Robert Kenneth Straus “27, M.B.A ’31, died February 24 in Santa Barbara. He was a former New York City councilman who worked for Franklin D Roosevelt bother when governor of New York and when president. After moving to California in 1958 he bought a small newpaper, the San Frernando Valley Sun, and later founded Sun Litho Inc., a commercial printer. He was also the founder of the Straus Thinking and Learning Center at Pace University and mainstay and past officer of the Institue of Gerneral Semantics, in Englewood, N.J. He was an active alumnus and Harvard benefactor. He leaves his wife, Barbara (Flower), a daughter, Penelope More, a son Christopher ’72, and a stepson, Simon Flower Harvard Magazine, May-June 1997, p76j
Robert Kenneth Straus “27, M.B.A ’31, died February 24 in Santa Barbara. He was a former New York City councilman who worked for Franklin D Roosevelt bother when governor of New York and when president. After moving to California in 1958 he bought a small newpaper, the San Frernando Valley Sun, and later founded Sun Litho Inc., a commercial printer. He was also the founder of the Straus Thinking and Learning Center at Pace University and mainstay and past officer of the Institue of Gerneral Semantics, in Englewood, N.J. He was an active alumnus and Harvard benefactor. He leaves his wife, Barbara (Flower), a daughter, Penelope More, a son Christopher ’72, and a stepson, Simon Flower Harvard Magazine, May-June 1997, p76j
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