[David]

The key question as you know: Who is the Sarruf who is the common parent of Alexander and Lorice.

[Fred Nerks]

...Another of the Lebanese Christian editors in Cairo was Yaqub Sarruf, uncle of Dr Fuad Sarruf who is today one of the Vice-Presidents of the American University of Beirut...

http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/viewtext/2573358?op=t&n=5596

[Fred Nerks]

ALL MY LIFE'S A CIRCLE:

A.U.B. BULLETIN 2003

For the first time in more than 30 years, the American University of Beirut will award six honorary doctorates of humane letters on the day of this year's graduation ceremony, June 28. The recipients will be Lakhdar Brahimi, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for Afghanistan; Carlos Ghosn, currently president and chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Company; Amin Maalouf, journalist and novelist, winner of the Prix Goncourt; Hasib Sabbagh, chairman and co-owner of Consolidated Contractors International; Edward Said, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University; and Helen Thomas, doyenne of the White House press corps and syndicated columnist with Hearst Newspapers. The program, first established in 1890, recognizes individuals of outstanding achievement and personal merit. The first honorary degrees were awarded to Faris Nimr (BA 1874), teacher of Arabic and head of the Lee Observatory and Yakub Sarruf, one of the five members of the first AUB graduating class of 1870-teacher, astronomer, translator, and poet.

Honorary degrees were later awarded to AUB founders Daniel Bliss and Stuart Dodge (1916), former AUB president Bayard Dodge (1966), and Lebanese historian Philip Hitti (1969).

Check the article entitled: AUB Seeks Nominations for 2004 Honorary Doctorates

[Fred Nerks]

Yacub had a wife, she appears on page 121:

Changing the name, governing authority, and personnel of the school did not clar-ify its mission any further; however, the school did run moresmoothly and efficiently.Mrs. Yacub Sarruf, wife of the editor of al-muqtat and al-muqatam, visited the school in 1890 and was pleasantly surprised by what she encountered. She expected to find a small, wretched building with 20–30 students learning basic literacy and needlework.Instead,she found an immaculate building offering quality instruction to about 100 girls. She saw deaf girls learning craft skills, blind girls reciting the Quran,and other students studying mathematics. She was particularly impressed with the order and cleanliness of the school, as well as the fact that the girls produced their own clothing. Nevertheless, in the conclusion of her article, Mrs. Sarruf expressed her concern that daughters of the wealthy were learning certain domestic skills at the expense of more neededd skills, which properly complete the education of young girls.Parents of the students shared such concerns, and they began to demand another school to address these problems. The government continued to study the problem,but took its time in finding a solution...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48233511/10/Notes

NOTES FROM ‘CREATING A NEW EGYPTIAN WOMAN’