Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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First Row: Clark, Gnlamison, Thomas, Snead, Brooks, Barber. Second Row: Wiggins. Brown, Baskerviilc, Holmes. Last Row: Smith, McKenzie, Booth THE GRADUATE SCHOOL Spiritual architects, builders of the Kingdom, laborers for God's vineyard are these men. They are preparing for battle on a front at which man has never known victory. They carry a Gospel more power- ful than the cannon, a Gospel which in its quietness drowns out the noise of ecumenical conflict and bids men come to peace. In the hands of men like these throughout the world lies a large portion of the future. 'T charge thee before God . . . preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 24

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CLASS PROPHECY The Annual Convention of the National Society of Engineers adjourned. A manifestly prosperous and portly individual strode across the New York street with his meticulously clad companion whose diminutiveness demanded that he almost run to keep apace. I tell you, Dougie, it would be more advantageous to run that beam straight through with rigid supports rather than with guide wires and a flexible layout, boomed the larger man as they mounted the far sidewalk. The immigrants from Pittsburgh rambled on with talk about alpha and beta, sine and cosine, logs and tangents. As the engrossed engineers started indifferently across the inter- section, the air was rent with the screeching of brakes, and a low-slung auto of recent design jerked to a stop with Vesuvian violence. Only the rocking body evidenced the fact that the car had once been in motion. Watch where you’re goin', mister, drawled an irritated voice from behind the wheel. That's right, watch yourself, echoed the comfortable looking rider. Looks of indignation and embarrassment were replaced by obvious pleasure and recognition as the two engineers simultaneously roared, Ed Dixon and ‘Daddy’ White. Confused conversation began. Oncoming drivers loudly tooted their indifference to the happy meeting. To avoid an approaching policeman, four Lincoln men drove away in a car in which two once rode. Dr. White and Reverend Dixon were taking Engineers Douglass and Callaway to lunch at Hotel Lincoln. In uptown New York Doctors Riley, Rollins and Bryant emerged from the hospital gates, climbed into a car and started toward Hotel Lincoln where they were to lunch with Father Cobham and his distinguished guests. Fathers Galamison and Brown. As the car pulled up before the hotel, the three occupants got out and greeted Persons a goatecd social worker, who stood chatting with the doorman on the canvas-covered walk. The four entered the building. All dignity was dropped when the two parties came together. Their high pitch of anxiety was quelled by the manager who quietly requested that the more violent moments of old home week be spent in the lounge. The group of seven paused stupified as they passed under the arch into the lounge room. There before them sat Dixon and White, Douglass and Callaway engaged in conversation. Bed- lam broke loose, and the ensuing commotion resembled a woman's fire sale. Raucous greet- ings and unprofessional language echoed throughout the building. It was the Class of 1945 in session again. Hour after hour sped by while the small group, huddled together, exchanged experiences in a manner reminiscent of the years gone by. As the twilight of evening set in, passersby heard the fading strains of Alma iMater coming from within. Like a choir of mighty angels the men sang, joined by the spirits and angelic voices of those whom destiny had deprived of the right to graduate with the Class of 1945. Trem- bling hands reached into pockets for handkerchiefs and thrust them skyward with a gesture of triumph and fortitude. “Haiti Hail! Lincoln. 11IVill Live I'ore’er in Memory.” 23

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Some Members of the Seminary Faculty Right to lejt: Dr. Dc Boc. Dr. Kirsh, Dr. Barber, Pro- fessor Nkrumah EDWARD HOLMES Ed graduated from the College Department of Virginia Theological Seminary and College at Lynch- burg, Va. He is a member of the Phi Beta Gamma Scholastic Society at Lynchburg, and an active mem- ber of Lincoln's Philosophy Club. Ed comes from Urbanna, Va. Baptist. THEODIS CLARK This June will mark the end of a seven-year residence at Lincoln for Clark. He graduated from the Col- lege Department in 1942 and re- appeared the following term. Clark comes from West Chester, Pa. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi. Baptist. Missing are Robert Newbold who is on the Held, and Shelton Waters whose picture was not available, 25