Died: Hugh Lawson

Jet, April 7, 1997

>Died: Hugh Lawson, 61, a jazz pianist who played with some of the greats in the genre and recorded prolifically, of colon cancer in White Plains, NY...Carld Jonaissant, 35, a dancer with Dance Theater of Harlem and the American Ballet Theater, of AIDS in New York...Dean Kenneth Harrison, 73, a New York college administrator who was a leader in encouraging women and members of minority groups to pursue advanced degrees, after a lengthy illness at his home in the East Village of Manhattan, NY...Helen Louise White, 94, an internationally prominent soprano in the 1920s and '30s who was in the original Broadway cast of Porgy and Bess, at the Bernard Mitchell Hospital of the University of Chicago.