Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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messages to the class from the president October 30, 1972 Your class, the Class of 1973, will have forever a most significant position in Lincoln’s history, for you are the first graduating class since Lincoln became State-related in July, 1972. That means that you are no longer just a graduate of Lincoln University but of Lincoln University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. State-relatedness means that Lincoln can expect greatly increased Commonwealth support for education- al programs designed to meet the needs of the citizens of Pennsylvania. Yet nothing will be just handed to Lincoln, we shall have to design, propose, and — above all — to carry to completion imaginative, effective programs. And as we succeed in doing that Lincoln will grow in esteem and relevance, so that your lives will be favored by the enhanced role of your alma mater. As you prepare to leave Lincoln, we hope that the years here have been truly liberating. Strange it is that the essential nature of your educat ion at Lincoln was so ably predicted by Homer so many hundreds of years ago. I hope you recall in the Iliad wherein Peleus chose Phoenix as tutor for the young Achilles and gave Phoenix the assignment to teach him two things: “To make thee a doer of deeds, and a master too of speech.” Lincoln has produced many doers of deeds and masters of speech. Sincerely each of these is not a simple quality attainable without a host of other, perhaps secondary but nevert heless essential, qualit ies that your work and life at Lincoln have set you upon the road to their genuine mastery. Tragically you leave Lincoln at a time in the history of the world when the outlook is bleak. Pessimism is widespread. Some insist that the problems are just too complex when in reality they are just confused. May you join eagerly in relieving that confusion and in moving towards the brave now world. Sincerely Yours, U- 0. HRB jch Herman R. Branson President

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in University founded alma mater Dear Lincoln, Dear Lincoln Thy Sons will e're be true! The golden hours we’ve spent beneath The dear old Orange and Blue Will live for e're in memory. As guiding stars through life; For thee our Alma Mater dear, We'll rise in our might. For we love every inch of thy sacred soil Every tree on thy campus green: And for thee with our might We will ever toil That thou mightest be supreme. We’ll raise thy standard to the sky Midst glory and honor to fly; And constant and true. We will live for thee anew Our Dear Orange and Blue Hail! Hail! Lincoln! A. Dennie Bibb, '13

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from the dean of students . . THE LINCOLN UNIVERSITY Office of the Dean of Students October 24,1972 The need for well educated men and women of all races is still one of the great human concerns at home and abroad. You have manifested your concern by completing the requirements for the undergraduate degree at Lincoln; and by so doing, you have added your personal contribution to the human resources of our country and the world. It would seem as though that might be all one asks of you but that is not so. You have many added responsibilities: 1. You must continue your intellectual growth and maturation. 2. You must find greater ways to eliminate human suffering. 3. You must add to the cumulative knowledge of the world. 4. You must make freedom a reality in our time. 5. You must seek out opportunities to make constructive change and extend yourself to those less fortunate than yourself. These are not new requests for the educated and the enlightened, but they represent basic issues of man- kind that unite all men and women in a continuing process of trying to make the world a better place in which to live. I am pleased that we can add your heart, hands and minds to this enormous task. 4