July 2016 THE LI NCOLN REVI EW A Newsletter Where Being The First Matters Main Campus University City Coatesville Abroad Comcast SportsNet & NBA’s Overton Announced as New Men’s Head Basketball Coach Comcast SportsNet 76ers analyst and former La Salle University and NBA guard Doug Overton was named the new Lincoln University men’s head basketball coach during a press conference at Lincoln University – University City campus in May. working out for their new coach. They know that on the first day Overton, 46, replaces former head coach John Hill who had of practice a new era will begin and the expectations of them and an overall record of 77-91, and a Central Intercollegiate Athletic the program will be high. That’s what Coach Overton brings to Association record at 44-47, giving Hill a 45.6 winning percentage Lincoln University and I wouldn’t want it any other way.” since his 2010 arrival. Last season, Lincoln went 9-20. Practice begins October 15. “I don’t feel like this is something I’m not ready for,” Overton said. “I’m prepared. I’ve been preparing myself for a long time for Philadelphia Basketball Legend and NBA Standout this. I always wanted to be a teacher. I graduated from La Salle as As a player, Overton played alongside Philadelphia legends an education major, and here’s my chance to teach at the college Bo Kimble and Hank Gathers, helping his Dobbins Technical High level.” School team to a city championship. At La Salle University, he Darryl Pope, Lincoln’s athletic director, who introduced scored more than 1,700 points and earned a place not only in Overton at the press conference, echoed his sentiment. the La Salle University Hall of Athletes, but also the Big Five and “We know that Coach Overton has the knowledge and Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. experience necessary to take Lincoln’s program to the top of Overton, who led his team to three NCAA appearances, the CIAA conference, and we are more than excited,” Pope said. graduated with a bachelor’s degree in elementary and special “Normally as an AD, I look forward to the quiet at the end of a education. In 1992, he was drafted by the Detroit Pistons and long academic year. Right now I can’t wait until October when the had a 11-year career playing for a number of teams, including the basketball season starts.” Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers. When he retired, Pope added: “Coach Overton has spoken to the current Overton was the first retired player to enter the NBA Assistant players on the team and they are excited and have already begun Coaches Program. Bucks County Links Offer Lincoln Lincoln Professor Leads Black Relationships Scholarship Support and Explore Commencement 2016 and Sexuality Conference Partnership University Professor to Publish Scholarly By the Numbers Book 1 July 2016 Bucks County Links Offer Lincoln Scholarship Support and Explore Partnership As part of a renewed Lincoln effort to encourage more support from community and civic organizations, the Bucks County chapter of The Links, Inc. contributed $3,000 toward student scholarships and are exploring ways to partner with the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Bucks County Links, Inc. President Tayna Longino (left) with President Members of the Links chapter made the presentation during Richard Green (center) and LU Trustees Chairwoman Kimberly A. Lloyd (right) an April campus luncheon with University Interim President Richard Green, Board of Trustees Chairwoman Kimberly A. Lloyd ’94, also a Delaware Valley chapter member, and Kevan Turman The event featured a keynote address by Sheila Y. Oliver, Speaker ’01, MSR ’08, interim vice president of Institutional Advancement. Emeritus for the New Jersey General Assembly and a 1974 Lincoln Bucks County Links, Inc. President Tayna Longino explained graduate, who spoke about ways to uplift and empower girls and that the proceeds from its annual Intergenerational Legends Tea young women. event in December funded the Links contribution to Lincoln. (Overton continued) youth in Philadelphia. He is also the founder of the No Opponent Basketball Academy, a program designed to help students ages Coaching experience 6-17 develop life and basketball skills within the Philadelphia tri- Overton’s coaching resumé includes stints as an assistant with state area. the NBA Basketball Without Borders program in Beijing, China, New Jersey Nets and Philadelphia’s Sixers, and head coach of the No Stranger to Lincoln University Springfield Armor of the NBA’s Development League. In addition, “I had family members that graduated from Lincoln,” said he’s also coached with the Nike Skills Academy. At the college Overton. “They (an uncle and others) were some of the first in our level, he began his coaching career as an assistant for Phil Martelli family to go to college. I remember going to those graduations at at Saint Joseph’s University. Lincoln, and that inspired me to further myself.” Throughout his playing career and to date, Overton kept He also added a niece just finished her first year at Lincoln. his roots in Philadelphia and continues to give back. In 1992, he established the Doug Overton Basketball Camp, which is the longest consecutively-run free basketball camp for inner city By The Numbers Student and Greek-lettered Organizations The Lincoln Review is published Present quarterly by: 68 The Office of Communications & Public Relations 1570 Baltimore Pike Lincoln University, PA 19352-0999 72 10 years ago [email protected] Source: 25 years ago Lincoln University Bulletin/Academic Catalog 29 (1995-1998), (2003-2006) and (2015) 2 July 2016 Commencement 2016 Lincoln University’s first alumna president of a college or university, Soraya Coley ’72, touted five “elements” of her own essential life lessons as a road map to success for graduates during her May 13 address at Lincoln University’s 157th Commencement. Coley’s five “elements” were expectations, action, persistence, options and purpose. She and fellow alumna, Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila ’94, who was named and sworn in as the fourth prime minister of Namibia and the first woman in that capacity in March 2015, were awarded honorary degrees. Renyta Nyasha Scales, a biology major from Prince George’s County, Maryland, was named valedictorian. Scales, who earned a 4.0 GPA, will attend medical school in the fall at Penn State University. July 2016 3 program and chairman of the Department of Counseling and Lincoln Professor Leads Black Human Services, moderated the conference discussions. Lincoln presenters included professors in the Master of Relationships and Sexuality Human Services program Virginia Smith, Frank Worts and Vivian Price, and professor in the Master of Education program Dipali Conference Puri. He said the attendees include health scholars and clinicians Four Lincoln University professors presented their research who are interested in Black culture, relationships, identity, social at a psychology conference themed “Black Americana” held at the resilience, and activism. University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas from April 25-26. Lincoln professor James C. Wadley founded the conference’s host organization, the Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians. Wadley, director of the Master of Human Services University Professor to Publish Scholarly Book Cambridge Scholars Publishing will publish “Memory and The Poetics of Remembering,” a collection of essays edited by Abbes Maazaoui, a professor in Lincoln’s Department of Languages and Literature. The book examines the issues of representation, transmission, and circulation of memory, as well as the role of personal, cultural and collective memory in shaping meanings, values, attitudes and identities. It also addresses how dominant narratives of the past are reproduced and challenged. At least one chapter will address the legacy of Lincoln University and its founding vision. The book is slated for publication this fall. Maazaoui serves as editor of The Lincoln Humanities Journal published annually by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The peer-reviewed journal is now in its fourth year of publication. .