Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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YOUR college years have been spent in an upturned world. The fires of war lighted at your entrance spread more and more widely. You watched it first from the sidelines as the flames extending steadily and ever creeping nearer at last engulfed the whole world. Through the mists of the present you peer into the future. Now the duty to struggle, to fight lies at your door. Our hope is that the effort may not be in vain, that the fundamental issues may be kept to the fore in the war and in the peace, of human rights, of ordered liberty and the dignity of men of all races and creeds. May you go out in hope and confidence and in the determination to do your part as men to hasten the longed- for age of lasting peace and human opportunity. May you have the faith to see through the darkness the dawn- ing beams of a new and better day. 7 Waller L. Wright.

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Seated, left to right: Whitehead, Cannon, Carter, Pierce, Moore, Haynes. Standing: Maddox, Douglas, Smith, Pinckney, Lighttoot. THE 1943 LION THESE are the men who toiled, while some slept-thought while others played—and went weary-eyed to the classes in which their bright-eyed classmates excelled. They deserve much credit for a job that is, by all considerations, well done. The Staff is particularly indebted for the splendid work performed by the E. R. C.'ers, Raull- erson, Browne, and Johnson. These men worked unselfishly before their departure, and to them we throw many bouquets. The Staff, however, reserves some of its praise for the pinch-hitting job that Associate Editor Cannon performed in the wake of the above-mentioned men. His advice and actual work eased many of the burdens which fell on the shoulders of the Editor. To the whole Staff, I give my sincere thanks for your never-ceasing cooperation. I shall never forget you, nor should our classmates, who must be grateful to you for your untiring effort. BEVERLY CARTER.... GEORGE CANNON... HAROLD PIERCE.... ROSCOE BROWNE.... DANIEL JOHNSON.... CALVIN RAULLERSON. MARCUS MOORE..... HAROLD WHITEHEAD. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT WALTER HAYNES.... .........Editor . .Associate Editor . .Associate Editor . .. .Feature Editor .......Art Editor ... Literary Editor Business Manager Business Manager ....Photographer ....Photographer 6

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DR. FRANK T. WILSON Dean of Men YOU come to the close of your undergraduate careers in what may prove to be the crucial year in world history. During this period we are witnessing what has been described as a world revolution against civilization. Everything that free men cherish is at stake. All the gains of the centuries in the arts, the sciences, and social organization are imperiled by destruc- tive forces at home and abroad. Even the right to live with decency and self-respect is denied to large sections of the human race. Every hope that one entertains and every plan that one makes must be projected against the backdrop of these stark and staggering facts. A world map drawn to new dimensions hangs before the eyes of every human being alive today. Our thinking and our ideas about professional usefulness must be global rather than local or national. Our sympathies must include the peo- ples of Berlin and Calcutta, Moscow and Monrovia as well as the share-cropper in Mississippi and the steel worker of Pittsburgh. Our demands for liberty and justice and security must be limited by no considerations Pf race, sex, or creed. All men everywhere shall experience a new birth of freedom or a new and more deadly enslavement shall encompass the earth. How will the men of '43 attempt to influence the course of world events? The right to choose what you may do is temporarily restricted. In the distribution of man- power may you have the good fortune of being located where your knowledge and skills can put to good use. In such choice as you will be free to make may you realize that the quality of a man's performance is the most trustworthy measure of his value to his generation. Times will continue to be difficult and standard of achievement will be raised in all areas of human en- deavor. There will be no escape from the necessity of hard work and straight thinking. I trust that you may have the privilege of devoting your energies to the creative and constructive efforts of mankind, and that you will keep the faith with those of your generation who had no choice but to serve the cause of death. May their dying and your living give birth to a finer existence for all of the oppressed and down-trodden peoples of the earth. As we go forward we cannot forget the things upon which our hearts are fixed nor shall we betray one another as we remember those wonderful days at Lincoln when we discovered our eternal kinship in hope and purpose. Sincerely yours, Frank T. Wilson.