Beam retired from coaching after last season and remained as the school's athletic director. Beam and I first met more than 30 years ago, and I've sat in that office several times, the one with the wall covered with framed and signed jerseys from the players he coached who went on to play in the NFL. The office is the first one on the left at the top of an open staircase in the school's field house. The door was always open.
This man is a true Oakland legend and GREAT man. Gave me my first Job at Laney Football games...Hundreds of kids all over Oakland became the type of men they are today because of this dude and for someone from that exact world to randomly come and take his life just ain't right...