Biographie de Joseph Jabbra
Dr. Jabbra did govern this impossible republic, delivering transformative change to LAU in the process.""Dr. Jabbra restored our mission." Philip Stoltzfus, Chairman, LAU Board of Trustees "How does one know one has lived a full life ? This is a question that preoccupies all of us at one time or another, but at a simple level we can say, "through the evidence of our actions and our relationships with others." The pages of this memoir bear witness to Dr.
Jabbra's achievements, from his successful terms as Provost at St. Mary's and Loyola Marymount, to his crowning moment as President of LAU. But much of the magic of this book lies in its descriptions of his friendships and interactions throughout his life, from the early days in his family village of al-Firzul to his school experiences at Harissa and St. Joseph, and the eventual passage to the United States, armed with Arabic, French, Latin and Greek, but no English.
Then on to his life in America and Canada, and the rich relationships he formed with so many in that extraordinary phenomenon that is the Lebanese diaspora. After seeing an early draft of this memoir, I urged Dr. Jabbra to relate the day-to-day experiences he had in running LAU in the semichaotic atmosphere that prevails even in the best of times in Lebanon. I knew how vivid some of these moments were, having shared many with him, and he has captured that time beautifully, although I wish he had included a particularly hairy moment he and I once had, from which we were fortunate to emerge unscathed." Philip Stoltzfus, Chairman, LAU Board of Trustees September 2021