SPECIAL COLLECTIONS S^ LION LINCOLN UNiVc.i5..'-fY,rA 19352 ALUMNI BULLETIN-LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (USPS 313-940) LINCOLN UNIVERSITY. PA 19352 WINTER-SPRING 1986 University Reopens Search for New President The search for a new permanent of the four state-related universities president for Lincoln University has of the Commonwealth System of been reopened, according to the Rev. Higher Education in Pennsylvania. A LeRoy Patrick, chairman of Lincoln's coeducational university, Lincoln Board of Trustees. offers degrees in the arts and Advertisements read as follows: sciences, business, music, and other The Board of Trustees seeks an fields. Lincoln is located 45 miles outstanding individual to assume the southwest of Philadelphia, Pa. and 55 presidency of Lincoln University, the miles north of Baltimore, Md. The nation's oldest historically Black current enrollment is approximately University. The challenging position 1100 students. Full-time staff consists requires a person with an educational of 76 faculty members, • 21 ad- vision and proven high-level ad- ministrators, and 35 support per- ministrative and fund-raising sonnel. The Search Committee will abilities. The successful candidate begin to review candidates in mid- should have superior interpersonal April. Nominations or expressions of skills, as .well as a distinguished interest (including a resume) should record of scholarly achievements be submitted to: and/or equivalent professional ac- Dr. LeRoy Patrick, Chairman complishments in higher education. Presidential Search Committee An earned doctorate is preferred. Lincoln University Lincoln University, which has earned Lincoln University, PA 19352 a national reputation for academic Lincoln University is an Equal Op- excellence during its 132 years, is one portunity Employer. • Commencement Weekend May 2-4, 1986 U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker, '36. Profiles—Three Lincoln Table of Contents on Page 2 Men Who Wear The Black Robe of Justice U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE: President Reagan's assailant; Richard Barrington D. Parker. Helms, the former Central In- telligence Agency director accused of Barrington D. Parker, who in his 16 lying to a Senate committee; Otto E. years as a U.S. District Court Judge Passman, a former U.S. congressman has handled some of Washington's charged with accepting a bribe; and most celebrated cases, has taken the three accused murderers of a former position .of senior judge, a post which Chilean ambassador. will afford him a reduced case load. Parker once blocked President "I had no way of dreaming the sort Carter from issuing wage and price of things that would come across my guidelines, ruled invalid a life," says the semiretired Parker, 70, congressional amendment that whose passionate and aggressive barred Communists from job training approach has gained him a reputation programs, and — in one of the rulings as a crusty, highly independent, no- of which he says he is most proud — nonsense • judge. "When I was refused to accept a plea bargain in a growing up, you know, Washington foreign bribery case until attorneys was quite a different city. I've seen revealed the name of the official who segregation and discrimination in its received the bribes. rawest terms. It lives with you." After graduating from Lincoln in Defendants in Parker's courtroom ACTRESS RUBY DEE recently appeared at Lincoln with her husband actor have included John W. Hinckley, Jr., (SM PROFILES, Page 4) Ossie Davis (see CAMPUS BRIEFS on Page 3). The Lion 2 Circ. 5,000 Winter-Spring 1986 Edition Class TABLE OF CONTENTS Secretaries Directory 1 University Reopens Search for New President (Continued from Page 7) 79 Profiles: Three Lincoln Men Who Wear the Black Robe of Justice John Sparks 614 E. Woodlawn Street Philadelphia, PA 19144 2 Alumni Notes (Phone number unavailable) '80 3 New Alumni Directory Set for Release Celestine J. Julien 804 Park Place Brooklyn, NY 11216 Campus Briefs — Featuring recent Campus Visitors (212)467-8659 5 Class Notes '81 SharenA. Bevans 145 Cobbs Creek Pkwy. 6 InMemoriam Philadelphia, PA 19139 (215)747-8851 7 Class Secretaries Directory '82 Winifred J. Parrish 155 Pleasant Street Philadelphia, PA 19119 (215)848-7908 '83 Jolinda Agnew 4736 Benning Road, SE, No. 2 from the Desk of the Executive Secretary Washington, DC 20019 (Phone number unavailable) '84 Theresa Robinson ALUMNI NOTES 224 York Street Apt. 2-F Classes ending in 1 and 6 will hold •Brooklyn, NY '11201 •--"' reunions in May. (718)858-0935 '85 To secure a copy of the Lincoln Tracey Hamilton University Gospel Ensemble album, 2113 Morris Street send $8 (postage and handling in- Philadelphia, PA 19145 cluded) to the Executive Secretary (Phone number unavailable) • along with your 1985-86 dues (if you have not already paid them)- Entitled God Has Never Failed Me Yet, the album was recorded live in (All questions and comments regarding class Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel in secretaries should be made to Dr. Frank T. December 1983. Checks should be Coleman, director, Office of Alumni Relations, made payable to the General Alumni Lincoln University.) Association. If you have no special use for S&H green stamps, send them to the Executive Secretary who can put them to good use. • DR. H. ALFRED FARRELL The Lincoln University Lion is published quarterly (fall, winter, spring, and summer) by Lincoln University, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, MOVING? 19352. Telephone: (215) 932-U300. Please notify the LU Lion 4 weeks in advance. To change or correct your address, please send this form to: Lincoln Lion Entered as second class mail at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania under — Alumni Bulletin, Lincoln University, Lincoln University, Act of August 24, 1912. USPS 313-940. Pa.19352 Compiled and Edited by the Office of Name Public Relations and Publications {Please Print) Editor/Director Sam W. Pressley Editorial Assistant Mary Alice Lyons New Address. Photographers Robert A. Adams City Milton Barbehenn Morris T. Brown II State Zip. Vice President for Development Dr. William E. Gardner, Jr. Class Director of Alumni Relations Dr. Frank T. Coleman ATTACH OLD ADDRESS LABEL Alumni Secretary Dr. H. Alfred Farrell from your latest Issue Winter-Spring 1986 Edition The Lion 3 Campus Briefs Alumni Some recent and prominent campus visitors have included: ' • The husband and wife team of Directory actor Ossie Davis and actress Ruby Dee, who spoke and performed March 10 at Brown Memorial Chapel. • Still active, still crusading, and Set for still a voice to be heard, Jamas Meredith, spoke February 12, at Brown Chapel. Meredith gained Release worldwide attention in 1962 when he became the first black person to enroll at the University of Mississippi. It led to the calling of thousands of Many alumni have already received federal troops to quell the many telephone calls from the Harris rioters who opposed integration. Publishing Company, publishers of our official Alumni Directory. The purpose of the telephone contact is to verify the information alumni provided on the directory questionnaires and the current in- formation held on alumni records. At the same time, the telephone representatives of the publishing company are inviting alumni to purchase personal copies of the Dick Gregory directory. The directory is tentatively scheduled for release in August or sponsored by the Physics Department the U.S. Court of Appeals in September 1986. as part of Lincoln's observance of Philadelphia, gave a spellbinding If you are interested in ordering a Black History Month, according to speech on Dr. King's place in world copy and have not heard from the Physics instructor Irvin Heard. history and "noble" contributions in publisher by June 27, 1986, you may Originally from Guyana, South the area of civil rights. contact the publisher direct at the America, Dr. Van Sertima is the • Novelist Ishmael Reed lectured following address: Customer Service author of the highly acclaimed "They December 5, at Mary Dod Brown Department, Bernard C. Harris Came Before Columbus: The African Chapel. Reed has published 11 novels Publishing Company, Inc., 3 Barker Presence in Ancient America." He is and was nominated for the Pulitzer Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601. James Meredith associate professor of African Studies Prize and The National Book Award in la 1966, Meredith launched the at Rutgers University and editor of the 1973. He is an associate fellow of Yale The directory will be divided into March Against Fear, a crusade across Journal of African Civilizations. He is University's Calhoun College and a four sections. The first part will Mississippi to encourage black voter also editor of a number of recent member of the Academy of American contain interesting pictures and registration. At the march's outset, books. poets. His appearance was sponsored information on the University, and Meredith was shot by a white man; • Two prominent figures visited the by the English Department and the will be followed by an alphabetical when he later recovered, he was campus to help the University Tolson Society. • section with individual listings on joined on his walk by civil rights commemorate the January 15 bir- each alum. leaders Martin Luther King and thday of slain civil rights leader the Stokely Carmichael. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Entries will include name, class Today, as one of the legends of the Humorist and human rights activist year, degree, and professional in- Civil Rights Movement, Meredith is Dick Gregory, delivered one of his Support formation such as job title, firm the leading proponent of "black inspiring talks January 13 before an name, address and telephone, as reunification," a program of en- overflow crowd at Wright Hall. well as home address and phone. The trepreneurism, community self- The next day, January 14, A. Leon third secticn will list alumni by class sufficiency, and the establishing of Higginbotham, Jr., circuit judge for Lincoln and the last index will list alumni better U.S.