Rebecca C. Weiss '99, who attended EvanstonTownship High School in Evanston Ill. with Okrent,said he was "a really amazing person ever sincehigh school."
"His most outstanding feature was that he wasso well-liked by so many people [in high school],and the same is true here," she said.
Okrent is survived by his parents and two oldersisters.
Frank P. Minore
Minore appeared to all who knew him to be "ingood spirits," according to students who cametogether to commemorate his life at a March 19gathering several days after his death.
Friends affirmed that the School of PublicHealth (SPH) student showed "no evidence ofdepression," according to SPH acting dean James H.Ware, who is also the Master of Cabot House.
Family members--learning that their son haddied with four prescription drug vials and abottle of liquor next to his body--said that "ifthere was an overdose, it must have beenaccidental."
But Boston police spokesperson Margot Hillrevealed to those close to Minore that he had beentaken to Brigham and Women's Hospital following asuicide attempt only weeks before his death.
Minore's brother Dominic J. Minore told theCrimson that Frank "had developed a lot offriendships" at the SPH.
"He was very outgoing," Dominic Minore said."He enjoyed life."
Minore was a 1985 graduate of San Diego StateUniversity in his native San Diego. A politicalscience major, he went on to earn a J.D. degreefrom the University of San Francisco in 1989,where he graduated with honors.
Minore had worked for several years as anassociate for the law firm Tobin & Tobin in SanFrancisco, but decided to enroll in the SPH'sone-year Law and Public Health program in 1997.
"Frank wanted to change his area ofspecialization in law," Dominic Minore said. "Thisprogram was best suited for his needs--he was verymuch interested in the program of health careissues."
Minore, an enthusiastic celebrant of hisItalian heritage, also spent a year at theUniversity of Florence during college andmaintained close ties with his family in Sicily,according to his brother