Letter to Alumnus re: Interracial Contributions

Letter to Alumnus re: Interracial Contributions

Alumnus questions cross-burning incident on campus

This official university correspondence from April 1960 documents the response from Dean John C. Hayward () to an alumnus who had expressed concern at a cross-burning incident that took place at outside a Bucknell fraternity. He condemns the incident that happened outside Phi Lambda Theta, but he argues that investigation into the perpetrators proves that it was not a hate crime or racist attack. Hayward (Bucknell Dean of Student Affairs from 1958-1969) focuses on highlighting the good going on at Bucknell by way of "interracial and intercultural contributions." Some of this good includes Phi Lambda Theta fraternity's election of a black president, a proposal under consideration for a scholarship for a black student from the south (The Betty Ann Quinn Scholarship), and the Howard University exchange program.

John. C. Hayward, Dean

Office of Student Affairs

The Griot Institute

April 15, 1960

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