devotions and constructive in the use of their time, wealth and energy — to that degree the University is revealed as helpful and worthy of support.
The American University at Cairo is not afraid to be measured by this yard stick. Its graduates and former students are known as fine people. They are able and reliable. They are human, of course, (no nonhumans having yet been admitted to the school) and as such are not perfect. But it is more difficult to find and describe their weaknesses than it is their points of strength. They are a proud group of whom the University can appropriately be proud. It is in this sense that the University salutes its Alumni in this issue of the Caravan.
Raymond F. McLain
President
The Board also agreed to furnish funds so that the first publication of the American University at Cairo Press can be an important culminating work by Prof. K. A.C. Creswell — a bibliography of works on Islamic art and architecture. 'There will be more than 20,000 references in this bibliography, a key to articles and books published in many languages. The listings will come from Dr. CreswelTs own card file which he has been accumulating for approximately 50 years.
Dr. McLain took the first TWA all-jet flight from Cairo to New York on Dec. 4 to attend the Board meeting. While in the United States he visited several foundations and individuals interested in assisting the University to continue its program and improve its work. He returned to Cairo on Dec. 23.
Dr. Creswell, Distinguished Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture emeritus at the American University, who is recognized as the leading authority on the subject, recently was honored at a tea on the occasion of the release of his second volume of The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. It is his fourth volume on early Muslim architecture, all of which have been published by the Oxford University Press.
In announcing the formation of a University Press for the American University at Cairo, Dr. McLain pointed out that the University should have the means to assist its own staff and other scholars in the area to publish research works that will be of interest to the scholarly world and the public at large.
The American University at Cairo Press will be operated
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President Raymond F. McLain.