Abram Chayes '43

Frankfurter Professor of Law emeritus Abram Chayes '43 died April 16 from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 77.

Chayes, who served as a leading legal adviser to the Kennedy administration, taught at Harvard Law School (HLS) for more than four decades.

He worked as an adviser to the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy '40. When Kennedy was elected, Chayes moved to Washington, where he served as legal adviser to the State Department. In that role, Chayes worked on the administration's response to the 1961 Berlin crisis, as well as the Cuban missile crisis.

At HLS, Chayes was a popular and dynamic professor, whose books and articles on international law were widely read.

In 1999, he was part of a committee of international legal experts that advised the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina on issues of corruption.

Burton S. Dreben '49

After a Harvard career that spanned over 40 years, Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Burton S. Dreben '49 died of lymphoma July 11 in Boston. He was 71.

Dreben served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1973 to 1975, during which time he cut graduate school enrollments while championing academic ideals.

Dreben was also an active member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), serving as the body's parliamentarian during the tumultuous years of the late 1960s, when he argued for open debate between students and Faculty members over contentious issues like draft deferment and the 1969 student strike.

Faculty members remember a lighter side to the professor, as well.

"He was a delightful man, filled with lots of little idiosyncrasies," said Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59.

William D. Fahey

A resident tutor in Pforzheimer House from 1995 to 1999, William D. Fahey died on Feb. 16 after a one-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.

A historian by training, Fahey received his undergraduate education at UCLA and did graduate work in diplomatic, American cultural and women's history at Ohio University. He had been planning to attend law school.