Word: elsah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly hard this spring were Boston University and Principia College in Elsah III, where 128 students came down with the virus, three of whom died from the disease
...only university battling the rubeola virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, students have been stricken at Oberlin College in Ohio, Ohio State and the University of Michigan. Worst hit of all was Principia College of Elsah, Ill., a tiny Christian Science-affiliated school where at least 96 students have been infected and two have died, apparently from complications. (Rubeola, which tends to be more serious in adults than in children, can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis...
...memorial last week had simpler, visceral reactions. Said former Marine David Zien of Medford, Wis.: "My chest was hollow, and I was a bit limp. It just overwhelms you." Friends and kin looked for names, aided by roving guides carrying alphabetized directories. Minera Peyton said she had come from Elsah, Ill. to "honor my son," dead for twelve years She visited National Cathedral on Friday at 3 a.m. to hear William Peyton's name and she liked the severe granite memorial. "It's not ostentatious," she said. Nearly everyone ran their hands over the carved letters of familiar...