The Amos C. Sawyer Instructional Basis will host a sequence of occasions to commemorate the life, work, and imaginative and prescient of Prof. Dr. Sawyer and to mark his eightieth birthday in June.
Monrovia, June 13, 2025: Based on a press launch issued by the ACS Instructional Basis, there shall be an inaugural lecture, quite a few interfaith actions, and a fundraising dinner scheduled to be held within the ballroom of the Monrovia Metropolis Corridor on Saturday, June 14, at 6 p.m.
The Jum-AH prayers on the Fish Market Mosque shall be held on Friday, June 13. Friends, well-wishers, and worshippers will witness a mirrored image by the scholarly Imam Ali Krayee, who will evaluation the life, imaginative and prescient, and works of Dr. Sawyer. Together with worshippers, Iman Krayee will supply prayers for peace within the custom so well-cherished by the interfaith neighborhood.
One of the vital excellent options of the actions this 12 months is the launch of what could be the Annual Amos C. Sawyer Tutorial Lecture Collection and Prestigious Award to excellent patriots. The inaugural lecture shall be held on the Fendell campus, which is house to the Dr. Amos C. Sawyer School of Social Sciences and Humanities, on Friday, June 13, at 3:30 p.m.
Subsequently, Prof. Dr. Dew Tuan Wleh Mason, a widely known educational diplomat with established credentials as a well-known member of the cherished members of progressive members within the Liberian historic settings, will inaugurate the sequence. The college neighborhood on the Fendell campus will come alive with these actions, which shall be interspersed with recitation of strains from speeches and writings of Dr. Sawyer. This exercise is open to the diplomatic, educational, and normal public.
The ACS Instructional Basis has held a sequence of session with varied stakeholders and is happy to announce that the fundraising dinner on Saturday June 14 will honour two most excellent and patriotic Liberian residents within the particular person of the venerable Dr. Abba Karnga for a few of his most pioneering works with the Bassa language and Christian missionary works.
Prof. Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos could be honoured posthumously as Liberia’s foremost ethnomusicologist, and her devotion and dedication to the preservation of Liberian folklore music, in addition to the requirements she set with the College of Liberia choir and choral group.
As well as, Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee will function one of many key launchers on the awards dinner, which is predicted to see a cross-section of excessive authorities officers in addition to political actors throughout the political and spiritual spectrum of Liberia within the spirit of Dr. Amos C. Sawyer.
On Sunday, June 15, the ACS Instructional Basis will honor its Patron Saint with a dedication service to additional observe his eightieth heavenly birthday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on tenth road in Sinkor to climax three days of celebration and actions.
