Skiotis provided valuable help to the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees when conflict erupted between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, wrote Kennedy.

“In a sense, we were all his students. We have lost a wonderful teacher, and we will miss him very much,” Kennedy wrote.

Skiotis leaves behind his wife Mary and two daughters, Litsa and Anna Marie.

Lea F. Sullivan ’01

Lea F. Sullivan ’01, a former Cabot House computer science concentrator, passed away November 8 after a medical school acquaintance attacked her with a baseball bat on a crowded Philadelphia street corner. She was 25.

Philadelphia detectives allege that Nader Ali, who attended Jefferson Medical College with Sullivan, struck her on the back of the head outside a supermarket on November 7.

Ali reportedly drove away from the crime scene—but not before bystanders took down his license plate number.

Police told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Ali and Sullivan had “very limited contact” while the two were at Jefferson Medical College.

“Ali was placed on a medical leave of absence during the last academic year because of an extreme change in behavior,” said Phyllis M. Fisher, a spokesperson for Thomas Jefferson University, which oversees Jefferson Medical College.

Sullivan was rushed to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital after the attack and doctors pronounced her dead at 2:36 p.m. on November 8, Fisher said.

Sullivan, 25, was in her third year of study at Jefferson Medical College and had been involved in the school’s student council.

At Harvard, Sullivan lived in Thayer Hall as a freshman and played on the varsity lacrosse team for two years. Those who played lacrosse with Sullivan “are devastated and heartbroken,” said former teammate Megan Austin ’01.

“She was an incredible woman,” said Courtney H. Leimkuhler ’01, who described Sullivan as a “quiet force on the team.”

Before Harvard, Sullivan was a three-sport athlete and homecoming queen at Radnor High School in suburban Philadelphia, Pa.

Karen C. Tseng ’01, a third-year at Harvard Law School who also attended Radnor, said that Sullivan easily gained the universal affection of her high school classmates.