Robert W. Chasteney Jr. '31, a retired managing editor of the Time, Inc. publication House and Home, died June 7, 1997, after a brief illness. He was 90.

Chasteney, who was editorial chair of The Crimson, began his professional journalism and publishing career at the Keyport Weekly, a small newspaper in Monmouth County, N.J., Chasteney's home state.

By the fall of 1932, Chasteney was employed by Time, Inc. Chasteney worked for Time, Architectural Forum and Magazine of Building before helping to launch House and Home.

Chasteney served as a lieutenant colonel in World War II.

Lawrence E. Fouraker

Former Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) Lawrence E. Fouraker died on Dec. 20 of viral pneumonia in Brookline, Mass. Fouraker was 74 years old.

After serving for 10 years as a professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University, Fouraker arrived at HBS in 1961 where he taught for nine years within the MBA and executive education programs.

Fouraker was named Ford professor of business administration in 1968, and University President Nathan M. Pusey '28 appointed Fouraker to the position of HBS dean in 1970. The school established a professorship in his name in 1981.

After leaving HBS in 1981, Fouraker joined the boards of several corporations including the General Electric Company and New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. He also served on the Board of Overseers at Harvard's Memorial Church.

Edgar Haber

Blout Professor of Biological Sciences at the School of Public Health (SPH) Edgar Haber died of multiple myeloma on Oct. 13. Haber, who had served as chief of cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital for 24 years, was 65.

Haber was "a giant in the field of cardiovascular medicine," said Arthur M. Lee, associate professor of biological sciences at SPH. His death was "a huge loss to heart research," he added.

Haber came to the Medical School in 1992, founding the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. As the program's director, Haber led 37 scientists in "a molecular approach to identifying the genes that have an important role in the development of arteriosclerosis," Lee said. Arteriosclerosis, a condition in which the walls of the arteries narrow and thicken, is the leading cause of death in the United States.

In the last five years Haber developed a model to study the artery-clogging process in cardiac transplant patients.

Deshaun R. Hill '99