![The new President’s accepted the challenge with an amazingly activist response: the university had “duties to society.”[3] This singular statement became a powerful metaphor of self-determination. It motivated his indefatigable efforts to provide teaching and learning services to thousands of UL students caught in the bind of a fratricidal conflict that had destroyed all the infrastructure of the nation’s oldest institution of higher learning founded in 1862 as Liberia College.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_600,h_623/http://www.liberianlistener.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.57.29-AM-e1603401971216.png)
A Tribute to Dr. Patrick L.N. Seyon, University President
By Al-Hassan Conteh, Ph.D The family of Dr. Patrick L.N. Seyon, the Ninth President of the University of Liberia (UL) (1991-1996), recently announced his passing. According to a fitting tribute by eminent historian Dr. Elwood Dunn, “Patrick passed away recently in the State of Massachusetts, USA in the loving care of his wife, Dr. Barbara Greene Seyon.”[1] As a mentee and collaborator of Dr. Seyon in the reopening of the University of Liberia during the Liberian civil war, I would like to add my voice to Dr. Dunn’s kind…
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