It’s stated that politics observe energy. And since Greg was positioned in positions of energy, politics adopted him. However he was geared up. He had learn extensively and understood the dynamics of the world. He had studied Scripture and knew Rudyard Kipling’s signature poem IF.
By Seward Montgomery Cooper, contributing author
So, he might “preserve his head when throughout him have been shedding theirs and blaming it on him “; and when he was doubted “he made allowance for the doubting too”; and when being lied about he wouldn’t deal in lies; but he tried to not “look too good or speak too sensible”.
He might “speak with crowds and preserve his advantage”. Greg walked with Heads of States and prime ministers; and served presidents however didn’t lose the widespread contact. I submit that these traits propelled Greg to among the highest places of work our Nation dares entrust to anybody. Greg’s management expertise, self-discipline, and eager mind have been evident from the time we met as boys on the Methodist Elementary College in Sinkor, and all through secondary college on the Faculty of West Africa.
In 1969 by in style vote of your entire pupil physique of CWA, Greg was elected President of the Scholar Council. It was my privilege to succeed him the next 12 months. Though he studied chemistry at Cuttington, through the mid Seventies the sharp eyes of Overseas Minister Cecil Dennis and his Particular Assistant Gerald Padmore noticed him; recognized his expertise, and Greg was pulled into the world of diplomacy – the place he was born to be.
Greg and I labored intently collectively in adjoining places of work when he served because the Minister of State with out Portfolio and I because the Authorized Advisor to the President through the Sirleaf Administration. Bobbin McClain (Dr Edward B. McClain jr.) died in 2016, and President Sirleaf made the sensible choice to nominate Greg as Minister of State for Presidential Affairs and her Chief of Workers.
Our amicable relationship continued. The admiration we had for one another was mutual. There we have been two pals from adolescence and faculty mates, now professionals, serving our beloved Nation as faithfully as we might. It was no shock that President Boakai, one other secondary college mate, upon turning into Liberia’s President final 12 months chosen Greg to be his Minister of State for Presidential Affairs and his Chief of Workers. He trusted Greg. He knew Greg’s equable disposition. He knew Greg’s substance and his character.
To his widow Cleo and Greg’s youngsters, my spouse Anne, our kids and I sympathize with you on this painful, mournful loss. It’s stated what we do right here echoes via eternity and people whom we love dwell endlessly 2 inside us even after they have departed.
Having skilled deaths of family members, we agree solely with the theologian who wrote that “love is extra highly effective than dying. “For certainly Love endures even after family members die. Within the guide of Knowledge is written “the souls of the righteous are within the hand of God, and there shall no torment contact them. [2]
Within the sight of the unwise they appeared to die, and their departure is taken for distress, [3] And their going from us to be utter destruction: however they’re in peace. “So, love and respect for Greg stay endlessly stamped inside our hearts. We pray his soul rests in peace with the Lord God Almighty who discovered Greg worthy and known as him dwelling. Amen.
