Harvard's Lucien Victor Alexis, Jr. '42 and Drue King '42

The cover story in today's Boston Globe Magazine
(12/12/2004), the week that Early Action letters are
sent out, is about a not-so-glorious time in Harvard's
history when two African American undergraduates,
Lucien Victor Alexis, Jr. '42 and Drue King '42, were
respectively excluded from playing with the Harvard
Lacrosse Team against the U. S. Naval Academy and
singing with the Harvard Glee Club at Duke University.
Few in the governing hierarchy at Harvard were
guiltless in allowing this to happen.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/
12/12/southern_discomfort/
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My Dad was the third African American to graduate from
the U.S. Naval Academy (MIT, Aeronautical Engineering
& then years later Harvard B. School's Advance
Management Program) so I am connected to stories from
him about similar indignities he experienced.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu