Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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“. . . Memories linger with us through the passing years. This is why we have chosen to dedicate our yearbook to Dean Frank T. Wilson. We feel that we are greatly indebted to him, for in his complex role of father confessorbig brotherpoliceman social coordinator and what'have'you, we are sure that quite often to him we were plainly a pain in the neck. He was the man we first met in Freshman Orientation Week in September 1946, and he was the first man who made the lasting impression on all of us. To us he became Lincoln. Last year he left us to assume the Deanship of the Howard University School of Religion, taking with him a good part of all of us. In his new job we wish him Godspeed. We wish we could do more. Let this book, then, stand as emblematic of our devotion to you, Dean Wilson, and to the great heritage of which you have helped us become an integral part. In the words of the “rabble, “You're a great guy!

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 Dear Mid-Century Class of 1950: In an old, historic institution like Lincoln, every graduating class can find a link to our storied past in some allusive distinction. The class of 1950 graduates in the year di- viding the Twentieth Century. A half-hundred years of war and mass murder and hatred, un- prccedented in human history, lie behind you. During this same period growing scientific knowledge has so extended the span of human life expectancy that it is assured that a goodly number of your class will be able to foregather here at Commencement time in the year 2000, for your fiftieth reunion. Lincoln University rests many hopes in you: the hope for a long and happy life; the hope that you may find the success of satisfaction in your chosen career; the hope that you may enjoy a happy family life, that sons and daugh- ters may arise to experience with you the unfolding wonders of the rest of the Twentieth Century and that portion of the Twenty-first many of you will live to see. Our fondest hope, of course, is that the next half-century will be a better one than that just passing; and that the class of 1950 will be fore- most in seeing that this is brought to pass. With the perennial reawakening of joyful confidence in the future each Commencement justly summons, we turn our backs on the past and view a better future wrought for all hu- manity by Lincoln University men of the class of 1950. Horace Mann Bond. President of the University