Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Lincoln
University Honors Distinguished Alumni During Founder’s
Day Weekend on May 3 at University’s Living and Learning
Center
Harvard University Professor
Emeritus
Martin Kilson and Baseball Hall of Famer Monte Irvin are
among the Honorees.
Lincoln
University, PA (www.lincoln.edu)—Lincoln University,
the nation’s first Historically Black University,
will celebrate its rich legacy by honoring six of its
distinguished Alumni during the University’s annual
Founder’s Day and Alumni Awards Banquet on Saturday,
May 3 at the Thurgood Marshall Living and Learning Center
at 6 p.m. A full weekend of campus activities will be
culminated when the University honors six of its outstanding
alumni during an evening awards dinner ceremony. Through
the years, Lincoln has educated a growing list of alumni
who have distinguished themselves in many fields and made
a significant impact on the nation and world. In the tradition
of the rich Lincoln legacy, the University’s will
honor the following luminaries who exemplify the University’s
ideals of leadership and service in their respective fields:
Lloyd
E. Asparagus, Jr. ’68
A
faithful and loyal Son of Lincoln University, Lloyd E.
Asparagus, Jr. has worked in a variety of managerial positions
at his Alma Mater shortly after leaving the U.S. Army
in 1973. He graduated from Lincoln in 1968 with a bachelor
of arts degree in business administration. Currently,
he serves as University Bursar, responsible for student
billing and collection of tuition and fees. Asparagus
began his employment at Lincoln as an accountant in 1974.
Two years later, he was promoted to the position of business
manager. From 1989 to 1993, he served as vice president
for Fiscal Affairs and Treasurer. He has also held the
titles of administrative manager and financial aid director.
Charisse
Carney-Nunes ’88
Charisse Carney-Nunes is a 1988 Lincoln University alumna.
She began her education on campus as a member of the University's
LASER (Lincoln Advanced Science and Engineering Reinforcement)
program and ultimately graduated magna cum laude with
a degree in physics. While at Lincoln, she was a member
of Alpha Chi National Honor Society and a recipient of
the White House Initiative Award for Excellence in Science
and Technology, Lincoln University Ladies Auxiliary Award,
and a national recipient of the Outstanding Young Woman
of Delta Sigma Theta Award. Carney-Nunes works as an attorney
for the National Science Foundation (NSF). She graduated
in 1992 from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government with a master's degree in public
affairs, and Juris Doctor from the Harvard Law School.
Monford
M. (Monte) Irvin, ex ’42
Elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973,
Monford Merrill (Monte) Irvin, who played shortstop, was
one of the Black pioneers of baseball to integrate the
Major Leagues. A star professional player from the time
he joined the Newark (N.J.) Eagles of the famed Negro
Baseball Leagues in 1938, Irvin was a power hitter who
led the league in hitting with a .395 average in 1941.
He also joined the New York Giants organization in 1949
and remained on the team until he closed out his career
as an active player with the Chicago Cubs in 1956. Irvin
was a representative for the Reingold Brewery from 1957
to 1968. In 1968, he was appointed Special Assistant to
the Baseball Commissioner, and served in that role until
his retirement in 1984. In 1979, he was voted “New
Jersey’s Greatest Athlete” and inducted into
the Lincoln University Alumni Hall of Fame in 1988.
William
C. King, Esquire, ‘73
William C. King currently serves as Director of the Office
of Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity, U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington,
D.C. That office has nationwide responsibility for the
Department’s Equal Employment Opportunity Programs
designed to ensure the enforcement of Federal laws relating
to the elimination of all forms of employment discrimination
in the Department’s employment practices. King holds
a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Lincoln
University, Pa., and the degree of Juris Doctor from the
Northern Virginia School of Law. In addition, he served
as a member of the Lincoln University Board of Trustees
from 1993 to 2002, serving as Parliamentarian and later
as Vice Chairman
Dr.
Martin L. Kilson, Jr. ’53
Dr. Martin L. Kilson, Jr. is the Frank G. Thomson Professor
of Government Emeritus at Harvard University. Dr. Kilson
received his bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University
in 1953 was the valedictorian of his graduating class.
From Lincoln, Dr. Kilson went on to earn his master’s
degree and Ph.D., respectively, in political science at
Harvard University. In 1968, Dr. Kilson, who recently
retired, became the first African-American to be granted
full tenure at Harvard University. A prolific writer who
has authored numerous social and political articles on
Black life in scholarly journals, Dr. Kilson has written
several books including Political Change in a West African
State: A Study of the Modernization Process (1966) and
Crisis and Change in the Negro Ghetto (1973).
Dr.
Clisson M. Woods ‘64
Dr. Clisson Maurice Woods, a 1964 Lincoln University graduate,
is a radiologist from East Point, Georgia, near Atlanta.
He specializes in nuclear medicine. On November 3, 2001,
Dr. Woods established the Roslyn Woods Bogle Memorial
Endowment Fund (named for his deceased aunt) with a gift
of $20,000 to benefit the University's Langston Hughes
Memorial Library. The fund established a special collection
of literary books and contributed to general operating
costs at the library. After earning his baccalaureate
degree from Lincoln, Dr. Woods later graduated from Howard
University Medical School in 1971. He completed his residency
in radiology at New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry,
in Newark, in 1975. The next year, he completed his residency
in nuclear medicine at Hahnemann University Hospital in
Philadelphia.
