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Yale Grieves For Four Students Killed in Crash

Two undergrads still hospitalized as college endures a ‘black day’

“He was an all-around good guy,” Wolf said. “He was a really good person and everyone liked him. He always had fun and he always made sure everyone else had fun, too.”

Memorial services for the three other accident victims were held earlier this week.

Kyle Burnat, a history major, was a pitcher on the Bulldog baseball team.

Gopal P. Sarma ’05, who attended high school with Burnat, where he played varsity baseball for three years, described him as a “really smart and really athletic guy.”

Family members said Burnat was interested in politics and served as an intern for U.S. Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) last summer.

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A service in memory of Andrew Dwyer was held yesterday in Bedford, N.Y.

Friend and Yale football player William T. Conroy said the two sometimes played squash together.

“He was as nice and polite a kid as you can find,” Conroy said.

Funeral services were also held yesterday for Nicholas Grass.

Grass’ Holyoke High School baseball coach, Thomas Brassil, remembered the Yale baseball team pitcher as talented and hard-working.

“He was a kid who earned everything he got,” he said. “He was a student who wasn’t initially very interested in academics and he ended up being accepted by Yale.”

This industriousness also strengthened his athletic career.

“He started out as an average baseball player and ended up being the best pitcher in western Massachusetts,” Brassil said. “And that was because he worked hard at what he did.”

“He would have made a mark for himself but he ran out of time,” Brassil added. “Kids like him only come around so often in a coach’s career and I was fortunate to have him.”

Many members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity said they were too distraught to comment on the deaths of their friends but Yale senior Tanivar A. Anis, a DKE member who is also a football player, reflected briefly on their lives.

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