Three services will be held this week in remembrance of Christian L. Ohiri '64, who died of lung cancer at his home in Owerri, Nigeria, last Monday.
Ohiri, called "the greatest soccer player ever at Harvard" by Coach Bruce Monro, was 28.
Today there will be a service in Memorial Church at 2 p.m. Requiem masses will be held at St. Mary's Church, Melrose, tomorrow at 7:30 a.m., and at St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, Thursday, at 5 p.m. Ohiri sang in the choir at St. Paul's.
The first sign of lung cancer came this summer, when Ohiri collapsed while playing tennis at the Harvard Business School.
While attending Harvard under the Afro-American Scholarship program, Ohiri set every scoring record in the Harvard soccer book: game (five goals), season (17 goals), carrer (47 goals) -- even though he missed much of his sophomore and junior seasons because of leg injuries As a freshman, he scored 36 goals in nine games.
Ohiri also holds the Harvard and IC4A track records for the triple jump and the Briggs Cage record for the broad jump.
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