Zelleke said he had no regrets about sending his daughter to Harvard. "I am very sorry, but I do not regret sending her to Harvard."

Zelleke was formerly a school teacher in AddisAbaba and a high school principle. He has workedin "northern provinces, southern provinces, middleprovinces, many places" throughout Ethiopia, hesaid.

Zelleke and his family live in a house in Bole,an upper-class suburb of the capital of AddisAbaba, near the airport.

Of Zelleke's children, two went to study inAmerica, one is enrolled at Addis Ababa Universityand one is working in Addis Ababa.

His oldest daughter, who is 27, works for theEthiopian Ministry of Justice after havinggraduated from law school, Zelleke said. A son,age 26, is enrolled at Addis Ababa University.

A second son, Seiffe Tadesse, 26, took thespring semester of his sophomore year off fromDartmouth College. Efforts to reach him in the SanDiego, Calif. area were unsuccessful.

Zelleke declined to provide his wife's age oroccupation, although a relative at Tadesse's wakesaid the mother, Atsedu, currently works as anurse. "My wife is in grief, so she doesn't wantto answer any questions," Zelleke said.

Zelleke did not disclose his daughter's futuregoals, except to say that "she would like to be amedical doctor" and return to Ethiopia.

Tadesse sought to become a dermatologist andreturn to Ethiopia, said a friend, HumphreyWattenga '96, at a University-wide informationmeeting on Thursday.

"She is the brightest, she is veryhard-working, she is [a] very smart child,"Zelleke said. "She wants to be a doctor, that'sher ambition."

Wake Held

Tadesse's wake was held here in WatertownThursday evening, at the Faggas Funeral Home onMt. Auburn St. Harvard assumed the costs of boththe funeral service and the return of the DunsterHouse junior's body to Addis Ababa.

A Harvard shuttle bus drove 17 students, fourreporters, a Dunster House resident tutor and Deanof Students Archie C. Epps III from Johnston Gateto the funeral home.

More than 55 mourners, including Tadesse'sthree uncles and an aunt who live in Brookline,were at the wake, where Tadesse's body, in alight, cream-colored dress, lay in an open casket.

Two priests and an assistant from St. Michael'sEthiopian Orthodox Church in Cambridge recited thetraditional Coptic Christian orthodox liturgy saidat times of death. The one and a half hourceremony, which began at 6 p.m. Wednesday andwhich included a sermon, readings from the Bibleand a blessing with holy water, was recited inAmharic and the high church dialect of Ge'ez.

President Neil L. Rudenstine arrived at thewake at 6:30 p.m., and remained until 7 p.m., whenhe left to attend the wake of Ho, the murdervictim. S. Allen Counter, director of the HarvardFoundation for Intercultural and Race Relations,arrived after Rudenstine and remained until theend of the service.