Necessary conditions of normal pointsystems for Hermite Fejer interpolation of arbitrary (even) order are given. In particular, one of the main results in this paper is: If a pointsystem consists of the zeros of orthogonal polynomials with respect to a weight w on [-1, 1] and is always normal for Hermite-Fejer interpolation of arbitrary (even) order, then w(x) similar to ( 1- x(2))(-1/2). (C) 2001 Academic Press.