Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY DONALD C. YELTON A.B., Hamilton; M.A., Georgetown; M.S., Columbia Dear Graduates of 1961: Among Lincoln’s graduating classes you have the dubious distinction of having entered and de- parted under the aegis of a temporary administration. These years in which you have been tested and examined to prove your capacity have also been testing years, and years of self- examination. for Lincoln. She has been obliged to rethink her mission and to rechart her course, and to do so under circumstances of unexpected difficulty. That the task has been arduous and prolonged is an index of its magnitude; that Lincoln has been able to meet the challenge and to come through the difficult years is a tribute to the soundness of her tradition and to the devotion of many men who have kept faith with that tradition. The challenge has been met in an era of administrative impermanence--thus testifying all the more clearly to the toughness and. viability of ideals and of institutions that worthily embody them. You take your leave of Lincoln on the threshold of an era of permanent leadership and of the fulfillment of many things now in matrix. There are grounds for regret here; but there is also a special incentive--to which I hope you will respond--to maintain close bonds with your Alma Mater, to give your close attention to the events in store for her, and your liberal support to the efforts that will be required to bring them to maturity. To the record of her graduates--as professional men, as citizens, as local alumni--Lincoln looks for the ultimate justification of her existence. For this justification--which has not been found wanting in the past--she now looks to you, the Class of 1961, who have received your instruction during these four years of transition from one epoch of her institutional existence to another. 6

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We, the class of 1961, dedicate this book to a woman who is not only a philosopher, teacher, mother and wife, but also to a scholar and educator with a love for mankind. The type of love that inspires one to contribute whatever he can to the welfare of humanity. She has taught us that philosophy opens our minds to those possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from prejudices; that philosophy disminished our feelings of certainty as to what things should be; that philosophy teaches us to substitute our narrow and personal aims for an active part in the greater aim, that aim being the freedom, equality, and prosperity of mankind. It is with sincere appreciation for everything that we dedicate to this very modest and unassum- ing lady the 1961 Lion. Dr. Beardsley, we deem ourselves fortunate to have known you. 5

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