Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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JAMES W. CARTER Business Manager MESSAGE from the REGISTRAR My Colleagues: You, the class of 1948, make the twenty-sixth class which I have had the pleasure of seeing finish Morgan. You arc the largest class to be grad- uated and I hope and believe you are the best class ever to be graduated. During the past four years we have experienced a phenomenal growth of our Alma Mater which necessitated some over-crowding and the form- ation of lines for services of all kinds. You have been patient, tolerant and philosophical about it all. Thus, you have commanded the respect and ad- miration of all those with whom you have come in contact. If you display the same qualities on and after June 7, 1948, there can be no doubt about your success. You have my best wishes. EDW. N. WILSON Registrar

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 !( ■ Ite. Gl U J f948 It is with peculiar pleasure that I greet this class which terminates its career at Morgan State College along with me. You graduate and I retire. I am sure that we leave with pleasure memories of our experiences at dear old Morgan. You go forth into a world full of perplexities and difficulties, a world requiring the keenest judgment, the most ardent devotion and the highest ideals from those who determine its destinies. Whether you desire to do so or not, you must take part in determining which way the world will move. No sane person anywhere in the world wants another war. Few wanted it in 1914, but we had one in spite of them. After that lesson still fewer wanted it in 1939- but we suffered another cat- aclysm whose effects we are not able even yet to reckon. Only an active and vocal people can prevent a repeti- tion of world disaster and that, it seems to me is your task. If every graduate of 1948 devotes himself absolutely for a while to prevent a war, it can be prevented. If we return to the arts of peace your future depends only upon you. But if war comes, your generation can never know complete joy and happiness. The challenge is one worthy of your best efforts. I bid you God-speed. 1)r. I). O. W. Holmes President Morgan State College 1948

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Dear Class of 1948: After many, many messages to senior classes »t is still a thrilling and in some respects an awe-inspiring experience to address a last word to the class of 1948. I am thrilled because you arc about to reach your objective. I am sobered by the thought that perhaps the col- lege has failed you in some way. May I assure you, however, that whatever failure which may be marked up against us, not one has been by design. We may have failed you through in- ability to judge properly but our hearts have always been honest. We sincerely desired to equip you with the tools of human intercourse to be used with readiness, precision and ac- curacy; we tried to teach you to think and have opinions that were your very own; our aim was to open the secrets of nature to you and give you an understanding of the achievements of men; we attempted to develop your aesthetic- sense so that superior joys will be yours; we have been concerned that you develop a deep sense of loyalty to yourself — your institution and your country. In other words, we have tried our best to help you learn the meaning of LIFE. Subsequent events wil determine the extent to which we have succeeded. May the spirit which has bound us togther thus fat, grow from a thin thread to a strong silken cord as the days and years pass. Sincerely, Dean George C. Brant