Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman

Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman (October 27, 1926 - June 3, 2004) bụ onye nkuzi Liberia, na nwanyị mbụ jere ozi dị ka onye isi oche nke mahadum n'Africa.

Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ

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A mụrụ Mary Antoinette Hope Grimes na Monrovia, ada Louis Arthur Grimes na Victoria Elizabeth Jellemoh. Nna ya bụ onye Americo-Liberia, ma ọ bụ Congo, onye ọrụ gọọmentị nke ghọrọ Onyeikpe Kasị Elu nke Ụlọikpe Kasị Elu nke Liberia. Nwanne ya nwoke Joseph Rudolph Grimes bụ Odeakwụkwọ Ọchịchị Liberia site na 1960 ruo 1972. Nne ya sitere na agbụrụ Vai, ma zụlitere ya na ezinụlọ Joseph J. Cheeseman, onye isi ala nke iri na abụọ nke Liberia. Mary Antoinette Grimes bụkwa onye isi nke 15 nke Liberia, Arthur Barclay, na onye isi nke 18, Edwin Barclay. O dere akụkọ ihe mere eme nke ndị nna nna ya Barclay.[1]

Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ mmụta mahadum na kọleji Liberia na 1947, Grimes nwetara akara ugo mmụta nna ukwu na nkuzi site na kọleji Radcliffe na 1949; Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na doctoral na agụmakwụkwọ na Mahadum Cornell na 1967. Isiokwu edemede ya bụ "Education and national development in Liberia, 1800-1900." [2]

Ọrụ

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Na 1950, Sherman sonyeere ngalaba agụmakwụkwọ na Mahadum Liberia. Mary Antoinette Brown ka a họpụtara onye isi oche nke College Teachers na Mahadum Liberia na 1958, na emesịa osote onye isi oche maka agụmakwụkwọ (1975-1978). Ọ bụ onye isi oche nke Mahadum Liberia site na 1978 ruo 1984. N'oge ọ na-achị dị ka onyeisi oche, mahadum ahụ hụrụ ụlọ ọrụ na mmemme gbasaa gbasaa, ma kwalite ego scholarships. Ọ rụkwara ọrụ n'aha ndị nkuzi megide nnyonye anya gọọmentị.

N'afọ 1980, Onye isi ala Samuel K. Doe nwara ịhọpụta Sherman dị ka odeakwụkwọ agụmakwụkwọ ya, mana ọ jụrụ onyinye ahụ.Na 1984, a chụrụ Sherman na mahadum ka ndị agha Liberia wakporo ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ n'ike, ma mechie ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ nke ọma ruo ọtụtụ afọ.[1] Ọ kwagara United States na 1986, bụ ebe o nyere aka chọta Mahadum Liberia Alumni Association.[3] O dekwara akụkọ ndụ nne ya, nke e bipụtara n'afọ 2005.

N'afọ 2016, nwanyị nke abụọ, Ophelia Inez Weeks, malitere ọrụ ya nke iduzi Mahadum Liberia. N'oge emere ya, Onye isi ala Sirleaf toro ọrụ ọhụrụ Brown-Sherman nwetara.[4]

Ndụ onwe onye

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Mary Antoinette Grimes lụrụ ugboro abụọ, na 1950 na 1973. Di mbụ ya, onye na-elekọta ụlọ akụ Kedrick Wellington Brown, nwụrụ na 1962. Ha mụrụ ụmụ atọ. Nwa ha nwanyị Lducia Brown nwụrụ n'ihe mberede ụgbọ ala mgbe ọ bụ nwata. Di ya nke abụọ George Flamma Sherman bụ odeakwụkwọ mmụta nke Liberia, bụrụkwa onye nnọchi anya mbụ. Ọ bụ nwanyị di ya nwụrụ nke ugboro abụọ mgbe Sherman nwụrụ na 1999, mgbe ọtụtụ afọ na-arịa ọrịa Alzheimer.

Dr. Sherman nwụrụ n'afọ 2004. E liri ya na Bayview Cemetery, Middletown, New Jersey. E wepụtara mbipụta pụrụ iche nke Liberian Studies Journal, nke e bipụtara na 2005, maka ncheta ya. [5]

Ihe odide

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  1. Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman, Barclay Women in Liberia: Two Generations : a Biographical Dictionary (Jellemoh Publications 2000).
  2. Mary Antoinette Grimes Brown, Education and National Development in Liberia, 1800-1900 (PhD diss., Cornell University, 1967)
  3. Winsley S. Nanka, "Liberians Bid Dr. Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman Farewell" The Perspective (June 22, 2004).
  4. Reporter (2017-09-15). Pres. Sirleaf Inducts Dr. Ophelia Weeks As 14th President of University of Liberia (en-US). FrontPageAfrica. Retrieved on 2024-03-19.
  5. Liberian Studies Journal 30(1)(2005), special issue in memory of Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman.