<p>Sorry to hear about Bob Burnett. I had just taken a look at the Original Highwaymen’s website last weekend.</p>
<p>About the Harvard Crimson article from 1952–that “Negro boy from Hartford” that was allowed to join Delta Upsilon was none other than Edgar Beckham, the first African-American Dean at Wesleyan and one of the most celebrated figures of the university community in the 20th century as described in this page from our website: [The</a> Wesleyan Connection: Campus News](<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2006/0506beckham.html]The”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2006/0506beckham.html).</p>
<p>It is also of note that the writer on the Harvard Crimson misspelled Beckham’s last name as “Beckhan”.</p>
<p>Oh, those annoying dial phones of the fifties. He must have been using a noisy party line.</p>