Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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HORACE MANN BOND, Ph.D. President of the University To the Class of 1949: You graduate in one of Lincoln University's most historical years. You are the first full post'World War II class; the 95th anniversary class, from the founding; the 90th anniversary class of the first graduates. In five years you can return to celebrate your first reunion at the time of your Alma Mater's Centennial celebration. It is good to honor historical memories, and to commemorate the great deeds of those who have gone before. It is better to make history in your own right. It is better, to use the stimulating inspiration of the past as a starting point from which to reach new individual and insti- tutional goals of achievement. It is then my hope that the Class of 1949 will be a history'making class for Lincoln University. Undoubtedly many of its members will be distinguished individually at home and abroad for their achievements. It is my deeper hope that beyond public acclaim, the members of the class of 1949 will be distinguished by that heroic personal satisfaction that comes to men who with disciplined minds and character, do the job the world gives them to do; and do it with simplicity, with integrity, with good spirits, and with concern for their fellow man. It is not improbable that the next 95 years of human history will mark a change in the tokens of individual success. It has been, pelf and profit; it may well become, unselfish service to the State and to the Human Race. If this is so, this University was founded on the foundation of ideals beyond its times; and we come only now to the chronological period in which the institutional ideal promises to be the social and national and world goal. It is for such a world that we yearn; it is such a world that you can help build. May the class of 1949 be truly the architects of a world where distinction rests with those who serve humanity, and not themselves! Sincerely,

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OFFICERS OF UNIVERSITY HORACE MANN BOND, Ph.D. President of the University HAROLD FETTER GRIM, M S Dean of the University JOSEPH NEWTON HILL, A.M. Dean of the College JESSE BELMONT BARBER, D.D. Dean of the Seminary FRANK THEODORE WILSON, Ed.D. Dean of Students PAUL KUEHNER, Ph.D. Registrar AUSTIN H. SCOTT, Ph.B. Business Manager TRUSTEES OF L. U. THE HONORABLE JAMES H. DUFF Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Tear of Expiration First Election of term 1924 FRANCIS SHUNK DOWNS, D.D, Berkeley, California............... 1956 1927 EUGENE PERCY ROBERTS, M.D., New York, New York............... 1955 1930 HUGH W. RENDALL, D.D, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania............... 1956 1932 JOHN H. GROSS, D.D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania............... 1949 1936 WALTER G. ALEXANDER, M.D, Orange, New Jersey................. 1952 1937 THOMAS M. McMILLAN, M.D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.......... 1950 1939 WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Ph.D, D.D, Princeton. New Jersey........ 1952 1940 PAUL R. LEWIS, New York, New York............................ 1953 1940 LEWIS M. STEVENS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania................. 1955 1941 CHARLES R. WHITTEESEY, Ph.D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..... . 1949 1942 WALTER D. FULLER, LL.D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania........... 1956 1944 THERON W. LOCKE. New York, New York.......................... 1949 1944 ROBERT F. MAINE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.................. 1950 1944 HERBERT E. MILLEN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania................ 1951 1944 WALTER M. PHILLIPS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania............... 1952 1945 JOHN H. WARE, III, Oxford, Pennsylvania...................... 1953 1945 HORACE MANN BOND, LL.D, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania,.. 1954 1946 JOHN T. COLBERT, D.D, Baltimore, Maryland.................... 1954 1947 WILLIAM B. PUGH, D.D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania............. 1953 1947 THCMAS G. SPEERS, D.D, Baltimore, Maryland................... 1954 1947 DAVID G. MORRIS, M.D, Bayonne, New Jersey.................... 1955 1948 OWEN J. ROBERTS, LL.D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania............ 1951 ALUMNI TRUSTEES 1945 EDWARD R. ARCHER, M.D. Norfolk, Virginia..................... 1951 1947 GEORGE D. CANNON, M.D, New York. New York.................... 1950 1947 WILLIAM I. GOSNELL, Baltimore, Maryland...................... 1949 Eifiht

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June, 1949 To the Class of '49: That you came to Lincoln was good judgment. That you remained was good fortune. That you escaped the sundry hazards to student survival is a tribute to your persistency of effort. On the day of graduation from the College you receive from Alma Mater not only the appropriate reward for academic achievement, but also a release of awakened energies by which you may reckon with the more taxing problems of a com' plex world. It matters little that you remained here. It matters profoundly what you did here. Less importance attaches to the variety of your activities than to the kind of person that you have become. Older in years, you are also clearer in thought and more precise in critical reflection; Heavier in your store of facts, you are also wiser in making choices and reaching decisions; Freer from the impediments of ignorance and childish whims, you stand today as men whose clear vision and high purpose will save you from trivial living and squandered human powers. The gifts and the blessings now conferred are not to you for yourselves alone. They are but resources placed in your hands to be refined, expanded and used as you labor to emancipate your fellowmen from ignorance, injustice, disease and despair. In this you may not find ease, nor comfort, nor high prestige; but you may experience that deep satisfaction which comes to men who rise to the height of their understanding and their strength in response to a divinely inspired urge to live nobly and to serve well. Do not deny the urge and do not dissipate the gifts. To you my continuing good wishes! With you my highest hopes! Sincerely yours, — T;n