After the accident, Shaker was taken by helicopter to Boston Medical Center with extensive internal bleeding in her head. A group of family and friends had been at her side throughout the weekend, according to Snow.

In what Harris called a “typically generous act,” Shaker donated her organs after her passing.

A native of Palo Alto, Calif., Shaker was a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator with a secondary field in English.

An avid rower in high school, Ariel had been a member of Harvard women’s Heavyweight Crew team before she joined the Polo team.

Shaker also served as a Resource Efficiency Program representative for Cabot House and worked in Cafe Gato Rojo and the Cabot Science Library.

Harris and his wife Cheryl invited students to gather in their home yesterday evening to commemorate Shaker. Harris said that a memorial service for Shaker is currently being planned for Friday.

—Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu.

CORRECTIONS

The original version of the Oct. 7 news article "Senior Ariel Shaker Passes Away" incorrectly stated in the headline and text of the article that Ariel E.F. Shaker '10 had passed away on Oct. 6, based on e-mails sent by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris, who both wrote that Shaker had died. In fact, College spokesman Jeff Neal later clarified that those e-mails were inaccurate, and that though Shaker would not make a meaningful recovery, she was being kept physically alive in order to allow her to be an organ donor. She was officially pronounced dead later Wednesday evening.

The article also gave the wrong name for a newspaper in Salem, Mass. that reported on the accident. It is the Salem News, not the Salem Times.