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...court” interrogated suspected homosexuals within the student body and the surrounding community. While the court disbanded after just a few weeks, Harvard’s campaign against these gay and “gay-friendly” students continued for decades. One of the students, Joseph E. Lumbard ’22, who was never implicated in any overtly homosexual acts and was reinstated to the College after a year-long suspension, went on to become a prominent New York City lawyer. In 1953, as then-President Eisenhower considered Lumbard for a federal appointment, the FBI contacted...
...final student involved in the first investigative wave was Joseph E. Lumbard, Jr. ’22, Say’s roommate, who was summoned on June 2. He testified that Say knew the rest of the accused “pretty well.” Lumbard, though, also knew almost everyone in the group and was aware of the rumors that his roommate had homosexual relations with Courtney and Cummings. The crowd was having a strong influence on his roommate, Lumbard told The Court. Recently, he said, Say had even started using rouge. There had been a marked change...
Expressing serious reservations about his roommate, Lumbard told The Court he was “not sure that Say has been telling the truth.” Lumbard was clear, though, in saying that he did not believe his roommate or Day should be thrown out of the college. He also appears to have been the first of several witnesses to inform The Court of Roberts’ plan to stay at Harvard: “If he is expelled,” Lumbard told them, “Roberts threatens publicity...
...first party Lumbard and Say attended was in December, he told The Court in a second appearance. He said “faggots” from a club called the Golden Rooster were present at the bash, referred to as a “bitch party.” There was dancing, dressing in women’s clothes and “some kissing witnessed.” Lumbard said he did not drink, but that he danced once, before leaving at about 1:30 a.m. Several times afterward, Lumbard dropped by the parties in Perkins...
...told The Court that he had never had relations with a woman. Apparently connecting onanism with homosexuality, The Court asked Lumbard, as they had several of the students before, if he frequently masturbated. He told them that he had masturbated six years before, but not since then...