I am sad to inform the HET community of the tragic death of Shauna  
Saunders last Friday.  Shauna was an economics Ph.D candidate at Duke  
University, and was known to many in our subdiscipline through her  
contributions to the HOPE conferences on economic measurement in the  
2000, and on the future of the history of economics in 2001, as well  
as the Luce conference on public support for the arts in 2002.  She  
was also a participant in the Lausanne conference on Patinkin, the  
cultural economics meetings in Rotterdam in 2002, and the Young  
Scholars Session at HES in 2003. She was an honors graduate of York  
University, and received an M.A. from the University of Toronto  
before coming to Duke in 1998.  
 
Messages to Shauna's family can be shared through the guestbook at  
Shauna's transplant website at  
http://www3.caringbridge.org/nc/shauna/index.htm 
 
E. Roy Weintraub