OLD VICTORIAN NOTES

From the years 1954 & 1955

These are brief notes and information of your colleagues after their graduation from College which will be of interest to your contemporaries at Victoria College.

You may find yourself in one of these brief notes or a friend whom you may recall during that time or might know him personally until this date.

These notes will fill you with strong emotions and delightful feelings in a state of glad sensation and cheerfulness.

The compiling of these previously unknown information were collectively gathered into this volume by the College Reception Secretary, Miss F.L. Joyce Grew during that time.

It is to Miss Grew that we are indebted for the whole of the material of the present Notes.
Let us now get started and read with enthusiasm the different news, gossips and personal events by case,

chance, circumstance and facts.

OLD VICTORIAN NOTES

We would express our sincere sympathy with the family and friends of El Hani Assiuty who was killed while
flying as a Cadet of the Aeronautical Department, Royal Military College, Koubri el Kubba, on May 1st, 1955.

Engagements

The engagement has been announced between Hoppe Etmekdjian and Miss Diana Tchaylakian, daughter of

Mr. H.A. Tchaylakian, an Alexandria Old Victorian.
The engagement has been announced between

Dr. Fathy Nassif Lozza and Miss Francine Behman.

Dr. Lozza and Miss Behman are colleagues at the hospital of Miss Behman’s father at Helwan.

Marriage

Guiragossian  –  Zammar.   On 24th April, 1955, at the Armenian Cathedral, Cairo, Garo Guiragossian to
Liliane Zammar, daughter of Mr. Antoine Zammar, an Alexandria Old Victorian, and sisiter of Alec Zammar, a Cairo Old Victorian.

The best man was A. Goganian, also a Cairo Old Victorian. The ceremony was attended by many Old

Victorians and by several of the staff of the College.

KAMAL  ADHAM  is now in business as a General Merchant in Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia, with agencies for motor-cars and general merchandise.
MICHAEL  ATIYAH  has now a Fellowship in Pure Mathematics at Trinty College, Cambridge. He was Smith Prizeman for the year 1954.
PATRICK   ATIYAH  is now Assistant Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics.
RAGA  AZIZ  is studying at The Faculty of Medicine at Ein Shams University. Abbassia.

RALPH  BALASSIANO  is working with the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge, near Birmingham,
England. He had been an apprentice with the Company for two and a half years.
E.  BASSANO  was last heard of in Geneva, Switzerland  – presumably studying at the University.
EDWIN J.  BENAROYO  is working in the firm of James Raffo, Import and Export Merchant, specializing in
watches and textiles.
WAHIB  BENZAGR   is studying in the Faculty of Commerce at Durham University.
NABIL GABRIEL BISHARA  is studying in the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University.
FREDDY BUTTS is serving in the Royal Engineers in the British Army.
R. CHALOM, ANDRE SHALOM, and G. MUTEVELLIAN are sharing an apartment in Bayswater, London.
They are all studying in London University.
Amr El Alfy  has entered the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.
IBRAHIM CHOUCHA has entered the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.
JOSEPH COHEN graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, and has been working since 1956
at the Jewish Hospital in Cairo.
DR. W.S. DAOUD has been working in a Country Health Unit at Zagazik.
E. DEBBAS is studying in the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. He went last summer with the party of
Victorians and Old Victorians to England, and according to Mr. Hinds was a great asset throughout the trip.
FAROUK CHOURBAGUI  is now in England and seeking admission to Cambridge University.
ROLAND DELBOURGO is a Qualified Draughtsman, and is working with Mr. Menasche, an engineer.
MAHER FANOUS has managing his father’s factory, during the latter’s illness.
HISHAM FAROUQUI graduated from New College, Oxford in 1947, with an Honours Degree in Geology. He
then worked for three years with the Saudi-Arabian Government. In 1954 he was studying Civil and
Constructional Engineering in London.
ZUHAIR FAROUQUI working in the family business in Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia.
O. GHAZZOUI is said to be in England. His address there would be welcome.
JOHN HADJIGEORGIOU after a distinguished University career, gaine his B.Sc. at Birmingham University in
1954. He is now working as a Civil Engineer with Messrs Mouchel and Partners, of Victoria Street, London, and
staying at the same house as Claude Salama.

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