Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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To Whom The Empty Chair Is Dedicated The members of the Class of 1945 now serving in the Armed Forces: CLASS OF 1945 Jesse Belmont Barber, Jr. Raymond Douglass Butler Samuel Spearing Campbell John Durant Cooke Robert Lawrence Cooper Joseph Reginald Cogbill, Jr. Elvyn Verone Davidson Stewart John Dunnings, Jr. Arthur George Dennis Frederick Edwards Thomas James Edwards Thomas Evans Robert James Fields Henry Lloyd Francis Harry Allen Gail Charles Hagan Garvin Edward Franklin Gentry Robert Louis Hackney Albert Greval Hall Frederick Theodore Hall Orrington Robinson Hall, Jr. Leonard Harris Robert Owen Hawkins Daniel Grafton Hill, 3rd Harold Theodore Holloway Rudolph Douglass Hurt Francis Laurence Jackson Learman Dunbar Jackson Albert Joseph Johnson James Andrew Johnson Rudolph Johnson Jether Maryland Jones James Alonzo Jordon Fitzalbert Michael Marius Jesse Edward Martin John Alexander Mingo, Jr. Hosea Moorehead, Jr. James Dallas Nelson Lauriston Earl O'Conner Edwin Moors Oden Edmund Pace, Jr. James Alvin Patterson James Allen Plummer Julius Caeser Pryor Harold Douglass Ramseur Thomas Augustus Reeves Felder Edward Rouse, Jr. Clifton Gordon Russell Samuel Walter Saunders Ray De Vore Searle Philip Vincent Skerrett Walter William Smith Kenneth Snead George Spells Melville Barbous Spriggs Edward Bondurant Stewart Elmer John Taylor, Jr. Wesley Edward Terry Alphonso Eugene Tindall Bertram Clifford Van Devere Charles Wade Myles Standish Washington James Henry Williams Stanley William Wilson Harold Clinton Wright John Alfred Yates Thomas Herman Younger 20

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Daddy HERNDON WHITE. Jr. Bai.ti.mork, Maryland Kappa Alpha Psi BIOLOGY Extra-Curriculars: Football; Track Team; Basketball Team; Varsity Club; Dormitory Council; President of Baltimore Club; Philosophy Club. To the composer, life is a song; to the dramatist, life is a stage; to Daddy White, life is just another 440. White is another, among millions of Americans, who finds it difficult to live within his means. This invariably entails both living within the means of others and living in luxury. It's a wonderful world. Sociable, skeptical, solicitous and slumbrous; that’s White. THE EMPTY CHAIR Extra-Curricular: War. An empty chair ... a forsaken paddle, a rabble hat that awaits the return of its owner. ... a fading name inscribed inconspicuously in the corner of a room . . . these arc evidences of a friend who once was here, but now is gone. And memories! There will always be memories of him whose destiny has l een miscarried by outrageous lortune. Clothed in drab khaki, he plods his way wearily along some foreign shore. Time has not changed his dreams, nor can fate permanently alter his course. Even the longest road turns somewhere. May the Almighty God in whose province it lies to bend the road grant his return soon. Soon, old pal; your chair, your paddle, your hat and your classmates are waiting. Misapplied, miscarried, misdirected and missed; that's my friend. 19

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REMEMBER. ... 7 That sickly look on the faces of a few youngsters who alighted from a Trail- way bus . . . Lincoln? When the pie man traveled with an armed escort, and the persecuted Fresh- men, who wanted to partake of his sundry delicacies, had to be satisfied with paddles and desk glasses? That memorable “Wood Week” of 1941 when the Czar, in the midst of one of his inspiring discourses to the hounds, found himself alone and surrounded by Ed Gentry, Jeff Jones, Francis Jackson, and a few others who effected a com- plete wash away ? When McNeill was hurt in the '41 Prep-Sophomore game, and Bill Hunter decided to lead the Freshmen and Seniors against the Juniors and Sophomores? Remember the vanishing Sophomores? When the upperclassmen decided to practice a few tonsorials, and Orington Hall threatened to and did shoot to protect his mop? The great Persons reached for his hip pocket a little late and lost one mustache in the ensuing fray! When the E. R. C. boys made their fateful march? Mingo, Rollins, and Yates were escorted to the bath a la pajama, Teddy Gordon was plucked in the head and Rendall Hall was laid waste in the process. When we used to pick the good ones from Savoy around midnight, and Mingo made Lincoln-Ashmun resound with Cootie Williams ? When the Glee Club Prom came up, you could always count on a good game of ball from the Dean? The Dean was batting low in those days, wasn't he, Bryant? The constant dwindling that was '43 and '44? When the rabble, assuming such titles as The Jester, The Penguin,' The Joker, and The Batman, started the perpetual epidemic of Room Washaways”1 The Championship Team in '44 sparked by our own Rudy Johnson? The hidden brew in Hainey's closet? The Pan-Hellenic Dance in '44 which made all the great lovers show their hands? The famous West Chester Incident” which culminated in a marathon walk by Rainer, McIntosh, Bowen and Blair when a certain party failed to materialize? Our somewhat disturbing nocturnal schedule? The Dramatis Personae of the Midwinter Frolic: Dixon, Hawkins, McIn- tosh and McNeill? Remember the theme song: Sweet Lorraine”? 21 Carl Rollins.