From Joel Nevis

I am sorry to miss the program.I first met Harri in the summer of 1985 at a FUSAC conference and we were both finishing our PhD's. We met up once year after that for a decade and kept in email touch even longer; I remember one interesting incident with Harri. We both happened to be in Tallinn at the same time the summer of 1988. I had to collect a manuscript from Ingrid Rüütel, the well-known ethnomusicologist and wife of Arnold Rüütel -- then Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR. Her manuscript was not ready so she came later to meet me at a cafe where I planned to meet up with Harri. By the time she got there, there were a number of dissidents with Harri, and we accidentally reacquainted opponents who might otherwise avoid one another: subversives wanting more freedom from the Soviets and a seemingly well-connected party apparatchik at a time when the Soviets were still in control of Estonia.

Joel Nevis