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House of Lebanon E-Newsletter June, 2009 | |
Determination + Compassion = Success
for
Two House of Lebanon Board Members
Read below for their success secrets!
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Upcoming House of Lebanon Events
August 8th
HOL Young Professionals Beach Day and Hike in Laguna Beach
October 18th
House of Lebanon's
Ray R. Irani Pride of Heritage Banquet honoring Mr. Vatche Manoukian at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
November 7th HOL Young Professionals Banquet
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Golf Classic Results
1st Place Gross
George Schwary
Larry Fields
Mike Majers
Steve Seblani
2nd Place Gross
Nabil Nahman
Peter Petro
Mark Tabet
Carl Board
3rd Place Gross
Fouad El-Abd
Hanna Shammas
Muhammad Salaymeh
Nocy Karkour
1st Place Net
Fuad Khuri
Raja Srour
Phillip Hasrouni
2nd Place Net
William Lo
John Wilson
Nadia Hamdan
Robert Mansfield
3rd Place Net
Rida Hamzeh
James G'sell
Farouk Kubba
Dan Miclea
Most Honorable Foursome
Ferris Wehbe
Emad Aboul-Hosn
Ghassan El Masri
Jihad Semaan
Robbi Matar
Komar Aviation Putting Contest Winner
Bill Calliham
Closest to the Pin #2
Louie Sadd
Closest to the Pin #12
Robbi Matar
Long Drive Contest Winner
Steve Seblani
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WANTED:
Youth of Lebanese Origin
Ages 17-25
and a stay in a summer residence near Beirut. The program was established in an attempt to
promote a better relationship between young Lebanese Emigrants and their mother
land, and to let them know better their country of origin its cultural,
environmental features and tourist sites in all the Lebanese provinces, through
seminars and excursions that will be offered during the camp.
Participants will stay in Lebanon at the Ministry's expenses; they
will only pay their trip to Lebanon.
Participation forms and the program are available in the
Lebanese Embassies
and Consulates and at www.emigrants.gov.lb
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Dear Friends of the House of Lebanon,
House of Lebanon's annual picnic took place last Sunday afternoon at El Dorado East Regional Park in Long Beach. Picnic participants enjoyed the music of DJ Dandana, Dabkeh dancing and volleyball with the Young Professionals. If you took any special pictures you would like to share, send them to editor@HouseofLebanon.com and we will try to publish some of them in our next issue.
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HOL Spotlight
2nd Annual
House of Lebanon
Golf Classic Highlights
Thanks to our Sponsors
Registration, mulligen sales and welcome to the golfers
Volunteer Lola Semaan helping golfer, Muhammad Salaymeh pick out his welcome gifts.
Golfers preparing their tournament strategy during breakfast!
The beautiful S550 Mercedes for the Hole in One winner - alas, there were no winners this year!
Course tee signs sponsoring Lebanese cities were found on all the golf holes
The audience was entertained by the Salaha Dancers during the dinner and awards.
1st Place Gross Foursome Winners--
Steve Seblani, George Schwary, Mike Majers, Larry Fields
1st Place Net Foursome Winners--
Fuad Khuri, Lina Gareeb - Committee Member, Fouad El-Abd- Golf Classic Chairman, George Schwary - Committee Member, Raja Srour, John Koudsi - Committee Member, Phillip Hasrouni
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LAF Director Profile
 Amira Matar
Amira's professional development
continued as she became one of the most accomplished business women in the
Lebanese American community. She is currently a Senior Director for EFG Capital
Asset Management in Los Angeles. EFG is an international banking group
headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Amira and her two partners, have
extensive asset management, private banking, and estate planning experience for
wealthy families, private business owners and corporate executives. They
specialize in advising multi-generational families on the complex issues with
inherited wealth, highly compensated executives
and owners of closely held businesses on liquidity strategies and business
succession planning.
Amira is well known in the community
involvement in numerous philanthropic activities. Her compassion and benevolent
work can only be measured by her love and devotion to human kind. Amira is a
board member and chairman of the House of Lebanon Activities committee and the
organizations first corporate secretary. She has chaired several fund
raising events including the Pride of Heritage Gala honoring Ambassador Gilbert
Chagoury.
Many
other organizations also receive Amira's attention, including, her full
commitment to Lady of Mt. Lebanon Church in Beverly Hills, the Lebanese Ladies
Cultural Societywhere she sourced $5,000
annually in grants for the LLCS over the pastyears
. She is a founding member of Los Angeles Beirut Sister Cities and traveled
with the official delegation to witness the signing of the agreement between
the cities. As a founder of the Los Angeles Cedars Rotary, she raised
$65,000 for a hospital in Ain Ebel, her village in South Lebanon.
Amira's virtues include her acumen in
financial management and her good judgment in encountering her daily
challenges. In her spare time loves to play tennis, but her pride and joy are
her five grand kids. Amira lives and works in Beverly Hills.
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LAF Director Profile
Hadi Khalil
Hadi Khalil's television career started in 1982 as
a reporter for the Lebanese State Television. He covered the 1982 Israeli
invasion of Lebanon for the Lebanese TV as well as for the Associated Press and
ABC News. For a long period of time, Hadi was the only reporter on the
ground in occupied South Lebanon, transmitting to the world the sights and
sounds of the war. His career took off, and his fame and accomplishments
preceded him anywhere he went.
After
moving to the US in 1988, Hadi was the production manager of Arab American
Television in Los Angeles, the first widespread Arabic television
network. He helped the network grow from a local leased access channel to
a syndicated regional and national offering.
Realizing
the importance and imminent invasion of Arabic Satellite Networks of the US, in
1994, Mr. Khalil started his own production company, IPA International
Production & Advertising. IPA has produced countless shows,
commercials, and promos that air on several television stations, including most
of the Arabic television stations in the US and Canada. These include, NBN
TV, FUTURE TV, LBC TV & ART TV (Arab Radio & Television). Most of
IPA's production has aired worldwide on those networks.
In
2005, ART awarded IPA a long term contract for the development and production
of three weekly shows that air on its networks across the globe, and plans for
even more shows are on the drawing board.
Hadi
was born in Lebanon in 1963 and has a
Bachelor Degree from Lebanese University of Beirut, and a diploma in radio and
television production from Northeast Broadcast School in Massachusetts. Hadi is married to Sanaa Khalil and a proud
father of 2 kids, Moustafa and Maya.
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HOL Artists' Group Spotlight
Musician, Violinist and Composer....
Joseph Chamaa
House of Lebanon Artists' group member, Joseph Chamaa was born in Egypt. He joined the
Egyptian Broadcasting orchestra in 1958 as a first violinist. In 1960, he went
to Lebanon and joined the Feyrouz orchestra and toured with the group around
the world performing in the shows of the Rahbani brothers. He also joined the
Lebanese Conservatory of Music in 1961 and worked as a violin teacher until
1984. In 1971 he joined the Kaslik University and went to the Vatican with the
Kaslik choir to perform Syriac music in the presence of the Pope, accompanied
on the lute by he virtuoso Marcel Khalife. In 1984, he immigrated to the USA
and joined the New Valley Symphony Orchestra as a first violinist, where he
still performs. In 1990 he gave lectures and performances in American colleges
to demonstrate Arabic music. Recently he joined Mesto where he is sharing the
fruits of his musical experience. Joseph joined the HOL Artists' group in 2006
and has been an active member since then.
All of us at the House of Lebanon wish Mr. Chamma a very happy 87th birthday this month. To see more of Mr. Chamaa please visit www.josephchamaa.com
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Sam Maloof
HOL Artists' Group Member
is Remembered
timelessness by collectors, museum curators and U.S.
presidents, has died. He was 93.
Sam Maloof with Carole Choucair Ouejian, Artists' Group Chairman and members of the HOL Artists' group with a sample of his furniture. |
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HOL Artist Dr. Fayeq Oweis Awarded the 2008 American Book Award
We are very proud to share the wonderful news
about HOL artist Dr. Fayeq Oweis. His book "Encyclopedia of
Arab American Artists. Artists of the American Mosaic"
(Greenwood Press, 2008) Has won an Arab American Book Award for 2008
given by the Arab American National Museum (AANM).
The book features about 100 Arab American visual artists, including a number of
the HOL Artists group.
To
see the 2008 Winners Page, you can visit
http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/2008bookawardwinners
For more information about the book, including reviews and interviews, you can
visit his web site at
http://www.oweis.com/artists.html
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