Benjamin A. Stingle '00, who attended highschool with Fitzpatrick called her "an amazingathlete, very smart, very well-rounded."

"She was a great person," he said.

Roanak V. Desai '00, another high schoolclassmate of Fitzpatrick's, remembered her humorand warmth.

"Her giggle still kind of rings in my memory,"Desai said. "Honestly, she's one of the happiest,funniest people I've met to date."

Fitzpatrick is survived by her parents and twosiblings. Her brother Thomas is scheduled tograduate from Yale University this year, and hersister Erin was admitted to Harvard's class of2002.

David L. Okrent '99

Okrent's death was shrouded in mystery in thedays following the wintry Sunday morning in Marchwhen he was found on Revere beach.

His body was discovered by a man walking hisdog. Okrent, 20, had suffered a single stab woundto the neck.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's officeinitially said that Okrent's death was beinginvestigated as a "possible homicide," butcautioned that such a wound could be the result ofsuicide.

Several days later, an anonymous source closeto the investigation revealed that police indeedbelieved Okrent had killed himself. Months later,autopsy results officially confirmed thisconclusion.

Okrent--who went by the nickname "Oak"--wasdescribed as "brilliant" by his long-time friendDaniel M. Ring '99. Ring added that the CabotHouse physics concentrator was also a "renaissanceman."

"When you're as smart as he is, you expect himjust to be in the library studying, but he waspopular and committed to students," Ring said.

Okrent, who had served as a course assistant inmathematics, changed his concentration to physicsin the beginning of this year. He had also taken asemester off from Harvard in his sophomore year.

According to his father, Lawrence Okrent, David"was not strongly identified to a path quite yet."

"He was still tasting things," his father said.