Herbert W. Fraser *61

Herbert Fraser, retired professor of economics at Earlham College, died May 2, 2017, He was 96.

Fraser earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Swarthmore College in 1943. In World War II, he was a Navy fighter pilot, flying Grumman Hellcats off the USS Hancock in the Pacific. In 1949, he earned a master’s degree in economics from Princeton and then a Ph.D. in 1961.

He taught economics first at Lehigh University, then at Muhlenberg College, and then Washington University in St. Louis until 1964. From 1965 to 1967, he was with the Rockefeller Foundation, advising the economics faculty of the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia.

In 1967, Fraser joined the economics department at Earlham College. He was proud of his part in strengthening the economics program at Earlham. He had a lifelong commitment to social and economic justice plus peace issues. He was on the policy committee for the Friends Committee on National Legislation, volunteered with the ACLU and Indiana Civil Liberties Union, and was a longtime member and past president of his local Rotary Club.

He was predeceased in 2012 by his wife of 66 years, Amanda. He is survived by a son, two granddaughters, and two great-grandchildren.

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