Lee, who is Korean-American, comes from Tenafly, New Jersey. The borough (pop. 13,326), a New York suburb, is an upper middle class area with an active Asian community. Lee went to the local suburban public high school, which sends about two students to Harvard each year and has a good tennis team.

Lee and Sword shared few friends outside of Evening With Champions organizers In Eliot House, but both were well-known and popular in the house.

Eliot had been Lee's first choice, and he was ecstatic when he was assigned to the house in the first year housing lottery, a friend says. Known by nickname "Chaz," Lee, friends say, kept a high Eliot House residents say he would test drive sports cars and host gatherings in the common room where students smoked cigars and consumed cognac in large quantities.

A close friend of Lee's says Lee finances his expensive tastes with money he inherited from his grandfather. The money allowed him to dress tastefully and Lee's stereo system was the object of veneration in G-entry, though the volume sometimes bothered the neighbors.

Lee had been a committee chair for the Evening Champions during his junior year, and after friends and organizers describe as a year of unusually hard work, he was named co-chair.

Lee was considered an extremely thoughtful, working manager. In the fall, he drove a skater in the show back to her home in Montreal after a death in the skater's family. The only real controversy during Lee's tenure was his choice of Brian T. Kim '93 for a top job in the charity show. Kim was disdained by some as an outsider because he lived in Dunster House.

Lee is now working for a management services company in Connecticut. He concentrated in biology, and the Class of 1993 yearbook lists him as assistant director of the International Relations Council. But Evening With Champions was his main activity.

"Chaz is an extremely honest man and very dedicated to the Evening With Champions," says Julian E. Barnes '93, Lee's roommate and a former president of The Crimson. "I am sure he would only act in the best interests of Eliot House and the Jimmy Fund."

Sword spent much of his time at the Fox, one of the nine all-male final clubs, and less at Eliot, though he kept busy in house activities. "A lot of his roommates were in the Fox," says a friend. "He was there some, but not as much as the other guys."

Sword had an extensive record of service to the Harvard community. The Class of 1993 yearbook lists him as a participant in the Institute of Politics and Phillips Brooks House, as business manager for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and as a producer for Citystep, a student-run dance program for underprivileged children.

During his senior year, Sword, a government concentrator, bypassed lucrative opportunities in business, friends say, in order to start Serve Canada, the private youth service in Toronto. According to the Toronto Star, 24 people will begin the program next month and work for the next 48 weeks on public service projects.

"I remember one night near the end of the year, when everyone was out partying," says one friend. "David just stayed in working at his computer. The program he was putting together meant a lot to him."

Sword, who founded the program with two people from the Toronto area, consciously modeled the program on City Year, a youth services program centered in Boston which President Clinton has adopted as a model for his national service plan.

Lauren Dutton, who is in charge of expansion for City Year, said Sword had been in contact with the program's development office.

During his senior year, Sword worked largely on private fundraising for the new service program. The goal of Serve Canada is to bring together people of all backgrounds to work on projects in schools, housing developments and parks.