Kings College - Regis Yearbook (Wilkes Barre, PA)

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W. FRANCIS SWINGLE William Francis Swingle is not an old man, and yet, like an old man, he has seen a whole era of Kings College pass by. He saw a tifamily atmosphereii die, an age of sophlstication, growing anonymity, and the hrst murmurs of organized student dissent begin. A generation rises, and a eneration passes away - in sixteen years. hen Frank Swingle came to Kings, students thought of drugs as penicillin, and the machinations of American foreign policy were just not uestioned. Things were not so complex then; an embryonic college, like ingis did not make the demands on its wards . . . graduate school was very far away, a dream. But there was, for all the post-war hangups, a kind of courage then, a combined effort on everyoneis part to get Kingls on its feet. A young Frank Swingle came to Kings in its early ears. yThen a long period of saneness set in. During the Eisenhower years, America, its people, its institutions, became com lacent. ltlnvolvedli to most people, still connoted someone being in trou 1e, with the law, with another manis wife. Involvement. W. Francis Swingle, Valle Toastmaster and teacher of athletes, the man who bestowed countless 'sses 0n homecoming queens, and had a reputation for being able to consume countless bottles of beer, W. Francis Swingle was caught up in the age when the 01d meaning of the word was transformed into a fresh new one signifying committment to ones fellow man. Frank had seen Kingsmen and friends liinvolvedll in every possible kind of imbroglio, and he was so often the man tiinvolvedll enough to bring them out of it. The former seminarian realized Christianity was more than makin every First Friday. He knew about suffering, for he had seen peop e suffer, and sulTered with them, saw men wreck their lives - and died a little himself. New peo 1e were coming to Kings, though, and the name ttSwinglel, became con used with the unny le ends, With the hold Kin isl, faculty members were trlging to forget, an the new classes of stu ents never remembered. W. rancis Swingle was dplumped down into the maelstrom of change, and he desperately wante to interpret what was happening. But never once, as the isolation drew in, and the communication became more difficult, did Frank Swingle condemn. He stood by the College, the students, their opinions, and the changes. While he never forgot the years of school spirrt, his old friends, or his famous gesture, he knew he had to learn about the future, and live in the present. Frank Swingle sat down at a cafeteria table one day, and listened . . . DEDICA T I 0N

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