1993年11月24日下午,九三学社中央办公厅的同志电话通知我:尊敬的周培源老师已于当天上午9时半逝世。真是不敢相信自己的耳朵!而这是千真万确的噩耗。第二天一早即趋周老师住处去了解情况,见到了坐在轮椅上的王蒂澂师母,她用十分哀恸的语言,不断重复:“他走得太突然了,不给我任何思想准备。哪怕在病床躺一天两天也成,太突然了!”我和他们的最小女儿在旁边.一再劝解:“周老师已是九十有一高龄,耄耋之年无 On the afternoon of November 24, 1993, a comrade of the Central Government Office of Jiusan Society informed me by phone: Dear Teacher Zhou Peiyuan died at 9.30 a.m. on the same day. Really can not believe my ears! And this is the real bad news. The very next morning she went to learn about the situation and met Mr. Wang’s wife in a wheelchair. She repeated in very mournful language: ”He walked too suddenly and did not give me any thought to prepare Even in bed two days into a day, too suddenly! “I and their youngest daughter next to repeatedly persuaded: ” Teacher Zhou is 90 years old,