Caravan, Vol. 52, No. 9

              		
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UNIVERSITYIN CAIRO		WEDNESDAY, MBCENBER 5, 1973
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER		ONE PIASTER
Major surgery to delay Thoron in New York after trustees meet
Egyptian Arts Festival opens today nrith sculpture, painting, and drama
by SAM ATTIA
President Christopher Thoron is expected to undergo a major abdominal operation to remove a cancerous tissue in two weeks time, said Peter Nichols, the university’s business manager.
The operation, ori^nally scheduled for November 28, was postponed for two weeks because the president’s doctor, Joseph Fortner was away attending a four-da> conference in Tokyo. Also the hospital hi which the operation was to take place was being removed to a new building.
President Thoron left for the United States on November 12 for a routine medical check-up and to attend the annual conference of the University’s Board of Trustees in New York.
In the course of the medical check-up, doctors discovered that new cancerous tissues had grown in his abdomen and that it was necessary to have an im* mediate operation.
The president has previously been operated upon on three occasions — in May 1971, 1972, and 1973. The May 1971 operation was done in Cairo by Dr. Salah Shahbender, professor of surgery at the Cairo Cancer Institute, who removed a cancerous tissue from his toe. Later the same month. Dr. Shahbender decided to amputate the toe after a biopsy ^aminaion of the tissue bad revealed melanoma, a type of skin cancer.
Dr. Shahbender then sidvised the president to go to Memorial Hospital in New York, where Dr. Joseph Fortner, one of the world’s leading experts in melanoma and certain liver cancer, removed lympatic nodes from his right leg to provent cancerous cells from spreading through the lymphatic system at the end of May, 1972.
Again on May 29, 1973, Dr. Fortner removed a cancerous lesion from one of his lungs where malignancy had recurred.
Mrs. Lu2 Thorcm left Cairo last Wednesday to join her husband in New York.
by MAHMOUD EL-LOZY
The New Theater is bustling with last minute activity in preparation for the staged prodhction of the Egyptian Arts Festival which opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. Two pla5TS, The Lighthouse and One Morning in the Life Of... will be present^ in in addition to a program of folk dancing.
The theaterical productions will be one part of a three-part festival which will also feature programs of Egyptian music, scuplture and painting. Mr. Hassan Abdei Moneim, deputy minister of Culture, will inaugurate the festival.
The paintings, scrilptures, engravings and stained glass are exhibitions of 21 famous contemporary EJgyptian artists including Dr. Taha Hussein, Dr. Saleh Reda, Mohamed Fathi d-Alfi, and Kamel Amin.
The arts exhibition which will take place in the garden and in Room 101 of the Division of Public Service, will continue throughout the festival. It will be opened to the public from 10:00 a.b. to 1:00 p.m., and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.ntu The New Theater pro-r gram will open with three | folk dances by the A.U.C. I Sherif Akhnoukh Folklore'
Troupe directed by Hassan el-Hanna Afifi. The three dances are : The el-Hagala Dance, in which Magda Bakhloim, the troupe’s star will sc4o, el-Ataba Gazez, and al-Lally Dance.
Dr. David Woodman, professor of Drama and Literature and director of both plays said that The Lighthouse «is an exciting and intense drama about fishermen and their families who believe that their relatives were lost at sea. ^
As they wait, they find out
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Dr. David Woodman, professor of Drama and English Literature, tips stagehand Aly Sorour <mi lighting techn^ calities for the upcoming plays.
SRC ends 2-week training session
by MONA SHARKAWY
The A.U.C. Social Research Center-two-week training session ended last Wednesday with a big reception In the Blue Room.
The training session, which began on November 12, was attended by 21, delegates from Minia and Assyut Universities. The training program was sponsored by the SJl.C. at the request of Dr. Abdel el-Moneim Shawky, acting Dean of Minia University.
The training session included 12 lectures on the-ooietical and applied aspects of social research methods.
Dr. Hdhni Tadros, acting research associate said, 4 the training session was satisfactory within the limits of the time provided for it. a
Trustee comes to A-U-C on brief visit
by RAUF ZAYDAN
Dr. Rayly Winder, A.U.C. Trustee, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University, will be visiting the campus briefly from today.
He is here on b^alf of the ]^ard Trustees and is expected to meet many members of the university community.
Dr. Winder has been here before. He was invited to A.U.C. last year as a distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Arabic Studies. In January 1973 he was elected to the A.U.C. Board of Trustees.
Dr. Winder was formerly a professor of Oriental Studies at Princeton University, and is a well known scholar of Middle EJastem Affairs.
jReaders:
'For organizational rea-isons, CARAVAN will ■ appear cm Monday in-'stead of Wednesday, be-I ginning next week.
TOEFL FeUow is injured in hit and run accident
by MANAL ATTIA
Reeba Nelson, f^ow in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language Program, was hit by a motorcycle in Mohamed Mahmoud Street near the Main Campus yesterday afternoon.
An eyewitness said that Miss Nelson who was about to cross the street was standing near the side-walk when she was hit by a motorcycle with licence plate numl^r 148 Prive GZ. The eyewitness said that she fell heavily on her side and was rushed immediately to the university clinic in a state of semi-consciousness.
Dr. Nabil Sheta, The University physician, examined Miss Nelson and took an X-Ray which showed that she had suffered a fissure fracture. Miss Nelson r^ain^ full consciousness adfter iweiving treatment at the Clinic.
Miss Nelson will be placed under constant medical observation for a period of between three to seven days.
She is a resident of the Women’s Hoet^ In Maad el-Swiesry Street, Zamalek.