Friends and colleagues of Lynn Shannon Proctor, a Cornell graduate student in applied and engineering physics, will hold a community gathering and support meeting Thursday (Nov. 4) at 3 p.m. in 701 Clark Hall.

Proctor, whose hometown is Tallahassee, Fla., died last week at her residence in Ithaca. She was 22. The cause of death is under investigation, according to Cornell University Police.

Walter Cohen, vice provost and dean of the Graduate School, said, "Everyone who has heard the news is shocked and saddened by Lynn Proctor's death. On behalf of the graduate faculty, I want to extend my sympathy to her friends and especially her family. The loss is also the university's; in her brief time here, Lynn had already begun to make a contribution to the intellectual life of the campus."

Alexander Gaeta, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics, said, "We are deeply saddened to learn of Lynn's death. She was a highly promising graduate student, and her death is a great loss to our department."

Proctor, Gaeta said, had been performing "most admirably" as a teaching assistant in the computer instrumentation design course, which is taken by many undergraduates from the engineering college.

Proctor received her A.B. degree in physics from Dartmouth College, where she was the recipient of the Robert C. Byrd Fellowship.

A funeral will be held today at 3:30 p.m. in the Blessed Sacrament Church in Tallahassee.