Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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MANUEL RIVERO, M.S. Director of Physical Education Class Advisor To the Class of 1949: It would be easy to fall into a sentimental vein in expressing a word of parting to you and hard to put into words the feeling that saying goodbye to a group of men with whom one has lived and worked for four years always brings. Nevertheless, I want you to know that the experience of watching you develop from your freshman uncertainty, watching some of you make the difficult transition from military to civilian life, winning and losing with some of you on the athletic fields, and finally sponsoring you as a group of confident, responsible men, has been a pleasure and one of those intangible compensations which come to the teacher and coach. As you part from us it is my hope that you have learned to win gracefully or lose with spirit undefeated, in life as we have done so often here together. You have proved yourselves worthy Lincoln men; may life find you worthy citizens of a better world which so many of you fought to create. Sincerely yours, t Eleven

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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

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 JESSE BELMONT BARBER, D.D. BERNARD BARROW. M.A. Professor of Homiletics (Seminary) Instructor in English and Dramatics HENRY J. BOOKER. Mus.B Ass t Professor of Music FACULTY EMBRA C. BOWIE, M.S. Instructor in Physical Education JAMES H. BROWN. S.T.B. Ass't Professor of Systematic Theology (Seminary) WILLIAM R. COLE, M.S. Burl{itt Webb Professor of Physics