After losing Robert Hegyes (Juan Epstein) on January 26 at the age of 60, Ron Palillo (Arnold Horshack) of Welcome Back, Kotter is now gone too. He was 63.

What you might not have known is that Ron had recently returned to school himself, and was an acting teacher at the famed charter school in West Palm Beach, the G Star High School. He moved to Florida from New York three years ago. His classes were to resume there next week.

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