![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://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_600,h_623/https://www.liberianlistener.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.57.29-AM-e1603401971216.png)
PROFESSOR PATRICK LAWRENCE NIMLEY SEYON: A Eulogy
By Amos Sawyer Today we say farewell to Professor Dr. Patrick Lawrence Nimene Seyon, a distinguished Liberian public intellectual and progressive activist. Comfort and I and our family would like to convey to you, Barbara, his spouse; to Tuan, Juah and Marena his children; and to the other members of his family our condolences for his loss and to say to Barbara, thank you for taking good care of him and making him happy, especially during the declining years of his life. May God richly reward you all. Patrick…
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