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Forty years ago Saturday, Middlebury College freshman Lynne Kathryn Schulze was walking to a final exam with fellow students when she announced she had to retrieve something from her dorm room. She left them to head back -- and then, inexplicably, she disappeared.
She's still missing. Yet her family and friends continue to hope for a break in her unsolved case. Nearly two generations later, they haven't given up searching for her.
"We hope to locate Lynne's remains or at least get some confirmation about her death," said Lynne's younger sister, Anne, who lives in New Hampshire. "Our family doesn't believe that Lynne is alive and suspect that she was killed or accidentally died soon after she disappeared."
Various theories have been advanced over the years about her state of mind and about what happened to her: that she was depressed or unhappy, that she was dropping out.
"Anybody who knew her knows that it would be completely against her character to drop out without contacting anyone," Anne Schulze said in a phone interview. "She wasn't a loner. She was very verbal. If something bothered her, you knew that."
Nor was she depressed or unhappy, Anne Schulze said, adding that her sister was "a prolific letter-writer" whose missives home -- as often as twice a week during that one semester -- gave no such indication.
"She wasn't disturbed or troubled," said Susan Randall, a friend who had attended high school with Lynne in their hometown of Simsbury, Conn., and who hitchhiked to Middlebury one weekend to visit her. "She had her angst, like we all did -- nothing unusual."
Lynne had a certain pen she preferred to use for writing, and it was apparently that -- or its accompanying pencil -- that she went back to get before the exam.
"Lynne liked to use a Cross pen because it had a comfortable size width," Anne Schultze wrote in an email. "She also had a matching pencil. I remember it was green. She loved to write and kept a journal in her senior year of high school."
The course for which the exam was being held was English drama.
According to her roommate and friends, Lynne had studied hard for her exam because she wanted to bring her grade up in the course," Anne Schulze wrote, referring to minutes of a 1972 meeting in Middlebury attended by her father. "According to her professor, 'Lynne never missed a class and seemed quite attentive to the lectures usually sitting near the front.'"
Lynne Schulze never showed up for the exam, which was scheduled for 1 p.m. She left all her clothes in her room and vanished without her wallet or identification, so it seems unlikely she had planned to run away.
