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Member’s
Feedback – Proposed College Of BWI
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Name: Joe Flomo Matthew
Chapter: Great Lakes
Email: jmflomo@yahoo.com
Telephone:
216-659-4283
My Fellow Tigers,
The Booker Washington
Agricultural and Industrial Institute was established to train young Liberian
men and women to tilt the land, balanced the books, construct highways and
by-ways, construct dwellings, maintain and operate heavy and light industries,
maintain automobiles and heavy equipment, among others. These were meant to
ensure the industrial and business viabilities of the Republic of Liberia.
That was back in 1929. BWI has done that and done that very well. Its pains me to have to let go of that tradition. I find it
very difficult to let go of the memory, “the days spent on BWI” as the School
Ode goes.
However, the idea of a technical college also usher in a new reality
whose day I believe has come. One thing is clear, no matter what changes BWI
undergoes, we the former graduates will FOREVER REMAIN AUTHENTIC, AND SECOND TO
NONE. I embrace the idea, and as a TIGER, I FEAR NOTHING!
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Name: Joseph A. Verdier
Chapter: Great Lakes
Email: javmail1@yahoo.com
Telephone: 614-367-9061
Fellow Tigers,
I can understand the
love for our alma matar and our desire to see her restored to the enviable
position she occupied on Liberia's
academic ladder. Over the years, BWI has proven herself to be one of the
premier learning institutions in our country and we must all work together to
restore her to that status. What is so troubling to me is the idea being
promoted by some members of the alumni association that BOWAII must be elevated
to a college with the desire to promote vocational technical education in Liberia. I
really think that is a very bad idea. All we will be doing is to continue to
make BWI the substandard school that the Liberian government has allowed her to
be for the last decade and half. If the government of Liberia really needs a technical college, let me
remind them that they presently have two: the college of science and technology
at the University
of Liberia and the Tubman
Technical college in Harper. We must let cooler heads
prevail and allow BOWAII to continue to occupy the unique position of the best
vocational/technical high school Liberia has ever seen. The mission
of BWI is a greater imperative today than ever before. With the country ravaged
by war, more and more young boys and girls are in need
of a sound high school vocational education adequately blended with sound
academic training like the ones we got from BWI to prepare them both for life
in the workforce or a college education. This is what makes us so different as BWI: we can do it all, vocation or
academics, we excel. We do not need any college of BWI
and I hope that this will be thoroughly discussed and then discarded forever as
an ill advise and funny little idea not worth
entertaining.
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Name: Ciapha K. Greene
Chapter: Delaware Valley
Eamil: musujatu@aol.com
Telephone: 267-243-0071
As
an alumnus of the great Booker Washington Institute "CLASS OF 86"
welcome the idea of elevating BWI to such a status. This is long over due and I
do hope that everyone will understand the meaningful and technical
contributions that this institution to the manpower development of Liberia.
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