The American Lebanese Engineering Society (ALES) Boston Chapter, held its annual dinner on Saturday the 4^th of February 2006 at Byblos Restaurant in Norwood Massachusetts. The event was well attended by a group of Lebanese-American professionals and students with their friends. In addition to great food and wonderful company, the attendees enjoyed Middle-Eastern music.

Mr. Hani Al-Dayaa, president of the ALES Boston Chapter, made the event introduction in which he welcomed the guests and acknowledged the board members and past presidents (you can read Hani's speech here).

The event was a great occasion to honor a very successful Lebanese-American engineer, Mr. Nassib Chamoun, the president, CEO, and founder of Aspect Medical Systems. Mr. Michel Hajjar introduced the guest of honor (you can read Michel's speech here) who afterward spoke about his experience.

The event was also a great occasion for ALES to recognize two outstanding Lebanese students who had been selected to receive $1000 scholarship award, each.

Mr. David Abichaker announced the formation of ALES first dedicated scholarship fund established to honor the memory of the late Charles Zraket thanks to the generosity of Mr. Nassib Chamoun. He also announced the generous contribution of Mr. George Jreige to the scholarship fund. Afterward, Mr. Abichaker introduced the award recipients (you can read David's speech here), and they were:

- Recipient of the Charles Zraket Scholarship Award: Mr. Ghassan Fayad, Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

- Recipient of the ALES Scholarship Award: Mr. Ibrahim F. Jreige, Masters student in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University.

Congratulations to the scholarship recipients and best of luck to all the engineering students in our great colleges and universities! We hope to recognize more of you next year. We are proud of you. Keep up the good work.

During the event, ALES also selected the raffle winners, and they were:

- Mr. Mark Hajjar, Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook computer (grand prize).

- Mr. Maurice Daaboul, a round trip airline ticket Europe-Beirut donated by Middle East Airlines.

- Mr. & Mrs. Hani Al-Dayaa, a $50 gift certificate to Byblos Restaurant.

- Mr. Elias Fares, a $50 gift certificate to Byblos Restaurant.

- Mr. & Mrs. Nabil Hourani, a $50 gift certificate to Byblos Restaurant.

Congratulations to the winners and great thanks to everyone who participated and donated to the event and Raffle. Special thanks go to Mr. Nassib Chamoun and Mr. George Jreige for their generous contributions to the ALES Boston-chapter scholarship fund. We really appreciate your help and support and look forward to seeing you all in future events.

Below are more pictures from the event.

- You can find more pictures of this event on the Lebanese Club at MIT website.