Johnson C Smith University - Golden Bull Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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A SPONSOR Dr. Thomas A. Long Head vj Depiirt)iie)il of Suc ' iolooy PiiS,e Eiiilit

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DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY GREETINGS TO THE CLASS OF 1948: First of all I should like to congratulate each one of you upon reaching this stage in your development. You are now about to take your places as active responsible members of society. Hundreds of men and women have gone out from the Universitv before you, most of whom ha ' e set fitting examples for you to follow. We have alumni in all sections of the country and abroad doing their bit to make the world a better place in which to live. I could cite a long list of distinguished graduates who are carrying on in the ' arious pursuits of life. However, may I remind you of one whom you have known rather intimately during your four years here. He is one who has been so close to you that you may not fully appreciate the wonderful ex- ample he has set for you. I have reference to our own President Emeritus, Henry Lawrence McCrorey, one of our most distinguished graduates. For fifty-two years, he labored here at the University working hard to make possible the privi- leges that you have enjoyed during the past four years. What he has done has not been blazt)ned on the headlines of our daily papers and magazines. He has not traveled across the country os- tentatiously calling attention to his achievements, but on the contrary, he has gone about his work quietiv and in a Christ-like spirit, vet with courage and confidence. Exery year since his graduation from the Universitv, more than a half century ago, has been spent in some construc- tive endeavor. Many of you sat through the beautiful Recognition Service held for him in early fail and have read the volume of letters which came in from all over the country praising his achievements through the years. If fifty years after graduation you can point with pride to the life that vou have lived and the contributions that vou have made as he can, then, you will mea- sure up to the great heritage that has been left to you by the graduates who have gone on before. It is mv hope that as you go forth you will take God as your guide and the Bible as your constant companion so that in the last years of your life, you too will enjov the happiness and satisfaction that come from a rich and abundant life. Sincerely, T. E.-McKiNNEY, Dean Paae Sex ' en

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THE SENIORS OF ' 48 Another milestone has been reached in your career. Many of the hopes and dreams that you have held dear for the past four years are beginning to (ipen up into new avenues. In a few days vou will be leaving the walls of this institution to go out into a world that needs you. A world that needs you to help reclaim it from its war torn thoughts and ideas and to rebuild it for stronger character and greater womanhood. As vou go out into this new avenue. may you render to your felluwmen the services that have been rendered to you. Many responsibilities will come and these must be met with courage, honesty, and faith. Regard it as your dutv to reclaim vour unfortunate brother and sister and set their destiny aright. The challenge is greater today than e er before. The world has under- gone many changes but the standard of character and womanhood have never changed. It is left to each individual to ee that they remain so. As you go forth into the fields of Hie, mav a major purpose be to serve wherever you are and to lift as you climb. Very sincerely vours. C. L. Ramseur, Dean of Women Dear Seniors; That vou will soon depart from these classic walls of Johnson C. Smith University gives me reason to write you this message. I hope that your lives have been enriched in all knowledge and wisdom and that you will go forth out ..f school-life into life ' s school girded for the strife. The poet Browning onct life ' s struggles with culturt studied to equip vour min ha ' e made a good iob of said, Man should be equipped for of the mind. Four years you have for life ' s struggles. ' I believe vou and I reioice with you because of your attain although others t. We shall greatly miss yoi take your vacant seats. I need not tell you and embittered. Not apart ad II. for are now grappling [ into which you are going s hatred in its vilest for; ?s that fought together in cause of deinocrac ' , ha t each other ' s throats. The world ' s economic and social orders have collapsed. Old foundations of civilization that once seemed stable have been heaved and broken. Men and nations are confused and bewildered. Even leaders of the United Nations give us the impression thai they do not know the way. You stand at the crossroads. I ask vou the trite question, where do you go from here? ' No doubt that is a great unanswered Where vou may go I little care, but I am ly concerned that where you go, you will illustrate your lives 1 old life of great meaning once did, whose brief biography David served his own ange the sentence. Put e for his, and make it leration by the will j)f arized in ' Holv Writ. I quote bv the will of God. Let us ihe personal pronoun J for David, and more personal, I will serve mine own God. That is n o, I pa To redeem this s itself into, the .rid fr the vful of peace with great so II go forth and interpret great uprising of young col ne missionaries, prophets, , ethical, and spiritual nut facts of our day and genera attention and folluwinu of better university in sending her radiant rays of scholarship, cha acter, and goodwill into every nook and corner of the world, i Christianize the impact of our western civilization upon a noi christian world. You are challenged to apply the principles of righteousness i economic and social order. Dr. Robert E. Speers, a great missionary, tells of an inscription he read on the walls of a little Toaist Temple high on a hill above a city in China, where there is an earnest beseeching there will be a sure reply. As I write my last and only message to you, that inscription becomes more real to me. I wonder if you will make a sure and adequate reply to the beseeching of this weeping world. rinally, my fellow students, be strong and courageous. Make ()ur lives fruitful, and when the going gets tough, as it surely will, do not lose faith, but gird your loins a little tighter and make a go of it. Therefore, I entreat vou to accept the challenge by the u-ill of God. Farewell, J. A. Grimes, Dean of Meu. ill of God to Paoe f ' nie