"I can't say enough good about him," said Andrew Meuler, assistant principal of Rufus King High. "He was an outstanding student and student leader."

Peers also noted Hill's commitment to academics.

Dionne A. Fraser '99, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), said Deshaun was probably "the greatest student who ever went to Harvard."

"Deshaun was extremely brilliant," said Dahni-El Giles '99. "Both were extremely compassionate and honest gentlemen-the cornerstone of their blocking group."

Funeral services for Deshaun Hill will take place at 10 a.m. today at the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Milwaukee.

Hill's friends have established a fund at Firstar Bank to help defray the cost of the funeral. Officials as the bank said donations may be made at any Firstar branch in Wisconsin.

Over 500 people were in attendance at the Wednesday funeral services for Harvard Stephens, including about ten students form the College.

According to Winters, Harvard's high school and college classmates had a chance to meet one another and reminisce about their mutual friend.

"We sat around talking, looking at baby pictures," Winters said. "We're trying to get through this together."

Two thouosand miles away, almost 100 Microsoft employees crowded into a company memorial service held concurrently with the Tennesse funeral.

A computer science concentrator, Stephens was spending his summer at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Wash.

In a phone interview Tuesday, Dr. Samella W. Junior-Spence, now-retired principal of the Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School in Nashville, spoke of Stephens' "high moral character," nothing that he was a marvelous student, a caring sibling and a devoted friend.

When Dr. Junior-Spence asked seventh-grade Stephens why his name was Harvard, he replied, "that's where I'm going to school."

Dr. Barbara A. Nabrit-Stephens said she and her husband, Dr. Harvard W. Stephens, always gave their children the freedom to decide where they were going to college, "so long as they were going somewhere.

According to family and friends, Harvard actually considered many colleges' offers--including those from Georgia Tech and Duke--before choosing the university in Cambridge, Mass. that shares his name.