Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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DEAN Dear Graduates of 1956: I have been asked to write a farewell note to the 1956 class, but “Farewell” is so final. Such a term implies that the graduate is relegating his college days to an absolutely completed portion of hir life. Likewise, it may mean that hereafter the student will have only memories which will gradually dim as the years flow along. 'I'he Morgan faculty and administration fervently hope that the motivations, incen- tives, and inspiration, which arc the concomitants of formal education, have been so ingrained in our graduates that the influence of the college years will continue to be potent forces directing their lives. It seems that we should not say farewell to our Alma Mater. For all of life we will continue to be important factors in the Morgan community. The real Morgan spirit demands nothing less. Therefore, I say to the Class of 1956. “So long, friends, until we meet again. In the years that lie ahead, I know you will not be satisfied with less than the best both in striving and in achieving. With hest regards. GEORGE C. GRANT Dean 9

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PRESIDENT To the Class of 1956 Dear Seniors: Farewell! Today you surge eagerly against the barriers which for four years have encircled you during a significant and most critical period of your training for the race cf life. We here can give you no more now other than our fervent prayers that you will run well the course which lies before you. Each year as 1 attempt critical appraisal of the young people who leave us. 1 seek anew the answer to a three-fold query: What did you bring with you to college? What did you find during your sojourn here? What arc you taking away? Surely it is not too much to hope that each of you brought to your college experience an open mind, eager and alert to absorb with profit a course of intensive preparation; that you found here friendly and competent guidance as you mastered the skills and forged the tools which are to serve you in later life; and that you take away a goodly portion of the Promethean spark with which to touch the lives of other people and inspire them to follow you in their quest for the good way of life. 'Phis to you is our farewell. Cordially yours MARTIN D. JENKINS President

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES E. Dale Adkins Williard W. Allen Carrington L. Davis Richard W. Emory Bliss Forbush L. Manuel Hcndler Josiah F. Henry, Jr. Ivan E. McDougle Carl J. Murphy, Chairman Martin D. Jenkins, President of Morgan James H. Carter, Jr.. Secretary Deceased These Civil-minded individuals who freely donated their time and energy to safeguard the rights and privi- leges of students at Morgan to acquire an education. 10