mobilize human and financial resources to support a values-led leadership program
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The Sierra Leone Grammar School Leadership Award Trust (SLGSLAT) was born out of the inspiration of Dr. Eugene Terry as Founder and Pioneer, a Regentonian, Agricultural Development Specialist with a background and experience in institutional capacity development, a Biologist and Writer based in the United States of America, Washington DC. This initiative was primarily intended to mobilize support for the work of the Dear Old Alma Mater that nurtured and groomed this grateful Regentonian.
The Sierra Leone Grammar School Leadership Award Trust (SLGSLAT) was officially launched on Wednesday, 20th February, 2019 at the Sierra Leone Grammar School Library in Peyton Building on the theme, “Empowering Young Leaders for Life Long Trust and Responsibility”.
Dr. Modupe Taylor-Pearce
Each of you is a leader and will be called upon to lead. You do not have a choice about whether or not to lead because you have to lead yourself and you will be called upon to lead others. Your choice is only whether to be a good or a bad leader. The reason why the Leadership Award Trust was created was to inspire and support you in becoming a good leader so that your people and you will, in the long term, enjoy the fruits of your good leadership, rather than suffer the consequences of your poor leadership.
Thirty years ago, I was a student here. I thought that I would go from here to Fourah bay college and then would work as a Mechanical Engineer, a profession that was admired by my family. However, my life took a different turn when I suddenly decided to join the army, was selected for a military scholarship and trained as an officer in the United States and five years after completing my A levels, I was in Koinadugu and Kabala serving as an officer in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces.
All you have to do is remember that good leadership requires sacrifice, and the willingness to suffer in the short term. It requires you to place the needs of those you lead above your own. It requires you to demonstrate the values espoused by the leadership award trust: integrity, service, equality, responsible citizenship, and meritocracy. When you choose these, you earn trust which will make others wiling to follow you even during hard times and to invest their time, talents, and treasure with you.
Thirty-five years ago when I was debating which school to attend for my secondary education, there was robust discussion about which was the best school in Sierra Leone: Prince of Wales, Grammar School, Albert Academy, Bo School… Today, as we stand today, even my friends who attended the Albert Academy and the Prince of Wales grudgingly accept that when the discussion of best school for boys in Sierra Leone comes up, there is no longer a debate: it is the Grammar School.